Buffalo Bills Week 15: New England (3-11) at Buffalo (11-3), 12/22, 1:00 PM, CBS

[Deep Blue Metallic]

Not the biggest concern right now, but anyone else nervous about Bass in a must FG situation in the playoffs?

 

[misterchainsaw]

Broncos D has been good, but they also haven't faced a murderer's row of offenses. Baltimore put up 41 on them. Jameis Winston put up 32 (and gave them 2 pick 6's, but still). They can very much be had by an elite offense.

Same thing goes for the Chargers, who are in the 7 right now.

The AFC West just didn't face too many good QB's in their divisional rotation, and the non-1st place teams saw even less.

 

[5 Minute Major]

The jets game will be interesting as they’re a bad team with all the weapons they need to theoretically do damage save for Rodgers being toast

The Bills are going to smash the Jets. The Jets damned near beat us the first time we played them and McDermott and the coaches will remind them continually about that the week leading up to the game.

 

[misterchainsaw]

And yeah, thinking on the drive home, the defense absolutely did enough early to put the Lions into chase mode, and they never got out. They got the Bills in the 4th in garbage time with the Bills' 4th and 5th string safeties in the game (and 4th string LB) but here's Detroit's first 7 possessions with game state:

Score entering drive - result:
0-0 Punt
7-0 Punt
14-0 TD
21-7 TD
21-14. missed 50 yard FG
28-14 Punt
28-14 Fumble

That's a solid 7 possessions against the highest scoring offense in the league. They didn't run on us at all, and basically ate up deep roster backups late in the game to pile up yardage.

They only faced one more possession where Detroit was within two scores, and the Lions used up almost all of their remaining time scoring on it.

I think Bishop and Elam are both starters next year.

 

[Der Jaeger]

It really worried about the defense. If I’ve learned anything over the past few seasons watching the Chiefs, it’s the team who can score early and not stop who wins. The defense needs to hold early and key drives in the game, which allows the offense to put the team ahead.

The defense gave the Bills a 14 point lead and forced enough punts and a turnover to allow the team to win.

 

[TehDoak]

Not the biggest concern right now, but anyone else nervous about Bass in a must FG situation in the playoffs?

My concerns:

1) Run Defense
2) Pass defense
3) Tyler Bass.

 

[yahhockey]

I hope the team doesn’t listen to any media this week so they don’t buy into the hype that they may be the best team in football. You don’t play football to be the best team on December 16. Eyes on the prize. Same goes for the fans.

Not that anyone here is like that.

 

[tsujimoto74]

Not the biggest concern right now, but anyone else nervous about Bass in a must FG situation in the playoffs?

I’m more worried about our defense. They’ve given up 90 points in the last 2 weeks. Expecting Allen to perform at this level every game just to have a chance at winning is kind of unreasonable.

 

[Zman5778]

Playing with the NFL playoff machine a little bit:

We need to stay 1 game ahead of the Steelers for the 2 seed. Any tie with Pittsburgh going forward means that we finish with a worse conference record.

Pittsburgh finishes with the Ravens, Chiefs and Bengals. One loss from them and 2 Buffalo wins guarantees us 2 seed at minimum.

So root like hell for the Ravens next week and the Steelers the following week. Then the chips fall where they may for the 1 seed.

 

[ValJamesDuex]

Positives:
Thought prime Ed Oliver was back today
Smoot back helped on the line
Good experience for Bishop today
Coming off a short week with the snow storm thought they looked prepared on both sides
Brady called a very good game
Ty Johnson is a weapon
Having Kincaid back opened things up a little bit more
Good bounce backs for Bass after missing the shorty

 

[OkimLom]

I’m more worried about our defense. They’ve given up 90 points in the last 2 weeks. Expecting Allen to perform at this level every game just to have a chance at winning is kind of unreasonable.

Against one of the top minds offensively with two great weapons and really good QB in the league where they were finally at 100% and then against another great offensive team with a plethora of weapons in clear conditions indoors.

The only great offense we would be seeing the rest of the way(outside the SB) is possibly Baltimore, and I like our chances in our building against the other options.

 

[yahhockey]

 

[ValJamesDuex]

He's insane and deserves rings!