Buffalo Bills 2025 Thread

[Pimlach]

Well boys the last home opener at Rich/The Ralph/HighMark was one for the ages. 

Allen with 394 yards passing and 2 TDs, 30 yards rushing and 2 more TDs, and a 112 QB rating.  

The defense will get better, there are a few vets on the DL that are on suspension, the secondary is very young and has to get better.  

Great win.  Bring on the Jets.  

[Porous Five Hole]

Apparently machine learning gave the Ravens a 99% chance of winning  Never trust the bots 😀

[clink]

NOT the sort of game that allows for good sleep, afterwards 😃😃😃

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2 hours ago, JoeSchmoe said:

I'm a casual Bills fan and not nearly as invested as Bills Mafia. I think this is an exaggeration. Allen is a really good QB but still nowhere near the level of one of the greatest of all time. Top 5 in the league right now for sure... likely top 3. All time he's not top 25.

I've watch a lot of football, about 40 years worth.

 

I've seen the majority of the "greats" playing during their "great" years, and IMO Josh has the potential to best ALL of them!!!! 

Sadly, if he doesn't get that one specific piece of hardware he'll be misremembered as you've described him. It's an unfair, yet somehow validated in the court of public opinion, measuring stick. 

See: Dan Marino 

Regardless of what the future holds for Mr Allen, I'm soaking up as much of his career as I can, as the likelihood of a unicorn to his level ever dropping into WNY to play QB for my beloved Bills in my lifetime, is next to null! He's WHY Buffalo is on the "map" again! 

[Taro T]

That was satisfying.

[carpandean]

2 hours ago, Porous Five Hole said:

So. Many. Things. Had to go just the way they did for the Bills to win this game. Incredible. 

The fourth down tip TD. The Ravens not running their normal offense on their last possession.  The Ravens punting (I find that defensible, but it has to go that way to be here). Then the Ravens guy made the tackle on Coleman to make it first and goal instead of him scoring and the Ravens get the ball. Not to mention Prater has never run the “fire drill” FG try with the team and everyone executes. Wild.

Add this:

 

Hamilton came really close to ripping our hearts out.

Edited 10 hours ago by carpandean

[Ctaeth]

Went to bed thinking they had lost.  What a happy surprise!

[shrader]

6 hours ago, Porous Five Hole said:

Apparently machine learning gave the Ravens a 99% chance of winning  Never trust the bots 😀

They weren’t wrong. Take it easy on Skynet, they might forgive you later. 

[Indabuff]

7 hours ago, Porous Five Hole said:

Never trust the bots 😀

Nevermore...

[PASabreFan]

7 hours ago, Wyldnwoody44 said:

I'm at work and was sitting at the nurses station watching.... They kept asking me for silly things, I think I said "if no one is in active cardiac arrest right now, then I'm unavailable for the next 10 minutes" 😂😂

Even then...

[Doohickie]

8 hours ago, JoeSchmoe said:

I'm a casual Bills fan and not nearly as invested as Bills Mafia. I think this is an exaggeration. Allen is a really good QB but still nowhere near the level of one of the greatest of all time. Top 5 in the league right now for sure... likely top 3. All time he's not top 25.

Here's one for you:  Josh Allen holds the record for the most total touchdowns (passing + rushing) in a player's first eight seasons, with 262 touchdowns through his first eight years in the NFL.  Last night's game was the first game of his 8th season, and he already held the record before kickoff.

[Doohickie]

4 hours ago, Ctaeth said:

Went to bed thinking they had lost.  What a happy surprise!

Never sleep on the Bills.

(I was watching at the Bills Backers bar here and if I had a better waiter I would have missed it too.  I was going to call for my check but he didn't come around for a while and that got me to stay until things got interesting at the end.)

19 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:

7 hours ago, Wyldnwoody44 said:

I'm at work and was sitting at the nurses station watching.... They kept asking me for silly things, I think I said "if no one is in active cardiac arrest right now, then I'm unavailable for the next 10 minutes" 😂😂

Even then...

[ska-T Palmtown]

43 minutes ago, Doohickie said:

Here's one for you:  Josh Allen holds the record for the most total touchdowns (passing + rushing) in a player's first eight seasons, with 262 touchdowns through his first eight years in the NFL.  Last night's game was the first game of his 8th season, and he already held the record before kickoff.

He passed Thurman Thomas for career rushing TDs last night, too!

[PASabreFan]

The winning field goal setup was terrifying. And exquisite.

[Pimlach]

9 hours ago, JoeSchmoe said:

I'm a casual Bills fan and not nearly as invested as Bills Mafia. I think this is an exaggeration. Allen is a really good QB but still nowhere near the level of one of the greatest of all time. Top 5 in the league right now for sure... likely top 3. All time he's not top 25.

^ This is wrong.   Sounds like you are a casual football fan and not watching very closely.

He is top 2 the league right now and already destroying the NFL record books, and that is without any HoF level receivers and running backs on his team so far.  

How many players elevate their team like him, just a very few.   

[Doohickie]

23 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:

The winning field goal setup was terrifying. And exquisite.

TCU did something like that a couple years ago.    

Considering this is the first game of the season, I wouldn't be surprised if this was a drill they ran in preseason and was still relatively fresh on everyone's minds, so *they* knew what they were doing but no one else (fans, broadcasters) did.  After mismanaging much of the game to that point (3 failed 2 point conversions in particular), I felt that the coaching was perfect at the end.

Edited 3 hours ago by Doohickie

[Taro T]

25 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:

The winning field goal setup was terrifying. And exquisite.

Why terrifying?  There were about 25 seconds left when the O raced off the field and the kicking team raced on.  They were fully set with at least 10, and more likey 15, seconds left in the game.  Everybody knew they wouldn't snap it until at most 4 seconds were left (that's how long FG attempts typically run off the clock).

Ball went up a little lower than Prater probably wanted for a kick that short, but it was true and Hamilton was unable to get his good mitt on the ball.

And in their last home opener ever in the stadium Ralph had built, they won one for the ages.

[MattPie]

7 hours ago, carpandean said:

Add this:

 

Hamilton came really close to ripping our hearts out.

The angle from behind looked like he may have gotten a little bit of it; the ball may have changed direction a little on the way.

1 hour ago, Doohickie said:

Here's one for you:  Josh Allen holds the record for the most total touchdowns (passing + rushing) in a player's first eight seasons, with 262 touchdowns through his first eight years in the NFL.  Last night's game was the first game of his 8th season, and he already held the record before kickoff.

I think I saw that he only needs like 6 rushing TDs this year to have the record (or some top-N) for TDs in the first 8 years. There are 4 guys like Marshall Faulk and whatnot on the list ahead of him. Sure, different eras but wild.

[Pimlach]

37 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:

The winning field goal setup was terrifying. And exquisite.

It was.  Anything could have happened with that rushed set up and the kick was nearly blocked.  

But you gotta' love the execution and the result.  A walk off FG was fitting given all the missed two pointers.  

[That Aud Smell]

19 minutes ago, MattPie said:

The angle from behind looked like he may have gotten a little bit of it; the ball may have changed direction a little on the way.

Hamilton definitely got like a finger on the ball. He played a whale of a game.

[K-9]

8 hours ago, carpandean said:

Add this:

 

Hamilton came really close to ripping our hearts out.

It’s a game of inch.

[shrader]

17 minutes ago, K-9 said:

It’s a game of inch.

Where‘s @inkman when you need him?

[JustOneParade]

10 hours ago, shrader said:

This win means so much more too knowing that the Ravens have actual competition in their division. That battle for the 1 seed is off to a good start. 

This is an understated comment. I was considering the Ravens/Chiefs/Bills* division schedules yesterday. The Ravens play four games against the Steelers and Bengals. The Chiefs four games against the Chargers and Broncos. The Bills four games against (pick two) Pats/Jets/Fins. Advantage: Buffalo. Last night's win is obviously huge if playoff seeding comes down to head-to-head and/or conference record.

*The supposition is that these are the three best AFC teams. But the NFL is weird.

[shrader]

1 hour ago, PASabreFan said:

The winning field goal setup was terrifying. And exquisite.

My random thought during that sequence of plays was that if you're Baltimore, maybe you don't call the timeouts.  Anything you do is an incredibly low probability at that point, but maybe keeping the clock running messes with the Bills' plans.

[That Aud Smell]

8 minutes ago, shrader said:

My random thought during that sequence of plays was that if you're Baltimore, maybe you don't call the timeouts.  Anything you do is an incredibly low probability at that point, but maybe keeping the clock running messes with the Bills' plans.

A post-game caller to WGR - who was surprisingly sober and coherent - observed that Harbaugh screwed up how he called his timeouts at the end. He basically played right into how the Bills wanted him to exhaust all three timeouts and let the Bills have a chance to kick a walk-off field goal. If Harbaugh had called his last timeout with maybe 12 seconds to go, the Bills would have been forced to kick during that timeout because they would not have had time to run another kneel down play and get the field goal off (although maybe then the Bills would have run a time-wasting pass play?).