Jets 27, Bills 11: Buffalo Dominated At Home

5-3 is still a heck of a lot better than 0-8 last year at this time…

you really can not pick a worse team for the bills to play right now. the jets corners completely eliminate the spread offense’ effectiveness. there offense is the run/PA we haven’t been able to stop in quite awhile. sure this hurts. seeing buffalo play like the colts will do that. but I’m still confident that this group will be able to pick up the pieces and play well next week.

don’t doom the bills just yet,

The Bills got out-physicaled all over the field. It led to drops in the passing game, Fred Jackson’s turnover and not-so-great day, and more.

After getting outclassed by the Jets, however, one must wonder how seriously they can contend.

Will smarten up Gailey and Nix, to understand that to live and die by the spread = lucky to get past 1st rd of playoffs. You need a power running/play action off it game too, for when you find yourself in a playoff struggle style dogfight, that is what makes Green bay so successful, They have their fullbacks for the full house, and their tight ends too, for those times when they are forced into a dogfight instead of a shootout.

This was the type of game that you often see in the playoffs. The Jets and Bills played a good game. Each team made mistakes. Each team came back. Unfortunately the Bills had few answers to whatever the Jets O&D were doing. That probably has a lot to do with the Bills roster not having played together for all that long and not having the depth the Jets enjoy on each side of the ball. Learning how to win when faced with competition that makes you play a different game is just another step in the growth process.

a butt kickin.

thought the D was more than acceptable in the 1st half w/bend not break. big step up from last year.

this one falls completely on the O & its coaches. should have play-actioned to Fred all day long. Not going after their corners more was sad.

Big picture is its the first one like this in a while & its part of the cycle. How the Bills respond to the butt kickin is really what matters at this point.

I was even going to try and not come on here today, or think about the game, but here I am, 9 in the morning.

That game sucked.

I have to echt Blood, sweat & Win’s thoughts on the first-half D here: even though we were manhandled on both sides of the ball, and the defense was on the field for over 20 minutes in the first half, they took us to halftime down 3-0.

If we could have found an offensive spark at all – and maybe having the second INT count would have helped – a few points would have been all it would have taken.

I’m not saying the Bills played great football today, the Jets ran on us at will, I’m just saying that the defense played with a hell of a lot of heart, more than we’ve seen in a great while, to keep a rough game close through a very hard first half.

1- Where was Brad Smith this game?
2- Any update on Lindell’s injury?
3- What else could McKelvin done on the 42 yd “pass interference” call that iced the game?- looking back at the ballhis legs got tangled up with Holmes and the ball was overthrown.
4- Why did they force the pass so much when only down three and Jackson was getting 5yds a pop?

But we got whooped. Completely and thoroughly.

If you want a silver lining, its that we were shown in no uncertain terms we have a long way to go before we are serious contenders in this league.

You can turn things around.
Admittedly, we got the crap beat out of us.
By a Jets team that was embarrassed by the Raiders and the Ravens not too long ago.
 If they can turn it around, why can’t we?
This is the NFL, things change overnight. I still believe the Buffalo Bills have not maxed-out on their potential. Let’s see how the Bills respond to their first butt-whipping of the year before we go back to our five-year plan notion and 2012 mock drafts.

Go Bills!

2nd half kickoff gave the Jets the field position advantage, a great punt pinned the Bills deep. A three and out allowed the Jets to keep field position and make it 6-0. A poor kick return and Jacksons fumble all but sealed the win.

If the Bills don’t allow a huge kickoff return to open the 2nd half, we could be talking about a different outcome.

I think the surprising aspect of this domination for me was that Gailey was totally unable to adjust in-game and the players themselves appeared to be sleep-walking (especially the offense and DBs). The Jets are a tough match-up for anyone, but I felt like Buffalo has progressed past the point of getting manhandled at home. I view Sanchez as a good QB who is not at all indefensible, but you can’t let him complete his passes with pre-snap reads as he did throughout the day. He can become flustered and skittish and Buffalo’s conservative defensive gameplan let him get in a rhythm and played right into Schottenheimer’s hands. The DBs got no favors from the officials who called Buffalo’s coverage tight and by the letter of the law, but allowed New York’s receivers and DBs to make down field passes into wrestling matches. That being said, the DBs played poorly overall (my patience with McKelvin is just about exhausted at this point- he’s borderline worthless- no more than a fringe dimeback in this league- Reggie Corner with better pedigree).

Oh well, 3 game road trip with the season on the line. We’ll find out everything we need to know about this team by the end of Thanksgiving weekend. Would Buffalo still be in this thing at 6-4? Probably, but given the landscape of the AFC, they need to aim higher. Needing to go 2-1 on this trip is scary, but after yesterday’s disgrace, that’s the unfortunate reality.

but in this game I believe they had a huge impact. Two terrible pass interference calls, a Jets WR (I can’t remember which one) obviously pushed off, and that terrible spot on 3rd down. Now granted, the Bills have to convert 4th and inches, but how do you come to the conclusion that the ball should have been there? I haven’t been this mad after a loss in a long time.

I think because I am terrified this team is falling apart again. They have a brutal 3 game stretch coming up that they will probably go 1-2 in.

A couple of major flaws have surfaced yet again. They need an athletic TE to help spread the field up the middle. They need a fast WR to go deep. They need a pass rushing OLB, and they need another good CB.

Or even Hairston will make a big difference. Levitre is our best guard in space by far and it was he who sprung Fred on a lot his long runs or screens.
Getting Kyle back 100% would mean even more. He was simply dominant last year and not only would he get tackles for losses, but alter flows and cause a cascade effect.
Our defense is still jelling and IMHO will improve this year Kyle or not.
The offense has not been hot since week three, they really need to play better and mix something new in to give coordinators something else to chew.
 Maybe Bell comes back and the light clicks on for Donald and they re-catch their fire….
You never know….

Go Bills!

They play hard and crush inferior teams, and can pull out wins against good teams, but they cannot compete with elite teams. And yesterday, the Jets looked elite despite Sanchez’s turnovers, with their defense playing very well and their offense moving the ball with ease. The Bills will unfortunately not be able to hang with PIT, BAL, or NYJ if that playoff matchup ever comes.

Biggest thing to me was play calling. We tried up the middle all day. It was not working and we try it all day. Gailey uses a challenge what does he come up with a run up the middle. How many times do you try it and not realize it fails. Plus handing it to freddy on 4th and short has failed all year. It takes to long to develop and has not be succesful all year. Gailey used the same unsuccesfull plays all day. Until the game was out of hand.

as far as playoff hopes go, we have to win the next two games. we have lost 3 out of the last 5. we need to beat dallas and miami, then we’ll be 7-3 (which is good) going into the our rematch with the jets.

Really we were dominated, but it was 3-0 at the half. I think Chan realizes that he needs to make changes to his playcall when playing a defense like the jets. But look to next week. Lynch had a great game against the Cowgirls. what do you think Freddy is gon do. Feed freddy the ball and win the game, then we got Miami- Win. So we get to rematch them after 2 straight wins at 7-3, and hopefully a better offensive gameplan.

Alot of teams have what I call a signature loss. They have a big beatdown or loss before they really take off. Hopefully buffalo just had theres. Buffalo learned alot in this loss. This loss will make our team better in the long run.

So the team was dominated but as some fellow rumblers stated above the heart the D showed in particular shouldn’t be discounted. A bit of luck to start the second half and it could’ve been a different story. I thought Gailey did try a lot of different things it was more the case that not enough of them worked. I wouldn’t be too hasty to say he cost Buffalo the game. Execution and the Jets D cost Buffalo the game. But remember Jets had 2 weeks to prepare for this one so it was always going to be hard. Don’t expect next week to be a lay down – this is against Gailey’s old team, if the players wanted to win against KC for coach when he was just an OC there imagine what they will want to do for him against the Cowgirls.

Defense played well. we beat ourselves no doubt. Chan also went in blind he studied the week seven tape they were no good obviously Rex made changes so we had no clue so i expect the next to be much better. oh horrible play calls too.