Buffalo Rumblings
Full disclosure: Since finding photos of the Corgi halftime show from early in September, I’d been looking for an excuse to feature them on the home page. So yes, perhaps I did use a photo of adorable dogs in hopes you’d click in and leave a comment.
It’s only clickbait if I don’t address the photo contents, remember, and I’m trying to keep these article fresh. Plus, if you’re currently in Western New York, it feel like the dog days of summer thanks to a weekend full of temps in the mid-to-upper 80s! (:grinchgrin:)
Moving on…
Fans of the Buffalo Bills have made one thing clear: 2025 is a four-game season for their favorite team. Nothing Buffalo does in the regular season matters if they don’t get it done in the postseason. It would also seem that Bills Mafia is a tad concerned about the defense, and maybe a little confused about the somewhat “close” 12-point win over the New Orleans Saints in Week 4 — a game that statistically hung in the balance into the fourth quarter.
But that’s life in Bills Country. It doesn’t matter that Josh Allen is constantly re-writing team and NFL record books, that Buffalo’s riding a 26-game streak where they haven’t lost the turnover battle, or that they’re mostly invincible to all but a playoff-cloaked Kansas City Chiefs team.
Winning is expected, now and in the future. The goal remains getting to and winning the last game of the season. It’s the Bills’ time to hold the trophy, hoist a banner — and in a brand-new stadium! Well, at least 61% of Rumblings voters think that’s the current trajectory. Because, that’s the measuring stick here when asking about confidence — not if they look good week to week. Right? I get it. I’ve accepted it. I’d even abandon these weekly polls if not for the conversations they spark.
The Bills aren’t going to play incredible football every week, and they may never put together (another) perfect game from top to bottom. That may live only with one special playoff game several years ago against this week’s opponent the New England Patriots.
Still, it’s a long but fast-moving season and it’s best to sit back and soak in as much of the scenery as possible. Before you know it, we’ll be knee-deep in mock drafts and free agency, and all those complicated roster decisions everyone burns the midnight oil about during the spring.
I like to share the confidence rating for Buffalo’s opponent each week, and this one is interesting. It would seem that Patriots fans are all-in on the return of Mike Vrabel and Josh McDaniels. Probably that guy named Drake Maye, which the internet claimed this week to be impervious to snow. I don’t know, it sounded good when I wrote it, but the source material was sketchy to begin with — stating that whiteouts don’t happen at Highmark in “Maye.” We’ll see about that, and how it may (puns are fun) play...
