Commanders Over Bills

I'm sure the Bills Mafia believe they have this game against the Washington Commanders in the Bag. The Bills played a lot better against the Raiders after a shocking game against the Jets.

The Jets know the Bills. They tend to give the Bills trouble as a matter of course. 

The Commanders also know the Bills. Both in an agony and ecstacy sort of way. 

Josh Allen, the Bills QB, is a pain in the patooti. He's a run-crazed sling the ball to Mars bigfoot sized Jake Delhomme type son of a gun with a burning desire to win. I wish he was a cream puff. He's not. 

He got the ball to 9 different Bills against the Raiders. Jack Del Rio probably didn't like that. I'm thinking double a-gap with Chase and Montez over the Center, Smith-Williams and Toohill on the edge. Josh seems to like jetting out the middle. It would be nice to throw him a surprise party.

I know Josh is working on protecting the ball. I also know he knows we've got to get him to cough it up. We're at loggerheads. Something's going to give eventually.

The Bills are occasionally vulnerable to the run, as are the Commanders, at least early in the season. Both teams will have to run it. Which one is better is probably the winner. 

I would like a repeat of the Buccaneers Game a few years back when Washington kept Tom Brady off the field. Do the same against Josh. But ball control has not been Eric Bieniemy's tactic against the Bills. He and the Bills tended to get into epic track meets. There's a good chance the game will be similar to the Bronco game points wise. 

Like what the Commanders did in the second half against the Broncos. Like the screen game. Run blocking was good in general. Sam dealt the ball to ten different receivers. I'm sure that made for thrilling film study for the Bills Defense.

The Commander Defense was Godzilla like in the second half. They were snoozing in the first. Josh Allen will be up by 35 points at half time if they do that this week. Like Aaron Rodgers, you have to rock Josh early and often. A couple pick 6s would be optimal. Fumblerooskis. Smokes if you have them.

The Crowd at Fed-Ex is pivotal. Washington fans have to outperform Bills fans to be a fully sufficient inspiration for our guys. A boisterous crowd can be the difference in games like this where we are the underdog. New levels of football glory become possible.

Bills jump out to a 12-0 half-time lead on four field goals. Cameron Cheeseman catches his own snap, bootlegs it into the end zone and Joey Slye boots two field goals, the last one a 62 yarder, one measley second on the clock, and the Commanders win before 65,000 screaming fans.

Commanders 13, Bills 12.