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From Diana Russini in The Athletic today. Thoughts on this idea? I confess to really liking it! But I realize it’s unlikely to happen. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6828031/2025/11/22/nfl-rumors-news-joe-burrow-brandon-aiyuk-shedeur-sanders/ ‘And finally, save some room on your Thanksgiving table for a special Wednesday edition of the column. With luck, it will give you some good NFL chatter to discuss with those cousins you see once a year. Here’s a safe debate topic that doesn’t involve politics: Would the NFL ever implement a minimum number of wins a team must reach to keep its first-round draft pick? My friends over at “Pardon My Take” were using their weird but brilliantly wired brains to dream up ways to prevent tanking in the NFL, and I’ll admit it — Big Cat and PFT Commenter might actually be onto something. If a rule like this ever passed, some of Sunday’s Week 18 slate would instantly become must-watch TV for teams outside the playoff picture, scrambling for that final win to retain a top-three pick. Think of it as an unorthodox, chaotic, American spin on relegation in global soccer. So, of course, I had to ask around the league. Here’s what I heard, via text: • “Wowwwwwwwww. I love that. No tanking!” — AFC executive • “They won’t do that. They should.” — NFL owner • “Zero chance that ever happens. The league loves parity.” — NFC team president • “December would be nuts. We’d be starting injured veterans just to scrape out a third win, so we don’t lose our shot at a franchise QB.” — NFC head coach • “You think coaches get fired fast now? Imagine if this became a thing?” — Super Bowl-winning veteran And from a GM who said such a plan would have no shot: “Just because you get the first pick doesn’t mean you’ll get it right,” he argued. “Put a team out there that competes and let the chips fall. The Mavericks had like a .1% chance of getting the first pick and ended up with (Cooper) Flagg.”’

That Madden video in other threads suggest that we currently only run 5 offensive plays in any case, no problemo, arise OC Josh Allen. Brady demoted to waterboy.

in hindsight, this is likely correct.

As others have said, losing to the Texans on a short week with their top ranked menacing defense, was not a shock or reason to hang heads. It was losing to the Falcons and Dolphins that made it way worse to stomach.

Blaming the loss on owner greed, that is imaginative.

The playbook has been in place for decades...

The team didn't show up ready to play, again (seems to be a thing this year) ... No excuse for that.

Maga's neither trust nor believe scholars.

She was a hottie. I just saw her in a commercial recently. She’s still attractive. BTW- there’s nothing wrong with watching a sappy love story every once in awhile. Heck my wife Puts up with me watching stuff like the Terminal List, and Dark Wolf (that was the new one), Reacher, SWAT, etc.. She never complains. So if every once in awhile I’m tasked with The Bills A Love Story, or any other love story, except The Wind Beneath My Wings, or The Notebook.

If you approach a series like this objectively, it can be entertaining and enlightening. Still, it’s a story told by a storyteller. What’s the “true patriot” part about all this?

I mean, she was pretty hot … she’d be a nice halftime diversion 🤪

How about we just not that good.

The coverage scheme is locate the nearest receiver and then attempt to position yourself as far away from the receiver as possible while remaining on the playing field.

Couldn't get any insurance broker to underwrite glass coverage. 🙁

I did my friend. Not to get sappy, but we just took a walk at sunrise. I try and compromise with her as we drove to a park on the north end of the Tampa Bay. Now I’m free and clear to go to the gym, then church, and watch football today. My other compromise is I promised to make her dinner. She’s really trying to understand why Buffalo is so special to me. Anyway, everyone enjoy the day with family with the games. I’m looking forward to the Bucs/Rams. Dallas/Philly might be good as well.

DC, I was correcting myself, not you. I almost made light of it as well. I know better.

Peanut fingers at DiCamillo's are their number one donut IMHO. Overall the movie was fine. Producers did their homework about Buffalo and the Bills. (Other than the #33 jersey)

Our roster is built for speed. Power teams like the Rams and Eagles can push us around at will. We are not built for winning games in cold weather either. The total absence of impact defenders over the entire Beane McDermott era cannot be excused. We look and play like the Marino era Dolphins who get close but end up waiting for the quarterback to bail them out

As was just posted upstream, the best receiver in the league would be doubled and then who is picking up the slack? That is why I was against a trade. I think the team as a whole has too many holes. You would have needed to bring in a bonafide #1 and #2. The price of that would have been astronomical ( if it was even possible) Also, as many have said, this was the year everything opened up for us in the AFC like the parting of the Red Sea…. And we suck at WR do to Beane’s arrogance/inability😠

The more I think about this the more absurd it seems. Between the play clock going down (should NEVER happen in a billion dollar business), and not having a fair solution when the play clock goes down, and having one less official with the umpire doing two jobs AND keeping the play clock (you'd think this billion dollar business could afford to have a relief official available at all games) and the Bills getting a false reading from the play clock when it finally came back on and wasting a play because of it, all in a ONE SCORE game on national TV, is anything going to be done? I'm guessing that's a hard "no"

Our asses are just fine, stop exaggerating

Be good to her. Sounds like you outkicked your coverage.

He better ask Keon if he can borrow a jacket it gets cold in Canada. or maybe they'll be roomates up in the great white north.

I think the only thing that might have changed from a Thursday to a Sunday is that Keon might have had the chance to not be inactive and I would assume most fans would say that is not a needle mover. We lost in the trenches on both sides of the ball and you cannot overcome that on most Sundays unless Allen and/or Cook go nuclear, even less so on a Thursday. You can say that Houston's DE's are elite and they were as advertised. You would want to categorize ours as good and they were absolutely disappointing against an average o-line and a backup qb who isn't a runner/scrambler. The score was only relatively close because Mills took a while to get going. Why we didn't play the 6th OL and have Hawes in on 75% of snaps I don't know considering no WR is separating and Josh is under duress in 1.5 seconds. In contrast Houston had number 57 play a big amount of snaps as the extra OL. The established AFC teams just seem to be struggling for that intensity and fire this year so far, playing down to opponents and just squeezing out victories or losing by a touchdown or less.