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I can’t all fired up about tiebreaks let alone even concerned at this point. One team is in front of you, hopefully we win and move on. Bills can only worry about their schedule the rest is gonna fall where it falls.

I don’t have any real complaints of who the CFP selected, except their lack of transparency regarding ND vs Bama vs Miami I personally don’t think Bama or ND or Miami earned their playoff berths, but since only two slots were open because of the 5 conference champs rule, I thought Bama, with multiple CFP final ranking top 25 wins and Miami with their Head to Head win over ND “deserved” the slot over ND. That said, the CFP ranking of ND ahead of Miami for weeks despite them both have the same record for a month was stupid. My biggest complaint was how was OSU ranked ahead of GA in the final poll? Both had the same record. GA won their championship game and had more quality wins. I’m also unsure how Oregon was ranked ahead of TexAM and Ole Miss. Oregon’s best win was over USC. The Aggies beat ND and Ole Miss Oklahoma. I’d have ranked them Ole Miss 5, Texas AM 6 and Oregon 7. I also think the CFP ranked the teams a little bit for matchups. Bama stayed 9 after getting killed by GA because the CFP wanted a Bama vs Okla rematch. Go Sooners! Overall I think the CFP rankings are pretty straight forward. If you are a Power 4 conference team and go undefeated or have only one loss, you’re in the playoffs. If you have 2 losses, you are on the bubble. It’s really that simple. At that point head to head comes in and maybe other factors such as strength of schedule. Back to ND for a second. They played two teams in the playoff and lost to them both. BYU played one playoff team all season and got killed by them twice. Vandy played two bubble teams, Bama and Texas and lost to both. Utah played one CFP team and one bubble team and lost to both. IMHO Texas is the hardest one of the bubble teams, except 3 losses should be an eliminator. They beat CFP teams Oklahoma, Texas AM and bubble team Vandy, but lost to OSU, GA and a terrible Florida team. If they had beat Florida they’d be the 8th seed. To me Bama is comparable to Texas. They beat CFP team GA, and bubble Vandy, but got killed by GA when it counted, lost to Okla and lost to terrible FSU. To me they also should have been eliminated from the playoffs, except they skate because only 2 of their losses were in the regular season and one was out of conference.

Famous Seinfeld episode - George finds success by doing the opposite of what he thinks the right decision is. McD should give it a try: 1. 13 second game - no brainer. From the decision to kick it out of the end zone to the ridiculous way he set his defense, if he just would have done the opposite of what he decided to do, we win the game. 2. Home opener last year - less than 2 minutes to go, up by three at Arizona 15 yard line, he takes the ball out of Allen’s hands, runs 3 straight times, settles for field goal, Bills up by dreaded 6. A Kyle Murray pass to our 5 yard line is defected by the finger tips of our db, game saved. Two weeks later v Houston, minute to go, Bills at our OWN 1 yard line, tie score, he now decides to throw three times. All the things that can go wrong with ure QB throwing out of the end zone, ie a holding penalty for a safety etc. His decision cost us this game. In both situations, he should have done the opposite. 3. Yesterday- for all the criticisms of his bend but don’t break scheme, the one time he really NEEDED to deploy that scheme, he mangles it. Cinci last drive - we could afford to have them score a TD, but it was absolutely necessary to keep everything in front of them, make CINCI burn clock before scoring their TD. But no, not McD. He allows a 50 second TD drive. The last TD pass to Higgins he blitzes, leaves Trey White one on one with Higgins. The EXACT OPPOSITE of the type of D scheme he should be employing in that situation. Allen then bails him out again, with his 3rd & 15 scramble to put away a game that should have been put away by then, except for another McD meltdown. Rest of the league is 6 & 42 when their D gives up more than 32 points. The Bills are 3-0. Allen constantly overcoming McD failures. It’s his defense, his scheme, multiple draft & free agent resources given to his D. And it consistently fails miserably against top competition, playoffs & top QBs. How long do you stay with this guy who is lucky enough to have the best QB in football yet undermines him at every turn i can appreciate the positives McD brings, but it’s not enough. It’s not just me, a regular fan. Andy Reid is going to the HoF someday, and it was his decision to fire McD and the McD scheme. Reid has never employed a D scheme like that since.

Our run d really impressed me yesterday. I figured we’d be so laser focused on defending the pass that our run D would sufffer, but it was excellent. Would love to see that continue. We played nickel the entire game and our run D was very good. 19 carries for 62 yards (3.2 ypc). The bengals had been running the ball effectively since their bye a month ago and really gashed the patriot run d to the tune of 5.2 ypc (and Flacco was the QB)

I don’t disagree that WR and DE are also a priority and a high one. I think that’s why Taron Johnson gets kept unless there is a player they just can’t pass up on the board in the draft or in free Agency. The bad news is we won’t have the draft pick capital of the last two years. Now certainly Beane can manipulate that with trade downs and trading away players( Keon Coleman ) etc but as it stands right now they are not in a great spot to add too many impact guys through the draft. If we cut the usual suspects for next year. Curtis Samuel, Taylor Rapp, Tyler Bass and so on and the cap increases like last year we should have somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 million under the cap which seems like a lot but comparably it’s not

i'm sure you can figure it out.

Between Knox’s and Hawes’ performances, I have no complaints on not using Kincaid more. With soft tissue stuff, you have to be careful

Whatcha watching? What damage control? What reality?

you've posted both of these stories before. we get it.

I stopped caring so much. OK, that is a lie. I wore my hat with the Wyoming state flag buffalo and no Bills gear for the 2nd consecutive week.

In your case just ask your wife!

Except for that time out during the PAT. What the hell was that ? Could’ve cost the Bills big time if they didn’t get those 2 turnovers.

OR... Go old-school and call the librarian @ the reference desk of your local public library. She's gotta be pretty lonely these days!

Did anyone see Williams on the sideline right after the interception? He was smiling, like ear to ear, when he took his helmet off. Could have at least waited a few more seconds for the final whistle. 🤷‍♂️

3 top QBs in a row Favre, Rodgers, and Love.

Yeah both Jets games that year. Belichick figured him out pretty quick. Make him throw from the pocket. Yeah those are the REAL deflating losses. When you realize your team has a fatal flaw. The Fitz home loss to the Jets after their fast start was another one of those games. They forced Fitz out of the dink and dunk and using the middle of the field and he couldn't handle the big boy throws. That season fell apart after opponents saw that tape. And with Flutie the year after teams employed the Belichick D on him and that's why the offense struggled in 1999.

This might hurt the market for Ozempic.

See? I KNEW it was a good idea to drop that game to the Falcons.

That first matchup was the game that felt like the bills were bored and thought theyd cruise past them after a 4-0 start and years of owning them. I think this time we'll see the real bills

Don’t you know you are not allowed to post anything positive about McDermott? I am sure you will be roundly chastised for this offense.

Well written. Even though he’s getting up in years, DQ has probably been Bills most dependable DL this year. Im pretty sure he’s taken a few snaps at DE the last couple weeks. Not so flashy, but dependable. And for sure has taken bunches of snaps at 3T when Oliver has been out.

Just play Cam. That's the best option for this season. Yes he gets lost sometimes but unlike Taron he will mix in some splash plays and make a positive impact. Taron is toast, go Cam and/or base defense. Bills have a lot of fat to cut this off season, hopefully after a SB win.

Like others have stated, all I can figure about the defensive strategy going into the game was that they were concerned that weather/field conditions were going to favor the offense, and trying to have your corners back-pedalling and flipping their hips trying to cover Chase and Higgins with man wasn't going to work. I heard somewhere it was Hairston's first time playing in the snow. But Burrow and those receivers (and Gesicki) were just too good. I'm not defending, but rather speculating. FWIW, I don't think he's alone in that regard amongst NFL coaches.

I don't know if I'm ready to fire Beane but if I had to terminate one of the two: it would be Beane. Easy decision. Everybody worries about wasting Allen's prime. I give credit to Beane for drafting Allen, but the rest of the roster tends to be rather middling. We've never had a SB roster since Beane arrived so I'm not sure why so many call for McDermott's head on a platter. Yeah, McDermott's made mistakes and has flaws, but the fundamental issue is we need a better roster.

seeds rank up there with power rankings