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Pats are down Milton Williams - similar impact as Ed Oliver and they’re down Will Campbell - similar impact to Brown, if he doesn’t play. We’ve got to stop acting like Hoecht makes or breaks this team. What else are we missing? Palmer, Bernard, Rapp. Palmer hurts, but he isn’t some massive difference maker. We’re good at LB with Thompson & Milano. Getting Bernard healthy is a bonus at some point, but as of right now, we don’t need him. Same goes for Safety, where Poyer/Bishop are playing at a pretty high level together. Too many injury excuses right now. Everybody is playing hurt this time of the season. Guys get surgery after their season ends at an incredibly high clip. To say Shakir is banged up… I don’t care… either you can play or not. Everyone is banged up in December.

I can't see the Colts making it. They are counting on 44-year-old Philip Rivers to save them. He last played 5 years ago. Take a look at their remaining schedule. It is a tough one. at Seahawks 49ers Jaguars at Texans.

Interesting fact: I just learned that we wont be having any more snow-turf games at the new stadium. It has "snow melt technology" built into the field. I think that's a fancy way of saying the grass is heated.

It is the height of foolishness to retroactively judge generations past based on the standards of today. What we can do, however, is look at people who declare things like a 'pandemic of whiteness' and know with absolute certainty that regardless of time and place, they would consistently be on the wrong side of debates on unity, tolerance and justice.

Thankfully they fixed it last year. Jets/Giants surface was statistically worse and the worst. The stats on ACL injuries were bonkers at the rate they happened there compared to everywhere else. I believe they may* have finally fixed that, but am less confident than I am about Detroits!

They've come out slow in every game, sleepwalking in the 1st half, but coming alive in the 2nd...........i see nothing to suggest that this will not be the same.

This week is massive for setting the stage. Chargers can end the Chiefs. We’ll see if the Colts have any chance or if their season all but ends against Seattle. Bills can keep the door open against New England and the Steelers/Ravens/Browns either becomes a race down to the wire or the Steelers could potentially put distance between them and Baltimore.

All true but that doesn't negate that the Coleman pick was a bad one. He was never going to be an X WR in the NFL for several obvious reasons.That's just poor scouting and planning. It's hard to get over the top with such blunders.

There are many of them, I just picked a not too technical one here from Thad Brown and Carl Jones. A few notes I want to point out. It is noticeable the Bills have been focusing on taking away the best weapons. Metcalf in the Steelers game and Chase in the Bengals game. The difference is when Mecalf was shut down, the Steelers were cooked. The Bengals still had Higgins (healthy) and Gesicki, which made life miserable unless, I guess, you have the Texans defense - actually I'm not so sure how it would go if Bengals offense would play Texans defense in snow. Naturally, Jones mentioned he's wondering what would the Bills do against the Pats, specifically, Diggs. Very good point on the pass rushers reducing their moves to one, especially the first half. This is where we really missed Bosa and the disappointment on Rousseau whose game is built on power. Burrow was on his game, and with the weapon he has, it is HARD to stop. 2nd half, the Bills took chance on blitz. You win some, and you lose some but the point is you HAVE TO take chances then. By the same token, I'd say the Bills offense had to take chances on all those 4th downs. I myself and many in the media believed that is not sustainable, which I still believe 100% true. Against the Bengals in the situation we were in that game, it was the right move. But it should not be the right move against teams like the Pats that has a decent defense. The point about Lewis, I see why the Bills claimed Slay and it is unfortunate he won't report to address maybe the biggest weakness in our pass defense. Maybe the new Safety they signed could help. I don't think they gave enough credit to Thompson. In this defense, good to solid play of your MLB makes a big difference. The run defense requires everyone doing his job and we are getting that under Thompson vs Bernard.

Really? The odds of that happening are somewhere between recess and lunch.

I didnt advocate against this, I said same thing actually.

Do we ever show up psyched for games? Feels more like its always "low positive". Get pushed around in the beginning, then hope we find some traction, get a fluke TO on Defense, and Josh pulls a rabbit out of his hat. Real interested in how this McD v Vrable series plays out over this season and over the years.

Right--and do the same for your own team so you can surprise your opponent by breaking tendencies.

There’s 100% tension between them. They’re rarely ever together. And while I have legit criticisms of McDermott, this year has made it pretty clear to me that Beane is the bigger hindrance to us getting over the hump. Just look at McDermott’s post-trade deadline presser.. you could tell he was under the impression help was coming and Beane failed to pull the trigger. Beane isn’t terrible, but when the margins are so tight and we are paying a QB 50M, he’s got to be better .. and this isn’t isolated to Beane.. seems every team with an elite QB is now struggling with this issue and the Chiefs are finally coming back down to earth as their cheat codes in Kelce & Jones age out.

Offense calling as aggressive. Defensive play calling is not. Thats the divide youre picking up on IMO. Not gunna beat a dead horse, but crazy that he can figure this out on one side, but not the other, the one he specializes in.

Haha you’re right. I looked it up, and it was credited as a fumble return.

"a master class in the exercise of inhumanity" https://tinabrown.substack.com/p/how-trump-has-changed-us

Florence int vs patriots 2011

I think the AFC playoffs will be. East - Pats South - Jags or Texans (loser gets a WC) North - Steelers West - Broncos WC's - Bills, Texans/Jags, Chargers.

Pretty sure JD Vance is planning to run on this

honestly, I have never seen it

Yea. I’d tend to agree, and the Chargers beating Philly was huge, but they could easily go 0/4 in their final games.

When a team has to win out and have other team/teams lose it rarely works out. Anything is possible but I think the Chiefs are done this year.

I think it's obviously important for seeding, but I honestly don't care that much about the division. Once KC won the Superbowl in 23 as a wildcard, I try to do my best to enjoy the regular season because in this Allen era it really is about the playoffs. I've come to realize that the regular season is really not the most important thing as long as you make the playoffs.... Aaron Rodgers won 3 straight road gms in 2010, Elway in 97, Eli in 07 &11.... Etc I still get mad sometimes tho. Again I threw my phone after cooks fumble vs Cincinnati lol I'm hoping we can get enough wins to rest guys vs the jets. I'll b happy with that as a regular season achievement, but ultimately it's to best set yourself up for a playoff run

They will be wearing their normal white jerseys. Just hasn't been announced yet if it will be all-whites or white over blue. https://www.gridiron-uniforms.com/GUD/controller/controller.php?action=weekly&year=2025&week=15&league=NFL