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KC fans will be cheering for us this week. They will want Denver to have to try week 18 and not just throw the game. Denver needs to be in a spot where they have to win for the #1 seed in week 18, or else they'll lay down for the Chargers and KC will be left out even if they win out. IF NE runs away with the #1 seed Denver also has no reason to play week 18.

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I would add Saints and first Dolphins game as games that probably could have been won with Mitch under center. 5-8 with no Allen and our defensive injuries (functionally missing like 40% of our contract investments) seems pretty reasonable tbh, we'd be a lot like the Bengals have been this year but slightly better imo.

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Kiss of death

thank God Zach Taylor is a terrible HC or else these Bengals would be a problem in the playoffs. Luckily, they are never there. It is currently almost 3 calendar years since Burrow took a playoff snap.

I can't remember an Allen led Bills team losing twice in a season to the same team. There is the Diggs effect however. If the Pats win, how much will the Diggs effect be talked about?

Only thing with chargers is schedule - @Chiefs, @Cowboys, Texans, @Broncos. Nothing easy, 3 road games, and they HAVE to win 2. Win @KC this week and i think they'll be good though. They're really banged up on the offensive line as well, but their defense is still playing well. If they were to lose to KC, and then 2 of the other games KC would jump them should they win out.

Not too worried about Diggs. Benford has likely seen every move Diggs has 100 times, plus Diggs is slow. The Pats TEs are the issue. Be interesting to see if Thompson comes off for a better coverage option, at the risk of getting run on. Should be fun. Again, it's all about getting a lead and forcing the opposition to throw it. Hopefully, we can get back to that as that is how this team is (and has always been) built.

Good idea in theory. In practice, probably:

100%. The one thing I have been jealous of the NFC is in the last 20 years they've had like 12 different teams make a SB whereas the AFC was like 6 or 7. It would be refreshing if finally things really loosen up where Josh & Lamar get their chances but even teams like Jax or Hou make a run over the next 5-7 years. Honestly the Chiefs next year and moving forward will be interesting. They were not a 15-2 team last year but their mystique was certainly there until they got bludgeon in the super bowl. They probably are a playoff team this year but the luck piece is real and the otherside of that never is fun. Regardless I wonder can they get back up and have a second run the way NE did in the 2010s or do they become/stay a good team but the dominating world beater side is no longer there.

I agree that our explosives still came a lot from Josh getting out and creating but there were more easy button throws in last year's offense than any year since 2020. And 2020 there was no meaningful run game to speak of either. Our offense was almost entirely Josh. Last year he had an excellent run game to support him. Of course Josh was extremely efficient too and did play at an incredible level, but there was WAY less cape in 2024 and more him just being masterfully in control of the offense. Compared to 2022 and 2023 and chunks of this season where it has felt like almost constant cape requirement and if he doesn't put it on we lose.

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.