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Listen to those Bills fans: COOOOOOOOOOP!

It's a long game. The Chiefs script their first drive or so and easily benefit from the home crowd. Let's settle down and grind it out.

I never bought the theory that Kelce was the entire offense after Mahomes only completed 1 pass to WRs last week against Houston. Reid does whatever.

Which one? You'll need to be more specific

Too soon.

Great moments are born from great opportunity. And that's what you have here tonight, boys. That's what you've earned here tonight. One game. If we played 'em ten times, they might win nine. But not this game. Not tonight. Tonight, we run with them. Tonight, we stay with them. And we shut them down because we can! Tonight, WE are the greatest football team in the world. You were born to be football players. Every one of you. And you were meant to be here tonight. This is your time. Their time is done. It's over. I'm sick and tired of hearing about what a great football team the Kansas City Chiefs have. Screw 'em. This is your time. Now go out there and take it.

For as long as I can remember, the most negative energy in Buffalo sports belonged to Jerry Sullivan. Not today, Satan.

Helluva time to start.

FWIW, Joe B. thinks Elam being active is only for insurance.

I legitimately started to type this exact response.

I keep thinking back to the Divisional Game in Orchard Park last year. The Bills' defense was decimated due to injuries and the WRs dropped passes left and right---- not just Diggs, but Trent Sherfield, too. Despite all that, it came down to the final drive. Yes, this game is at Arrowhead, but the 2024 Buffalo Bills are exponentially better than the squad that lost to KC last year. The Chiefs are the Chiefs and won't be an easy out at home by any means, but they aren't the powerhouse of prior seasons. This is our time.

The couch, the dining room table and from the kitchen as I roam around my house in Leesburg, VA. I'll need to prowl around as I rotate through my Labatt Blue Lights for the Bills to win. No way I'm stopping now.

I'm 100% calm. It's a combination of being older, Josh Allen's maturation and the composition of the current roster. We've been through it all with McDermott and company and they've evolved together as an organization, battle hardened and wiser. I'm calm and I'm ready. Clear eyes, full heart, can't lose. Go Bills.

I think this is the most likely outcome, especially considering Clete Blakeman is reffing. He's the most favorable official available this postseason we could've landed against KC. If it holds true, it's another sign this is our year.

Bills by a billion.

FWIW, Bill Walsh's first collegiate coaching job was as WR coach under Marv Levy at Cal.

What did he say? (I ask because I've only ever heard Humphrey say he hates playing Allen and otherwise generally praise him.)

I don't where else to post this, but it's part of the "National narrative" following Bills-Ravens so this is as good a place as any:

Thank you @dollars 2 donuts, what a beautiful tribute. I grew up on Sheldon Road during the Kelly era. For a decade, the Bills were my neighbors: the Stadium was visible from my childhood bedroom and we could hear the roar of the crowd seconds before a great play appeared on the TV. I recently visited Western NY for the holidays and in addition to visiting some other haunts from my past, I drove down Abbott Road to see the new Stadium in person for the first time. 40+ years of memories flooded me and I began to well up. My Dad used to send me up to the ticket office to buy tickets on gameday mornings. My first time in the stadium was for a preseason game in 1985, my Dad and I and a friend. I remember how proud I was to take him to a Bills game (it was the 2002 home finale against the Bengals where fans "recruited" Takeo Spikes). I was there when the 12th Man was added to the Stadium Wall. The 1993 AFC Championship against KC when Thurman Thomas ran for 186 yards and 3 TDs. I saw Marshawn Lynch's debut (and Kevin Everett's unfortunate accident), in a game the Bills never trailed but lost on a FG to Denver as the clock expired. So many great QBs, all in my backyard: Joe Montana, Warren Moon, Brett Favre, John Elway and later Steve McNair, Phillip Rivers, Tom Brady, Ben Roethlisberger. What you suggest feels like destiny. I can imagine no greater way for Rich Stadium to go out than to raise that Championship flag in the shadow of my childhood home. Where else would you rather be?

The Bills played a very efficient & opportunistic Chiefs style game, although more conservative than I'd like to see. If the Ravens and Bills performances from yesterday were swapped: Lamar would be praised for playing tough, error free football, taking what the defense gave him and overcoming his demons against a very good opponent. Josh Allen would be TORN TO SHREDS for turning the ball over multiple times and making several other mistakes, losing once again in the Divisional Round. This is undoubtedly true, and we have already seen the difference in ESPN's Ryan Clark's reaction to Allen losing to KC last January and Lamar losing to Buffalo this year. The media believed Josh Allen was the "wrong Josh" and could never develop into an NFL QB because he "went to Wyoming for a reason" and they also nearly unanimously declared the Bills for dead this offseason. All I can say is, confirmation bias is a helluva drug.