SageAgainstTheMachine

Same boat, became a fan during the drought years. I don't think I'll ever lose the sense of surprise when they win a game. The good part of that is that I feel genuine joy when we do something like when a regular season game against the Jets.

Thank you for asking. No.

They’ll definitely be open the whole game. It’s a couple miles away from Ithaca in Lansing. If you’d rather be downtown there’s also Uncle Joe’s which is technically a Packers bar but you’ll obviously find no shortage of Bills fans.

I live in Ithaca. Longshots is the bar you want.

I mostly don’t post but I will snipe at people clearly having an emotional response and demand that they be perfectly logical instead. It’s very important to me that I feel smarter than internet strangers. I am wrong and bad.

A single game just can't be a final referendum. It's a single elimination tournament with a bouncy egg ball. It's imperative that decision makers do things based on bodies of work.

Shouldn’t have eaten all that expired ham! Just go to the store and get new ham next time.

Almost everyone in the sports media has receipts predicting he would bust and they're determined to retcon that they were right.

Every time there are two people who often get mentioned together someone is there to say that it sounds like a law firm. What's with that?

The team needs to cancel out all this noise about being the team of destiny or righting old wrongs and just execute. There are two more difficult teams to beat after this.

Josh Allen was in the closet making fake slides and I saw one of the fake slides and the fake slide looked at me.

You’re being dramatic. “The unthinkable”? One of two good teams is going to lose a football game. Neither result is unthinkable. Also, yeah, fans tend to only remember the last thing that happened. That’s why you put more reasonable objective decision makers at the switches.

Watched this episode yesterday. McDaniel handled things all wrong as a leader. Grown men know when they’re being lied to. “The cold is just a mindset and you’ll enjoy being tackled on cement” is just fake rah rah stuff and he doesn’t even sell it well.

Right in your post you acknowledge he just does it for attention and then you give him attention and try to spread the attention. Why?

It’s the NFL’s rule. You have an active roster of 53 players who are eligible to play and you dress 48 of them for the game.

Good for him. What an incredible career.

This is definitely reading in too much, but there's no denying he's a poor tackler with a bad feel for zone concepts. A terrible first round pick but Beane balanced it by finding an absolute steal in Benford. But all of that is kind of irrelevant now. What we need from Elam is to be a good backup and make a play or two and he accomplished that yesterday.

I like the way it is. The best case scenario is the Bills playing with the knowledge that they'll have another home game next week if they win.

Three QBs from the 2018 draft will be starting in the divisional round while Darnold also backs up Purdy. Anyone heard from "Right" Josh Rosen recently?

The three biggest fraud teams (Dallas, Miami, Philly) are getting knocked around and barely putting up a fight.

For a team that carries a reputation for being about toughness and discipline they've had a weird number of examples of players lollygagging this season, most recently Minkah on Josh's long rushing TD today.

I've been waiting for this too, borderline expecting it.

This comes after just watching the Eagles fail on one, too. Defenses may be slow to adjust sometimes in this league but they do adjust. Everyone knows Josh is going left and without a great second effort push from Gilliam we would have been shut down twice in a row, committing a turnover on downs. The big problem with the play is that, compared to a handoff or a normal QB sneak, there's very little improvising that can happen if the play starts to fail. I'd rather Josh have the freedom to shut things down and try to dive for a different hole, or even find the edge as we've seen him do a couple times in the past, if a defender manages to shoot through.

We've overcome a ton of ***** this season. Three more wins. It can happen.

What a perfectly awful matchup coming up to have a thin LB room. We'll be counting on Hyde and Poyer to carry weight.