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Again, not trying to de-legitimize what Brady has done. Doing what he has done at 43 is nothing short of amazing. But come on. "2nd TD to Gronk, a tight spiraled laser". No one was within 10 yards of Brady when he made that throw (after surveying the field for several seconds). No one was near Gronk when he caught the ball. There isn't a single QB in the NFL who couldn't have made that throw. If a QB could not make that throw, they wouldn't be an NFL QB.

What the heck happened to Singletary this season? Rookie season he had the stats (over 5 yards per carry) plus passed the eyeball test (at least to me). He wasn’t particularly big or fast but he had a real knack for making guys miss tackles in tight spaces. This year, not so much. OK, not at all. I think it’s just as likely he won’t make the team next year as be starting RB.

I always have believed it’s an interesting thought experiment to imagine the QB’s switching teams and seeing whether this would have changed outcome of game. This goes all the way back to Bills - Cowboys Super Bowls. If Kelly was QBing Cowboys and Aikman QBing Bills, would have it changed the outcome? Clearly not. What if Mahones was QBing Bucs and Brady Chiefs? Would it had changed the outcome? Only in sense that final score would have been about 50 - 0. Yeah, I think 15 or more QB’s would have won that game for the Bucs.

I thought so too. Pretty obvious on replay it was a flop.

To me, it was the inexplicable time out call by Andy Reid with 40ish seconds left in the first half. Your team, both offense and defense, has looked like total dog####. Yet, you are down only 14 -6 and Tampa Bay looks like it will be content to run out the clock and end the half. Plus Tampa Bay only has one time out left. Yet, for some reason you call time out after TB's first down play and after TB's second down play! Even if your "strategy" works, you get the ball back around your own 20 with 30 seconds left and no timeouts. With the way Tampa Bay played defense it probably wouldn't have made any difference but if KC had gone into the locker room down one score, regrouped and come out with points to start the second half, maybe it would have made a difference. When TB scored the touchdown to make it 21 -9 at the half, as Greg Easterbrook would say, I wrote "game over" in my notebook.

I thought Wentz was untradeable because of his contract? Is that not right?

You know which draft is under the radar as an "oh so close to legendary" draft? 2012. HOF QB, HOF DB, rock solid left tackle and solid LB. Oh, wait a second, we failed to draft the HOF QB sitting there in the third round on a team desperate for a QB.

Here's an offbeat analytics reason to root for the Chiefs next week. No team in the Super Bowl era has won three straight championships. No sure how many have done it in the entire history of the NFL-AFL. Green Bay won three straight straddling the Super Bowl era ('65 - '67). If Kansas City wins next week, history will be working against them next year.

If we’re going to bring this game back, let’s have the Super Bowl champion open the preseason by playing a bunch of college seniors who have never played a game together. Yeah, that should be good.

I always wonder how the two Cowboy Super Bowls would have turned out if we had Charles Haley and Thomas Everett and the Cowboys did not. Bruce Smith on one side and Charles Haley on the other. Thirty years later still have no idea why the 49’ers would trade Haley, not only within the conference but to their main rival within the conference. Could have cost them a Super Bowl appearance or two.

Bingo. That’s a pet peeve. “We need to get a Kelce or Kamara or J.J. Watt or Bruce Smith.” Let’s just go out and get a couple of Hall of Famers or future Hall of Famers. That will fix our problems.

If you’re Houston, would you trade Watson to Miami for the 2 #1’s, 2 #2’s and Tua? Of course, the irony is that two of those picks are their own picks. I’d do that deal. Would Miami?

This is 1000% hindsight, but given how little Bills got from Espensa this year and how much J. K. Dobbins could have contributed to a Super Bowl run, I wonder if there’s regret not pulling the trigger on a running back a round earlier.

I remember listening to that game on the radio too. In one sense, in retrospect, happy we lost. KC was very, very good with a bunch of guys who would end up in the Hall of Fame and win a Super Bowl a couple of years later. Green Bay destroyed them in the first Super Bowl. I can't imagine what they would have done to the Bills. The Super Bowl that should have been was '64. Bills v. Browns would have been competitive.

Somebody help me out here. What is "10" personnel v. "11" personnel?

Does anyone remember Troy Aikman’s mediocre performance against us in Super Bowl XXVIII? Pretty sure he was concussed in the NFC Championship Game. No concussion protocols back then. Point is, even if Mahones plays, concussion could impact his game on Sunday. Oh sorry, his “pinched nerve.”

The '88 team should have won the Super Bowl. Lost #1 seed with inexplicable late season collapse losing to a couple of bad teams (started 11 - 1, finished 12 - 4). Needed better offensive and defensive coordinators (Marchibroda arrived one year too late; Corey was mediocrity personified). I've said it before, if they had used Steve Tasker as a slot receiver (Welker and Edelman before Welker and Edelman), they would have won multiple Super Bowls. Instead of Tasker, we were plowing Jamie Mueller and Carwell Gardner into the line a few times a game.

Yeah, they’re hot but the wins have been over Cowboys, Jags, Bengals, Giants and the Houdini escape act against the Browns. They did beat a good Titans team on the road and we didn’t play a great game against the Colts but if we play well, we certainly can win this game.

Yet another metric showing how great Allen’s season was. He put up his numbers playing top ten pass defenses in 7 out of 16 games (almost 50%), including 3 games against top four pass defenses. Simply amazing season.

I hate Brady as much as the next Bills’ fan but given the obvious deterioration in his physical skills last year and the fact that he is FORTY THREE YEARS old, I fully expected him to duplicate Peyton Manning’s last year or two in Denver. I absolutely hate to admit it, but what he has done this year really is remarkable.

TB put out word same day on Evan’s: no structural damage. I don’t see why they can’t say the same thing about Beasley (assuming it’s true).

Baltimore is one strange team. They look utterly invincible and unstoppable until they don't. Then they look very beatable. I can't think of another team past or present that fits that description.

So if we beat the Dolphins, we get MIA or IND as well as securing #2 seed. If we lose we get BALT or CLEV, two of the best running teams in the league. Holy crap, why wouldn’t we try to win this game?

Is the "difficult to beat a team three times in one season" trope an actual thing or an urban legend? Anyone have any stats to illuminate?

If you feature Pete Gogolak in your avatar, yeah you say "pound the rock". Granted it's a passing team but it's a good opportunity to do some things differently.