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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.”
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16 hours ago, Beast said:
Happened in our very first AFC Title game after the 1988 season.
We were second seed, Cincinnati was first.
Cincinnati won 21-10.
The next four AFC Championship games the Bills were expected to win and, win they did. The third one might have been a toss up but I believe the country felt Buffalo would beat Miami in Miami....and they did just that convincingly so.
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.
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12 hours ago, bills6969 said:
I was hoping we’d avoid Baltimore. They have been one of the hotter teams in the league as of late and seems like LJ8 is looking more like the player that won the MVP last year. Really worried about our run defense. We got gashed for some big runs by the Colts. It must be better against Ravens or it will be bad news for us.
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.
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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.
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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.
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6 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:
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).
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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.
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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?
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3 minutes ago, unclepete said:
Don’t want to okay the Dolphins. They’re well coached and beating a. Team 3 times in one season is really difficult. Too many opportunities for that staff to make adjustments.
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?
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9 minutes ago, nucci said:
do people still say pound the rock? Anyway, we are a passing team that mixes in the run...
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.
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What I'd like to see next Monday night:
1. Pound the rock with Singletary and Moss. Pats have given up staggering 436 yards on the ground last two games.
2. Give John Brown some work if he's healthy.
3. Give Diggs the night off if he's not 100%.
4. Give Daryl Williams the night off if he's not 100%.
5. Experiment with Milano, Edmunds and Klein all on the field at the same time (a 4-3; revolutionary!) and see how it performs against NE run game. We may be up against run-heavy teams (TENN, BALT, CLEV) in the playoffs and having an extra wrinkle to throw at them may come in handy.
6. Win to move closer to #2 seed.
7. Leave healthy.
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Isn't it great in and of itself that they are comparing Allen to Mahomes? I keep thinking about the hypothetical - would KC trade Mahones to Bills for Allen and White (basically the draft choice trades)? I think it has come all the way from "no way" to "no, but let me think about it".
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Very good post, as usual. I echo your comments regarding reaction after Allen pick in draft. I was really upset it was Allen instead of Rosen for two reasons. I was firmly in the camp that (1) most important attribute of top tier NFL QB is accuracy and (2) you can't teach accuracy. (Plus, I'm a UCLA grad so there was a little alumni bias.) I came around pretty quickly, however, thanks to a bunch of posters who posted Allen's college highlights which showed his potential and showed that his college stats were somewhat misleading. The Senior Bowl highlights were impressive. Unlike the national pundits who blindly followed the "he's just not accurate" narrative, anyone who actually watched his games in his rookie season and second season could see the potential. I won't lie and say that I expected this kind of season but I did expect a continued upswing from last season. He's arrived as an upper echelon QB and hopefully will be for the next 10 - 15 years. How great a feeling is that?
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Don't forget the 1964 squad - 12 - 2, 13 - 2 if you include AFL Championship game win over San Diego!
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Was Ted Washington on any of the drought teams? If not, how about Pat Williams? Either of those two plugging up the middle we are odds on favorite to win the Super Bowl.
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D. Williams for sure.
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Oh by the way NE eliminated.
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6 hours ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
Hi @st pete gogolak. Good questions. Because Dane Jackson is on the practice squad, the Bills aren't required to make injury reports about him and if it ain't required, ain't happening under McD. So we only have reports on him if reporters are able to attend practice (only when it's outside) and comment.
Another team can offer to sign him to their active roster off our practice squad. This happens less this year because they have to wait for 5 days of covid testing before a guy can enter the new team's facility, but it could happen. If another team makes Jackson an offer, there are 3 options:
1) he tells the Bills, and they counter by signing him to their 53 man
2) he says "No thanks, I'm good!" (This has happened with PS players before. In the past teams could offer their squad members more $$; I think that's not allowed this year)
3) he signs with the new team, who must then count him against their 53 man roster for 3 games even if they cut him immediately
Thanks! Really would like to see him competing for starting job next year.
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Really liked what I saw of Dane Jackson this year. I'm not familiar with reserve rules this year. Is he seriously hurt and on IR? If not, can some other team pluck him from our reserve list? Thanks for the help.
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3 hours ago, HomeTeam said:
I'm surprised Joey bosa did not win that. Did he not have like 3 sacks, a fumble recovery and a bunch of tables for loss.
Anyways, happy for the guy.
Agreed. As good as Klein was, Bosa was a monster.
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Certainly by the eyeball test the D looked worse this year than last year and it looked better the latter part of this season than the beginning few games. Then I took a look at the O rankings of the teams we've played so far this year. Not only have we played a bunch of teams with winning records, we've really run the gauntlet of teams with high-powered offenses. The current offensive rankings (YPG) of our opponents: #1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 17, 22, 30 and 32 (2). That's nuts. We've played a bunch of teams in the top 10 in rushing yards per game (e.g. NE - 17th in total yards but top 10 rushing yards). Bottom-line: last year's defense was good but had inflated stats given the quality of QB's we faced, this year's defense is better than its stats because we've faced high-end after high-end offense.
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I'm kind of partial to the Cornell grad who introduced sidewinder style placekicking to the NFL. Just kidding! It's Steve Christie.
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Even with a total collapse by the Bills, it's hard to envision the last game of the season not being for the AFC East crown. If the Bills go 2 -5 down the stretch, the Dolphins would have to go 6 - 2 for the game not to be for the title. Ain't going to happen. Split with Seahawks and Cardinals and we're in the driver's seat.
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Is Ben Williams the most underrated Bill of all time? Really, really good player who went under the radar most of his career. Sad to hear the news.
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AFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME! Bills at Chiefs, Sunday 6:40 pm on CBS
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Somebody help me out here. What is "10" personnel v. "11" personnel?