Utah John

I can remember one, on a short pass (I think it was to Kelce and Milano broke it up but I'm not sure). But your point is certainly right. Chiefs receivers were open over and over again.

OK, thanks. I am going to give Morse the benefit of the doubt and claim that what he meant was "to beat us you have to put more points on the board."

I can't find that quote. A KC paper's site has the article but I don't have a subscription. What did he say?

The defense seemed completely gassed on the KC drive in OT. It would have been helpful to use a timeout or two to let them gather themselves.

We might be the prettiest bridesmaid ever, but we're still not the ones at the altar.

Wait a few minutes. It will kick in.

Neither of the winning teams on Saturday are in Buffalo's class. Not even close. If the Bills can get past KC, they should open as 7 point favorites against the Bengals.

In last summer's training camp, the Bills had so many NFL-caliber receivers that they had to simply cut guys who were good enough to start on other teams. Depending on what happens with Emanuel Sanders, the Bills MIGHT be in the market for a WR3. I think Gabriel Davis is ready to be WR2.

The first problem for the Cowboys is that they think they have the best QB, the best running back, and the best receivers. They don't. They have very good players but they pay them as if they were the best players at their positions. The second problem for the Cowboys is hiring a great coach. But no great coach is willing to put up with Jerry Jones being Jerry Jones. I will always root against any team that has the nerve to call itself "America's Team."

I love Melbourne. I've been there twice. On one occasion I actually made a proper right hand turn in Melbourne traffic, but it was more blind luck than skill. Could you perhaps explain the procedure for turning right in Melbourne? (For other readers, this is a real thing. There's a strange traffic rule there, or at least there was the last time I was there which was about 15 years ago.) Tennis players are real athletes. The women's game seems to reward power, leading to leading women players with thick, strong bodies like Serena Williams. The men's game is really different, where the men have to get power without a lot of bulk so they can be so quick.

Sure there are games where the coaches are out-guessed by the other team's coaches. It happens. But there are also games where Josh is just ... off. Not accurate or smart. He isn't always a combination of Superman and Captain America. Sometimes he's just a QB who misses an easy completion on a short out, killing a drive. It happens. Coaches and QBs and all the other players are human beings who sometimes make mistakes.

That's a great line but it's not the whole story. The biggest change on offense for the Bills has been the O line getting it done and the running game shockingly getting better right after the O line got sorted -- who'd have expected THAT? Now the play-action plays Josh uses so much are really deadly. IMO the bigger change of the two offenses has been the Bills getting the O line and running game going. The Chiefs O line got miraculously turned around this year with good draft picks and Thuney as a FA, but they were already playing well when the teams met in October. So the only thing new for the Chiefs has been the route trees. I feel confident Frazier and company are well aware of what the Chiefs are doing, and the Bills have the great overall D and great pass D to make the necessary adjustments. There are changes on D also, but they're about a wash. The Chiefs now have Ingram rushing the passer and Chris Jones in the interior, where he's better. The thing is neither of them has been putting up exciting stats. Right now their D line just looks like a good one, not an outstanding one. The Bills' D change is they've figured out how to defend against teams that go heavy and try to pound the run game. However that doesn't seem to be in the cards for this week's game, unless KC is ready to completely revamp their offense.

I'm puzzled by the fact that Hussey and his crew will do this game. Last week's Raiders-Bengals game was refereed by a crew led by Jerome Bogler but made up partly of Hussey's regular crew. The announcer said this crew (which screwed up with the false whistle on the pass from Burrow to a WR in the end zone) had not worked together before, but that it was made up of the best-graded members of other crews, plus Bogler. Maybe Bogler got put on the shelf for the playoffs after the debacle in Cincinnati, and they brought back Hussey because they needed a replacement. If so that might mean it's mostly the hybrid crew again (except for the guy who blew the erroneous whistle) but with Hussey replacing Bogler. If all this is so, then maybe the refs responsible for watching for DH and DPI won't be the same members of Hussey's crew that have the tendency to let them play and not call penalties. What a thing to be worried about. As someone else posted, you shouldn't have to take into account who the refs are when you put together your game plan.

Fine. The Bills play the Chiefs every year, it seems. Josh will get his chance.

When Tre White went down a lot of us were worried that the entire D might collapse. Far from it. Instead they've been playing at a higher level, with team defense suffocating opponents. Of course they'd be even better with White back but Frazier really has them working together brilliantly, so NO ONE has been able to light them up. Of course the Chiefs have the previous game this year to figure out what Frazier did to them last time, but that was months ago and Frazier hasn't been sitting in his office wasting time. He's been figuring out more moves to counter their countermoves. The Chiefs have two D linemen back, but only CEH on offense who wasn't there last time. The Bills were built to beat the Chiefs. Keep that in mind. NO ONE has had an effective passing game against them. Best case scenario, the Bills and Bengals both win this weekend, and the Bills win the AFCC at home the following weekend, shutting down the Bengals passing game.

The jail situation won't keep him out of Sunday's game, but if he gets covid while in jail and then shares it with his teammates, that would be soooo sad.

If you can punt and pin their offense back, and you trust your defense to get a three and out, you're counting on getting the ball back where you kicked it from, but now you'll have a first down. So a lot depends on how your own team is playing.

The Bills offense was vanilla-flavored vanilla against the Jets and Falcons. Daboll wasn't showing anything he didn't have to, and frankly it didn't look like the Bills were concentrating all that hard. They knew they could win comfortably, and that's exactly what they did. A lot of secrets kept under wraps were unwrapped against NE. I hope Daboll has more of them ready for delivery.

Boettger wasn't playing badly before he got hurt, but his injury forced the coaches to choose between Ford or Feliciano or Bates. They chose wisely. The other part of the improvement was getting Williams out of the RT position, where he was not playing anywhere near as well as he did last year. Putting Brown in as RT and moving Williams to RG made both positions better. The Bills have depth on the O line but not good depth. One injury to any of the starters and things can go south quickly.

Bad idea. They'd have to put up a brick wall so nothing could get by. Most of the team wasn't even born when Parcells/Belichick beat that earlier team.

Anyone wishing for the days of Ford and Feliciano?

Seriously, he probably could play LB. Not that I am proposing that, I just think he has the toughness, strength, and speed to do it. Jim Kelly thought he could play LB but he wasn't fast enough. Josh Allen is. Again, I am not suggesting this, just paying tribute to Allen's physical abilities.

Not actually true although why take a chance? https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-xpm-2012-may-17-la-sp-sn-gatorade-george-allen-20120517-story.html

The passion! The pneumonia!

I disagree about the Dallas -- SF game's refs. There were a lot of calls but I thought all or nearly all were correct, and I didn't see any fouls that weren't called. Dallas is just a sloppy team. The timing issue at the end of the game was handled about as well as possible, I thought. It was Dak's stupidity to keep running the extra few yards, wasting a second or two that Dallas couldn't afford to lose. As unfair as it would have been to the Bengals, it would have been the RIGHT call to do the play over, according to the rules.