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Does anyone know how to get hot take out of a tie? Ask Irv.

Only because there was a long line to get into the ladies room. Regarding the retirement, you have to wonder if his arm is looking forward to the reunion.

So much better value than the NHL Center Ice package used to be.

Or it may just be a Sabres fan who lives out of market and wanted to catch a few games...

How are his hands? Maybe we can send him to Tight End U and convert him in the offseason. It worked for Knox.

It almost sounds like he has a microphone on or something. 🤦‍♂️

I think if you take a Bayesian approach to that decision, using the outcome of the 4th Q to inform the decision in OT, you would realize your "give yourself more chances" approach didn't have the same odds in game as it would in theory based on the way your defense was playing. It's like deciding to throw 8 darts from 25 feet and hoping for success when you know you've been holding the dart backwards for the last 15 minutes but there is nothing in your power that you can do to change it versus being given the chance to turn the dart around and throw it once from 20 feet.

10-15 years ago it would have been unthinkable to let a team score a TD intentionally when you knew your defense wasn't up to the challenge of stopping them and you needed to conserve the clock, and then one day Belichick did it because based on the flow of the game to that point it made sense in the moment. It's not Monday morning quarterbacking to say the Bills weren't going to keep the Chiefs out of the endzone, the whole football watching world knew whoever lost the coin toss was most likely going to lose the game. Even if it failed, trying something unexpected to catch your opponent off guard and flip the odds in your favor in a situation where you're basically destined to lose would not have been the wrong thing to do in that moment.

If this is the direction that franchise is going to go, they might as well just hire Ryan Leaf. At least he can get the players' golf games in shape for the offseason.

I didn't read through the whole thread. Was the fundamental tenet of the plan limiting opposing fans in the stadium to not have any more games this season?

If self preservation is an instinct you possess, you'd better do it and do it quick.

What can I say. When I saw that godforsaken Warlock song referenced I thought the goal of the thread was to find awful earworm songs with a similar lyrical theme.

C'mon... I can't be the only one.

I didn't read through the whole thread to see if anyone felt similarly, but I'm going to say he was sent by his master as an emissary to see if McDermott, Allen or both were interested in a life of football immortality for the low, low price of one. soul. each.

Mine was whether or not EJ actually meant to hit the concession tent in training camp. ...second thought, it may have been whether or not Uncle Rico could actually throw a football over a mountain. ...or whether or not Uncle Rico could be thrown off of a mountain after "the slide".

And I can't wait to see what Brian Brohm can do. He was highly rated coming out of Louisville, you know.

Eskimo brothers?

Someone should check the Niagara Gazette for a headline written in crayon that reads something like "With Perfection Within Reach, Bills Two Missed Extra-points Leave Embarrassing and Indelible Stain on Record Books".

Really? These are Boston sports fans... the end of the Patriots*** run was always going to look like this. A significant percentage of their fanbase comprises some of the most obnoxious, least sports savvy, fickle, delusional, front-running fans on the planet. They have a well earned reputation as an all or nothing fan base; their teams are either the best of all time and they can't understand why everyone doesn't root for them, or they sawwwck and the fairweathers fall off the bandwagon in droves.

This argument is nonsense. If you have an issue with the act itself and it bothers you, fine, that's legitimate. Trying to insinuate that it will ruin the perception of the game for 250 million people who don't care enough about football, or sports in general, to have otherwise known about the game is absurd. If it wasn't for the act itself, those that don't care enough to look at a sports website may not have ever even known the game existed.

I'm certainly not morally outraged by it, nor do I think it changes the perception of Bills fans by the outside football watching community. I do, however, think that this gesture would be better served as a Brady taunt than a general Pats*** taunt. I propose that instead of a Bills-Pats*** tradition this be adopted by all non-Bucs NFL fans and that Brady be pelted with them in all visiting stadiums from this day forward until his retirement... and if people chose to throw them at him after he retires, that's cool too (would be EPIC to see someone toss a replica of the original smiling gem at him during his inevitable HOF induction speech).

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/33078679/jerome-boger-officials-raiders-bengals-game-not-expected-work-again-nfl-postseason

I get the Fitz love, but if I’m Beane I don’t want the curse of the Fitzpatrick anywhere near my starting QB.

Tua’s entitled to spend his free time as he sees fit. If he’d rather improve his handicap than his skills as a QB, who am I to judge. Wasn’t Billy Joe Hobert a scratch golfer? His career turned out ok. Couldn’t be happier that Flores going scorched earth on his way out the door basically negates any return in a trade and forces the Dolphins to ride it out with him or cut bait.

Without looking it up, I'm guessing it should have been the Tampa game...