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Olympic Stadium in Montreal seats nearly 80,000, but is basically the same age as Highmark so would need updating.

Mark Kelso famously wore a padded helmet during the Super Bowl Years. He was prone to concussions and the medical staff gave him a choice padded helmet or stop playing.

If we get an international game doesn't it have to be from the type of games [Home/Away] where we have 9 games? I suspect teams wouldn't be thrilled only having 7 home games if they were on the road for 9. [Jax always the exception]

Many NFL quarterbacks have had kids before winning their first Super Bowl, with prominent examples including Tom Brady, Ben Roethlisberger, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Patrick Mahomes, Joe Montana, and Terry Bradshaw, who were already fathers.

Hopefully Spencer is able to play at a high level this week, there is a drop-off when Van Demark replaces him. I do worry about our WR's against especially Gonzales and Jones. if we have good ball security our running game should prevail. Defensively someone [?Benford] has to step up and contain Diggs like they did Chase last week. Neither Hollins or Boutte are as dangerous as Higgins. Our DL should get some pressure on Maye, and please play Thompson ahead of Milano and Bernard. Our ST's have to come to play as Jones is an elite punt returner with a nearly 19 yard average and two TD's on the season.

I think Kim's health is a distraction to Terry, and he does own two major sports franchises. He strikes me as the type that hires people, pays them well and expects them to do what they are paid to do.

PFF says the Bills have 5 offensive players ranked in the top 10 at their positions Allen - #5 QB Hawes - #2 TE Kincaid - #4 TE Cook - #10 RB Gilliam - #1 FB On Defense - We have 3 guys in the Top 10 [Ed O. played too few snaps to qualify] Rousseau - #9 Edge Shaq - #5 LB Daquan - #8 DL Bishop lurks just outside at S at #12 S Benford has elite run defense and pass rush grades in the 90's, but his pass defense is graded around 50.

What I want to know is How Cinci manages to pay a top tier QB and TWO top tier WR's plus gesicki, who is a top 20 TE.

Just curious since we played both and lost to the Falcons and beat the Bucs, would this game affect the Bills deep in the weeds of tiebreakers for seeds?

Bills - def Pats at home.

2026 - Closing: Sunday, October 4th (Traditional gun salutes)

If 7 beats 2, do they reseed so 7 plays 1 in the next round?

October game in Munich might be appealing to those of the beer drinking persuasion.

Still curious what's going through the Vulcan mind meld of McD, Babich and the rest of the defensive staff In the Cinci game, PFF had our DB's graded as follows: Benford - 59 snaps - 90.7 grade, key int for TD, sack, basically neutralized Chase Hancock - 22 snaps - 69.1 grade, solid day Bishop - 45 snaps - 60.5 grade, cramped up in the 4th Qtr Hairston - 25 snaps - 59 grade, not bad for a rookie against the Bengals receivers Poyer - 47 snaps - 51.6 grade, showing his age Taron - 59 snaps - 39.3 grade, not a great showing Tre' - 36 snaps - 34.9 grade, yikes [and frequent victim of Higgins] Lewis - 25 snaps 27.7 grade, can we do better? So basically 40% of our DB snaps are below replacement level.

I'm hoping that McDermott and Babich start Thompson at LB this week. Think we need his size and savvy. I can see Stevenson running over Bernard and Milano on short yardage. I worked in Nashville from '99-02. Was at the Stadium for the Music City Forward Lateral.