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Yeah I agree that he has some very Davis-like concerns but he's just a lot more talented/athletic. I also agree that the Bills needs at WR have changed. They need a Stef replacement now, not just a Stef complement. AND they need a complement to THAT guy. They've got TE and slot covered with really talented players in Kincaid and Shakir. Problem is that you aren't likely to be getting a first round talent WR outside of the top 18-20 picks anymore. You are getting guys with potential but with holes in their game. I've never warmed to Franklin as a 1st round pick but it's entirely possible that I am under-rating him. I like Legette more than him. He is a beast but he's pretty raw for a 23 year old one-year-wonder.

Yeah I have zero confidence that the defense would have stopped Mahomes from scoring playing 4 down football for 1 minute plus with 2 timeouts. Conversely, I didn't think the Chiefs would deny Allen with over a minute and a timeout left in the regular season game if Kelce's lateral had counted.

I have loved watching him play at Texas. He is dynamic. Crazy twitched-up and talented. His size and tendency to disappear at times(like that semi-final game) gives him a very high bust rate though, IMO. Not sure he has the dog in him.

You will get no disagreement from me on your second point. I've been lamenting the declining state of the Bills WR corps since 2021 when there was still some debate to be had about it. Back when delusional fans/observers thought they had a stud in Gabe Davis. But Trent Sherfield isn't going to catch those balls. He's a scrub. Diggs drop was bad but Diggs and Allen haven't been connecting on those throws all season. But that drive continued anyway. The Bills offense advanced the ball further than the point where he'd have caught the ball and would have been down. It wasn't a TD pass.

Yeah Norwood was just washed. They needed Pop-goes Daluiso to kickoff for him and still they didn't replace him.

Yeah Daboll probably(rightfully) gets fired after next season so it's not a great gig being his DC.........but he's buried here. It would be different if he were leaving a cradle of coaches as a hot commodity.

Yeah, unfortunately that is probably so. Even the unappealing matchups like NYG and Tampa ended up being good TV for the general public. The Bills propensity to play down to the competition this year took a toll on Bills fans with these home night/evening games. This last one was the icing on the cake with it taking a good 2.5 hours for traffic to entirely clear following the game.

There were mistakes for sure. But deep balls and fake punts on 4th and 5 aren't plays where there is a high probability of success. The Bass kick was a relative chip shot. People comparing it to Norwood's kick miss the point that Norwood hadn't made a kick that far on grass in a very long time. We are accustomed to 50+ yard kicks being fairly routine nowadays. Back then a 47 yarder was a long kick. It was just clearly out of his range so he over kicked it and just missed. Bass just shanked his misses in these playoffs. He has the yips.

Yeah by "almost" I mean it wasn't the greatest divisional game ever to match the highest viewership. 13 seconds is still the best divisional round NFL playoff game ever, IMO. This one will just go down amongst the good ones. As I mentioned in another thread, I hope the Chiefs lose this week because it will add gravity to the toll of this matchup if the Chiefs continue to lose the week after beating the Bills.

It almost lived up to that kind of hype. Bass killed a well executed game by both teams with an amateur hour kick. Allen trying to throw that dagger on 2nd and 9 was almost like an attempt to maximize the drama of the game by giving the Chiefs the ball back to play 4 down football with a minute plus and two timeouts.

I agree that the Chiefs should have won by 2 scores based on their brilliant offensive execution. They played BY FAR their best offensive game of the year. Not sure they could have been any better aside from the Hardman fumble. But the Bills caught a break with that Hardman fumble. And I don't think there was any other way to win offensively than what the Bills did. The Chiefs have a very good pass defense. By taking modest gains the Bills could have scored virtually every time they had the ball. They have the personnel to play this style IF they are willing to use Allen like a battering ram. It will be interesting to see if KC suffers the "Bills hangover" again. I think teams that beat the Bills are 2-16 in recent seasons the following game. Including the Chiefs losing the next game both times they've beaten the Bills in the playoffs. Going forward, the Bills(again) clearly should focus on personnel around Allen to get the offense back to 2020 levels where Allen was brilliant from the pocket and wasn't needed to carry the ball 10 times per game.

Nah. 😂 The story-telling of the media creates the drama and the narrative that something important is going on. That make-believe aspect pays 100% of their salary......otherwise it's just a bunch of dudes running into each other.........a big budget movie with no soundtrack.......which is why so much media access is required. The league knows they are just selling sugar water and calling it life's blood..........hell the teams are even named after the communities but owned privately. It's all just entertainment. Ultimately the important players big-picture responsibility is to keep the golden goose alive.

"Who we are" is a pretty eclectic group of fans. But "we" were dubbed mafia because of oversized reactions to perceived slights and football disappointments.........not because "we" are a bunch of sweethearts regarding poor performance.

I'm partial to Tez Walker among the back half of first round prospects. I know people tend to use the draft sites to arrange their picks and he's not "mocking" this high generally but he has the size, speed, soft hands, catches contested passes, tracks the ball well, keeps his feet moving at the catch etc. I like Brian Thomas Jr a lot too but my guess is he's gone. Honestly, if Tez Walker tests like the people at UNC expect(4.3's) he's probably gone too.

Wasn't me, but as I've said this sh!t with Gabe getting into it with fans has been going on pretty regularly for a couple years.

That's entirely part of the point. They haven't been connecting on deep throws. They haven't been doing that job before. Not sure why you'd expect that to change. And off of memory that would have been the longest air yards throw completed to Shakir all season. Last season they tried him more on deeper throws and he struggled to track the ball further downfield.......famously dropping what should have been a wide open bomb in the Miami playoff game. This season he's strictly been a short to intermediate target and that's played into his strengths. BTW.........kudos to Spags for the 2nd down blitz in the first half the preceded the Bills first punt. He suckered Allen out of the gameplan. That was the first of the two long incompletions to Sherfield. That was also a big play in the game.

The TD wasn't there to "take". Chris Jones assured that. Which shouldn't have been unpredictable. The Chiefs were struggling all night to stop the Bills short passing and run games. That was their weakness coming in and there was no reason to get away from that. Were any other 30 air yard throws even completed by the Bills?

He has regressed in the pass rush department. They need a big offseason improvement from him because they aren't likely to field the kind of depth he is used to having behind him in reserve. Need an Ed Oliver type elevation of performance.

Most rabbit-eared player on the team. Always fighting with fans behind the Bills bench, and as I mentioned it got so ugly last night that 2 sections were serenading him out at the end of the game. He can take his hard hands and history of "miscommunications" with Allen elsewhere.

Lotta' fans sitting behind the Bills bench disillusioned about the whole Milano injury situation. He was leaping up and down onto the bench and jumping up and down on top of it imploring the crowd to make noise. While we understand that playing football is different than those kind of gymnastics his continued absence despite seemingly healthy appearance for the past month has raised some eyebrows.

It's not the home field advantage. It's the bye. If you can't be the top team in your conference you can't expect to be the top team in the league. These Bills have never had a bye. The only season the Chiefs have not made the SB in the last 4 is the season they had to play in the WC round.

Just when you thought that the Bills strategy all along had been to burn the clock and end up with the ball last..........the only real chance they had to win this game.........they come out of the 2 minute warning with a shot play for no reason. I don't know what game people were watching but the play there was to take small gains, bully their way to a couple more first downs just as they had been doing for most of the game.......and force KC to use up their timeouts. THEN worry about scoring the touchdown. I can't understand what they were thinking during that timeout. Totally appropriate ending to their season though.

Least enjoyable Bills season of my lifetime. Simply because there is nothing sadder to watch than wasted talent. This team lost 5 games to teams that didn't make the playoffs. It's why they were forced to win 9 de facto and actual playoff games........while having left their best football behind in late September........and taking on casualties from the overexposure and wear and tear at the end as a result of careless play in the first 3 months of the season. It was a "team" effort for disappointment. It was contagious as well. With the exception of a few young players who consistently performed to expectation or above in Bernard, Shakir and Kincaid, everyone seemed to do their part. Appropriately, they didn't earn many individual accolades because all of their stars had more bad games than you can expect and still be the top team in your conference. And until you can be the top regular season team in the AFC........you don't have any right to expect to be the top team in the league for the first time in your existence. The good news is that they probably won't have as much talent and opportunity to waste next season. That should make them more likable, if nothing else. This team was really unlikable. It culminated last night with Gabe Davis screaming at the fans behind the Bills bench and being serenaded "goodbye" by sections 133 and 134.

Lucky #7 in the lottery order! https://www.tankathon.com/nhl

Yeah and considering the company he probably should also clarify his policy on crack cocaine use as well. https://www.vetvine.com/article/175/cocaine-toxicity-in-pets