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Yeah that makes sense........though Brown isn't a great pass protector. Norwell is a former Ohio State Suckeye so Cinci might be a very attractive destination for him.

He's been a guy I've penciled in as the 9th DL..........a backup to Phillips and a mid-late round rookie at DT1T and 3T and DE.............and as you said he's a Rousseau fan/supporter. He'd have to be cheap though. He's not a playmaker anymore.

We had a fairly large group watching the game together and a couple of our younger Bills fans were cracking us up...........they thought Mary J Blige might be Dolly Parton and that 50 Cent had a 50 on his chain cuz he was 50 years old. Jennifer Lopez had that commercial with the open dress and they were like who this old lady and why she got her t!tties out? They also made some awesome steaks using techniques they learned on TikTok. We had a lot of fun watching the game and even got some laughs out of the poor quality of football. If I was just watching it alone I might have set a 30 minute alarm and nodded off in the 3rd quarter though. You could almost see the bad football coming.

If this warms your heart........well, that's good.......you do you.......get it where you can. But PDA'ing......or complaining about a significant other or ex for that matter........in front of thousands of strangers and a few people you actually know well on TSW and jock sniffery gifts like this are two things I don't even want to think about. I went thru the young women trying to impress me with autographed jerseys and footballs thing...........it's awkward when you don't care about those kind of things and then have to act overwhelmed or get a trophy case to display stuff you don't want. I finally had to let the over-gifters know.......I appreciated the gestures but I just root for the laundry and don't really care much about whether I would like said players off the field or care what they even do when not playing football.......... so don't spend copious amounts or exercise yourself to attain personalized Bills gifts for me.

Yeah if I recall correctly the Chargers and Colts would have both been in the playoffs if the season ended after 16 regular season games. They would seemed to have provided much better competition in the WC round than sorry-ass Pittsburgh and an uninspiring Oakland team. The extra game probably actually watered down the field a bit in this instance............though LAC and Indy had their chance and failed to win in week 18.

That is hilarious.........but in fairness: 1) No QB who had been a Bills starter or would become one later has been the starting QB for a SB winning team 2) Just as nobody who had been a Bills HC or would later become one has won a SB to date. You'd think one of the two would have happened.....Ferragamo and Bledsoe had started on SB losers before joining the Bills.........Rob Johnson and Bledsoe were backup QB on SB winners........closest they got to either 1 or 2 though was probably when Ralph tried to pay Mike Shanahan and Bill Cowher top dollar to come out of retirement.

Yeah he's not a statue at all..........but he definitely keeps his eyes locked downfield and holds the ball in the pocket looking for the deep shot........and he has a great, deep WR corps..........and that causes a lot of his own sacks. Bengals seem to dial up a lot of deeper throws as well. Still no idea what they were thinking on that 4th and 1 that sealed the game.........didn't appear to be much option underneath.

Tampa/Dallas was an even bigger ratings matchup and they chose that for the opener this past season.

As I alluded to.....the two teams that got byes probably weren't worthy #1 seeds.........TN in particular was probably the 4th or even 5th best team in the AFC..........in this case both #1 seeds came from very weak divisions.........whether that also relates to extending the schedule it's hard to say in just one season but when there is only 1 bye the odds that a less deserving team is the only team to benefit from the system is increased.

I do think that the teams will adjust to the extra game and the lack of a second playoff bye team and it will eventually become an afterthought............but like the rookie wall........I think these teams hit a wall in the championship games and stayed hit. I do recall the 1978 season when they expanded to 16 games the title games were terrible..........but at the time the Steelers and Cowboys were miles ahead of the teams in their conference and ended up playing a very memorable Super Bowl. The next season was a sloppy playoffs with scrubby Buccaneers and Rams teams meeting in a lousy the NFC title game and the Steelers then looking old and tired in the Super Bowl and needing a big 4th quarter to finish off a Rams team that was a shadow of the better Chuck Knox Rams teams of the 1970's.

There have been plenty of uncontested SB's...........we certainly know that..........but usually ONE team looks like they actually deserve the Lombardi. What this game reminded me of was SB XL.......the Pittsburgh/Seattle game..........where both teams played poorly but one of them had to win.

Here is a question for you........did you find the Bills 2017 regular season highly entertaining? All those nail biting finishes brought to you by 60 minutes of Jauron Ball. Bad football with a close ending is different than a great football game. This SB was sloppy. The OL's were gassed, the QB play was shabby(Stafford even tore OBJ's ACL for him with a bad pass), some inactive Bengals dude ran on the field in his jammies and might have killed a drive, a guy who hadn't dropped a pass all season drops a bunny to help the Rams get the ball back........the list of 's was long.......... and then the refs let both sides get away with everything until the game was on the line and started raining flags........otherwise a second half of futility where neither side looked like they wanted to win the game ends in a much uglier 4-and-out for the Rams.

Yep........what I saw were two worn out OL's..........having to carry all that extra weight those guys are naturally the least physically fit players on the team and they basically have to play every snap all year............I think the wear and tear and fatigue really showed on both teams. Maybe the Rams even more than the Bengals. The running game in the NFL now is all about the OL play.

I certainly don't expect Mike Brown to spend to the cap. But he is 86 years old and has a true franchise QB that he needs to keep happy and healthy so if EVER he is going to spend to the cap and then re-structure beyond it.......like basically every other team would do for Joe Burrow.........it would be in the next few seasons.

First of all........I was a proponent of the extra game and I do believe eventually that expanded rosters, 18 games and 2 byes will happen. But in the first season with both the extra game as well as the 2020-instituted extra playoff team.............I think the mental and physical fatigue really showed at the end. The NFL got close games..........but for real football fans it was a sloppy finish in both the championship games and SB. OL and QB play was particularly weak. A couple observations: 1) This season both #1 seeds came from divisions without another playoff team. That has happened in shorter seasons too but this time neither was seen as a dominant favorite to reach the SB, which seemed very unusual. 2) The best teams........I would argue Buff/KC and Tampa/LAR all had 4 game paths to winning the SB and met in the divisional round. Only the Rams survived..........and barely.

Rams were lined up with double 3 techs and nobody over the center for much of the game and Cinci still only rushed for like 78 yards............so that is an incorrect assessment.

The flags didn't come out until the Rams got to first and goal. They refs had been letting them play all game.........but with the focus that was going to be on those last two minutes I don't think the refs wanted to be cited for letting the defense man-handle the Rams at the end. The officials certainly lost their nerve to hold the hankies.......but I don't think it was a conspiracy. The play before the first flag that was thrown was an egregious PI that they let go. At that point I think they knew the Bengals were just going to try to grab everything and hope the flags continued to stay in the pockets. Bengals don't have much to complain about..........the Higgins TD where he face masked Ramsey was a free 7 points. In the prior levels of the playoffs the flag comes out there........the officials convene.......and the sky judge tells them its OPI on Higgins and that drive is dead. Sky judge apparently wasn't an option in the SB.

Pretty lousy football game. We found out what happens when two teams that are afraid to win the Super Bowl meet in a Super Bowl. Kinda' reminded me of the Steelers vs. Seahawks matchup. Glad the Bengals lost.......SB losing teams that have never won a SB prior really tend to not get back..........and the refs pulling their prior unused flags out just as the Rams were trying to suh-natch defeat from the jaws of victory was both distasteful and fitting, I guess. I'm not blaming officiating by any means.........the lesson is don't play yourself into close games where a bad bounce or flag can sink you. Bengals had the Rams on the ropes immediately after halftime and didn't step on their throat while the Rams were reeling.

"Dominant" is the word you are looking for. "Dominate" sounds like Dom-In-Nate and makes no sense in the context you used it.

Sanders failed to be the expected upgrade over what they had gotten from John Brown in 2020. Really missed that speed and quickness aspect that Sanders didn't offer..........especially in that 8 game stretch where they went 3-5 and couldn't hold blocks on the interior long enough for ol' man Manny to get into his artfully run routes.

If you are being that simplistic.........both the Bills and Bengals gave up 55 points to the Chiefs in regulation in their two games...........and the Bills had to play both games in Arrowhead. The Bills had the best defense in the NFL this year..........I will give the Bengals credit for broadly adjusting their game plan to the opponent in the second half of the AFCCG while the Bills traditionally refuse to do that under McDermott.......but that game should have been over by then......the Bengals D gave up 24 in the first half and only a total mental lapse by Mahomes in the closing seconds kept it from being 27 or 31. That play threw Mahomes into a nose dive of bad decisions and inaccuracy like we've never seen from him. The Bengals didn't play a good game in general........the Chiefs played down to them in the second half. The Bills could use more pass rush for sure but what hurts them is not being able to adjust their plan against KC. Pittsburgh had the same issue when playing NE for years..........they were a great D against most anyone else but they weren't multiple enough in their back end to slow down NE when it mattered. KC is also good at adjusting to their opponent........see the game plan they threw together against Buffalo in the 2020 AFCCG. The players in the Bills back 7 have on average 4 years plus of experience together..........that familiarity is totally wasted by not mixing things up. That's what I want to see from the defense. Defense is notoriously hard to keep at a high level for more than a couple straight seasons...........but being able to adapt your game plan to the opponent should always be attainable.

I really like Hunter but I can't see trading a first round pick or multiple other picks AND having to extend his contract when he's missed 26 of the last 33 games. The neck issue that caused him to miss 2020 was particularly concerning...........there was a lot of talk about him never playing again during that. Seems like another one of those situations where teams might not be able to justify giving up the requisite draft capital to make it of equal value for Minnesota to give him up........especially when there is a pretty shiny class of early round pass rushers out there this year. Definitely A LOT more warts on Hunter than there was Diggs. Also worth noting that he's played LDE almost exclusively in his career.........which is where Groot is positioned. Hunter may still be able to handle LT's.........but they are generally better pass blockers. Would really like to see a proven RDE pass rusher if I am trading top picks and giving out a new big money deal.

The Colts had done a good job of building a talented roster thru the draft and FA.........and being super efficient with their cap......they didn't dump a ton of cap money on dud UFA's like Beane did too often......the QB situation has totally undermined them. Hopefully their struggles continue.

It's ignorant to look at it that simply. The division game between Buff/KC was played at a very high intensity level.........the championship game was not particularly well played by either team. When Burrow threw that stupid pick in the second half after they just got a KC turnover.......it was as if nobody wanted to win the game. If that Chiefs team showed up the week before it would have looked a lot like the 38-20 win the Bills secured in Arrowhead earlier in the season. And before you anoint their pass rush, remember the Bengals gave up 31 in regulation to the Chiefs at home in Cinci a few weeks earlier. It took a half of terrible football from the Chiefs to get that game into OT..........if you're gameplan is built around the hope the Chiefs just play like sh*t when you face them that's not really a great plan, IMO.

It's pronounced Duh-Neil like Da'Rick.