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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.

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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

He was money when they had boundary CB issues. Gabe Davis ain't sh!t against a good CB. The strength of KC's defense NOW is the two boundary CB's.

By contrast I remember the 1993 AFC Championship against KC and a huge white sheet with "Chiefs fans are P*ssies" posted at the entrance to Lot 1 and watching women with their knitting in hand getting off of KC buses with no idea the blender they were stepping into. That was NFL football in a northeastern city back then. The following week The Buffalo News and the radio stations were flooded with complaints from Chiefs fans about their horrible treatment. It's a walk in the park attending a Bills game as an opposing fan, by comparison, nowadays.

As they shouldn't. Teams pay a whole lotta' people whose professional ceiling without the NFL is otherwise "gym teacher" to do their own research and offer their own opinions. Every industry has this. In my experience, the few coaches, scouts and the GM I've known..........not particularly smart people and often with very poor recollection. But in some cases they've had great success. When you are IN an industry you have an understanding that from within all that matters is your results there. I've experienced it too. People who couldn't make a dime in any of the areas I've had success in often knew more about the minutia of them than I have. That was worthless to me........but I didn't have to defend myself against it like people in the NFL do. And PFF grades are all about that minutia. As Monson said, they don't grade like coaches. It's also why a meathead like JJ Watt can rant about the only bad plays are plays that have ACTUAL bad results. Avid fans often have very unrealistic expectations of these people in the NFL. It's not life and death or rocket science. It's entertainment. The plans are slapped together with purpose but hastily from week to week. The sample sizes are small. And frankly, these aspects help make it so unpredictable and entertaining. As I said earlier..........we should all just be glad they don't play 162 games each. Because THEN the data gets real and changes everything.

With all due respect, if you think Bill Cowher was ANY better than Marty you are wrong. I know you have to boxscore scout here because you didn't experience the nuance of their coaching careers.........but the only difference was a bit of ball luck. If Earnest Byner doesn't fumble that ball and the Browns go to the SB then Marty never has to deal with that perception that he couldn't win a big game. If Indy's stud LB Quentin Coryatt doesn't drop the game sealing gift wrapped INT in the closing moments of 1995 AFCCG(amongst some other fortunate breaks) then Cowher doesn't reach that first SB and the subsequent losing of his next 4 AFCCG.....all in his home building.....and blowing 6 #1 seedings in total I believe(including once to the Bills in 1992)......becomes the burden that was on Marty's back and THEN some. Cowher never had to deal with that self-fulfilling prophecy that his players were doomed to never reach a SB. That perception tends to manifest itself into reality eventually. By the time he got to the Chargers those teams were playing on pins and needles in the playoffs like the Bills in those last 3 SB's. Right now, McDermott's version of those two early, career defining AFCCG events for Marty/Cowher.......is "13 seconds". I like McD but the longer that "never reached a SB" label is on you the more damaging it becomes. I don't think THIS year is make or break for his rep but it's another brick in the wall if he doesn't. Even moreso if a team like Houston gets thru to the SB. That would be Cinci and Houston both barging in front of him when he was supposed to be "next".

He most certainly is an idiot and give him a few minutes and he will clear up any doubt about that. I saw his whole interview not just the initial clip. He went off the rails and started rambling nonsense about sh!t like "turnover worthy plays" shouldn't mean anything it's only a bad throw if it's intercepted and McAfee and Hawk had to rescue him before he went off further into the void. And he was also convinced his important presence as a soccer owner is going to force The Premier League to officiate more fairly. Hey @GunnerBill aren't you glad that JJ is there to fix everything for you guys? Maybe an equivalent goofball.......I dunno, maybe Rowan Atkinson?.........can come over here and fix NFL officiating for us. Also had this doozy the other day..........totally clueless to the fact that the game was cancelled as much because fans and workers couldn't get to the game as anything:

For all the people who get exercised about the "subjectivity" of player grades..........you really should just be happy that opinions can vary on this stuff rather than worrying about how accurate their grades are. Some analytics is fun. We are still in that range right now. What you don't want is to become a sport where the analytics make scouting efficient to the point that it renders outcomes too predictable. Like regular season MLB where, for instance and among other things, teams know exactly where players will hit the ball most times based on analysis of a large sample size game. Then you gotta' put rules in place to prevent teams from playing smart.

Just like scouts grades. Totally subjective because they do not know the play call.

JJ Watt is the consummate Meathead. His stature is that he's a really big, steroid jacked up dude-schbag who had very few responsibilities in a defense and often eschewed those for free-lancing.

Bernard is definite? I've told this story before but after that bitter cold divisional game against the Raiders I ended up at the home of a Bills LB and a bunch of us were re-watching the game and he was sitting on the floor with an ankle swollen to the size of a regulation sized football. I suggested he should maybe put some ice on it and he said he would if his wife would get it for him. So he wasn't exactly hyperbaric chambering a severe injury and he didn't miss any time thru the SB. These guys can play thru some pretty awful ankle injuries when it's a big game.