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Oh it definitely limited opposing fans from being there but there was some false reporting on "who could go". Attendance wasn't limited to season ticket holders(nor could an individual only attend one game). Account holders could send/take whomever they want...........that person just needed to be there to get the test. There will be a lower % of Bills fans than had there been full attendance but I am pretty sure Chiefs fans will be appalled by how many Bills fans will be there. And fwiw I didn't hear any talk of the Chiefs fans being so loud that it disrupted the Browns last week but I hope they prepare for more noise just in case.

Yes let's keep our focus where it matters.......on the opinion of ESPN analysts who are only still employed because they are inexpensive..........or, of course, worrying about how the broadcast team for CBS will disrespect Josh Allen and the Bills. It's a message board folks............if you are sensitive to foul topics you do not want to take deep breaths here.........just keep your masks up and carry on.

You axe a lotta' questions. They're good earners. Mindja business.

I think they cut Morse because they will be concerned that he's one bell ring from gone-for-good and because he is their biggest liability in the run game. Morse is a very good pass blocker but with Morse not really being able to bang heads in the middle Feliciano is the better overall center.........and for that matter Feliciano is better AT center than he is at guard. Ford isn't very good but IMO the best he's looked was as run blocker at RG next to Nsekhe in the preseason of 2018.

Think you will be surprised. I could count the Ravens fans at the stadium Saturday on one hand. I am guessing there will be around 1,000 or more Bills fans. There is just a contingent that loves to travel. Some of them would much rather travel than come to a home game.

If that stuff bothers people not sure why they listen to the tv feed. Listen to the Bills radio feed on the internet connected device you are using to access this site. Only a 6 second delay. Pause your tv and line it up.

Exactly. As @Zerovoltz said in a thread earlier this week........nobody cares if you likely only won because of another teams injury. It's football........the most important ability is availability. As I said in that response.......the 1976 Steelers might be remembered as the greatest team ever........but for losing both of their 1,000 yard rushers in a blowout of the Colts in the divisional round. Without them the Raiders survived and advanced versus the Steelers.......winning SB XI versus the Vikings.......thereby eliminating the narrative that they were chokers in the playoffs. Totally changed how people viewed the Raiders organization and nobody remembers the bad break for the Steelers even though it was right in the middle of 4 other SB wins. IMO both Peyton Manning SB wins were the result of bad health/injury breaks for the Patriots in those seasons as well.

You know how that story ended, right?

I really disliked it at first because it arose in defense of stupid comments from losing-culture-super-spreader/dog park douche-baggerist Stevie Johnson. But I always wanted Bills fans to basically create their own entity separate from the team itself.........kinda' like the way Cubs fans had long bonded to each other by embracing the shared experience of getting together and attending/watching their teams games even though they KNEW that the cheap-ass and usually incompetent Cubs ownership wasn't going to put a championship grade product on the field very often. Bills fans have united around it and that is a very important development, we can't have people like @Stank_Nasty blowing off December games because the games are meaningless.......so there needs to be an understood reason to be there beyond the results. "Bills mafia" as a standalone is (as @dayman says) about as corny as could be..........but SJ13 support aside its root is in sarcasm toward the comment from Schefter......which buys it some space. I found it amusing and inevitable that the Bills needed control of it.........and I don't blame them and since they are committed to winning I want them to make every cent they can off of it. Long term it has massive income potential because you can be 100% behind Bills Mafia even if you aren't pleased with the team itself. It's performance-proof. I've embraced it because it is in the best interest of the family.........as any honorable member should do.

Chandler Jones was an excellent use of a first round pick. Trading him was HIGHLY questionable..........but they didn't let him walk for nothing in return like the Bills did with Levitre and Byrd. They didn't have to......he had top positional value because he was a pass rusher. The Bills didn't have a choice........nobody was trading much(anything?) for a G or FS who were pending free agents. But then the Patriots are a different story altogether.........they were such an outlier in so many ways. Brady and Belichick played in 13 AFC Championship games together..........and they left A LOT on the table personnel wise. If they were as efficient with personnel/drafting as say......the Steelers?.......they probably win 10 SB's.

Pass rusher is the teams biggest need by far and highest position of need on the draft value list. QB/pass rusher/CB/LT/WR should be the early round priority positions for any draft.........if you don't find value at any of those positions then trade. I wouldn't be afraid to draft a WR if a great talent falls..........Beasley and Brown are 30 somethings next year and reaching end of deals. If a really tremendous TE prospect is there then great but those are so rare and hard to evaluate.........probably better off trading back and taking a couple swings in middle rounds and hope you find one. I wouldn't take a center that early.......they are maybe even easier than guards to find and most OL take 3 years to develop now so they better be pretty special to be worth the wait. The late first and second round draft that netted Wood, Levitre and Byrd looked great on paper but if you draft a player early and then they pan out great and you don't feel it's justified to pay them the market rate then they weren't good uses of those picks.

Agreed. Run defense is effort and technique. Success in the running game is about blocking. You can get players at DT and RB that give you a bit of an extra edge in those areas but at what expense? A DT not being athletic enough to rush the passer AT ALL or chase a Cam Newton down from behind and strip the ball out of his hands to save a game? Or a RB who is just good enough to tempt the play caller to take the ball out of the hands of a QB who is getting 9 yards per pass attempt in a game?

You really think passing and high scoring offenses are a temporary trend in the NFL? The players will be wearing flags and playing with a nerf ball before they go back to ground and pound, dude..........mom's just ain't signing their kids up for that game anymore. Indoors is the new outdoors.

@GunnerBill and I had this discussion a couple days ago in another thread. I feel like Beane will be inclined to go "Cody Ford" again and make the mistake of reaching for a need at a position that is easy to fill........in this case running back. It would be a mistake. The Bills aren't playing with house money........their roster isn't that exceptional without having a top 3 QB like Allen.........they are going to have plenty of need for players at big $ positions and not a lot of cap room to spend on them going forward. You take chances on those $15M-$20M positions early in the draft and trust your scouts to find players at the less valued positions later in the draft, in UDFA or in UFA where they tend to be values.

People are discounting the highlighted. You need some cap space to fill the roster with minimum salary players and sign draft picks. It's not just subtraction they will have to add back in as well. They are finally in a real jam.

Math? It will likely be a multi-year problem because of that. Their cap situation is extraordinary. Worse than the early 2000's Bills but the difference was the Bills new GM wanted to use a short term cap problem as an excuse to totally gut the team of it's players, systems and identity. Sean Peyton worked thru a 3 year run of 7-9 seasons prior to their recent run so the Saints might be willing to just do a couple year reset and try to keep their systems, identity and management structure in place.

The 1987 Bengals were 4-11. The Chiefs are the defending SB champs. The 2020 Bills outscored the 2020 Chiefs.........the Bills were second in the NFL and the Chiefs were sixth. I know people want to create parallels for different reasons...........to equate the team to one that went to 4 straight SB's.........or maybe to excuse them possibly losing this Sunday..........but there really aren't many parallels. The teams are so different..........coaching staffs so different.........the league itself is so different. People wanted to do the same thing in 1990 with the 60's teams.........it didn't really equate then either.

I'm not discrediting anything but if you as a fan NEED the national media to take note of you then it starts with your team having at least ONE playoff game where you silence the doubters by playing great. The Bills haven't played anywhere close to their best game yet. Otherwise if you need hype to appease you then they gotta' get to a Super Bowl at least. Very few fans or general ESPN sports media types can remember who lost in the past 2-3 conference championship games off the top of their head......some not even the teams that lost last year. But thanks for letting me know about the highlighted.........when I said that Indy and Baltimore were really good and could both possibly have made it to the NFCCG if they were in that bracket I wasn't aware that it was in part because their defenses were good.

Per Eric Wood: Boettger had cross trained himself to play all 5 positions as well. FWIW, that may have tipped the scales. I would have hated to see either Boettger or Teller dealt. The bad decision to draft Cody Ford ultimately forced the choice.

Almost done? He averaged 5.0 yards per carry on 200 carries last year! He may have hit a wall this year........it comes at a RB fast........but we haven't really been privy to that because he has rarely played on a RB heavy team. I'm not sure he's eligible to be signed but maybe CEH isn't going to make it back for the SB and the Chiefs reached out to his agent and got him released anticipating needing him.

Not material to my point. The Saints and Brees had their run........and THEN some. He could have retired 5 years ago and been a HOF'er. The protections given QB's 10 years ago probably bought Brees that extra 5 years of football.........and created a fake juggernaut of the Saints........dominate the regular season and then peder out when he was too tired to close the deal in January. Seen enough. If you want to feel bad for him/them after being in contention for most of the past 15 years then have at it. Not me. Glad they are gone if they aren't capable of giving GB a game and hoping TB12 is the next one out.

Yeah the Bills had been the #1 seed most of the year in 1988 but the wheels came off for a stretch late in the season and they lost the top spot. The Bills played in the AFL championship game to go to Super Bowl I........they didn't start calling it the "AFC" championship until SB IV season though. The Bills were the favorite and the Chiefs came to Buffalo and beat the two time defending AFL champion Bills to advance to the first Super Bowl against Green Bay. I know there are or were a few people here on TSW who were at that game. I tend to consider that as their first AFC championship game.

Let Allen have his money if he earns it. Yes they are aided briefly by having a QB on a rookie deal but if they can't win paying a superstar QB the going rate then that will be on McBeane. Having $5M-$10M less per year to spend ain't gonna' make much of a difference if they don't draft and develop well.

In fairness the Bills haven't played a game up to their second-half-of-regular-season level in a playoff game yet. If they had come out flying in one of these games they would be getting more respect. They have looked uncharacteristically tight on offense both games and the defense gave up nearly 500 yards to the Colts. My takeaway really is that the Colts and Ravens are tougher than normal opponents for WC and divisional matchups than they are being credited as........the Bills being a little tight against teams of that level showed. If they were in the NFC then one of them would be playing the Packers in the NFCCG or they'd be playing each other. There is more juice on the AFC side and nobody has played a schedule like the Bills have so I like their chances.