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Some? Try as many as 40,000 empty seats at times in some Decembers. Even in some years when those games mattered or when the team had playoff positioning locked up and it should have just been a celebration. The "some" that wouldn't show up because it's a dome aren't enough to be missed and don't put enough money in the coffer to make a difference. But what would I know as a 30 year season ticket holder who will sit out in the worst weather for 8-10 hours without taking shelter and has interacted with thousands of Bills fans at games. It's simply money left on the table. I saw zero stadium food getting consumed at the game yesterday. And nobody is buying team merchandise to carry around in weather like that. It's hard to play the in-game gaming when your hands are mittened or clutching hand warmers. The difference between teams that win/lose and are viable or not viable is likely going to be in unshared revenue earned once people are already inside the stadium. Oh, it's costing them money alright. The ticket is just part of it.

Well.......the people who prefer being out in this sh!t will still come if there is a dome. Lot's of people don't come simply because of the weather. And this is coming from someone who was outside there tailgating and in the stadium for 9+ hours yesterday.

It's not even tough on the defense..........there really aren't many instances when a player can't at least attempt to pull up and not drop their helmet/shoulder at full force into a player who has slid down. When the rules were changed back in 2010 the hitting was absolutely vicious and gratuitous.........and defenders claimed they could never clean it up and still play defense. The Seahawks would subsequently field one of the best tackling and point-preventing defense's the NFL has ever seen. It's always possible to clean up the attempts to injure. And that hit on Allen was just a standard, run-of-the-mill attempt to injure the opposing player with a hit that far exceeded the needs of the play.

The people who whine about officiating think that makes them fun at parties though.

Yeah this is where @GunnerBill is wrong. You have to let your players do their jobs. Anyone who thinks that was going to be a tough kick is wrong. It was routine for an NFL kicker. I was there as I have been for hundreds of Bills games. No wind to speak of. At halftime the kickers weren't struggling with practice kicks. Bass is just in a funk. They gotta' get him out of it and not letting him kick routine field goals isn't going to do that.

Yeah it was a pretty packed house. And it was a beautiful day. Dry and no wind. One of the better tailgate days of the year if you had your snow gear. Also, really weak turnout of Steeler fans. Least amount of them I have ever seen at a Bills game. None of them in our section were actually Yinzers either. The change of date I think helped get more Bills fans to attend and less Steeler fans from PA.

Fwiw........our lot owner was great. He works for the Bills and basically hadn't slept since Saturday morning and could have just said no parking and we'd probably have gone to a stadium lot. He couldn't be around but we got there early and there was a snow blower there and we cleaned it out quite well and got the usual amount of cars in for a poor weather game and collected everyone's money and left the lot clean. Helps when you have relationships with the people parking there because in a situation like this the property owner can't clear it by himself.

No drop of the hips No lean No toe drag I don't know what the league uses for guidelines for "faking" a slide but gotta be 2 of the 3 if not all of them.

Yes it's on the exact same level. He paused like he *might* do if he was going to either slide down or head out of bounds. Or like he might do if he was pondering where to run. And he has done that frequently throughout his career. At this point as fans we just assume he will do that and blame the defense if they allow him to get those extra yards. I guess @Zerovoltz just thinks it's "unfair" because Allen typically trucks or leaps over defenders when he gets downfield.........but that doesn't make it "unfair" when Allen does it. This is the textbook example of a fake slide........as executed by Pittsburgh QB Kenny Pickett:

They beat the Ravens twice.........including once with the Lamar in and their starters healthy. I'm not certain the result would have been much different if Lamar had played the second time. That was a slug fest. I could be wrong but my guess would be that the last time a #1 seed was swept by a division foe was 1999 when the Titans beat the Jags twice but the Jags rode their weak schedule to the #1 seed. Tennessee(unsurprisingly) beat them a third time in the playoffs. But that Jags team was clearly a paper tiger.........that Bills/Titans WC game was seen(rightfully) by some as likely to decide the AFC champion because those were the two best teams going into the playoffs. This situation is different. The Ravens were legitimately worthy of the #1 seed.

You can play him if he kicks everything out of bounds. Otherwise I'd agree though. Gotta' have 11 on 11.

Just an idiotic take. Every thought about doing something is not a "fake". When a QB is running they always have to consider the slide as an option. He never went into anything resembling the beginning of a sliding motion. If the defender anticipated a slide he should have been prepared to touch him down at least. And yes, you can touch a QB if they slide.......you just can't come in and drop a shoulder and your full weight into them like on the play where he drew a penalty. You are really proving to be a whiny b*tch when things aren't coming easy for your team.

I am glad I will be at the games in person. The shadow on the field is bad TV. Having been subjected to Cowboys afternoon games like all of us growing up in the 70's and 80's, having to watch them play in the shadows of their old stadium was ugly viewing.

Sustainable kinda' implies that they were good in 2022........which I didn't really think was the case. But as they like to say nowadays........."both things can be true". Were the Giants he inherited a 4-13 roster as they had been the year before? No, they were probably more of a 7-8 win roster that had underperformed in the dysfunction of Joe Judge. But as McD proved in his first season in Buffalo an easy schedule and new schemes and play callers can give an underachieving veteran-laden team a temporary bump. That's all that really happened. But this year was a huge indictment of him as a coach as well, not just the roster.

Yeah Daboll is very Wyche/Mularkey like as a play caller. When it's good it looks ingenious............but then when you see just how bad it can get you realize it's just his unorthodox/uncomplementary "wicky-wacky"style of football. Mularkey had good numbers in his time running the offense in Pittsburgh but Cowher was delighted to have an excuse to get him out of there when Buffalo hired him. They then proceeded to take the next step and win the SB without him.

Nah, I think you need to follow the NFL closer. LOT's of bad HC's have had good first seasons and were seen as "overachieving". Just in the case of the Giants see 2016 Ben McAdoo. He went 11-5 and tied for the second best record in the NFC. Daboll only went 9-7-1 with a veteran team that had just been underachieving for a couple years. Then this season his Giants team started out looking as unprepared as you will ever see an NFL team look nowadays. It was pathetic........and all on him.

It's pretty normal for fans of teams in the NFL playoffs to worry about their opposition. That's kinda' the point of playoffs. They are supposed to be competitive matchups. 5 of the 6 teams the Bills lost to this season had worse "everything" than the Bills but on any given gameday you can get beat in the NFL. Not sure if you have an equivalent in your Euro sports league's.........so maybe you are too far away from the situation to understand completely. Parity in the NFL is a real thing. Recent SB participants like Cinci and Tampa nearly lost in the WC rounds in those seasons to underdogs with backup QB's.

Yeah he has a very high ceiling but he played in a pretty simple system in college. The quality of processing of the other LB's in the room should help push him.

Yeah he's really turned it around. I was cautiously optimistic when I heard he was going to call his own defense because I had wondered if being more of a hands-off delegating.....then just periodically intercede.... HC was right for his intense personality. But in the first half it looked like the coordinating and the other decision making were too much for him to balance. But some people work better in more intense situations like that creates. The recent results would seem to indicate that perhaps we are finally getting all of what was promised from him as a defensive-minded hire.

I don't remember Spector NOT looking good whenever he's played. I know preseason is more basic football but he's looked excellent and instinctive in those opportunities. Dodson had also almost always looked solid as well(despite some claims to the contrary). AJ Klein had a nice run when he had to start(once they adjusted his role to his strengths). Even Julian Stanford looked good filling in for Edmunds in 2018. Preston Brown lead the NFL in tackles in 2017 and Ramon Humber wasn't even too bad before Milano took that job over full time. Lorax was also excellent in a hybrid role that included a lot of LB. You pretty much gotta' go back to the Rex days to see poor LB play in Buffalo.

No worries the Nashville and Miami takeover folks will probably buy those up and fly in for a wintry game in Buffalo.

Yeah the reality is that the Bills have only had 5 decisive victories where they played well on both sides of the ball for most of the game and 3 of those were in the first month of the season. And none recently. Everything else has been a hard-watch, mistake-filled struggle including the last 3 wins........all against reeling/depleted teams. So I'd expect a one score game regardless of who plays or doesn't for Pittsburgh. And that's not necessarily a bad thing. Just win. The last two times the Bills played really well and blew out an opponent in the WC game.........the 343 yard rush game to end Shula's career and the "perfect game" vs NE......... they got beaten the next week.

Yeah there weren't nearly as many strong armed QB's. Most of the guys playing QB in the NFL today would have focused on other sports growing up if the NFL hadn't changed the rules to make it less physically demanding to play QB(and receiver).

I was torn between wanting to see the Steelers get beaten and not wanting the Colts to win. Such indignity kicking Jim Harbaugh's azz twice that season(I've never seen a QB take more punishment than he did in the game in Buffalo) and then watching them really play well enough to reach the SB just 2 years removed from the Bills 4 straight trips. The Bills had won 10 straight AFC playoff games going into Pittsburgh.......after the euphoria rushing for 343 yards versus Miami and putting Shula's career to bed the week before........what a sickening end to that season.