BADOLBILZ

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.

There are always safeties in the banana stand that is free agency. Guards too. Winfield had an amazing year. That would be a great story with him maybe having the opposite career path of his father by coming to Buffalo as a free agent........but he will likely get top dollar. There should be value from there on down.

The only word that comes to mind is cunning.

Some people were buying the narrative that you couldn't kick in that direction. Not that night. After being at around 300 Bills home games I have a pretty good idea when you can't kick that way. Bass just over kicked the one's he missed in the event of a gust. It wasn't necessary. I wouldn't have had a problem with them going for it either. But punting? GTFOH with that nonsense. 😂 Only thing you can't do there is get it blocked.

And don't take any BIG checks @Captain Hindsight

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.