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It's Christmas, Theo It's the time of miracles.

I'd be pissed that a team ran homerun throwback on me.

This caught my attention yesterday because there have been players like TO, for example, who stayed in great shape and expressed interest in returning to the NFL, yet no team took them up on the offer. I can’t imagine what it must feel like to take a hit in an NFL game after being away from the field for so long.

Two questiosn for my fellow Bills fans - have you ever come across a list of "street" FAs where players like MJ Devonshire appear? I've always wondered how the NFL tryout world operates. How do players get a tryout?

Absolutely. Die Hard features several redemption arcs, a common theme in many Christmas movies. It was also among the first action films I can remember to use a holiday setting as a central plot device. In my opinion, Die Hard feels more like a Christmas movie than Die Hard 2. I’ve always found the second film somewhat derivative. For me, Die Hard with a Vengeance stands out as the strongest entry in the series.

If the Bills can win this game, they can win out.

I like it. Bills need more man corners.

Yes. All of the games are outside, potentially in bad weather. I think the Bills are the best bad weather team in the AFC. Three of the games are at home. The road games aren't far.

We're **once again** in fireable offense territory.

Absolutely weak play calls in a game they need to win.

Offense playing afraid.

He's a guy who makes bad decisions because of his ego. While I think he's a half decent coach, he's a manchild emotionally. He's never outgrown his desire to be pursued. He had a great thing at Tennessee. He has a great thing at Ole Miss.

This team isn't going far. I'm usually optimistic about these McDermott teams, but this is a down year.

Hurts has been handed a different system, a different voice, and a different philosophical framework nearly every season dating back to his Alabama days. Under those conditions, instability is the norm. He adapts by defaulting to the parts of his game he trusts. I also think the 2025 Eagles OC is a bit of a dud. Patullo is predictable with a billion hitch routes and hates the deep pass on a team with WRs who excel at running deep routes and getting open.

The Chiefs look tired and uninterested. That team has played a lot of games over eight long seasons. They have played 20+ more games than most of their opponents when you factor in the playoffs. The hunger isn't there.

A bit of both. Receivers do need to block at times, and do a good job at it. Joe Brady needs to be way less predictable with his plays and make those in-game adjustments faster. For whatever reason he decided to unleash Johnson and Cook as WRs against the Bucs, like the fan base has been screaming to do, and it worked. I hope he considers some pre-snap motion plays for Thursday. Have to make the Texans defense think a bit. You don't want them running downhill like the Falcons and Dolphins were.

I voted no. He can grow up. Bills need to accept he's not a WR1. He's a slot receiver, with *some* plays lined up wide. Bills will need to get creative to have both he and Shakir on the field at the same time. Bills, like most teams, can make mistakes is not playing rookies to their strengths as they develop. Elam was never going to be a zone corner. Coleman isn't a WR1.

I suspect there's things to correct here because when the team comes out flat, it's usually on the road. From the 2025 NFLPA Report Card on the Bills team travel: Note: In 2023, it was a D+. In 2024, team travel was a D, 25th in the league.

The Buccaneers and Dolphins frequently utilized pre-snap motion, often catching the defense out of position. That can be fixed.

Let's play some *more* zone.

Yep, I agree. I think the report cards are interesting to fans, and useful to players. The Bills ranked 23rd in the 2025 edition. Many Bs, one A (for weight room) but a C in Training Staff (surprise!) and an F in Team Travel (Shocker #2). The Bills were ranked 32 out of 32 in team travel.

The NFL filed a grievance against the NFL Players Association, asking the union to stop its annual team report cards and saying the exercise violates the collective bargaining agreement by airing public criticism of teams, according to documents obtained by ESPN.

The Bills' in-house strength and conditioning program is a clear liability. I wouldn’t be surprised if their travel logistics and approach to managing fatigue, disruption and acclimation are equally flawed. When the McDermott-led Bills come out flat, it is almost always the road games. An example of this occurred in 2023, when the team arrived in London just two days before their game against the Jaguars. They sleptwalk through that game and lost it. Jet lag for a trip from the US to Europe is a couple days for most people. I don't think arriving in Miami on a Friday afternoon provides players with nearly enough time to adjust to exertion in the humidity and heat. We also have no idea whether these players get the sleep they should, or they are up all night.

I'll play the game. Head coach: Not so much a specific person in mind, but a quality I'd like to see is a coach (and staff) comfortable with adapting to changing circumstances from season to season and insid the games. More tacticians, less process. Tired of somewhat mindlessly following the "installed" game plan. Front office: Believe the draft profiles. If a consensus of draft profiles say the same thing about a player, believe the detail to be accurate, good or bad.

Yes they would. Playoffs is a new season, and KC's team is full of killers. Bad weather part of the season starts now, and it remains to be seen whether this NE team can play in the cold and lousy weather. That's also why I don't buy the Colts just yet. Bills have the best cold weather/bad weather QB in the AFC, and perhaps the league.