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These guys are so mentally solid. Why would you think we need a sense of urgency? How many more years do they need to prove it? Our final test is the Chiefs in the playoffs. All this week 6 drama is water under the bridge by January.

Thats why everyone is panicking. In their mind the team is already 4-2 and in 2nd place in the AFC East. Makes sense now.

27-10 Bills tomorrow. Bye week to heal. Back to dominant self by Panthers game.

The league will catch up and make adjustments. If he can adjust to the adjustments, then I’ll start taking him seriously.

Human beings never cease to amaze me. Look forward to glass half full after we destroy the Falcons Monday. As if McDermott hasn’t been bouncing back after losses for 8 years now. But no, it’s us that need to prove ourselves. Not the 2nd year QB and head coach on his 2nd team. The only thing we have left to prove is Chiefs in the playoffs. And how on the up and up those games were is very questionable.

I think it’s because they lose control of massaging games with every new technological breakthrough. The current excuse is that there’s too many bodies around the football for the sensor to know if it crossed the first down marker or goal line. Which sounds fine on the surface but there seems to be no interest in solving that problem further. One idea being to add sensors under the grass or turf. Or even inside uniforms. The excuse is used as a conversation ender rather than an obstacle to figure out for a greater goal. To understand the NFL’s attitude, after the Bills got hosed against the Chiefs last year and every casual non-Chiefs fan was up in arms, the NFL said they’re looking into ways to use technology to CONFIRM a ref’s spot. Not tell us the spot, but take the ref’s spot and confirm if the spot crossed the goal line. It’s the same concept as the chain gang. What does it matter if we’re measuring the spot if the spot was originally decided falsely and subjectively? That’s how they screw with our heads. But I’ve been watch threads on places like TBD and people are waking up. 75% of fans are suspicious now. This was not the case 5-10 years ago.

I get that sense too. If everyone does it, like some in this thread allude to, then why point the finger at that coaching tree? Why did Coen react like that if it's a nothingburger? Maybe there's more to it that Saleh can't say?

Interesting accusation from Saleh yesterday, naming a lot of names. Liam Coen was asked about this at a press conference today and he didn't deny it, just said he didn't want to talk about it. How does this affect your opinion of NFL games knowing this might be a thing? Do the Bills do it? How much of what we blame on our team could just be the result of the other coaching staff knowing our plays ahead of time, rather than execution or effort or Xs and Os coaching prowess? Do the Chiefs do this in our playoff games? https://www.si.com/nfl/why-robert-saleh-accused-jaguars-sign-stealing

If the playoff games are truly tilted like everybody suspects, Josh Allen might be the greatest NFL player of all time.

Because the MVP is their Super Bowl. The trophies cover for the playoff choking. They can pretend Lamar isn’t a 9 Wonderlic run/pass option QB who only throws over the middle

Because darkness hates the light. Whenever you see irrational hate, it’s because the darkness hates the light.

It’s the Ravens fans. All year the Bills fans have said “Lamar is great but Allen should win.” The Ravens fans instead have an attitude of “Lamar smoked Allen in week 4. Allen sucks. Lamar all the way.” They’re dumb, macho, ignorant, and in my opinion racist. They deserve to lose the game and this award.

You watched that incredibly classy speech (compared to the 3 hour mess before it) and came away wondering why Allen didn’t thank the fans? Talk about crabs in a bucket.

You know this entire thing is a joke when Kay Adams has a vote. Like she’s not being told who to vote for by her producers. I feel good in that our NFL overlords decided to reward Allen tonight. Hopefully that’s a sign of things to come.

Yeah I’m sure there’s no influence there in anyway whatsoever.

Hamlin not winning Comeback Player this year or last year is a big fumble by the NFL.

EVERY mainstream sports writer working for a big outlet writes in this template when discussing “conspiracies”. Title: “Are the Chiefs benefiting from favorable calls?” “It sure seems like it! Of course after further review this is not the case.” It’s so consistent, it’s almost like they are told to write it this way by their editors. Pull the suspicious reader in, then plant seeds of doubt in their head.

Exactly my point. But people don’t understand why refs wouldn’t talk.

You’re creating an extreme straw man to not allow the moderate view to enter. La Nova is owned by he who shall not be named. Yet they’re all over the Bills and Sabres. Why won’t anybody spill the beans? Because institutions are complex.

I think it’s a mix of having more control and having “higher goals”. For example, having the narrative of their choice every year avoids a dreaded NFL situation where we have a boring Vikings/Darnold vs Texans/Stroud Super Bowl that would get lower ratings. Look at the NBA, they just forced a Luka Doncic trade to the Lakers so we’re not stuck with another weak Western Conference Mavs team vs a boring 3 point shooting Celtics team or God forbid the Cavs with no household names. It raises the floor for ratings. The other concept leads to bigger ideas. Have you been listening to Goodell this year? All he talks about is 18 games and expanding outside the USA. Nobody wants this, but it’s all he talks about. Refs get brought up and he mentions how great they’re doing. Completely tone deaf. Player safety? Ha! Well what does Taylor Swift really bring? Young female attention. Go on espn.com and count how many Women Sports articles there are on the homepage vs Men’s. Far more than there is actual interest. What they’re doing is building a new and massive market. Men are maxed out. If you don’t like sports as a man, you never will. But women are an untapped market. Start young, get them playing sports, get them playing flag football, get them dreaming about sports. Look at the “Roll Tide” commercials where the women is the knowledgeable fan dressed in baggy clothes with undone hair, correcting the man on sports knowledge. Runs perfect with feminist ideas. “Why can’t a women play sports? Why wouldn’t men watch women play sports? Why can’t a girl break gender norms and dream of being an athlete?” NFL headquarters loves that line of thinking. Let’s capitalize on it! They are “priming” the market, as advertisers are taught to do. So it’s beyond TV ratings in 2025 and about merchandise and TV ratings in 2030 and beyond. That’s why Kelce and Swift. That’s why she just has to come on the field for photo ops when they win. Does Haile Stanfield and Allen do that nonsense? No, because that’s a real relationship that respects privacy and isn’t tacky. Swift and Kelce is perfect corporate synergy. Who hugs their boyfriend’s mother as much as she does? Give me a break.

I’m hearing rugby has the tech already and it’s good. The attitude should be “we’ll do whatever we can to figure out the tech.” Instead the attitude is very “ahhh it’s so hard, it sounds easy, but there’s so many impossibilities.” Blah blah.

51 is elderly.

Frankly, if things are this rigged, why would we say we were out coached? What if they knew our plays and audibles? What if the reason Allen was so shook on the 1st drive was because the Chiefs knew our script? Who’s to say it begins and ends with the refs?

What in the world are people talking about. McD fringe top 10?

That "narrative" is sent to them from the NFL headquarters. That's why every sports show on every channel says the same things and has the same exact arguments at the same exact time. They get talking point memos. We were driving to win at the beginning of the 4th. It felt just like the Chiefs game earlier this year at Highmark. Up a point or two, ready to go up two scores and put the game away. The team was flowing, we know exactly what to do on short yardage plays. But what do you know..... "Outcoached"