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Regarding #8 Siran Neal deserves a ton of credit here. McDermott used 2 players to replace a single Milano. While Klein got more snaps than Neal, it wasn’t by much. On plays where the Bills predicted Pass, Siran Neal essentially played the Will in coverage, and considering how little usage Kelce got, was darn good in coverage. Edmunds deserved a lot more praise coming out of this game. For me, he was the defensive MVP. We had a game plan designed to let the chiefs run their crossers and short stuff against Edmunds, and they got barely anything out of it. Sure Hill had a nice game with 7 catches and a TD, but he average less than 10 yards a catch and his long was 17, while Kelce wasn’t a factor. Edmunds erased huge parts of the field like he was a lock down corner. You can NOT play that scheme against that QB and WRs without an all pro performance from Edmunds he was fairly handsy as well

Gameballs to Josh Allen & Tremaine Edmunds

Also - Tremaine Edmunds is a freakin field eraser. Just a no go zone. Worth his weight in gold to this defense. Milano gets more pub because teams throw it more at him and because the will is more of a playmaker in this system - but Edmunds has been sensational tonight

How do you not love Josh Allen

Cheating. Plain and simple

No. the D has been n the same D all night. I have no idea what the Bills are supposed to do on D. the chiefs are blitzing and daring the refs to call holding and DPI and they’re refusing. that’s impossible for the Bills to beart

Ive been a football fan since Jim Kelly was a rookie. this is up there for one of the most blatantly unfair reffed games I’ve seen in my life

Yes if the Chiefs D and O are already to do minor league holding than the Bills D & O should be allowed to do the same

Sure but it’s not called 95% of the time

to be fair they’ve stopped the Chiefs in both drives only for some ticky tacky call to extend the drive. not sure what McDermott and the Bills are supposed to do about this. Their game plan is working. The refs have decided it doesn’t

The refs are going to male me rage quit this game. gonns call every ticky-foul on the bills (that 3rd down “hold” on the bills, thag “hold” against Kielce), while basically allowing the Chiefs to play outside the rule

It's also true that a washed Big Ben, Jacoby Brissett, Taylor Heinicke, and....I have no idea who the Texans QB was off the top of my head....are pretty low end QBs.

If the Bucs are still this depleted in the secondary, Allen and the O may put up 50 on TB. They'll be pumped and looking to make a point, and that's not gonna be great for an absolutely devastated secondary

haha its all good. It's pretty damn silly honestly. But you definitely see players have certain looks which they think makes them play better. It's pure superstition which disguises ones own psychological games they play on themselves. I mean stefon diggs arms sleeves are always rolled into his shoulder pads, presumably because he thinks it's more aerodynamic or maybe makes it harder for DBs to grab him or something.

When I played, and we had our dark blue pants with whites (we generally looked like PSU), I swear I felt faster and that started from pre-game. My track coach used to have a thing about making sure we didn't look sloppy in practice or meets "you look good, you feel good, you perform better".

They matter. Not a huge amount, but they matter. sometimes you feel faster with a certain look.

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With this I agree. But the Bills could lose this by 50 and I still think they end up with the #1 seed. The AFC East is bad bad outside of Buffalo, there are no good teams in the AFC South, while the North and West look set to beat the crap out of each other.

Well there's a correlation question here. Generally the teams that earn homefield are better teams. When Brady has to go on the road, it means he's playing a team that played better than his through out the year...so is it the homefield, or being the better team, why Brady has a 500 road playoff record?

They do but I can't take the Raiders (that defense) or Broncos (the QBs) seriously. With 7 teams making the playoffs, they just need to be better than the 3rd place team in the North (which will be on of Cinncy, Balt or CLE), or finish ahead of either the Raiders or the Broncos. Their defense is in gonna cost them a handful of games, but not enough to keep them out IMO I think the bye week is more important than the home field advantage. I hate the new format because there's not enough upside to fight for the #2 seed. I might do some math on this, but I think home field advantage in the NFL is fairly overrated.

I think the fans care a lot more about this game than the players do. It's game 5 and both of these teams are gonna be in the playoffs. It really doesn't mean that much

Defensively this is pretty simple for the Bills. Impact Mahomes' pocket or give up points. Kelce and Hill are too much when you combine Mahomes' arm and given time. But if they can force him into faster throws I like the backers and Bills secondary here. Offensively, if Allen plays well, this is a big mismatch. Why? Because of Emmaneul Sanders and Dawson Knox, to complement Diggs and Beasley. Even if the Chiefs go to their mugging defense, that won't work as well with Sanders and Knox, if only because Sanders is far better than a John Brown who was maybe 65% healthy - his route running has been elite, and he still has that burst he uses at any point on his route. Getting handsy with him isn't going to work well - he's too good, too savvy. Last Jan, the Chiefs were able to bracket Diggs, and mug the other Wrs - basically suffocating them with 7-8 man zone/man combos. My assumption is they'll do the same again, but this time I expect a quality Sanders and effective Dawson Knox to punish that scheme. Not sure who's going to win this game, but I do think the Bills are the more talented team

I honestly don't even remember this play. I knew that game was over after the first quarter, after watching how much the Bills struggled to impact Mahomes' pocket, and how much mugging was being allowed on the Bills banged up WRs. The only way the Bills were going to win that was by a shootout, and with the Bills running their smurfs there was no way that was going to happen with the refs allowing such physical DB play

Absolutely needs to be a 15 yard penalty and not a spot foul. Watching some of the older QBs, like Rodgers and Brady, they don't even throw deep balls to get catches - they throw them to draw DPI, and now you have WRs flopping rather than trying to catch a ball for that purpose. Needs to be a 15 yard foul. It works perfectly in college. No one wants to intentionally give up 15 yards

I don't think this has anything to do with Bama as much as it is NFL teams for some reason devalueing basic arm talent. None of the 3 Bama QBS - Hurts, Tua, or Jones - have even average NFL arm strength. I think they are all slightly below average. They have exceptional touch, exceptional competitiveness, don't make a ton of mistakes, are pretty accurate, throw a really nice deep ball - and lack velocity to fit balls into small windows. As a DC, you have to protect against the over the top, but you're not quite as fearful of the intermediate, smaller window stuff. You can gameplan with zone underneath, knowing the other QB will hesitate there, while protecting over the top. Force these guys to make velocity throws or checkdowns. That's not on Bama. They win championships with these guys because they have 3-4 dudes on the perimeter who would be the equivelent of having DK Metcalf, Stefon Diggs, and in prime Desean Jackson, backed up by Amari Cooper as your 4th WR.