T.E.

Would've liked to see him get a chance in short-yardage situations a few times. Their version of the tush push is predictable as hell (Allen always goes left), and it's clear they've gone to the well one too many times there.

In the NBA back during the David Stern years, they always had a specific ref - Dick Bavetta - work playoff games where a series needed to be extended to make it more competitive and/or a big-market team needed a boost to stay alive or advance. I have a feeling that a Hochuli would be a big-time company man and oblige such a request if, say, Goodell wanted to ensure that the most famous woman on earth attended the Super Bowl.

I really wish he'd cut that out. It's not only incredibly lame, it's completely beneath him given how tough a player he is.

Not a ton of reasons to go for two there, even at the one...I guess if you get it, you can give up a FG and still be within a score?

Tough to remember a team that looked better through Thanksgiving collapse like Philly has.

Correct - no team has the balls to give a guy who was railroaded a shot because they're too scared of dealing with one day of Twitter faux outrage.

Shakir going to get chewed out by McDermott for ruining that obvious effort to play it safe and just try a FG

They do not play aggressively on plays where the offense needs big yardage. McDermott always plays not to lose.

I would be pretty raw too if I just came to the realization that they only way my team could ever get to the Super Bowl is if they get home field advantage because they couldn't play outdoors past Thanksgiving.

Bills - 16 Steelers - 13

Every player on this team with a ring (there's like five total) was not a Bill until this season, except Miller. He obviously is the only one who was Super Bowl MVP. Scratching him so we can dress guys like Harty seems insane to me, but I'm not the one watching them in practice either.

Sitting Miller in what is likely the biggest game in Bills regular season history would be a bad move. If anything, he provides a calming veteran presence for a team that is notorious for getting a little bewildered during stressful moments.

Yeah, the Chiefs loss, where they gave up 17 points after the two minute warning, including the tying score after they went ahead with 13 seconds left, wasn't that bad at all. It wasted the greatest postseason a QB ever had and probably cost them a Super Bowl title, but it's okay because they were playing a #2 seed.

I noticed through your sarcasm that you conveniently didn't mention the annual meltdown in January.

This team doesn't absolutely nothing imaginative on offense, so we can probably expect that shotgun RB draw to be run over and over again for 3.2 YPC.

You're right...it's totally normal for a team that has five 20+ point victories (including a couple against the league's best) to lose multiple games to awful teams necause of mental errors. It's also definitely commonplace for the team's best player and MVP candidate to have awful body language and never get into a rhythm for a whole season. Lots of great teams also emotionally no-show a couple of games a month, including a home Divisional round playoff game.

They're absolutely awesome sometimes and then terrible many times. The variance is bigger than for any Bills team I can remember.

For every Dallas game, there's three games like the Giants or Broncos or Chargers game.

It's felt this way the past three seasons. They just always seem mentally exhausted. Tons of games where they have no spark, nothing goes smoothly, players constantly looking beleaguered and embattled...it's weird, right? I can't put my finger on it, but there has been something off mentally with them for a long time. My gut says it's coaching, but the players supposedly like McDermott & Co.

I've never seen so much "The NFL is scripted" talk in my 30+ years of watching this game as i have this season. Goodell needs to take note that this is the result of a serious problem the league has with officiating.

I'll zig while everyone zags and say he should dress. This is a guy who has a documented history of coming up huge in big games. He'll be looking to make an impact too, after what had to have been a humiliating benching.

This coaching regime has never been great at offensive talent. Whatever, it worked out okay...I'm totally fine with him not starting in that Ravens bloodbath.

So the Bills are playing arguably the biggest regular season game any team has ever had, huh? That doesn't make me feel great at all.

I haven't felt good about this game for the last month.

Too many bird teams too, IMO