What a Tuel

I think we would all be ok with those teams beating our competition. It would be awesome if San Diego beat KC, or the Browns beat the Steelers, but we are looking at worst case scenarios. If the Steelers win the next 4 in a row we are done. Same with the Jets. However, the Jets do not matter as much because we have some control against them Week 17. However Pittsburgh is the biggest threat because they can eliminate us beyond our control. The Steelers winning 3 out of 4 of the next conference games will give them a tie on conference record against us. The next tiebreaker is common games played and a win for them against the Bengals gives them the common games played tiebreaker on us, We would need the Steelers to lose 2 of their next 3 then, and they are playing a Schaub led Ravens, and a mess of a Browns team aside from the Broncos. We will always be cheering for the other teams to lose but the Steelers are by far the biggest threat right now. This Bengals game is huge for us. Go Bengals!

That's not it. He is allowed to own two teams in the same market so long as he isn't in both buildings at the same time.

I assumed he meant Steelers lose to the Bengals and that's it until Week 17. Yeah a loss to the Bengals and Broncos would be awesome.

We would need help in a steelers loss to the browns though

I like how they try to blame Rex too. It's a huge setup and its annoying. Let's stick a mic in a guys face and ask him the same question over and over again until you get a sound byte, blow up the sound byte on national media into a type of problem that the coach won't address. Manufactured outrage.

I am just finding out the Ingram might be out with a season ending shoulder injury. It's Spiller and Hightower there now. Might hurt Brees a little. I'd go with Tyrod though. The way they have been abused through the error is crazy. Most points to wide receivers according to one league. I am starting Sammy Watkins with confidence!

Wrong. Play with the playoff machine, or look back on other pages for specific scenarios that aren't too unbelievable.

Sounds like they miss him and are trying to justify they are better without "jellyroll" McCoy As the top RB from last year gets demoted on their team...

I agree. The reason he didn't sign with the Ravens was because he wanted a starting job. He has what he wants here, I am not sure another team would offer him the type of contract that would be able to pull him away. That may change if we draft a qb, but we need to just in case anyway.

That's just not how stats work. That game was basically how Brady is playing now riddled with injuries, I wouldn't mark it up as a sign of low potential.

They did. Beckham punched our players, but the officials didn't see the need to penalize it. Kicking the ball though? Delay of game!

They need to lose to the Bengals, and if we won out, we would have the tiebreaker. If the Steelers win next week, they need to lose 2 of the last 3, and we could then afford to lose 1 NFC matchup.

I was only enlightened 2 times. I must have missed out on one And he missed 4.5 games compared to last years playing with an injury. Stepping up in a big way at this point!

why do they tackle like that? It seems like our guys get hurt more often when they just try and crash into other players full speed. Hit him and wrap him up. Hope he is ok.

I have the following Bills Eagles W Redskins W Cowboys W Jets W Steelers Bengals L Broncos W Browns W Ravens W Jets Titans W Cowboys W Patriots W Bills L: We make the playoffs with a strength of victory tiebreaker in which I had the Bengals beating the Steelers. If the Steelers beat the Bengals, and lose to the Broncos, we lose the tiebreaker to them based on common games played (We are 1-4 (Colts, Patriots, Bengals, Patriots, Kansas City) they would be 2-3 (Bengals, Colts, Bengals, Kansas City, Patriots) Suffice to say, we are in desperate need of a Bengal win next week.

But, but.... Byrd is the Word....

The eagles beat the patriots now though, so look for them to be talked up...just in time for the game against the bills. It will be tough going though, each matchup is its own game. We should beat them but we need to execute and play to beat them.

Just looked it up. There was no sideline camera view replay of it during the game (why not?). It would be close, unless the all-22 nails it we will never know though.

Pittsburgh isn't up a game just yet, and we play the Jets in Week 17. If we won out, we would simply need the Steelers to lose 1 of the next 5. I understand that they are technically up a game, but they pretty much need to win out to control their own destiny. Correction if they won 3 of their next 5 and we won 3 of the next 4 (one being the jets) then our conference records would be tied, and it would go to best win loss percentage of common games. Which plays big into needing them to lose to Indy, or Cinci again. We lost: NE twice KC CIN We won: Indy They lost: NE KC CIN They won: None Unplayed Pittsburgh vs Indy Pittsburgh @ Cincinatti

If you go to the playoff machine and select home team wins, the Bills make it in at 8-8. Then you go through the weeks and realize the teams that the Bills are competing with actually do win games they are supposed to, and there is actually a lot of hope there. Tiebreakers against the Texans, Jets, and Steelers are extremely helpful and are the last 2 AFC games (Jets and Texans) are must wins in that scenario. http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/machine

Are you sure it wasn't in reference to the Maclin catch? I thought it was in reference to the Maclin catch. That one only had a brief replay of the catch that I had to rewind back to at the next commercial break to prove to the people watching that it wasn't a catch. http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2015/11/30/9819540/rex-ryan-buffalo-bills-chiefs-challenges-chaplin "On the 37-yarder I wasn't aware because again, I wasn't seeing the video on it," Ryan said. "So from my vantage point, I thought he caught the ball. Obviously I would've challenged it if I would've known there was any question whatsoever on a 37-yard play because it flipped the game. "I've never seen that. That's the first time you don't see any plays. I think there's a league rule where you usually get to see some, but maybe I'm wrong on that." He is wrong on that. While some plays require mandatory in-stadium replays (touchdowns, safeties, fumbles, interceptions, etc.), turnovers on downs and 37-yard receptions are not on that list. According to a statement from the NFL, "each coaches booth is also equipped with a standardized broadcast truck feed, which is provided directly from the instant replay booth." On one close call, Ryan appeared to be told by the Bills team chaplain not to challengea play that was ruled an incomplete pass, although replay appeared to show Bills wide receiver Chris Hogan making a catch. Ryan brushed that off and said the chaplain has no impact on his decision making on challenges and said again on Monday that replay decisions are his own responsibility. Nope.

Would love to know why we don't ever get those huddles that result in a flag being picked up. With us it always seems like a thrown flag is by rule sacred, and it would horrify them to conference about it and pick it up when it's a bad call.

I looked at it again too. At first I thought it was a lack of looking for Watkins in the second half, but it isn't that, especially in the 3rd quarter you can see he is staring Watkins down and sometimes Watkins wasn't open, but there were also some plays where Sammy beats one guy, and just has to worry about the safety, but Taylor goes to another read where Roethelisberger or Romo would've thrown it up there and let Antonio or Dez beat the double coverage.

We got screwed on that one too. And a lot of people complained about that one for the sake of both teams. But even then they enforced it wrongly after the fact.

Oh I agree, the officials are bad across the board, it's not just instances against us, but we certainly feel like we get the brunt of it.. He was definitely wrong, but I am just more disappointed that we have to risk important timeouts to get the right call on such an obvious catch with the official standing right there. My theory is that since the chief player went after the ball, the official concluded that hogan lost possession, and somehow forgot that Hogan tucked the ball, turned, and took a few steps. Also correction - I thought it was our last timeout, but we had 2, so he definitely should've challenged it.