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It was close..... Regardless, though, that is what I expected when we drafted Kincaid. Down the field mismatch. Gotta use him more that way.

Shakir....man. Perfect slot WR.

Ty Johnson is a fantastic football player.

It's a technique issue. I mean, these guys are selling out to make a play which is very admirable, but we need to stay healthy. But I love the sacrifice they are willing to give to make a play.

Von has been great today. Missed sack aside, he is affecting the QB and it has made a difference.

GREAT STAND!!!!! Hope Lewis is OK.

I mean, you can give up a TD......but make them take 6 minutes off the clock to do it!

Swiss cheese defense is back. Can never just close it out.

Not much to roast in this game. He's been good. But if you want me to say he's been terrible, I will.

Yup. For the first time all season, a WR created real separation.

SAMUEL FINALLY MAKES THE BIG PLAY. Hopefully this is the start of a big playoffs for him. Don't need him to do a ton. Just needs to make a couple big plays a game.

Had the perfect chance to hit them with a big play action on first down there. I like a lot of what Brady does, but it is an absolute crime that he doesn't use more play action in this offense. Allen is one of the best QBs in the league with it and we rarely use it.

Nice play by Hamlin and Bernard there. Both had perfect depth and spacing. Great return by Shakir as well. Now's the time to go get a TD and put most of the nails in the coffin.

Denver starting to get dirty out there....... Play hard and protect yourself after the play.

Big conversion there. Game of inches. We have seen that many times in this game so far. This is normally where the defense takes their foot off the gas and give up a TD drive. Fully expecting it to happen again until they prove me wrong.

It was a bad play call. It was a miraculous play. Both can be true.

Called a TD on the field. To me and everyone watching, it's clearly a TD. That's why it will be ruled incomplete.

WOW

That probably was a miss, but it almost looked like Allen was expecting Coleman to angle more upfield. Tough either way.

Bad ball by Josh there followed by a dirty hit. Hope he's OK. Go score a TD and give him the ball.

We've left a ton of points on the field today (through some of our own doing and some of the refs). Can't afford to do that any longer. Need to take control of this game.

Why does our special teams coordinator still have a job? He is an absolute embarrassment to coaching.

The answer to this question has been the same since 13 seconds........ The Bills. Until we prove that we can play great defense consistently, and the coaches don't make critical mistakes with time management or situational football, I will be most scared of beating ourselves. You will never convince me otherwise that we shouldn't have won the Super Bowl already at some point in the last 4-5 seasons. We have had the talent to do it. We have had an offense that has left the field WINNING the game multiple times only to have McDermott, his staff, special teams, and the defense cough it up needing 1 last stop. So yeah.....I fear no team except for this one. There are great teams out there for sure. But, there is every year and we have shown that we can hold our own in every one of those games until we make a crucial mistake in crunch time. McDermott preaches about learning from mistakes that are made. To this point, we haven't seen a postseason where some of those same mistakes rear their ugly heads at the worst time. If we play our best football, and stay healthy (which we haven't been able to do for an entire playoff run), I truly believe we can win it all because we have the best player on the planet playing QB for us. We might not have the most talented team in the playoffs, but I truly believe, at our best, no team plays together as a team collective, better than we do. It's time to do it. GO BILLS!

Honestly, what we need are 2 more Amri Coopers......just a decade younger. But that requires the GM to make significant investments through draft picks in the WR room after he just did it last season. And yes.....I realize he did this with Coleman last season, but Coleman has proven to be exactly what we thought he would be coming out of college.......a guy that can't separate consistently at the NFL level due to lack of explosiveness and speed that will make the occasional big play, especially off script, in contested ball situations. I find it very difficult to believe that he will ever be more than a low end WR2 or WR3-WR4 depending on how you want to use him out of the slot. I mean, I would love for him to develop more, and he is young (almost as young as Edmunds from what I can tell), but he is going to have to learn to win in different ways consistently because he will never be able to outrun or out-quick anyone. I wish the Bills would use him more on slants as that would help him create some separation by shielding defenders off, but we run about 2 slants a year and I guess that's our max. But, he needs much better footwork and needs to use his body and hands to create separation. He has a long ways to go in those departments. But hey, Allen had some of the worst mechanics I have ever seen coming out of college and he completely revamped basically everything from his footwork to his throwing motion through great coaching, science, and extremely hard work and dedication to his craft. Can Coleman do the same thing? Remains to be seen, but he has a long way to go as of now. But yeah, we need 2 game breakers at the WR position that don't mind sharing the ball, that work their tails off, and keep their mouths shut. Good luck finding them.

Challenge them close to the LOS and make Nix beat you in Buffalo by throwing the ball down the field. Watching their offense, they love the screen game and I expect several of them early in this game, especially to get Nix settled it. The key is, don't ever let him feel settled. Play up close, jam the WRs and don't take your eyes off the RBs. This will help not only take away their screen game, but assist in stopping the run as well. I know it goes against McDermotts entire philosophy, but sometimes you have to let your CB and S positions do their job. You have to trust them to keep everything in front of them in some games, especially when you have a team like the Broncos that live primarily in the short to intermediate areas and like to beat teams through a thousand little paper cuts. Yes, the Broncos have talented WRs that can make plays and I am sure at some point they will. However, can they make enough big plays consistently to beat us in our stadium with the offense we have? Maybe....but I would have to see it to believe it. As for the offense, just be you. Honestly, watching these last few weeks of the season, it has become very obvious that we have put a lot of our repertoire on ice since the Lions game. The last time we saw this offense go all out and have everything on the table on offense was that game. Since then, they have scaled back a lot in what they have brought to the table to won games. Playoff Allen will be fully charged up and ready to go and I expect this offense to look a lot different than it has since that Lions game. If the defense can hold Denver to under 23-24 points or so, we should win this game. I do worry about this defense in the Playoffs, though. They have not had one postseason yet where they have great football. And honestly, I am not sure we have the defensive line to change that this season. But I maintain that we have the best football player on the planet playing for us and his will to win is unmatched. I trust that if the defense doesn't have a complete meltdown as they usually do at some point in the playoffs, that we have a chance to win.