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What the heck was that? It's like they actively got out of the way......

These defensive calls are boggling my mind. Really feels like I am watching another defense right now choke it away.

What kind of coverage is that? Just give them a free 5-6 yards......

Saw that coming from a mile away. If it wasn't a tush push, that's the only play you run in that situation.

This is where knowing what you need really comes in handy.....

Might as well have went for it...... Not going to stop Mahomes from at least getting into FG range anyway. You know Kelce will be running wide open and they will be in FG range in 2 or 3 plays. Then it will just be trying to hold them out of the end zone.

Legit call at the worst possible time......

Keep pounding the rock....

First penalty since the 2nd quarter...... Because everyone knows KC never commits penalties on either side of the ball.

Not sure I would have taken the ball there. I would have liked to know what I needed to get........ This isn't regular OT.

I guess no defensive coordinator ever thinks to double and jam Kelce in any crucial situation. I just don't understand it. He's either one on one or finding a huge hole in a soft zone. No defense ever just lines up 2 guys on him and puts him on the ground before he even gets off the line.

We care more than every other fan base. It hurts us more when the season ends. We feel it differently than other fan bases around the league. We will carry losses, not only from the previous season until the following year starts, but horrible gut wrenching losses from season's pass that just keep adding to each other. Heck, we carry the 4 Super Bowl losses around like they happened yesterday. I think we will continue to do this until we actually win a Super Bowl. The Mafia is family. We go out of our way to help others. Whether it is finding the positive in the negatives through donations, shoveling and plowing out player's homes so they can get to the stadium to play a game (or catch a flight to another stadium to play a game when the city is shut down), or just having the wildest and most welcoming tailgate scene in the world for both Bills fans and opposing team's fans. We're built different and it shows......not only to our own fans, but cities and fans of other teams see it too. There's more to it, but that is the CliffsNotes of it all.

It's been reported that the 10 highest money wagers on the game are all on the 49ers. That said, while I won't be near the highest wagers on the game, I'll be on the other side for sure. The NFL wants nothing more than Taylor Swift celebrating on their field at the end of the game. No way do they want to show her pouting and crying at the end of the game. The Chiefs win this one, unfortunately. Obviously, nobody wants the Chiefs to win, especially me. I will be hate watching this game like no other firmly believing that if we were healthy, we would have won that game and beaten Baltimore who I think is a little overrated. We just make 1 or 2 more plays in that game as it is, we win. If we were healthy, I really think we would have won and it maybe would have been by more than 1 score. But alas, here we are left wondering because it always seems to be something that turns up at the worst possible time that gets in our way. A coaching meltdown with 13 seconds left. A player dying on the field and throwing the team into emotional overload. Injuries the week before to key players in a game that shouldn't have even been as close as it was. As frustrating as it is on our end, though, when you love the game of football as much as I, and many people on this board do, there is no way not to watch. So, I will be putting my money on the Chiefs moneyline hoping I lose the bet. But if I'm right, and the NFL gets what they want, at least my wallet will be better off for it. But, that said, here's to losing my money!!!!! GO BILLS!

I haven't had the heart to go back and watch the All-22 film of that game yet to see how he was used. Obviously there were no big plays to speak of, but I am not sure if he was running those routes and they were just covered or if they didn't have him working that part of the field for some reason. Someday I'll review that tape, but it still hurts. I 100% believe with my heart that if we didn't lose Bernard and Benford the week before, we would have won that game. Still should have won it without them.

Yup. And it should be fully guaranteed over the next decade at least.

He would have, but they didn't really even start to incorporate him in the offense on those types of routes until the last couple weeks of the season. He may have run a few of those routes earlier in the year here and there, but they didn't really start utilizing him in those situations until late. It was really strange because it was one of his biggest talents coming out of college in the first place. I thought we'd see it more from the beginning of the season, but they never did it.

I know there is no way you can avoid it. Your number has to come up at some point in the rotation, but man, I wish there was a way we could never play an international game again. They are ridiculous. And while nobody knows what would have happened had we not gone on that London trip, I still remember thinking that after that game that we lost any real chance we had at competing for a title. Now, obviously, we still ended up with a chance and you could probably argue that if Bernard and Benford are healthy against the Chiefs, there was a pretty good chance we could have won. But man....that England trip was devastating to this team and I have no desire to see the Bills play outside of the US anytime soon.

It's a very deep WR class. Unfortunately, there are a ton of teams that need WR help and I expect 6....maybe even 7 to be off the board by the end of the first round. It's a great year for OTs, as well, but with Brown taking a step last year, I am not sure that is a position you want to take in the first round. I guess, worst case scenario, the top 6-7 WRs come off the board before we pick but, in turn, that forces a very good player at another position that normally would be picked a lot higher down the board to us. I guess we just have to hope that whoever that may be is at a position of need for us as well. I really don't want to have to trade up, but if Beane is serious about a particular WR, then I guess I'm open to it. But it better be a bigger guy that can run and stretch the field a bit. We need an explosive play maker and I just don't want to settle for another 6' guy that runs 4.5 or whatever that runs average routes and can't create separation consistently.

This entire off season should be him, McDermott, and the rest of the coaching staff locked in a room until the figure out a way to cover Travis Kelce. They should be looking at every game he has played over the last 3 years and charting every coverage to find out what has worked the best. Contrary to popular opinion, he does have very quiet games and figuring out how to take him out of a game should be their primary focus. Mahomes will be Mahomes, but in my opinion, he's not been the reason we haven't been able to beat the Chiefs. We can't beat the Chiefs because Mahomes is throwing the ball to Kelce over and over again because he is running wide open most of the time in the secondary. Any QB could make a lot of those throws to Kelce. So get it figured out...... I know how I would do it, but I've never seen teams actually try it consistently. I've seen it work when teams do try it, but they just don't do it enough. GET PHYSICAL. Some teams do try and jam him off the line and it does work when they are successful in getting their hands on him. Sometimes they miss and get burned, but that is going to happen. He's a good player. If it's me, I'm taking the physicality to an entirely different level. I am finding where he lines up, assigning 2 guys to press him and jam him immediately off the snap and not even allow him to get into a route on time. Almost treat him like a dominant defensive tackle where the guard and center are double teaming him before one of them drops off into their next responsibility. I am not saying you have to never let him release, but just use that 5 yards that press is allowed to it's full extent and make him work for every step. Try and put him on the ground a couple times if you can. Make him work every second on his attempted release. This should throw off the timing enough to allow the pass rush to force Mahomes to look elsewhere. I'm just sick and tired of watching him line up and get a free release against this defense 90% of the time. I know teams can try and limit the physicality on certain guys by stacking them or using motion, but force them to try and do this all the time. Never let them feel comfortable that he is just going to be able to line up and run a route. And, you know what...... If he had 3 for 35 and you still get beat, fine.....I'll live with that. But make no mistake about it, not being able to cover Kelce at all, not Mahomes, has been the main reason we have lost to them in the Playoffs. Yes, our scheme seems to work against most other TEs when we play them, but Kelce kills this team. Figure it out.

More games = More money It's that simple. I think there is a better chance they go to more Playoff teams with multiple byes than back to 6 with 2 byes. They will look to squeeze every penny out of the season that they can. Adding more Playoff teams increases interest in more cities and in turn generates more money. Not saying I want anything like that, but any way the NFL can add more revenue, you can bet it's being discussed.

While I don't always agree with him, this breakdown shows the inefficiencies of the offense at times. As good as the offense was at times last night against a great defense, there are several things that could have been done better just by paying attention to the details. I know some of it may be on the players, but there are definite flaws in the play designs and the coaching of the WRs. I know Brady isn't a lock yet to be back, but if I had to guess, he'll be back. But he needs to get into the lab and iron out some of these details. I think Chad Hall leaving last season really hurt the WR room as well. You can see in this breakdown just where the lack of coaching is holding this offense back and why it is so hard on Allen and why he is forced to be Superman all the time. He has to overcome so much. So, in addition to the ST coach and DL coach being fired (I hope), I want a new WR coach and, if Brady is back, more attention to details and route spacing. Take the time to watch this.....you will see just how unprepared these players are because of bad coaching.

We need 2 WRs coming out of this draft. Ideally, you get one that by the end of the season is competing for WR1. The problem is going to be where we're picking. While this is a deep draft class for WR, there are a TON of teams that need one. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the top 7 WRs are off the board by the time our pick rolls around based on the amount of teams that need one. Not saying you can't still get one that turns out to be great.....of course you can. But in terms of the top guys going into the draft..... We might be too far out and we might find better value at another position because so many WRs come off the board early.

You could see by the movement pre-snap that something was up. It looked like there was some confusion and you could sense it was coming. It surprised nobody.

Everyone praising Mahomes for what he did last night, and saying he carried his team to the win.....yadda yadda yadda..... Make no mistake about it. He did what he needed to do to win, but nothing he really did was special. He was very rarely pressured. Never really touched. Never made that impossible play. He thew to ball to Kelce who ran WIDE OPEN all night and chucked a ball up down the field to a WR that actually made a play for his QB. Meanwhile, Allen is under pressure all night. Throwing laterals and passes on the run. Multiple 60+ yard dimes down the field to WRs that apparently forgot how to catch the ball. Allen was the best player on the field last night and it will go unnoticed and the narrative will continue that he can't beat Mahomes when the fact is, if Allen was playing the Bills defense last night and not the Chiefs defense, he probably would have put up 40+.

WARNING - FULL LENGTH ARTICLE INCOMING! HA! The thing is, a tear down really doesn't mean you have to take a step back in my opinion. There are a few bad contracts on this team for sure that would hurt to get out of this season, but if that's the choice you make, it doesn't have to mean a setback because the young talent on team friendly contracts are the ones that are having the best impact on the field. So, if you wanted to move on from some of these bad contracts and absorb the hits, you can. OFFENSE You are golden at the most important position in football. And with his contract and talent level, you know he isn't going anywhere for a very long time. So, you need cap space to absorb the cap hit from cutting a bad contract like Von (if that is something they even want to do), Allen has the contract to make that somewhat possible. You are fine at RB with Cook. Draft someone late to team with him for this year. No need to have a big contract in that room with him as your lead back. The line is fine. Mitch is the biggest question mark. Do you want to save some money by dumping his contract? Does he want to play another year? Would he take a massive pay cut to chase a ring one more time? You have Bates that can hold down the fort for this season if necessary, but you can usually get the best, or one of the best centers in the draft in the 3rd round if you want to go really cheap there and not have a huge talent drop off. It's a big asset to use on a center, but if you pick the right guy, you will have your center for the next decade. Dawkins had his best year this season. You want to clear some space, redo his contract. No problem adding a couple years and some new money for that guy. The rest of the line is fine and doesn't break the bank. WR is the biggest question mark right now. Where is Diggs at with this team? If he's still all in with this team and wants to be here, then he's your #2 going forward for a couple years. You have Shakir on a bargain deal as your #3/slot. If this is the case, we use our first round pick on the most talented, biggest fast guy we can and hope to hit on a new #1 in a very talented WR draft. Then you add another one later in the draft as well and bring in a vet that still has something left in the tank for a reasonable price. This is probably ideal, but you can't get less production out of our WR corps overall than we did this season. Davis was a massive disappointment and shouldn't be hard to replace with the first rounder we draft. And we got nothing out of the other guys on this team......nothing. So, you can either bring in some FAs that won't break the bank or just draft a couple more guys and you will easily replace the production we did receive on this team for cheap. Now, if Diggs wants out, or we want to move on from him this season, that is where this becomes a bit of an issue. Because while I believe he is not the #1 we need anymore, I firmly believe he can be the dominant #2 we have lacked since he got here in the first place. Beane messed up by never getting him the true secondary option we needed. They kept waiting for Davis to turn into that and he never did. Now they need a new superstar. So, in the grand scheme of things, because you have Allen as your QB and a solid line in front of him, it means you don't have to necessarily take a step back on offense by redoing things. You can get better and still save money. A lot will come down to where Diggs' head is at right now. DEFENSE Outside of Von's contract, we are lucky that our most important contributors are young guys under fine contracts. Yesterday's performance aside, Oliver was a beast this season and should be a dominant DT for us for several years to come. We still have Groot who I expect to take one more step next season. There are no other DTs under contact heading into next season, so that is going to offer a fresh start as it is. I would love to have Jones back, but you have to be careful with that contract. His age and injury history makes me hesitant to do too much there, but I would love it if they could find something fair for both sides for a couple years. Honestly outside of Oliver and Jones, what did we really get out of anyone else this season anyway? The rest can go and we can replace the depth production we got with cheaper and younger options and probably not see that much of a difference in what we got out of guys like Phillips, Settle, Ford, etc. Floyd and AJ were great early in the season and then vanished down the stretch. AJ does this every season. He shows up, makes a few amazing plays in September and October and then you never hear from him again. Not sure you will have much of a step down for a cheaper price than you will see him get on the open market. Floyd was great for most of the season, but obviously age or injury or whatever caught up with him down the stretch. And we all know he was signed off the street late in FA as it was. There will always be guys out there like that. Do it again with someone else this season. The real question is what they want to do with Von. Are they confident he will return to form next season? If they are and he does, great. If they aren't and they want to bit the bullet and eat the dead cap, they obviously can replace his current production with anyone off the street for pennies on the dollar. But make not mistake about is, DE is the biggest problem on this team and has been for years now. We got unlucky with Von's injury for sure. He was everything we hoped he would be for us pre-injury and now, if he doesn't return to form, his contract is an anchor for sure. The line is the toughest area to fix going into next season. At LB, we are in a good spot with the guys we have if Milano comes back healthy. The depth can be replaced and supplemented without too much work and money. We are still good at CB as well. Douglas was a great find and will start next season at a reasonable price no matter what. Benford is there and he had a really great year. If he starts next season next to Douglas, we will be just fine. Those 2 with Johnson in the slot is very solid. Tre is the wild card in this. His contract and injury history screams to cut him. But man, I feel how hard that must be on the organization. Would Tre be open to reworking his deal so he won't be cut and come back and compete for a spot? I don't know, but I would love to see it. But his injury history is tough. I can't see anyone paying him big money on the market without him proving he can still play and stay healthy. His best bet may be to redo that contract and prove those things here in a system he has excelled in for years. We'll see what happens there. And then of course you have Elam...... Ugh. Him not being the player we were hoping for as first round pick really hurts. Do you hope he comes back and he's ready to compete? Do you explore trade options to try and reinforce another position? That's a tough one. But overall, we are fine at CB at the top. Then of course we have the Safety position. The one group we haven't had to really question for the last 7 years. As much as it hurts to do it on a personal level, it's time to start completely fresh back there. The money is too big for the production you are going to get going forward with those guys. So, draft your replacements. Heck, find the next duo in FA to come in on team friendly deals like you did with them years ago. The thing is, if there is one place on the roster that this coaching staff gets the most out of, it's the secondary. You don't necessarily have to get worse there by putting fresh legs back there. In fact, maybe.....just maybe, you could get better with some more athleticism. The thing is, if you have a defensive minded coach, you should see a benefit to that with scheme. You should be able to hide a weakness or two. If not, then your defensive minded head coach shouldn't be your head coach. But in the end, after this extremely long and drawn out post, that I don't believe that tearing it down necessarily means not being able to compete for a Super Bowl. In fact, there are several spots you could actually get better by going younger and cheaper. As bad as the cap situation is, and as even worse as it could get by cutting some bad contracts, I don't think that means you have to necessarily take a step back and not compete for a division or Super Bowl.