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This is why the one seed is such an advantage. Bills will have to beat Ravens and Chiefs on paper. Chiefs don't face the same challenge this year although they completed the task last year. More often than not, the one seed means you only have to face one top team before the Super Bowl.

I see the game being close as well but it might have more to do with the weather. I do think the Bills are better served to come out with their full tool bag in terms of the playbook rather than trying to save stuff like they did last week. Getting a win this week is huge. You want to rest as many guys next week as possible. Put it all out there today so next week doesn't mater.

I really don't think NFL teams, coaches and players on game day in particular give two cents about anything other than winning the game in front of them. The tank decisions are made with inactives and pulling starters after a quarter or halftime. But those are things that were always going to happen regardless of opponent. Just as Bills will have key inactive and pull certain players early in week 18 against the Pats.

Just need a W and two TD's from Allen so he can get to 40 in sixteen games and extend his streak to 5 straight seasons.

They have that choice whether the game is played Sunday at 1pm or Sunday at 8pm. I agree it's Vikes vs. Lions or Chiefs vs. Broncos.

It is surprising who some of the MVP voters are. I mean Emanual Acho? Why don't they just give Nick Wright a vote? Last year was embarrassing. If ever there was a year to split the first place votes up equally between 3+ players it was last year. Dak, Allen, Lamar, Hill, CMC, Purdy all should have received some combination of 2+ votes. Instead we got a 49-1 vote for Lamar. The worst statistical season by an MVP in 20+ years and the guy wins one vote shy of a unanimous vote.

One thing about Burrow is the guy takes a lot of sacks. Too his credit he still finds a way to overcome most of those sacks. But I bring the sacks up because they are not all on the offensive line which is a suggestion so many like to make. Burrow has a little Russel Wilson in him in the sense that both will be high percentage sack takers their entire careers despite having mobility to move around. Between the two QB's they have 18 combined seasons all with sack percentages greater than 6%. Mahomes is being sacked the most of his career this year and still has a percentage just below 6% on the season.

Let's hope Josh doesn't see the light after another divisional round home exit. Yikes! That is terrible.

Nobody in the league has wins like Allen and the Bills do. Chiefs and Lions victories are what should and in the end will set Allen apart. Also the four game historic stretch. Chiefs would be working on a perfect season if it were not for Allen's heroics. Nobody else was good enough to be the Chiefs and that includes Lamar. Allen and the Bills beat two teams with a combined 21-1 record. Probably the first time in history that has happened. Only way Allen should lose the MVP at this point is if the Ravens finish ahead of the Bills in the standings and that isn't happening.

Check out the play at the 5:50 mark. Just a brutal hit. Dude is rolling around on the field in agony.

Allen is going to possibly lose the MVP because the coaching staff decided to not put the players in the best position to win a game. They saved their best stuff as Allen alluded to. Kind of fullish IMO when you have a QB that tends to treat every play like it is the 4th quarter of the Super Bowl. Now he is banged up and coming off one of his worst games of the season.

Problem is Lamar was undeserving last year. I do think he is deserving this year just as Allen is as well. But last year was a joke. If the Bills come out holding their best stuff back again I don’t see Allen having a good enough game to put Lamar out of reach. But I do think a handful of voters have already decided Allen is the MVP regardless of these final games do to Allen and the Bills having the two biggest wins of the regular season and better seeding the Ravens. We will have to hope those tow facts hold a lot of water come the end of the season voting.

I disagree strongly that Shakir’s production falls without Josh. I actually like think it is the opposite. Shakir is the kind of WR that probably actually has more production with lesser QB’s in systems more friendly to his style of play. I’d let Cook walk. Probably pay Rousseau.

man I wish Filthy Beast would come back. That poster was always good for laughs.

This is BS strategy in my opinion. you can’t have the coaching staff telling the players we are holding back on play calling strategy and expect the players to be locked in and playing at their highest level. then I guess we hope they flip a switch in the wild card round? Just hope it’s not Cincinnati coming to Orchard Park. Even if it is not Cincinnati, we’re looking at playing a team that’s been playing for their playoff lives for several weeks versus the bills who have been sleepwalking for three straight games. let’s let tomorrow’s game pass before we make that declaration. The Steelers need to win even more than the Chiefs and the games in Pittsburgh. then week 18 is likely a win or go home game for the Broncos hosting the Chiefs.

The Colts are a bad team. They are not winning three in a row no matter how easy their schedule is.

The chest pass to Knox was not a high degree of difficulty in itself. Many of us could probably make that pass. But what makes it so difficult / unique is doing that in actual live action on the run with a rush. That one also had some pretty good air distance travel too it as well. All the chest passes i have seen typically tend to be very short in air yards. Passes like that have only been seen a handful of times across the league. Josh's reaction after throwing the pass was also one of one. Just a shame it will be forgotten.

But all the advanced efficiency metrics favor Allen. Allen has a higher QBR and EPA. So it isn't even really true that Lamar has been the more efficient player. One of the other arguments you hear is that Lamar would have more rushing TD's if he didn't have Henry on his team. That is also false. For one, look at Lamar's entire career. He has never been a high volume rushing TD QB. Why would this year with or without Henry be any different? Second, James cook has the same amount of rushing TD's as Henry, they both have 13. So if the argument is Henry has stolen some rushing TD's from Lamar, why is the same not true for Allen?

Josh is going to blow away his QB career rushing TD record which is probably the only thing Cam has left to hold onto. Hurts will blow by it as well if his career doesn't flame out early like Cam's did.

Lebron is more a unicorn than Jordan was in terms of size and gifts and that is why McGrady compares Allen to Lebron. As others have said, no slight in being compared to Lebron. If Jordan is the best NBA player of all time, Lebron is #2 on most lists. Also remember, the careers of Carter and McGrady overlapped more with Lebron's career than with MJ's.

Bengals just need to beat the Browns this week and Broncos next week at home for it all to come down to the final week. Seems likely.

Bengals are getting the 7 seed. You can see it coming from a mile away. They will beat the Broncos at home next week which will guarantee meaningful week 18 games for the 7th seed . Chiefs will beat the Broncos and Bengals find a way to beat the Steelers. Colts win out. Their schedule is easy but Colts are not a good team so it will be difficult for them to take full advantage of an easy schedule. They lost both games to the Ravens by a combined 4 points.

Herbert is big, strong, has a rocket arm and good straight line speed. What he lacks is agility and vision. Those last two traits are perhaps the most underrated traits Allen has.

this play was so ridiculously good. Probably would’ve been Allen’s greatest highlight reel play of all time. But now it will mostly be forgotten forever.

Last year was bonkers in the AFC. Going into the weekend the Bills were anywhere from division champs and the two seed or out of the playoffs all together. Totally opposite this year. Bills clinch division with 5 games to go and the AFC playoff field could all be decided with two games to go with just the seeding to be sorted out.