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The last place I'd like to see him go to...NE. The Jets, they'll screw it up somehow... He would be a threat in Miami, but they'll screw it up after awhile.

That kinda makes me wanna see the GOAT get his super bowl ring on the Bucs. Plus, it's another burn to Belicheat! Brady was the biggest reason that team was so good for so long. Glad he is outta the AFC East.

Exactly! Buffalo shut down KC's deep passing game so what did they do in week 6. They handed off to Chiefs RB Edwards-Helaire, 26 carries for 161 yards, a 6.2 ypc avg. BALANCE! When the team has difficulty in one area of the offense it helps to be able get another to work to win a game. Last season it was more pronounced as Minnesota, San Fran, Ravens, Titans all made a huge impact into the playoffs with a stout run game. Their failure was in their passing game. Buffalo already has one of the very best passing offenses in the NFL. Now get that run game working!

From EJ to Sammy Watkins...this GM didn't know his elbow from his arse. Most of you are forgetting that "NFL football is a violent sport humans aren't meant to play"... One, in a long list of mistakes by Russ Brandon / Ralph Wilson. I, for one, am grateful for McD, Beane. The Buffalo Bills were just in the AFC Championship game. 95% of the Bills fans had the Bills winning 7 to 9 games this season...and the other 5%, less.

Good write up. What bothers me the most is this was the second time this season the Bills played the Chiefs. In that first game week six the Bills were beaten at home 26-17 by KC and it wasn't close. That first game the Bills employed this bend but don't break strategy by having their secondary play off while allowing no deep throws. So, Andy Reid and Mahomes took what the Bills gave them. They ran the ball down the Bills throat with their rookie RB Edwards-Helaire to the tune of 26 attempts for 161 yards, a 6.2 YPC AVG... 4 catches for 31 yards. Mahomes 21 of 26 for 225, 2 TDs. The Chiefs defense held Allen to 14 of 27 for 122 yards passing, 2 TDs, 1 INT. Allen rushing 8 attempts for 42 yards. Singletary 10 carries for 32 yards a 3.2 YPC AVG. Diggs was 6 catches for 46 yards, 1 TD. Allen 4 sacks, 10 QB hits. Now, you would have thought that the Bills coaches would have gone over the tape on this game endlessly and corrected everything that went wrong in that first game...they didn't. In fact, it looked far worse by getting blown out by the Chiefs passing game. That same Buffalo defense that held Lamar Jacksons Ravens to only 3 points... were they already mentally in Tampa awaiting the Bucs? NO, this is on the coaches. This was on Leslie Frazier and Brian Daboll. It kills me to see a 3rd year QB play his heart out attempting to carry an offense all on his own. Yes, Josh Allen is gifted, but he was not ready to put the team on his back again against the super bowl champs. Not with their holding and pass rush, QB pressure. Where has Brian Daboll been all through this playoff run? Allen basically carried the offense on his back against the Colts 24-27. What happened to that high scoring offense that just beat the Patriots 38-9 or the one that beat the Miami Dolphins 56-26? Daboll to busy working on his resume and going over his prospective job interviews to put an all in on the film for the Colts, Ravens, Chiefs? The Bills offense scored only 10 points against the Ravens... 37 called passes is a strong wind game...with the lead? Where has the run game been all though the playoffs...besides the QB? The Chiefs are noted to be an elite passing team and yet when Mahomes is stymied by coverages their offense fell back to the run game to carry the offense.

The AFC East will be a tough division this season. The Patriots have a ton of cap space and all those players that opted out over Covid will be back. All they need to do is find a QB, Stafford, Aaron Rodgers, a rookie in the draft? The Dolphins will be improved and might just draft a QB with that #3 overall pick. QB Zach Wilson? The NY Jets with a new defensive minded HC, could keep or trade away Darnold and draft a QB like Justin Fields with their #2 overall pick. One of them will probably draft WR Devonta Smith, Alabama. The division won't be creampuffs this season and I highly doubt the Bills sweep them all again. Buffalo will improve too.

Build a stout run game and fix the defense...shouldn't give up 38 points to any team.

I agree to a degree. The post season is something all the coaches need to get used to and make adjustments as they go. Look at Dabolls history and I was very against him at first. The thing is... the man is learning as he goes just like Josh Allen is learning. Yes, his past history as an OC has sucked and even this season the Bills never had a top rushing attack. Still, the addition of Stefon Diggs has changed the complexion of the offense in a huge way. Last season the Bills were 23rd in points, 24th in yards on offense. This season the 2020 Buffalo Bills have the #2 overall offense and its almost all due to the pass game. Look how the Bills played the Ravens last season as they sacked Allen 6 times and had 12 QB hits on him. This season the Ravens were so afraid of what Allen can do during a blitz they didn't even blitz him nearly as much, from 6 sacks to 2, from 12 QB hits to 3. Now, the Chiefs did something in this game I had never really seen happen in that the Chiefs covered the Bills receivers like superglue! With no run game to fall back on the offensive players were very frustrated. The Chiefs came alive in this game and played their very best all over the field. It's like they were watching Buffalo all season and just waiting to pounce. The Bills NEED to beat this team and I have confidence that they will figure it out. They play the Chiefs again this season at Arrowhead so they had better.

They were just as bad on the other side of the ball... 38 points and they made it look easy. No team up until this game had been able to take away Diggs. I suspect that all the Bills receivers we playing dinged up. We now know Beasley was playing with a broken leg. This is why the Buffalo Bills NEED a strong run game so when the passing offense is not working they have other options.

Josh had a tough day no question. But then, what does anyone expect when the entire offense is on the 3rd year QB's shoulders. Then when his receivers aren't getting separation it makes everything even more difficult. I'm going to put this loss all on the coaches on both sides of the ball. Frazier allowing 38 points when the previous game only allowed 3. The defense had no answer for the Chiefs offense. By the same token Brian Daboll has been even worse in his game plan/ play calling since the first playoff game. The Colts game was a lot closer then it should have been and against the Ravens the Bills offense only scored 10 points. OTOH, the Chiefs OC & DC had their game plans fine tuned as if they had been watching the Bills every move all year. They successfully shut down the Bills passing attack and with no real run game it made things easy. The Bills secondary was torched too.

What I see in the Chiefs was a team that simply wanted to coast through the season doing as little as possible to win each game. All the while just wanting to get to the playoffs as healthy as they could. Look at the wins since their bye week, Raiders 4 pts, BUCS 3 pts, Broncos 6 pts, Miami 6pts, NO 3 pts, Atlanta 3pts, Chargers week 17, 21-38, granted the most since week 7 Denver, 17 pts. Playoffs, Cleveland 22-17 and then Buffalo 38-24. it looked like KC was lying in the weeds and just outplayed Buffalo in every aspect, Offense, defense and special teams. The Chiefs beat the Tampa Bay Bucs in week 12 @ Tampa Bay. Interesting!

While I agree that the Bills didn't run like the Titans, Ravens, Colts. They did call many run plays a game. Against the Patriots week 16 the Bills ran the ball 31 times and most by Moss 12, Singletary 10. Against Denver week 15 the Bills ran the ball 24 times, Moss 13 runs, Singletary 8. Then against the Colts QB Allen was the leading rusher with 11 runs, Moss 7, Motor 3. Against the Ravens Allen 7 runs, Motor 7 runs, Yeldon 2 runs...16 run plays! The Chiefs, 18 run plays with Allen the leading rusher again, 7 carries for 88 yards. Motor had 6, Yeldon 3 carries. My point being that the Bills had at least a semblance of a run game they could fall back on with Moss. After Moss went out the Bills didn't even attempt to work the run game much...putting the entire offense on the QB's shoulders. That Chiefs defensive game plan smothered the Bills passing offense. World Champions will do that. In any event, the Bills played a Chiefs team that hasn't played that well all season. The Bills defense that held the Ravens to only 3 points suddenly gave up 38 to KC.

The run game basically went out the window when Moss went out. Talk about injuries, as I think the entire receiving core was battling lingering injuries. The way they were being shadowed by the Chiefs DB's left Josh Allen with nobody open most plays. Hence all the QB runs. Diggs normally gets most of the looks and makes his defensive counterpart look foolish attempting to cover him...not this game. 13-3 and the AFC Championship was an awesome season considering most had the Bills for 7-9.

BALANCE...been saying it for awhile now. The Bills NEED a run game and if they had a RB like Alvin Kamara...WOW! BTW, Alvin was a 3rd round pick. The offensive line needs upgrades as does the RB position. The defense too, surrendered 38 points. Don't feel bad boys, the Packers, Saints, Steelers, Titans, Colts, Rams, Seahawks are all sitting at home for the SB too.

I dunno what happened to Daboll as the offense was no where near as creative as it was for the last regular season games. Week 15, Denver 48-19 Week 16, New England 38-9 Week 17, Miami 56-26 For the playoffs, against the Colts they barely won 27-24. Against the Ravens the Bills offense only scored 10 points. My take is the Bills offense was exposed as a one dimensional team...a total passing offense with little or no run game...save the QB runs. The Bills rushed in this game 18 times and 7 by the QB which means the Bills RB's got only 11 carries. Meanwhile, with the Chiefs going man defense with their DBs shadowing the Bills receivers Josh Allen had nobody open most of the night. What did Tony Romo call it? Sticky defense? QB Josh Allen is only in his third season starting and is still learning. Andy Reid and the Chiefs have been in the playoffs since 2013. Seven seasons to fine tune his schemes. Another factor might have been lingering injuries to John Brown, Stefon Diggs.

I agree. Listening to Tony Romo the Bills were being "stickied" by being blanketed by the KC DBs and there was literally nobody to throw to for Josh most of the time. Dunno if there was residual injury that Brown and Diggs were dealing with... or something else? Like the last three games the Bills offense just wasn't the same that beat the Dolphins, Patriots, Broncos. Bills OC Brian Daboll having brain farts? I dunno. What I do know is the Bills NEED a run game, like the Packers, Chiefs, Bucs have to help support their QB.

Words of comfort? KC HC Andy Reid was a super bowl coach before he went to KC from Philly. Noted for being an offensive guru. Took a 2-14 team and went 11-5 in 2013!!! (9-7 2014), (11-5 2015), (12-4 2016), (12-4 2018), (12-4 2019) (14-2 2020) Seven years! The Chiefs were a playoff team when Patrick Mahomes was drafted and he was able to sit and watch for an entire season. They already had a good O line, defense, receiving corps. Andy Reid has been fine tuning his team all this time. Josh Allen is only in his third season on a team basically being built around that young QB. The team just realized you need a strong run game and passing attack while having an offense with balance to win championship games. Think about those 90's Bills teams, in 88 they went to the AFC championship game and lost to Cincy. 89 to Cleveland in the division round and finally a SB in 1990. So it generally takes a few years to build a SB team.

Thanks Bills players and owners. Great season for a young QB in only his third year! The Chiefs showed us the flaws in the team...now to get them fixed!

Not to be a contrarian...it was the Buffalo defense that won that Baltimore game. That pick six was a 14 point differential. The Buffalo offense scored a whole ten points all game. They are going to need to step it up big time on offense to compete with that KC offense. Yes, we can laud that Diggs had 8 catches for 106 yards and a TD. Brown had 8 catches for 62 yards. I'm not praising Brian Daboll for that Ravens game plan or the play calls. For whatever reason the Ravens didn't pressure Allen all that much and nothing at all like last years game where they blitzed 67% of the Bills offensive plays,6 sacks,12 QB hits. That alone let Allen have more time to throw and yet not one pass caught by Cole Beasley, he had two targets. Gabe Davis had four targets, no catches. Allen 23 of 37 206 yards, 1 TD. QBR 51.0. As crappy as Jackson played he had a QBR of 55.7. In my view the Bills offense was playing like they were behind in the game with all that passing. That article talks about no RB runs in the entire first quarter and one RB run in the second quarter like that was a good thing. With that much wind I think it was taking far too many chances slinging the ball around 37 times vs 9 RB runs. Two missed field goals by the Ravens, an over throw by the back up QB with the receiver five yards ahead of the defender...he hits that pass its a different game. The Bills don't recover that Allen fumble and its a different game, no pick six and its a different game. The Bills were outplayed by the Ravens, 340 yards to 220, ToP 35:33 to 24:27. I guess it's better to be lucky some games...holding that Ravens offense to 3 points was something of a miracle by the Bills defense. I'm hoping that the last two games were an anomaly and they find that high scoring Buffalo Bills offense that beat the Seahawks by 44, or the 49ers by 34, Denver by 48, NE by 38, Miami by 56! Go Bills!

I was going by receptions, Diggs 127, Beasley 82, Singletary 38 receptions. I was quoting a poster who stated: By Paattmaann, "yea thats cool, we don't throw to RBs..both Devin and Zach are more than capable of being good pass catchers out of the backfield, and have put that on tape."

Actually, Devin Singletary is the third leading receiver this season behind Diggs, Beasley. Gabe Davis, John Brown, Isaiah McKenzie, Dawson Knox all behind Motor. Though Gabe Davis has more targets. Another note, all three Buffalo Bills leading receivers have a 76% catch percentage, which is pretty freaking awesome.

Just remember that Beane went after Le'Veon Bell and he chose KC. So the Bills FO sees a need for something extra at RB.

Good Lord, Alvin Kamara in Buffalo 😍...a 3rd round pick. Like the Packers, the Saints have an pro bowl OT, OG.

Hey, Aaron Jones for GB was a 5th round pick...201 attempts, 1104 yards, 9 TDs, 5.5 rush yards per attempt. GB RB Jamaal Williams was a 4th rounder...AJ Dillon was a 2nd rounder. BTW, Aaron Jones is third on the Packers in receiving after #1 WR Davante Adams and #2 TE Robert Tonyan. All I'm advocating... is to actually run more often and find that top RB anywhere you can... like Green Bay happened to do. P.S. The Packers do have a pair of pro bowlers at tackle and OG.

There was a very serious reason for that as he blew out his knee his JR year in college and his backup Barry Sanders started that season for him. When he returned he put Barry back on the bench. With so much mileage on him in college teams were afraid he was all used up. The Buffalo Bills medical staff cleared him and drafted him #40th. Thomas carried 897 times for OSU. ESPN had projected Thomas to be an early first round pick and had a TV crew in his home on draft day. Seven other RBs were drafted ahead of Thurman though.