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Wear at least two more layers than you think you need. I live in South Dakota and I've attended local football games in weather like this. If you are chilly walking around on your way to the stadium, you are going to get very cold when you're sitting still in the stands. Fingers and toes need special attention. My game plan would be something like this: Torso: compression shirt, t-shirt, t-shirt, long-sleeve t-shirt, long-sleeve t-shirt, light pullover, fleece pullover, parka. avoid cotton for base layers at least. Legs: insulated running tights (or long underwear if you're not a runner), fleece-lined jeans Feet: light running socks, another pair of heavier tube-style socks, insulated boots Hands: light liner-style gloves, heavy insulated mittens (mittens are infinitely warmer than gloves) Head: the warmest thing that covers your head, plus a gaiter or something for your face* * Be advised that this will probably freeze by the end of the first quarter, so there's that.

He didn't say they were perfect, and we know they're not 17-0. Why not just be happy that we have an extremely good team and other people in the NFL acknowledge as much?

Works for me. I'd like to have him in camp next season if nothing else.

I'm rooting hard for Beasley for the next four games. After that, I'm hoping for a different slot WR next year. He lost multiple steps very quickly.

Insanity.

Thank god. I did not want MNF.

That's probably true, but it's because teams that go 0-5 in one score games have a minimum of five losses. Add in a couple of double-digit losses (which most teams encounter once or twice in a season, even SB teams) and you're not even in the tournament. But that's academic, because "record in one-score games" is pretty much a completely random variable. It tells you nothing about a team's post-season prospects. Just because the team ***** up that last play against the Titans doesn't mean they're destined to ***** it up again in the AFCCG.

In hindsight, I'm sure the league wishes they had left these two games in the 1:00 time slot. Neither game affects any fan base besides us and NE, and the early games are pretty dreadful today.

Sorry -- not being critical of Allen here. Just emphasizing that we were really unfortunate to lose that game. We were set up really well for a win and picked a bad time to botch a relatively-straightforward play.

Nope. If you could pick one game to flip -- that actually does go the other way about 85% of the time -- it's the Titans game. The Jags game didn't really matter.

Anybody who watched this team this year knows we underperformed a bit. We lost every one-score game were involved in. Statistically, that's hard to do. As a ton of other people have noted, we're one Josh-Allen-slip-on-fourth-down away from playing for the #1 seed, which just goes to reinforce a) it's a game of inches and b) this team has been exceptionally unlucky this year. The good news is that this team is good enough that it can take a bunch of tough losses and still win its division and be well-positioned for a deep playoff run. And next year we can look forward to "regression toward the mean" working in our favor.

I don't have a huge objection to Allen being ranked below those other six guys -- I would argue with a few of them but that feels like quibbling because we're talking about very good players. But man that gap from #7 to #8 is like the grand canyon of quarterbacking.

Also, our WR1 was tackled in the end zone at the end of regulation in Tampa, which was apparently legal in that jurisdiction.

Yes! This was the second week in a row where I was strongly reminded of the drought-era Bills. In the New England game, we had the ball and the lead with 7:30 to go, and the drought teams found a way to lose those games with near 100% regularity to Brady and Belichick. And you're absolutely right that the taunting penalty would have been a very Billsy way to lose, considering just how creative we got with losing games during the drought.

Nobody besides you thinks that Josh Allen is not one of the top QBs in the AFC. Don't get me wrong -- the AFC has a lot of good young QBs. Mahomes, Jackson, Burrow, and Herbert all look like franchise guys. I don't know if Mac Jones, Mayfield, Wilson, Lawrence etc. will develop or not, but those guys obviously have potential too. But come on. If we re-run the 2018 draft tomorrow, 32 out of 32 teams would have Allen as the top-rated guy on their board.

LOL I hope the Bills extend Allen again this offseason just to ruin your day.

I think the Ravens are in pretty good shape. Lamar is fantastic, and I'd be shocked if they weren't willing to commit to him based on his overall body of work. I don't expect Jackson to have a long career in the NFL because he's not a good passer, but they can win with him while he has his athleticism. They've already shown that they're willing to build their offense around his skill set. The Browns have a serious problem on their hands. Mayfield's ceiling is "above average starter" and I'm not sure that he'll even reach that. I'm sure they would love to have a do-over on that draft pick, but that's moot now. They would be torpedoing their franchise to sign Mayfield to Allen/Mahomes/Jackson money but some (*^*&%^$^#team will give him a big contract if the Browns don't and do they really want to start over with a new guy. Glad we're not them.

Also, he had a TD dropped by Diggs, and he ran a couple in that he might have passed for instead. Those foregone passing TDs hurt his passer rating in a misleading way. Obviously Allen had a bad day yesterday, no question. But he was also extremely unlucky to have passes tipped directly to defenders, and at the end of the day we lost the turnover battle 4-1 but still won the game by two TDs so it's not like it's the end of the world or anything.

Yeah, it was ugly at times, but Buffalo was very obviously the better team from start to finish. At no point did I feel like we were in any serious danger of losing.

If anybody on our defense deserves to get paid, it's our safeties. Good for Hyde.

I give the Dolphins full credit for winning 7 straight games. That's hard to do in the NFL, regardless of who you're playing. But let's be real here. Nobody really thinks that Miami is any threat to make noise in the playoffs, right? I mean, really now.

Does covid-19 have any immunity from Josh Allen?

You know who else throws interceptable passes? Every QB in the league in every game every week.

The thing with Hughes should not have been a penalty, but it looked like one in real time and I wouldn't have complained if that flag had stood. Touching the QB out of bounds and triggering a flop will draw a flag more often than not, especially if you're named Jerry Hughes. I was pretty surprised to see that flag get picked up. It makes me happy that New England fans are all bent out of shape over one not-quite-a-penalty that wasn't gifted to then. They're in a for a long, painful lesson in what officiating is like when you don't have the league's chosen golden boy on your team anymore.

That, and he was perfectly happy to throw the ball away when nothing was there. No dumb turnovers, no huge sacks. Just solid, mistake-free football with some ridiculous highlight reel plays sprinkled in.