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The guy's not wrong. It was a very rough night for PKs, and we saw quite a few passes get away from all three QBs. No need to get all defensive about it.

I hear Daboll is on the hot seat.

The Ravens are a legitimately good team that are a lot better than a typical 5-seed. Their QB is reigning MVP for at least a few more weeks. Sorry, but if it bothers you that some prognosticators are picking them over us, you're going to have to grow a thicker skin. The Bills are going to be playing a lot of big games against tough opponents in the coming years -- they won't all go our way. It won't matter who picked who when we win on the field.

Same here. Allen played well, and he was the reason we won the game. But Saturday's performance was kind of so-so relative to the supernatural performance we've grown accustomed to this season. It's nice to see a comparison to the other QBs that played this week, even if we all know that the passer rating is a flawed metric. Good to put things in perspective.

-4.5 and 65% sounds about right to me. The Bills are a better team that the Ravens. They're not a wildly better team than the Ravens.

I too grew weary of Allen leading us to one playoff loss after another. First there was the Houston game. Then, well, I'm sure there were probably a bunch of others. I can't be expected to remember every Bills playoff appearance. The important thing is that he finally got us a win.

I still think 95 South had the better version, but I don't want start a fight with all my fellow Gen Xers so I'll let it go.

I really like the "playoff" commercial. Could do without Brady.

Bills beat PIT next week. Titans beat KC next week. Titans come to Buffalo for the AFCCG.

Did they really have to show the Music City Miracle? Can't they let us enjoy our afternoon?

I'm all for "letting them play" but I don't think you can ever call OPI if you're not going to call it there. That wasn't borderline.

So nice to be able to sit back and relax all day today.

I agree. Getting upset over letting the play clock expire when they've been calling it that way all year and we've been doing the same thing is just whining and beneath us. Getting upset over a blatantly bad call that had a high potential to flip the outcome of the game is absolutely legit.

I was one of the people who wanted Indianapolis in the playoffs. Not because Indianapolis sucked or anything, but because I saw them as the least-elite opponent in an absolutely stacked AFC field. There is no mediocre Bears team or a 7-win WTF on our side of the bracket. When the #3 seed is arguably the weakest playoff team, you know your conference is loaded. Indianapolis was a good, balanced team that's solid but unspectacular in all phases of the game. I thought we would pick on their secondary more than we did, but this was not a team that I really expected to completely blow out. I did fully expect to win though. If you had asked me before the game, I would said that for Indy to have a chance, first the Bills would need to play their B-game. Very few teams can hang with us if we're firing on all cylinders, and Indianapolis is not one of those teams. As it turned out, we did play our B-game. Our special teams were terrible in the first half, resulting in awful field position, which is exactly the kind of game the Colts were hoping for. In the second half, our defense sunk to new lows especially in the fourth quarter, and the offense handed them a gift on the sack/fumble during a promising drive that showed real potential to run out the clock. Then there's the whole offensive game plan that featured the run more than any of us expected. In addition, the Colts benefited from an awful and borderline-inexplicable call that gave them a new life during the last drive. Bad calls happen, but over the last six weeks or so a bad call just meant the difference between winning by 17 instead of winning by 24. Here, the Colts were in a position to benefit from a lucky break. They needed that sort of set up to win. The other thing though is that the Colts needed to play nearly perfectly to win. The Bills played poorly but still hung 27 on them, and that was about the best Indianapolis could have hoped for -- that score felt like a win for the defense. They absolutely needed Pittman to catch that TD on fourth down. I know that was in the first half and who knows what the play calling would have looked like if that play went differently, but that was a back-breaking mistake that an inferior team just can't afford when they're playing against an elite team. The Colts caught the Bills on a sub-par day and they got some help from the officials, but they made one mistake too many and that was that. I think we would have lost to the Titans or Ravens yesterday.

They looked like an 11-5 team today, which makes sense since they're 11-5. There are no bad teams in the AFC bracket.

Neither. Also, make Singletary inactive and just throw on every down. Joking, but only half joking.

I thought they should have kicked the FG on fourth down. The 2 pt attempt was fine. It was unlikely to matter much one way or the other, and it ended up being totally irrelevant.

I was really frustrated with the defense too, but let's keep in mind that "this result" is a playoff win. Perspective.

If we had lost this game, there would have been grounds for all sorts of recriminations. The defense was brutal in the second half, and I agree with you that the offensive game plan didn't seem to make sense. In the first half, I get some of the running since we had such awful field position and were backed up pretty much the whole half. But that doesn't explain the second half.

I dunno guys. I mean, do you really want to sink a lot of money into a guy who's only second team All-Pro? And think about those three weeks when he wasn't AFC Offensive Player of the Week . .

This sounds like a reasonable take until you factor in that we lose this game by multiple scores without #17. One mistake -- on a play that was more a great play by the defender than anything that Allen did wrong -- doesn't erase a good game.

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I wonder if there are any storylines connecting that game to this week's wild card matchup against the Colts. Probably not, but maybe somebody in the media will dig something up.

The only award I care about at this point is Super Bowl MVP.

I'll be disappointed if they don't at least make the AFCCG, but this team went 13-3, swept the division, showcased their young, elite QB, and set the table for years of success going forward. It's already a success in big picture terms.