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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.

Honestly, yes. Allen was raw and he clearly wasn't as good in year 1 or year 2 as he is now, but he was never "terrible." For reasons that there's no need to relitigate, Allen attracts a lot of unnecessary hyperbole. If you watched Allen during his first year and especially during his second year, you saw a QB who had immense talent but was still learning the game and adjusting to the NFL. There was no guarantee that he would get there -- many development-type guys never fully blossom because the NFL is hard -- but describing him as "terrible" or "awful" or "stupid" or whatever is too harsh and way too personal. I'd don't mind admitting that it rubs me the wrong way.

Colts have a bad secondary. Bills have an all-world QB, all-world receiving corps, and generally elite passing offense. This sounds like a recipe for the Bills being able to pick their own score.

Good practice for when he's asked to hoist the Lombardi trophy.

Remember when top candidates either declined the Bills' invitation to interview or just used us as leverage for whatever job they really wanted? How nice to see the Jets in that role.

The Jets would be foolish not to take a QB. I know right now many are thinking trade-down, but QBs usually rise up the board and my guess is that on draft day the Jets stay at #2 and take Fields or Wilson. It's easy for me to say, but I'm firmly of the opinion that Miami should also draft a QB and it isn't close. Tua deserves to be cut a little slack because he's a rookie coming off major surgery with no offseason, but that doesn't change the fact that he simply doesn't have an NFL-caliber arm. It's not that he isn't Josh Allen or Patrick Mahomes -- most guys aren't. It's that he has a Chad Pennington arm with Trent Edwards decision making. That's not going to change. The Dolphins won't have another top-5 pick for a long time. A good front office would acknowledge that they made a mistake with Tua and take this golden opportunity to make a course correction. Of course, I'd strongly prefer that they stick with Tua and enjoy the taste of perpetual 8-8 seasons.

Same. At the start of the season, I would have been happy with a division title and winning a playoff game. This team is significantly better than I thought they would be, so expectations go up. We're at least the second-best team in the AFC and not really any weaker than the Chiefs -- no reason why we shouldn't be playing for a super bowl berth.

Won't matter. The Bills have been making good defenses look silly over the last several weeks, and I fully expect that to continue next week. There's not a team in the league that can stop our passing attack. Kansas City can score enough to keep up with this -- they're the only team that matches up. Dime, nickel, zone, man, whatever. Doesn't matter.

I'm not sure that McDermott will get COY, but you can't give it to Flores after yesterday. Sheesh.

You have to admire the fact that Doug Marrone convinced not one but two NFL franchises to pay him millions of dollars. He's a good role model for all the incompetents out there hoping to luck their way into success.

That punt today was so ridiculous. Like "magic powers" ridiculous.

I'm so happy that this guy proved my worries to be silly.

Diggs league rankings are looking pretty good with Streveler sucking it up.