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Lets see if the Bills go all out to try to score..or if they run the ball because they are afraid of getting KC the ball back before half.

Rodgers is a tough one for me to figure out. His stats in the regular season are great. His stats in the playoffs are really really good (if not great). But when I watch him play in the playoffs, something is missing. It just isn't the end result either, its almost when there is a tight game, he isn't the one making the critical mistake causing his team to lose. Instead it just seem like he has a hard time taming that one play to put the other team away, he doesn't land the knockout blow. To further the boxing analogy, he is that boxer who looks great against lesser opponents...and even against the better opponents he looks good and can 'score points' with the judges, but never can seem to land that knockout blow as often as he should when things count.

So when you have facts against you and you have nothing left to say, just say something dumb like that. Gotcha. lol You people don't understand what 'pure football' is, do you? you just don't get it. Pure football is having every aspect of the athletes ability available. Pure football is watcing every aspect of football played without outside factors limiting it. Just because for some reason you WANT other variables to take that away, doesn't mean its better football your way. You are just wrong, neanderthal thinking.

Wrong. Pure football is seeing every single thing that players and coaches are capable of doing on the field. You say tackling, running, coaching and execution are what is pure football? Well Duh, welcome to my original point, although I think you missed a big one in their called 'passing' that in todays modern game teams kinda like to do. In bad weather games, those things become very limited, VERY limited. Coaches run a much different/more limited game plan, Running on a snow covered field can be 25% slower (if not more) and you can't see the players make cuts or moves as well. Passing, it can be VERY limited on a windy day. Pure football? To me that is seeing everything that each and every player have to offer at 100% of their ability to exeucute. I'm not sure exactly what you consider as pure football, because it appears that doesn't involve passing the ball.

But it just isn't. It doesn't matter how thing were 'done in the past', but the game played with all options open...with the players top level skill not being diminished, with the coaches having 100% of their playbook open and able to be used...simply is not in bad weather. Everytime a game is played in bad weather, more athleticism and coaching options are taken away than are added by the conditions.

Yeah, so you 'paper tough guys' can go to a game in person and watch something less than pure football....so when it is snowing, or has strong winds....you get 75% of the playbook or more that can't be used and we see a bastardized version of football. Smart, really smart...but hey, if you think it makes you tough and other people babies...then you just keep thinking that. 🤣

Belicheck was never as good as the 'god' they proclaimed him to be when the Pats were on top....and he isn't as bad as those who want him gone now. He is a very good coach, a great D-coordinator, Who was elevated to 'best ever' status because of a QB he had (and a bit of cheating, which SOME say is good coaching if you get a way with it). Now, he is getting a bit older, but I don't think the game as passed him by...just now he as a less talented roster with a rookie QB. Maybe a new coach would be a good idea, but I don't think if they had a different coach with this current team they would have done much/any better. Calling for a coaches head/job is par for the course with sports fans, and in some cases media. We have a couple people on this forum and a couple threads that pop up that say "McDermott must go!" after the Bills lose a game. That is just how some people are.

Not the Boston media, but more about their fanbase and how they are 'entitled' and still don't get that it is over for them for a while... I don't troll pats forums for the fun of it, but I am a member and used to contribute there, as I lived in Boston 2 times for 4-5 years in the past. So I always have checked in on those forums on a regular basis, even when not playing the Bills. There is an active discussion there about what the pats need to do to be competitve for a title again...the thing that struck me is...not even half way down the first page and there are posts saying stuff like... "We need a good draft this year so we can be back in the Superbowl in a couple years". Another post on the very first page was..."Not worried about AFC competition. We just need to tweak some things, add more youth/talent, have good injury luck, and continue to improve. We will be fine. We were literally 2 wins away from being the #1 seed in the conference." Another thing about the Boston media....a lot of them have their "5 thoughts" or "15 thoughts" about the game articles and most of them I have read, from the MEDIA, complains about the officiating and how it hurt the Pats. Boston.com had an article up yesterday where it was the 2nd or 3rd thing mentioned. Mark Morse had an article where he listed missed calls by the officials that hurt the Pats, but not one call was mentioned the other way. Its not a surprise, but they REALLY do think everything about that franchise is just so much better than anywhere else that it will be a quick fix and they will be on their way to Superbowls again. It'll be a tough few years listening to those fans, but they will come back to earth, eventually.

The Pats might have a few years of struggling to even make a wildcard, let a long contend for a division title. Miami is going through some changes, but the Pats just don't match up well against them. And unless the Bills take some serious steps back, there are 4 games for the Pats they will be lucky to go 2-2, with 1-3 more likely. Is Mac Jones the answer? Can get get a lot better? The physical talent isn't great, but he could become more accurate and even better at making reads...so I won't rule out he will be a very good QB...but odds are what we saw might be his ceiling for the next few years. he could get better but many QB's have that 2nd year where Defenses adjust to them. It normally is more difficult for QBs with less physical talent. The Defense. They are going to rely on it for a while, but again, we may have seen their best year this year for a while. J.C. Jackson is their 'superstar' and they are likely to pay him like one...but from all I have seen of him, he is a good DB that can be beaten by good wrs. McCourty, Collins, and Hightower have been the playmakers here in the past, but they are all on the wrong side of 30 years old and all of them are showing major signs of slowing down. They have a lot of young guys on that D-unit, but none of them are showing consistent signs of being difference makers. They aren't picking until 21st in the draft (I think), and they only have 4 picks in the first 5 rounds. (normally I'm not sweating not having a 5th rounder, but they need as many young/fast top 100 college talent guys as possible) If everything goes right for the Pats, the Bills and Phins have major injury issues next year...and the Jets fail to improve at all, then maybe the Pats can contend for a division title. I just see them being a 'middling' team for the next few years myself though.

I'm not someone who ever hated Brady like some do, but I'm about to turn of the game..not because it is a blowout..but the Brady this, Brady that, Brady, Brady, Brady. Is there ANTYHING they are saying to us that we haven't heard before. I know they have data on this, more than we do, but who actually likes to watch the game and doesn't get sick of hearing his name over and over?

This is the topic that keeps on giving. A few others have said something that I agree with, and it best describes my support for dome/indoor/good weather games. The game is good enough, and complex enough by itself that it doesn't need another variable (weather) added to it....which in most cases that weather takes away from the pure-ness of the game and the pure, high end athleticism we all want to watch. The game has enough strategy in it, enough one and one battles, enough teamwork, enough strategy.....adding bad weather into the mix adds one more variable but often takes away MORE than one variable of the things that make football a great game. Bad weather, as we have seen, and take away MANY different aspects of the game and limit what the players and coaches can do effectively. If you love the game, and you love all that is football, why do you want a 'less pure' game where weather can take away a lot of that? I don't. Those who say football was meant to be played in bad weather, that is just a 'tough guy' way of saying they want less of a pure game.

Throw me behind the lack of a dome and the weather. Will the stand be full anyway? Probably yes. But I can say for sure that if the stadium had a dome on it, the tickets would have gone a lot sooner, for a higher price, and a lot of games in the past decade that weren't sellouts would have been. As as far as the 'real football is played outdoors' thing? Not to me. The game is great as it is, there are so many complexities to the game without adding in weather. Throw in weather and that is one outside factor added that can take away SO many of the pure aspects of the game. The game is good enough as is in perfect conditions, I want to see the players play the purest form of the game between the lines without needing anything else impacting the game to take away from that.

Me too, whether someone is a Bills fan or not. I guess it is entertainment, but also guys like Stephen A. Smith....awful. I can UNDERSTAND if someone likes hearing that for entertainment, but it has a shelf life. As you have said, it is exhausting.

I pretty much agree. Is he perfect? Nope. Does he make some very noticable mistakes? Yes. But how is his overall game? I think for as many plays he makes that are bad, he makes just as many plays that a typical linebacker might not make because they would be 1/2 step slower. I'm going to trust management on this one. None of us really know how valuable he is as the guy who makes the calls and adjustments in his position, or on film just how many plays he DOES make that other players wouldn't. If management wants to resign him as a critical member of this D-unit, so be it. I'm not going to say he is awful and don't resign him because of a handful of plays he doesn't make, when he very well could be making or setting up 2 to 3 times as many as that because of his ability or his calls....and there is no way we can ever know that.

I always liked more games. I'd be good if they eventually go to 18. The ONLY thing I don't like is I kinda wish the playoffs would be starting right around new years weekend. Minor issue though, but I can't think of a problem with 17 or 18 games.

Earliest game possible for 2 reasons: -Watch the Bills game, then enjoy the rest of the games on the weekend without thinking of the bills game -Get the earliest timeslot, so you have the MOST time after the game for rest leading up to the next game.

Not a fan of lotteries, certainly not for the NFL. If a team tanks for the first overall pick, so be it...normally they would have to strip their roster so bare it would take a while to recover.

2 points: -Some of us have said this before, but it is going to take years....like 3-4 years...of middling-to-good at best Patriot teams for the fan base to even start to not have that 'entitled' sense to them. Took a while here in Buffalo after the mid 1990's -No matter how bad the officiating, I really don't like hearing when people use it as a reason/excuse for a loss. Even when it impacts the bills, the first guy that calls in on WGR that brings it up gets me to do the 'here we go again' eye roll in the car 5 seconds into the call. BUT, when Patriots fans do it, It seems just so much worse. I know on Twitter, Officiating was brought up by a lot of Patriots fans as something that 'screwed them' yesterday.

As others have said, and I have said many times, the enjoyment we get out of sports is primarily tied to our expectations, for many of us. 2 things give us enjoyment in sports. 1.) winning the championship. 2.) exceeding expectations. Do one of those 2 things, overall the season will be good. Fail to do either of those, it will not be fun for many. The problem with having 'championship or bust' expectations is....it assures many that overall the season will be more frustration than fun.

This is the kind of B.S. that takes the fun out of sports for me. I know, it is 'fun' when your team is on the other side of it. just not for me. I just want to enjoy the games, enjoy the discussion....when people start acting like totall A-*oles like this....and I don't even care if it was coming from the Buffalo side of things...for me it is a turn off.

I guess it means more games, but isn't a large point of the testing to catch people who AREN'T showing symptoms yet have it so they don't spread it to others?

Allen is easy to say as recent memory is usually the most vivid, so I would go with him. I don't know why but I just don't have the draw to Kelly that most bills fans do. As a teenage I had season tickets from the time he got here all the way through the superbowl years. Wouldn't miss a game, loved the Bills. Yet when I think about that Bills offense, I think first of Thurman, 2nd of the no-huddle scheme, and Kelly comes in after that along with Reed. I don't have a dislike for Kelly, not at all, but I thought the Bills success was more of Kelly being an very-good-to-excellent QB and a 'good fit' rather than him being super elite.

I personally don't really care about whether his name is up there or not, or in the HOF. I'm just not really a person that enjoys the Hall of Fame, or cares much about seeing or hearing about the 'legends of the game' or even the 'Bills legends'. Personally, I think too much is made of the HOF and retired jerseys and names and numbers on the wall or rafters. If I follow a sport, for me it is just about talking about the previous game and looking forward to the next game. Not much more.

I don't care what the 'advanced stats' say, this OL is AWFUUUUUUUUUUUULLLL.

If Allen is worth his contract, he will at least keep the Bills in this.