Logic

I'm fairly certain you're speaking mostly tongue-in-cheek, as part of your Josh Allen Fanboy gimmick. If not, well....that's a ridiculous thing to say.

I mentioned that most betting odds websites don't show him as a particularly serious candidate. He is rarely discussed as being within the top 5 likeliest winners.

It's pretty delicious that there's about to be a Monday Night Football game against the New England Patriots....and it only matters to one of the two teams, and that team ISN'T the Patriots. For too many years, if a December Bills-Pats game was meaningless to the Patriots, it was because they'd already wrapped up the division. This time, the shoe is on the other foot. All that being said, I could never have imagined caring so little about a Monday Night Football game against the Patriots. Sure, it matters for seeding purposes, and it's a Bills game, so I'm still excited. But in previous years, this would've been our Super Bowl. We would all have been more excited for this game than any other game on the schedule. Instead, all that really matters is that we get out healthy, because for the first time in forever, we have much bigger fish to fry. And before anyone asks -- Yes, OF COURSE I want the Bills to crush the Pats on national TV. But still -- getting out healthy takes precedence.

Hearing NFL analysts discuss the topic of who should win Coach of the Year, and checking a few betting websites to see the odds....I can't help but wonder: Why isn't Sean McDermott more of a serious candidate for the award? Coach McDermott has overseen an 11-3 season and the first division championship in 25 years. He is beloved by his players for the culture he has instilled in the team. He has made the playoffs 3 out of his 4 seasons in Buffalo. I see names like Brian Flores, Ron Rivera, and Kevin Stefanski listed above McDermott in the odds. All I can ask is...why?! Is getting a winning season out of a previously bad team the prerequisite? How could Rivera (whose team has a losing record), Flores (whose team might not even make the playoffs), and Stefanski (whose team likely isn't going to win their division) all be seen as more legitimate contenders for this honor than McDermott, whose team is incredibly impressive, well-balanced, division-winning, and who absolutely owe a ton of their success specifically to his coaching? I just don't get it.

I've always liked Peter King, formerly author of the weekly Monday Morning Quarterback article for Sports Illustrated, and now writing Football Morning in America for NBC Sports. This week's column leads off with a big section about the Bills. I'll post a segment from it, but there's a whole lot more, and I suggest giving it a read. https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/12/21/buffalo-bills-afc-east-nfl-week-15-fmia-peter-king/ A couple weeks ago, after practice, the two longest-tenured Buffalo Bills sat in the locker room, suitably spaced out, discussing what seemed impossible. Long-snapper Reid Ferguson, on the Bills practice squad when Sean McDermott was named coach in January 2017, told defensive end Jerry Hughes, the only active player left on the roster from that day, that they were the only pre-McDermotts left. “Impossible!” Hughes said. “No way!” Way. Ferguson and Hughes started naming names. The relative old-timers—defensive tackle Kyle Williams, kicker Steven Hauschka, punter Colton Schmidt—all gone. They brought up player after player in the locker room, but none was there before 2017. Just two of the 79 active, practice-squad and IR players on the 2020 Bills were in this locker room four years earlier. Two! “We sat there 15 minutes,” Hughes told me Saturday night, “and thinking about it just blew my mind. We really are the Last of the Mohicans.” Another way to look at it: Buffalo is an expansion team with a star quarterback and some great personnel decisions made by GM Brandon Beane and McDermott. On Saturday in Denver, the Bills finally summited Mount Belichick, the mountain this franchise has been climbing through seven separate coaching administrations since New England and coach Bill Belichick began division dominance in 2001. The 48-19 obliteration of the outmanned Broncos in Denver on Saturday broke the Patriots’ stranglehold on the division (11 straight East titles, and 16 of the last 17) and gave the remade Bills their first AFC division title in a quarter-century. Think of it this way: The last time the Bills won the AFC East, in 1995, most of us didn’t use email.

He was scouting his AFC Championship game opponent.

Thanks for that link. That was awesome. I can't wait for that man to hoist the Lombardi Trophy for the city of Buffalo.

Only bummer about today is that the Statue of Liberty TD didn't count. D'oh!

It was actually 45 games. So the OP was close. Prior to last week, the Bills had gone 45 straight games without a defensive TD. It's true.

Man, if there is some kind of way that there can be fans at the playoff game at Bills Stadium -- any fans at all -- it would be so amazing. I always said I would find a way to be at the stadium for the first home playoff game in however many years, and I'm sad that that won't be able to happen for me. I do hope, though, that it can happen for a certain number of fans. I know that 20,000 Bills Mafia would be just as loud as 70,000 of most other teams' fans!

Between White, Diggs, and Williams, the one we could most afford to lose for any snaps -- if we HAD to lose any at all -- is/was Williams. It's great to hear that Diggs and White seem to be okay. Hopefully, Williams is too, but if not, Nsekhe is a good backup RT, and hopefully Williams can be back for the playoffs.

Masked, outdoor gathering? I’m all for it.

I was 9 years old last time the Bills won the AFC East Championship. This makes me think back to all the long, cold drives home from the stadium after another crushing loss, another season of no hope and of being an NFL afterthought. Another week 17 muttering "maybe next year". I never had any doubt, at any point in today's game, that the Bills were going to get the job done. This team is legitimately good. This quarterback is legitimately elite. This is all real, and it's just the beginning. I've ordered my hat and t-shirt, and now it's time for an adult beverage to celebrate. 😁 GO BILLS!!!!!!

Sorry. Should've included that.

My feelings haven't changed on this one. All three major matchups -- Bills offense vs Broncos defense, Bills defense vs Broncos offense, and McDermott vs Fangio -- favor the Bills. I know, I know: any given Sunday, altitude, scrappy opponents that we can't overlook, blah, blah, blah...The Bills are a perfect 5-0 against top 10 pass defenses this year. You're telling me that THIS Broncos secondary is beating Josh Allen's Bills offense today?! Bills are raising the AFC East banner today. The wait is over.

I haven't watched this one yet, but I wanted to point out they also did a Film Room segment specifically about Darryl Williams vs TJ Watt that was pretty neat. I rarely zero in on one offensive lineman throughout an entire broadcast, so seeing the Williams vs Watt matchup -- which was pivotal to the game's outcome -- in detail and with analysis was cool. I'll look forward to watching this one.

I’ve bitched and complained at times about this show — the wooden dialogue, the lack of character development — but the finale was pretty f’n cool. I fanboy’d out pretty hard there at the end. Good stuff. Here’s hoping season three builds off this momentum.

Curb Your Enthusiasm covered this ground in an episode once. **WARNING** NSFW work and discussion in this video!

I wonder if it has to do with the likelihood that one or more offensive lineman may struggle with the altitude in Denver.

The irony of this post is that the things you just described -- building a good and stable culture, applying consistently good coaching and teaching, identifying and coaching up a franchise QB -- ARE all elements of "the process" that you roll your eyes at.

I hope the NFL actually goes through with this. It would be an awesome gesture of thanks.

Woah. I'll take any advantage I can get. If the game is close, this might end up being a big deal.

It really is. In addition to being an underrated part of the resurgence of our run defense, it will also be critically important to have a quality nickel corner against a team that lines Jerry Jeudy up in the slot and likes to throw deep.