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Pluto TV is free, apparently. I just pulled it up on my work computer and am streaming now instead of doing my work. Thanks for this! Never knew this existed.

Same. On touchdowns and special teams plays, especially. I'm STILL waiting for a flag on the Harty run-back in the Miami game.

The life of a Bills fan in a nutshell. My version of this is that I never exhale until the clock hits double zeroes. 11 point lead and 90 seconds left? Don't care. I'm a Bills fan. Seen this movie too many times before. When the clock hits zeroes and the coaches and players start pouring onto the field, THEN I can accept that it's a win. Never, ever before then.

I'm very curious to know, if the KC roster is better than last season's on offense, why the Chiefs score 8 less points per game than they did in 2022. The defense? Sure. It's better. Absolutely. Best Mahomes has ever played with. But the offense? If the roster is better than last year's, why do they score over a touchdown less points per game? I'm not being antagonistic. I'm genuinely curious. Is it Bienemy being gone? Was he better than everyone thought? Is it Kelce being less effective this year? Going from 29 PPG to 21 PPG is a significant drop in just one season. What accounts for it?

For those having fun with all of this and posting funny pics and memes and making jokes....good on ya. This is a funny thing to poke fun at. For those who legitimately have a problem with Swift or claim she's "attention mongering" or any of the other ridiculous stuff you see on Twitter and elsewhere...get a life. Swift has done nothing since all this began but show up to the games and root for the person she's dating. Big f'n deal. She is literally just existing. Just living her life. And the NFL needs/wants Taylor Swift around FAR more than Taylor Swift needs to be associated with the NFL. The league gains a ton from her presence. She gains...well...nothing but headaches and harassment for showing up, I would imagine. If the mere presence of a talented, successful, famous woman at an NFL game legitimately triggers or angers anyone, then said person has some issues that go far beyond a sports league's coverage of said famous woman. All of that having been said...I hope Ms Swift has a lovely time in Orchard Park watching her boyfriend get eliminated from the playoffs.

Our ideal DT foursome against the Chiefs, IMO, would be: Oliver Jones Joseph Phillips Oliver and Phillips are your 3Ts. Jones and Joseph your 1Ts and run stoppers. Guessing Settle will play over Phillips this week. Bills seem to like him more than I do.

I think that the ridiculous amount of injuries on defense have dampened spirits a bit more than usual around here. Combine those with the fact that we've lost the last two playoff games against the Chiefs and many probably won't believe the Bills can get past them until they see it with their own eyes and...there you have it.

You guys absolutely nailed it. These descriptions are just exactly perfect. Kudos. And just to keep things on topic: I enjoy saying Reggie Gilliam's last name. Gill-ee-um. It's fun.

I take your point, but...against the Chiefs, of all teams, let's say the Bills wind up being without Bernard, Benford, and Johnson. Very possible. That would be...significant. To be down to second stringers at both linebacker positions, Cam Lewis instead of Taron Johnson, and Dane Jackson instead of Benford...those are potentially outcome-swinging injuries.

Yeah... I'd be lying if I said I felt confident about this weekend. I WOULD...if our roster wasn't so decimated by injury. Knowing how good Mahomes and Reid and Kelce are at taking advantage of the middle of the field, and knowing the Bills may be without Bernard, Dodsen, Johnson, and Rapp (and will definitely be without Milano, obviously), makes me just feel...sad. I feel like we finally are getting our home playoff game against the Chiefs, but they get a two day rest advantage, our defense is absolutely ravaged by injury, and our team may miss one or two practices this week due to bad weather. That's not me making excuses, that's just me acknowledging the crappiness of the Bills' situation this week. It will take a few of our injured players returning to the field, a "playoff Josh" game from #17, and an insane Highmark Stadium crowd to turn this game into a victory for the Bills. But gosh, I'd sure feel a lot better about things if we weren't a walking MASH unit right now...

I just hate that the Chiefs have the league's youngest defense, coordinated by Steve Spagnuolo, and that it's already very good this year and is likely only going to get better. Between drafting a physical freak QB who thrives out of the pocket a year before Buffalo, fixing their o-line a year before Buffalo, and now going with a youth movement on defense, it seems that the Chiefs are always one step ahead of the Bills. Add to that the fact that they get to have Spaguolo locked in as defensive coordinator, and that he is very unlikely to get poached by another team to be head coach, and I'm even more annoyed. They have the stability of Andy Reid -- one of the greatest offensive minds ever -- to run the offense, and Spagnuolo -- one of the best defensive minds in the game today -- to run the defense. I am irritated, I am jealous, and I am sick of losing to the Chiefs in playoff games. I hope the Bills beat them by three scores. I do hope that Ms Swift has a nice time at the game, though. She seems like a nice person, and the people who get upset at her for merely existing are weirdos.

Wait, is that true? We have Chiefsplanet lurkers? If so, and you're reading this: your forum is a toxic cesspool. One of the absolute worst places on the internet. Your awful excuse for a message board allows the most vile, disgusting, unfunny, sophomoric, in-extremely-poor-taste, downright horrific commentary imaginable. You're an embarrassment to Chiefs fans. God Bless!

Absolutely. As a matter of fact, that just came up in the Dolphins game. That 4th down prayer that Josh Allen winged 40 yards downfield, into the endzone? The Dolphins player should have knocked that down instead of picking it off. Cost his team a lot of yards. It was also an instance where throwing an interception in the end zone was a better outcome for the Bills than Josh throwing an incomplete pass there, which illustrates that not all interceptions are created equally. But of course the national narrative around Josh's turnovers isn't ready for that level of nuance. **Edit: All of that said, it's probably hard in the heat of the moment and with all that adrenaline flowing to remember to knock a pass down instead of catch it. Everything a DB does in his career is geared toward "pick it off!". There may also be financial incentives in various players' contracts for interceptions or for Pro Bowls (which interception numbers help).

I think the hierarchy of effectiveness is something like: Sam Martin The ghost of Tom Tupa Josh Allen arm-punting Matt Haack Sam Martin on one hamstring. So technically, this is an improvement. I would've called Tupa's ghost, personally. (p.s. the Bills weren't going to insert Matt "one preseason punt and no experience holding in real games" Araiza into a playoff game at a time their kicker is slumping a bit. Wasn't gonna happen. Move on)

The words I've seen there go far beyond "hazing" and "talking trash with buddies". Saying they hope an opposing player dies of AIDS goes beyond the limits of good taste or "fun trash talk". There are good Chiefs forums, I'm sure. And I have no problem with Chiefs fans, in general. Anyone who has ever gone to KC for a game has nothing but nice things to say about Chiefs fans in real life, and I believe them. I'm sure it's a good, passionate, kind, welcoming, lovely fan base. But Chiefs Planet? Absolute toxic garbage people. I've given it several chances over the years, thinking that maybe the first time was an outlier. Each time, the same thing. Horrible, nasty, mean spirited, beyond-the-bounds-of-good-taste stuff, constantly.

I think it's a dumb rule, too. The absolute proof of its dumbness can be observed when a kickoff rolls near the sideline, and the opposing player lays down and stretches his body across the field with one toe touching the sideline and grabs the ball, thereby causing the ball to be considered out of bounds and the kicking team to be penalized and the ball moved to the 40 yard line. Absolutely an asinine rule.

"15 yard penalty, results in an automatic... "

Did anyone check to see if there was fine print on this bet that nullifies it in the event of Josh Allen faking a slide?

Yeah I'm guessing -- and this is totally a guess, with no evidence whatsoever to back it up -- that Fournette was unhappy and requested his release. I think he envisioned playing a lot more this season. Once the playoffs hit and he was still inactive, I'm guessing he said "I'd like my release so that I can have a chance to contribute elsewhere". The only problem is that I'm not sure where it is he thinks he's going to contribute at this point.

Jesus Christ man, take a breath!

To be fair.... ...An organization as financially lucrative as the Buffalo Bills should not need to crowdsource the snow shoveling efforts for their stadium. They ought to be able to afford to hire professional grounds maintenance professionals and put greater capital and effort into ensuring that the customers of their product who pay $150+ for seats don't have to sit on a foot of snow. But that's just like, my opinion, man...