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This would be funny if it were hyperbole. Yes The_Dude is over there doing his thing, too.

Well you're entitled to that, but most football people seem to disagree. Cleveland was lucky to get a reeling Pittsburgh team in round 1 and then a twice injured Patrick Mahomes in round 2. I looked through your list. The even slightly recognizable names are largely picking the Ravens

Good lord that's the most random bunch of names I've ever seen. I also see things like "Yahoo users" and "ESPN picks" in there. This doesn't exactly qualify as national media... just an argument you obviously want to win.

you just said Cleveland is better

Is it just slipping everyone's mind that the Colts also beat the #4 seed Titans and #1 seed Packers in consecutive games AFTER the aforementioned Cleveland loss???

65% out of 29 picking the Ravens trumps your 60% of out of 16 picking the Bills.

A bunch? Define "a bunch" and post links. I would think "a bunch" would be more than 3. Post 4.

Clarity, huh? For whom? On what? As for the judiciary... what's interesting is I think that even if the Democrats don't do something wild like eliminate the filibuster and pack the courts, any Trump appointee at any level is now going to understand that they were appointed by an insurrectionist who might become the first ever convicted President in an impeachment trial. You conservatives don't like Roberts so much already. We've already seen Gorsuch and Kavenaugh break ranks and vote for more "liberal" causes. I want Biden and the Democrats to do everything in their power to pack the courts at all levels at this point, honestly. But even if they don't, Trump screwed his judicial appointees over with almost all future decisions in terms of objectivity. And I find it odd that you respond to this one rather than the other much more elaborate post directly to you the other day. I saw you responded to me, but when I clicked on it, it showed nothing. Perhaps a second thought?

I was going to respond to more points you made. But this one here makes you moron of the year. Yep. It knows the Trump Presidency is finally coming to an end.

I actually just consistently posted new images for him to use every other day because posting the same image and telling him to "man up" was me spamming the board. In the end, @Boyst62 wound up taking the avatar I posted for @Deranged Rhino because @Deranged Rhino has no integrity. That was all before they banned me on the eve of the 6th, when the insurrection happened. They've probably fully converted themselves from a faux Bills message board to a full 4-chan knock off already.

They ended the season with the same record. According to FootballOutsiders' DVOA metric Indy was the 10th best team in the NFL and Cleveland was the 18th best. The Colts were almost universally considered a better team than the Browns.

Just to let you know, Josh Allen said in a recent interview (I can't remember if it was the DP show or a post game interview or what) that he's been watching the national media. They pay attention. And if you think the negative or neglectful stuff isn't being used as fuel in some way, you're kidding yourself. Now, the sign of a well-coached team is one that channels the attention properly. Basically... ignore everything good said about you and pay extra attention to everything bad or any time you're "left out." That's what "bulletin board material" means. I don't think they're "worrying" about it. I bet they're using it as fuel, though.

Seriously? You've never heard of "bulletin board material?"

The truth is that the national media was pretty consistently picking the 5th seeded Ravens to beat the Bills last weekend. Fairburn and Buscaglia are pretty well on the Bills bandwagon and don't seem to be picking against them anymore. But they're part of the WNY media more than the national media. I'm noticing it's the guys who cover the Bills closely are the only guys picking them. That goes for the guy over at ESPN assigned to Buffalo, too. But the Bills players were correct that the Ravens were the perceived favorites outside of the local WNY media and guys assigned to Buffalo. For CBS Sports 6 out of 8 of the "experts" pick the Ravens. For ESPN 6 out of 9 picked the Ravens For USA Today 5 out of 7 picked the Ravens For Bleacherreport 2 out of 3 picked the Ravens Florio and Simms both picked the Ravens over the Bills... and no one's going to say they're Bills haters by any means Gregg Rosenthal picked the Ravens. It's not a "made-up" narrative.

It will clearly be defined forever by his last year. Deadliest year in American history 400,000+ Americans dead from a Pandemic he completely botched responding to 6.7% unemployment with 11+ million officially out of work looking for jobs and millions more who just stopped looking and dropped out of the workforce Twice impeached No peaceful transfer of power... instead a violent one with what he incited on January 6th Add in whatever else you think he's going to be remembered for 10, 20, 50 years from now...

We're watching different stuff. Lately instead of actually watching all the shows in order to get a relatively small amount of meaningful Bills discussion I've been going on YouTube just typing in "Buffalo Bills" for the latest analysis on the latest games. The narratives I posted above have come from plenty of outlets and respected analysts who are NOT ESPN or Skip Bayless. Today on GMFB, just as a single example, they were debating Josh Allen and potential Superstar status. I think it was Schrager who basically said Allen needs to be spectacular against the Chiefs to reach superstar status because he's been underwhelming in the playoffs. Underwhelming? The only reason we won the Colts game was because of Allen, who threw for over 300 yards, rushed for over 50 and had 3 TDs and 0 turnovers. Allen was fantastic against the Colts who have one of the best Defenses in the NFL. But for a highly respected football guy--and that's what Schrager is--it was forgotten. As for the whole "small town attitude" some of you are referencing... well... yep. I'm from WNY and am darn proud of what my team's doing while I live 6,000 miles away. Forgive those of us who have WNY roots if we feel our team deserves more honest attention.

If Mahomes plays and plays well and we lose, we just aren't quite there yet. I prefer the Bills being the Patriots of the Brady/Manning era rather than the Colts.

I agree. It's fundamentally not true that we didn't beat anybody. I GUARANTEE that if Mahomes doesn't play, the media narrative will be that we escaped the Colts because Rivers missed a guy in the EZ, we beat the Ravens because Jackson was out for a quarter and a half and missed an easy TD on the 3rd down right before that INT, and we beat the Chiefs because... well, obviously they don't have Mahomes. Now, I don't agree with the first 2 of those, but those are actually narratives that are already spinning out there right now. It'll just get stronger leading up to the Super Bowl if we beat the Chiefs without Mahomes. Give me Mahomes. Let's beat him. And let's go into the Super Bowl brimming with confidence.

Buddy, you know the thread title is pretty specific in terms of that credit, right? I'm not here saying the Bills are a crappy team, but as another poster said, you living in England and (perhaps???) not having WNY roots might not help you to actually see that most of the conversation nationally right now is about the Bucs, Packers and Chiefs. I asked you to find something involving someone talking about how tough the teams are compared to those other teams' competition. Honestly, based on the gap in competition, it seems like someone nationally would have talked about it at some point. It's an obvious talking point for someone. So I asked you hoping you'd heard someone talking about it, because you seemed to insinuate they've been given credit for it. It's who he is...

It's important because the Bills have had one of the toughest schedules in the NFL and have one of the best records in the NFL. And they have had the toughest path to the Conference Championship game. What don't you get?

To a certain degree they do. But I think this is a multiple Super win Bowl team. I will obviously take a win against a Mahomes-less Chiefs, but beating them with him under center would be more meaningful. Plus we don't get a ring for winning the AFC Championship game. We get a ring if we win the Super Bowl. I think this team is more like the 80's 49ers and 90's Cowboys than the one-off 2003 Bucs, especially now with Daboll and probably Frazier back again next year. I want to go into Arrowhead and beat the Chiefs as they are. Can you post me a link to more than one article/video with people praising the Bills for having the toughest playoff path among the teams remaining?

I really want Mahomes back and at full strength. I want him back because I think we can win. Beating the Chiefs without Mahomes is just going to set up a ridiculous narrative going into the Super Bowl that we didn't beat anyone to get there. The truth of the matter is that the Bills have had the hardest path to the conference championship of all 4 teams by far. The Chiefs had to beat the Browns. I'm sorry... the Browns are improved and all... but they're the Browns. And they had a hobbled Myles Garrett. The Browns finished the 2020 regular season as the 18th best team in terms of DVOA according to FootballOutsiders. The Bucs had to beat the Washington Football team that had a losing record during the regular season and then a Saints team with a QB who obviously had one foot out the door and deteriorated abilities. Plus, it was the 3rd time playing that same team, so plenty of game film and up close experience. The Packers beat a warm weather team in the cold of Green Bay essentially without its best player on the field. Buffalo is the only team of that bunch to beat not just one, but two teams in the top 10 of FootballOutsiders DVOA. And that was just a totality of the season as a whole... the Ravens were playing as one of the hottest and most intimidating teams in the NFL. And let's be honest, we handled Indy pretty well. Yes I realize it ended up being a 3 point game, but we were up by 14 early in the 4th quarter and kept that lead. And for as much as a lot of people are pointing to the Tucker FG misses... our FG kicker missed 2 FGs, too. And if the wind weren't there, maybe the FG misses don't happen... but I also bet that Allen hits on at least 1 or 2 of those deep passes he missed. The fact is that we handled 2 of the better teams in the NFL to reach the Conference Championship game. And we can absolutely beat the Chiefs at full strength. And then we can absolutely beat either the Packers or Bucs at full strength. This Buffalo Bills team has played and beaten tough teams throughout the year. And these first 2 playoff games were wins in wildly different ways. In the Colts game, Allen took over. We don't win that game without him. In the Ravens game, our Defense took over. That's something no one thought they could do. Bring on Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs in Arrowhead stadium. I want Buffalo to beat the best to be the best.

I thought Colin's last co-host Kristine Leahy was much hotter. Somethin funny lookin about Joy Taylor... though it could just be my engrained association with her brother.