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I have watched since the mid 80's. In a vast sea of bad options, the three worst to me in my memory were Nathan Peterman, Jeff Tuel and Bruce Mathison. For those who don't remember, Mathison was a QB from Nebraska who started the year before Kelly. Think JP Losman with close to Peterman's proneness to turnovers. I'll give him a pass over the other two because the team was in a full blown rebuild at the time and QB's had it a little tougher in the 80's The leaves Tuel and Peterman. Tuel was a UDFA who only saw the field because Manual and Kolb got hurt. He was awful, but should not have put in that position in the first place. Peterman had a little more expectations, he was seen as a 5th round steal, some saw him as a dark horse starter or at least as a stop gap option. He also had a larger knack for pick 6's like I have never seen. When you play the Bears, hold them to under 250 total yards and still lose 41-9, that should give an idea of just how much of a liability that he was. It is Peterman by a long shot and then everyone else.

Most likely for the first time in my life, I am not going to watch it. Usually within my circle of friends, myself or someone else will plan something and we watch. Even If I don't care about the teams, it's social. This year, no one made any plans and I did not care to initiate any. If it stays that way, I am content to watch something else. This is not the first year where I absolutely cannot get behind either team, but something is different this year. This season was draining and the least enjoyable that I can remember. The bad officiating, Excessive play stoppages and commercials, the flood of gambling commercials, the story line of "will Taylor Swift make it across the globe in time on her private jet"? Enough is enough, I am not interested. I don't intend to be preachy or say that others should do this, just my personal choice.

Ridley would be great, but is out of our price range. I think that Mooney would be a nice under the radar low cost pickup. He showed flashes with Chicago and could be good with a QB like Allen. I would love to see a couple of draft picks thrown into the mix as well. As far as what we have now, we have Diggs next year for better or worse. Hopefully he can rebound or if he has lost a step still be a decent #2 option. Shakir has promise and there is a place for him on the team, but there is no guarantee that this continues is he is elevated to #1 or #2. Remember how great Gabe Davis looked until he was given a larger role? Everyone else is expendable to me. We should move on from Davis, Sherfield and Harty. Shorter has potential, but should be seen as a sure thing. However you slice it, WR is the one position on a suddenly deep overall team that needs a lot of help in the off season.

Now the Hochuli factor comes in

Shawn Holculi is officiating. Not to make excuses in advance, but Buffalo now needs to play well enough to beat them by two scores in order to get out with a win. If the NFL has any integrity, they would pull Hochuli from this game.

I am overly optimistic during the week and before the game, but extremely pessimistic during the three hours that the Bills are playing. Example winning 21-0, Allen goes three and out, me "Were going to lose this aren't we? Why does Buffalo always do this? I try not to be, but 40+ years of heartbreaking games is engrained in me.

Must suck to be a Jags fan. They went form being a darkhorse to get the #1 seed to missing out on the playoffs altogether in just one short month.

It wasn't pretty but it was a win. Buffalo and Allen tend to step up against Miami, so I am confident that we can win next week and take the division. Go Bills.

Hopefully we can either run out the clock or score. I am not in the mood for another episode of McDermott 2:00 roulette.

Thankfully, the clutch performance from Zappe might save us today. Nice to see some of the young players stepping up

I feel like there is a new Mahomes/Reid/Kelce commercial every week. Maybe if they focused on the game more, they wouldn't be backing into the playoffs.

Miami and Indy up early too. Everything is going wrong so far.

Meanwhile, Darnold completed 67% of his passes going 2 for 3 in San Fran yesterday. Cleared we drafted the wrong guy.

The offense's performance under Brady and their previous performance under Daboll is not exactly a ringing endorsement for Dorsey at his next job interview.

He was always in position to get the interception in Buffalo, he just couldn't ever actually hang on to the ball.

Pick six for Tremaine Edmunds. You know that you are in a parallel universe when.....

I would say to move on. The three or four big games a year are not enough to offset the other games where he is a complete non-factor. He is going to look for starting WR money, and the Bills are going to be in cap trouble. With the way that Davis is playing, production from a young player like Shakir or a veteran on a small contract would most likely be better or equal at worse. I have nothing against Gabe. He had a great start to his career and showed enough for Buffalo to give him a look at a #2 option. He was not quite at that level and it didn't work out. If he doesn't get hurt, he still has a few years ahead of him as a #3 or #4 option with potential for a handful of big plays a year. Not a bad career for a 4th round pick.

Up until recently, I would have given her a pass saying that it wasn't her fault that the NFL is over-hyping her. However, her dismissive "dads, brads and chads" comment only makes her look just as entitled and arrogant as Mahomes and Reid did after this past game. I've never seen a franchise do much to make themselves public enemy #1 to the rest of the NFL as quickly as the Chiefs have over the last couple weeks.

I completely agree with this. My worry is that the Chiefs (who have been the biggest benefactors of shady officiating over the past three years) are going to make it all about them and use that as the poster child for the officiating issue when there are about 50 better examples to use this year.

Say what you want about McDermott or Allen, but I have never seen them play the full blown victim card and blame the refs in the same way that Mahomes and Reid have over the past 24 hours. I didn't see Mahomes or Reid complaining after the Jets and Vikings games. Even Brady and Belichick knew better than to bite the hand that feeds them in the few cases where a ref call didn't go their way.

I agree about the over-officating, but in this case, it was the right call. Toney was lined up almost parallel to Von Miller before that play.

I must say, I was extremely pessimistic for most of the game, I even stopped watching the second half. Too much heartbreak this year. I expected them so fail, but I stand corrected. Great job Buffalo for hanging on and being on the right side of one of those games.

This might be the worst that I have seen the WR's do since we had Zay Jones, a bunch of practice squad caliber JAG's and a 380 pound Kelvin Benjamin as our WR unit.

It's 17-14, but does anyone actually think that McDermott will lead this team to victory? It is so demoralizing to watch this week in and week out.

I know we are winning, but the last two minutes is yet another McDermott, mismangement special. Any other playoff contender manages at least three there.