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I've been a Booger fan - but he's pretty cliched when talking about the Pats. It's the "safe" position for an announcer.

Hey, Mac - try not to think about the fact that you're replacing the GOAT, in a town that won't tolerate losing, and that you're currently hyped to be one of the best in the league.

Judon is one of the 1st Patriot players in awhile that I have a really hard time disliking.

This is like in "Cinderella Man," when the trainer asked the main character to stand up between rounds. The opponent was like, "why is he sitting? Isn't he tired?"

Belichick is eternally cranky.

I love our fans. They ARE better. Every team thinks theirs are - but ours really are. It's not disputable.

That's the whole deal w/ sports. 99% of the time, they're not fun. We spend our whole lives watching them and investing emotions in outcomes, but it doesn't even register on the risk/reward scale. It's awesome.

Bold to have someone new doing returns. Fortune favors the bold, though.

It's a longshot, but wouldn't it be cool if Mac Jones was so overwhelmed by the wind & cold that they caught him on the sidelines saying, "I didn't know the NFL was going to be like this!" and he demanded a trade to a southern team in the morning?

What's the over/under on thrown phones from Belichick?

One guy looks like it's just another day. The other looks like it's the 1st cold day he's seen.

He's probably our toughest straight-ahead runner. They'll need to mix it up tonight - it will be nice to have him as a change of pace.

LOL - Mac Jones wearing the same face-covering hat that my mom made me wear when I was 8 years old. Welcome to Buffalo, wonder boy!

I think I need one of those vomit bags they have on airplanes. Pre-game show is all "here we go again" w/ the Pats being the #1 seed again.

I don't know how the team is feeling about it, but I hope it isn't like most fans here. I hope they're stoked about the conditions.

BB the evil genius HAS to be thinking that we'll have more designed runs for Allen. The Bills have to counter that a bit. It's not like they should change from that - but they have to disguise it better, and time it just so. I hope Daboll has some interesting stuff up his sleeve tonight. He'll be tested more than any game I can remember to think outside of that box that everyone always talks about.

I kind of hope it changes the team construction of being so pass heavy. Build the O-line & running game to support Allen. Even if we build a dome in Buffalo, we still have to play in NE, NY & plenty of other places where the wind blows and the snow snows.

I feel the doom growing. Snap out of it! For the sake of pete, they're coming to our house. They have the better coach, but it's not by miles. We have the better QB, and that IS by miles. It's a division game, so anything can happen - but strictly based on "better overall team," no one rational would say that's the Pats.

Something like that would more likely benefit the Bills. I'd love to see the game delayed an hour or 2 - it sounds like the wind will be decreasing throughout the night.

That's bad, but not "punt going backwards" bad. That's more like the Ravens playoff game. Josh didn't throw great in that, but he completed over 20 passes/over 200 yards. I don't think we'd need more than that tonight as long as we get something out of the run game.

I feel like most coaches freak out against BB these days. The most prominent was the Colts coach a few years ago when he tried that crazy 1-man punting team that backfired tremendously and ended up losing a game that they had been leading in. But you see it all the time. Coaches try to "out Belichick" Belichick. It's a bad idea. Just coach the game you'd coach, and forget about the mystique.

It's the post-7:00 PM that seems to be the mystery now. Though, I think we might assume that the winds will decrease somewhat. But I'm no weather guy. I enjoy good weather, but that's where my weather savvy ends.

That's fair, and I don't really hold that against them. They have scored a lot in some of the games during their 6-game winning streak. But I watched a lot of those games. Some, like Atlanta & TN, just weren't impressive, despite the final result. They stalled in the red zone in both of those games, repeatedly. I felt like both of those teams - though a bad team in one case and a depleted team in another - had chances to win or at least compete until the end. This isn't "that" Patriots team. I would watch them during the dynasty years, and wonder how in the world we'd beat them (and sure enough....) But I haven't felt that at all this season. They're being hyped that way, but it's not a big scoring offense, and the D's effectiveness has been inflated against some pretty middlin' competition. And don't get me started on Jones. He's hype personified right now.

People always say "Allen should be able to throw in any weather if he plays in Buffalo" or something along those lines. It's much more accurate to say that he's better equipped for bad weather & w/ his arm strength, will have an advantage in strong winds. But as you said, of course it's going to affect his play. He has a distinct advantage over his overhyped counterpart in this one, because not only does he have a much stronger arm, but he has a lot more experience at this point playing in bad weather. I think last week was the 1st "weather" game for Jones, and it was basically just flurries & mild wind.

I said "at points" - I didn't specify the last 6 games. But the last 2, they struggled to score in the red zone - against one bad team, and one severely depleted team. Are you putting all of your stock in the 6 game winning streak? Which started against the Jets, included the Browns - who were missing their top 3 RB's, then the Falcons who are not good (and who they still struggled to score TD's against), then to a severely depleted Titans team who likely win that game if a LB grabs an easy pick 6 at the end of the 3rd. That's the reason you're putting NE in this sort of barely beatable status, and the Bills as kind of a bumbling, inferior opponent by comparison?