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Well damn! What happened to Ray?! I hope he's ok & able to make a return...

Since I was only able to watch on my phone while working, could somebody tell me if we suffered any major injuries during this game?

This is what we need next week, but It's going to be tough. We NEED this defense to finally show up against a competent QB in the playoffs. It'll be horrible if we have home losses to Mahomes, Burrow AND Lamar in the playoffs.

The Ravens. I don't think we can stop Henry, and Lamar is playing great (as much as I HATE saying that). Their defense is playing better than ours, and they already stomped us once this year. We were dealing with some injuries, but their D was playing like crap at the time, with everybody putting up a ton of points on them, yet we could only manage 10 points. So yeah, I wanted to avoid them at all costs, but now there's no choice but to play them (if we advance). Easy, promote Joe Brady.

Yeah, I didn't know this. Coaches can only be traded for a 1st?

I hate hate HATE the Ravens! C'mon Pittsburgh, pull off some black vudu magic BS & win this!

But the odds flipped. Lamar is the favorite now & Josh is sitting at +200

I'm gonna be SO pissed if Allen doesn't win MVP. Many people have told me all year that they don't care, it's all about the Super Bowl. But I care, and I'm greedy. Super Bowl for the team achievement, and MVP for Allen.

I'll be real here, I'm desperately praying for a Steelers upset over the Ravens, as I do not think this Bills team can stop Lamar & Henry. LBs & Safeties are too small. The Bills went several years without a single double digit loss, only for the Ravens to blow us out of the water. Sure, we were missing several players on D & our offense was missing Shakir (and didn't even have Coop yet), but I'm not sure they'd suddenly be able to slow down such a dominant RB. Then again, I hate looking ahead & thinking about the Ravens when the Broncos have a legit D & SB winning coach themselves.

Is it possible that an NFL player is living paycheck-to-paycheck? Because at this point, who knows when your money is coming in & how much it's going to be...

C'mon Joe... You're smarter than this! Don't go to that disfunctional organization! And c'mon Pegula... You'0re smarter than this! Pay Brady like a HC to keep him around & supplant McDermott in the future! Better to have a consistent offense that works with Josh while seeking out a better coordinator to address the D. In the McDermott era we've had the exact opposite. We keep our ineffective defense consistent while bouncing around offensive coordinators despite having a great QB. KC has been so successful because Mahomes has stability with Reid at the helm. We need that for Josh.

Hope he can do that in the divisional round this year. I can only remember one great divisional round performance, and McDermott & his defense blew it for us.

Hahahaha Bengals miss the playoffs! Woooohooo! Suck it Burrow 😆

I'm just making peace with the fact we'll have to beat the Burrow, Lamar & Mahomes in the playoffs. It seems we're always destined for the 2 seed, so just gotta accept that the only way to the SB is 3 straight playoff wins & a fight against KC. The biggest worry is, as always, the defense. Can they play well against elite QBs? Will they ever show they're capable of stopping the run? Their history says no, but we have to hope something changes...

Since the Bills seem to prefer hiring internally, it'll be someone already on the team. Probably a random positional coach. But the Bills should just pay Brady whatever he wants & promise him the HC position if McDermott blows it & gets fired.

So I was watching Colin's week 17 reaction video (Bills segment at 38:25) & he immediately goes into talking about McDermott. "I think these are the Sean McDermott playoffs.... "If they get bounced early in the playoffs... if Cincinnati got in & played Buffalo in the 1st round, and Cincinnati won, I'm telling you, I think McDermott's in trouble." "When I watch this team - I don't want to hear about Josh Allen. This is not a Josh Allen referendum. He lost a game cuz he scored a TD with 13 seconds left to Mahomes." "This team, this coaching staff, has REAL pressure on them." We were really down on McDermott last year, and there's been a decent amount of discussion about McDermott this year (especially after the Rams game), but I've heard many others throwing his name out for Coach of the Year. It sounds odd that someone who some consider COTY material would also be someone who could get fired after this postseason, regardless of outcome. If the scenario that Colin suggested played out & we lost to the Bengals in the WC round, then yeah, I don't see how you can keep him. But what about the divisional round? Nobody would be happy with another 2nd round exit, but would this start to feel like a Marvin Lewis situation (only the 2nd round instead of the 1st)? I'm not preemptively planning for defeat, but I also haven't really considered what this team would look like without McDermott. Him & Beane are so close, it's hard to imagine a true coaching staff reboot. What do you all think? Is this postseason a "Sean McDermott" playoffs?

I wasn't paying much attention to him, but just watched some highlights again & saw him get beat on the 2nd TD pass. Was he ok aside from that?

This was hilarious, but it also reminded me how many risky throws Allen made running to his right & trying to heave it up to someone deep. He really can't be doing that in the playoffs against good teams. We got lucky none of those were picked.

Why does the image only show 4 seasons then? And why is the number getting smaller?! Is Josh getting worse?!?!?! OUR WINDOW IS CLOSING!

Let's be real, Allen doesn't always throw the prettiest or best placed passes. Even today there were quite a few questionable throws (including the actual TD to Keon). The whole point of getting someone like Coleman or trading for Cooper is so that they can help mitigate some of that downside & catch those passes that would otherwise be incomplete. Keon pointing "throw higher next time" (if that's what he was doing) is perfectly fine, as he's just communicating how it could work the NEXT time. It's not like he was stomping his feet & throwing his hands in the air getting all pissy. Allen might be an MVP candidate, but he's not levitating above his lowly serfs with a halo over his head. If he's a real leader, he can handle his comrades giving him recommendations, fielding criticisms, or being open to advice, regardless of how young or inexperienced the comrade is.

KC is going to rest starters & use the 2 weeks to rest up. Maybe they'll use the Broncos game to try out some new gadget plays & experiment a bit, or maybe they'll put some new things on film to give their 2nd round opponent something to think about. Or maybe they'll just use these two weeks to study & get some extra film time in. Either way, I fully expect the Broncos to win, as they control their own destiny. I highly doubt Miami will sneak in. Even so, I feel the Bills SHOULD handle whichever team pretty well. As usual, the problem will be the divisional round & likely having to face the Ravens. It'll be really upsetting if we end up losing to Burrow, then Mahomes, then Lamar back-to-back-to-back in the 2nd round.

Yeah... that's not good at all. Seems we get cold feet any time we play weak defenses, so even then I don't expect the Bills will be able to score on the Bengals as much as everyone else.

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Here's the problem with this debate. 1) Lamar is absolutely deserving of MVP & definitely playing better than Allen 2) Lamar was absolutely NOT deserving of MVP last year & was definitely outplayed by Allen 3) Lamar is always treated like some victim who never gets any credit, leading to people making personal attacks against his competitors in order to defend him. And it's number 3 that bothers me the most. I'm so sick of people saying "is Lamar the most underappreciated/disrespected QB ever?" despite the fact that he was voted MVP TWICE already! Do they forget that their peers in the media vote for MVP & chose Lamar as MVP over Allen? Did they forget that Lamar's peers voted him as a better player than Allen on the NFL Top 100 list? Most underrated or most disrespected? Was Lamar the one who was voted most overrated player before the season? Was the media sharing stories about an anonymous GM saying Lamar was the most overrated player in the league? Wait, that was Josh Allen. Then you have preseason expectations. Everyone was predicting the Ravens to be even better this year after adding Derek Henry. Meanwhile, they predicted the Bills would finish 2nd or possibly even 3rd in their own division behind the Jets & Dolphins! Yet despite all that, Lamar's team has a worse record than they did last season, and Allen's has the 2nd best record in the AFC. He's doing more with less, regardless of how great Lamar is playing. So does Lamar "deserve" MVP? Sure, he's playing at an MVP level. But is Allen the most valuable player to his team? DEFINITELY.

I don't really feel the Ravens are that inconsistent anymore... At least not Lamar & Henry. At worst, kicking, defense & some odd coaching calls can screw them over, but Lamar & Henry are both playing like MVPs... I hate to say it, but I REALLY want to avoid playing them in the playoffs.