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Was low key happy the Chiefs won to avoid the Lamar hype. …only to jump on X and see a never ending onslaught of Bengals fans hyping Joe Burrow.

Yup.. and he should've thrown another pick to Bolton that would've set the Chiefs up in scoring position. Bolton just dropped it.

This is an underrated point about Chris Jones. Not only is he a menace himself, but he elevates the other (good, not great) players around him like Karlaftis. And is the driver of that pass rush. But I'm starting to resign myself to the idea that they will always figure something out. They lost Hill, nailed the draft with all the extra picks and now we're lamenting Jones and Kelce. It is what it is. They will always be there in the end.. the Bills need to get better.. not hope for the Chiefs to get worse.

Lamar is an issue for them. Elite regular season QB, but he can't perform in the big games against the other elite teams. We know Josh Allen can.. we just need other parts of the team to have better luck/pull their weight. Baltimore's issues moving forward are much more glaring.. and everyone knows why, even if they don't want to say it.

Josh Allen was let down by his defense. The Ravens defense was let down by Lamar Jackson.

I don’t think Lamar is that good when you force him to become a passer.. which is pretty important for an elite QB. So I have less of an issue with Harbaugh losing with Lamar than I do McDermott, repeatedly, with Allen. Allen is the only guy in this league who can outplay Mahomes when both are at the the top of their game. Lamar is the QB equivalent of our defense. Great in the regular season, but doesn’t have what it takes when it matters.

Could KC have declined that PF and kept it 1st and 5?

This year has done a lot to validate Beane as a top tier drafting GM. He has misses, but even the best do. As we move forward, he may need to focus a bit more on immediate contributors, because we can’t really afford to have Top 100 draft picks taking multiple years to become above average contributors. A two year wait for a fixture at RT for the foreseeable future is certainly worth it. Just need to mix those developmental picks in with some more immediate impact guys moving forward.

CJ Stroud throws for 350 yards and 4 TD’s as the Bills fall 38-35 on a last second 52 yard FG in the 2025 Divisional Round. (Insert McDermott excuse here)

I honestly don’t care about these guys who perform in the regular season and no show in the playoffs. Its not like we’ve been remotely close to securing the 1 seed anyway. Keep tinkering until you finally get a group that doesn’t fold in the years biggest game or just try to outscore everyone in the playoffs and hope your Defensive HC can out-perform the opposing DC just once.

We’ll see if that defense matters on Sunday. Maybe it will. Maybe it won’t. Chiefs also had an elite defense and we tore it up. Their best defense was Bills self-sabotage.

On bright side, at least those on the right who long held beliefs that our justice system was “just” are now seeing, what many others have known for a long time .. it is irreparably broken and corrupted by bias.

I think this is well said by Josh Shapiro, and I’d agree that the death penalty has no place in a civilized society.

Herbert is the opposite of Allen, in the sense that people over-compensate for his shortcomings by blaming those around him. Very good QB. Elite talent. But something is missing in him, along with the issues around him. If anyone can change that, it would be Harbaugh though.

Great signing, had a great year, did nothing in the Chiefs game. Bye. Would rather sign AJE to a team friendly deal if we both sides are willing.

I’ll probably tune in, but either outcome is terrible. “Is Mahomes the GOAT?” and “Is Lamar now the best QB in the NFL?” are the two likeliest narrative outcomes.

Taron Johnson. Yes, Shakir stepped up. He’s in Year 2. Hopefully I can FINALLY add another name to the list, outside Josh Allen, that step up in the postseason. Nah, we just lost 10 yards and the down because Kincaid had to save him.

Ok, so Poyer made one game-saving play. Jones made one game preserving play. Butker hit his FG’s. Bass missed the game tying one. MVS made a contested catch downfield over our All-Pro corner. Sherfield came up with 0/2 50/50 balls thrown downfield to him. Kelce got open all night. Doggs, 3 for 21 with a fumble and a 65 yard drop middle of the 4th quarter. Mahomes missed an open TD, twice early in the game, if we’re going to put the loss on Allen for Dawkins getting beat. Cook dropped a TD, and Allen picked him up and still got the TD. We can do this all day, because your argument starts and ends with Poyer making one play.

Mahomes had Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelce in his prime. Then Travis Kelce in his prime and the best OL in the NFL. Patrick Mahomes had trash at WR all year, right? How have they looked in the playoffs so far? KC, as a team, elevates in the playoffs. Reid > McDermott hell… Spags > McDermott Chris Jones is, by far, the best defensive player of the two teams for the past 4 years. L’Jarius Snead, probably second best. We have one guy who elevates consistently in the playoffs.. Josh Allen. I expect those outside our fanbase to play dumb about the reality of the Playoffs Bills, but not those within.

If we don’t get hit with a rash of injuries the last two weeks before KC or our WR’s step tf up just the slightest bit in that game… We win and are playing on Sunday And… Allen would have beaten Mahomes repeatedly head to head aside from 13 seconds Leading to.. The very real convo being had in sports media this week of “Is Josh Allen the best QB in the NFL?” The difference between the narrative we see now and what could’ve been has nothing to do with Josh Allen. It has to do with his coaches and teammates. It is what it is.

I think there is a massive drop off after Mahomes & Allen, but if Lamar balls out on Sunday.. I might have to finally put him in that group. Burrow, injuries and a loaded roster.. still need to see more from him. His one playoff run to the Super Bowl was the inverse of Josh Allen Playoffs… carried by his Defense and Kicker.

This will likely have dramatic effects on the future. Gen Z is dating less, having sex less, getting married less.. following trends set by Millennials and expanding upon them. Men are turned off by postmodern women and women are frustrated due to the lack of men they deem relationship-worthy and/or the decline of traditional dating norms. This will lend itself to population decline and the need to bring in people who will boost population numbers (see Germany for example). One can’t help but immediately look at the United States in a decade, should Biden win re-election and the influx of migrants, which may dip due to battles during an election year, re-intensify. All in all.. fantastic news for Democrats, who have a stranglehold by 30-40% on single women - likely the most politically active voting block - only to lose that advantage to married women who trend slightly towards the GOP at about a 5% R advantage. Factor all this in with a potential long term continued increase in migrants, which is somewhat tricky due to more conservative social views amongst Hispanics & Muslims in the long run .. as we see this showing itself with ME/African migrants in Europe. The progressive western values clashing with a growing population that practices Islam. The world as we know it will drastically change if this continues.

Shakir looks like he will become a high end slot guy. Perfect. We don’t need to overthink this. Even with the injuries and failure, again, on defense in the postseason - Josh had us in position to win that game, if not for incredibly poor WR play all game outside Shakir. Diggs spent half a season telling us he’s a 1A or elite 2, not a WR1. Lets listen to him and draft a guy with the potential to put him in that role. We have the QB, the OL, the TE, the RB.. this doesn’t need to be more difficult than it is. Get the young WR to round out our 11 personnel.

Falcons fans seem to be taking this well… My favorites are the ones saying they need Governor Kemp to get involved and ban the Falcons GM from the state of Georgia.