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Send them out with a Super Bowl and let's move on. They are Bills Legends and will go down as All-Timers, but if I had to guess how this secondary plays out.. Hyde retires, we part ways with Poyer, extend Rasul and Tre restructures to avoid being cut.

I honestly don't take anything away from the Chiefs/Dolphins game. We all know KC, like BUF, can play in cold weather. MIA cannot. Look at some of the tape breakdowns on X of huge plays Tua missed because he couldn't throw the football in cold weather. And our Defense is beat up, but it's not Miami level beat up and McDermott is a better Defensive mind than Fangio is currently.

We need McDermott to coach his *** off on Sunday, especially if we don’t get some of these guys back. I know Josh Allen has to go up against a healthy, elite level defense in KC. I don’t know what Mahomes will have to face in Buffalo. I want to win, of course, but I’ll be sick if Mahomes comes in here.. in his first road playoff game.. and gets to play a beat up defense.

Von had some pre-ACL reps towards the end of last night. If he can carry that on into Sunday Night, adding that to what we already have would be huge.

This dude uses the entire width of the goalposts from XP to XP.. I don’t trust him to kick anything right now.

That wasn’t a fake slide, and this is wild coming from a fan of the dude who constantly prances around pretending to go out of bounds, only to grab another five yards when the defender lets up.

This dude makes zero sense ha. …Balled out last playoffs. …Bizarro season where he’s hurt, maybe, doesn’t play.. can’t get on the field. …Forced into action due to injury in a playoff game, again. -Gets trucked -Insane penalty -Flawless defense and filthy ball skills, pick -Holds his own the rest of the game

It’s one of the most underreported stories of their run since Mahomes came onto the scene. They suffered OL injuries and got wrecked by Tampa in the SB, but aside from that… they’re always healthy while teams like Buffalo and Cincinnati are battling through multiple big injuries in the playoffs.

Too good…

The Rams are actually starting to annoy me with how bad their defense is right now.

Stafford is making some absurd throws out there.

I didn’t say that. If you inferred that from my post, that’s not what I was alluding to. I gave the reasoning for why the NBA schedules regular season games on MLK Day.

The NBA puts games on MLK day as a tradition because a very large portion of their fanbase is black, percentage wise. It’s partly symbolic, and I’m not saying that’s a bad thing before you get yourself all worked up. It’s also the NBA’s regular season. They aren’t airing Game 1 of the NBA Finals during the day where half of America is working.

Yea.. I’d love for the Texans to take out Baltimore, but they give me the vibes of a team that caught fire, at home, against a beat up Browns squad that was due for regression. The caveat being the time off the Ravens have had. If Houston can get up early, I do wonder if Lamar could press given his lack of playoff success. … but I’m not betting on it.

I think that’s fair though. We were under the assumption that we’d have to play the Steelers in a game where all of our advantages were taken away due to weather.. weather so extreme that it isn’t even football anymore. However, we were offered the opportunity to play today in ideal conditions. We lobbied to play tomorrow in wind/cold, but nothing that should truly affect us. The league gave us the ok to change the playoff schedule.. not just this week, but basically ensuring we must play KC, if we win, on Sunday (which they’d probably do anyway) but this now affects, potentially, two weeks of their scheduling. No excuses.

So which is which? I think last year, excuses were somewhat valid. This year, what’s the excuse? Bad weather, in which the league provided a solution that we turned down in order to put ourselves at a rest disadvantage? Nah, not accepting that. Just win.

There’s also an in inherent risk of having a team in Miami, Jacksonville and New Orleans in September/October.

Am I the only one who doesn’t want to hear a word about excuses? AFC CG, we weren’t ready for that yet 13 seconds was self inflicted Damar Hamlin, weather, injuries etc I have no appetite for weather or rest disadvantage.. figure it out. It seems we were given the option of playing today, indoors.. it seems we said “no thanks”. We are clearly aware of what that means by playing another day later. It’s always something it seems, and it’s exhausting as a fan.. and surely for the team.. but at some point you need to simply overcome it. And hopefully that point is this year.

If Davis is going to miss multiple games this postseason and/or be hobbled (should we continue to advance), I’d love to see Sherfield outside with Harty rotating in for him and Diggs. See if we can get Harty deep 1-2 times per game, and if not, use him to open up underneath routes for Kincaid and Shakir. I too wanted Addison, but I am interested to see if perhaps we got the right guy all along when it comes to needing to win in January. Having a big body with a huge catch radius when throwing in the elements, who will only grow as a blocker as he develops, is something we desperately needed last year .. and now have this year. He also played at Utah, so he’s not facing the cold for the first time.

The NBA is putting regular season games on MLK Day. They also have a somewhat different fanbase demo than the NFL. The NFL would be putting one of a handful of coveted playoff games on a Monday afternoon, by choice, for a holiday that most of their fanbase is working on. We’ll see what the ratings are .. at best, they would hope for a March Madness scenario where it’s such a big deal that people just accept call-outs and zero production on the first Thursday and Friday of the Tournament.

It would’ve been an interesting crowd. Steelers are a national fanbase and the Bills have a ton of fans within driving distance of Atlanta. We know Allen can throw in weather. We’ll see if Rudolph can. And an inside game would definitely allow them to target Dane Jackson if Douglas can’t go. And without Davis, the deep shots may have been limited, but Allen should have time without Watt out there. Anyway.. it’s not happening, and it seems we want it that way .. so just don’t complain about the lack of rest. Beat the Steelers and then beat the Chiefs at home. Nobody is going to care about any of this if an option was provided by the league for today.

If reports are true, the Bills could’ve played today .. inside .. in Atlanta. I don’t want to hear about this. Clearly they aren’t worried about that.

QB - Even RB - Even (Cook is the best RB of the group even though I’ve been down on him lately) WR’s - Bills TE’s - Chiefs (out of respect, but Bills TE’s are no joke) OL - Even (Torrence has been struggling / KC’s Tackles have been struggling) DL - Even Secondary - Even (with Douglas) ST’s - Even Coaching - Time for McDermott to show us why he took over defensive play-calling. And fwiw, I think Allen is the most talented QB in the league, and (if) he gets a Super Bowl, will be recognized as such. Both teams have top defenses, the difference to me is that the Bills have more explosiveness in Diggs, Kincaid, Shakir and Cook than the Chiefs do in Kelce, Rice, MVS and Pacheco. And that’s assuming Davis misses next week, should we get there.

It’s not that deep .. we’re better than them. Go out there and prove it. 1) Allen, limit the nonsense 2) McDermott, show us why you took over the defense