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If Gabe, Bernard, Douglas, Benford and Milano were all healthy for the Chiefs game, who wins? If you put Josh Allen on the Ravens, who wins?

After watching our DL against KC, I don't think I see anyone as a must.. but I know that's short-sighted and Daquan was still working back from the injury. I have him as a must and Dane, Rapp, Ty, Edwards and Epenesa as wants .. but only if their minimal deals in the case of the first four, and team-friendly for AJ. Von looked like he should probably be a factor again next season, and with Rousseau in a contract year, Epenesa is a solid DE3 with say Jonathan and Lawson rounding out the group. I'd just rather not have to address EDGE this year. We know, no matter what we do with Daquan, we're going to need some DT's. Let's focus there this year.

When Josh Allen is locked in, I believe he's the best QB in the NFL. He has far too much variance to actually be considered the best QB in the NFL right now though.. that goes to Patrick Mahomes. And you'll say that it's because of the hardware, but he has the hardware because of the work put in throughout the season. This is the first year that he's had to play a road playoff game. And even this year, where he was uncharacteristically up and down, they were able to bank enough wins to rest everyone Week 17. That matters. We had to go all out Week 17 and lost multiple guys for the playoffs. Then the following week, lost even more. Chiefs rested Week 17, and it's a good thing they did, because since then they've lost Thuney and Omenihu. Chiefs last year had a bye week and then played a weak Jax at home.. ta-da right into the AFC CG. Baltimore this year had two bye weeks, played a weak Hou at home.. ta-da right into the AFC CG. Is there anyone that can make Josh more consistent during the season? If so, it's worth exploring.

Didn’t it come out a year or two ago that Kelce voted for Trump? I remember this because it was a crisis in black Twitter around the time he and and his ex broke it off, given every black woman on there seemingly had a crush on him. I don’t know that it would dissuade her from getting political anymore than the fact Biden is incredibly unpopular and we now have years of experience under his presidency. It’s no longer the hope of Biden vs mean old Trump.

I have no issue with Taylor Swift, and honestly don’t mind the NFL coverage of her and Kelce. That being said, your post is true and illustrates the idiocy of our electorate (on both sides) Some people take their political cues from celebrities and others from people like Catturd.

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.