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@Casey D When I post sarcasm, I almost always include " //sarcasm off" at the end.

The Panthers are significantly better than they've been, but they were playing the Cowboys, the team gave up 30+ points in 4 of their 6 games, including 37 to the Russell Wilson-led Giants and 40 to Green Bay.

Yes, it's the Portage Escarpment. In fact, Rte 394 out of Westfield climbs the escarpment and is called South Portage Road.

The Ravens were 1-2 and their defense had given up 96 points in 3 games before the plague of injuries began.

Have you watched any of today's games, especially that travesty from London this morning? Any of other teams' games all season? The NFL is filled with amazing plays -- both good and bad. There's a group of fans on TSW who see only the problems the Bills have. They want the Bills to not only be perfect but to be perfect in the way that they think the Bills should be. The loss to NE last week has put them into a frenzy of self-pity, each Chicken Little feeding off the pessimism of the other like-minded Chicken Littles. Fixed it for you.

Didn't the sportsbooks originally have the Ravens as the favorites to win the Super Bowl before the season actually started? All the sports talking heads claimed that the Ravens had "the best roster in the NFL". When they started to play actual games, though, the reality turned out to be that the Ravens weren't anywhere near as good as everybody thought -- and that was before all the injuries. Sure the Ravens aren't mathematically eliminated, but they sure haven't looked like a team that could go 9-2 since the fourth quarter of the opening game.

Well, in that case, the season is over and we might as well throw in the towel. Fire the entire FO and coaching staffs, trade everybody, and start at square one with a bunch of draft picks.

The Ravens now need to go 9-2 just to get to 10-7. They still have to play Minnesota, Pittsburgh twice, New England, and Green Bay.

Bryce Young is becoming a pretty decent QB.

Was that PI on Elam????

Well, there are a bunch of entertaining, back-and-forth games!

Why do you consider that "sick and unwell"??? I've been rooting for the Fins because I want those AFCW teams to all be bunched together.

The Ridge starts east of Rte 20. The villages of Westfield, Brocton, and Silver Creek are below the Ridge, although there are some hilly areas. Ask the realtor where the Ridge begins in the areas you're looking.

Absolutely. I'm off to do some yard work since Fields is still in the game.

As long as Woody Johnson owns the team, the Jets are gonna be Jests. The Johnson son who was in charge of the team when his papa was doing his ambassador thing looks like "a chip off the old block", so the Jests fans are doomed to an eternity of ineptitude.

Absolutely!!!! I would have to root for both of them ... and feel so happy for the Series winner at the time feeling so sad for the team that lost. The Brewers have never won the Series, and have only made the Series once, in 1982. The Mariners have never even made the Series. They have only made the ALCS three times, the last time in 2001.

Don't buy a house up on the hills east of Lake Erie ... or buy a really big snowblower. If you're a few miles from the lake, and you can look west out of a window or off a deck/porch and can see the lake, you are probably on the Ridge. The Chautauqua Ridge is the shore of the much larger old glacial lake that once covered much of WNY. It's like the Niagara Escarpment in Niagara County. Take a drive on Rte 394 from Barcelona towards Mayville or Rte 39 from Dunkirk/Silver Creek towards Gowanda, and you will recognize when you leave the lake plain and go up the Ridge. There's a great spot to see how sharply the ridge rises above the lake plain at Luenesman (sp) Overlook Park outside of Dewittville, which is just northeast of Mayville on Rte 430. It's a great view in the fall.

Brewers win the winner take all game, 3-1, against the Chicago Cubs. The Brewers scored their 3 runs on 3 solo HRs, each with 2 outs.

Cubs at Brewers are on TBS. The series is tied at 2-2, so it's loser goes home, winner gets to play the Dodgers in the NLCS.

Dunkirk/Fredonia isn't as bad as the Southtowns. Chautauqua County gets lake effect mostly from the north/northwest winds, so the Chautauqua Ridge -- areas like Arkwright, Cassadaga, and Sherman -- tend to get the really heavy lake effect because of the rise in elevation forces the clouds to drop their snow load on the west side of the Ridge. The lake shore communities and the towns east of the Ridge (like Jamestown) get lots of snow but not nearly as much as the towns on the west side of the Ridge. The Southtowns sit at the northeastern end of Lake Erie, which means that southwestern gales come up the longest fetch of the lake sucking up moisture from the warmer lake like vacuum cleaners all the way from western Ohio before dumping their massive snow loads when they hit the shore from Angola north to Blasdell. This is why Hamburg, West Seneca, Blasdell, and even South Buffalo can pick up multiple feet of snow in a day or less.

The Bills weren't going to go undefeated in 2025. Only the 1972 Dolphins and the 2007 Patriots have managed that, and the Pats lost the Super Bowl to Eli Manning and the Helmet Catch. I'm not convinced that Atlanta is all that good. They got blanked 30-0 by the Panthers, and then had to hang on to get a one score win against the Commanders without Jayden Daniels.

I have been on the Pats as a possible WC team since they hired Vrabel and then signed Diggs. Maye played pretty well despite poor coaching and minimal talent around him as a rookie. I picked the Pats to finish second in the AFCE when numerous others were worried about the Fins and even the Jests. Right now, I think they can get 10 or 11 wins, especially with the Bengals circling the drain and the Ravens watching them and hoping to avoid the same fate. The Bills should win 13 or 14 games. Unless Allen misses games, the Pats aren't threatening the Bills for the AFCE.

I think that your take is pretty accurate. They had Gronk as a big downfield threat for a while after Moss, but he missed a lot of time in several seasons because of injuries. For a significant number of seasons they had Welker and then Edelmann who were sure-handed, clutch WRs playing in the slot more than being downfield threats. Later in the Belichick/Brady era, the Pats also had ex-Bill Chris Hogan at WR. Most of their boundary WRs were decent but they weren't among the best WRs of their time. Let's not pretend that Deion Branch was Justin Jefferson or DK Metcalf or any of the big name WRs that some Bills fans fantasize about. He was traded to Seattle after his big 998 yard season, and then was traded back to NE a couple of years later. In 2010, Branch caught passes for 930 yards between the Seahawks and Patriots. Other than his 2 big seasons, Branch's yards per season were modest, mostly between 400 and 800 yards. He was a decent WR, but hardly a really good one.

Playing the Rams without Lamar makes the Ravens suffering a fifth loss this weekend seem likely if not inevitable. They would then be 1-5 at their bye. Even before their plague of injuries, they didn't play like a team that could 9-2 over their last 11 games.

Mariners win in the 15th inning, 3-2, with a walk-off single by Luis Polanco!!! Jays vs Mariners for the ALCS. The Jays are my team, but I won't cry too much if the Mariners end up in the Series.