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Johnson stepped aside before when he was Ambassador to the UK in the first Trump administration, but it didn't help the Jests then, so I don't see much real hope there.

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or truly believe this. In any case, I disagree. The Jests have missed on GM, on HC, and on QB every single time they've sought to fill any of those positions since Woody Johnson purchased the team in 2000 -- and they've had a lot of chances to get something right. The best they've done was drafting QB Chad Pennington in 2000 and then signing an aging Vinnie Testaverde. The best of their HC hires was Rex Ryan. None of their GMs went on to success on other teams. As others have said, the Jests' best hope for success is new ownership. I agree. I think the Pats have hit on a good one in Maye. Their HC Jerrod Maye seems to be improving as much as his QB this season. He's got that team playing scrappy and far above their collective talent level, so they are competitve with a lot of their opponents right now. Can they be competitive with the Bills next year? Probably not, but I think they have the potential to challenge in the future.

I have so many Christmas favorites, but Montgomery Gentry's cover of Robert Earl Keen's "Merry Christmas to the Family" reminds me of so many of the Christmases or other holidays as a kid, especially with my mother's family. My mom was a city girl who married a farmer, but it was her relatives who were much more redneck than any of my Dad's relatives. Merry Christmas to the Family

To be fair to early 2024 predictors, not everyone was doom and gloom. I liked this post back in April, and it's aged much better than all the doom and gloom predictions.

Ironically, the Bills' current WRs are probably the most sure-handed the Bills have had since the great teams of the 90s. They seem to catch everything thrown their way.

The bolded statement is simply bull manure, and it indicates that your knowledge of the NFL is superficial at best. Football is a team sport, and the best current example is Joe Burrow. Burrow is a great QB playing on a team without a defense or running game. Despite all his personal statistical greatness, Burrow will be sitting at home in January for the second year in a row. Can't win the Super Bowl if you don't make the Big Dance. Jauron's philosophy was not to lose by too much. He was the kind of coach who sucked the joy out of football for many of his players, even great ones like Marshawn Lynch. Tentative Trent Edwards was his choice at QB because they were both pathologically risk adverse. Says the poster who has never made a mistake ever.

John Rauch, Harvey Johnson, Jim Ringo, Kay Stephenson, Hank Bullough, Gregg Williams, Mike Mularkey, Dick Jauron, Perry Fewell, Chan Gailey, Doug Marrone, Rex Ryan, Anthony Lynn or their ghosts all say "Hi".

The Browns play for Jameis, and their defense is usually much better than they showed last night. Last night's game ... and post game ... was classic Jameis. He defines "gunslinger" QB ... and "born again Christian".

If Jameis gets hot, the Browns can be dangerous to any team. Usually their defense plays better than they've shown tonight. I'm glad the Bills don't have to play them.

No running game and a poor defense, especially in the defensive backfield.

Nothing lasts forever. It's infinitely better to be considering playoff seedings rather than draft order in December. If you don't believe that, ask Patriots fans about it.

During the Russ Brandon/Dick Jauron era when the Bills roster was filled with mostly non-NFL caliber players, I saw a clip of a Kelly to Reed long TD pass from a playoff game. It brought tears to my eyes remembering how good those 90s teams were compared to the then current iteration of the Bills. As old time singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell said in her hit, "Big Yellow Taxi", "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?".

The lose-and-go-home format of the NFL playoffs makes winning the Super Bowl really dependent on so many factors outside any team's control, especially injuries and lucky/unlucky bounces. Unfortunately, a series format just isn't feasible for football.

If you drive slow enough, they've always been optional in Jamestown.

Tua can play in the cold. It seemed that some of his teammates, particularly on defense, aren't particularly interested in doing so, however. That said, I think that Miami isn't a serious threat to make the playoffs at this point ... if they ever were. I think that the premise the team is built upon is faulty. A good/great offense starts with at least a solid OL, especially if you have a good/great QB. Investing in WRs but not the OL is beyond foolish. So is treating the DL like a red-headed step child.

My bad. I forgot about the bad snap at the very end of the game. Sierra, I totally agree that both bad plays are symptomatic of organizational incompetence. How many times did Bills fans during the Drought (especially during Jauron's tenure) witness the team ***** defeat from the jaws of victory with bonehead plays? Too many to count probably.

On the last long FG attempt for the Raiders, the kicker's foot hit the ground before it hit the ball, so he had no power in his kick. They showed it. The snap was fine.

It's why the Bills went for it on fourth and two rather than kick a FG to go up by 5. Any lead less than 9 points late in the game, especially after the two minute warning, opens the door for the Chiefs to win or at least tie on a last second FG or TD. They have that mastered.

The Chiefs are simply not playing well ... and it's not because they've lost a bunch of key players to injury. They've been playing this way the entire season. All the media analysts expected that losing to the Bills would spark the Chiefs to come out and rout the Panthers. I think they were favored by 9 points over Carolina, and they barely escaped ... again ... looking like "the same old Chiefs" they've been all season, winning by luck rather than their own play. Fast forward to yesterday, and the Chiefs won the game against the Raiders only because the Raiders' FG kicker's foot hit the dirt before the ball on their last long FG attempt. When they get to the playoffs, the Chiefs are going to be going against good teams that are fully capable of not only sticking with them but of making their own luck with their own top personnel and excellent coaching. Somebody is going to knock them out before they get to the Super Bowl. Depending on the final seeding, the Chiefs might very well be 1 and done in this years playoffs.

I don't think it's the cold so much as it is playing good teams. The Fins have played 4 games against teams with winning records -- Seattle, Arizona, and Buffalo twice -- and lost all of them. They look like they're going to make it 0-5 against teams with winning records.

That's my point, too. I don't know where the idea came from that any place was going to get 6 feet of snow by Monday. As of this morning, the area from Erie, PA to Dunkirk and east are possibly going to get 18-24". Jamestown is forecast to get up to a foot by Monday but we're at an elevation of around 1200-1400 feet. Some people are panicking unnecessarily.

And this firm would provide executive front office services to multiple NFL teams? I don't think that's a path that the NFL will go down any time soon if ever.

The winds will be coming from the west and northwest which will put most of the snow well south of Buffalo, and probably south of the stadium as well. The winds will be coming over the narrower part of Lake Erie, so they aren't going to pick up huge amounts of moisture before coming over land. The huge snow amounts in the Southtowns (Hamburg, OP) from lake effect snow events occur when the winds come from a southwesterly direction that takes it over almost the entire length of Lake Erie sucking up moisture as it goes. All of WNY will likely get some decent snow. Some of us will get quite a lot. Places in the Boston Hills or along the Chautauqua Ridge will probably get the most but it's highly unlikely that even they will get 6 or 7 feet. It takes a specific set of circumstances to produce such massive snow totals, but not all of them are present for this upcoming weather event.

Not every lake effect snow event is the same.

You are suggesting a "GM by committee" structure for the FO with the committee being employed by an outside entity. That -- turning corporate control over to employees of another corporation -- doesn't seem a good business model for any enterprise to me, and especially for an NFL team, which involves a relatively small number of employees at the upper levels. Are any NFL franchises currently employing a firm to run their FO?