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Nobody is rewriting history. In the 2023 divisional round, they lost to a KC team that got back key players from injury for the game because of a missed FG in the closing seconds despite fielding a so undermanned defense that they had to start a MLB called out of retirement -- and that MLB had been a marginal player even in his prime. As for Mahomes not being at his best yesterday, well, maybe that was because of the Bills defense. The Bills pass rush continually pressured Mahomes. He threw INTs on his first and last passes of the game because of that pressure -- and the Bills' determined efforts to keep him in the pocket -- a defense led by Bernard. Oh, yeah, and the Bills put up 30 points on the vaunted Chiefs defense that hadn't given up more than 28 points in nine games with an offensive unit missing OLer Brown, WR Coleman, and TE Kincaid. Yesterday, the Bills were better prepared and better coached than the Chiefs, and they were the better team. If the Bills come into the playoffs with a reasonably healthy roster, they are certainly capable of turning Mahomes and Company into a pumpkin.

A Jest loss makes even a Bills loss feel a little better --- and a Jest loss after the Bills smack the Chiefs is heavenly!!!! They've had a lot of injuries to key players on both sides of the ball, and their backups don't seem to step up as well as the backups on some other talented teams -- like the backups for the Bills and Chiefs. I don't pretend to have a solid idea of why that is, however.

The Bears scored their first offensive TD in about 3 games.

Lions score again. The Jests just got their first first down ... in the last minute of the first half!

Puka Nacua caught a TD pass but he's really in pain on the side line.

The Bills Stillers WC game last year probably cost the Bills the divisional game ... they lost 2 or 3 defenders in that game IIRC. I think he's a lot like Gabe Davis ... he's looks great when he catches the ball but he drops the ball more than you'd like.

Jests held the Colts to a FG. Lions are mauling the Jags.

Stillers. They're my favorite team after the Bills. He's missed 2 in today's game.

Did you do a poll to support your claim that "most" define "a dynasty has to include 3 Super Bowl wins within a 4-7 yr span"? A dynasty in sports is simply a team that dominates for a prolonged period of time. What constitutes "domination" and "prolong period of time" is open to discussion. Is winning a championship a requirement? Yes. Is winning multiple Super Bowls within a specified time period a a requirement? I'm not sure. Is a team that strings together 3 Super Bowl wins in 5 years but fails to make the playoffs for a decade before and after its SB run a "dynasty" while a team that wins a Super Bowl ever 3 years over 10 years with playoff wins in all of those non-SB seasons isn't? I can't accept having a short, arbitrary time limit on SB wins, primarily because of the NFL's win-or-go home playoff format subjects teams to so much randomness. I don't disagree that dynasties remain rare. I think that creating a dynasty is infinitely more complicated in today's free agency/salary cap era than in the past, but not impossible. The Pats and Chiefs have demonstrated that. OTOH, there's no guarantee that another team will take up the torch from either of those two teams. I think that the actual talent levels between the best and worst teams isn't very large today because of FA and the salary cap. I've seen estimates of the differences being like 15%. The real differences are in the quality of the FO management and the coaching staff. To create a dynasty, a team has to put together the right combination of management, coaching, and players, and that's really, really hard to do when promising talents are being plucked from the FOs and coaching staffs of winning teams at the same time as the player rosters are in continually flux because of FA and salary cap considerations.

I think the old saw, "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear", applies to Daboll and Jones. Some guys have it, and some guys don't. The best QB coach ever couldn't make Jones a decent NFL starter. That Daboll got Jones to look like a "reasonable facsimile" of a good NFL QB is amazing given Jones lack of talent.

Lighten up, guys! GFMB is simply entertainment: 90% fluff.

It's his job. He's an actor turned sports "personality".

IIRC the Giants picking Jones caused a lot of questions at the time he was drafted. I think he had some connection to Eli and possibly to the Mara family, and some analysts believed that connection resulted in his selection.

Jests fans and the NY media have been spinning Super Bowl dreams based on total fantasy since they won their SB back in 1969.

Why do you hate Shadeur so much that you'd consign him to certain failure with the Jests?

Seriously, dude. If Bishop were even close to playing the position as well as Hamlin, he would be playing at least occasionally. Instead, he's riding the pine except for ST. You may not value regular season wins or playoff seedings but I guarantee that that's not McDermott's -- nor any NFL HC -- mindset. Deal with it.

Hopefully, KC will use up its quota of good bounces soon. There is no difficult decision for Pegula to make. He's not firing McDermott, and few if any season ticket holders are going to demand that he do that. Many season ticket holders have decades of attending Bills games when winning seasons were few and far between and the Bills even getting to the playoffs seemed pipe dreams. For long time fans who remember Hank Bullough, Dick Jauron and Rex Ryan, McDermott is untouchable, especially this season when the consensus was that the Bills were going to "take a step back" because of so many roster losses. The Lions are owned by the Ford family (of the Ford automobile fortune). The Lions' problems were never related to how the Fords' wealth stacked up to many of the new billionaire owners. In 2020, Sheila Ford Hamp took control of the team from her mother, Martha Firestone Ford, and brought in the new administration and philosophy. She apparently got it right the first time out.

The last time I looked, the Bills were 7-2 not 2-7. They're seeded second in the AFC right now, and can be the #1 seed by beating KC and getting some help from some other team. If we fans can see that Hamlin isn't the best safety to wear a Bills uni in McDermott's tenure, certainly McDermott and his staff recognize that, too. They would love, love, love to have somebody better, but if they're still sitting Bishop, it means he still hasn't shown enough in practice to give the coaches confidence that he'd be even as good as Hamlin. I cannot understand why you have such a problem with this.

Fixed it for you. 😁

The Jets are 3-6 with 8 games left. While it's true that the Jets have an easy schedule, expecting them to win at least 6 of their next 8 games seems a big ask for such a dysfunctional team. They play at the Cardinals this week which doesn't seem as easy a win as it did at the beginning of the season. Moreover, they have to play the Tua-le Fins twice, the surging Rams, and the Bills at Highmark. Of those 5 games, they could easily go 1-4, and IMO they're more likely to go 0-5 rather than 3-2.

I'm rooting for the Ravens. I think Cinci with Burrow could be very dangerous in the playoffs if he gets hot because of the single elimination format. Get them out of playoff contention early IMO. I think that the Ravens may run out of steam by the end of the season and come into the playoffs not in prime form. Lamar is already banged up and nursing some nagging injuries. More importantly, Harbaugh is using Derrick Henry way too much rather than pacing him to have something left for later. One of the tv analysts brought this up recently. Henry is on a pace to have 300+ carries ... at almost 31 years old. In previous seasons with Tennessee, his production declined late in seasons where he was heavily used early on. The Ravens without Henry are much less of a problem.

The Jets have talent but they are a deeply dysfunctional franchise. They looked like a real team in their latest win, but the real test comes when things go south. Whether you call it culture or team spirit or whatever, that connection among team members (both players and coaches) that enables teams like the Bills or Chiefs or Lions to face adversity with an all-for-one mentality is missing in the Jets where it seems that are other agendas at play. Not only have numerous media analysts noticed this, but some players have also mentioned it, most surprisingly newcomer Davante Adams (or maybe not surprisingly since Rodgers hinted at the same thing earlier). I can't see a team that deeply divided winning 6 or 7 games in the last half of the season.

The Jets are going to remain the Jests as long as Woody Johnson owns them. The Jets haven't drafted a competent QB since they took Chad Pennington in the first round of the 2000 draft. What makes you think they'll find one in the 2025 draft? They have less draft capital for 2025 because of the pick(s) they gave up to get Adams. Expecting to get three starting caliber players, including a franchise QB and an OT, out of one draft with only a single first round pick is unrealistic for any team, but especially for a team with an owner who thinks he's a football expert with a track record that proves he isn't. Because of Rodgers' contract the next 2 years as well as the money they've committed to Rodgers' pals, they probably can't afford to pay even a retread QB unless he's willing to play near the league veteran minimum. Why is the world would Ben Johnson have any interest in coaching the Jests? Rodgers' legacy is an albatross weighing down the Jests' future, but Woody Johnson has been and will continue to be a millstone on the Jests' future.

That Johnson is a great coordinator doesn't mean that he will make a great HC. Mike McDaniel was the "hot" OC, but his tenure as Fish HC has not been all that successful. Steve Spagnulo is a great DC but he failed spectacularly as a HC in St Louis (10 wins in 3 seasons) despite his successful stint as DC for the Giants. None of Belichick's coordinators have turned out to be even good HCs.

ROTFLMAO. Obviously you weren't a Bills fan between 2000 and 2016. I guarantee you that there are a whole lot worse situations for a fan than having your team be a serious championship contender every year. And for the record, Matthew Stafford never won a playoff game in his 11 seasons with Detroit, and only had 4 winning seasons. In his last season in GB, Aaron Wilson failed to lead the Packers to the playoffs despite playing a full season. Thinking that the Bills are guaranteed winning seasons because they have Allen is just plain ignorance.