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Maybe. The Phins are going to face a some serious cap problems next season which is going to limit just how much they can actually improve the team. There is also the very real prospect that the Jests will be much more competitive next seasons with a functional offense under Rodgers.

I don't think defensive injuries were an excuse. The Fins' defense didn't lose that game for them. They forced the Chiefs to kick 4 FGs! The Fins' offense scored only 1 TD. After Hill caught his TD pass, he never made another big play thanks to the Chiefs' DB -- McDuffie, I think. I think Waddle had one chunk pass play, and Wilson had another one. The Fins' run game was ineffective. The Fins didn't convert a third down until late into the third quarter, or maybe even into the fourth quarter. The Fins offense has disappeared in the second half against the Cowboys, the Ravens, the Bills twice, and the Chiefs yesterday.

I think it's less cyclical than a reflection of societal changes. In the 1970s, malls replaced the big downtown department stores that had dominated the retail landscape since the 1880s as well as the shopping plazas that flourished in the 1950s and 1960s. Now, malls are dying off and being replaced by "life style centers" (housing/retail/dining), large shopping centers (much like old style plazas), and on-line shopping.

I agree. IMO, Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber who killed 168 people, got off too easy. He was executed in June, 2001, just six years after the bombing. The victims' families and the survivors have lived with the horrors of McVeigh's act for almost 30 years.

I enjoyed the game. Watching the Fish get their collective butts kicked was certainly worth $5.99.

It's not the open air stadiums or bad weather that bother the Fish. It's teams with smart, tough, physical defenses that derail their offense. If they can't pass successfully, their running game becomes pretty ordinary. The Fish depend upon getting a lead early with their passing and building on it before their opponents figure things out. When they can't do that, they struggle. All of their losses this season came at the hands of teams that have tough physical defenses with smart DCs, including Tennessee which had a losing record. If the game had been in Miami, the result would have been the same.

Yawn. The refs missed a call. The league officials also missed it. Manure happens. Unless/until the NFL adopts the some kind of line monitoring system like pro tennis has, there are always going to be missed out of bounds calls.

Life is hard all over, but she's doing herself no favors with her shallow complaints. She's whining about annoyances not problems. Her husband's success has largely insulated her from the worse problems the spouses of pro athletes face, so suggesting she would face the same issues as the wife of a marginal NFL player is just bad taste. She may have some very real problems, but if she has them, she's not describing them in this article, which is fine because they may very well be personal ones that aren't anybody else's business. She just set herself up for criticism. Maybe it's the whole point of social media ... just to out there so people "talk" about you. It's like the old show business adage, "there's no such thing as bad publicity" updated for the 21st century.

That's a real possibility. Those two teams play physical on both sides of the ball, and they don't like each (division rivals), so they're both going to go all out to win this game. The winner may very well come out of this game physically hurting and mentally exhausted.

The Bills can't play Miami again unless Miami not only beats KC but also Baltimore, two teams that have already beaten them. If they get past the Chiefs, the Fish are not beating the Ravens because Miami not only has trouble beating good teams, they can't win against physical defenses, and the Ravens are notoriously physical. All their losses this year have been to teams with strong, physical defenses: the Bills twice, the Chiefs, the Eagles, the Titans, and the Ravens. The Browns have a chance to beat the Ravens, which would give the Bills home field advantage if the Bills take care of their business. The Fish don't.

Fixed that for you. 😁 I think that until the late third quarter -- or maybe even early in the fourth quarter -- the Fins only managed 1 first down in the second half. Especially when your team has been the division leader since September and was 3 games ahead of the Bills with 5 games left in the regular season. Totally agree. Winning in the playoffs usually depends upon a stout defense and a decent running game when all the opponents are good and playing conditions are frequently poor.

The Browns do NOT suck. They have an awesome defense and a great running game despite losing their best RB (Chubb) early in the season. They won games with a couple of other backup QBs before they signed Flacco, who has found the fountain of youth at age 39. Joe Flacco needs to play two more great/good games for them -- against Houston and against Baltimore -- to set up a Bills/Browns AFCCC game in HIghmark. I'm ready for that.

The Fish getting squished is always a good thing. Go, Chiefs!

Great defenses and great OLs travel better than great passing games, and that's especially true in the playoffs. It's no accident that the Browns continued to thrive despite losing their starting QB and their world-class RB because their defense and their offensive line are among the best in the NFL.

Yes, it was. I remember the pictures of the firetrucks and the firefighting equipment encased in ice.

And Chip Kelly proved once again that listening to the fans is such a smart move. // sarcasm off Revisionist history. McDermott didn't have much choice. Allen was definitely not ready to start an NFL game at the start of his rookie season. He wasn't ready to play QB in the NFL when he first replaced Peterman as a rookie. He didn't know what he was doing. After he was injured and forced to sit for a few games, he came back and played much better, but not particularly great. His leadership and running ability were his biggest assets. As somebody else posted, Allen didn't emerge as a quality NFL QB wasn't until part way through his third season (2020). More revisionist history. The Philly FO (Lurie and Roseman) fired Andy Reid and hired Chip Kelly because Reid went 4-12 in 2012 after going 8-8 in 2011 and making the playoffs in 2008-2010. They canned Kelly with one game remaining in his third season after the Eagles went 6-9 as HC.

Tonight, December 27, at 8:20 pm, the Buffalo Fire Department will mark the 40th anniversary of the death of five firemen in a massive propane explosion in a warehouse at North Division and Grosvenor Streets which was just east of downtown and just north of what is today Larkinville. At the time I lived in the Grant-Amherst neighborhood about 7 miles from downtown. The explosion shook my house. Two civilians, Al Arnold and his mom, Jessie, were also killed in the massive explosion. Al was a friend and classmate when we were at Buffalo State in the late 1960s and early 1970s, so this sad anniversary always hits me hard. Buffalo Propane Explosion

This isn't the same old Ravens. They got a new DC last season. It didn't seem to work out great because Lamar was injured a lot last season. The Ravens sent OC Greg Roman packing for this season and brought in Maunken (sp?) as OC and upgraded their WRs to improve the passing game. Lamar is no longer a running QB who can throw but a real good passing QB who can also run really well, much like Josh Allen.

I suspect that Quinn didn't change his defense because he simply couldn't believe that the Bills would continue to run the ball ... and run the ball ... and run the ball some more. On the fourteen play drive in the third quarter, the Bills ran the ball 13 times. In the 2020s, what team does that, especially when your QB is Josh Allen????

It's not just a Canadian "secret". The young woman whose murder inspired this documentary was from the Northern Cheyenne Reservation which is Montana. The last time I looked, Montana is a state in the United States. One thing to note is that your statement is a misogynistic and racist excuse to dismiss a serious problem that exists in the US. White women who are not involved in prostitution and/or drug trafficking go missing daily all over the US. Most are never found. Many of those whose remains are found are found years or decades later purely by accident. In my corner of New York State, Chautauqua County, there are three very well known cases of women who vanished in the last half century and have never been found: Patricia Laemmerhirt (1976), Lori Ceci Bova (1997), and Corrie Anderson (2008). All were white. None were involved in "dangerous lifestyles". Corrie Anderson was a librarian at Jamestown Community College with a little boy, whom she never arrived to pick up. Her "dangerous lifestyle" was probably having an ex-husband and living in a predominantly rural, densely forested area where bodies are easier to hide than in a more urban or suburban area. This is nothing but more racist bull manure.

The game is supposed to be free on Amazon Prime.

I don't think Boyle is significantly better than Wilson but maybe for 1 game he can play just well enough to inspire the Jests D. If they can get after Tua, they might have a chance.

IMO it's pretty clear that the Jests don't have much of anything in Wilson. If he wasn't a #2 overall pick, he'd be a third stringer ... or hanging out on a practice squad. The more he plays, the clearer it becomes that he lacks the intangible traits a successful NFL QB needs. I think the reason that OJ is in the HOF is that he was inducted long before he murdered 2 people. Rose wasn't yet in the HOF when he was charged with cheating.

Talk about allowing an inmate to run the asylum: the Jests hired Rodgers' buddy, Hackett, to run the offense and Cobb and Lazard to play WR. Of course they'll keep Aaron's fanboy.

The problem with this line of thinking is that it's likely that in a few more weeks there will be no point in Rodgers coming back this season. Wilson is simply awful, and his play has deteriorated over the last 2 games. There have been several unheralded rookie and/or UDFA QBs making their first few starts in the NFL this season who have played with more savvy than Wilson. Half way through his third season with 29 starts, he's no better at sensing pressure, at making good decisions, at seeing the field, etc than he was as a rookie -- and he wasn't very good then. My guess is that the decision to continue to start Wilson comes from significantly higher up the corporate food chain than HC Salah.