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    Anyone Else Having Trouble Dealing with this Success?

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    1 hour ago, Shaw66 said:

    I have to say I find myself not knowing how to deal with success.  

     

    I can't remember what it was like 30 years ago when the Bills last were a good team.  I don't remember how I felt or I behaved.  

     

    I've spent 30 years wanting the Bills to be good again, and the early indications are that it is happening.  They could collapse, of course, but I believe McDermott knows what he's doing, and he's building a serious winner.  But as the national media begin to notice the Bills, I don't know if I want or like the attention.  

     

    On one of the games last night, one of the announcers said something like "Don't leave Buffalo out of the conversation.  Buffalo is for real."   Something.  I heard it and realized it was the first time I'd heard a genuinely positive comment about the Bills, a full-fledged statement that the Bills are among the best, since the early 90s.   It sounded so unusual, and I realized that I didn't know how to react to it.   A few years ago, I was thrilled just to hear an announcer say the Bills could be trouble for some teams.  But this was different.  This was a statement to the effect that the Bills could beat anybody.  I didn't know how to take it.  

     

    Then I pick up my local paper, which covers the Jets, Giants and Pats, and there's an AP article about how there's an offensive explosion going on in the NFL, and the accompanying photo is an action shot of Josh Allen.   In the article, Jon Gruden says this:  "You watch Buffalo's offense, they can do a lot.  The quarterback can complete passes left-handed.  The guy's a beast standing back there.  They got a pretty good attack."

     

    I find myself hoping friends won't ask me about the Bills, because I don't know what to say.  One thing I do say is, "I told you this was happening."   But then I quickly add, "they aren't good enough yet."  It's like I don't know how to deal with the success.  It was much easier when no one had any expectations for the Bills; losses weren't disappointing then.   But now if they lose, people will want to know what happened, or people will say, "see, same old Bills."  It all feels so strange. 

     

    This is going to take some getting used to.  

    I made an agreement with myself that I won't pay for Sunday Ticket and/or other way of watching the Bills because there have been so many times where they started hot out of the gate and then fell flat, it reminded me of Lucy and the football (and I was Charlie Brown in this narrative).  Now I tell myself I will invest in an AFC East shirt/sweat shirt if they win but in the interim I will try to remain optimistic.  Maybe I am being a jerk, maybe(definitely) I have BBFS.  It is what it is.

    Week 4: Bills at Raiders

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    14 minutes ago, Warcodered said:

     

    With the Rams we were the home team so we get a bump for that. This week we're around the same despite the Raiders getting a bump.

    Obviously Vegas and pretty much everyone else knows more than I about the NFL but  I guess I expected the bills to be favored by more points.

    Week 4: Bills at Raiders

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    Maybe someone can answer this for me.  It seems that the point spread is the same as it was with the Rams yet it also seems like the Raiders don't get anywhere near the respect that the Rams do.  Is it home field advantage or that the Rams were not too long ago a SB team or something else?

    Can someone explain the Josh Allen hate from Bomani Jones and Dominique Foxworth??

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    On 9/14/2020 at 10:47 PM, Special K said:

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    These guys were complete jerks towards Josh Allen, and this isn't the first time they've done this to him.

     

    I will never watch this show again when these two clowns are on it.....complete garbage from these guys!!

     

    I think Bills Mafia need to get on these guys twitter accounts and let them know what we think of their opinions of Josh Allen!

    At least they describe themselves accurately, as "highly questionable."

    Will this Rams team be the best team McDermott beat?

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    17 hours ago, Giuseppe Tognarelli said:

    To be fair, I think the Cowboys and the Eagles are probably significantly better overall than the Jets and Dolphins, although you could argue that the Eagles and Dolphins are roughly equivalent. Cowboys definitely > Jets, though.

    While I agree with you last year the Jets beat the Cowboys 24 to 22.  That plus the T-day bills/cowboys game make me wonder how the divisions play against each other.  But maybe I am just looking for some reason to be optimistic.

    Week 3: Rams at Bills

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    5 minutes ago, MiltonWaddams said:

    Would you say that you were impressed by the strength of the Bills opponents in week one and two? We are all looking for an easy opportunity to say this is a win, but there is no easy opportunity. That Rams team has picked apart their opponents in week one and two. They have looked strong on both sides of the ball regardless of who they were playing. It won’t be an easy win, if it’s a win at all.

    I remember the Jets demolishing Dallas last year, so while I agree the Bill's opponents were not great I think the overall level of parity in the league makes things hard to predict.

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