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Inigo Montoya

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  1. Three Colts in this game were pivotal in helping the Bills walk away with a victory today even though the Bills didn't play a very good game. These mistakes by the Colts are the kinds of mistakes the Bills used to make during the Drought that allowed them to repeatedly tear defeat from the jaws of victory.  It's nice to finally be on the other side of the fence on those game altering plays.

     

    1.  Frank Reich,  coach for the Colts, passes on a chip shot 22 yard field goal to go up 13-7 with 1:52 left in the first half.  He decides instead to go for it on 4th and 4 and the Colts turn over the ball on downs.   The Colts drive deep into Bills' territory comes up empty.  Josh then gets the ball back and marches 96 yards for a TD before half.

     

    2. Kemoko Turay, DE for the Colts, jumping off sides on that last Bills' drive of the first half with 37 seconds left on the clock.  The penalty on 4th and 3 gave the Bills an automatic 1st down when the entire universe and all parallel universes knew that Allen was just trying to get the Colts to jump Offside.  Instead of a 44 yard field goal try by Bass, the penalty leads to Allen's five yard rushing TD.  The Bills to go into halftime up 14-10 despite a rough first half of play. 

     

    3.  Rodrigo Blankenship, kicker for the Colts, boinks a 33 yard field goal off the upright taking three critical points off the board late in the 3rd quarter.  The Bills get the ball back and march down the field and score another TD on a gorgeous 35 yard strike to Diggs in the corner of the endzone and the Bills go up 24-10.

     

     

     

     

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  2. According to Weather.com the Bills will have near perfect weather for their first home playoff game in 20+ years.  32 degrees at kickoff, zero chance of precipitation, partly cloudy, and most importantly... winds at just 6 mph.  As good as it gets for Orchard Park in January.

     

    Let it rip Josh!!!

     

    https://weather.com/weather/hourbyhour/l/5c42bffa43df6982dc129049735910193259e13f1cf064308586bb9c73e6f515

     

     

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  3. It's a fair point and something I've thought about throughout this season.  The fact that Allen had a better road record last season played into the thought that he got too amped up at home and played a bit too manic at home, the Kyle Brandt "Sugar High Allen".   The lack of a crowd this year could have  let him focus more on the game and less on the atmosphere.

     

    We'll know that answer in 24 hours.

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  4. The measure of success in this League, ultimately, is winning playoff games and Super Bowls.  I love Josh Allen.  I think he has a higher ceiling than Mahomes.  I think he has the potential to win multiple Super Bowls.  Until Josh wins a Super Bowl and shows he can still excel when all the chips are in the middle of the table, Mahomes is still the better QB.  If Josh can grab a Lombardi this year or next then I think it's fair to look at this argument again. 

     

    Josh hasn't shown he can succeed at the highest levels of competition yet.  Here's to hoping Josh checks off that box emphatically this post season starting tomorrow.

  5. 15 minutes ago, Augie said:

     

    We moved to Sarasota, Fl in 1993 and there was a sports bar/meat market joint (Gecko’s in the Landings for the locals) that’s had just opened outside the neighborhood a few hundred yards away. I could walk it easily enough if that “was advised”. Our oldest was about 7 at the time. If I didn’t take him with me we would run down my wife and say “MOM! Dad forgot me!”, and the next thing you know the minivan pulls up to the sports bar. We start ‘em young! 

     

    Anyway, they would have raffles every quarter and they kept handing out tickets. I don’t know if it was rigged, but he won FAR more than he should have! He’d win Budweiser and tequila tee shirts, beer coolers, etc. I’d ask if they had anything more appropriate for a 7 year old, but rarely got anything better. My favorite was a tee shirt with a Gecko kicking a football thru the goal pasts and a caption that said “GECKO’S - the easiest place to score!”  What does that mean, dad?

     

    Great.......

     

     

    Another Great Moment in Parenting!   🤣

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  6. 1 hour ago, Max Fischer said:

    We should root for Daboll to get his dream job. He’s earned it. I ONLY want Daboll back if he chooses to stay and not because his success placed him at a disadvantage. To me, hoping he doesn’t get a job is like being happy someone’s car broke down and they can’t leave town. 


    Not long ago the Bills were one of those hopelessly dysfunctional teams. It’s what good coaches WANT to do. 

     

    3 minutes ago, atlbillsfan1975 said:

    Never been a big fan of holding anyone back from a promotion. Daboll deserves to be an NFL HC if that’s what he wants to be. Rooting against that is bad mojo. McDermott and Beane will figure out a new OC. 

     

    This is the way the coaching carousel works in the NFL.  A hundred different factors go into who gets a job each off season, and one of those factors is who is available to interview at the start of the off season, which for 18 teams, starts today.   The internet musings of one Inigo Montoya will have no karmic effect on what happens or doesn't happen to Mr. Brian Daboll.  I think it's fair for a fan of the Bills to hope that we can keep the band together for one more year if we don't win the Super Bowl this year.  I think it's inevitable that Daboll ends up a head coach, it's just my wish that he does it off the glory of a recently won Buffalo Bills Super Bowl.

     

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  7. NFL rules limit the ability of other teams to interview assistant coaches / coordinators if the coach's team is still in the playoff hunt.  If the Bills had earned a first round bye this year other teams could have interviewed Daboll during the bye week, so the lack of a bye week helps a bit in that regard.  If the Bills continue to win, the earliest any team can legally interview Daboll for a head coaching gig would be the two week period between the AFC Championship game and the Super Bowl.

     

    Let's hope that the Bills continue to win and that head coach needy teams start hiring head coaches ASAP so there are fewer partners left for Daboll once he can finally join the dance.  I would love to see Daboll back as the OC next year if we don't win it all this year.  Once we win a Super Bowl, I will officially give my blessing for Daboll to move on.  Until then, I want Daboll whispering in Josh's ear in Orchard Park on Sundays.

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  8. "Life is just a twisting, sucking, eddy of despair, occasionally highlighted by false hopes, in an ever darkening universe."  

     

    My best friend in basic training told me that one night and I have never forgotten it (he was quite the optimist😉).   Over the last two decades those words have been a succinct description of what it's been like to be a Bills' fan.  I'm not going to belabor the point of how bad it's been, we all have the scars to show for it. 

     

    What strikes me now after watching this season unfold is that for the first time in a long time I don't think this season represents a "false hope".  I truly believe that the Bills have turned the corner from being a perennially dysfunctional franchise into being a well run organization that should be able to have sustained success. 

     

    If you are under 50 you might not remember the dumpster fire that was the New Orleans Saints year after year.  Fans routinely showed up for "Aint's " games with brown paper bags over their heads.  The Tampa Bay Bucs were another model of dysfunction.  |They were historically bad.  For years and years they lost week in and week out.  In the first twenty years of the franchise they had seventeen seasons with six or less wins.  The Saints and the Bucs were just horrible. 

     

    Then something happened... Sean Payton and Mickey Loomis teamed up in New Orleans, and Tony Dungy and John McKay got together in Tampa.  They stopped the skid.  They drafted soundly.  They coached hard.  They changed the culture. They built professional football organizations from top to bottom.  They began to win.  They won Super Bowls.

     

    That is what I see happening now with Brandon Beane and Sean McDermott in Buffalo. They are working in concert.  They have the same philosophy of how to build a successful organization.  No detail is too small.  Every part of the organization is being optimized to strengthen the whole.  They are bringing in staff, coaches, and players who all are pulling on the rope in the same direction, and they are getting traction.  They have stopped the two decades long skid. 

     

    The Buffalo Bills have become a model NFL franchise. How long has it been since we could say that?

     

    I think we have a real shot to win a Super Bowl this year, but even if we fall short, I would be shocked if this organization doesn't win a Super Bowl in the next three years.  I think we are set up as a franchise with the Pegulas, Beane, and McDermott to enjoy a sustained period of competitiveness in the NFL.  I think we will be a franchise that is consistently at the top of the NFL.  After so many years of wandering in the desert, I think the Bills have finally arrived.

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  9. I think Belichick was upset because he just got humiliated on national TV.  Making things worse is that he knows he is going to be coaching the third best team in the division for the foreseeable future, and there's not a damn thing he can do about it.

     

    That BB press conference was the cherry on top of a fabulous Monday night.

     

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  10. 1 minute ago, TBBills said:

    Who cares about what people on this forum will do.

     

    My point is the same people advocating on this thread that the Bills play to win a meaningless Week 17 game will suddenly forget that opinion and nuke McDermott for being stupid enough to play Allen in a meaningless game.   

     

    The chance of the Bills winning a single playoff game without Allen is <5%.  

     

     

  11. If Josh Allen gets injured playing in a meaningless Week 17 game against the Dolphins, every post on this message board will be dropping napalm on McDermott.  If there is nothing to play for, let the starters get in for a series, and then sit them just like last year. 

     

    We didn't lose the Houston game because the starters rested the week before.  We came out hot and got on top of the Texans early and only a comedy of errors and bad officiating cost us the game.  

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  12. 1 minute ago, Bangarang said:


    The Pats like to play 6 DBs a lot so they can be run on. We were successful running the ball last time. I say we attack their weakness.

     

    I'd go four or five wide and let Josh pick them apart until Bill cries uncle.  I trust our wide outs to get a step of separation off the line.  I trust Josh to make the right read and put the ball where it needs to go.  Bill would like nothing better than to take the ball out of Josh's hands. We need to try and stop him from doing it.

     

    Just one man's opinion. 

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