The Red King

Hey, can't hold anything against Cincy or KC. We beat ourselves last week. Maybe seeing Cincy make it to the big one, and realizing how close they were before blowing it will motivate the Bills next season. Congrats, Cincy! Beating Tenn on a last-second field goal, then KC on an OT field goal...both on the road. You earned it.

SB XXV hurt worse, but that is the only game in my 47 years on this Earth that did. A legendary effort by Allen pissed away by a defense that should be nicknamed "The Red Carpet". One stop, one big play, anything! Hope it's a cold, painful flight back for those pretenders on D. They should give their paychecks back because they sure as hell didn't show for the game.

Holy...should have been doing this the whole time! Now c'mom D, suck it up!

D can't stop them, and Allen's hands are tied tight. Wonder if this will get them untied. Playing way too scared.

No deep passing, bad play calling, and the refs tipped their hand on who's supposed to win. Unless something changes, we're done.

Consistancy is one. If we can get Sat.'s Allen most every game the Bills will be near unstoppable. He's had trouble staying consistant this year. The other is leading game-winning drives in close games. Which is odd because he's excelled at this in other seasons.

The ref needed the ball and did everything he could to get to it. The Cowboys knew that, and Dak gave the ball to his center instead. The poor ref had to squeeze himself between two linemen who did not move to let him past, and still looked like he was doing everything he could to let Dallas get the spike. The Cowboys made every mistake on that play and did nothing to help the ref help them. No sympathy here.

Yep... Scroll down a lil on page one for a screencap of the aforementioned poll.

And the preseason before. NFL.com had a poll for best AFC team. The options were KC, Baltimore...and Cleveland. And the preseason before that. The press has ordaned Cleveland the best AFC team each preseason since they got Mayfield.

Top seed matters. A week to rest, one less game to win to get to the Super Bowl, and home field throughout the playoffs. That doesn't mean much?

Every preseason the press annoints the Browns AFC Champions before a single game is played. Love seeing the press with egg on their face later on. XD

What we did to the Dolphins is what the Pats should have done to them. Any given Sunday.

Here's the fun part...we can root for who we want to. It's nice to know what affects what, but in the end our rooting interests don't actually influence other games. Those that want to root one way to try and get to the #1 spot can. Those that want to root for different outcomes to consolidate #3 or such can. We don't have to agree because in the end all our rooting for any non-Bills game doesn't amount to a hill 'o beans. So all you all just root how you want...except for the Bills...root for the Bills!!!...and see how this weekend turns out. No use turning on one another for not rooting the same way you do...unless you root against Buffalo...that's a hangin' offense. 😉

Alright, crazy question, what if the Bills catch both the Titans and Chiefs, leading to a three-way tie? Assuming the losses for the Titans and Chiefs lose in-conference all three would have identical Conference records. If I'm right, Titans beat both the Bills and Chiefs, and so come out on top. Bills then beat KC, so they come in second, KC in third? What if Cinci makes it a four-way tie? Does Cincy get top based on Conference record, then Titans, Bills and Chiefs for reasons listed above? Trying to wrap my head around it. What if NE beats Miami and we lose to the Jets? How does that play out? Head-to-Head and division record are tied. Would it come down to conference record, or common games? ...my head hurts. 🤔

But...but...won't this ruin our playoff positioning...and...who we play first? What were we thinking? This is a disaster!!! 😉

I've stopped watching the regular season games. I still follow them, watching gamecast on ESPN while doing something else. Now if it's a vital game, like playoffs are on the line or it's a postseason game, I'll watch. It's helped. Was bummed over the Bucs game, but I know I would have blown a blood vessel and screamed myself hoarce had I actually watched it. The lows of the season hit me harder then the high points.

Not Christmas yet, but Merry Christmas all you wild, crazy peeps! 🍰

The Omicron variant is milder, but spreads like wildfire. Nothing to do with his immune system. Where Omicron become a threat is in those who are high risk and/or immuno comprimised. That's the danger it poses. Not to the normal people that catch it, but the ease they can pass it to the truly vulnerable, given how easily it spreads. Not going to comment on vaccination. Just wanted to explain why Omicron is a serious threat despite it being milder in most people that catch it. I have a bit of a stake in this. My god-daughter has a compromised immune system, and this terrifies me.

Two thoughts, this is all about pressuring the non-vaxed, and preventing cancelling/postponing games at this point in the season. Could you imagine the rampage that would happen if Allen was somehow pulled from the upcoming big Bills/Pats divisional game? Rodgers from a NFC Championship game against TB? Mahomes in a playoff game? NFL nightmare scenario. Not arguing any side of the vax arguments, as it's not the issue. Safety isn't, either. This is all about keeping the season flowing.

2? Bills hold the tiebreaker with KC. While highly unlikely, Buffalo could snag the #1 seed.

We played Tampa @ Tampa, fought them to overtime, and lost because we got screwed by the refs. We underacheived against Carolina, and secured a win that keeps our playoff hopes squarely in our hands. Would you have prefered a performance like last week, with the same outcome? We won. I feel far better then I would have if they had lost.

Hardly Jello. Lemmie short form it. NFL isn't outright scripted, but the NFL has preferred outcomes. The refs can nudge games by making one-sided calls. Doesn't help if one team is stomping the other, but in close games like the Tampa one, it can very much sway it. It's no more unreasonable a theory then yours, which is "Multiple professional refs saw a blatent penalty at a critical moment, and not a single one threw a flag because gross, mass incompentance." But, we're at an impasse. Neither is going to sway the other, and the repeated hostility in your replies suggests this thread is not good for your temperment, so I'm going to bow out. Good day, sir.

Sadly, the NFL isn't as worried about losing ad views from fans of small-market teams. Now fans of, say, Tampa...

If the Bills win their remaining 4, and the Pats lose to the Bills and win their other 2, Bills win tiebreaker due to divisional record. Bills control their destiny atm.

My dad always used to say, "If you can't beat the best, you don't deserve to be called the best." He was never in favor of losing games to fish for better match ups, in football or hockey.