LDD

Great summary... Absolutely the BEST thing to happen to the Bills was to get their first playoff win with a group of young guys in a gut wrenching game against a good team that came down to the last play. That's playoff experience. Beating a team handily does not happen often in the playoffs. The closeness of this game also highlighted Josh's talent and put him solidly at the top of the league for the position. If you're going to win the Superbowl, you need that guy. We have him. Two things on defense... 1.) Poor tackling on defense allowed multiple big plays to develop. Many of the longer runs should have been stopped much earlier. This D was not communicating and was not "flying around" like they have been. 2.) Lack of a consistent pass rusher is evident. We have to fill that hole. A team can get away with blitzing lesser teams and look good. As soon as you start blitzing a good line with a good QB, you are exposed. We have to be able to rush 4 and get pressure. It was always the key to beating Brady and it's a key to beating good teams with good offensive units. And...special teams 3.) Besides Bass, we lost on special teams. That doesn't usually happen to us, but it did yesterday. We are in a great spot. This team saw the reality of playoff football yesterday and they will now take that experience into the divisional round. Go Bills!!

Tyler Bass was the difference (score wise) in this game! Congrats kid!!

And that inequality may be happening. I don't know. If section 230 is repealed these platforms will have no recourse but to police ALL instances of the incitement of violence for which they would be liable.

I fully expect that to happen once he becomes a private citizen. If the networks don't deem him 'newsworthy' then he won't be. They have never deemed me 'newsworthy' and my rights aren't being infringed.

There was never an expectation of free speech in this country that you could say whatever you wanted to say when you utilize public forms of communication. The FCC has regulated the airwaves for many years. Newspaper editors have ALWAYS screened 'letters to the editor' of their papers because they would then be 'liable' for what was printed there. Currently, section 230 places no liability on large media platforms and they are left to police themselves. Twitter is, I'm sure, a bit scared that they could be entangled with a very large investigation by the FBI into the origins and perpetrators of the coup attempt on our country that happened on January 6th. If you equate their actions with other forms of traditional media (newspapers, TV, magazines etc...) their actions are a necessary part of their responsibility. Make no mistake, the FBI is conducting a wide ranging investigation into this very serious matter. Conflating the instigator of this national tragedy, Donald Trump, with all conservative political thought is misleading and disingenuous. They have not 'silenced' conservative thought. Rather, they have silenced the instigator of a national tragedy. If this happens again it will only be worse. If Twitter had not taken steps to do this then future spilled blood would surely be on their hands. Beyond monetary implications for Twitter, I'm sure their lawyers are telling them that the FBI could come at them for being complicit in an insurrection of the US government and that people could go to jail. Donald Trump can have a news conference at any point and literally say anything he wants to say to the entire world.

And the rich get richer...oh wait, WE'RE THE "RICH" THIS TIME AROUND!!

For sure, my point is that it was particularly important for this specific crisis because of the importance of masking and distancing, which was only going to be effectively achieved for portions of the population with strong messaging from the top. It was an abject failure, especially in rural areas where Trump is popular, masks are not, and the effect of covid is great.

Ahhhh...thanks for the heads up.

HAHAHAHA!!!!. No, not kidding. Pick a topic of national importance that was "handled correctly" and you'll see that there was a concerted effort by the leadership in charge at the time (dems, repubs, military, local, whatever) to create a specific atmosphere around the handling of the crisis and that it was consistent from the beginning and lasted throughout the duration. When you are the leader of a nation as large, powerful and great as the United States you must be consistent in your messaging and actions. This is one of Donald Trump's greatest failures. He is highly inconsistent with his messaging and actions.

Great leaders create an "atmosphere" around a subject or a cause. The fact that we are all still fighting about this pandemic 10 months out should tell you all you need to know about how it was "handled" at the top.

Man man cop

Two things reasonable human beings do here are: Don't send a cop into the locker room of an NCAA team celebrating a national championship. Don't smack a cop in the a$$. Therefore, if someone (the cop himself or his supervisor) is stupid enough to send the cop into the locker room for no reason at all, then there will be someone in the locker room stupid enough to slap his @ss. This is completely an avoidable situation.

Oh I like this...

I watch a lot of NFL football. I watch a lot of Bills football. We have had terrible QBs for years, because of no IT> Multiple teams this year have played backups due to injury, etc...I've seen no IT. in those players..Josh Allen has all of IT!! Stuff that is un-coachable. Today's example is something that cannot be taught. A player has IT, or he doesn't. Josh has IT and I'm real happy to be a Bills fan right now!

A beat down...after the first possession we were in TOTAL control the whole game. This was a signature Bills 2019 win through and through, as in, we did what we have done all year. First half was close, felt like we should have been up more but leading at the half. Second half was COMPLETELY controlled by us. This game could have been any of our wins, except we pulled out the trick play and had some turnovers which lead to 10 more points. We shoved it down Jerry's throat today Bills fans. Relish the moment! GO BILLS!! McD has a program and I'm excited to see this team play one of the premier teams in the league next week.

Is this really a conversation? We post here because we are FANS...if people want to show up to congratulate the team on a great win, on a big holiday, that was accomplished in front of a national audience...they would show up because they are FANS! It's what FANS do! GO BILLS!

We will eat at 3. Majority of family are football fans but not Bills fans. The core is Bills mafia though. It should get chippy.

My uncle is a big PSU fan. He randomly still sends me PSU articles about Maybin and what a great human being he is. Apparently he's a school teacher now or something. I don't care and the articles only dredge up bad memories...it's pathetic and my uncle is still apologetic about the whole ordeal...like he had something to do with it.

1.) If you think Mason Rudolph looks like the "real deal" you haven't been actually watching Stiller games. 2.) JA would benefit greatly from the advice and mentoring of a veteran QB...bring in Fitzy 3.) JA has intangibles you cannot teach, that's what makes great quarterbacks. He is advancing in every category but the long ball and his gun slingership, which they have neutered out of him.

Agreed, we don't have big play guys on either side. Even the 3-4 Steelers have multiple IMPACT players...Smith-Schuster, Watt, Fitzpatrick, Connor. We need those guys if we are going to take it to the next step. Who was the defensive player on Sunday that you had faith in to change the outcome of the game when things were going poorly? Or, the offensive player that could 'break it" at any moment? Yeah, I can't think of him either.

Value run thumper for the middle with a mid round pick because we have officially been exposed there. Other than that, save picks.

I think that we had the wrong defensive approach with Fitz. He's at this worst when there is a closing pocket but a clearly defined pocket, we left too many running, scrambling lanes and did not contain the pocket. A four man rush that contains and pushes the pocket, hands up, and a flooded zone usually has Fitzy forcing the ball and becoming frustrated. This does not account for them being able to run it down our throats however, which they did.

The only real hole in his game yesterday was the lack of his ability to hit the long ball. Based on his ability, I fully believe that Josh will develop this accuracy. He needs about 1000 more practice throws to figure out the correct launch angle on those throws. He's stuck throwing the ball too flat, looks like he needs more air under it. Although, part of me wants him just to throw it on a rope 50 yards, which I think he could easily do. But, it would be a tough ball to catch.

No, if that pass had more steam and was perfectly thrown, the tragedy of Clay dropping it would have been magnified because he would have dropped it standing up in the end zone. Clay sucks.

This unstable behavior is symptomatic of CTE...