CincyBillsFan

The importance of this game is that if they can't win the division the Bills want the 5th seed. As good as the wildcard teams are likely to be it's not out of the question that division winners are going to lose home games this playoff season.

Agree. Strength of schedule numbers are why analytics doesn't really work very well in football. As you point out playing the Bengals with Chase, Higgins & Burrow is a lot different then NE playing them without Chase & Burrow. And that Raven team week one was a completely different beast from the injury ravaged Baltimore team later in the season. My guess is that Simms can't abide how the Bills are building their roster around Allen.

Agree. It's one thing to lurk and see what other fans are saying about your team but it just seems rude to actually post on another fan thread.

Nothing would be my guess beyond his secretly hoping for a rematch in the playoffs. The bigger question would be what happened to Diggs psyche last season when he was recovering from a season ending injury and Allen was leading the Bills to the AFC Championship game and collecting an MVP along the way.

I don't know if this is common for other teams but it seems excessive this season for the Bills.

I was at Jungle Noise and a Bengal's fan posted what I thought was a great description of the Brown family business: Yes…I am concerned but there are people who post that call him a cry baby, spoiled and entitled. Joe is the best the Brown family will ever get and they are pissing it away. The Brown family reminds me of a family who cannot manage their family finances well and end up receiving government assistance (NFL profit sharing) All of a sudden the family wins the lottery (Joe Burrow) and they piss the money away because they do not know what they are doing spending the lottery winnings partying and buying useless items. Eventually the family ends up bankrupt. It is a damn same Joe’s career is heading down this trajectory and it is because of the Brown family. Screw you Katie and Mike. You have no business owning a team.

Another factor is downfield blocking. Did people notice that on Allen's 40 yard TD run as he broke into the open the new WR Cooks blocked his cover guy all the way into the end zone.

Benford had the better day but in order for him to win two weeks in a row I suspect that they needed to see historic numbers by him.

In Ohio they broadcast the High School football championship games live (7 division so 7 games over a 3 day period) and I remember him QBing a small HS having an amazing game in a tight loss. I remember thinking that I had never seen a HS school kid with so much zip AND accuracy on his throws.

And Tampa Bay did it in 2021 winning three straight road playoff games to make the SB which ironically was a "home game" for the Bucs.

If the Chargers go 2 - 2 to close out the season I would be surprised. At KC, Denver and Dallas and home against Houston.

Agreed. It has all the fascination of a car wreck along the side of the highway. Hurts has 3 TO's and Herbert has 2 TO's in the first half.

So did Hurts just get credited with an INT and a lost fumble on one play?

Damn, the Eagles just look off.

You are right, the O line and Cook are elite. But if they didn't have Allen and even with a star DE as a result of the CAP savings, the Bills are a 500 team.

To be fair I think not having Bishop on the field for that drive was the main cause of this. Bishop has improved so much and is playing at such a high level that having him out of the lineup for that one drive was very noticeable.

More accurately they gave our defense fits.

This is a fair question and points to the defensive game plan preparation. There is no doubt that in most of the Bills games this season - wins or losses - the D plays much better in the 2nd half. They need to fix this or thy will be one and done in the playoffs.

That was a bad throw by Mahomes, behind Kelce and into a whole lot of traffic.

Wow, all the luck KC has accumulated over the years in winning these close games has evaporated this season.

In what alternate universe is Collinsworth inhabiting to say that Stroud is having a good game?

Agree. I think this is a case of an offensive minded coach not appreciating that he's in a field position, defensive game.

The best form tackle I've seen during the last 10 years was the one where Cooper DeJean did that exact same thing to King Henry. Now that was impressive.

Here's to hoping that Drake Maye is more Stroud then Allen!

I just didn't want to get put in TO again. I know I should be rooting for the Chiefs from a 2025 playoff picture but to me preserving the Bills as the only team to go to 4 straight super bowls trumps that. Go Texans.