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Refs called 2 holds and a false start on a 3 and out drive and people here are complaining about the refs.

People keep saying this here, but the two Super Bowl teams from last season are a combined 15-3 and alone in first place in their respective conferences even though neither seem to be playing to their full potential yet.

Problem is KC made the Super Bowl in 2019, 2020 and 2022. Bengals made the Super Bowl in 2021.

There's a really high chance that he does hit FA. The Chiefs let Charvarious Ward walk two seasons ago because they couldn't afford to keep him, and Sneed is going to get a massive contract. He's a top 10 CB in the league even though he never gets the recognition in the media. He's very good in coverage, but he's elite in run support and blitzing from the slot. Plus he can play the boundary reasonably well. I'm not sure how the Chiefs will be able to afford him. I guess it's possible that the league undervalues him as much as the media does and the massive offers don't come, but that's mostly wishful thinking on my part.

You were really close to nailing it, but then you went the opposite direction. There were 6 star players on the field Sunday night, and 2 of them were wearing blue. The last thing Buffalo wants to do is get into a track meet against the Bengals. The Bills defense is spending a ton of snaps on players who were intended to be their depth. Now you want them to extend the number of possessions and wear down their defense even more? Cincy’s offense against Buffalo’s defense is a mismatch. Even if you’re convinced that Buffalo’s offense has an edge over Cincy’s defense, the gap isn’t nearly as wide. The more possessions in the game, the larger the advantage the Bengals have.

He gets paid either way, though. If his playing days are effectively over, why in the world would he want to take one dime less that’s he’s currently guaranteed?

Why would White take an injury settlement?

Tear it down, eat as much crap in 2024 as possible in terms of cap hits, and start the rebuild in 2025. If McBeane had banked a championship already, they could have done it this year before the hole got too deep. Because they didn’t have that luxury, they were forced to push in good money after bad in hopes of getting lucky and winning with a bad hand.

The live odds had Buffalo with a 22% chance prior to the fumble and 10.4% after.

Anyone who thinks it was a clear catch should never complain about officiating again because your vision is so clouded by homerism that you have no idea what you're watching.

This is the key right here. In the 5 seasons since the 2018 draft in which the Bills were sitting on a pile of draft capital due to the Mahomes trade, who are the 5 best players Beane has picked? You're looking at names like Oliver, Rousseau, Dane Jackson (?), Kincaid (?), Bass... If anything, McDermott deserves credit for keeping it together as well as he has. That is an abysmal record, and if he hadn't taken Josh 6 years ago he'd have been sent packing by now. The lack of young talent and athleticism last night compared to the Bengals was striking.

Incredible hands not to bobble it when the defender hit the ball.

That’s basically jet lag on steroids.

Looked like it hit the ground, but no pellets popped up. Not sure how you overturn it.

Burrow about got his head ripped off there.

They are looking for Poyer and just abusing him.

Literally every single play is a cavalcade of posters calling for or complaining about flags. It’s ridiculous.

He got clowned by a blocking TE. That was awful.

This defense is just too slow. It’s like they’re running in mud.

How is that Dorsey’s fault that a traffic cone would be more effective than Brown?

Brown is a disaster.

Yikes, that fingernail is gnarly looking.

Lou baited him into that one. Josh was completely fooled from the start. He didn’t trust his eyes, but he double clutched and threw it anyway.

They are targeting Poyer, and it doesn’t matter who his man is.

Welp