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Can’t remember where I saw this but apparently the Steelers facility is attached to a very cutting edge medical imaging center where they could easily use an ultrasound when they do injections like that and I guess they just don’t? I don’t know that it’s a tyrod Taylor type thing though

I think he’s saying if the pats lost earlier in the day to the jets falling to 11-5 we would just need to beat the jets week 18 and there’s no way the pats could jump us making the eagles game somewhat meaningless. The jets game is a must win even if we were to win the eagles game because we blow the division tiebreaker if we lose that one

It’s an interesting hypothetical but if NE drops three in a row i think it’s pretty likely we’re playing for the 1 seed in week 17 and 18. Also if we’re at 12-4 after beating the eagles and pats are 11-5 there’s still the small possibility both teams lose week 18 making that eagles win meaningful. In this reality the jets would’ve just beat the pats a few weeks before so they’re probably playing decent football 😂. Aah thinkin about this more I guess we’d have the division tiebreaker neutralized if we lost one division game and pats lost 3 more anyway makin the eagles game meaningless again haha still think the 1 seed philosophy will hold but that intentional loss argument as far as the division goes seems to check out

Oooh should’ve replied to this instead of posting separate lol the only above .500 teams the pats have beaten at the moment are panthers and bills. Only above .500 teams they’ve seen are pit,Carolina,Buffalo. If they lose the rematch with the bills I think there’s gonna be a lot of heat on the whole ‘who did they beat’ narrative because who really cares about the flukey less recent head to head with buffalo. If they win they will likely become a Super Bowl favorite. It’s pretty ironic really because on paper the game really doesn’t mean a whole lot…bills are very likely a playoff team still with a loss and pats are likely still winning the division with a loss. narrative wise it feels huge though. There’s gonna be a lottt of 2020 Steelers comparisons with NE if the bills win this one comfortably

Feels like just about every team that bills or pats fans tried to hype up their win over has become cursed 😂 Bucs loss tonight was wild. bills are down to just Steelers and panthers and pats are down to bills and panthers for wins over above .500 teams lol granted I’m not sure how to account for the burrow bengals the bills faced

The amount of above .500 teams the bills and pats have beat drops by another one 😂.

I think Denver is properly questioned and Jacksonville is getting slept on a bit personally I’ve seen Denver look bad for three quarters far too often to trust them at all.. their strength of victory is atrocious(worse than NEs even) and they just snuck away with a lot of those wins. The Philly win is starting to lose its luster with Philly losing to a straight up injury decimated chargers team funny enough I think bills broncos jags are right in a row in the epa/play ranking 😂

I think the ravens know they don’t have the guys in the trenches to do anything meaningful this season so they aren’t playing super hard. Really wouldn’t even hate a ravens matchup barring massive changes in the last four games. If the bills finish 3-1 or better and the loss isn’t NE they’ll be a road favorite in any afc matchup imo

Could be hopium but ‘medical walking shoe’ sounds pretty minor to me

The statements are true but I think the context is lacking personally. Offense seems down league-wide and I think the bills are in as good or better of a position than they’ve ever been compared to their playoff counterparts seems like parity really beat up all the top teams and the bills have done a pretty good job maintaining compared to the others.

Defensive stats are pretty much meaningless for the bills and pats imo. The schedules are just too easy to compare them one to one to some other teams. 10 of the pats games are against the: 32nd,31st,30th,29th,27th,26th,25th,23rd,22nd,21st offenses in the league and one of the others is the giants down their best receiver and running back. Bills had burrow,mahomes and Lamar on the schedule but it’s not like they played any good in two of those 3 games anyway and the rest is remarkably similar there’s a bigger schedule disparity on the offensive side though

Was just lookin at the stats for this and it’s wild…this year there’s 4 teams with over 370 total yards per game…last year there were 5,2023 there were 6,2022 there were 8, 2021 there were 9, 2020 there were 15! feels like offense has trailed off a bit each year and the empty stadiums in 2020 made it a lot easier on offenses on top of that

Probably the most realistic way…it’s not impossible bills finish 3-1 and pats 1-3 though pats schedule heats up a little bit down the stretch…jets are probably a free win but the other 3 you never know

Yea that could be true…probably some recency bias on my part. I was comparing to the bengals predictions in my head

This is honestly pretty surprising because I think we’ve got a 50/50 split on optimists vs pessimists haha feels like we haven’t had a majority picking the bills against a good team in awhile 😂

KC didn’t have much of a running game to protect those guys either. They saw a lot of light boxes and still didn’t run it super well

That dolphins game was the weirdest game I’ve ever seen lol not even sure how to quantify that one.. felt like we were getting destroyed but that josh 20 yard qb sneak fumble would’ve been us driving to cut the lead to 3 if he didn’t turn it over.. Felt like every time we got close we turned it over and one of those drives was like us driving the entire third quarter then turning it over in the end zone 😂 I think Kincaid probably has 50-60 receiving yards if he finished that one probably still a loss though.. I feel like it started pouring once we went down 16 which definitely did the passing game no favors

I think they can get by if Ed comes back and bosa is healthy but without those two pieces (and hoecht but we’ve only had him for 2 games really 😂) it becomes tough.

Totally get the ‘best ability is availability’ angle but I think Kincaid is tremendously underrated when playing if anything haha Feels like he draws double teams a ton,runs the deep routes everyone wants an outside wr for, and despite only getting 30-45% ish of the snaps he has been super impactful statistically. His production on a per snap basis has been kinda insane just for illustrative purposes not trying to say he’s better than Trey McBride but McBride has 937 receiving yards on 545 routes run. Kincaid has 489 receiving yards (more than half of McBride) on only 170 routes run (31% of McBrides routes). It’s not one to one like this but just for fun if you adjust kincaid’s production up to mcbrides route total he’d have 1500+ receiving yards lol

They’d give it to Stafford over Allen for ‘lifetime achievement’/voter fatigue reasons unless Josh has significantly better stats than Stafford even if he wins the division. the bills winning this pats game would probably spoil maye’s case against Stafford but it would still take a ton for Josh to jump Stafford. He might get some votes though

I do think some of that final bengals drive was bishop cramping but he could certainly cramp up down the stretch again lol

There were definitely passing game disasters in 2020 I just think people are more willing to overlook them if they get to watch a well oiled pass happy offense the rest of the time 😂 Tennessee and kc back to back were awful (kc especially was extremely humiliating), we almost lost to a cam newton led pats team not long after where Josh passed for under 160 , then we almost lost to a pretty bad chargers team where Josh passed for under 160 also. Ironically there were probably equally as many bad passing performances as this year against the same split of good/bad teams but we snuck out with wins in a few so nobody looks too close another interesting discussion point is I think there’s been a bit of a swing back towards defense since 2020 so who knows how big of an effect that is having. This year there’s 4 or 5 teams averaging over 370 yards per game and in 2020 it was half the league. It’d be interesting to average all teams output but offense seems to be way down

Josh definitely played himself into ‘most unbiased people know he’s the mvp but he won’t get it for technicality reasons’ territory but I’m not sure he’ll get much further than that Football is so crazy, we’re probably a Devon Achane toe away from us winning the division and Josh being the other guy neck and neck with Stafford in the mvp race lol it really is a game of inches. Achane just stepped out of bounds on what coulda been a game winning td against the pats a few months ago then the dolphins ended up turning it over on downs 😂

Funny enough I don’t think the chiefs have looked much worse this year than their 15-2 season last year or the season before that eye test wise they’ve just had polar opposite close game results. They didn’t really look ‘right’ last year either but still powered through (until the Super Bowl of course lol) KC is the 5th ranked offense and 7th ranked defense in ypg right now, 11th ranked offense and 7th ranked defense in points, and 6th in DVOA if you’re into the nerdy sh*t 😂 all of that is better than last season except for defensive ppg which is 0.2 higher I don’t think people really comprehend how random and unpredictable close game results are and the 2024 chiefs vs 2025 chiefs is the best example I’ve seen of that in awhile. its really kinda incomprehensible that they’re 6-7 unless Andy Reid’s contract with the devil expired 😂. They should be like an 8-5 team and should’ve been an 8-5 team at this point last year too

Depending on the convo you’re having sure…I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say the bills typically play good football in December/January and feeling optimistic about their chances against this playoff field based on that though. but obviously if the question is have they won anything the answer is definitely no lol. none of the other afc teams in the field have won anything recently enough to matter though. Heck 4 of the franchises have never won a superbowl at all