SF Bills Fan

We had a few in my neighborhood growing up. Wray Carlton of the great 60's Bills teams was one of them. He may still be there in Eagle Heights in OP for all I know.

I watched the game yesterday with as much enthusiasm as I would have for professional bowling. I use the term watched loosely. The outcome tells me nothing about how things will go starting in 3 weeks.

I think it’s one continuous window that will be open for another decade. We were just not lucky that the Chiefs happen to be good and have all the blessings. They won’t stay on top forever. If our D improves we will get our shot. I bet we win 2 Super Bowls over the next 5 years. We’ve been 1 bad call or bad bounce away from going to the Super Bowl. We’ll get our chance.

I am convinced that Josh Alan will get a Super Bowl sometime in the next few years maybe even this year. In my opinion, going to the Super Bowl four times in a row and not getting a trophy is worse.

We are cursed and this talk will help jinx us.

I can't believe the first pre-season game is here. Snuck right up. I am not sure I am mentally prepared for the season yet.

Love this!

I see no moat, so I gotta pass.

Definitely reinforces Josh as MVP choice. Tom Brady rarely had great receivers. Mahommes does great with decent, but not great WR room. Good QBs make the WRs around them good. I think the philosophy that "everyone eats" with the Bills is the way to go.

I met him at the same tournament when it was year two with the Bills. I saw him in the casino and on the course. I had a hunch as to where he would be and timed it right and ran right into him. When he got done playing he made a bee line right over to me since I was wearing a Bills hat. At the time he was far from the MVP of today and while recognized, he was not swarmed. He was the nicest guy and took time to chat. you could tell he was different than most celebs and players. I remember joking and asking if he had 30 TDs in his arm for the coming year and he said "No- I got 35" and I could tell he meant it. Anyway, that next year I think he had 37. He really is a great person. If you have young kids and they want to meet Josh Allen, that is the place to do it. You are mere feet away from tons of celebs throughout the day. Some are more much more fun and interactive and approachable with the fan than others. Some approach you. Sean Payton saw me drinking a beer and walked up and asked if I had another for him, which of course I did. I talked with Al Michaels while he paused on the course while the group ahead finished. It's that kind of atmosphere.

This means it'll end up being someone like the Bengals, Rams or Lions.

Ha! Sadly, this might not be inaccurate.

If the D is vastly improved, we will have a good shot. We score enough points.

I like Chelsea which makes me seem like I'm aligned with an evil empire along the lines of the Pats and Chiefs. The Bills are definitely in the category of several teams mentioned above here, Spurs, Newcastle and Everton. They have a decent chance to break out of the hard luck mob, though.

Lots of teams have bad seasons and use the draft picks to get out of it and back on track. Those 2-14 seasons helped us get together the team that went to 4 Super Bowls in a row. I'd take two terrible years followed by great success as opposed to 17 years of being bad, but not bad enough to get the top QB or impact players to get back on track. We were cursed with a range bad or mediocre 6 to 9 win seasons for 17 years. Piddled around with guys like Maybin and let the Pats roll all over us.

Baltimore. Chiefs are starting to fade, but Baltimore are formidable and got better in the draft. It was a miracle we beat them in the playoffs. Bengals are dysfunctional with bad ownership that won't spend money and Burrow is fragile.

I get what your are saying- he told me this long ago when Marcellus was playing for us. It stuck with me, though. Every time I've seen him on TV since it pops in my head.

My who buddy played football with him at Columbia and said that the take back the night vigil at Columbia was referred to by some as Marcellus Wiley Night.

He deserves every penny- without Josh Allen we would be on Miami level. Solid but just not there.

The Bills would have played a better game but still lost. I could see us losing 37-24 but our points would have been consistent and not all at the end in garbage time. Baltimore and Bengals all would have lost as well. The Eagles were the top team all year. People were bought into the Chiefs aura and the Lions love. The Chiefs were not the top team from the AFC and last night the smoke machine ran out and the mirrors all got cracked.

Bills 42-20

It's not just the bad calls that go against the opposing team, it is the lack of holding calls on the line and in their secondary. Their secondary is handsy. If there is no call early, they know they will get away with it. If it gets called early, they know the refs are not favoring them and they are in trouble.

I think the Ravens are better than the Chiefs. We got the bounces yesterday. We should beat the Chiefs even without the multiple turnovers. My only concern is it’s in their stadium and the refs can help them with bad calls or non calls on their holding etc.

When they scored I immediately said that I was glad it happened that fast as it gave us plenty of time to go score a FG. I firmly believe that we would have gotten into range since Allen would have played lights out and you don’t need to go that far 35-40 yards. My concern was- will Bass make it?

He probably catches that two point conversion 99 out of 100 times. The football gods liked us today.