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Thankfully they lost but that was a gutsy performance by Mike White. Respect. He got punished out there as he took some tough shots. On the play that he was injured on, he was bent in half. Go Bills!

The Jets are a feisty team. But, the Bills know the stakes and know what time of year it is. They’ll be prepared to hold their lead in the AFCE as well as the #1 seed as they play the Jets. Last year, the Bills defense showed Mike White what a real NFL defense can do against him. I expect the same to happen this week as well. Tre has been playing solid since his return. I expect him to play most of the game (if not all of the game). Look for him to get his first INT of the year as well as lock down his side of the field. He’ll set the tone and be the first on defense to get an INT as Mike White has a multiple INT game. He’ll have Mike White regretting that he ever said he should’ve been a number one pick. Who ya got, Bills Mafia? Go Bills! Thanks for checking in, @Freddie's Dead. I appreciate it, bro.

Thanks for sharing, Big Turk. Yeah, I noticed they weren’t the highest point differential for this year currently. Hopefully they can get that back in the next couple weeks. It’s still very impressive to have the highest point differential by such a wide margin since 2020 compared to every other team. Go Bills!

The Bills point differential since 2020 is crazy insane. It's 444 points. The next closest team is the Chiefs at 307 points. That's a 137 point difference between us and them. The sixth highest team, the Packers, didn't even crack 200 points and the eleventh highest team, the Titans, didn't even crack 100 points. During this 45 game span, our offense has scored more points than any other team at 29.3ppg. Our defense has surrendered the least amount of points than any other team at 19.4 ppg. Talk about excellence and consistency (I realize we've still have had ups and downs but 45 games is a big sample size). Pretty awesome to be #1 in both categories over a 45 game span. Some may not see it because they analyze every game, every quarter, and some even analyze every play. That said when you step back and see the forest from the trees, it’s pretty evident that this excellence and consistency shows how great of a coaching staff and team we have. Enjoy the ride, Mafia. Go Bills! https://www.statmuse.com/nfl/ask/best-point-differential-by-team-since-2020

Against our Bills - 1-2 Against the Bengals - 0-3 Pretty terrible record for the supposed “team to beat” in the AFC. Obviously they’re very good but they’re very beatable too as their record against the Bills and Bengals indicate. Mahomes with a game sealing INT vs the Bills. Kelce with a game changing fumble against the Bengals. What a week: The Jets lose The Dolphins lose against Purdy boy The Chiefs lose their third straight to the Bengals AND most importantly, the Bills are the current #1 seed and control their own destiny again Welcome to December football, Mafia!

We did our part. Go Bengals! Even if it’s 4th and 12 with a minute left in the fourth quarter, take down the Chiefs. And of course, go Niners!

Three down, 15 or so to go. 😜🤣

Congrats on being right about Diggs. Big impact. So glad we have him. He’s a big part of the heart and soul of our team. Go Bills!

Pretty incredible considering the 20 years prior to the past three years. During this stretch, he has 15 TDs to one INT. There’s been two no punt games. There’s been a perfect offensive game. And, they’ve won three in a row at Gillette Stadium. Kyle Brandt said it best when he mentioned that BB has never had a great quarterback to go against in his division and now he does. Crazy that he really hasn’t had an answer for JA in the past three years. Even in the game that the Pats won, it wasn’t BB neutralizing JA it was the weather conditions. People just don’t typically do this to BB. I know a lot of this is Tom Brady related, but did Peyton Manning even have this good of a stretch against BB? Enjoy this three minute video of JA shredding the Pats over the last few games. Go Bills!

The first of three pivotal games that could end up deciding the AFCE. First up, the Pats. JA and Diggs typically show up big in these types of games. So, I'm going with Mr. Patriots killer, Stefon Diggs. I'll say 117 yards and a score or two. Diggs wills this team to victory by having another dominating performance against the Pats. He will not let the Bills start 0-3 in the division. One division foe down, two to go. Who ya got?

Bills at Pats - Let's go, Buffalo! Time to take the division back starting with taking down the P-Men! Chiefs at Bengals - Go Bengals! Get the Chiefs their 3rd loss. We all remember what happened last time we needed the Bengals help. I can't believe it's already been close to five years. The year we started our turnaround. The year before the draft of our franchise QB (just saw on a twitter feed from that day that someone suggested we sign Andy Dalton 🤣). It's the day that the world started to (re)notice the Bills Mafia. The day that the Bills made the playoffs after a 17 year drought and Bills Mafia found out that football miracles still happen. Still one of the best moments of my fandom and I've been a fan since 1988. I'll just leave these here. Go Bills (and for this week, go Bengals)!

While I wish that we had a healthy Tre and Von too, it’s more about the turf we played on than playing on Thanksgiving day.

Against the Cowboys in 2019: 19-24 for 231 yards with a TD (we all remember his never quit fourth down conversion) Against the Saints in 2021: 23-28 for 260 yards with 4 TDs and 2 INTs (dominating win) Against the Lions in 2022: 24-42 for 253 yards with 2 TDs and 1 INT (comeback win) 3-0 record on Thanksgiving, and even more impressive, all three games were on the road. Go Bills!

Yup, the 2-0 record is important. 6-3 to 8-3 just like that is great. To your point, championship teams have “don’t care how it looks” wins at times. During the Patriots dynasty, there were games where the Bills would play the Patriots tough and could’ve won, but the Patriots found a way to win.

One of my thoughts the past couple games has been, “I don’t care how it looks, just get the win”. Some of my reasoning for that has been the injuries. Yes, part of it could be a mid season funk (every team faces stretches), but we’re just so decimated by injuries right now. When you have the injuries we have, style points really don’t mean much. It’s just doing what you can to get the W and the bills have done that the past two games. With all the adversity they’ve faced the past week to come out of that 2-0 is a pretty good feat. Analysis is good, but when you’re so thin at so many key positions, you have to somewhat put down the analysis hat and be thankful for the win. Sometimes expectations are so high, it can be hard to see, but the 2-0 record is something to be proud of. If someone doesn’t think that injuries don’t play a major part of how they look, when relatively healthy, we have shown that not many teams can beat us. When we were healthy, we were either blowing out teams, or beating the likes of the chiefs or ravens on the road. Granted, everybody faces injuries at this time of the year, but we’ve had too many to just brush it off as next man up. At some point, the next man up just isn’t as good. Right when we were getting Jordan Phillips back, we lost Groot. Right when we were getting Milano back, we lost Tremaine. The game we get Tre back at some level, we lose Von and so on. I’m proud of our guys and for taking our record from 6-3 to 8-3 in the last five days with the amount of injuries and other adversities (snow, travel, losing practices, losing a home game, etc.) we’ve faced during this time. As the CBS broadcast mentioned, they’re not robots. They’re humans too, and they can feel the adversity. That said, they pushed through it and won. If we can just somehow find ways to win (no matter how it looks), while we’re still facing these plethora of injuries, we’ll have a great shot come playoff time if we can get relatively healthy again. Onto New England. No matter how it looks, find a way to win, fellas. Lets stack some wins in the AFC East and take back what’s ours. Go Bills!

Love JA! Love Stef! Love this team! We’re so lucky to have this generational duo locked down for the next several years. Go Bills! Happy Thanksgiving, Bills Mafia!

Happy Thanksgiving, Bills Mafia! May your day be filled with good food and great memories with family and friends. And of course, may all of us enjoy the Bills winning and getting to 8-3. Here’s some Thanksgiving food thoughts from the players: And finally, let Josh eat! Get us to 8-3. Go Bills!

The Lions have one of the worst defenses in the league and we have one of the best offenses in the league. This difference will determine the outcome of the game in our favor. The offensive player that is going to make the biggest impact is James Cook. He had a solid game last week and was part of the two headed monster that helped us have around 170 yards rushing in the game. With a weak Lions D, I see him having another solid game with 126 total yards making some noise in both the run and pass game. He’ll go for a score as well. Bills win the game and now all of us have another thing to be thankful for on Thanksgiving. Who ya got? Have a happy Thanksgiving everyone. May you be filled with great memories surrounded by family and friends, and of course, winning Bills football. Go Bills! PS- @muppy, two things: 1. Do you know if the local is open for the bills thanksgiving game tomorrow? We tried to call, but they weren’t open yet. Also, I can’t fully tell from online hours 2. And of course, who ya got?

@BigDingus, did you read my post or just the thread title? I never said we should be arrogant or that we’d blow out every team. Some of my main thoughts were that it's hard to understand why some will pick out one strength from the opposing team or one weakness from us and they’re worried about that instead of choosing to be confident in the nine strengths we do have going into a certain game against a middling team. We may even lose that type of game from time to time but it doesn't mean you can't have confidence. Or, some want to fire coaches (McD has the best winning percentage in our history currently) even though most SB teams have a rough stretch during SB seasons. As Von said, the Rams lost three in a row in their SB season. How many Pats teams started .500 but went on to win the SB or go far in the playoffs? Or, some want players dumped, traded or benched when even the greats go through rough patches every season. Just this year, PM threw a game sealing INT against us. People still know he’s great. The overreaches (not saying you're overreaching) seem a bit much with how good of a team we have. This team is at a level where we can have a level of confidence when we play inferior or average opponents (even though we'll lose these games at times). And, we're definitely a good of enough team to where everything doesn't have to be questioned or burned down because we go through a rough stretch in a season. That’s some of the points of the post and I think what @Big Turk is trying to convey as well. Big Turk, you can correct me if that’s not what you were trying to say. Hope that makes sense, BD. Go Bills!

Eligible to return on Dec. 18 vs. the Raiders. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35054677/patriots-place-dt-christian-barmore-ir-knee-injury

I believe the Bills would have won at home but I do believe being at a neutral site in a dome will be a big advantage for the Bills. While I think the Browns will do well in the run game, I’m not concerned about it because I don’t believe they’ll be able to keep up with our offense. The Browns only have three INTs on the year. This is going to be a get right game for JA and he’s going to rely on his best receiver to do it. I’m going with Diggs. He’ll dominate like he has the whole year. He’ll get a few clutch catches, move the chains, be Josh’s go to and pull in a couple TDs. It won’t be a blowout, but it’ll be a comfortable win. Who ya got? Go Bills!

JuJu out against the Chargers as well. He’s in concussion protocol. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35048154/kansas-city-chiefs-place-mecole-hardman-ir

I hear ya, bro (and I'm not just saying that). Some of my main thoughts were that it's hard to understand why some will pick out one strength from the opposing team or one weakness from us and they’re worried about that instead of choosing to be confident in the nine strengths we do have going into a certain game against a middling team. We may even lose that type of game from time to time but it doesn't mean you can't have confidence. Or, some want to fire coaches (McD has the best winning percentage in our history currently) even though most SB teams have a rough stretch during SB seasons. As Von said, the Rams lost three in a row in their SB season. How many Pats teams started .500 but went on to win the SB or go far in the playoffs? Or, some want players dumped, traded or benched when even the greats go through rough patches every season. Just this year, PM threw a game sealing INT against us. Nobody was thinking he still couldn't be a winner just because that happened. So to your point, you can be critical and confident but the overreaches (not saying you're overreaching) seem a bit much with how good of a team we have. This team is at a level where we can have a level of confidence when we play inferior or average opponents (even though we'll lose these games at times). And, we're definitely a good of enough team to where everything doesn't have to be questioned or burned down because we go through a rough stretch in a season. Hopefully that makes sense, bro. Good back and forth.

Where did I ever say blind fandom or even allude to that? I never said that we were above criticism or that we wouldn’t lose any more games. Did you read my original post?

Still here, bro. I’ve lived through the 90s SB disappointments, the Music City Miracle, the drought, the Hail Murray, the Jags game, 13 seconds and other brutal losses. So yes, I understand the pain. It doesn’t mean you can’t have confidence in this team and worry about every opponent like every opponent is the ‘07 Pats. As someone else has said, the combined record of the three teams we’ve lost to (by a total of eight points) is 23-7. And as someone else pointed out, every team that reached the championship games last year had a bad stretch of the season last year. Go Bills!