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The Bengals have a good shot at the 1 seed if they win out as well. It's not just a two-team race As for the spread being high, considering that it was 10.5 at the Jets and now the game is in Buffalo, the oddsmakers have already made a big adjustment. I certainly wouldn't run to bet the Jets at 9.5 in Buffalo.

this and many other threads. i never want to hear that this team is one of the best NFL teams of all time again, lol. we *will* regroup and play better, though. but let's keep it on an even keel when that happens.

once Josh is announced out, it will cross 3 to 2.5 (at least), so 3.5 is still worth an investment just to try to middle this thing. of course, the best middle opportunity was to have gotten it at 7.5 at the beginning of the week.

why are people getting on the poster who said the Bills are a .500 team without Josh. in recent years, we have seen teams that are strong everywhere except QB struggle to .500-ish seasons. some recent broncos and saints teams come to mind. that's just the reality of today's nfl. you need a QB

this game is off the board at most books. 6.5 is a stale line, but props to those who were able to jump on +7.5, +7, and +6.5 before the books pulled it.

2020 wasn't the year, as others have mentioned. That was the "taking our lumps in the playoffs" year against the conference bully. KC was better and more prepared and experienced. 2021 was the year. We had taken our lumps already the previous year, played a great game against the bully and was about to know them out. Then our coaches screwed up 13 seconds.

I don't know if the oddsmakers' Super Bowl favorite (which we still are) will be falling out of the spotlight anytime soon, but it's pathetic for Bills fans to yearn for fawning national media coverage anyway. Or to slurp up any morsel that is given to them. Remember when SNL made a skit about Jets Fans, not about the Bills who were only incidental to the skit, and everyone was so happy and praised the obnoxious SNL skit? "We've made the big time!" - lol

The board is more readable now that it's been injected by some realism. A couple weeks ago, anyone was a bad fan basically if we didn't think this team was a GOAT contender. We're a very good team with a couple of obvious weaknesses like O-line that disqualify us from GOAT contention. but we can still be the best team in the NFL if the defense gets/stays healthy. This was true a couple weeks ago. It is true now.

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That's often true but for the books like Circa and Fanduel that hire a lot of analytics talent, they will often have opinions and back them. Afterall, it's fairly easy to collect customer data (especially for the online books), and if you show that almost all your sharps are backing one side and the public is on the other side ("Pros vs Joes" scenario), why not bet with the sharps?

This is a terrible, nonsensical trade. Shanahan's system is known for churning out good RBs and rushing production, so why trade all those assets for an injured RB? This would be like the president of Thailand importing hookers or something like that.

It smells political to me. OP has his panties in a wad that we refer to our white star player by his first name but our black star players we still refer to as Diggs, Milano, etc. But OP is dumb because we do also say Von so it's not really a racial thing.

and what percentage of the forum are those fans? 1%? 2%? we have to stop getting frustrated that not literally every Bills fan, opposing fan, or pundit will bow down at the sight of our mighty Bills.

Even before this week, the Bills were considered the best team by both fans and pundits (just not literally every fan and pundit). We really can't play the disrespect card this season, not to mention the disrespect card is gay. Yes, and that was obviously in reference to a debate about whether the Bills are an all-time great team (after playing three recent games that were tossups), not whether the Bills are an excellent team this year especially when healthy. Why do you lie?

I guess we'll see. Perhaps the stats say that, but my eye test says the Bills recently played three games that could've gone either way against Mia, Bal, and KC, and thankfully we came away 2-1. I'm not knocking those wins, and in fact, I love that our team is getting close-game experience and coming through with Ws finally; that experience will help during a playoff run. But I just don't see some GOAT / ATG-contending team yet. Maybe the bye and getting Tre White back and overall getting reasonably healthy will launch us into a new stratosphere. I would love to root for a GOAT / ATG team, but I'll have to see it to believe it.

At the end of the season, record-wise, the AFCE may not be as far behind the AFCW as once thought. Making our win at KC on Sunday even bigger for the chase for the #1 seed.

You write as if this is a coin-flip situation. Maybe tomorrow is nuclear Armageddon, maybe it's not :-) The fact is the odds are extremely against any team becoming one of the GOATs. While it's not literally impossible, I find it unlikely that a team with our offensive line and our banged up defense ends up being a GOAT-type team. If Mahomes takes advantage of our banged-up secondary like Pickett sometimes did, we're a 4-2 team as of Sunday. Again, I'm very confident in this team and believe we have the best team if the defense can get reasonably healthy and gels.

Josh can be a Hall of Famer without this being one of the best teams of all time. I would think our OL eliminates us from that conversation, and let's see if the D can get healthy enough to realize their potential. With decent health, the Bills look to be the best team in football this year, and that's more than enough for me. Just win the Super Bowl please so we can have this debate in February.

It's just small-sample size, guys. I love our team but we're not some all-time great team. Likewise, Geno Smith isn't the best QB in the NFL. Spread back to 2.5 in most places now, as expected. And I could see it going lower as some sharps continue to relish getting KC as a home dog.

I am surprised that it did hit 3 (albeit at -120 instead of -110) but still anticipate sharps getting it back down to 2.5 or less later in the week.

This game has zero chance of crossing 3 (!) or even touching 3 (except I suppose for a very brief moment at some rogue book, which is possible before it gets pushed back to 2.5). Frankly you'll see some sharp money on KC as a home underdog later in the week with the Bills closing as -1 or pk. These sharps will lose money because the Bills will win (I think) but most likely there will be more sharps on KC than Buffalo.

yup

Globalist Football League. Satan's Plan Football League. Jokes aside, don't the Euros have much stricter vaxx mandates? That alone would scuttle this. The NFL has smartly not investigated how rampant fake vaxx cards are, but that wouldn't fly with the Euros.

Two things: (1) Don't worry about any Steelers "tactic" from Week 1 of last year. Pittsburgh is notorious for running a real training camp with real hitting and so they are always more prepared to play football in Week 1 than their opponent, unless they too run a real training camp. (2) Re: the point spread, anyone afraid of 14 is actually being square. You might think the "sharp" play is to take all those underdog points but then you're forgetting that the Bills love to blowout bad teams and sometimes good teams we match up well against. Our weakness has been, until last week, clutch execution in tight games. But don't stress the 14 lol.