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Wasn't there another TD drop in the endzone? Or was that against Pitt? It was in the corner of the endzone .

It’s less “hit the opposing QB a lot” than it is “hit him no matter what and just accept that you will get a ton of flags”. But as others mentioned, the flaw in this is that you open your QB up to retaliation of the same treatment. Yes, exactly.

This is an excellent point that I hadn’t considered. And that retaliation is likely exactly what would happen. Dang. Ok I can hang my Defensive Coordinator hat up for the off-season now 😂

Cheating garnered the Patriots a trophy case that is stuffed with Lombardi’s. That’s a good thought. I’ll have to check the wording on that rule.

I was thinking about what Marshawn Lynch said on 60 Minute sports a while back. He said: "That's when it just clicked in my mind, that if you just run through somebody's face, a lot of people ain't going to be able to take that over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again." I loved the quote. And it got to thinking - why don't teams use this approach in the playoffs, with the opposing QB? Scenario: Say we are playing Mahomes or Burrow in the playoffs, and our players are told that every time you're anywhere near him, you pummel him. Whether he threw the ball out of bounds, or to a receiver, or even just handed it off. Tackle him. Just consistently bring the guy down. Play after play after play after play - Like Marshawn said about running. To be clear i'm not advocating to intentionally injure. This is more of a psychological game. Sure, you will get some roughing-the-passer flags, but I hypothesize that the in-game damage to that players psyche may be worth it. A few other factors: 1) In the playoffs, refs tend to swallow their whistle. But even when they call a big penalty, they are reluctant to do it twice. Or three times. Or four times. Or five times. A team could play off this fact and repeatedly pummel the opposing QB, forcing the ref to repeatedly throw the flag. 2) Even if the refs do throw the flag 4 or 5 times, I think i'm willing to give an opponent a couple easy trips down the field to put some wear and tear on the mind and body of the opponents best player. And keep in mind, roughing-the-passer flags do NOT count toward the two personal fouls for ejection rule. So players could do it over and over and the only penalty is 15 yards. Maybe there is another rule I'm unaware of? Or maybe they could eject someone for unsportsmanlike conduct after a bunch of them? Some may say it's low brow. Classless. Etc. I say people don't remember the penalties - they just remember the victories.

This MUST be it. And it's a ballsy move. This is the second year in a row he has done this.

I can’t even begin to understand that desire. This is like rooting for Marino. Just gross. Go 49ers.

Yeah, I really don’t think the NFL cares enough about a pop-star to rig the entire league in the Chiefs favor. There are 31 other billionaires that wouldn’t be happy with that. And for many of them ego > money.

You’ve mentioned this before but you’ve never told us how you know it for a stone cold fact. Do you personally know Leslie?

That’s old Belichik. But the Pats had All-Star rosters for many years. Brady (HOFer), Gronk (HOFer), Moss (HOFer), Welker (All Pro), Wilfork (HOFer), Vrabel (All Pro), Bruschi (All Pro), Samuel (All Pro), Harrison (HOFer), Light (All Pro), Mankins (All Pro), Gostkowski (All Pro). All those players were on the SAME team. Not different years. That’s an insane amount of talent.

It takes a Great Coach + Great QB + Great GM to overcome the cap and create a dynasty. KC has all 3. And even with that, they don’t beat us if they weren’t playing our practice squad defense.

I still don’t know what in the world happened with Chad Hall. Did he not want to be back? Did we not want him back? Weird situation:

The theory was that Frazier was done being a DC and would only accept a HC job. The whole taking a year off thing was just code for fired-without-having-the-label-of-fired IMO. Aka, McDermott has such respect for Frazier that he allowed him to leave gracefully.

Just fyi. We averaged 30 turnovers forced under Frazier in 2021 and 27 in 2022. We had 30 turnovers this season.

Yeah he TOTALLY left Buffalo of his own free will.

Milano, Bernard, White, Benford, Phillips, Rapp, Spector... all out. Douglas and Dodson hobbled. KC played our back-ups and the game still came down to the final drive. They are LUCKY we were so hobbled, because they wouldn't be in the Super Bowl right now if we had our starters.

We don't need a realignment. We would have beaten them if our defense wasn't decimated. Congrats KC - you won the AFC because the Bills had 5 starters out on defense. Celebrate! PS, did you see Mahomes and the KC offense put up a goose egg in the second half against Baltimore? Imagine if our defense did that for Allen? We would have won by double digits.

It's actually been the Orioles chant for a very long time.

This strategy revolves around NOTHING bad happening on offense after getting a first down. - What if he hits Diggs for the first down, and then the next play Cook fumbles? - What if he hits Diggs for the first down, and then the next play the ball gets tipped and KC intercepts it? - What if he hits Diggs for the first down, and then the next play we get a personal foul that pushes us back 15 yards and makes scoring nearly impossible? You always take the TD when it's available, because you simply do not know what is going to happen after that moment. Yes, in a perfect world you take the first down and score with 00's on the clock. But we live in reality. You take the TD when you have Shakir running open in the endzone.

Legette would be quite the reach at 28... no? Or are you thinking the draft prognosticators are wrong right now?

Oddly enough I found myself rooting for the Lions during the game.

I have ZERO doubt in my mind that the Bills go to the Super Bowl if they win in the 13 seconds game. That was a much more flawed Bengals team than the one we lost to the next year and it took a comedy of errors on the Chiefs to lose that AFCCG to them. Chiefs were up by 3 scores at one point (if I remember correctly). If they just kick the field goal before halftime (instead of going for the endzone), they likely win. That and the Bills were on absolute fire that postseason.

Agreed. But I assume that was Ben’s decision rather than Dan.

I know it was talked about… but that play wasn’t actually talked about enough for how bad it was 😂. So so so bad.

It was. That being said, there is something more forgiving (in my opinion) about blowing a game by being aggressive… than by blowing a game by a mind-numbing poor kickoff decision.