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It doesn’t matter. It will always be McD’s defense.

I’ve noticed that whenever it comes to PFF, people turn to confirmation bias. They will latch onto anything that proves their side in the debate. So let’s simply look at the facts. ”NFL teams don’t care about PFF grading” - Except every single NFL team pays PFF, as well as 80+ college teams. Guess they see PFF as a charity! ”PFF grades serve no purpose to teams” - Except teams and players use these grades in contract negotiations. “You'd be amazed that Pro Football Focus is used in almost every contract negotiation known to man. Because either the team likes our grade because it helps them negotiate, or the player likes the grade because it helps them negotiate. A lot of times, we get asked by agents and by teams, 'All right, give us the strength of this guy' or 'Give us the weakness of this guy to help us negotiate.'” - Chris Collinsworth ”Well yeah the teams pay PFF but it’s just for their data, not for their grades” - How do you think PFF grades? From their data… “But they just hire a bunch of schmucks to grade” - The final grade is approved or denied by former NFL coaches. To quote PFF, “about 40 or 50 former coordinators and head coaches that have been in the league that have the final say. So we have four different people look at every single play that takes place, and the former coaches have all the veto power.” I guess we could just ask some NFL coaches too… “Pro Football Focus has done a nice job with their stats and their analysis. I think they’re pretty accurate with things.” - Andy Reid, Chiefs head coach “I think it’s impressive the work they do” - Gary Kubiak, head coach when the Denver Broncos won the Super Bowl "I don't think there's any question that they do a great job, and I think they're a valuable resource for us." - Kyle Shanahan, San Francisco 49ers head coach “We attributed all three special teams return TDs in 2017 to PFF data.” – FBS Special Teams Coach So, let me put this all together and get this straight. NFL teams see no value in a product that pay a ton of money for, which is graded by former NFL coaches (which to my knowledge, no one on this forum is a former NFL coach), but the fans on this forum know better. Ok.

Same. But If we can’t win this year, I will start to question when we can ever beat KC in the playoffs. They are as vulnerable as they’ve ever been under Mahomes. And I have to think they will fix their issues this off-season.

I’m oddly calm about this game.

The idea is to not let it accumulate to 2-3 feet in the first place. And with snowblowers, you can easily make that happen. Besides, I don’t think Green Bay (who averages just a few inches less of snow fall per year than Buffalo) ordered snowblowers only capable of handling a “light dusting”. It’s a professional model snow-thro that costs $2k each. But even if it took several rounds of snow-blowing, it would be a far more efficient method than humans with shovels. Well, yeah… You don’t think the multi-billion dollar Bills could have them custom made too? Of course they could. “(The manufacturer) says the Bills haven't contacted him, and vice versa. "I'd love to try and build some for Buffalo. We personally look at Buffalo as a very good snowblower market for our product. We kind of look at Buffalo as like sort of the Green Bay of the AFC right with all the snow that we both get," says Ariens.” .

Let me know if you get hammered tomorrow. Hammered with snow I mean.

You’re all set my friend.

to be honest, I disagree with several of PFF grade. Ed is just one of them. but keep in mind that two NFL coaches may disagree with each other on their own grading. so, in my opinion, that’s not that unusual.

You really think NFL teams would pay millions of dollars for useless data? The idea that you think it's some schmuck sitting at home is part of the problem. PFF employs former NFL players, especially at Tier 2 and 3 of grading. The reason why PFF grades take a couple day to update after a game is because they are not graded by one player. It gets graded by a Tier 1 analyst, then a Tier 2 analyst, and then sometimes a Tier 3 analyst. People will often write "they don't know the play call". These people clearly think that football is rocket science. It's not. We can see on All-22 what the play is. Especially by mid season when teams are running the same plays over and over. And no, we do not accept the idea that maybe this particular team told their left tackle to get pancaked on a counter-run because the coach told him to. No, he just got beat. The other excuse is "teams pay for the data, not the grades". How do you think PFF grades the player? On the data!

What is the deal with Rapp? He hurt himself THAT bad catching that final INT against Miami?

Is this really surprising? You can have two NFL coaches grade a player completely differently. Two GM's too. That's why some will trade down in the draft and others will trade up to get the player that the other left there. It doesn't mean PFF sucks. It means HIS coach graded it differently.

I can't fix a snowblower, but if you PM me your address, I will order a plow to come do your driveway for you.

I posted that right after the game when I assumed he broke it. At the time I thought it was definite. I hop I was wrong.

You feel that McD's comment about hope pertained to this week? I hope you're right. I assumed he meant hope that he comes back at some point in the playoffs/SB.

Thank you for the update. I appreciate you. Definitely don't want anyone hurt and I hope he heals up well. I do think our offense may be better without him in though.

This is so lame. The Bills lost 2 games in OT, another game because of a flag as time expired (Bills would have won), and another close game overseas where the opponent had 2 weeks overseas to acclimate compared to our three days. Don't get started on flukey stuff. The Chiefs AVERAGE loss was by a TD (6 points) and they lost two games by 9 or more. It doesn't matter whether its good or bad. The only thing that matters is that a divisional opponent had 11 wins, which makes it harder to win the division. If any of the Chiefs divisional opponents had 11 wins, the Chiefs may have been a wildcard.

Who says we are confident? I'm nervous as could be. I see the game as a coin-flip that comes down to the final series. The Chiefs went 4-4 to finish the Season. The Bills went 6-2 to finish the season. The only reason the Chiefs weren't expected to miss the playoffs at any point is because they play in a bad division.

Keep in mind that playoff ref crews are not the same as the regular season. Hochuli doesn’t have his same crew as he did during the Philly flag massacre. He has a mixed crew of men and women who were assigned this game based on how well did they did in the regular season. In theory, these are the best of the best refs, as all refs in the divisional round are eligible for the Super Bowl assignment.

Touchbacks incoming. Or maybe we just won’t punt. That would be nice.

My favorite postgame quote came from Ed. He said: "I heard they wanted to play yesterday in the blizzard because they thought they could run the ball. Then we give them even better conditions, and they still can’t run the ball. ..."

There are only so many snaps to go around. If Diggs & Davis are on the field, you have to choose between Kincaid and Shakir at slot. Are you taking Kincaid out for Shakir? On Sunday the Bills pit Kincaid at #2 a lot, and let Shakir play the slot. I loved that. It let you have a field of Diggs, Cook, Kincaid, Shakir and Knox.

I posted on that forum for a while. It was fun (although a cesspool), but they were obsessed with thinking that I was another Bills fan who had posted there years ago, because we share a first name. Nothing could convince them that I wasn’t. Good times though. Im surprised how confident they are, just because they were very doom and gloom a couple weeks ago. I guess a win over the Dolphins gave them a boost of intense hope.

SDS comes in clutch! Great memory.

ok thanks.