Jimmy Harris 69

Sean, go ahead call them, tell them you are interested.

Josh didn’t have a great day, but it was good enough to win. I’m not down him. His offensive coordinator failed him and the team. The reliance on the schnooplow when it wasn’t working, and the number of plays Cook was off the field when we needed him most. Our offensive felt out of rhythm. Naturally the KC defense did its worst, regardless our offense did not counter well. It’s a fekin shame, that’s all I can say. Josh deserved better.

The nfl is three steps from pro wrestling——face it.

We need safeties that make big plays. Hamlin stinks. He shows up late to every play, concussed benford on a late tackle. We could have used Lewis Cine today. I’ll never understand the slavish devotion to Hamlin, I swear it’s religiously based. Cine is bigger and faster. McDermott will always play a less athletic guy who “knows the D” . That decision didn’t work with Klein last year and it didn’t work with Hamlin this year. I know, he’s the coach, and I’m here on the couch and but it drives me bananas .

Brady came up small tonight. The chiefs stack the line, you would think one time he would take advantage and run it wide, pitch it wide, Jet sweep wide. Nothing. They refused to roll Josh out, which would have led to success on one of the two point conversions and the 4th down conversions.

I don’t think that word means what you think it means. Kincaid is a colossal failure. His drop cost us a chance at winning the game in the end. He can’t block, he’s supposed to catch and the millionaire trash bagger didn’t hold up his end. He’s being outsnapped and outplayed by the “blocking tight end. Now that’s absurd.

One Lou Saban played for Coach Brown on the Cleveland Browns of the All American Football Conference from 1946-1949. He retired from football and decided he wanted to coach like his mentor Paul Brown. Saban beat more than 50 applicants to win the head coaching job at Case in February 1950, thanks to what the university's president called his "unusually sound knowledge of football" and his "leadership qualities". Saban "possesses the sort of personality and character that is of great value in work with young men", the president said. Saban was 28 years old at the time, and the appointment made him one of the youngest college head coaches in the country. Saban borrowed coaching techniques from Brown, alongside his version of the T formation offense. Saban's team finished the 1950 season with four wins and four losses. By 1951, he was already under consideration for coaching jobs at bigger schools, including Indiana University and Toledo University, where he was mentioned as a "dark horse" candidate to replace former Browns teammate Don Greenwood. His Case teams compiled a 10–14–1 record during his tenure as head coach from 1950 to 1952. Saban resigned in March 1953 to become an assistant at the University of Washington under head coach John Cherberg. He spent just one year at Washington before getting a job as an assistant coach at Northwestern University, saying he wanted to return to the Midwest. In February 1955, Saban was promoted to head coach at Northwestern, succeeding Bob Voigts and becoming the youngest coach in the Big Ten Conference at 33 years old. Saban hired George Steinbrenner as one of his assistant coaches. Saban's tenure as coach of the Northwestern Wildcats football team, however, was brief and unsuccessful. Hampered by injuries, the team lost all of its games in 1955, and calls intensified for Saban's firing as the season wore on. In December, Saban and his entire staff were fired by new athletic director Stu Holcomb. Ara Parseghian was named as his replacement. Saban moved on to a job as head coach at Western Illinois University in 1957, where he quickly built up a successful team. The Western Illinois Leathernecks finished with a record of 6–1–1 in 1958, followed by an undefeated 9–0 season in 1959, when Saban also served as an assistant under Otto Graham in the College All-Star Game. Having built up a 20–5–1 record over three seasons as coach, Saban drew interest from the professional ranks, and the Boston Patriots of the newly formed American Football League (AFL) hired him as head coach before the circuit's inaugural season in 1960. Saban’s Patriots achieved a 5-9 record that first year, and started off 1961 2-3. Saban was fired and hired by the Buffalo Bills for the 1962 season. The rest is Bills’ lore. Two AFL championships with hall of fame players that define Buffalo in the old league. A second stint with the team in the 70’s that made OJ into——OJ.

Schnooplow……I saw a shirt at Wegmans with that name and a reference to Dawkins….so it’s game over.

I don’t care what they wear, as long as they win.

Snow Angel Sean will come out swinging. Play action early, will lead to successful pass plays and an early score. Defensively they will crash the line, spy Lamar. Hold Baltimore to field goals, while Buffalo gets touchdowns. Lamar will have to pass and they will give him a taste of 15 degrees in the Queen City. At the end of the day Buffalo’s Greasy Neal Award winning coach will have led this team to another improbable victory.

Buffalo’s offense was out of rhythm in 2022, a trend that carried through to Ken Dorsey’s sacking in 2023. This Buffalo offense would have been fine in the snow. That loss is responsible in large part for where we ended up in 2023 and 24. Our offensive line has gotten bigger, we run the ball much more effectively. The passing game is more strategic. We aren’t taking those big shots down the field with the same regularity. The defense is younger, retooled. I like where we are as a team. Josh had his best year as a pro, McDermott has grown as a coach. The sports establishment has under-valued and under estimated the Bills all year. It continues this week with Lamar getting all the touches. That’s perfect for this team. Sunday cant come too soon.

The 2024-2025 Bills run more than the 23 Bills as they were 53.1/ 46.9 pass. Even more startling is the change from the 2020 Bills who passed 61.7% of the time. Control the line of scrimmage, run the ball, get the lead, frustrate Lamar.

McDermott has rebuilt this team to be a big run first offense. That will be one of the huge keys to the game for the Bills. Eating up yards and clock on offense keeps those goons off the field and out of the end zone. The Steelers loaded the box in the second half when they stopped the Ravens on the ground. The Bills must stop the king and thereby force Lamar to beat them. If they can do that and get a lead, Baltimore takes Henry out of the game themselves.

McDermott is an excellent coach——top five in the league. The Bills won’t lose today. This team is locked in. The real test of McDermott’s skills is against Baltimore next week. Though, as fearsome as king Henry may be, Buffalo beat a Ravens team once before 17-3 that led the NFL in rushing during the 2020 season. It is clear to me, seeing the KC win, that Coach has learned some hard lessons. He’s having some fun this year and is even willing to show fans a little of himself. That takes courage because face it, we are an awful bunch of butt holes.

Hey superstar, you dropped a touchdown against the chiefs in a playoff game. When you could have backed up all that talk —— you failed the team. Thats your Buffalo legacy.

I’m disappointed he never got a shot at safety. Physically he has better tools than Hamlin for one. Cine had a very good college career at Georgia and it was injuries which derailed his time with the Vikes. Hamlin looked mediocre against the crappy Pats, giving up big plays and missing tackles. (A pattern) But Cine isn’t one of McDermott’s “guys” and Hamlin is. And of course you can’t expect an outside guy to break into our dominant pass defense. 😏

I don’t have any regret over the Bills’ decision. Coleman has had a decent rookie year given the offensive system the team runs. No receiver on the team has stacked up fabulous numbers. It would have been the same with Worthy. The extra pick allowed them to get Carter at a position of need. The Bills are leading the AFC in points per game and second in the NFL in this category. Allen is having an MVP season. We don’t need Worthy. What you may like about his production versus Coleman comes down to Andy Reid. It seems like you have a solution in search of a problem.

The Chiefs former practice squad kicker Mathew K. Wright, waived a couple days ago, is life time 51-59 or 86.4%. 11 of 11 from 20-29yds 19-20 from 30-39yds 14-17 from 40-49yds 7-11 from 50-59yds This is a guy we ought to take a look at if he gets through waivers.

Number one, this defense is not better with Matt Milano in the line up. It’s been worse since he has been in the line up. The snow was the 12 and 13th man against the niners. It was the difference maker in that game. Williams is the better player. As for last week, the entire defensive game plan was ill advised, poorly executed and lacked timely adjustments. Stafford comes in with the most hits of any qb and we don’t lay a finger on him. Yet we come within a minute of victory only to have bad strategy wipe out our last chance. I’ve hoped for more plays for Lewis Cine all year but he only had 9 last week. It seems likely that Bishop and Ingram will get snaps. The missing millionaires up front will hopefully find their arses, if not Detroit will score a bunch of points.

I’ve followed the bills since 1969, yea I’m praying for a championship too. But ive seen enough bad coaches and teams in Buffalo to appreciate the turnaround since 2017. So I have to disagree with that sentiment. This does matter. I really like this team and this quarterback. When I look around the NFL and see the massive sucking in places like carolina, Chicago, New York, Jacksonville and Miami, I am grateful for these Bills. I will not hold the failures of the past against this team.

We Bills fans can be a tough room. Coach hit all the right notes in his post game. Honored the past, reminded them, and us all about the temporal nature of life. That’s where his wisdom lives. On the field, his team has run the table with a decimated receiving corp and team that was rebuilding (remember). I have been very critical of this coach and joined many who doubted his ability to get a ring. He has shown us something this year. It turns out his push to improve the run game is a league wide trend. He has learned from his losses to KC. Instead of looking tight, he’s making snow angels. Yes, we celebrate on victory Monday then move on. This team has the talent, the intangibles, the experience and the Quarterback to climb the mountain. Sean McDermott is Buffalo’s Coach. Five straight division titles show he should stay Buffalo’s Coach for a long time.

So in each case the lousy team played true to form. Not really a surprise. What’s more disappointing is the slate of crummy games on Thursday and Friday. Talk about full blown stink. It was tv dinner for the thankgiving meal.

Once a dynasty is established, either people love them or hate them. At this point is a bit funny that folks get caught up in the Chiefs not winning well enough. But like them or not, the Chiefs find a way to beat lesser teams. Their fortunes changed here. That tells me we can do it again in the playoffs. Their close games also make the case that if a team plays the perfect game, the Chiefs will fall again.

I just hope to hell we get a new kicker next year. No kicker deserves this many threads.

This is tv, they are probably sober. What???