Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Agree, think the Texans and Tampa are the teams likely will lose their wildcard game, they may even be the one home team underdog. NFC has a powerhouse (Vikes or Lions) going to Tampa. AFC just has more a reeling division winner in Texans

So there are 5 RT in the AFC better than Brown, but yet only 3 safety's better than Hamlin??

Yeah kind of thinking the same. Yes they play them well, though not very well 2 weeks ago. But think if I were them, I'd rather face the Texans. Texans like the Steelers have been tailing off as the season is ending while the Ravens are playing much better after a slow start.

Agree, but do think Steelers will want to win game to avoid Ravens.

Is Doyle still actually on the team?? LOL Thought he was let go with an injury settlement or something?? I noticed it on Allens X-Mas gift, first time I'd seen his name mentioned in months. I do think Van Pran Granger , Gouraige (sp?), VanDemark, and Anderson are all very good backups too. That was one of the big concerns if any of the starters got hurt, our backups basically were all inexperienced. At this point all have a year under their belt and cheap contracts. Beane could consider trading one of them as barring injury can't see any of them getting on the field over the life of their rookie contract.

Just read this weeks NFL ranking in the Athletic and they have the Bills first with Vikes @2, KC-3 and Lions 4. All 3 teams behind Bills have better records!! Deserved or not, don't see that very often. That has got to annoy some fan bases. If it was the opposite way with Bills, people here would be going nuts!

Yes but too expensive to get rid of for 2025.

But at what position?? Free or Strong?? IMO his hard hitting suits him better for SS, but have Rapp there too. Then would still need a FS unless they keep Hamlin there, don't think Rapp could play FS. Could Elam play FS, think he has the speed. Or sign a free agent FS and trade Rapp??

The rebuttal to that is 11-5 and took until week 17 to move into first place and mainly due to a late season collapse by Steelers. Until around 3 weeks ago, the Steelers were in a pretty good position to get the 2 seed over Buffalo. Could give them a good shot and say, "yeah but it's rare that a running back wins the MVP!"

You left out one other thing up for grabs. If Pitt loses and Changers win, Chargers move up to 5 seed and go to Houston and Pitt drops to 6th and plays Ravens, so I'd imagine Steelers are motivated to win Saturday too Denver also could be tied with Steelers, not sure who wins tiebreaker there or could Steelers drop to 7th? Don't think so, think the lowest Steelers can go is 6th??

Yes the offense has been good, but not the defense and that was biggest reason many didn't think the team would do that well this year with all the changes in personal mainly on the defensive side. Fire McD and highly likely the team will be worse off

Reading the column about Shavers TD and 13 players scored TD's and comment from Allen "We’ve got another week to try to get one more" makes me think they will try and get someone else. But who is left other than a lineman?? So could see if they get close to goal line, trying some pass to lineman?? The only other guys left is Reggie Gilliam and Davidson, but believe he's used up his 3 callups? I suppose there's always Trubisky

It would be interesting to check how many of these posts only predicted 7 to 9 wins, but now saying if Bills don't win SB, they should fire McD.

You could be pretty darn close

Likely has some internal meaning to them. At least I hope it does.

The Bills have had believe the 2nd best record in the league the past 5 years, 4 years in a row the #2 seed. Looking at it statistically the odds of them replacing McD and even being close to as good is very low as just little room to improve but a lot of room to get worse.

Agree, It would be interesting to go back and see, did Cowherd even predict the Bills to make the playoffs, believe he did? I do recall many in the media did not have them making it. This year the only problem McD has is the team has over achieved. This was a retool year. They were a bit lucky in that 3 teams they played this year who were supposed to be good were terrible, Jets, Dolphins, and 49r's so that gave them 5 pretty easy wins which helped. But they really weren't expected to be this good so really doubtful he is even close to getting fired. I do think the defense will get a pretty substantial makeover particularly on the line. Groot will be back along with Oliver and probably AJ along with carter and Soliman. But see them bringing in the best edge rusher available and maybe also a true 1 nose DT

No it is Eagles at Buffalo is set. It will always be against the team in the same position in the standing and the division chosen isa the one that you played against 2 seasons prior so for 2025 would be the 2023 NFC division which was the east. This year we played Detroit on the road so mean we get the 9th home game for 2025. But is possible it's an international game, can't rule that out totally. Though maybe playing one in 2023 rules us out?? Think you're looking at 2026?? For some reason 2025 was skipped. We played the "odd" one off NFC game this year at Detroit on the road, so next year Bills get the 9th home game so game would be in buffalo. Looking at that think they are all off by one row?? What that should have stated was 2025 host East, 2026 at west, 2027 host south, 2028 at north. But that doesn't make sense either as then a repeat every 4 years. in 2021 we hosted NFC west Dallas and in 2022 we went to NFC west Rams. Could 2025 be some one off thing, or after 4 years they flip so for 2025 Bills will have two years in a row with 9 away games?? But in 2028 and 2029 will have 9 home games two years in a row. Well am certain playing Eagles, where??

I thought I heard it on TV?? It wasn't like a 5 minute standing O, but seemed to hear people cheering some.

True to often you read posts here, "it hit him in the hands" so that's a bad drop regardless of how hard of a catch it really was.

I think they will let Allen start, play one series and hand the ball off a few times. The only downside I do see is likely they start Mitch, what if he were to get hurt, they'd then have to bring Josh back in, believe in Q4 you can play your 3rd QB who's not officially part of the active roster?? (that rule has changed so many times not certain what it is these days) Would they make the 3rd string QB active just to be safe and short change a roster spot someplace else, maybe Cook sits?

Or maybe it was because McD was calling a defense including Hyde, Poyer, White, & Milano. The defense certainly was rebuilt more this year than offense. Do think most FA signings and high draft picks will be on the defensive side

Allen didn't have great stats today, but was a good part due to all the drops. Coleman and Shakir each had 2 I think, Cooper 1. If I recall Coleman also had a great catch called back on penalty?

Agree that's not the the game to pick as then the other games potentially become meaningless. If Vikes win today the Saturday night game would be a good choice as no other game impacted by it. Could see the Bills playing Saturday only because don't see another game where the single game alone determines anything. So might as well put a good draw in the other Saturday game and could set that up for the following Saturday the Bills play so they get an extra day of rest out of it. Or they pick some other game with teams that draw well, but have no playoff implications

True but to create a post stating the coach should be fired for winning the game is rather stupid regardless of the ramifications. Even if the coach is trying to lose, the players want to win as some (like the coach) have no idea if they will even be playing in the NFL ever again.