dave mcbride

If there was ever a time to call a second timeout, it was before that kick. I am pretty sure that they didn't cut to an ad after the Bills second TD.

I'm willing to give him more than 2/3 of a season to prove himself at RT. He had some shaky performances but some good ones too. I mean, the leap from Northern Iowa to the NFL is huge.

As I have said repeatedly, in playoff football against elite qbs, it is not a fair fight. Defenses are exhausted.

There are ... other games.

this is fair. I think QB is a push, and I think edwards-helaire is a little better than singletary. As for CB, minus White I think they're a push.

Other teams' defenses have stopped the Chiefs or at least held them in check. Tennessee held them to three points. The Bills held them to 20 with White playing. Green Bay held them to 13. They struggled against the Broncos two times and had a hard time dealing with the Denver CBs. It can be done. The Bills need better physical talent at CB.

Seemed to be a ton about bets for me, but what do I know -- i regard gambling as boring and as a poor tax. https://www.pff.com/.

the lack of Tre was huge. The physical talent for the Bills main CBs is not great. I like Wallace, but neither he nor Dane can keep up with those guys - as you saw on the crosser that Hill took to the house when matched up against Wallace.

@Hapless Bills Fan, it's weird -- today I checked out the PFF home site for the first time (i've always gotten there via links to various stats/ratings). It's basically ... a straight-up gambling site. Very weird. But then again the NFL spends most of its energy promoting gambling these days.

An elite CB would absolutely have helped. The Bills had no passes defensed on 44 throws.

I dunno about that .... I think it's always going to be a collective decision in such a crucial moment. It's his job as the HEAD coach to be involved in that. That's what he's paid to do. I wouldn't read too much into it. The BIlls D was great this season and destroyed NE last week. They just ran into their nemesis this week - uncoverable guys on crossers and the other qb in the league who is as good as Josh. KC has been destroying good defenses for years.

I am rooting against Kroenke. Don't really have any hatred of the other three teams, and I will confess to liking Mahomes's game. Not that I actually like the Chiefs.

Ha! Melvin Ingram, I mean. I have always confused their names going back to their SD days.

It's like arguing that a game of random chance is as much fun and entertaining as the game of football. Going back to 2011, 6 of 9 OT playoff games have been won on opening TD drives and the coin flip winner has won 8 of 9 times.

This isn't correct. Manning beat Brady on his third try, in 2006. He lost in 2003 and 2004. He also won in 2013 and 2015 vs. Brady, ending up 3-3 overall.

If Melvin Gordon played against the Bills every week he'd break the sack record.

I just remember McDermott being right up in it in the sideline discussions after the TOs were called. It's his responsibility if he's that involved. Honestly, the first play was OK; you can't let yourself get beat deep. But the second one (the Kelce play) was ridiculous.

My guess is the KC game plan. They weren't going to let Knox and Diggs beat them. They rolled the dice by saying we'll let Beasley be free and simply not pay much attention to Gabe Davis. Allen took advantage and didn't force things to guys who were bracketed.

He is the right coach for Daniel Jones. Not saying it'll work out, but Jones has the tools and the offense has the weapons. Plus the division isn't very good. You do realize that McDermott called those final defenses in regulation, right?

Just looked it up. Apparently, Williams had a clean tear (no additional damage to other ligaments) and is expected to fully recover to a sub 4.3 speed. Honestly, though, I think the Pats will take him.

Yes, I've been thinking this. ACL injuries generally don't scare me anymore at all. Yes, recovery times are different for everyone, but unless it's a catastrophic injury a lot of players seem to be good to go in around 9 months.

Disagree with the original premise. The Bills got to Mahomes a lot yesterday, but he was unreal at escaping. The Chiefs have good pass rushers too but only took Allen down twice on over 40 dropbacks (including scrambles).

My theory is that the coin toss doesn't matter so much in a Jax-vs.-Carolina or WFT-vs.-Giants OT regular season game. The offenses just aren't good and struggle to move the ball via the air. In the NFL playoffs, practically all the teams are good, and most have excellent QBs who can surgically dissect tired defenses. There's just a huge quality gap between run of the mill teams and a much narrower field heavily populated by the likes of Mahomes, Brady, Allen, Rodgers, Russell Wilson, etc.

I don't know what your point is. I'm not talking about the Bills specifically, I'm talking about all teams. A Coin flip is a game that shouldn't determine the game at hand -- actual football. Yet it does.

It's not a 50/50 chance at all, at least according to the empirical playoff results in the high-scoring era. Playing for 10 minutes is fine with me. They often play for 10 minutes anyway. Houston beat Buffalo on the last second of OT in January 2020.