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I think Williams is a goner and Feliciano will be asked to take a pay cut or thanked for his time here. Dumping them plus Ford saves a little over $5m. Add AJ Klein to the cap casualty list (not worth $4.2m) and we have the money to find ourselves a high end guard.

Agreed on hall of fame RB and hall of fame DE. But this year's QB is better. Game is different now. Marcel Louis Jacques said it better than me. It's an origin story. Super Bowl Bills had their origin story in Cleveland in 89 playoffs (Lofton catching the back of the ball, Beebe landing on his head, heartbreak at the end). Tampa 2021 is our origin story. Go Bills.

Yes, but we need a plan with the run game. Are we a power team? Or are we going to run outside zones and the like and go side to side? Right now the center is athletic - perfect for the type of stuff we ran with Allen last night. But the guards are not. When was the last time we ran a trap for positive yardage? personally I think what makes the whole thing work is spreading the field and using Allen as a running threat. That’s what’s been missing so far this year. Not in short yardage - that should be someone else’s job. We finally found our rhythm last night.

Bigger needs. Guards are trash. CB could be a high pick. 1 tech is a need with Star’s unreliability. I’d think about WR depending on what happens with Beasley. I’m all in on Gabe Davis, though.

He doesn’t usually take big hits in the run. Getting battered in the pocket is more the problem. We’re looking at minimum two new IOL starters next year. They can replace both guards and I wouldn’t mind a bit.

Me too. I just finished the game on DVR. We got jobbed. But I almost don't care. If we handle our business, we'll be fine. It's like we finally woke up. And that kid is just dynamite. So special. Better than we realize.

Whomever decided to tighten the o-line splits at the half and get back to chucking the rock off of RPOs did it right today. The more I think about it, the more I wonder if this season was derailed by crappy weather that took our offense out of rhythm. Also, WTF is going on with our guards on the exchanges. We're going to get Allen killed if this keeps up. Hence the tighter splits. Whatever. This loss feels cathartic in a way. In the second half we finally played the way we're capable of. Long term, we're going to be fine. Short term, we'll probably make the playoffs and we will be a tough out. Good times are ahead. Kelly didn't make it until his fifth season in the NFL. So there's that. But unlike Kelly, Josh Allen is going to win a Super Bowl. This kid has it all.

This loss was this generation's Cleveland 1989 playoff game loss. Great game, heartbreaking conclusion, offense in rhythm and, guess what, the QB is everything we could ever dream of and will someday don a gold jacket. We've been amiss all year, but I feel like we've finally found our way. This one hurts, but this team is going to be good for a long, long time. That's all. Go Bills. And Go Colts, so we can thump NE and take the division on 12/26.

Hoax. I just don’t feel like looking for it. Arguing with losers on the internet is a big enough wast of time as it is. Doing research to argue with losers? Candle isn’t worth the game.

Hoax. You were told. Try reading a little more carefully, Chef Jim Crow. Chef Karen. Love it

The Flintstones, the train hour, and the imagery of buffalo prancing through the snow are drought props. They all suck. Replace them with nothing. Or figure it out later. But I can’t stand any of them. Maybe it’s because we heard the stupid train horn all the time on Monday and lost. I don’t know. Whatever. I can’t deal with any of them. Now we’re talking. Great idea.

Dane Jackson will get beat on a double move for a touchdown. It’s there for them. But we’re going to air it out and win. Go back to what works for us. No reason to screw around with failing at running the ball this week.

Me too. I think it was a smart move. I don’t trust McKenzie or Stevenson, either. And KO returns were only an issue for half of the game, anyway, with the wind. So Hyde could catch punts, and kickoffs could be dealt with by anyone able to catch and maintain possession of the the football.

Thank you. I said the same thing standing in the stadium last night. Maximize snaps with the wind.

Like maybe the play against Miami where he almost cost us a touchdown? Or the one he screwed up against Washington? I don’t think McD is wrong for being mad at McKenzie. I think McD screwed up in singling McKenzie out when we have others (Singletary, Brieda, Knox) who are just as careless with the ball.

I think Josh saves Daboll, but I think McDermott is fed up with Daboll. Mac should look in the mirror, though. My big issue with this team this year is lack of focus. Loafed against Pittsburgh, took Jax for granted, diddled around and lost the Tenn game. Too many drops and stupid mistakes on the offensive and special teams side of the ball. And I wonder how the room feels about him after the McKenzie comments. I don’t trust McKenzie, either, but it kind of feels like he was singled out. Singletary is regularly casual with the ball, Knox drops a bunch of passes, Brieda let it hit the carpet a couple of times last night. Maybe we can’t treat all of the clumsy player the same way because there’s too many of them. I don’t know. But this looks to be reaching crisis mode in a lot of areas for this team. The diggs throw was gorgeous in the stadium. Beautiful ball in that wind.

Ding ding we have a winner. Mac is frustrated with Daboll. I agree that the offense has regressed this year. It’s not as creative as it was last year — for example, where were pop passes last night? The weather was a mess, and I can’t believe that we didn’t at least try to tire out their d-line by going side to side a bit. At the very least a bad exchange on such a play is an incomplete pass, and exchanges apparently are a problem for us now. But the bigger issue is that a lot of our offensive success last year was Josh Allen pulling stuff out of his posterior and improvising into a ridiculous play. That obviously hasn’t happened as much this year, and it isn’t easily replicable. It also doesn’t help that Knox decided to revert prior form, and that we didn’t make many difficult plays last night (Diggs tough catch/drop in the end zone; and Sanders had a big drop on the sidelines as well). Then we get to the running game. It’s a hot mess. All of the backs are deeply flawed. Moss has little speed. Singletary is slightly quicker and more elusive than Moss, but he’s not fast enough to get outside. Brieda has excellent speed, but is not equipped to regularly run between the tackles. And, of course, none of them demonstrates good ball security. So what is Daboll to do? The run game is ineffective—perhaps it was too reliant on the read option, perhaps Allen’s “tell” (swinging his arms pre-snap) when the call is a pass is a much bigger issue than we realize (like Roethlisberger’s tell last year), and perhaps the mish-mash we have on the offensive line is a much bigger issue than we realize (mobile, lighter center, immobile and ineffective guards, a starting guard who went on a juice diet or whatever and came in 10% lighter this year, Dawkins not playing nearly as well as last season.). Whatever. I imagine Daboll looks at the play sheet and wonders what he can call without getting his quarterback killed. In the meantime, we keep running our backs into the backside of our guards without any real benefit. And here we are, losing a game in which our defense surrendered a mere 14 points and the opposing offense had to throw the ball three—THREE—times to win. It is embarrassing. It also points to the idea that something is really off with this team. They don’t seem to be having fun. They seem really frustrated. And it seems hopeless when they get behind. I felt no hope in the red zone in the fourth quarter last night. I appreciate that if Bass makes that kick we probably win the game with a FG at the end. But sometimes the offense just has to score a touchdown. We couldn’t when it counted, and we lost.

I'm in OP. Not that bad last night. Started to pick up this morning around 6a. Raining now, too. I'm hopeful (and this is the kiss of death) that it won't be that bad by kickoff.

Wilson has an arm. Tua doesn’t.

Usually the wind calms down a little before the expiration of the warning. I suspect the NWS manages expectations that way. Good news is these guys probably had a nice practice in the stadium in the wind yesterday. It was WINDY near the stadium in OP.

Yeah this is going to be an issue. This forecast is not good.

I saw the European model. Not good. That’s the “good amount of lake snow” setup. I love the snow, but hopefully we don’t get it this Monday. Or, we get it when we’re up by four touchdowns. Go Bills.

I was thinking about this earlier and wondering who they would line up for Monday. Hopefully it’s someone who can do the full routine. Freddie cut it short last week. Missed the “where would you rather be than right here, right now??” line. I was hoping for Talley on Monday. TO is cool, though. It’s all good.

So you are Q. Otherwise I don’t fathom how you’d think it possible to have a selfie of JFK Jr on an iPhone, which was invented long after his passing.

Also, I’m not little. A little weird, but in a good way. We’re all a little weird here. But it’s cool.