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The thing to remember is that this team didn't click on offense last year between the bye week and the playoffs. Never mind the losses, how did they look in those wins against Carolina and Atlanta at home? At this point last year, we were coming home as a 7-6 team to play Carolina after losing in OT to Tom Brady and the Bucs. Everybody remembers the Bills offense in the playoffs as the 2021-2022 Bills offense, but that was a long time coming last year.

3. Just thank the football gods that the blocked punt went out of the back of the end zone or this game could have had a different outcome. 4. That was such a surprise that it was hard to follow live on TV. It wasn't until the replay that you could see what they did. Mosley was actually laughing about it after the fact because he had been had. 6. Yeah they do. That's a great defense. But you know that those Marrone-era teams also had a great D, some good offensive weapons but were limited at the QB position. You know what teams like that do in late January and February? Play golf. 7. When you watch the game live you see open guys that the QB doesn't see all the time. Its the nature of the game.

I was trying to think of something, and this might just be it. I wore no Bills gear and drank only water. I watched upstairs because my mom with mobility issues came over to watch the game on my Sunday Ticket account. So I did none of the things that I usually do. But, I did go to a Christmas party on Saturday night and had a massive red wine-triggered migraine (the worst kind IMO) so maybe that was it. We play on Saturday night, so you had better make that a Friday night dinner.

Eagles game on Christmas Eve @ Dallas will be a good one.

The Bills beat the Jets? I had no idea.

There is some truth to this. Yesterday, the Bengals ran a flea flicker out of a heavy package for a long TD. It was a really nice play where everything looked like a run with only a single TE running a route. He was a wide open for the TD. Great play. But they used it in week 14 against the Browns and now it is on film for all teams to study.

So many playoffs games are like yesterdays game. The two that the Bills played in last year were exceptions to that rule, but look at the Bengals run to the Superbowl. They gutted out a win against the Raiders at home where Carr had a chance to tie the game with 1st and goal from the 3. Came from behind against the Titans where it took a defensive play to win the game with a last second FG. It was the defense that won that game more than Burrow and Chase. This game was 19-16. Got destroyed in the first half against the Chiefs, made a defensive HT adjustment, and still needed OT to win with a FG. Again, it was the defense that won that game more than Burrow and Chase. In the SB, the Rams won by 3 and needed a last minute defensive stop to win it. Every single one of those games was won by one score. Not a blowout in sight. The same thing with the Rams SB run, with the exception of the blowout of the Cards in the first round. My point is that close-fought games decided by a defensive play is playoff football more than double-digit blowouts. And to answer your question, neither the Rams nor the Bengals could run the ball in any of those games and everyone knows that the Bengals did about as bad a job protecting Burrow as an NFL team could possibly do.

I think White will have a career like Fitz or Tyrod. Fringe starter with some clear deficiencies that will keep him from being a franchise guy but good enough to bounce around the league as a stop-gap for teams without clear starters.

Sometimes I actually like to watch other teams with the same intensity as I watch the Bills. You know what? All teams have drops. All teams miss tackles. All OCs call plays they don’t work.

That’s just how it seemed to you. The Jets board wants to cut Braxton Berrios for dropping a TD pass. “ball hit the guy in the f-ing face.”

Division games are like that.

You know what else is good? 10-3.

And yet they lost. Which team would you rather be a fan of right now?

I used to think this place was unbearable after losses. Now Bills Mafia is miserable after wins. Enjoy the wins!!

This is my weekly reminder to myself that watching these games is supposed to be entertaining.

"The best the Lions could muster was a 21-all tie, but in this case instead of kissing their sister they kissed the playoffs goodbye."

9-3

It’s the Patriot Way

I have always wondered why defensive holding is 5 yards and offensive holding is 10 yards.

At this point in the season last year the Bills were heading to TB after losing to the Pats in the wind game. Just making the playoffs was in question and the division seemed lost. The Bills are in much better shape at this point in 2022.

That explains it. I watched last nights game with the sound off so if they talked about I missed it.

How in the heck can a guy run an offense after only being in the building for three days? How could he know the terminology of the plays in his wristband?

You bumped a 2-month old thread to make this point?

We all care very deeply about something over which we have zero control. Also, while we all know that we couldn’t play at an NFL level, game day coaching is something that a lot fans think that they could do.

Since the Bills like to hire from within, which defensive assistant is in line to get the job?