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He's going to the Jets. It completes the Brett Favre circle.

That's what the Bengals did. At the beginning of the year, Burrow was holding the ball waiting for Chase or Higgins to get downfield and was getting sacked at a high rate. He was sacked 5 times by the Browns on Halloween night. They shifted to the quick game that we all saw on Sunday and they feel unstoppable. It was a wholesale shift in offensive philosophy made midseason to mitigate poor OL play.

I give Sean McDermott a lot of credit of turning this franchise around. My main complaint is that McDermott's teams lack a physical dimension that you need to win in the playoffs. The Bengals just came into our house and punched the Bills and the whole city of Buffalo in the mouth. The team needs some more guys that play with an edge and push the rules right up to the limit, and I'm afraid that McDermott's emphasis on culture will not allow this need to be addressed. As much as we all hate him, a Christian Wilkins type of player would go a long way, but he wouldn't fit the "process."

I realize that this is a complain about Frazier, but I find it interesting that Kyle Shanahan found Mike McDaniel so important that he didn't even bother to replace him and just took over the nominal title of OC himself.

Except they called PI and holding on the Bills in this game in some pretty key spots. I get that the Bills played badly enough that complaining about the refs seems futile, but the fact that their backups on OL didn't have a single offensive holding call defies belief.

Eli Apple is a UFA after this year. The Bills could sign him, because I'm sure that the Bengals won't. He is not a good CB. But I do agree with you about the Bills needing some nastiness on their team. Too many of what Larry Bird termed "milk drinkers."

I don’t even agree with myself anymore…

This had to come from the coaching staff. The Bengals were in a post-Hamlin funk like the Bills. They manufactured outrage about being wronged by the league and the Bills to get their killer instinct back. It worked so well that the whole city is frothing at the mouth.

And we had a Bengals fan in here saying that they are just a bunch of good dudes that love to play ball.

Apple is doing this because he knows that his trash talk caused this response from Stef. Diggs need to work with a sport’s psychological this off-season to learn how to deal with the taunting and trash talk. Jaire Alexander taught the league that Diggs and Davis have thin skin.

No!!!! I can’t take three more weeks of Bengals hype around here. Let them get crushed by KC.

The loss still stings and we won’t get to watch the Bills play again for 6 months.

ECHL teams have dollar beer night on Wednesday.

Let the Sabres make the Playoffs and then get back to me.

But if I remember correctly, Tre got to Chase before he got to the sticks but didn’t make the tackle.

Frazier can’t be fired because his contract expires after this season. He can, however, not be renewed.

This is probably true. So then if the Bills bring in another WR Diggs will just get more angry because his targets will go down. But I just went and read the Tweets. He didn't really say anything bad. He's just mad that they lost. He refers to "out level of play," which includes himself. I don't like him leaving either, but he was probably really worked up and felt it better to extract himself from the situation. I've done that before to stop myself from saying things that I would regret later.

I’m sure, but the schadenfreude has to be strong.

I think the additional context to this is that Eli Apple was trash talking him all game. He’s pretty easy to rile up, as we saw in the Packers game. He wanted the ball to rub it in Apple’s face but he never got it. He was worked up from the start of the game. He yelled at Josh on the field for throwing a ball too low on the second drive of the game.

Vikings fans are all probably like “we told you so” right about now.

It’ll have to be Dorsey. The cap hit on trading Diggs is simply too high.

Comfortably ensconced in Indy? He was fired mid season. I’m sure he would like to work again.

And Mike Brown has no other source of income other than the team. He owns no businesses and his father was a football coach.

The thing that gets me is that the Bengals were able to use a manufactured scandal over ticket sales to whip themselves into a frenzy. And it actually worked, as evidenced by Joe Burrow's comments about ticket refunds after the game. You could see the rage in Mixon's runs. He hadn't run that hard all year. He wanted to not only win the game but stick it to the Bills and the entire city of Buffalo for wronging the Cincinnati Bengals. It went so far that the entire city of Cincinnati adapted their outrage. Just goes to show that there really is no more powerful emotion than the feeling that you and people like you are being victimized. I wonder what outrage they'll use against KC?

The Bills lost 6 regular season games in 2021. The best team Allen ever had was the 2020 team.