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Ben Johnson is only partly to blame. Dan Campbell wants to play that way. He wants those trick plays. We know that because they were called all year. Notice how the Bills haven't called a trick play since the debacle in Baltimore? That's a head coach stepping in and nipping that in the bud. Campbell takes "coaching to win" to an extreme level and sometimes that bites him in the butt. Yesterday was one of those days.

As the head coach, he sets the tone. That riskiness comes from him.

Every year one road team wins in the divisional round. Let’s hope that holds.

I hate to toot my own horn, but I said that the Washington job was the best job last cycle. Everyone disagreed. Even @GunnerBill whom I respect. They had cap space, draft picks, and a new owner. You don't get that in NFL job openings usually.

Dudes matter as much, if not more than, scheme.

Eagles are the only NFC team that could beat KC or Bal. So if you are assuming a Buffalo loss tomorrow, root for the Eagles to make the SB.

I'm not watching the game, just reading this thread. From the tone here, I expected it was 21-3, but I just checked and it's 7-3. Youse guys are so dramatic.

No. WFT lost at home to the Brady Bucs in 2020-2021.

He reads the defense like a QB because he was one into college.

Brady used to love underthrowing WRs to get DPI calls. He did it all the time.

Wendy Malick

The football world thinks that read option between Derrick Henry and Lamar Jackson that we saw in the WC round is an unstoppable play. It's up tp the Bills to prove them wrong.

The Burrow-led Bengals have been the kings of manufactured disrespect. The rest of the team just follows his lead.

They're home dogs because people bet that way, not due to some conspiracy. If the Ravens win, the Chiefs will be home dogs too. The Ravens, with Henry, are seen as unbeatable right now.

I was just joking. That's really cool.

Lives in Nashville and works gigs at Jerry World. Let me guess.......Roadie for Kenny Chesney!

Since this thread seems to have morphed into a discussion of the playoff format, I have said for years that a first-round bye is too big of an advantage. You don't get that in any other sport. The best would be 8 teams, no bye. Everyone has to win 3 games to get to the SB. The advantage of the #1 playing weaker teams and playing always at home is enough.

Just shot up the Bengals draft board.

The problem is no one knows if those guys can lead an entire team. If you hire, say, Ben Johnson to be your head coach, you are essentially hiring him to be both HC and OC. The OC part is why you're hiring him. You want him to bring that Lions offense to your team and you are only making him HC because you have to do that in order to hire him away from Detroit. But the fear is that Ben Johnson is another Mike McDaniel. You just never know until a guy gets a shot at leading a locker room.

I'm way too young to remember any of this (51), but I have a few questions for you old dudes. 1) Why did the AFL refs wear capri pants? 2) How would the Bills have fared against the 1964 NFL champ Browns in a theoretical Super Bowl? 3) How cool would it have been if we had played in SB 1, which was a distinct possibility?

I don't think rain is going to be an issue in this one.

You didn't know that? All Harbaugh are smug douchebags, even their BiL Tom Crean.

Matchup league, indeed.

9 sacks. In a playoff game.