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Here's the link to the article from the NY Post's website (based in the USA, not Italy 😀) https://nypost.com/2021/01/08/2021-nfl-playoff-predictions-from-wild-card-round-to-super-bowl/

I have an on-line subscription to the NY Post. I got the stuff I posted by clicking on the article which converts it to a more readable format. What is an on .it site?

I can think of 2 trades from many years ago of QBs in their primes: In 1967 Fran Tarkington was traded from Minnesota to the NY Giants, spending 5 seasons with them. Then in 1972 he was traded back to the Vikings and finished the last 7 years of his career there. In 1980 Ken Stabler & Dan Pastorini were traded for each other. Some would argue they were past their primes, but when the trade was made neither team thought they were getting an over the hill QB.

Brees wasn't traded, he signed with NO as an unrestricted free agent

I saw Davis Webb #7 out there, but Fromm is still in his bubble.

It's in today's NY Post. I couldn't find it on-line to provide a link. It will probably be available on the internet by tomorrow. Here's a shortened version. Here's the best I can do without a direct link, I cut some of the content since I don't have a link. : POST’S ANNUAL PLAYOFF CRYSTAL BALL Serby’s Crystal Ball: Allen will end decades of Bills misery New York Post 7 Jan 2021 Steve Serby Steve.serby@nypost.com Here’s what the Serby Crystal Ball sees: WILD-CARD ROUND SATURDAY COLTS (7) at BILLS (2): The pain from blowing a 16-point lead in an overtime loss to the Texans in last year’s wildcard round has driven coach Sean McDermott’s streaking division champions, and the 6,772 members of the Bills Mafia who will be allowed to attend. Prediction: Bills 27, Colts 21. Buffalo’s first playoff win since the 1995 season. RAMS (6) at SEAHAWKS (3): Prediction: Seahawks 24, Rams 17. Russell Wilson finds a way. BUCCANEERS (4) at WASHINGTON (7): Prediction: Bucs 28, Washington 17. Brady will hope Bill Belichick is watching. SUNDAY RAVENS (5) at TITANS (4): Prediction: Ravens 30, Titans 24. A blood bath end. to the BEARS (7) at SAINTS (2): Prediction: Saints 27, Bears 13. Brees begins a last Super Bowl run. BROWNS (6) at STEELERS (3): Prediction: Steelers 31, Browns 24. Big Ben and Mike Tomlin know how to win these games. DIVISIONAL ROUND RAVENS ( 5) at CHIEFS (1): Prediction: Chiefs 30, Ravens 24. Kansas City coach Andy Reid is 5-2 after bye weeks in the playoffs and 18-3 in the regular season. BUCCANEERS (4) at PACKERS (1): Prediction: Packers 27, Bucs 24. Belichick exhales. STEELERS (3) at BILLS (2): Doubt that JuJu Smith-Schuster will be dancing on the Bills logo this time. Leslie Frazier’s Buffalo defense stuffed James Conner (10-18 rushing) and intercepted Big Ben twice in a 26-15 home win last month. Prediction: Bills 26, Steelers 24. Josh Allen has his guys believing. SEAHAWKS (3) at SAINTS (2): Prediction: Seahawks 27, Saints 24. The last time Brees, Thomas and Alvin Kamara played a full game together came in Week 9. I see an upset. AFC CHAMPIONSHIP BILLS (2) at CHIEFS (1): Dream quarterback matchup. Last one with the ball wins. There goes Tyreek Hill. There goes Stefon Diggs. A no-look Mahomes pass to Travis Kelce. Anyone seen John Brown? Prediction: Bills 35, Chiefs 33. Allen has the ball last. NFC CHAMPIONSHIP SEAHAWKS (3) at PACKERS (1): Prediction: Packers 28, Seahawks 23. If it snows, advantage Rodgers. If it doesn’t, advantage Rodgers. SUPER BOWL LV BILLS vs. PACKERS: Rodgers quickly throws TD passes to Allen Lazard and Marquez Valdes-Scantling. But these Bills refuse to be haunted by their tortured Super Bowl history. Allen responds with TD passes to John Brown and Dawson Knox before Rodgers finds Adams in the end zone. Allen yawns, and answers with a TD bomb to Diggs. Jones catches a TD pass. Allen ties it with a TD run. Mason Crosby boots a field goal. Last one with the ball wins. And it’s Allen — with a lastsecond, tackle-eligible TD toss to Dion Dawkins. Kelly is sobbing tears of joy. Prediction: Bills 35, Packers 31. Wings for the Bills Mafia and a lifelong prayer answered.

I don't want to play Tampa Bay because it is in their stadium. I don't want to be the 1st team ever to play a Super Bowl in the NFC Champs stadium.

Who knows? When Reich was a player I thought he'd be Bills HC some day, but it never worked out. I was surprised he didn't go right into coaching after his playing days. It's probably better he didn't because when the Bills were changing coaches every few seasons he might have gotten the Bills job & it would have been really tough to fire such a popular man in Buffalo, especially with guys like Brandon, Nix & Whaley making personnel decisions that would have doomed him here. Of players now in the NFL, I expect Frank Gore to be a head coach one day. In fact, I was surprised the Jets didn't fire Gase earlier & name Gore coach during this season. I guess the NFL isn't like the NBA where the guy is playing one season & the next one he's a head coach with no coaching experience.

If the GM is smart the 1st thing he'll do is fire Vic Fangio

The Bills scored 31 points the game Roman was fired after. They had a lot of talent on offense in 2016 that left a year or 2 later. Lynn didn't show me anything that made me think he was a good offensive coordinator. I must admit that I never want any coach who was part of the Rex Ryan clown show ever to walk the Buffalo Bills sidelines again.

Frank is not going to want his players demoralized by looking at the scoreboard this Saturday at Bills Stadium.

Best part is Josh throwing potatoes

Why are people saying Lynn is a good or better OC? The only time he was the OC was with the Bills in 2016 after they fired Roman after 2 games. The Bills had a lot of talent on offense that year, so who knows what kind of coordinator he is. The only thing I know about him is he's a good guy who hasn't proven much as a coordinator or head coach. He's the EJ Manuel of coaches. A guy who you would like to have as a friend or relative who you want nowhere near your football team.

The Giants are more livid than anyone in Philly. Even Eli Manning Tweeted against the Eagles & Saquon Barkley chimed in . Eli Manning @EliManning · 10h This is why we don’t like the Eagles. Quote Tweet Saquon Barkley @saquon · 10h Can someone make it make sense to me what’s going on....?

I not only want the Bills to win the Super Bowl, I EXPECT the Bills to win the Super Bowl.

Jets don't let Matt Patricia out of the building.

Rosen was seen by Arizona as a bust who played so poorly they got the #1 pick in the draft. Tua won more games than he lost, there is no similarity between the two other than they both played for the Dolphins.

Unless they view him as a bust who they need to get something for him before the rest of the league knows what they do, like Arizona did with Rosen, they are stuck with him and can't draft a QB at 3.

I don't have a problem with Barkley throwing long passes with the Bills way ahead. He's a free agent when the Bills season ends this February and everything he did today was for his NFL future. If it was Allen doing this in the 4th quarter then you could blame the Bills, but when the backups are playing and trying to stay in the NFL, anything they do goes. Pulling the starters is enough, you don't have to handcuff the backups in one of their few chances to shine.

After his game in the 2nd half today, it looks like Barkley will be getting re-signed.

It goes back a lot longer than this century. We were the league's laughingstock in the late 1960's, the mid to late 1970s, the mid 1980's and then the long drought mostly in the 21st century. The only times we've been good were the early-mid 1960s, the early 1970s-both eras when Lou Saban was coach; the early 1980s and the late 1980s through around 2000. There have been a lot of losing and mediocre seasons. Right now it feels like the late 1980s to us long suffering fans.

McDermott disagrees with Frank. My guess is because we're in a different situation, if he sees the Browns are up by 30 all the practice squad activated players are going in.

What are the requirements when you buy tickets? Do you have to name the other people who are going with you when you buy or just give your own name that your season tickets are in? If it's just your own name I guess you could sell them but you would still have to meet them before going in & go in together since they are requiring ID of the named ticket holder to get in.

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I'm hoping that Malik Boyd & Lake Dawson both get GM jobs & we're swimming in 3rd round comp picks. Then the Bills should replace them with the brightest young minority candidates and keep developing those young executives and getting draft choices. The only thing I don't understand is why the team that hires the new GM doesn't get rewarded as well. Instead of two 3rd round comp picks to the team that developed him, they should make it one for the developing team & 1 for the hiring team.