The Big Cat

Has anyone fired DC Tom yet? If no, then what are we waiting for?

They should have fired him before they had a chance to want to fire him.

Wait. There are people left who haven't been fired? What the hell!?

First we have to fire everyone. Every. One.

Let's just come out and say it. He deserves to die.

We should have beaten the 7-2 Lions handily on the road? Okay. Minnesota was closer than it should have been because of fumbles, not coaching. Wait never mind. Axe them! Grind them! CONFISCATE THEIR PARKING PASSES!

What about when we won very losable games like Chicago, Detroit and Minny? Those don't count? Okay.

Sack them! Can them! Send them packing! Terminate them! Ban them! Slash their tires!

Oh geeze. How one uninformed assumption breeds another.

I think we severely missed AWilliams in matchup 1.

I love it. In this thread there is growing certainty that we can beat the Broncos, Packers AND Patriots to end the season. LOVE IT!!!

There are certainly chinks in those armors. But I won't be betting on those games.

We have to win. But we're far from eliminated. A LOT can still happen to other teams in WC contention.

One of the failed trips in the Minny game was a fumble. A stupid, nothing to do with strategy fumble. Outside of that, outside of yesterday, they've been pretty sharp under the almighty Orton.

I'd rather see what our ranking/pct is from week 5 until now, aka since the end of the EJ experiment. Until then, I'm going to continue to ignore those numbers.

There are more scenarios that don't than do. But playoffs is far from beyond the realm of possibility. Lose any of the next three and it's bye bye.

No? Nobody wants to react to the pretty chart I made? Well alright.

Does this feel realistic to anyone else? (I gave all division match ups the "tossup designation save Thursday's game (see above))

...anymore?

Arizona, on the road, will be tough for any team. Honestly, the dropoff from Palmer to Stanton won't be that significant, considering its their blood-thirsty defense that's winning games for them. If Smith thought he got banged around yesterday...

YES X 1000 They ran that swing pass three times for a first down. Each time it was gorgeous. When was the last time we saw that play so flawlessly executed...so consistently?

It seems like every year we surmise that 11-5 will be needed to eek the playoffs, and every year we're wrong. Also, for a team (KC) that's made its living winning ugly, there's a whole lot of confidence going around that they'll get to 10-6 by finishing 4-3 with five losable games still left on their schedule: Seattle Denver @Arizona @Pittsburgh SD

Yesterday was awful. Just awful. Two straight years at home against the Chiefs and two games we just gave away. Two straight years of losses coming off the bye week in games decided by TWO untimely fumbles. I mean, Jesus. If ever there was a Bills loss, yesterday was it. But you get the sense that the team is pissed. And with the short week, they sour memory of yesterday's game will linger right up until kickoff in Miami. I had one eye on the Dolphins yesterday, and Tannehill looked like he was back to his jittery self. Now they're without their starting left tackle and already the Bills are better than any other team at making Tannehill look jittery. Barring anymore fluky, game deciding blunders, I expect Thursday to be a bloodbath. Our defensive line just dominated yesterday, and Tannehill won't handle the pressure like Smith did yesterday. I expect the Miami streak to continue.

If Chandler recovered, would it have been spotted at the point of the fumble? I thought you couldn't advance the ball on a fumble.

Had a guy running wide open in the endzone, that's why.