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After a couple tough decades, it is such a privilege to complain about small things on an 11-3 team in position for a playoff bye. Play calling still frustrates me and needs to be sorted out. There are blocks of the games where we could and should have some short possession passing and we throw the ball deep. There are designed runs by Josh that would be better as one read then scramble. I wish we could be a 3rd /4th and 1 “we got this” Team. I wish we wouldn’t need Josh to be Super to win. But we aren’t trying to win behind Trent Dilfer or Jimmy G. Scary that we still have room to grow as an offense. Go Bills P. S. Thanks to all those who threw snowballs. That was awesome. And then thanks to all those who stopped throwing snowballs when they threatened us. Bills Mafia is the best. It would be a dream to host the AFC championship a year after we were 13 seconds from doing it. P. P. S. Dawkins standing up for Josh and not getting an offsetting flag was awesome too. Body Guard with game awareness self discipline. P. P. P. S. Diggs being the first guy snow sliding into Bass tells you all you need to know about a win-first teammate and the non-story with the sideline reporter. 5/60/0 while four teammates find the end zone is tough, but he is only yelling for the ball when he is open and the offense is stalling. Guy is so committed to this team winning a Super Bowl and just wants to make sure they lean on him when they can.

Sad as I am, injuries happen and 54 of 56 Super Bowl champions did not have Von on the active roster. I love that he is still a part of this team this year and when he is healthy again. Go Bills.

What being able to consider the safety affords us is a chance to run other plays in the playbook knowing that an incomplete is not a problem and even a sack isn’t the end of the world. The push the middle up the middle seems to work for everyone else, but isn’t our best play. I definitely favor roll out or short pass for diggs. The fumbled snap is a heart breaker and if we execute that poorly any play in the playbook we will lose, but even with a secured snap I don’t think that is as likely to help us run out the clock as other options. This game should help harden us into a champion, but the it could cost us home field and that is an expensive price to pay for a lesson.

Okay. But if there are only 11 seconds next time? We can keep counting down until Mahomes can’t name that tune.

I get scared every time, and when his neck snapped back especially since players can be Ribs-tough and Ankle-tough but nobody can be Brain-tough. I think as worrisome as it can be, there are more bumps and bruises outside of the pocket with one defender that he sees and those aren’t a big deal with six days of rest, although great to avoid. I feel that more of the real injuries (backup starts games) happen inside the pocket looking to throw and getting rolled up on, blindsided, etc. When he takes off he is more aware of the defensive player, more often will have a single defender who isn’t a lineman, and better controls contact. I would like him to be smart as he can and avoid designed interior runs, but overall think his scrambling nature gets him away from hits that Brady, Theisman, etc missed time for, or Aikman etc didn’t miss time for, and in return Josh will be sore at times (and so will the DB or LB who stepped up). Obviously best if Singletary gets 6 on a handoff and Diggs 13 and Davis 22 with a clean pocket, but he is a big strong kid who brings a lot to this team outside the pocket without a huge increase if any to meaningful injury.

Miller, White, first round pick added. Young DEs on the upswing, Oliver on the upswing, LBs in their prime. Best safeties in their prime If healthy we will be better in the playoffs than we were in the playoffs (without White) and give up fewer passing yards in any particular 13 second span than we might have last year. As for the 17 game season, I don't think we will be ranked higher than #1, but probably just as good.

Probably they did not like their third best player left as much as Elam, and if you wait at 25 two players will be gone at 23 and 24 either to the teams with those picks, or someone trading to get ahead of the Bills (and since 23 was available in trade that is clearly a big open door). If they like this player I don't a 4th to move up and get him instead of risking getting stuck with a less valuable player at 25. Adding a 1st round trade up worthy player AND Tre back to our pass defense puts us in better position to stop Mahomes, Burrow, etc, so I like this pick overall.

Kick it in the end zone and Mahomes has to get 35 yards in 13 seconds to try a field goal. Squib's are to prevent a long return, but will be fell on with no time off the clock and make it so he has to go 20 or 25 yards in 13 seconds, which is a lot more likely. The kick to the five would have been my choice, but the chances of a big runback are really higher than Mahomes gaining 35+ yards on two quick plays. Strategically the biggest flaw was rushing four instead of three on those plays. We hadn't gotten to him all night with four (our D-Line was close a lot but definitely came up short on the night), and having one extra defender increases the chance of an incompletion or a short play, but also gives the time to cover to avoid one 35 yard chunk. The biggest thing this team needed was one defender to make one better play out of about 20 that went against us. Will be nice to get Tre back, but the secret to beating Mahomes's Chiefs like Brady's Pats before is getting pressure with four rushers. Couldn't do that and contain him tonight and that's why 42 points were on the board when all was said and done.

Painful, but probably the best game I have ever seen. We can dissect the thirteen seconds sequence especially, but we needed one more play by the defense anywhere and just didn’t get it. Incredible Josh Allen. Go Bills Avoid overreacting as hard as it is, and appreciate how close we were and how bright the future is

I agree with DJB. If a CB is the best available player at #32 then take him. But we are adding as much five year talent at each pick and not expecting our picks to be instant saviors at their position.

You mean Watson right? We all had Watson higher on our board, and would have picked Watson at #10, and the debate would have been if why we passed on Mahomes who slid to the Texans. Otherwise we are doing taking Brady in the 5th round or Aaron Rodgers in the first 24 picks. I don't think Mahomes was the pick that day if we didn't trade down. Tip of the cap to the Chiefs to identify Mahomes and trade up to get him, but I don't think trading down was Tre vs Mahomes, and more than wondering why the Bears gave up a third and fourth to move up one spot to not take Mahomes...

I don't see him as the best value for us at #32 if available, given the position and Singletary and Moss on the roster, so I would need for him to really be a lot better than anybody else available, and a lot better than the excellent backs often found in the 3rd and 4th. This is the Nick Chubb, Dalvin Cook portion of the draft, but it is also the Tre White, Lamar Jackson, TJ Watt, part, or on the flip side, the TJ, Yeldon Sonny Michel area. Not saying I won't ever *consider* a kicker in the 2nd round of my fantasy draft, but it would have to be quite a kicker, and the same is true of real draft first round running backs. Good player, but I'm not sure it is the best use of that selection in terms of impact on winning over the next four years. This. Someone on o-line or a tight end would likely do more to improve our offense (including running game) more than a high pick back. And the right pass rusher is likely more valuable than either of those to helping our team win more games over the next four years. We don't often pick in the bottom of the first round, but we did okay the first time McD got to (White).

Probably the "Beautiful River Williams" if we are trying to be as clear and complete as possible, or even "Beautiful River William Frederick Codys" As one of our many resident Italian-American experts here, I can say I take no offense to the term, and after its heavy and complex portrayal by Hollywood, I think it can be used without prejudice, so the only question is whether it is cool or dumb If I were part of a focus group for an ad agency prior to release of a marketing campaign, I might lean slightly against it, but now that it is out there and a nationally known group of fun, silly, dedicated, loyal fans doing cool things for children's hospitals and folding tables everywhere, I think it can stick around, and I give it my thumbs up.

A lot went wrong for us, a lot went right for an eleven win team with a HOF QB, and we won a playoff game and advanced one step closer to where we went to be. But still a very frustrating game to watch in terms of design and execution. 1) No success with our pass rush. Rivers is good at getting it out quick, but has no mobility. 2) Too much pressure on Josh without the blitz, we lost the trenches both ways 3) We don't have a standard running game right now, but with short accurate passes, and Josh scrambling, we can win that way. But we can't stubbornly run, and we cannot have that level of designed QB runs. We hadn't done the latter since the bye, and it puts him at risk, but also doesn't really help. He will get his runs when his receivers are covered. 4) Defense is what it is, but there were too many big plays that should have been small plays. Need to clean that up to beat the elite teams behind our offense. The pieces are there to do better and keep going, but we have to fix some things. After a short week we get either a normal week then a long week, or a long week then a normal week, so excited for another home playoff game next week.

One more than in 1992...

This is exactly my thoughts and worries. Gore got one good one and seven bad ones. Didn't get the Playcalling after the first half...something that had been a weakspot much of the season, moreso than our positional talent.

But why did they go empty backfield in overtime when Singletary got so many positive plays after contact, and same for the back to back regulation sacks...

I agree with other points, and that this year was easy, but nobody really knows what next year looks like this far ahead. Too much change I. The NFL. Nobody had the Ravens and Niners as the top teams a year ago. January Power Ranking and September actual teams are always way way different, so we will see which actual teams our 13 opponents field and play those.

1) Exciting talented QB did some awesome things, but played some plays like a rookie. 2) Gore had nothing except that one run, while Singletary had positive plays over and over. No idea why we were empty backfield in overtime. Their defense should have been more tired. Singletary runs and play action to Beasley. 3) In field goal range two sacks instead of runs was bad Playcalling and horrible execution. 4) Felt of game on the third down...is there a one second buffer because all I saw was double zeros before they converted. 5) Nice to be relevant again, but this game should obviously been closed out and we should have been playing next week. The ones who screwed up that chance are also the ones who made the success possible, so I want to play better and smarter, rather than clean house.

I prefer the Shadow version when there is one receiver way better than the others, but Sherman in Seattle also did half the field and it allowed the rest of the defense to play predictably and consistently and not let the opposing OC manipulate with formation and motion. I love Tre, but I love our secondary as a whole and think we are more than a shutdown corner. But also what has been stated or implied and what will happen should not be related.

I take issue with the following: Offensive Playcalling, deep touch passes were not going to work, shifting to the short stuff helped but we left plays on the field over the middle 10-15. Allen failed to step up on edge pressure a few times, and rolled into it. Bad tendency that I hope goes away. Led to some negative plays, but also missed opportunity to get out of bad plays and complete a few over the middle and run a few up the middle. Can you challenge PI on the final play or is it not allowed inside a.minute? If you can challenge, why not do it even if only a 1% chance? Can't use the timeout on Monday. One fumble and one blown coverage with good pressure turned the game, and the defense played great. Nice to have our own kicker back. Let's not hang out heads...that is a good team and now we need to find a way to get to 10-4 next week in what is a much bigger matchup than it felt like a month ago...

Whitner over Ngata is the one that matters. I mean trading out of Watson and Mahomes I mean... we will have to see how it plays out, but I think getting a great QB who has us at 9-3 can have us focus on the future for a bit, and not the second guessing club. Patriots passed on Brady six times, they were lucky not smart. But LJ is definitely a reminder over and over again, that drafting QBs is in imperfect art at best, and total crap shoot at worst. I'm glad we aren't in the market for a QB for a while and can focus on winning our 10th game in a season for the first time since 1999.

I was just in the ESPN playoff machine for the same reasons, but the key is 10-3. Just beat Baltimore and hope we still have this dream alive next Sunday night. Home game and long week to prepare helps balance out facing the hottest team in football right now.

All things being equal a higher draft pick is better. I'm rooting for other teams to win to improve our draft status wherever we end up. But the big part people pretend doesn't exist sometimes is that all things are NOT equal, and Josh Allen and the Bills beating the Lions as part of their development into a successful quarterback and a winning team respectively has real value, and I would strongly argue that in the vast majority of situations has more value than the improved draft position. So I hope that we win our next two games and finish 7-9, because that has a real value, and dropping from 10 to 16 or whatever in the process is fine with me, and I think worth LESS than those two wins would be.

That is awesome news! While it is my personal goal to see the Bills draft at #32 in the next few years, I am really happy we moved up four spots and would now draft #10. I think if we play our cards right we can move up a little further at and least pick in the mid teens. No sarcasm here. For those of you who think losing is the best path to winning, that is only maybe true when you are trying to draft a QB and it is a Luck/Manning kind of draft and you manage not to pick RG3/Leaf (so pretty much if you are the Colts), you probably want to look at the draft history. Come draft night, having a higher pick is better than a lower pick as you have more choices and more value to trade in either direction as well. But it is a much smaller importance than drafting smart/lucky. What I really hope is that we get a great player at #15 and #45 and #75 or whatever. I'm happily rooting for other teams bunched around us to win games and give us a slightly better pick where it doesn't impact us, but I'm still dreaming of 7-9 and not hoping for 5-11. Who we pick needs to be the best player available each time (position weighted of course, based on the degree a position impacts the game). Drafting for need only ensures that you will have new needs and less talent over the next five years.