Dr. K

I was wrong to speculate that Tua might break out in this game, but for most of it he played well enough keep the outcome in doubt. I did say that the Dolphins as a whole would come out wanting to prove those who said Josh had their number wrong, and that Flores was coaching to keep his job. The Fins defense had the Bills completely bollixed in the first half and for much of the second. I expect the Bills to come back stronger in their next few games, barring serious injuries.

I'm looking for apologies from those who ridiculed me for saying the Dolphins were going to give the Bills a hard time.

I'd pick Josh Allen.

I would like to see the Bills pound the Dolphins into sludge. I'm serious about that. I'm also serious in my belief that the in the NFL good teams can be ambushed by bad ones now and then. Nowhere in my post did I say Tua was a good quarterback. But even bad QBs have games where they look good. Mark Sanchez has won four playoff games, on the road--two of them against the Patriots with Brady and the Colts with Manning. I trust this will not happen tomorrow.

Ha Ha. Good, of course. I hope that none of the Bills' players are as arrogant as some fans. I know that McDermott fights to keep that to a minimum.

Jokes are easy. I'm sure that and disdain are most of what I'll get here.

Any of the rest of you consider it possible that Tua will have a breakout game against the Bills? He's been playing better lately, and the Dolphins have seen the Bills already and should change their game plan to account for what the Bills do. It must be galling to them to hear that Allen has their number and the Bills will roll over them. Flores is coaching for his job. They have a lot of incentive. I still think the Bills should beat them, of course, but it might be a high scoring game and closer than we would like to see.

I agree that Clay should have caught the pass, but it absolutely did not "bounce off his chest." It was an amazing play by Josh but we don't have to distort what happened. This is how myths get started. https://www.yahoo.com/now/josh-allens-bills-miracle-falls-flat-charles-clay-drops-potential-game-winner-vs-dolphins-215726312.html

This was likely. He missed two season's worth of games in the last five seasons. I never wanted him on the Bills.

We took a lot of flack when I posted this in August. To be fair, I was not certain it would work out this way, and I don't know if the Chiefs are done even now.

I am very skeptical that if and when he comes back he is going to in any condition to play the way he did in the first five games. I almost feel like they should write him off for at least a couple of months.

I remember very recently the Jacksonville victory over the Tyrod-led Bills, being mocked for managing to score only 3 points against them. They won 13 games that season, beat Pittsburgh, got into the AFC championship game where they narrowly lost to the Patriots. The next season they completely collapsed and are now a laughingstock. Beware hubris.

I'm convinced the Bills would not have scored any more points with Flutie at QB. The best scoring effort the Bills had that season was when Flutie was benched for Johnson and the Bills beat the 13-2 Colts, under Peyton Manning, ending the Colts' 11-game winning streak, by a score of 31-6. The Colts needed that game to secure home field for the playoffs but Johnson torched them. That's why Johnson started over Flutie in that game. I'm not saying Johnson was a good QB. But Flutie was not the hero he is so often made out to be.

Flutie gets way too much credit among Bills fans. Watching the Bills struggle to score in that 2000 season with him as QB was painful. He was the one who hung Thurman out to dry and got him injured. He had a huge ego and was not a team player. He was benched and Johnson started in his place for a reason. When Johnson walked off the field in that Tennessee game, the Bills were winning. That said, they both were mediocre QBs at best. God what a depressing list of QBs that is.

I never, for a second, wanted JJ Watt on this team.

Having started this thread back in August, I'm grateful to have the Bills make me look like I might occasionally know what I am talking about. As for the Chiefs rest of the season, I don't think the personnel issues on their D are going to be easy to fix in mid-season. The defensive liabilities will make it hard for them to go on a winning streak, but with Mahomes at QB they are still going to win some games. No. But I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.

Yeah, I hate the train horn. Both obnoxious and stupid at the same timne.

I agree. The refs make terrible calls all the time (including in Sunday night's game) , but I don't think there are any conspiracies. I do think there can be subconscious bias in some situations, but it's not because the refs are in on some fix.

Collinsworth doesn't usually bother me, but he was hard to listen to last night.

Don't look now, but I think your hair is on fire.

If I'm not mistaken, except for Mahomes throwing an interception at the start of the second half (and them kneeling to run out the clock at the end of the game), the Chiefs scored touchdowns on every possession they had yesterday. For that matter the Eagles did not punt in the game either.

If the refs don't allow the Chiefs to mug our receivers, the Bills offense should look better than it did last time. Plus I'm hoping the running game is better. A huge factor is going to be how our o-line plays, whether they can open any holes or give Josh time to think. I don't expect the D to shut Mahomes & Co. down, but it would be nice if they could keep them from running roughshod.

The D is the thing that pleases me the most. Next week is the big test.

Her voice does not bother me at all. Maddy Glab has a terrible voice.

Paper tiger: "one that is outwardly powerful or dangerous but inwardly weak or ineffectual." That certainly seems to describe the Chiefs of the first three games of the season. They have time to turn it around and they might. Let's see if they can beat the crap out of the Eagles.