Dr. K

I've considered this as one of the team's Achilles' Heels. They are well coached and intelligently put together, but this (to me) crazy individualism could sink the season, depending on who the unvaccinated players are and the luck of the draw.

The Hollister cut is the one that mystifies me the most. But what do I know?

Every word you wrote here applies to me, too. The only thing I might add is that, much as I hope they will win a Super Bowl, in the end many other things in my life are more important, and whatever my life ends up meaning it won't be changed if they win one or not. Go Bills!

The 2010 Chargers led the league in offense and defense and yet missed the playoffs because their special teams were so abominable. They allowed three kickoff returns for touchdowns, one punt return touchdown, and four blocked punts and finished 9-7..

Very reasonable. Your roster does seem thin at cornerback, though. Tough decisions on the last few men to make the roster.

Thank god somebody here speaks English! Thanks.

They bled first downs, let the Packers drive down the field, did not give up any really big plays but they did not make them punt. Finally stopped them in the red zone, and also the Packers missed a point-blank field goal. The Packers' time of possession in the first half was almost equal to the the Bills'. I hope they don't let teams hold the ball so much in the regular season, because Josh can't score sitting on the sidelines.

The defense definitely looked shaky to me. They had trouble stopping the run and I worry about cornerback depth. But I also expect them to shape up once the real games start. I just hope they don't suffer crucial injuries.

OR . . . you institute a mandate, as does, for instance, the army, that all army personnel must get vaccinated. I know that's not in the current agreement between the league and the player's union, but I don't consider such mandates tyranny, just long accepted, proven-to-work public health policy.

This is what depresses me the most. And it's all so unnecessary. And yes, Beane looked and sounded defeated in the press conference. I don't blame him.

The all-whites are my least favorite Bills uniforms.

Ambiguous wording. Try "The Bills fail to sweep the division after sweeping it last year." Sorry to be so picky. I loved the post and I hope they live up to your predictions. My biggest worry is major injuries--the Bills were relatively unscathed last season.

I grew up a bike ride away from RWS, but that was before it got built. Now I live about 650 miles away as the crow flies.

We must be about the same age (ancient). I saw my first live Bills game the day after my 16th birthday, in 1966, at the Rockpile, Bills vs. Houston Oilers with George Blanda at QB, won by the Bills with seconds left in the game by a 66 yard interception return by defensive back Haygood Clarke. I was sitting in the end zone where Clarke scored. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/196609250buf.htm I moved to Kansas in the 1970s and North Carolina in the 80s. It was hard to see the Bills in those days--they were seldom on TV--but I still followed them. I guess I'm a diehard.

You're right. Even if I've always thought that season was a mirage.

Only undefeated NFL season ever. I'm very old. 😀

You're right--I should not have used the term "paper tigers." Maybe it should have been "Chiefs = Vulnerable" But my point is that the Chiefs are not the invincible machine that so many people here and in the press say they are. They are vulnerable, and they showed it repeatedly in the run-up to the Super Bowl, where the best game they played from the beginning of November to the Super Bowl was the one they played against the Bills, aided by refs who put away their whistles on holding by the Chiefs secondary. The Chiefs have more than earned their respect from the rest of the league. But they aren't the 1942 Bears.

If they are so invincible, how the hell did eight teams--including the Panthers and Falcons--come within a touchdown of beating them? Not to mention the two teams that did beat them, by 12 and 17 points in the regular season. And then they lost the Super Bowl by 22 points.

I don't disagree--the Chiefs beat the Bills badly in the title game. It was their best performance in the last three months of their season. They went 8-0 in one-score games in 2020. So maybe they'll just blow everybody out this season, but I doubt it. They won't go 8-0 in one-score games again.

I get it that the Chiefs are the favorites in the AFC, and probably should be. But they also went into the Super Bowl favored to win. I said before the game that they would lose, and lose by double figures. Why? If you look at their play last season, especially in the second half of the season, they barely squeaked out eight of their wins. They lost to the Raiders and Chargers, and in other games: beat the Chargers by 3 in OT beat the Panthers by 2 beat the Raiders by 4 beat the Bucks by 3 beat the Broncos by 6 beat the Dolphins by 6 beat the Saints by 3 beat the Falcons by 3 A good team will win many close games, but when a team wins that many games by less than a touchdown you can expect a regression to the mean. Despite Mahomes and Kelce and Hill, and the fact they beat the Bills twice last year, I don't see any reason the Bills should be quaking in their boots about playing them. I predict the Chiefs will have a fall off this season and would not be at all surprised if they fail to make the playoffs. They lived on the edge last season and when you do that, you are in danger of falling off.

I just watched it a half dozen times on replay. He does get his left foot down--I was wrong about that--but it's very clear that he never gets the right one down. There is no image of his right foot "kicking up turf" and since you took the time to capture these stills you ought to know that this is true. The fact that Duke himself never even tries to protest ought to tell you even he knows he didn't get both feet down.

No he didn't. He didn't even get ONE foot down.

I don't think you guys are comparing apples to apples. If you say Allen will make 43 million per year in 2021 dollars, that is 17.7 million per year in 1986 dollars. Was Kelly's 7.7 million dollars in 1986 his per year salary, or for the life of the contract? If it was 7.7 million per year, then Allen is making a little over twice as much per year as Kelly made.

Me too. I hated hated hated the Rex hire form day one.

Everybody always says this, but he had his best game as a pro against San Diego in his first start AFTER the Cards game. Look it up. .