SageAgainstTheMachine

Yawner of a game.

Really good drive by Jones to overcome the two holding calls.

There was a glimmer in McD's eye in the press conference when he got asked about Brown and responded about making decisions to make the team better. He's there to stay.

Root for a sprained ankle all you want but wishing major limb damage on an athlete you happen to dislike isn't great.

I just don't see a path for any of our division rivals to even get to 9 wins this season. Nothing's ever a given but the AFC East title will never get easier than this.

I was 100% sure that Josh would get us into FG range on that drive so long as his receivers held onto the ball. He was in total control.

Off the top of my head, the only guys who get 80% of their team's carries (when healthy) right now are Henry, McCaffrey and Mixon. Two of them are the biggest focal point of their team's offense and the other's backup is *checking notes* Samaje Perine. If you want to include pass catching opportunities I'm sure Kamara is out there 80% of the time. Moss doesn't need to be in this company when Singletary is off to a fast start and showing burst. 60/40 I could buy. I also think it was probably a mistake to make Moss a healthy scratch against Pittsburgh but Motor ran well in that game and we won't ever know McD's reason anyway.

When the core of this team wins a SB, Lorax will have lots of equity in that despite not being on the field.

Paul Gaustad is smiling.

Guessing they have eyes on him as a return specialist.

Boogie Basham is the greatest name for a pass rusher I've ever heard. Get the HoF jacket ready.

Infectious personality. We all know that counts on this team.

So the Bills, who have really good players and coaches, are supposed to learn a lesson from the Sabres about how not to have really bad players and coaches?

This would be more valid if the NFL playoffs were played in 7-game series like the rest of sports. As it is, how many times have we seen a good team blow out a good team and then lose to a bad team the very next week? It happens a lot in the NFL, based on matchups but also on the simple concept of high variance in low sample sizes. Nothing that happens during the Super Bowl should change perspectives on our 2020 season which was a great season that sputtered out in a bad game.

This goes against God.

I, too, want a Bundt cake.

I don't care to delve into the dad/mentor psychology or anything. I think McD's fault here was insisting on coaching against KC like they're just another opponent. KC is like the Golden State Warriors dynasty. You stand little chance of hanging with them no matter what, but zero chance if you don't swallow your pride and admit that you need to race them to 40 points.

Two biggest things I got wrong were... 1) I thought Tremaine Edmunds would establish himself as a rising star, and he backslid. I'm a little annoyed that he got a Pro Bowl nod because I think it kinda complicates the issue of moving on from him as an every down player. 2) I thought Diggs would basically be the guy we saw in Minnesota, sometimes flashing as a top-10 WR and then other times dropping off the map. He insisted he was an elite player and it turns out he is.

Thing is, you gotta burn the ships sometimes. Once we were down 21-9 the strategy should have been to only kick or punt in the most extreme circumstances. If they did that and lost by 40 I still would have respected it. I think McDermott will remember the lesson.

I was mostly joking.

Like many I thought a successful season would be winning the division and a home playoff game. Turns out they ran away with the division and won two home playoff games.

Still think we win the SB this year if the freakin Browns take care of Chad Henne.

The FG try was an affront to the football gods.

So basically let's assume it's a 35% chance of converting the TD and a 90% chance of hitting the FG, meaning that the expected points for the FG is 2.7 and the expected points for going for it is 2.1. Add in that LaFleur is 100% a coward and it makes sense.

1 hour, gentlemen.