SageAgainstTheMachine

Honestly I think we're waxing poetic about a whole lot of nothing here. The majority of eventual Super Bowl champions have had a stretch for 2 or 3 games during that season where they look bad and the sports media world gets to expound upon why they're done for. The really exceptional squads don't but most do. This particular season, literally every theoretical contender in the AFC has looked like a pretender at one point.

Nobody in the AFC has fewer than 3 losses. It's our turn to look bad but every one of the contenders has taken a turn. We'll rebound and win the division.

This is a close one but I agree that I wouldn't. We need better OG on this team but Josh proves over and over that he can put 35+ points up without them. But a kicker you don't trust in clutch spots? That's just a killer.

It's amazing to me that every week there are 2-3 teams that lose when every reasonable person would pick them to win and yet people act so surprised when it happens and declare the losing team cooked. I bet you could take 90% of the teams that made it to the Championship Games in the last 10 seasons and find a hot take article from some point during that season about whether they were done for.

If we get a couple first quarter TDs we'll run away. Carson Wentz will turn the ball over to our DBs if he needs to make a comeback.

I believe that teams selecting kickers in the draft are ahead of the curve on teams who don't. It used to be a laughable thought, because if only 2 or 3 were getting drafted, why not just get the 4th guy as an UDFA and retain your pick for a different player? The fact is, though, that the difference between the 1st tier of kickers and the 2nd tier of kickers is big. Now that extra points aren't a given anymore, it may be a difference of 15-20 points per season having a Tyler Bass. If you're drafting and you have the thought that the player you're picking in the 6th round is going to provide a differential of 15-20 points per season over what you have now...you take that player every time.

You just don't often see great defenses that can actually stifle the great offenses anymore. That's why last year's SB was so particularly shocking. What I can say about this Bills defense is that they make their opponents struggle to gain yardage and that wasn't true last season.

I mean let's be honest the concept of a "scoring list" that doesn't include the points that QBs produce by throwing for TDs is as dumb as stats get. That said, Tyler Bass is money and it stands to reason that he would surpass all other Bills' kickers.

We need to get CJ Spiller the ball in space.

Good on him. Best thing for the Falcons, too, as they're going nowhere this year anyway and are better off having a WR1 who's right mentally in the long run.

Titans content to not use their 3 timeouts with 34 seconds left and we get the ball back is surprising.

It's true. Throwing a lateral that far across the field is also a huge turnover risk for the first quarter. It was 100% a troll job, just one that might have worked.

For every team in the league, though. This is pretty much every game. NFL needs to do something about it because it slows down momentum in the entertainment aspect of the game.

Being a supporter of a bad sports team isn't misery. This whole thing is supposed to be entertainment, including having the heroes and villains aspect. It's part of the fun, have at it.

Watching these teams just reminds me of the inertia of being bad and how lucky we are as fans that we got McDermott and Allen to jump us out of it. We were in that spin cycle for so long.

When I need to push through something difficult I sometimes think about that Thanksgiving game in 2019 when Josh picked up the botched snap on the QB sneak and muscled through the entire Cowboys DL for a 4 yard gain. Am I a 32 year old man with a 25 year old man as a role model? Maybe.

Sometimes I feel like the T.O. thing was a fever dream I had.

There's no point to be made about how Tyreek Hill and OJ Simpson are worse than Gruden. Literally nobody would disagree with you. It's also got nothing to do with who the Raiders decide to keep in their employ. Just keep building straw men to hide behind while the scary world changes.

I became a fan right at the beginning of the drought so the golden thing is that I'll never get over the simple joy of the Bills finishing a game with more points than their opponent. 18 point win over the Chiefs? Amazing. 2-0 win over the Jaguars later this year? Count it, baby. Just win.

Pretty much this. Humans are notoriously bad secret-keepers so whenever there's talk of something conspiratorial the first question I ask myself is "For this to be true, how many people would need to be keeping this secret?". If the answer is any more than a few I consider it a very low percentage chance of being true.

You can tell Snyder is one of those guys who failed with women as a younger man and is now taking out his vitriol now that he has power. No telling what kinds of things he's done.

True. But the gap integrity we've shown so far this year would have him a lot more bottled up than he's been against other teams.

Sure, Ravens are 4-1 but I don't think this one matters much to us in the long run. Ravens face a gauntlet in their division this year. Colts, meanwhile, are down for the count.

It's amazing to me how people are defending Gruden as if he's being threatened with jail time over this or something.