SageAgainstTheMachine

This is a big time season of the haves and the have nots. 7 teams are 10-4 or better and 9 teams are 4-10 or worse. I don't have the data but it feels like the league has been short on wild upsets.

Hopefully no game this season comes down to it but...I wonder what yard line we would attempt a Hail Mary from. Our own 35?

I totally disagree because a long return has a risk of ruin factor that a single play from the 30 yard line doesn’t. The only truly unacceptable outcome there is that they score and make it 48-42 with enough time to kick back off to us and use their timeouts. Any version of them kicking onside is a win.

Josh is a few more great seasons from becoming known as the single most potent offensive weapon the NFL has ever seen, something that will be further acknowledged as football shifts toward efficiency metrics.

You don’t sit your important starters for almost a month and then expect them to come back in rhythm. It’s a complete non-starter of an idea.

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There were actually tons of contributors to this win. The O-line is an incredible unit, Spencer Brown in particular playing like an animal. Cook with 100 yards and 2 TDs (13 on the season!) Shakir was great. Ty Johnson with a career game. We might lose the game if Knox doesn’t make that fingertip catch on 3rd down. We might lose that game if Hollins isn’t so sure handed on the onside kick. Or if Benford doesn’t hassle St Brown into fumbling, or if Oliver doesn’t force two three and outs to begin the game, or if Taron doesn’t cover the final onside. How about Joe Brady calling a hell of a game and going toe for toe with Ben Johnson? The funny thing is that you know for a fact that Josh loves and respects his teammates and coaches but this board is a bunch of absolute misers about it.

Imagine winning your division and having to play that team in the wildcard round haha.

They finish the season against three playoff teams. They can absolutely lose two of those. Not saying likely, but it wouldn’t be some miracle either.

Not counting on it, but this plus our win vs Detroit cracks open a door to the 1 seed that I was convinced closed after we lost to the Rams.

A lot of this board is an emotionally scarred bunch that was happier with the thought of us being a 9-8 team in a semi-rebuild mode because then they wouldn’t have to face the specter of being let down.

KC and Detroit are 25-1 against all other opponents and 0-2 against the Bills.

Bartleby the Scrivener

While I'd want to avoid major structural asterisks (For example, there are no baseball fans who take the Dodgers' 2020 WS seriously), hell yeah, bring on the easiest road possible.

I think this has merit. On the Brady Bunch, the family was really close and they would always use one another's first names instead of just saying "Brady". The maid would refer to Mr. Brady and Mrs. Brady sometimes but with the children she always used first names.

I also think Hyde is coming back to compete with Poyer who has contributed to two Bills victories.

There’s also a chance that he sees himself staying in football and using the Bills organization to climb the ladder. He’s got a head coach personality.

There’s absolutely no way he would sign unless he’s been promised that he’s replacing Brandon Beane as GM by Week 16.

He may need to score 5 or 6 to beat the Lions, so I could see it.

Day 3 of Kid-got-bumped-into Watch.

I feel like the Andy Reid comparison is the best reason to keep him. 13/14 playoff teams’ seasons end with a loss every year in a game that’s just wild with randomness. So it’s illogical to think a coach has some ineffable inability to win, rather than that it simply hasn’t happened yet. Rewind to 2004 and you’ll hear a lot of passionate Eagles fans INSISTING that Reid doesn’t have the stuff it takes to win. Good coach but a loser in the big moments. Fast forward. Whoops.

The level of public inebriation that some fans display is embarrassing. I marvel at the people I’ve seen who bother to pay for an NFL ticket and then sit there half blacked out in a puddle of puke. I also think it’s fine that there are spaces in this world that aren’t designed as fun for the whole family, and anyone expressing upset over this, whatever actually did happen, is faking the indignity.

I was at this game, the first live one I’d attended in a couple years. The Gronk hit really distracted from what was otherwise the most boring game in football history.

Oh I understand and agree. I was just saying it’s interesting because back then people really thought that only the next franchise QB could break that drought.

Classic trap game. The Rams utilize copious trap blocks to get Kyren Williams running downhill.