May Day 10

Initial feelings (looked at this a couple weeks ago to be honest). 1st place schedules are more unforgiving with the 17th game. Maybe another Bills @ Lions Thanksgiving game? Home schedule looks manageable. Shoot for 7-1 and can go 5-4 with that really difficult-looking away-slate to get to 12-5. At least they avoid the bengals. Primetime games: @Ravens, @Dolphins, 49ers, Jets (Thurs), and something weird on MNF like @Houston

I'd take Rivera for one of those "assistant" coach positions. No to coordinator. Very well respected by players I think. Good history with mcdermott

If the bears opens up, I like that better. Bonus points for qb on a rookie deal and easier of the conferences

The way that team has collapsed, I wonder what the deal is behind the scenes. There has got to be serious drama in the lockerroom and I wonder if Sirianni is directly involved.

A team built 100% on speed is doomed to fail. Itll look great on paper and in September and October, but the NFL season is a war of attrition. Eventually, speed gets slowed down.

I think I want KC to be honest. This is assuming Cleveland wins, and assuming the Bills win (dont worry, Im plenty worried about Pittsburgh) I trust Cleveland to beat Baltimore moreso than Miami. I would also rather play this version on KC here than that punchy Browns team. Would also be nice balance to knock Mahomes out in Buffalo to go to the AFCCG (and he has to come here next season)

Really though, this has to be borderline traumatizing for Dolphins fans. I cant imagine what it would have been like to have a season like this in the drought and have New England just ***** it up in Buffalo the last week of the season in front of a stadium full of their own fans.

Reading some of the "content" over there... I never realized what kind of perceived dominance a lot of their long-time fans see that the Bills have over Miami. But now that I think about it, someone my age (45) would feel that way, absolutely. The Bills basically bottled up most of Marino's career. And Allen owns them in this era. Looked up their records. From the Dolphins' start in 1966 to 1986, Miami held a 34-7-1 record against the Bills, which is why the generation ahead of me loathes them From 1987 on, the Bills are 47-27. They just beat them 4 times in a row since the heat stroke game. The last time Miami beat Buffalo 4x in a row was 2000-2001.

Davis looked like a clown out there before he got hurt.

Fin heaven is wonderful right now.

It's great. 4 in a row is hard to do.

I thought he coached an excellent game

Harty Sherfield Rapp New guys all earned it today with huge plays. I want to give one to Allen too. Gamer. Made some awful mistakes but he put his head down like no other in this league can and earned it

They have left a lot of points on the board this game. Damn shame. I'm also done with Joe Brady. Running into a brick wall predictably every first down has them constantly behind the sticks

They are just gifting them 2nd and 9 every time

That half was not on McDermott. Allen donked off a lot of points that half. Ouch

It's a relief Trying to navigate a 2 seed or out game is unprecedented stress

Good on Tennessee for fighting that hard. Good karma. Baltimore. Bad karma

It's crazy we have two major league sports teams. I'm a little uneasy about the state of the Sabres and the expiring lease though

Impressive fight from the titans. I have said it before. Instilling this kind of standard of winning and playing hard is 100x better than a few notches of draft position

I really hope new england doesn't get vrabel

Tennessee looks like they are out for blood

As long as he doesn't sneeze, cough, laugh, or breathe in too deeply, ha

They have had this alignment for an eternity in terms of pro sports. They even added another game seamlessly. I guess I'm fine with it. A few things I don't like but not sure what the answers are. For the most part, the current format is very clean. First, I feel like the bills miss the mark in their division. I think the Miami "rivalry' is silly and has been dead for 30 years (would this be any different if buffalo and Denver were at the top of the division 2 years in a row?). Imo the centrals: pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cindy, Detroit, minn, gb etc makes more sense. I've grown really bored of playing the jets, new england, and miami for more than a third of every season. Second, I don't like the format where 1 team gets a bye out of 7 Third, yeah, a division winner hosting an 11-6 team. Not sure I want to change that. It stinks when one division is universally bad for a period of time (sometimes chronically) while another division might be stuck with Payton manning or brady for 15 years. The 3rd wild card helps with that a little bit. If I were to do anything, I'd want to refresh the divisions somewhat. Rivalries in the nfl are all based on who is fighting for the top of the division, and who is at the top of the conference for a block of seasons.

Huntley is a bag of poo. My god