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Well this jinxed it

I listen to Joe Marino too (love his podcast) and I was surprised to hear that JA's INT % basically remained the same. I think it's just as important to consider fumbles (total and lost) because Josh definitely seems to be fumbling more than last year.

Mahomes > Allen Unfortunately

Yup. And I feel sorta bad about it but man, what a story it would be. Would be a good movie, 30 for 30, etc. Academically speaking, I could see Harvard Business School doing a leadership / organizational case study on centered on the Pegula's, the front office and McD of course. It's been a very challenging year for Buffalo, both on and off the field as you rightly pointed out (you left off Kim's health issues BTW), and if we FINALLY win the Superbowl (and even if we don't), the team performed at such a high level for the entire year and is a model of stability, consistency when times are rough. Bet there are a lot of good teachings and learning points that can be distilled from the 2022 Buffalo Bills season.

If KC wins, they will automatically get the top spot but virtue of having the most wins

Assuming the Bills Bengals game is cancelled and also assuming the Bills and Chiefs win their Week 18 games, one could easily make the claim that Bills should get the #1 seed since have a head to head advantage over the Chiefs and simply weren't able to play the 18 games due to the tragic events. What's more is if the Bengals and Bills win in week 18 and the Chiefs lose, all three teams would have 4 losses, but Buffalo and Cincy would BOTH have head to head tiebreaker advantage over KC! There would literally be a 3 way claim for the number 1 seed!

Ah ok gotcha! No worries

No. If we lost / lose / forfeit to the Bengals, we could still end up with the number one seed if both the Chiefs and Bengals lose next week and we win. I don't think you can fairly use win percentages in such a small sample size of games, letting the other 30 teams play 17 games and the Bills and Bengals 16. Assuming the Chiefs and Bills all win next week, the Chiefs would have a higher win percentage than Buffalo 14-3 versus our assumed 13-3. I suppose the league could also consider our head to head victory over the Chiefs since we didn't get a chance to play 17 games. In light of what happened, I think the simplest thing to do would be a coin flip to determine the "winner" of tonight's game (since it was likely to be a close game anyway) solely for playoff seeding. In other words, the Bills and Bengals final regular season record will be based on 16 games, but playoff seeding will be based on the results of the coin flip. All that said. Prayers to Hamlin. We have a tough team and they are family to each other. Don't underestimate prayer and positive thoughts. We will come out of this stronger, sometimes it just hard to see the forest through the trees.

Cincy isn't overrated. Second longest win streak in the NFL and also beat the Chiefs. They are a very good team. Well have our hands full, hopefully we walk away with a win!

Thanks everyone. I decided to start with Pat Kirwan's "Take Your Eye Off the Ball" book which incidentally is free for Kindle owners until tomorrow (or was for me). Appreciate all your suggestion and will also look at some of the other suggestions and we videos like Cover 1, too!

Crap. How did you know!!!!!

I've been watching the game for almost 30 years but admittedly, I'm not a very strong X's and O's fella. I know the basics of course and understand at a high level the chess match that is Offense versus Defens; but always find myself watching the ball versus diagnosing and recognizing what is happening before and after the snap. I think having a better understanding of these things and increasing my ability to recognize them in real time will enhance my enjoyment of the game. Do anybody have recommendations for a really good football X's and O's book that really goes into the details on thing like blocking schemes, coverage packages, how players' talent and physical traits impact personnel groupings and substitutions, etc? Thanks!

Hate to see injuries. They can happen to anybody at anytime. That said, if I'm the Cardinals owner, I might consider doing my very best to blow the whole thing up and start from scratch. Fire coach and GM, see about trading Murray (even if it means including picks/players based on his cap hit). Honestly, the Murray deal was stupid to begin with. It's almost as if fate intervened, giving ownership a difficult and uncomfortable way out of this mess. The short term pain of blowing everything up would be considerable, but keeping Murray, Kingsburry etc. is a losing scenario over the long term. Better to recognize the error now, deal with it at the expense of 2 bad seasons and emerge down as a potentially stronger team.

What about for those that don't live in Buffalo (or Miami)? From what I can tell, the only way that we can watch it (legally) is with a paid subscription to NFL's streaming app or FuboTV...?

So what does this mean for watching the game? It looks like the only way we can see it (I don't live in Buffalo or Miami) is with a paid subscription to NFL Network or FuboTV??? This sucks if true!

Who were we "missing"?

The Bills have't been great at tackling during the ENTIRE McBeane era. Joe Marino did a piece on this on one of his podcasts last week. They started out well this year, with missed tackles way below league / historical averages- now they're back to being among the worst in the league.

A long time ago I read an article that looked into this and the finding was that over time, our kickers enjoy a higher FG % than the visiting kickers. I also remember that the difference was more pronounced later in the year when weather is typically worse. Wish I could find the article.

Not necessarily maximize the wind, but wind certainly is an advantage for us over the years- especially from a kicking standpoint. Over time, our kickers / punters get used to the all the intricacies and nuance of kicking in our stadium w/ unique wind pattern, but visiting kickers aren't.

No red endzones, fail! In all seriousness, I like it. I wish the capacity was a bit larger (more screaming fans = louder game day experience). The bills usually sell out so the decision to reduce capacity is a bit curious. I wonder if the architects and engineers will build in some sort of "advantage" to maximize crowd noise like in Seattle, or orient the stadium relative to the lake to maximize wind swirl, etc. Finally, I hope they figure out a way to honor Ralph in some way.

Howdy folks, I'm traveling to Hanoi for work and land a few hours before the Bills Chiefs game kicks off. Does anybody know of any good Bills backers bars or Expat bars that would be likely to show the game? Mods, feel free to move the topic.

Gotcha, thanks. Are there any rules against paying / compensating players with instruments other than cash? For instance, a guy like Pegula, let's say he started a shell oil and gas company focused on drilling, fraccing, etc. and paid part of players compensation (provided they and their agents agreed to it) with equity stakes in that company? If there was an owner that owned a diamond mine, could he pay players in diamonds to offset what he or she would otherwise pay them in money so that it doesn't impact the cap as much? There must be rules against this, no?

Ok so this response posted just before my last question. I still don't get it though. Why couldn't then the most wealthy owner give everybody ridiculously large contracts to attract all the best players in the league- paying it as a signing bonus if what your saying is that it doesn't impact the cap number.

Can somebody explain this to me? I'm woefully ignorant on how the salary cap works. How does having cash on hand help manipulate the salary cap? The cap is the same for all teams, so it's not like Pegula can go into his safe, drill more wells, etc. and "find" money to pay these guys. Relative to each other, shouldn't every team be spending around the same amount year over year on average on players (whether they are on the roster or another team)?