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Are you against paying Phil Hansen? I’m not. Sad day when he retired. Pretty much signaled end of an era.

You can blame McKelvin all you want but please put sufficient blame on Jauron as well. The NE drive before the fumble - BUFF up 11 with less than 5 minutes to play. Bleed the clock. It was the one time to actually play prevent defense. Rush three, drop eight into coverage. Nope. Rush four, no one sniffs Brady and they march quickly down the field. OK. At least keep them out of the end zone before the two minute warning so one first down ends the game. Nope. TD right before two minute warning. Just all around horrible coaching.

Wow. Ok. We should have lost 100 - 0. That’s quite the rational take you’ve got there. How about this for a take? We were outplayed but had a chance to pull the game out at the end even if we didn’t “deserve” the win.

“Utterly destroyed by the Texans.” You do know we had more yards than the Texans, right? The turnovers were killers. We had a legitimate chance to win the game. Would a win have been a little fluky? Sure. But it was nowhere near being utterly destroyed.

Wow. That’s some stat. 20 - 3 over the last 4 - 5 games of the season (one of the losses being a rest the starters last year at NE). Very impressive.

Crazy, right? Not sure it passes the eye test. Guess we’ll find out on Sunday.

I’d be shocked if we got a #2 for Dawkins. 31 year old very good but not great LT? A fourth? Maybe a third?

As much as a bunch of people despise aspects of Brady’s offense (me included), it is built to win in cold weather, bad weather. Just so happens that each of the last five games will potentially be bad and/or cold weather games. I doubt that the run the table but, yeah it’s possible.

Not sure if you were like me but I was screaming “play action” after two successful runs. Nope. Third run would go nowhere. Worked yesterday but we’re going to have to mix in more play action going forward.

Was anyone upset with the sequence near the end of the first half. It’s a minor annoyance given the final score but I thought it was botched pretty badly. Fourth and goal from around the three or four. Just under a minute left and Bills have all three time outs. I’m thinking kick the FG and maybe get the ball back with a chance to add three more given how poorly the Pittsburgh offense was playing. Instead, we go for the TD, call time out after looking at Steeler’s D (that ends any chance of getting the ball back), go back out and commit a penalty ending chance of going for it. Happy we got the FG but just a Keystone Kops sequence. Also, if we miraculously do anything in the postseason it will the Bosa play that turned the season around.

Assuming that’s accurate, that’s not a great decision by McDermott (the first penalty, not the second). It’s a quirk of the rule that you really don’t gain any real advantage by enforcing it on the kickoff. Better to make the kicker try a 48 EP on a windy night. Was that option even available?

Personal foul for unsportsmanlike conduct on Metcalf after Pittsburgh TD. Ref goes to McDermott. Penalty will be enforced on the kickoff. Nope. Can’t be enforced on the kickoff. So Boswell kicks a 33 yard extra point instead of a 48 yard extra point. And Pitt kicks off as if no penalty whatsoever had been called. But wait. Stenatore says it can be enforced on the kickoff! What a cluster****. Can anyone make sense of any of this?

It was great to see Ray Davis in 2024 form. He looked quick and fast. Could be a nice positive down the stretch.

‘85 rematch upcoming? Yuck 🤮.

Cam Ward is the Owen Power of #1 overall picks.