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Would need a whole lot of help. Texans seems to have woken up, particularly Watt. But the real killer is KC. A game up on the Bills now, they own the tiebreaker, and every team they play the remainder of the season is under .500. The Bills aren't dead, but this loss was a killer and has them on life support and they will almost need divine intervention to make the playoffs now.

The Bills got credit for 1 sack because when Smith ran once they tackled him about 6 inches behind the line. A bull **** sack, but it counts.

He tugged on the jersey with the ball in the air. They call the jersey tug all the time. Or was that a different one? It almost has to be as the one I am remembering was very obvious. But was in the lower left corner of the screen.

We don't take it nearly that seriously. It's just football after all, entertainment.

There won't be any sacrificial lamb. The only coach making significant mistakes so far is Ryan and he isn't going anywhere.

What we have done the past few seasons is record the games, strip out the commercials, and watch as a family while we eat dinner. We get through the game in less than 90 minutes (we skip halftime manually as well) and have the afternoon free to do other things. It works out really well for us! That's why I would prefer every Bills game to be at 1:00. The other time slots and days don't work out nearly as well.

Bills had 72% chance to win against the Giants, and lost the game. Those are the 3 Bills games 538 got wrong (plus the coin flip) of the 10 that have been played. CBS completed and ESPN added.

If you ignore the coin flip, they have 6 right and 3 wrong so far. I think that would mean bet what they say, if anything

I don't watch much except for the Bills already. Not due to any kind of "fix" conspiracy theory, just lost interest in the game and have better things to do.

538 is my favorite and it is easy to look back with them: Won against Miami, given a 49% chance to win so it basically called a coin flip Lost to the Giants when given a 72% chance to win Lost to Jax when given a 76% chance to win Beat the Jets when given a 44% chance to win

Added sportsclubstats which thinks this KC game is pretty much do or die for the Bills. If the Bills win, their chances of making it to the playoffs goes up to 60% whereas if they lose, it goes under 20%.

Everything in except ESPN and one CBS person.

Hardly vicious, but absolutely should have been called as was noted by the talking heads last night. Yet more bad officiating in that game.

Because of Brady. Did you notice how his passes were exactly where they needed to be even when the coverage was good? Any decent receiver can catch the ball when it is perfectly placed, and with Brady they don't even need to get very open.

Is that all that was missing on the O line? I thought I heard the talking heads saying most of the designated starters were out. If not, then it was just the receivers and the O line is just bad.

I think you just made my point for me

The Pats offense was absolutely decimated with injuries in both the O line and the receivers. The main target at the end was a guy they pulled up from the practice squad last week for gods sake. That game was offered up on a silver platter by the football gods, custom built for the Bills defense. It's a shame the Bills couldn't figure out a way to win. But the Pats still had a ridiculously huge advantage when it comes to the most important position on the field.

Umm, wouldn't faking an injury for that purpose make you a cheater?

Yeah after that one long pass play in particular where they caught the Bills wayyyyyyyy offsides. They waited until the Pats player stepped out of bounds before snapping it. Either incredibly aware or incredibly lucky. Knowing Brady, I'm going with aware.

I was wondering about that last night. But when Rex accepted it without even a questioning look on his face I figured it was some defenseless player protection rule about forward motion being stopped (Watkins was moving backwards).

CBS with Spread (Bills +3.5) : 7 take Chiefs, 1 took the Bills. (http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/features/writers/expert/picks/against-the-spread/12) CBS Straight Up: All 8 take Chiefs. (http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/features/writers/expert/picks/straight-up/12) ESPN: Clean sweep, all 12 and Pick'Em took the Chiefs with one not picking.. (http://espn.go.com/nfl/picks) Microsoft Cortana (Went 9-5 in week 11): Chiefs 63% chance of winning. (http://www.cortanapredictions.com/) FiveThirtyEight: (Went 10-4 in week 11): Chiefs 70% chance of winning with an Elo point spread of 6. (http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2015-nfl-predictions/) Amos: (Went 10-4 in week 11) Chiefs 66% chance of winning. (http://trevorbischoff.com/nfl-2015-week-12-predictions/) FiveThirtyEight predicts a 8-8 season record for the Bills this season with a 31% (down from 36%) chance of making the playoffs and a less than 1% (unchanged) chance of winning it all. Could be worse I suppose, 25% through the hockey season and it puts the Sabres chances of making the playoffs at 8.6% Amos predicts a 9-7 season record for the Bills. SportsClubStats (http://www.sportsclubstats.com/NFL/AFC/AFCEast/Buffalo.html) predicts a record of 8-8 for the Bills this season with a 33.2% (down from 40.9%) chance of making the playoffs.

I see other threads closed as "discussed elsewhere" yet this one has been around since 11/15

Did Brady play much that game? I don't remember.

From a Pats homer article:

The Bills Are Proof That A Team Needs More Than Just A Good QB http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-bills-are-proof-that-a-team-needs-more-than-just-a-good-qb/