Utah John

I saw a movie on some streaming services recently, called "Buffaloed". One of the actors was the writer, and he was from Buffalo, and the movie is full of inside jokes that most Buffalonians would get. Example: a character is eating wings at work, and someone asks him where he gets his wings. He says, the Anchor Bar, and someone else yells out, what are you, a tourist? Anyway I thought I'd toss out a suggestion if you're looking for something to watch.

I'm not sure why you'd expect Hollins to fall back. He seems like a guy who stays in shape, knows the routes, and works to get open. I don't think he's particularly old. But he doesn't play really fast, and the Bills really do need better speed at WR. I hope they can get a pretty good WR1, but other than that they're set everywhere on offense. The already have all the depth they need for O line reserves, and all the starters played well. It's defense where the Bills have already invested so much and have so little to show for it.

I said during the game that the MVP should be Sweat. Hurts played well except for the careless interception, but Sweat led the charge that crushed Mahomes like I've never seen happen before.

Great analysis. I don't know if the Bills would have been successful doing that the Eagles did, considering the Bills D line is a B or B- group based on production. (The Bills spend so much money and so many draft picks on the D line, and this is all they get?? Either they can't draft that position, or they can't coach that position, or both.) So an attacking scheme by the Bills would probably still have given Mahomes plenty of time to pass, and the soft zone would still have been a target rich environment for Kelce.

The silver lining is that Coleman was drafted to be our WR2. Except for Cooper, playing injured most of his time in Buffalo, we didn't have a WR1. Next year we get a WR1 from the draft or a trade or a free agent, and together with Coleman and Shakir, the Bills suddenly have a very good WR room.

Hurts didn't complete a whole lot of passes, but he kept finding wide open receivers. I say that partly because I'm used to watching Bills receivers running around with defenders right beside them so this was a refreshing experience for me, and partly because the Chiefs sold out to stop Barkley. The Chiefs roster had holes in in, particularly on the O line, and through skill, great coaching, and team work they managed to compile a great record through the regular season. I remember Diane Keaton starring in a movie after she was already looking pretty old, and with camera tricks and makeup they made her look a lot younger than she really was. Same thing for the Chiefs. Once they hit the playoffs, their legacy skills got them past the Texans but they should have lost to the Bills. The party crashed down tonight, when a complete team with strong players at many positions exposed the Chiefs limitations. Reality matters. The Bills have fewer holes in their roster than the Chiefs, in particular a much better O line. But the Chiefs have a much better D line than the Bills do, and also much better DBs. I think the Bills would have done better than the Chiefs tonight because Josh would have been protected better and would have kept the ball away from the Eagles, helping hide the Bills weaknesses. But, honestly, I think the Ravens are a better team than the Eagles, and the Bills beat them, so who knows what would have happened tonight if it was the Bills out there.

Well, you could be right. That makes sense. He's way to young to just retire.

Micah Hyde has made millions of dollars and his family is happily living in San Diego. There's no way he comes back to work the crazy hours of an NFL coach. But he'd be pretty darn good if he did.

There's the rub. A guy can have a pretty unimpressive career, win two games, and get into the HOF? There's a lot of people who think so, but I think that's just BS. Teams win SBs, not QBs.

I was a little surprised that Allen won, not because he didn't deserve it, but because influential people were all talking up Jackson. And they both deserved it IMHO. I could have lived with it if Jackson had won, but I think Allen demonstrated how important he was to the Bills all through the season. Take Jackson off the Ravens and put in their backup, and they win 8 or 9 games easily. Put in Allen's backup and we're talking about a very high draft position. Which of the two would make an impact on any other team? Both, actually, but Allen would be a bigger difference for more teams. I don't take anything away from Jackson in saying that the voters got it right.

Completely agree with your conclusions. Eli Manning was a mediocre QB over the duration of a highly inconsistent career. Absolutely does not belong in the company of the great ones. The Giants won two SBs with him as QB, big deal. Their defense was what made them successful. Sterling Sharpe and Luke Kuechly both deserve to get in. They were great for sustained periods of time and had annual awards backing up that consensus.

Ah the off-season. Cue the ridiculous arguments, the wacky trade proposals, the standard fire-McD posts. Good times.

OK, I agree, make the plays and don't let the refs stop you. But when you make a first down on third down, and they deny it, and then you make the first down on fourth down, and they deny it, what are you supposed to do? When their RT ALWAYS commits either a false start or illegal formation, and the refs call it a token once per game, and that stops your pass rushers from getting through, what are you supposed to do? The hits keep on coming.

Well, look at who left. The Bills had more holes than a colander last offseason and did well to address most of them, but DBs were clearly the weak area going into the season and that's how it turned out. i think the best team of the Josh era we were ever going to have was the 13 second fiasco. That team was loaded, and since then attrition due to age, some FA losses, some injuries all took their toll. If Beane wasn't really good at his job, the weaknesses would have been critical. Yet the Bills were the two seed once again, and really only missed a shot at the one seed due to the Chiefs getting a series of small miracles, imagine that.

Better yet, USE HIM to push. On several of the failed attempts against the Chiefs, it was pretty much just Josh, or Josh with a smaller player pushing. Get Anderson and Knox both behind Josh, and really push. Something WAS off. I hadn't heard that Dawkins was ill or injured but either one would make sense. The O line as a whole was not as strong as it usually is.

I see that a lot. I don't know why it happens but it doesn't bother me, unless there's writing I can't make out.

Yes! The players from the years when training camp was at Fredonia all talked about the forced togetherness and how that contributed to the team's success. As for the helmets, it's true the only championships the Bills have won were not only with white helmets, but also with the class standing buffalo. Bring those back!

OK, they should have gotten that first down. But usually that play gets Josh three yards downfield. He was doing well to get a yard, over and over.

To be fair, this was not premium top-shelf A+++ Josh we saw last night. He was lucky not to get picked early on, and that's as close as he's come for months to getting picked. He's usually better than that. But even A or A- Josh, which we had, should have been able to win that game. I don't know what Brady was trying to do, or not do, but the calls were just bad.

This was supposed to be a re-set year, remember? McBeane figured out how to fix most of the holes, but they were only able to kluge together an adequate starting four in the defensive backfield. But the depth was terrible. Losing Rapp for the gamer was a real problem, but losing Benford too and replacing him with Elam just shot the D all to hell. Imagine Elam trying to cover A.J. Brown in the Super Bowl. Ouch. You know Eagles fans were pulling for a Bills win.

Was it Allen's fault the Bills stubbornly kept trying the tush-push play? KC had figured out to stop it (or there was something wrong with our O line), so after a couple of misses or near misses, who not try something else?

KC timeout seems good for the Bills. They were getting a little sloppy and they need to get their focus back.

Playing for a FG? Seriously?

BS call on the penalty for tackling Mahomes. He was a runner. Any runner in that situation should expect to be tackled.

Actually that was the second time someone got by him. All year. Out of over 300 plays. And it was Josh's fault for not protecting the ball, and taking too long in the pocket.