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Did Mrs. Yolo back you up on that with a little side eye and a "got that right?"

The refs could have resorted to the way they called the Texans-Chiefs game and kept throwing phantom personal fouls, roughing the passer, and unsportsmanlike conduct penalties on the Eagles defense to slow their pass rush since the Chiefs themselves couldn't.

I think the outcry after the Bills and Texans games by the football watching universe resulted in the refs being put under a microscope for this game. Amazing what an evenly officiated game can do for a team.

Jimi Hendrix didn't sing a word and it was iconic.

A bit better with the ax falling on Guy Smiley… Not as “in the moment” angry, but time has done nothing to lessen my desire to see Jalen Carter tear Mahomes’s arm off and beat Kelce senseless with it…

Super Bowl LIX... more like Super Bowl SUX

meh, his demise would still make me say Points for the fact that he seems genuinely amused by the "bildo" incident, though.

Not taking away from April as a coach but they also dedicated significant cap space and personnel to ST on some otherwise pretty talent devoid teams when he was the coordinator. Don't want to see them do that again...

The Eagles fan's husband must not be much of a football fan if he can't appreciate her position on this. She should say **** him and watch the game how she wants to. If the Bills had made it my wife wanted to go to NOLA (she's from there, and we still have a place there) for the game. If we did, I was going to watch it alone and then celebrate or wallow in public afterwards... and she completely understood that.

The Ravens were 3-5 when Derrick Henry was held under 100 yds, including against the Bills in the playoffs. Lamar wasn’t so fantastic when he had to carry the load himself… hard to justify giving someone an MVP under those circumstances.

I think McDermott runs a system on defense and Beane gets players for him to fit that system, and I believe that’s the direction that decision making follows. Beane’s major failing is that they haven’t drafted or signed someone who can consistently get pressure (was supposed to be Von), and they haven’t been able to find the second coming of Luke Kuechly (was supposed to be Edmunds), who made McDermott’s defense what it was in Carolina. Both are hard to find, and they’re the missing pieces that doom the Bills defense against elite teams. I agree with people who point out that the Bills too often look for position over bpa at the top of the draft, but I wonder how much of that is Beane and how much is at McDermott’s directive. Beane tends to do better in lower rounds, so it’s not like he and his scouts can’t identify talent, it’s more likely that there’s less combined decision making and more freedom.

When I think of "elite", I think of someone who has the ability to take over a game. Think Von Miller in his prime before the second ACL. That is a short list of Bills currently, imo. Allen, Cook... maybe Milano before his spate of recent injuries, but not this season... you could maybe make a case for Dawkins on the OL, but I don't think of them as individually dominant so much as I think of them collectively as a dominant unit this season until the KC game... none of our DL currently fits that bill, none of our LBs this season... maybe Benford, but I don't think of him as the type of player that just shuts down his side of the field, and certainly no one else in our secondary fits that description.

Meh... he was not a leader of men, he preferred to follow

They had to kill 3 1/2 minutes… maybe they should have been blocking for Cook? 🤔

And probably also as a gesture of appreciation to get him a ring in the event they made it and won.

Ironically in a WR thread, even with the personnel they already had if they keep feeding Cook in the second half of this past game when he's gaining 8 yds a touch, they probably also beat KC, so...

All well and good, but McDermott also has to be able to get them ready and trust them enough to play them then.

This is where I’m at. Whether or not it’s the right thing, he’s not going anywhere. If he truly has a “growth mindset” and if he and Beane are truly introspective about what’s holding this team back then he should find the most innovative DC candidate he can and hire him and then let him run with it, even if it means altering his defensive philosophy to some degree. Anything less at this point in my opinion is just stubborn hubris and will likely ultimately lead to undoing.

This is NOT good. For as much as the NFL likes to control the narrative, the narrative on the Bills, and part of the reason people watch, is they just can't seem to break through. Outside of the diehard mafia, they are the lovable underdogs that you can't help but pull for. With ratings like that, the NFL has no reason for the narrative to change which means the lean of the officiating will NEVER change... the sad thing is I'm only partially kidding.

Let's hope so... that would put them on schedule to refuse to defend their title and then disappear from the public eye while reports mount of erratic behavior behind the scenes.

As I posted in another thread, it's the Marv Levy years all over again. The Bills will get as far as their talent alone can take them and not a step farther until their coaches finally figure this out.

Yeah, that was flawless execution on the fumble last night. He has the benefit of a defense that can cover for any few mistakes he might make AND that can close a game, we don't.

I had gotten pretty good at letting the losses go fairly quickly, but this one is going to sting for a while. Rapp aside, the starters were as healthy as they have ever been at this point in the playoffs. Losing Benford hurt, but regardless of the expectations pre-season, if they were going to clear this hurdle, this should have been the year. They could finally run the ball, their OL was dominant, and they had their starting DL, LBs, and CBs intact to start the game. Despite that, it still wasn't enough. IMO, it's going to take a shift in defensive philosophy to clear this hurdle, and I don't see that ever happening with McD. That realization doesn't sit well with me right now. I really feel like this team is stuck in this position with no clear way out, not good enough as a coaching staff to win it all, but not bad enough for ownership to justify making a change. So what am I doing to clear this funk... ruminating, I guess. Something tells me it's not going to help much, either. On the bright side, at least there's almost a whole year before I get to feel this way again.

At this point, realizing the only way his team is going to win the game is if he plays nearly flawless probably has something to do with that.

Mahomes outplayed our defense yesterday... again. Do you think he would have looked as cool as a cucumber going against KC's defense? Or that Allen would have had difficulty facing that McDermott/Babich defense? Allen had the tougher task yesterday, hands down.