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Good thing it was regular season and not playoffs or it wouldn't have even counted.

...and immediately ends up on IR. The bartender again says "Whattya boys havin'?" Confused, Denney, Kelsey and Toohill hold up their lunch pails. Nodding, the bartender says "Ah, sorry mates. Couldn't hear you before over the engine noise from the high motors."

“Everyone probably knows the Bills scored 30 or more points for the 8th time in a row tying like 5 other teams to do it I believe. So if the Bills score 30 or more this week they become the first offense ever to hit 9 in a row. If the Bills can score 30 or more in the last 3 games they will be the first team ever to score 30 or more in 14 games in an NFL season. Right now the 2013 Broncos have the record at 13.” The most consecutive 30 pt games is 8 games in a row, currently shared including the Bills on their current streak. Bills can break it with a 9th win. The record for 30 point games in a season is 13. Bills can break that as well by winning out to get to 14. He’s talking about 2 separate records.

8th game in a row. They’re currently at 11 on the season.

With Lamar as their QB, it's their coping mechanism to convince themselves that playoff stats don't count given that they're 2-4 with him despite their defense giving up an avg of only 15.9 points over that span.

Yeah, that's a ridiculous argument. Given Jackson's history of wilting in the playoffs, if I was on X I'd respond that Lamar could learn a thing or two from Allen about saving his best for when it counts.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/boxscore/_/gameId/401326626

“Getting better”… that’s terrible news.

Spencer Brown - “No exaggeration ladies…”

Tough call on Elam. Not that I think he was great, but Douglas was a big part of the problem against the Rams. Don’t know if he was injured or what, but he got smoked on the regular.

Oooof. Glad I didn't eat lunch.

Was I crapping on him? Gabe left for Jacksonville, Hollins signed with the Bills. I was stating a preference. Crapping on him would be what I did when he was still a Bill.

I'd take him over Gabe every day of the week.

Honestly, I don't understand why Detroit didn't try an onsides kick after every possession from that point forward. They've already abdicated any defensive expectations at that point. They've accepted the Bills are going to score every time they get the ball. They've basically accepted that it doesn't matter where the Bills start from on the field at that point, the outcome will be the same. Why not try to steal a possession every chance they can. The benefit of doing it with 12 minutes left should have been that it would have given them multiple opportunities to do it.

It was an acknowledgement that they couldn't stop the Bills offense. It was analogous, IMO, to the first time Bill Belichick let someone score a TD to preserve clock and try to get the ball back in Brady's hands. He was trying to get the ball back to close a gap that was only likely to widen when the Bills got the ball, anyway.

Appearances/wins. McDermott is the only one on that list to not even have an appearance in the first 5 years of such a stretch of 11 win seasons, unless he makes it this year. I don't hate McDermott. I think he's a better coach than most in this league. I don't know who would come in off the street and be immediately better. However, I don't love him either. I don't think he's upper echelon like Reid, Landry, and Belichick on that list. I'm not blind to the fact that, despite the fact he's got a once in a generation talent at QB that buoys his W-L record, his game management and awful playoff defenses have routinely sabotaged the Bills in big games. Based on his history to date, for him to get to/win a SB I think the stars will have to align for him. The Bills will have to be healthy and outclass their opponent. He has not demonstrated that he can be relied on to outcoach an upper echelon coached opponent in a close game against an equally talented team.

That had to hurt.

And McNabb

Reid has actually done it twice, once with the Eagles (0/1), and currently with KC he has 7 straight (3/4). Belichick was 10 straight years (3/5). Dungy was 6 straight (1/1). Landry was also 6 straight (1/2). Anybody wanna guess what the numbers in parentheses are?

Anybody sarcastically crowing early in the game about “Fire McDermott” like things are somehow different are delusional. Nice to get the win but this defense is a huge ####### problem.

They lost a ton of defensive players to injury in this game. IMO this was Campbell realizing trading scores isn’t going to cut it. It was low percentage, but without stealing a possession, even with them shredding our defense, they’re just treading water.

IDK. Campbell trying to steal a possession knowing his D can’t stop Allen.

Awesome. Allen gets the play off but they burn a TO.

Nice to see Kincaid downfield.