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I feel the Bills-Bengals game should be a no-contest simply because that was what it was. Circumstances beyond either team's control caused the game to end in the 1st quarter. Neither team earned a win or loss. The playoffs should be determined by win-loss percentage as normal (with the Bills and Bengals having each played only 16 games). There's nothing random about this. Each team will be evaluated against the record they truly earned.

Cancel the game…. Bills and Bengals only play 16 games.

This is why I was against the OBJ signing. A team can only afford so many big money contracts.

Bills prevail in a tough battle 27 to 24.

Yeah, it's interesting Rex is telling this story now when Geno is finally playing well. If true, why hadn't he talked about this before?

If we want to tie into the old days, how about James "Cookie" Cook. "Lookie, Lookie, Here comes Cookie..."

I cut cable years ago and stream my Bills games. Mostly the quality is good.

KC is tied for the AFC lead. They have Reid for a coach and Mahomes for a QB. I don't think they're overhyped. Vegas still has us - with the same W-L record as KC - as the Super Bowl favorites. 538 has us as as the AFC favorite to reach the SB. Cinci made the SB last year and are strong again this year yet aren't getting much love. Maybe we're overhyped?

Why post here. We already know. You should post on a Fins board.

If that's true, you need a good defense to negate the other team's offense.

Fingers crossed. We started the year winning pretty and lately we've been winning ugly. Good preparation for postseason. If we get reasonably healthy for the playoffs, especially Josh's elbow, we can make a run!

Exactly. This is one reason I don't want OBJ. With only so many cap dollars to go around, I'd rather spend on a bodyguard for Josh that can double as hole-makes for our backs.

I haven't posted on this thread till now. I don't hate Jerry. But a long time ago, I decided to stop reading him. He never had inside information. He never provided deep analysis. He simply whined. Of course, there was a lot to complain about during the drought. Some of his criticisms were accurate. But even when the Bills beat a more talented team, he'd find something to complain about. He could find a dark cloud even on the sunniest of days. I didn't find his writing to be either educational or enjoyable. So I didn't bother with him. As for what he said about women, it was clearly misogynistic and an offense to many good female Bills fans who deserve better.

I'm hoping the Bills get lucky and either Smoke or Beasley plays like the Smoke or Beasley of old. We need more guys who can find ways to get open. And then actually catch the ball. While my hope is that one of them shines, my expectation is that they both become capable backups. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if one or both of them struggles to achieve even that. They were both unemployed for a reason.

In his prime, when healthy, he really was.

I remember when I was 9 years old. A year seemed like an eternity. Now a year seemingly passes by in a couple of weeks. Time accelerates as you get older. At this rate, I'll be dead next Tuesday. Tempus fugit, brother... Carpe diem!

My advice to McD would be: Please don't behave like a simple-minded 12-year-old. Instead, sit down with your OC and develop an offensive game plan that takes advantages of our strengths and our opponents' weaknesses. And I'm sure his response would be to thank me for my brilliant, non-obvious insight.

I'm hoping they tough out some ugly wins to close the season and enter the playoffs comparatively healthy. Not having Von is a huge loss. But we can still make a run to the SB if the rest of the stars (particularly Josh and his elbow) are feeling good.

The bolded is speculation. Though I'm sure you're right: people talked to Josh about ball security. But how much of this goes back to his elbow? How many picks were the result of the UCL? We may never know but certainly some were. And how much does Josh trust his elbow? If he's damaged, he's not going to admit it publicly and inform our opponents. But maybe he has a twinge of pain effecting his release on 1 of 3 throws. 1 of 5. That might make him 'gun shy' too.

I don't see them being the team that takes the AFCE crown away from us this season or in the foreseeable future. But I also don't think they're going to give us two W's each year. Saleh has done a really nice job with that defense. And these guys play harder than previous Jet squads.

The played us tough twice this year; beat us once. Without that loss, we'd effectively have a 2-game lead on KC.

Josh started looking off in the 4th quarter of the Green Bay game. I think maybe his UCL started bothering then. But whether it did or didn't doesn't matter much. I just want to know when he'll get better. Didn't he say somewhere that the docs wanted him to rest for 2-4 weeks? By not resting, he's going to - potentially - prolong the injury. But Romo seemed confident that Josh would return to form in the very near future. Does Romo talk with Josh? Does he know things about Josh's recovery that the rest of us don't?

When Knox is in motion but stops in the middle of the line and puts his hands under the center, it's a sneak.

I'm conflicted. After playing poorly for a while - starting in the 2nd half of the Packers game - Josh seems to be trending upwards. I feel like - finally with some decent rest - he'll return to form. On the other hand, he's not going to have QB-friendly weather the Jets have the 4th ranked pass defense in the NFL. The logic, rational part of me says this isn't the week. But my gut tells me the same thing the OP's gut tells him - 300+ yards with multiple TDs.

I visited Miami back in the Kelly years when we had to play the Fins in the playoffs at Joe Robbie Stadium. The local newscast had a story about the tens of thousands of Bills fans (like me) in South Florida for the game. But they explained it away by pointing out how much better Miami was than Buffalo, showing clips of snowy, gray Buffalo City Hall contrasted to the bright, sunny beaches of South Miami. Of course, Buffalonians were showing up in Florida, the narrative went on - who wouldn't want to escape frigid, dreary Buffalo. Miami media taking shots at Buffalo is nothing new.