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Milano is a bit of a mystery to me. When I watched him play, he seemed like a good LB, certainly not a great one. Yet the stats clearly show - and my eyeballs agree - the Bills are a much better D when he plays than when he doesn't. Not entirely understanding why this is true, but respecting the fact of the matter, I'm not happy that he's going to 'test' free agency and probably wear a different uni next year. This is very bad news for Bills fans everywhere.

As a combat veteran, I love to see vets get honored. If this story is true, the behavior of PS&E is just horrible. But, as they say, every story has two sides. When I fought in the first Gulf War, the Iraqis claimed the Kuwaitis were slant drilling into their oil reserves. I don't know if that's accurate or not, but I do know that Iraqi soldiers we took prisoner considered themselves anything from pawns to patriots. They certainly didn't see themselves as villains. And that's the problem with this article: the PS&E folks are presented as purely villainous. Lonsberry depicts them as greedy, contemptuous, disrespectful, intransigent, and dismissive. He never explains what their rationale might be. Apparently, according to Lonsberry's description, they're purely evil. To me, this doesn't make any sense. I don't believe the PS&E officials are evil villains. There's got to be another side to the story.

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I once scored two TDs in a high school game - both on end rounds. Well, it was a practice game actually - a scrimmage against our own winless JV squad. Discouraged by my poor high school career that finished with a six game losing streak, I gave up on organized tackle football and switched flag football in college instead. One season, I led the league in receptions, interceptions, and touchdowns. Considering all the real football players of that age were on college teams, spending time in the gym, working with position coaches, and all that - my achievement only proved that I was perhaps one of the least pathetic of the pretenders and wannabes playing flag. A slightly bigger minnow in a little pond full of minnows. The highlight of my flag career was at a DIII school where all the black players walked off the college team (due to a racist comment by one of the coaches) and formed a flag team. They were undefeated when we met them and I was thrilled when I lined up at wideout and found an ex (starting?) DIII DB covering me, with an ex DIII safety helping out. This was big time competition - my personal Super Bowl. There were 30 - maybe more - fans lining the field expecting my team to get blown out. Dramatically, I scored 2 TDs - one on a 50 yard bomb - in the first half as we rolled on to hand them their first (and only) loss of the regular season. I really want to sit down with Andre Reed one day and compare resumes.

I think Daboll fired the weapons he had. Our best offensive players are our QB and wide outs. And our OL is better at pass pro than road grading.

The first person he criticizes is himself... Then he mentions mistakes by other position groups. Basically, he's saying no one involved in the passing game executed well enough. Which - when you consider the scoreboard - is true. I think the guys in the KC locker room give him a pass on this.

It's sad seeing the fans in this video who passed without ever witnessing a Buffalo Super Bowl victory: Tim Russert, Van Miller, Jack Kemp, etc.

Bills 34, Chiefs 31

Let’s say it’s $400m for 10 years. Assuming he continues to perform, we’ll love that contract 5 years from now when the top QBs are signing deals for $50m plus.

I hated the term at first. We don't sell drugs, don't kill people. We're mostly not even Italian. What does mafia have to do with Bill's fans??? But I've come to accept it. And its cool to see the expression 'Bill's Mafia" developing/ earning some positive connotations.

I predicted the Bills would win 30-28, or something like that, in a nail-biting shootout. I had the winner right but nothing else. The defense played so much better than I expected. Great to see!

My earliest football memory is watching Mini Max Anderson swallowing his tongue.

Yeah, as BigDingus said, it would have been nice to see a complete win: offensive, defensive and ST dominance. Like the 51-3 Raiders game years ago. But here's the thing. A lot of folks predicted that the Ravens would win, that we couldn't stop their running attack. Lamar didn't do crap before his injury and the Ravens never found the endzone. Watching a good defensive performance in a big win is plenty entertaining for me. Two more, baby, and then I can throw out the sweatshirt I wore today: "Just One Before I Die."

Great chart! The Ravens blitzed 41% of the time during the regular season- most in the NFL. That works against some teams, but not much against the Bills. Martindale has said they're going to bring the heat against the Bills regardless. Speaking of Allen, Wink said: "He knows that there's going to be pressure, that's for sure. That's who we are. That's what we've done." People say this game is a poor matchup for us because on D, we're poor against the run while they're strong running the ball. On O, we're good at passing but they're good at stopping the pass. But this chart helps show a different perspective. The Raven biggest defensive weapon is their blitz. They do it often and do it well. But the Bills are mostly impervious to the blitz. Their best defensive weapon shouldn't effect us much. The Ravens would prefer to face a QB with happy feet and poor poise. That's not Allen. Bad matchup for them.

I personally don't discount this game. I think it will be a hard-fought battle that can go either way. I just don't like how some people build up the Ravens and insinuate they're better than the Bills. The Bills have a better W-L record against a tougher schedule. The Bills offense has performed well against good defenses. And our D, while still suspect against the run, has played significantly better during the second half of the year than it did in the first. We're not chopped liver. NFL.com power ranking have us at #2 and the Ravens at #4. This game is a contest of Titans - the mythic kind, not the Tennessee type. I'm hoping for a Bills blowout. I'm guessing we'll win in nail-biter: 31-30 or something like that. And I wouldn't be shocked at a less favorable outcome - given the strength of the Ravens squad - because on any given Sunday...

Hard to know for sure but Williams looks like a back who would run well in snow.

We know the Ravens will blitz. But you ask the key question: Will it get home? The Bills have mostly, but not consistently, handled the blitz well this year. Beside the obvious point of getting blocking assignments right, I think Josh will have to make good pre-snap reads. If he's scanning, scanning, scanning while being blitzed, very bad things may happen. I hope Daboll's done a great job of studying, understanding, and predicting the Ravens scheme. If so - and if the wideouts are reasonably healthy - we can put up a lot of points despite the talent of the D. How many times this year have we seen good pressure on Josh and good coverage in the secondary and yet the Bills still found the endzone? Sometimes being good just isn't good enough against this excellent Bills passing attack. When the Bills offense is clicking, it's hard to stop.

That's the big concern. I wonder how badly hurt Diggs, Beasley and Smoke really are. We can't expect the info coming from the team to be perfectly accurate. All are on the mend - hopefully nearing 100%.

A lot of people expect the Ravens to win on Saturday. The narrative goes something like this: The Ravens will run all over the Bills. And the Bills offense will be slowed by the excellent Ravens D. I'm not so sure. I'm not underestimating the Ravens - they're a great football team. But I do think some folks are underestimating the Bills. Here are the top defenses (yards allowed) in the NFL: 1. LA Rams 2. Washington 3. Steelers 4. NO 5. SF We've played three of the top five and beat all of them. We averaged 386 yards and 31.7 points against these premier defensive squads. Why would we expect the Ravens D to do any better? The Bills are a passing team and - statistically speaking - the Raven's pass D (ranked #6) isn't as good as the pass defenses in LA, Pittsburg or San Fran. We've obliterated defenses better than the one in Baltimore. So if we play to our norm against top tier defenses and hang 32 points on the Ravens, can their Greg Roman rushing attack put up 33? Maybe. They did average 29 points per game during the regular season. They only need to find 4 more - in the playoffs... in Buffalo... in the cold... against a fired up team. I'm just not counting on it. Go Bills!

Allen didn't have it easy. He was pressured and the coverage downfield was mostly good. Yet he found ways to pass for 300+ yards and account for three TDs in a win. That'll be my biggest memory of this game.

We didn't play our best game and had a hugely controversial call go against in the closing minute and won a playoff game. How far we have come.

As it was, it was a horrible, horrible play. But without Williams, it would have been so much worse.

We used to lose games when a late controversial call went against us. We won this game despite a hugely important call not going our way in the closing minute. These are your new Buffalo Bills.

The Bills are so snake-bitten, I never celebrate until the final call is made - no matter how obvious the facts may be. Even when the final Hail Mary fell incomplete, I waited until the teams were walking off the field before I was convinced a late yellow flag wouldn't ***** the game away from us. Only then did I yell in exultation.