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It was a successful business trip. For having to work late on a holiday with questionable food brought into the office, it turned out to be worth it. Please keep feeding Dawson Knox.

Oliver - Finally flashing top ten pick type plays! Diggs - Difference maker! Knox - Obviously been missed.

Food coma won with a walk off plate of banana cream pie about 90 minutes ago. Just woke up at my desk minus any awareness of my time space details. Bills play soon? Cool.

That worked out OK... Several picks later and into round 2, Buff got a guy from Oklahoma State with a bum knee. He was pretty good.

Gonna be a great day. I have so much to be grateful for. I've survived 2 heart attacks, a triple bypass surgery and decades of Bills games. The Bills are on tonight and I have three quarts of gravy congealing in the fridge! What could possibly go wrong? Thanksgiving is the BEST! Go Bills!

Had to be Christopher Cross.

Josh is not Carson Palmer’s student. Josh has worked with Jordan Palmer.

Bills fan forever and all of that still hits home. It always will. Still, this loss left me unusually discouraged and empty as a fan. After 50 plus years on the rollercoaster, I thought I had perfected the art of not getting too high after wins (or good seasons) and not getting too low after the tough ones. But my oh my, how we are coming to know how expectations can be a bi***. Surprisingly, this team appears to have no soul at the moment. I had previously thought that was their ace in the hole. If that soul, that "culture" is real, or still in there somewhere, now would be a great time to show it. After watching yesterday, my inner football fan just wanted to sit in a dark, smokey room and start writing country and western songs... "And Then They Broke My F***ing Heart". Has a nice twang to it. It seems that all too much in recent weeks, this team has made me "want to shout", for all of the wrong reasons. Appropriately, I guess, it comes down to proving it against the Pats. Have some soul Buffalo Bills. You are out of wake up calls. Playoffs start now. If you are real, show us. Choose any cliche that feels right or makes us feel better. We'll still be there next year, the year after etc... but please remind us why sometime soon.

I have no idea what this team's story will look like when the smoke of this season clears. This is NFL Week 11. There are still 7 regular season weeks to go. Do you recall the narrative about Buffalo and all the other teams around the league 7 weeks ago? Hell, I barely recall a pre "Spencer Brown has COVID" world. It probably will change that much again over the next 7 weeks. Stay tuned. As for a guess... Looking forward to March for real story of this teams future to unfold. I haven't given up on this season, but there are significant holes that need patching no matter how this season ends. Break out the industrial size drum of spackle Mr. Beane.

KC 33 Buff 6 took place on 10/7/91. For those wondering, that was the second Super Bowl season. Think Nigerian Nightmares...

March.

This sentence is the clubhouse leader for winning 2021… Even if it is two sentences…

Agree with every syllable…

Perhaps we were more successful in those games because our OL was not yet further stressed by losing a starting guard (as we have now) during those games. Brown's loss simply represents another domino. It is NOT a singular issue. And it need not be the end of the world, nor equal catastrophe to be a concern. Yes, they can win without Spencer Brown. They have done it multiple times this year, of course. We all get that. But let's not pretend that winning did not just get more difficult as a result of him being out. It did. That's football. Should we still beat The Colts? Of course we should, but the margin for error is now less. I'm not sure how there is any argument counter to that.

Impressively reasonable compromise. This board is a model for society!

I think every team is different with respect to what is critical. On this team, Josh likes to, and seems do do better when he is able to roll to his right. Does that make it more critical than other teams? I think its part of a complex set of issues for this offense. I believe Spencer Brown is a critical player for this offense, in this season. To me, context is king. And in the the context of The 2021 Buffalo Bills, RT has appeared to be critical to their results. I hope they move past this and adjust well. Still, it makes me flinch a little bit. I would much rather have him on the field this weekend than not. That is not panic... Also, with respect to the other positions listed above, they have respectable depth to overcome a missing starter. I think we can reasonably question whether that is true for RT (or T in general).

Depth is not what it was in the 80's and 90's. In the salary cap world, any team misses a quality starter. When you are missing one at a critical position that you are thin at, you miss him that much more. Does that equal collapse? I doubt it, but his absence will be felt. First year player or not, he has become a player that this team counts on. I am looking forward to seeing how Dabol adjusts.

Ridiculous maybe, but he's moved on from the third round project status that he arrived with. He's differentiated himself quite a bit from that half way through the season. If we have any doubt about that, where do you think he would be drafted in a redraft now? I believe that, after mid season review, he is a 1st rounder for sure. Props to Beane for getting him where he did and providing support to develop quickly.

Agreed. I look though at the fact that Beane gets paid to know not just what he has, but more importantly, what he will have looking forward. We will see where he comes down on that soon enough. Unfortunately for Cole, numbers are chasing him right now. Be it cap space, age, or even allocated future roster spots or roles (Davis), his future may already be dictated.

Exactly this! I expect that all things considered, it will be “thank you for all of your contributions and we’ve decided to go in a new direction.”

Pretty sure I saw these two perform at a dimly lit bar near LAX in the mid 80's...

Through 9 games, they have done exactly that. And I put a lot of faith in that. Still, if I am going to be realistic, I also take a look at the team that ranks right behind them in defensive points allowed, points differential and division standings, with a 2 game edge in conference record, and feel confident in saying that neither team has proven a thing at this point in the season. They don't hand out playoff berths, division titles, #1seeds or Lombardi's after 9 games. Do we remember Pittsburgh last year? Once Buffalo shows itself the better team head to head vs Pats this year, I'll put more stock in it. For the record, I think that they will do that. I just don't think anybody has proven anything at all quite yet.

Just so I understand the ground rules, are we to assume that The Bills have proven a great deal already?

They appear to be real again. And man... the break from them just should have been longer. It feels like... as a wise man once said; "This one thing is always supposed to stay". Still, I think that Buffalo is a better team. And I would like to beat them twice and deny them the opportunity to show up like a poltergeist in the first round of the playoffs.