Coastie

It was a helluva a game and I also could heal from that loss much quicker with a win today. Go Bills!

Oh wow... this could be this year's Marshawn Lynch #23 which lost it's nameplate long , long ago.

I've had worse days myself 😁

Deep inside I fear you are right but I keep telling myself out loud that the conditions were actually that bad and Bass isn't completely broken, considering the cap impact (so say more knowledgeable folks than I).

Yes, but in the morning he would be sober and refs would still be terrible.

Winston Churchill went to a football game while visiting the US and said it was similar to rugby but wondered why the players had all those committee meetings (huddles). Watching the refs standing around clucking like hens while spinning the wheel of penalties made me think of that quote and I can't even imagine how much more confused Churchill would have been.

I wanted 5-1 but told myself 4-2 was acceptable. I do wish it had come more convincingly.

I love hubris on a sesame cracker.

Drawing a parallel to a sport Josh Allen clearly loves was brilliant. Tailor the message to the receiver and it is far more effective. They have been telling Allen this for years I am sure but compare a checkdown pass to laying up in golf and it clicks.

Everyone has a point. I don't know where mine is for the NFL but I knew where is was for MLB. As a Big Red Machine fan of the 70s I was NL all the way. When they added the DH to the AL I said if they do that to the NL, it won't be the same game and I'll stop watching. I haven't watched a single Red's game this year. Don't doubt people being willing to walk away from things they enjoy if pushed the right (wrong?) direction.

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Josh Allen is the MVP by not taking a single snap so far.

For me it was the Cincinnati Reds teams of my youth, especially the '75 team. Four of the position players that year would win have a MVP at some point and in '75 three (Joe Morgan, Johnny Bench and Pete Rose) of the top five MVP vote-getters were Reds with Joe Morgan winning it. They had two other '75 all-stars (9x all-star Dave Concepcion and 7x all-star Tony Perez) and rounding out the every day starters were eventual league MVP George Foster, 3x all-star Ken Griffey and 4x Gold Glover Ceasar Geronimo. They won 108 games in the regular season and the world series in seven. Or the '76 team where the same starting lineup will have 7 starters on the all-star team, again 3 of the top 5 MVP, again Morgan wins MVP. They go on to win it all again with sweeps in both series in the then shorter playoff format.

Got me thinking how often is this even possible so I looked at the last 5 years based on top 5 at each position in Average Salary per Year. 2023: Buffalo Bills: Josh Allen (2), Stefon Diggs (5). 11-6, Won Wild Card 31-17 vs. Pittsburgh Steelers, Lost Divisional Round 24-27 vs. Kansas City Chiefs 2022: Arizona Cardinals: Kyler Murray (2), Deandre Hopkins (3). 4-13 2021: Dak Prescott (3), Amari Cooper (4). 12-5, Lost Wild Card 17-23 vs. San Francisco 49ers 2020: None 2019: Los Angeles Rams: Jared Goff (T3), Brandin Cooks (5). 9-7 So in 5 years, only 4 examples so a very small sample size. Of those 4, 2 missed the playoffs completely, a wildcard round loss and our Bills last year which anyone who has read this far into the post knows what happened. So I would say this happens far too rarely to make a definitive conclusion that a top 5 QB/WR combo can't win a Super Bowl but I would have expected better overall results from the other three examples in the last 5 years.

Yeah, no real surprise. Who else is more important to the team they have control over.

Got my Levy signed football at hand. I want one for all of us and this is just one more step.

Let's go!

My understanding is if the player asks then the ref will tell him, if he doesn't then...flag. Sometimes.

Just win baby!

He has looked better off the right side than the left. Leave him there.

Sometimes all three.

I want Dan Aykroyd to show up with a blender.

That is awesome, I'll have to watch that interview.