Dan

How effective is Mahomes when blitzed? We need to pressure him and make him uncomfortable, but is blitzing on half the plays the best way to do that?

Completely agree with all of this. Also, no one has really mentioned the decision to go for it on 4th down in the first drive of the game. Bills got stopped and there was zero hesitation. They lined up and Josh picked up the 1st down and kept the drive going till we scored. Thats a ballsy play on the first drive of the game!

I just am so sick of it always being the Chiefs in the playoffs that we have to get through! It's like the groundhog day movie. Just beat this F'in team and get past this. I'm sure it’s been mentioned, and I missed it, but it’s even bizarre that this is nearly the same scenario we had in last championship game appearance. We had a marginal WC team at home, beat a good Ravens team.. and have to beat the Chiefs in KC. That was a younger, less experienced Bills team. I think we're primed and ready to roll this year. if we score 30+ points, we dam well better win the game! You think people are screaming for McD to be replaced now… let the offense s ore 301 points and lose the game! All I can say is this is it. There should be no holding back. This is the game you play if you're hurt. You use the super secret plays you've been practicing all year. You never take your foot off the pedal because you may see them again. This is the game you give them absolutely everything you've got and a lot they've never seen before. Just get it frigggin done! I got a few thoughts about hoe the game ended: if you drop 8 guys into coverage… they should never be as wide open as those ravens players were! You can't tell from the tv view.. but I can only imagine the Bills defenders all just stood in some zone and watched the ravens players run around. My pet theory is that McD didn't let them score, but kinda didn't play aggressive because he wanted more time on the clock if they scored. Knowing that it takes a TD and a 2 pt conversion, just to tie the game. It was a luxury you can consider. And along that line of reasoning, if that was the idea, was he pulling starters after the 2 min warning so they'd be better rested for an overtime, if we missed the game winning FG try? 4D chess! LOL

Agreed. It’s not fair… but this is the playoffs. They just beat the best team in the league that no one gave them a chance to beat. …now.. we get the bestest team in the league that we’ve never beaten when it mattered. This game is it!! Lay it all on the line. If they have been holding anything back. Now is when you unleash it all!! No lead is safe, no game plan is good enough. And there is no good enough till the final whistle is blown!

Now my paranoia is setting in and I expect half the defense to be listed as questionable on Wednesday’s injury report.

Just as no one in the national media is giving the Bills credit for forcing the turnovers and actually out playing and out scheming the Ravens. …not enough posters here are giving the Ravens enough credit for being a really good team that was playing really good defense. Yeah the Bills looked to struggle but I think the Ravens made great adjustments. We just out lasted them!

Lots of thoughts on this game! The bolded is on of them! For all the McD haters… the defensive game plan was incredible and the Bills defense did what ..no one.. said they could do! They contained #22 AND #8. You have to give McD credit as well for the decision to go for the FG on the 4th down. It was risky, but it worked. It proved to be the right call. I think in the 3rd quarter the Bills wanted to do what they’ve done in most blowouts this season… that is start with a long, punishing drive, running right down the field and taking their spirit! It didn’t work. The Ravens are a better team and you can’t do that. Hopefully, Brady learned that you can’t do that in the Divisional round.. or the Championship game! I had zero concern at the end. I just knew Josh would drive them for a FG to win the game. If the Ravens actually would have got the 2pts. No doubt Josh would have won this game! For all the Hamlin haters …suck it. Not only did he have a great all around game, but he made one of THE pivotal plays in the game sacking Lamar and forcing the fumble. He deserves a game ball. This season and this game, as exhibit 1, I think we’re finally seeing the maturation of Sean McDermott and this team. They look a lot like the Chiefs lately. Doing just enough to win, waiting for the opposition to make a mistake and capitalize on it and minimizing their own mistakes. They’re fundamentally sound and able to win in a multitude of ways. A lot of the wins everyone talks about how they barely won and all the things that they need to do… but here we are in the Championship game… one win away from the Super Bowl. 10-0 at home! Nuff said. GO BILLS!

Not only were they all wrong about this game…. But they were all wrong to vote Lamar over Josh. The entire nfl media machine has been hyping Lamar’s for weeks now to justify THEIR narratives. Josh and the Bills just flipped them all off and are moving on to KC. I fully expect another week of hearing how bad Buffalo is and how we just can’t beat KC. Suck it media world… you were all wrong about Josh. You’re all wrong about their team.

***** the Ravens! BILLS WIN!!!

Thats what I keep thinking. The Ravens are a mismatch for our defense, but they’re a mismatch for pretty much every team! When they go heavy… Orlovsky (eye roll) had a segment… they have 6 linemen each over 300lbs, 2 TEs and a RB, each over 250lbs. Thats a lot of beef smashing into small DBs! So it’s just hard to stop..for anyone. And they run with this set throughout the game, not just in those 1yd to go type situations. Hence for me, a key will be our offense sustaining long drives that result in touchdowns. The more we force them to play catch up, the less likely they are to just line up heavy and pound the defense. Especially early in the game… if we don’t score early and they pound away… that’s when you see people tired and arm tackles in the 4th quarter. Ideally, we see a start more like the Lions game and less like the Rams game.

I have zero desire to watch the Chiefs in another Super Bowl. If they make it, I absolutely will not watch it.

I just don’t understand it either… how do you not have someone on Kelce 100% of the time, every play!? It doesn’t matter where he lines up, what blocking he pretends to do, you have someone on him the entire game. Why is that so hard to understand ?

Why would you suggest Cooper isn’t “mentally right”? Or even unhealthy. I think his involvement, like most everyone on the offensive side, is dependent upon the game plan each week for the opponent. The Bills don’t have a true #1, but they’ve proven most all season that they don’t need one. I fully expect Goodell (aka cigarette smoking man’s nephew) to cancel the Super Bowl if the Bills manage to beat KC.

I agree… to an extent. If we win, yes, all these narratives are put to rest. But, by monday night all the pundits will immediately switch to Buffalo being blown out by the Chiefs. Allen can't beat Mahommes. Reid owns us. Blah blah. There will be another full week of hearing how Buffalo will lose. We had that last week playing Denver for pete's sake! The media immediately pivoted to how awesome the Ravens are with barely a single person detailing the beatdown we bestowed upon them.

Thats not TN.