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Michael Pittman Jr. is an absolutely terrible comparison for Coleman. Pittman is known for his ability to separate while Coleman is known for his inability to separate. Try again. So why didn’t he? Wasn’t this an excuse for some players against Cincy in that playoff game too? It’s a fireable offense to not have your players in the proper equipment for an entire game. A series. That happens. But a whole game? It shows a lack of competency at many levels.

Another thread was just started about Josh’s throwing hand getting broken at the end of the first half on the 2 pt attempt tush push.

The last bit really bothers me. Extending plays and taking hits to get throws off so often is going to catch up with Allen - and the Bills - at some point. He a big guy, but he’s not as big as a defensive lineman.

Allen’s contract is one of the most intriguing aspects of this offseason for me. He got $60M in cash for 2024, but is only set to get $14.5M in 2025. There are also some escalators/bonuses. Still, that’s very light for a QB of his stature. It’ll be interesting…

No. Though it does look a lot like I did when I was (much) younger. That’s part of my private joke. It’s a prominent picture of Doug Forcett in the show The Good Place: Douglas "Doug" L. Forcett is a former stoner from Calgary, who during the 1970s gained fame in the afterlife by making an almost perfectly accurate prediction about its inner workings. The character shows up later in the show as an older man, played by Michael McKean. You might know him as the lead singer of Spinal Tap or as Lenny on Laverne and Shirley (if you’re really old). He’s also been in a bunch of Christopher Guest movies and other stuff. I know that was way more than you asked for, but it all is humorous to me.

I think it should have been incomplete too. The difference was first and 10 on the 3 vs 1st and 10 on the 24 due to the defensive holding call on the play. KC might’ve still scored a TD but it was not insignificant. Interesting thought on the wording of the challenge. I don’t know if that impacted the ruling or not.

Yep. Age and whatnot.

While I wholeheartedly agree we should move on from Miller (cut with a post 6/1 designation), I am bracing myself for the Bills to work out a deal to keep him. That’s why I’m hedging. I can see McDermott wanting him on the team. I don’t think it happens, but I don’t think the odds are 0. It may depend on how much Miller wants to keep playing in general and in Buffalo specifically.

He's not going to take vet min plus incentives. I hope we wouldn’t offer more than that.

Maybe KC can add Max Crosby or Myles Garrett too. That’ll make it even sweeter!

I’d be delighted with this scenario.

Almost certainly a designated post 6/1 cut. Unless he wants to take a significant pay cut and remain here as a situational pass rusher. Those are the options.

There’s nothing more intriguing than a person or team almost getting over the top. There’s a finality to it when they do and the enthusiasm naturally wears off the moment after they reach the pinnacle. The NFL doesn’t care if the Bills win one or not, they just want us in the mix every season while Josh is here. If we get one, then when we meet KC in the playoffs the narrative will be “Two AFC titians battling it out to see who makes it to this SB!”. Good, but not the great intrigue of “Will this be Buffalo’s year?” A lot more sympathy and emotion for the casual football fan in that second one.

Remember that people all want to watch the team they love, but only two of those fanbases get to see their team in the SB. The next most effective thing that gets people watching is hating a team. 30 fanbases can hate watch the Brady-Belichick Patriots or Mahomes-Reid Chiefs. I think the NFL would’ve been happy with the Bills being in the SB too though. There would have been a lot of people tuning in to root for us too. Also it’s the SB. That all holds true for playoff games much more than the SB. People make that an event regardless of which teams make it.

https://sports.yahoo.com/doc-michigan-fighting-allegations-made-by-ncaa-in-connor-stalions-sign-stealing-saga-220011347.html 11 allegations, including six Level 1 violations will be considered. “The case is now bound for a hearing before the Division I Committee on Infractions, an independent administrative body charged with deciding infractions cases. The committee has authority to set and conduct hearings as well as prescribe penalties”

Funny thing about this is that the Chiefs are all on the correct side of the LOS, they just aren’t on the correct side of the nose of the ball. That is because our center moved the ball up. I’m not sure if that happened before or after the DL was set. You can see that the entire ball is over the blue line. That is a “snap infraction” which is a 5 yard penalty. Moving the ball up is common for centers to do and it very rarely gets called. I’ve seen refs warn centers about doing it too. The rule only ever seems to be enforced on short yardage plays like this. It would have been the correct call on this play if a call HAD to be made. No one wants to see that in any game - especially a high leverage play in a conference championship game. The refs did the right thing by not calling anything on the play.

What? You’re not enjoying watching this coaching staff light another year of Josh Allen’s career on fire every postseason?

I’m 99.9% sure Von is gone. Hamlin is a FA. If he’s back I think it’s on the cheap. After his biceps injury I thought Milano was done, but he came back and got to playing pretty well. I can see him here one more season. I would not be shocked it the Bills moved on, but next offseason is my bet.

We’ve now touched on the four times I was most angry with the Bills during the draft. Thanks for rounding that out.

Here goes. I do not see a viable rush DE, X WR or CB2 on this team. (I also think we need better CB depth - especially with Benford’s two concussions.) Those are my top 3. Safety need depends on Bishop. DT has Oliver and Jones as starters, but at least needs depth. Obviously you grab a 1 tech that can get to the QB if you have the chance. They are rare and there is almost no circumstance that you don’t grab such a player if you can. Hopefully Carter can at least be a back up who can spell Oliver and/or line up with him on obvious passing downs. I’m not enthusiastic about him though. Decent DT depth is not difficult to find though.

Not that KC would not have had wrinkles worked out for us, but one week less for them and one more for us would’ve been helpful. In addition to the extra rest KC got - week 18, bye and one more day after the divisional round - the second seed had a more physical matchup against Baltimore. Not that Houston doesn’t have terrors at DE, but overall they are not nearly as physical as Baltimore. And they didn’t go down to the wire in their game. None of that is an excuse for not throwing in our own wrinkles (tush push), but it was just a much easier road for the 1 seed. That all said, go get that advantage. It’s huge. We could have, we just fell short.

at least they didn’t trade WITH us on that one.

Can you imagine playing in a consolation game and having your QB (or other elite, highly paid player) blow out their knee and be ruined for the following season? F that. A consolation game would just be a further penalty and pain for the losers of the conference championship games. I would have zero interest in watching it whether or not the Bills were in it.

- I am disgusted that we did not run a change up on our tush push play. KC had how to stop it - at least some of the time - figured out and we were too scared to run a change up. I can’t believe that we don’t have a change up so I don’t think it was that. But if we didn’t even have one in the bag, then that’s a fireable offense for Brady. - The blitz on our last offensive play is one of the change ups that KC hits us with every playoff game. As high a leverage play as you will ever have and we had no idea that they might have something different ready for us. We even had to two minute warning to talk that all over. Every playoff game. It’s gotten well beyond old. - The problem with Cook is that he is still poor in pass pro and not a great receiver, so I understand why they’d pull him. But I agree that we could have at least started the drive with him and some runs. 3 1/2 minutes +2 timeouts is enough time for that. - I saw Coleman lined up by himself on the right on that third and goal and my immediate thought was “please don’t throw him a jump ball here”. SMH - Dabs had the brass to take chances, let Josh cook and do things McDermott won’t allow. McD is just too conservative. That’s great if the Ravens give you 3 turnovers and drop some passes so you can squeak out a close win, but you won’t beat KC without taking some play calling risks. At least McD has dramatically improved his aggression on 4th downs. That’s a positive. But it needs to extend to play design and calls in games like that one.