Sammy Watkins' Rib

The Mahomes slide from last week has me thinking of a rule change that should be applied to the QB slide. The QB should not be allowed the usual protections if their slide is not parallel to the sideline and facing opponents endzone. That might be the first time I've ever seen a QB slide parallel to the endzone.

If the refs over correct and keep the flags in their pocket I think that is a disadvantage for us. Look for our pass rushers to be held, DB's to be mugged and Jawan Taylor to start every snap 2 yards behind the L.O.S. Is all that worth being able to hit Mahomes a couple times?

The tackle thing is truly bizarre. Taylor is lined up in the backfield on every snap. Remember opening night? They flagged the the Ravens three times on their opening drive for the tackles being too far back? Thought it was going to be a point of emphasis this year.

For a career worst 8.5 ypr. It was by far his worst season. 8.5 ypr is really, really bad. But like clock work he went off for 17 ypr in the Houston game last week.

Last weeks game was an even more got to have it game than this weeks. The narrative doesn't change if the Bills lose this Sunday. If they win, the narrative changes in the positive direction some but Mahomes and the Chiefs are still the best team / legacy up through this season even if the Bills and Allen win a Super Bowl. Last week, a third consecutive loss at home in the divisional round would have been legacy defining in the wrong way. Allen would have had three consecutive home losses to Burrow, Mahomes and Jackson. He would have been looked at as the 4th best QB in the grouping simply due to all of those losses against his peers. I wanted to the Bills to win last weeks game more than any game I can recall in my lifetime. This week, I want them to win but I don't feel the same amount of pressure to avoid an embarrassing defeat that would crush a legacy. The legacy is already there that the Bills and Allen can't beat Mahomes in the post season. Same is true of virtually every other QB and team AFC or NFC. Joe Burrow beat Mahomes once in the postseason but even that star is starting to dim as the years continue to go by.

Since the 2019 season the Chiefs have only had the one seed half the time. Ravens x2 and Titans x1. Bills have to sneak in their at least once and get the one seed.

Crazy that a league partner in CBS is tweeting this out as well.

Kelece is the GOAT TE. And his numbers are even more amazing in the postseason I believe. If we are asking why can't Kincaid be deployed like the GOAT TE , I think we need to revaluate the question. The truth is, Bills are a running team that also spreads the ball around. In this offense, Khalil is going to be the most consistently targeted guy and we are still only talking like 6-8 targets max for even him.

I'll say one thing, no way this team, with Josh Allen, should be going three consecutive years without an AFC title game appearance. And when will the Bills finally get the 1 seed? It hasn't been going to the Chiefs every year.

I've seen them run the tush push on 3rd and 2 around midfield. But yes, you are correct, Lions game just before the half was the other time they had 3rd and 2 at the goal line (maybe even 3rd and 1 at the goal line?) and they didn't op for the tush push. Conversely, they did do the tush push back to back on 1st and 2nd down against the Rams when game clock wise they maybe should not have. They definitely seem to not be picking the right times to run the correct play lately. I don't think we score a TD from 2 yards out, maybe 15% chance. But nearly automatic that the next play is from the 1 and then it's 90% chance they score on 4th with the same play call.

Allen was the favorite when voting closed two weeks ago.

We are going to out Chiefs the Chiefs. That should be the game plan. Last week was the Chiefest win the Bills have had all season. We might hit one big play but it is going to come down to not making mistakes. Bills offense has been the best in the league all season not making the negative plays.

Will Levi’s is in a mayo commercial. I don’t think commercials are an indicator of lasting legacy 20 years after retirement. I hope you are right about the MVP vote and many of the voters stick with their voting criteria from last season. I never thought Allen would be first team all pro this year and even thought Burrow would get more second team votes than he did. So to me it was odd when the Vegas odds changed so much based on an all pro award I always figured Lamar would win. Lamar absolutely should not have been 1st team all pro last year with his stats. Should have gone to any one of Dak, Purdy or Allen before Lamar.

All of that is true but trying to make it make sense from a fan perspective that Lamar might soon be a 3x league MVP and Allen 0x MVP is troubling. We can all make very strong cases that Allen should have been MVP last year or this year. For Allen to potentially have zero and Lamar 3 is pretty wild. Both have taken heavy criticism but the most prestigious accolades have all gone heavily to to Lamar. Probably the one true accolade that Allen has over Lamar is the general consensus that Allen is the 2nd best QB in the league to Mahomes year in and year out. But they don't give out any hardware for that designation unfortunately. These things matter in legacy considerations 20 years down the road too. For all we know, neither QB may ever win a Super Bowl. People will look back and see one QB has like 3+ MVP's and the other has 1 or none.

Expect 90% of the media and talking heads to pick the Bills this week. And 80% will probably pick the Commanders.