TheWei44

If a stinker on O for both games, then maybe Brady's fired with the mini bye in play. I can't imagine any scenario where he'd by fired on Monday.

Generally agree. That said, I’ll take the laser-focused nearly flawless Josh in this year’s Chiefs game too. D showed up but Josh and the rest of the O played extremely well. Josh wasn’t wearing a cape per se but his play was topnotch

Agreed but Chiefs unlikely to win division so we wouldn't see them until second or third round (and possibly in our house). Ravens path is most likely to win division and be 3rd or 4th seed, so that is a potential huge issue: facing them in WC round! That's why I said we need to luck into favorable matchups. It would certainly suck to play Ravens on the road in WC round when we have the h-to-h win against them!

Playing teams like the Broncos or even Indy that seem a bit overrated to me. This is assuming we have a healthy Kincaid and Palmer and the D reasonably healthy as well. I am not saying it would be easy but there would be a path if we had "playoff Josh" plus a defense that didn't suck.

I'm ratcheting down my expectations - I expect us to win one of the next two games (probably beat TB and then lose on the road at Houston, although Thurs night games can be crapshoots). We have a lot of road games coming up where we tend to do worse. Looks like we're trending toward a WC spot. But that may not be so bad if we get hot at the right time and luck into favorable matchups.

I would love this as a poster!

Hopefully the Pats game will be "do or die" for the Ravens - That could be a sneaky critical game. Then have them lose two to close out season and miss playoffs.

Same here - Tough stuff for sure and generally leaves lots of unanswered questions. Glad many folks are being so open on this thread.

One of these weeks I'll get the exact score - Why not this week?! Bills 31, Fish 20

Not sure why the discussion is focused on Davis vs. Gore - It's Davis vs. Johnson, and Johnson was the choice last week, and he did just fine. Maybe have Gore replace Davis as the number 3? I'd be fine with that. I am not sure what you can discern from fan reaction but I can't imagine their plan was to let Bosa and company destroy Mahomes, getting the most hits of any game in his career (and worst completion % IIRC). Come on, that doesn't pass the smell test. And the Chiefs really needed a win too (just for the win given their record and also since it's an AFC game and also re h-to-h tiebreaker vs. Bills). But of course their game plan if we see them in the playoffs will be different - It will address deficiencies from the regular season game, have a bunch of other wrinkles, etc., etc.

Very much agree - I can only imagine what TB is planning to do after his own death - One of his lives is enough for me!

I think there's plenty of pluses and minuses to either call there and I was fine with the FG attempt. FG attempt: End the game, punt not likely to net much yards (and chance of block), and if miss, still big challenge to score and tie with no timeouts and little time Punt: Burn a bit more clock, might pin deep, small chance gets blocked, don't put the game away by making FG, very tall order to march down field from that deep

I see where you're coming from, good insight, and there's the Chiefs mystique in the playoffs, but I think I'd be fine having a week extra rest and playing the Chiefs at Highmark this year.

Funny guy - Call it what you want but the ridiculous, unfounded, extremely negative takes were dubious even before the game and haven't aged well at all.

I completely agree - So many awful, ridiculous pre-game takes. Bills will get killed. Bills have no identity on offense. Bills defense sucks. etc. etc. Bills 17 Chiefs 37. It's one thing to be realistic so you're not completely devastated by a loss, but it's another to be genuinely extremely negative given that defense looked much better at Carolina, Josh gets out of his minor funks, and we generally crush teams at home.