TheWei44

Bills 24 Texans 17

The good thing about it being a short week is that it's a short week for them too. I realize we have to travel, but it's not like they'll have tons of extra time to prepare. Punch 'em in the mouth and never look back! In all seriousness, I do think a relatively conservative run-first, mistake free offense makes sense to start. But if they commit to stopping the run, be ready to pivot quickly to a pass happy attack with rhythm and mostly quick passes.

Good that it’s in Cincy and that Bengals are theoretically still alive. I think Bengals could give Pats a serious run for the money

It might be the most likely scenario and also be something like a 15-20% probability. I could definitely see it happening. So much ball left to play though and if Bills don't win division, sixth seed is very possible too.

And he had TWO dumb penalties in the game yesterday! He's an excellent player but too many head-scratching penalties.

If Keon plays, and he plays slot (given a banged-up Shakir), I can see maybe 4-5 catches for 50-75 yards and a TD mixed in. That would be the high end of the stats I expect from him this week.

Very well articulated, thanks!

Hey, how old are your boys? I brought my 15 year old son last January for Ravens playoff game, and we had an amazing time (but obviously weren't bar hopping!!). We hit Hammers lot and he actually drank an N/A beer. It was worth seeing all the festivities there. We also had Chefs for dinner one night, Tim Hortons, Andersons (he loved the beef on weck so much we snuck sandwiches into the game). Have fun!!

Tough game to predict. More so than usual, anything is possible. But at home and with the bad weather, I expect us to pound the crap out of them with some passing thrown in. Bills 27 Bucs 20. In a sense i’m sort of glad we’re playing away at Houston on Thursday night because in those Thursday games anything goes and we kinda need some breaks to go our way to win that one in my view. At worst we go 1-1 between now and 8 days from now. One can hope! Go Bills.

Use Coleman sparingly in the slot. That's the most snaps I'd give him if Gabe and Palmer are good to go.

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.