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Lichess account? Not that I’m challenging someone who beat a GM “only once!” I’ll be inaccurate, but you’ll get the picture. Lichess and Chess.com experienced nearly 30% usage and new account activity when that series aired. The games she played were real, well known, games through history. I play 30 rapid games a week and do a couple of hundred puzzles. 400? How big is the alligator?

… in order to goad you into acknowledging his post.

If the league and/or refs are manipulating results for TV markets, and they came up with Buffalo, KC, Cincinnati and Jacksonville … well they need some MSA training.

Don’t go stepping on half baked conspiracy theories.

Splash plays are very important.

Sinks .. I’ve been to the stadium. “No more adjustments are made at halftime than are made on the sidelines in quarters 1 through 4.”

Wonder how many Bengal fans are saying, with the lead, “if we play like the the Bills will kill us.”

When the Bills play clean football, they’re double digit over anybody. When the Bills play sloppy, they’re down to the last possession with anybody. The Bills play sloppy more often than true greats. They play clean often enough to be the favorite week after week.

I can’t find a single post where anyone says “we win next week if we play like we played today.”

The back and forth in this thread captivates me. I’ve created a key: If someone says the Bills did not play as well as they can, they did not say the Bills are a terrible football team. If someone says Miami played well, today, they did not say the Bills can’t play better. If someone says the Bills put up great offensive numbers, today, they did not say a game against Cincinnati won’t be challenging. If someone says the defense gave up a manageable number of points and yards, considering the turnovers, they did not say Joe Burrow stinks. If someone says the NFL sells competition, in the form of football, and has designed roster assembly, salary caps and rules just so anybody can beat anyone, week to week, game to game, they’d be correct. I feel no better or worse going into next week than I would feel with a 21 point win against the Fins. Theres a coin out there many of us have latched onto. Heads says “we barely won cuz we stink.” Tails says “of course won big cuz they stink.” The coin lets you be glum regardless of outcome. Survive and advance. One down, three to go. The 1972 Dolphins beat Buffalo by one point in week six before going 17-0. Imagine the handwringing.

I am becoming a very big Shaq Lawson fan.

For the splash play crowd …. sign him now?

Yes …. I expect this would be a very pro Bills crowd.

Second least likely.

You see, it’s all very clear to me, now. The whole thing. It’s wonderful.

Most shocking …. Zack Moss 114 yards, a TD

I agree. They’ve looked terrible for the entire 7 game winning streak.

Well, we can always say it wasn’t a “splash interception.” I mean, it was an interception to seal a victory and our top seeding possibility, but he didn’t pancake or tower over anybody. We got plenty of that to complain about.

Gotta respect Allen still tossin’ bombs. Davis has fists of stones. “What a year?” to follow 2021’s “what a year!”

Well, he sort of said that. Not as colorfully as you, perhaps. Now, no one loves colorful language more than me, but I’ll set it aside. What he said, when I read his post, is that life in general and the sport in particular has examples of teams that suffered adversity and got to work quickly.

Every incident is different. No two are the same. I don’t think that truism is relevant to the post you quoted.. The relevant difference, instead, lies in the expectations each of us have in terms of dealing with overwhelming adversity and carrying on. I expect a team of adult professionals to perform. I composed that sentence deliberately to be unequivocal and not leave room for the lowering of expectations in light of obstacle or tragedy. I can do this while at the same time feeling the overwhelming human emotions cited to lower expectations in light of adversity. There are few moments in our long lives where being a human being is more rewarding than when we are pressing on, or watching others do the same. birth to death, this is a struggle. Some are greater than others. Here’s to the people who say “I played a week later.” Doing so honors Hamlin and doesn’t disrespect him.

The internet. Any absurd thought gets examined and debated. Virtue signalers stake out positions with flimsy reasoning and insult one another. Once in a lifetime tragic event. Prayers and well wishes. Sincere attention and consideration of what can be done better, next time. The world doesn’t stop. There was a time when teams dedicated extraordinary effort to the Hamlins of the world. I expect the Bills to do the same. I’d be disappointed if they don’t.

Amen, Brother .. grateful for your leadership.

Yeah, true. But it’s easier and perversely fun to just throw stones with an iPad while sitting on the sofa.

I would love to see the decisions those criticizing the league would have made, and the basis for those decisions, at the point in time that the league called for a five minute re-start. This unfolded minute by minute before our eyes with dozens of decision makers evaluating incomplete information. Well handled, all around, as the situation unfolded in my view. We saw a tragedy and then watched a group of people respond as fact after confirmation after contradiction unfolded. Shame on the hindsight possessing critics calling out the league. Leadership comes with burdens.