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It's one thing to play "whoever has the ball last" card when you leave two minutes on the clock for the other guys, like we did on our next to last score. You can also play that card when you leave 1:09 on the clock for the other guys, like the Chiefs did on their TD. It doesn't apply when you take the lead with 13 seconds remaining.

We need a punter. Haack probably cost us the PIT game, and he tried his best to lose us the Jets game. Ask the Packers about the importance of not having your punter blow it for you.

I really hope Frazier gets a HC opportunity.

Honestly, this. Everybody is going to focus on the last 13 seconds of regulation, which is fine. The defense and coaching staff absolutely ***** the bed and cost us the game during that period. It's fine and proper to be mad about that. But we also wasted much of the first half by trying to hide our all-world QB like he's Mac Jones or somebody. And we had that awful run-run-run-punt series in the third quarter that felt like a give-up series despite the game being close at the time. I would have been fine if we had put the ball in Allen's hands and lost. Instead, we gave it to him way too late and relied on the defense to be competent. Whoops.

Hail Murray was no big deal. Fluke regular season loss on the way to 13-3. I was over it by the time I went to bed. I don't think I'll ever get over this one. I'm still mad about homerun throwback.

Yes, the future is bright, the gap is closed, our window is wide open, etc. We still absolutely pissed away a golden opportunity to hoist the Lombardi trophy. I am pissed, and I'm going to be pissed for a while.

We have a tier 1 QB and a good team around him. Our super bowl window is open for a while. Tonight featured one team that was willing to put the game in the hands of their QB and one team who wasn't. We were the team that didn't trust its QB, and we lost as a direct result of that. I don't understand why you draft this guy and extend him and then don't let him play for a full half of football. It's mind-boggling.

It's going to take me a while to get over this game. You finally get around to letting your $250 million QB win the game, and he does. Then your defense pisses it away. Nice job, gentlemen.

I didn't realize Belichick was 70 -- he doesn't look a day over 75.

If the Pats had Herbert or somebody like that, sure. They don't have that guy.

I'm glad my career is in a place where I don't need to call attention to myself this way.

Good. I get that the NFL is a fraternity. TBH, I want my coach to be collegial with his counterparts in New Jersey, Miami, Green Bay, Dallas, etc. Obviously I want to win, but I want to do it with class and good sportsmanship. And on a pragmatic level, we need to hire coaches and attract free agents and I think you do that best by building a culture of mutual respect. But when it comes to Belichick, ***** all that. I hope McDermott personally hates him. I hope the entire FO mocks his man-boobs every Monday morning as their weekly ice-breaker. If they spend a few weeks every off-season coming up with creative ways to make his team look bad just out of spite, that would be wonderful. I hope McDermott TPs his house and short-sheets his bed.

Wear at least two more layers than you think you need. I live in South Dakota and I've attended local football games in weather like this. If you are chilly walking around on your way to the stadium, you are going to get very cold when you're sitting still in the stands. Fingers and toes need special attention. My game plan would be something like this: Torso: compression shirt, t-shirt, t-shirt, long-sleeve t-shirt, long-sleeve t-shirt, light pullover, fleece pullover, parka. avoid cotton for base layers at least. Legs: insulated running tights (or long underwear if you're not a runner), fleece-lined jeans Feet: light running socks, another pair of heavier tube-style socks, insulated boots Hands: light liner-style gloves, heavy insulated mittens (mittens are infinitely warmer than gloves) Head: the warmest thing that covers your head, plus a gaiter or something for your face* * Be advised that this will probably freeze by the end of the first quarter, so there's that.

He didn't say they were perfect, and we know they're not 17-0. Why not just be happy that we have an extremely good team and other people in the NFL acknowledge as much?

Works for me. I'd like to have him in camp next season if nothing else.

I'm rooting hard for Beasley for the next four games. After that, I'm hoping for a different slot WR next year. He lost multiple steps very quickly.

Insanity.

Thank god. I did not want MNF.

That's probably true, but it's because teams that go 0-5 in one score games have a minimum of five losses. Add in a couple of double-digit losses (which most teams encounter once or twice in a season, even SB teams) and you're not even in the tournament. But that's academic, because "record in one-score games" is pretty much a completely random variable. It tells you nothing about a team's post-season prospects. Just because the team ***** up that last play against the Titans doesn't mean they're destined to ***** it up again in the AFCCG.

In hindsight, I'm sure the league wishes they had left these two games in the 1:00 time slot. Neither game affects any fan base besides us and NE, and the early games are pretty dreadful today.

Sorry -- not being critical of Allen here. Just emphasizing that we were really unfortunate to lose that game. We were set up really well for a win and picked a bad time to botch a relatively-straightforward play.

Nope. If you could pick one game to flip -- that actually does go the other way about 85% of the time -- it's the Titans game. The Jags game didn't really matter.

Anybody who watched this team this year knows we underperformed a bit. We lost every one-score game were involved in. Statistically, that's hard to do. As a ton of other people have noted, we're one Josh-Allen-slip-on-fourth-down away from playing for the #1 seed, which just goes to reinforce a) it's a game of inches and b) this team has been exceptionally unlucky this year. The good news is that this team is good enough that it can take a bunch of tough losses and still win its division and be well-positioned for a deep playoff run. And next year we can look forward to "regression toward the mean" working in our favor.

I don't have a huge objection to Allen being ranked below those other six guys -- I would argue with a few of them but that feels like quibbling because we're talking about very good players. But man that gap from #7 to #8 is like the grand canyon of quarterbacking.

Also, our WR1 was tackled in the end zone at the end of regulation in Tampa, which was apparently legal in that jurisdiction.