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They were handed that game by the referees. Luckily that only works in a close game. They're not immune to bad games.

Look, I assume you've probably shoveled a good amount of snow in your life. So you know how exhausting it is. Players should not be dealing with that the day before a game regardless of their athletic abilities. It's not just about the physical exertion either. It's about the haphazard manner in which they had to travel to a game and how that affects their schedule and preparedness for the game.

Okay, let's disregard where the money comes from. My point is that the team was not prepared for an orderly departure if players needed to be shoveled out of their driveways by their neighbors.

Based on the reports of players and coaches being left to their own devices regarding snow removal and the stories of fans helping them out of their driveways, then yeah I'd say it's pretty safe to assume some players could have missed or delayed the flight.

That's exactly what I said but you're disagreeing with me for some reason.

Again, that's what I'm saying. They should have been prepared for this regardless of the city's capacity to handle it. If you have to move your home game to another city then it's obvious you should be prepared to get your players to that city without help from random fans coming by to shovel snow.

Intentional grounding not called. Offensive PI on Kelce somehow becomes defensive holding. Classic KC game.

That's what I'm saying. Why are fans shoveling them out when they could have private companies working around the clock to make sure they were cleared out? Or get the players out before there was five feet of snow on the ground.

Okay I didn't know Poyer also had help from fans and neighbors. But city plows are responsible for the entire region and it makes sense that they could have broken down or got stuck. The Bills should have had private companies clearing out snow for the players during the storm or gotten the players to Detroit earlier, right?

That would have been an egregious call. They were side by side. Block in the back is one of the most superfluously called penalties in the NFL and I'm glad they didn't stoop low enough to call it.

So we all saw the feel-good stories of Bills players getting shoveled out of their driveways by their Buffalonian neighbors. Singletary (I think it was him) had to walk over a mile to get to the bus to the airport. Poyer had to shovel himself out of his driveway. The Bills knew this storm was coming and even scheduled the game at another stadium. Why didn't they hire people to plow/shovel the players out to get them to the bus in an orderly and stress-free fashion? Just seems like a major lapse in preparedness and could certainly explain the depressing first half we saw today. Anyone in the area have thoughts on this?

Yeah I played Toney this week because JuJu and Hardman are both out. 0 yards. How does that even happen?

Hey it's all situational. If they need 3rd & long, we'll give it to them. 4th & long, we'll accommodate that when necessary.

Dialed up that Frazier 3rd & long defense there

Multitasking!

I put my fantasy hopes on that one. I mean, he had a nice game last week and their top two receivers are out. How could I go wrong?

And their DBs. And Kelce pushes off every play. But who wants to hear that?

Yeah this year is different. Defenses have definitely caught up to the high flying offenses. Time to change up the thinking in those situations.

What?

Strongly disagree. I think they're a top 5 fit.

I have no idea why we haven't gotten Shakir more involved. He's made the best of the limited targets he's gotten. Need to get Hines involved ASAP too so he's not running his first routes with Allen in the playoffs.

He also has that ability to make defenders drop all his interceptions whereas Allen seems to give defenders stickum hands.

I'm surprised the Chargers didn't challenge that catch. I'm not exactly sure what "surviving the ground" means anymore but it probably doesn't involve the ball flying ten yards sideways out of bounds.

I don't think any team would employ the second most important coach on the team just for optics. It's definitely Reid's offense by design but I'm sure Bieniemy handles a lot of the responsibilities of an OC.

Pretty sure it's Bieniemy most of the time and then Reid situationally. If it were just Reid we wouldn't have that video of Mahomes and Bieniemy hashing out their grievances on the sidelines.