Logic

I'm sure I'll get killed for this, but... Sometimes I feel like the Bills charity donation act is a bit of a troll job. Sort of a passive aggressive "rubbing it in". They only ever do it after a win, for instance. I don't remember Bills fans ever donating to another team after losing to them, though perhaps someone can correct me. ON THE OTHER HAND...no donation to worthy charitable causes are EVER a bad thing. So even IF it's a little bit passive aggressive or troll-y or whatever I or others may think, at the end of the day, those in need are receiving much needed financial contributions, and that's a win no matter how you look at it. Congrats on a great season, Ravens fan, and I'm sure we'll be meeting you again in the playoffs for many years to come.

I'll add this quote, too, from today's Tyler Dunne article. I believe the quote is from an anonymous former Cowboys exec, and the person is speaking about the Cowboys. Still, I believe it applies to the Jets just as much: “You almost have to change the entire organization. You’ll see when they start hiring new head coaches this year, they’re all going to have the press conference and they’re all going to talk about changing the culture, and they're all going to talk about playing hard and talk about playing physical, finishing and saying ‘accountability,’ and they’re going to use all the same words. And all those words are absolutely right. The problem is if the organization isn’t a good solid sound organization, you can change out the coaches all you want. There’s not going to be much of a chance.”

The thing that none of us fans know is what kind of leader and culture builder a guy like Aaron Glenn is. We can look just at the defensive production under his watch as coordinator, but it won't tell us much about his intangibles as a leader. If it IS at all instructive, it shows that the Lions defenders continue to play incredibly hard and didn't have any quit, unlike...some other teams. In any case, while I am tempted to say "he's just another Robert Saleh", that's probably reductive and unfair because, again, I know nothing about the man as a leader. At the end of the day, the Jets still have bad ownership and they still don't have a QB. Until one or both of those issues are rectified, I won't lose much sleep over them.

Such a wasted opportunity. I figure if/when the Bills ever go to the Super Bowl, I'm flying to Buffalo. There's no way I'm watching that game out here in Oregon. I HAVE to be surrounded by Bills fans if/when we finally hoist a Lombardi. I definitely hoped the stadium or field house would be the place.

31st and 32nd!!! If there was ever a week for Kincaid and Knox to be featured in the passing game, this is it...

I really, really hope the Bills offer Brady a bag to stick around, and that Brady is smart enough to avoid Jacksonville. But as soon as I saw Coen shun the Jags, I immediately thought "this is not good news for the Bills". One to keep an eye on...

It's also important to note that every gameplan is unique and opponent-specific, and takes variables like weather into play. It's also important to note that the Bills won.

The Chiefs are always the funniest ones with this "no one believes in us" stuff. Like...I get it. Every team searches for motivation in this stuff. Seemingly every pro athlete on planet earth is motivated by it. But I guarantee that if the Chiefs win the Super Bowl this season, you're gonna hear a bunch of "no one believed in us" and "been doubting us all year" stuff coming out of their mouths. Yes. The 15-2, 1-seed, back-to-back champion Chiefs. No one believed in you. Sure. But you'll hear it! Its a lead pipe lock! Athletes are so funny, man...

Have to wonder if Grable was still working his way back from injury. Either way, the fact that Grable is active over Van Demark in the PLAYOFFS speaks even louder volumes. For this Bills staff to willingly make a 6th round rookie active over a third year player in the playoffs, they must like and trust him, and he must have truly and genuinely beat out the competition.

They've been dressing Grable over a healthy Van Demark for a few weeks now. He seems to have overtaken him on the depth chart. It is my hope that Grable can be the heir apparent to Dion Dawkins after the 2027 season. He's a dude.

For pretty much the entirety of the Patriots dynasty, their calling card was playing smart, mistake-free football and betting that you couldn't match them. They'd run it, throw it short and medium to unimpressive skill players (Welker, Gronk, and Moss notwithstanding), move the chains repeatedly, and play sound defense and special teams. They would out-execute you, out-T.O.P. you, and out-consistency you. When facing the Patriots, you HAD to play a mistake free football game, or you'd lose. The Chiefs have now taken up this mantle. Gone are the days of Mahomes' first couple years where they're slinging it all over the yard. Instead, they too now play time of possession, ball control, take care of the football, out-execute you on the fundamentals, and dare you to play as clean and soundly as them. This is now what the Bills are doing. It's not as exciting as the "sling it all over the yard" stuff, but it's also way less high variance, and it's a proven championship winning formula. The fact that this is the cleanest season of Josh's career (least negative plays, least turnovers) and he was an MVP favorite and the Bills are on the AFC Championship are not coincidences. This is winning football. Don't think for a moment that if and when the Bills NEED to open it up and sling the rock, they won't. But as currently constructed, their strengths are running the ball, moving the chains, driving the ball methodically, and daring you to keep up. It's a good formula. We KNOW it's a good formula because we've seen it win multiple championships, and because the two teams in the AFC championship game this year both employ this formula expertly. Whatever wins a trophy, I'm all for it.

Great post. The 2024 Chiefs do this expertly, too. Sunday's AFCCG is going to be two teams seeing who can out-T.O.P. each other, out-safe/small ball each other. Who can shorten the game most effectively, keep the ball out of their opponents' hands most completely, and limit their opponents' options most dominantly. I predict fast moving quarters, lower than expected final score and, frankly, a more boring game than we're used to when it comes to Bills-Chiefs matchups. This is what the Pats always used to do when they were at their best, it's what the Chiefs do nowadays, and it's what the Bills do. It may not be "exciting", but damned sure is effective!

I would respond that our run game has been the primary engine of our offense as of late. I would also suggest that, on the whole, the production from our tight ends has been average to below average most weeks. Considering that we have a healthy Dalton Kincaid (a 1st rounder chosen ahead of Sam Laporta) and a healthy Dawson Knox (a 3rd rounder who's a pretty good and athletic receiving TE in his own right) at tight end, you'd think the Bills offense would post dominant tight end production, but they don't. We'll see Knox or Kincaid come up with a big clutch catch here and there, but they're certainly not a dominant force most weeks. I can't remember off the top of my head many weeks this season where I thought "Man, the Bills tight ends are dominating this game!". Shakir, of course, has been producing quite well, primarily playing from the slot. I did not mean to imply the teams have completely taken away the middle, only that they are able to devote a lot of attention and resources to doing so because no one on the outside is particularly scary. And some teams -- the good teams -- have done so reasonably well. Obviously, a team producing as many points as the Bills offense does and who is one game away from a Super Bowl berth is doing quite well for itself on offense. My point, though, was specifically in response to the "why isn't Kincaid more productive?" post, which is the purpose of this whole thread. And my answer is "because the Bills don't have threatening enough players on the outside to regularly dissuade opposing defenses from keying on him". That's not the whole answer, of course, but I think it plays a large part.

I agree that its worded poorly and in a confusing way. The website/chart make sense to me. The Tweet is confusing.

I disagree that it disagrees. Shots were called. Guys weren't open. Josh shares blame, too. The gameplan was built with intentionality against a specific opponent, in a specific set of weather conditions. Strategically playing a certain way in certain moments of certain games does not mean that a coach is not aggressive overall. End of the day, Bills won the game.