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Raiders fans are definitely the biggest exceptions to my west coast vs east coast generalization. In my experience, most Raiders fans I've met are fiercely loyal, proud, are NOT fairweather fans, and proudly display their team's colors all year round. I'd tend to attribute it to the fact that the Raiders spent most of their existence in Oakland, a city which has a very blue collar east coast kind of feel to it. Then again, I know plenty of Raiders fans aren't from Oakland and have never been there. Being a Raiders fan is an identity unto itself, going back to the 1960s. Tough, hard nosed, fierce, rule-breaking, outlaw football. "The autumn wind is a raider", and all that jazz. Anyway...It's interesting being an east coast Bills diehard living in mellow, west coast, soccer fan country. People think I'm crazy. That's okay -- I probably am.

Since it will be December the next time our Buffalo Bills take the field, I thought I would post this stat that I found rather incredible, in hopes that you all may enjoy it as much as I did. We all know that it's important to playing your best football in December as the playoffs approach. Well...

As long as Woody Johnson is owner of the New York Jets, they will continue to be a laughingstock. He is a truly bad owner. Meddlesome, impatient, and impulsive. I hope that Woody Johnson continues to own the New York Jets until his dying day, at age 120.

If it were actually based on their level of play this season: Josh Allen Dion Dawkins Christian Benford Terrell Bernard That's it. No one else on the Bills this year reasonably warrants Pro Bowl consideration. What it will actually be based on how arbitrary and stupid Pro Bowl voting is: Nobody. Zero Buffalo Bills. Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes, and Joe Burrow will all get voted to the Pro Bowl over Josh Allen. It's a broken and stupid and meaningless voting system, and its results have no bearing on reality. The All-Pro vote is all that matters any more.

Watching on Hard Knocks as they tried really hard to move up this year for Drake Maye but were unable to do so was painful. Then when Schoen announces to Daboll that they couldn't get a deal done and will be sticking with Daniel Jones, you can just tell that Dabes sees the writing on the wall. Hard to watch. Still surprised the Giants agreed to it, and I doubt any NFL team will agree to an offseason Hard Knocks ever again.

It's honestly the same up here in Portland, Oregon. Lots of Seahawks fans. When they're having a great season, you see all the Seahawks jerseys and "12" flags everywhere. When they're anything less than great? Not so much. Even this year, where they're leading the division, I haven't seen or heard much from Seahawks fans. I sorta think it's a west coast vs east coast thing. Whereas fans of teams like the Bills and Steelers live in cold weather, blue collar cities and live and die with their teams, fans of teams like the Seahawks and 49ers live in gentler climate cities with lots to do and lots of nature and sightseeing opportunities. In my experience, they just don't live and die with their teams the same way east coast football fans seem to. There are exceptions of course, but as a general rule, I've found that it holds pretty true.

I refuse to acknowledge the veracity of your thesis statement. Bad men, all.

The amount of GMs that could potentially be good at their jobs but get fired before ever finding out due to inability to procure a quality quarterback is crazy. Makes you wonder where Brandon Beane would be if the Bills had missed out on Allen and had to settle for, say, Josh Rosen or Mason Rudolph. Getting the QB is really THE thing for a GM. If he hits on a QB, especially a REALLY good one, he's got job security for quite a while. If he doesn't? Back to the unemployment line. Crazy thing with Schoen and Daboll is it seems they may not even get the chance to pick a guy. I mean...they re-signed Daniel Jones to a big contract, so I guess that counts, but...sheesh.

I don't agree that the line should be 2.5 or 3 if Purdy is playing. These aren't last year's 49ers. They're 5-6. The Bills are 9-2 and playing at home. The Bills are 22-4 at home the last 3 calendar years, and have lost two games TOTAL in the month of December since 2020 -- both of which came in 2021. Bills are very good. 49ers are not. Bills at home and in December are elite. Bills just beat the Chiefs -- who are objectively better than the 49ers -- by 9 points. Spread is where it should be regardless of QB, IMO.

I don't think that's fair. Chargers were a collection of great football talent last year and stunk. What did Michigan do before he arrived? San Fran? Stanford? I get your point. He chooses his jobs well. He's also a good coach, and the proof is in the pudding.

Chargers defense: 7 points or fewer allowed in the first half in every game this season. Massively impressive.

The Chargers look good to me. Herbert looks reinvigorated, their O-line has some pop in the pads, and their defense is a wagon. Jim Harbaugh is a very good coach and a culture setter. I don't like him -- I think he's an arrogant jerk. But I can't deny he's a good coach. Just wins everywhere he goes. I don't particularly love the idea of seeing these Chargers in the playoffs. Fierce defense and Greg Roman running scheme = tough out in cold January weather.

Bills coming off a bye week at home on a Sunday night in cold temperatures against a team with a banged up QB traveling from the west coast. What's not to like? Bills by a billion.

I was going through the teams that could possibly sign him in my head, and I think the funniest possible outcomes would be: - Dallas signs him this year and he continues to start in the NFC East - The Bears sign him next year to compete with Caleb Williams and Jones winds up winning the job at some point and Bears fans go from the jubilation of drafting 1st rounder Justin Fields, to the disappointment of actually seeing him play, to the jubilation of drafting 1st rounder Caleb Williams, to the disappointment of actually seeing him play, to being resigned to watching a Daniel Jones reclamation project - The Raiders sign him next year. Their fans go from Gardner Minshew to Aidan O'Connell to Daniel Jones. WE ARE LAUGHING. All in all, I think I'm rooting for the Bears outcome, just for comedy's sake.

Yeah I think he has "team signs him to a 1 year deal to compete to start but then drafts a rookie in the 1st round" written allll over him. Then he either never gets to play or only plays the "sacrificial first four games before we turn it over to the rookie" role. After THAT, he'll become the backup for the Buffalo Beews.

Yeah Jones walked into President Mara's office and asked for his release, a request which Mara granted. That's about it.

Gambling and fantasy football warp people's brains. Team wins the game but doesn't feature your favorite skill player? Coaches should be fired. Your favorite skill player comes 2 yards shy of causing you to hit on your 6-leg parlay? Send him a Tweet telling him to kill himself. I'm telling you -- fantasy football and gambling (both of which I participate in) are ruining sports viewers.

This whollle thing is not a great look for Schoen and Daboll. Yikes.

The combination of: - How effective Ray Davis has looked in limited work - The amount of contract extensions for key players coming up (Groot, Bernard, Benford, Shakir) - The replaceability of running backs in general It is my belief that James Cook should not be given a contract extension. I almost never believe in giving a running back a second contract, unless he's a truly elite player who contributes to the passing game in a big way. If the Bills were flush with money and didn't have so many other key extensions coming up, I might feel differently. As it stands -- with other more pressing extensions on the horizon, with Ray Davis in-house and looking good, with the Bills front office showing over the years that it's not afraid to spend day two picks on running backs -- I think they should let Cook walk. I'm sure that opinion will go over like a lead balloon, but I'm sticking to it. Give me the Edge rusher, the defensive captain, the elite corner, and the elite YAC receiver over the running back, please and thank you.

Have you considered just punching yourself in the dIck instead?

The Prison Mike scene from the Office and the Kenny Rogers Roasters episode of Seinfeld were both great choices. Frankly, I could list SO MANY scenes from those two shows, and Curb Your Enthusiasm for that matter. Instead, I'll post this simple clip of Rob Lowe's character trying to will himself in the mirror to stop being sick from Parks and Recreation. Gets me every time, and I think about it every time I'm sick.

Chiefs fans are one of the most sensitive and insecure fan bases I've ever come across. And yes, Bills fans are often very sensitive and insecure themselves. The difference is that heartache is all we've ever known and we've never hoisted a Lombardi trophy. We're fans of a famously star-crossed and unlucky team. The Chiefs, on the other hand, are in the midst of a dynasty, coming off two Super Bowl wins, and boast (arguably) the best QB and head coach in the league -- both surefire first ballot Hall of Famers -- and they're STILL overly sensitive and insecure. The absolute outrage and defensiveness they show any time someone dares to talk positively about quarterbacks other than Mahomes. The defensiveness and dismissiveness they show any time their team gets beaten. I've come across arrogant fan bases before. Patriots fans were beyond awful for 20 years. But I've never seen this level of arrogance/smugness MIXED WITH extreme sensitivity and insecurity. It's downright bizarre. **Note: I'm mostly talking about online Chiefs fans on social media and message boards and Chiefs content creators. I know most people say that any time they've gone to games or interacted with Chiefs fans in real life, it's been a mostly positive experience.

Buncha cucks.

I won't try to argue that hanging anyone's effigy is ever smart, funny, or a good idea. But the outrage IS a little bit rich coming from the fan base of the team who mimes a Native American war chant throughout football games. If we're talking about insensitivity to our racial past: pot, meet kettle.

Opening my door to find a stack of the foods you just mentioned -- which I didn't pay for or expect -- would be an absolute dream. Literal best case scenario in life. As for the highly specific nature of my post to BringBackFlutie. Well....Let's just say the combined effects of a long day of tailgating, a bunch of homemade moonshine and jell-o shots, and a confiscated E-Pen made SOMEONE a grumpy and unreasonable drunkard, such that a perfectly well-delivered pizza at 11pm -- by virtue of not being visible to the compromised eyes of said drunkard despite its location exactly where it was supposed to be -- garnered an angry and unwarranted zero star rating on Doordash for the hapless delivery person who happened to draw the short straw on this unwinnable courier assignment. TL;DR - drunks are jerks.