BullBuchanan

This was the best game the Bills (or anyone) has ever played as far as I'm concerned. We had the perfect game the week before, but the pats no-showed, and we had the greatest comeback of all-time but the Oilers got complacent and it cost them. The Chiefs fought us tooth and nail and had the game gone on an hour longer, i doubt it would have been more than a 1 score game. I wanted them to win more than anything, but I haven't had that much fun watching football in over 15 years. I'd consider myself lucky if I got to see another game that good in my lifetime - even if it's another loss.

Tampa is going to fall apart soon. They'll be losing Godwin, Brady, Gronk, Suh, Arians, JPP, Fournette, Jones, Gholston. If Brady retires, look for everyone else to bail. They have no solution at QB barring a veteran move and those options won't replace what Brady did for them.

The hate was no less "rational" than the praise. There are QBs drafted every year, and often early int he first round. All the guys that draft them think they're going to be "the one". It's up the the players to go out there and do it. Some of the 1rst round guys flame out of the league in 3 years and some of the day 3 guys turn into Tom Brady and Russell Wilson. There's a certain element of it that's really just luck.

I was an all-time Allen detractor when he was drafted through most of year two - though I did like some of the things he did there. By the time year 3 was half over - if you were still hating the kid you were clueless. He still needed to be better, and then he did that this year. Now, I don't think he needs to be any better, but he still could be.

Sure, but isn't part of being a fan is playing the armchair coach/GM role?

I mean, the Browns, Jets, and Broncos front office all do this 24x7 and they were wrong too. Let's face it, even the Bills were kind of wrong. If they had any idea, they would have traded up to #1. If the Bills were so smart, they would have just drafted Mahomes the year earlier when he was on the board. The reality of the situation is that you do what you can based on measurables, interviews, game tape and gut. Josh Allen became a better pro than he was at any other point in his career. He clearly had the right mental makeup to get there, and I think a lot of that was coaching too. He was pretty bad his first two years in the league overall, despite the flashes of athleticism. What happened in year 3 - nothing like that has ever happened before. He took a really big jump in year 4 too with his judgement, touch, and protecting himself and the football, but that year 3 jump is something coaches and GMs will unpack forever.

The Rams are very good. Stafford is not in Mahomes league, but he has immense talent around there and is capable of huge games. Their defense has much bigger playmakers than ours, so if they can force some bad situations (turnovers, field position or just shut down drives with big TFL) they could very well win. It might be a better matchup than us.

Let's hope our pairing is that good. That would mean 7 years of division championships and a SB win. Where do I sign up?

People in high-performance jobs in their prime typically don't pass over promotions unless it's an awful situation. If he was in his 60's, maybe. You couldn't possibly pay him what a HC makes, and there's no way you could give him the prestige or the legacy.

Dude, we lost 4 super bowls. It couldn't possibly be higher than 5 based on that logic.

not when they just needed a field goal with 3 time outs with an MVP quarterback in a back and forth game.

If the Bengals find a way to win and then get blown out in turn by the Rams, this loss doesn't get looped every time Patrick Mahomes or Josh Allen plays a game. It gets remembered as a great, ultimately unimportant game, and that's the best we can hope for. They too can then play the "what if" game.

This doesn't even make my short list. It was a great game played by great teams. We lost and that sucks, but we didn't get the rug pulled out from under us by external forces or collapse in on ourselves. We just lost. The MNF game to Dallas felt worse. Stevie Johnson drop against the Steelers felt worse. Losing against the Steelers backups and launching the career of Willie Parker felt worse. Watching our 5-1 season slip away was worse. MCM and Wide Right were WAY worse.

I'm treating the final drive the same way I treat a passing down in the first quarter where it usually takes a team 4-6 minutes of game clock to score. When you change your routine from what you've been doing all game (and what you were spending 99% of your practice time on) you're guaranteed to execute less successfully. Treat it like any other play and execute.

CB could definitely be a target.

I tend to mock folks with awful takes and high confidence in them - correct. The Bills have Stefon Diggs, one season removed from being the best in football, a WR who just set a playoff record in Gabe Davis, and Dawson Knox who had a breakout season. I'm sure they'll keep adding talent, just as they always do, but the premise of what we need to do to win this game by you and others int his thread is utterly ridiculous. Beane will likely spend his first three picks on players who weigh more than 250 lbs, and he should. The trenches will help us more than anything, and they know that. There could be a RB in there somewhere and a WR or two on day two and three.

This weird cult of people calling for more offensive firepower after two of the best offensive displays in history are fit for a straight jacket. Of course, if we start the year with only 2 WRs on the roster we will need to get more, but it was not a need this year at all. We could have had Jerry Rice in his prime int he slot and we still lose.

That's exactly what it was. They had 3 plays to get one stop and failed. It's not like the coaches called a punt block formation. They failed to make a single stop.

When did we not score Sunday because of our lack of receiving talent?

Because that's what everyone thought as the Bills gave up a tying FG with 13 seconds left on the clock or let Mahomes drive the field for the win in OT. "If only we had a better receiver!"

People are saying Mahomes is better because he has an MVP, a SB Championship, a SB MVP 4 straight AFCG, 2 SB appearances and because he never failed to make the play he needed to make. Just because he needed to make less of them than Allen, doesn't make him a lesser talent. A great pool player at a bar will dazzle you with the incredible shots they can make. A world champion will put you to sleep as they shoot balls straight in the pocket every shot, because everything is where it needs to be all the time. This is not to the detriment of Allen - he did absolutely nothing wrong. He was perfect. So was Mahomes, and he's been perfect since he came into the league whenever he's needed to be.

He can still refine his deep ball accuracy to hit guys in stride more often. We left some big plays on the field this year because guys had to adjust to the ball. He does an excellent job of it on the intermediate stuff. The only other big thing would be touch on shorter passes to try to limit drops and improve YAC.

No doubt, but top end talent is what wins in this league when the chips are down. Frank Clark played great against Allen - better than any of our guys did against Mahomes. That kind of thing is the difference. Depth gets you to the games that matter.

This sounds like the kind of thing a person would say who's never actually worked anywhere. His team just played maybe the greatest game in NFL history. If you get fired after that, your boss deserves to lose everything.