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This was my gut reaction as well. However, I think maybe we should consider that our final drive was ultimately going to be more of a passing drive than running drive. Or at the very least there needed to be more freedom on the drive for the team to run or pass. I think James Cook is a fantastic RB and I've changed my tune on the idea of re-signing a RB. I hope we keep him in Buffalo beyond next year on a deal that is both fair to him and fair to us. I'm sure whatever it is some are going to react that we've overpayed him, but he's clearly so valuable to our offense. HOWEVER... Cook is a detriment to the offense in one critical aspect: pass blocking. That's really the reason I think they had Ty Johnson on in that final drive. If you listen to Joe Marino's All-22 breakdown he actually describes one play (and I think it was one of those plays on the last drive Cook came in for) where Cook was on the field for a passing play and he totally whiffed on his block, causing pressure to get in Allen's face forcing a bad throw. Love Cook. Hope he spends some time with Ty Johnson in the offseason to get better at that one critical part of his game.

Thanks for pointing out that I was correct

I still firmly believe Allen will get his Lombardi. I used to believe it would be more than 1, but now I just think it's possible. I've noticed you've become a bit of a Negative Nancy lately. I get it. I just really think we need to look at what our expectations were going into this season. Also, Josh and Keon need to have multiple weekend getaways at bed and breakfasts in the offseason. That connection devolved into something truly ugly in the back half of the season.

Ummm... how can it get worse? Are people forgetting that EVERYONE on this message board would have almost certainly been happy with getting back to the AFC Championship game this season based on our roster? Did we just forget that???

Brah... Big Ben led the league in passing yards in his age 36 season and he was notorious for taking atrocious care of himself in the offseason. If Big Ben is the measure, at least 7 more seasons of "window open" with Josh.

Please stop. No it's not. Don't ever wish that miserable drought back. Josh just finished his 5th year as an actual Elite QB and he's made the division round 3 times and the Championship round twice. He'll still be in his 20s next season and in his prime. This sucks. I'm miserable. We're all miserable. We need to accept that Josh won't catch up to Mahomes. But his career isn't even halfway over. If the Eagles also lose to the Chiefs in the Super Bowl AGAIN do you think they'll feel any better? This is the fun and pain of a single elimination Sport. Sorry but I don't miss the days when our season was over by Halloween.

Not me. Super nervous.

Practice Squad elevations?

He is???

Exactly what I thought and I thought it was cool because that tells you the unique QB/Coach relationship. You could almost see Josh trying to hurry things up by clapping even earlier when you watch the whole thing play out. Cracked me up.

Did anyone else watch this live on the broadcast and just keep rewinding and cracking up?

It's gonna go exactly like the last 2 weeks for me. Head vs Heart. Confidence objectively looking at the game early in the week. I thought the Bills would blow out the Broncos and I thought our Defensive players we got back would lift us to a W. Crazy nerves and self doubt on game day. Any Bills fan knows this. I feel the same way about the Chiefs except even though early week I feel confident we should beat them I already acknowledge we probably won't because of the refs and black magic.

Here Watch this and especially listen to Robert Mayes in his breakdown of the game for the 1st segment. I love listening to the show. He knows his ball and goes into some interesting stuff not touched upon by the media consistently.

Good God this is stupid. Lamar looked like a lost Puppy for most of the game. How many negative plays did Lamar have vs Josh and how consequential were those plays? That Lamar fumble was a -50 yard play on its own. Lamar was getting pressured consistently and he wasn't prepared for it. Multiple incompletions were because of pressure (I can think of Taron and Milano in particular getting pressure) that caused him to miss relatively wide open WRs. Lamar is a great player. But it's disgusting anyone would say a TE dropping a game TYING conversion with 93 seconds left and 2 TOs for Buffalo was responsible for any very deserved slander for continued postseason struggles by Lamar is RIDICULOUS!!!

The FG was the right decision.what wasn't was the 3rd down playcall. Tush push 2x quickly right there into the EZ

One extra note on this point. My wife isn't a big football fan but she watches when she likes certain players. She loved Peyton Manning so she was a Colts and then Broncos fan. She likes Henry a lot so she watches his games and she'll watch the Bills games to know my mood when I'm coming home since I watch elsewhere. Unprompted, my wife said our D was awesome against the Ravens except for that last drive and that's why we won. I said the national narrative would be that the Ravens lost it. She insisted that Lamar didn't stand a chance because of what our D was doing.

Good for him

It absolutely was. They can spin this all they want but Lamar is the reason they lost to.... No... strike that... Buffalo’s defense is the reason the Bills won today. I hope the smart national media out there will understand that Buffalo had the gameplan and personnel to beat the Ravens today. What they all really hate is that overwhelmingly what they were saying was that our D would be outmatched and Josh would have to go Superman mode to win. Even Dan Orlovsky was saying that! Exactly the opposite happened! They were all wrong so expect them to conspire with their narrative this week.

He also missed multiple wide open receivers because he was pressured. Just couldn't deal with pressure or cold today

What was the score at that point? And why was that the score?

Get used to it. The game script basically went exactly the opposite way they pretty much guaranteed it would go.

Except for his catastrophic mistakes

I'm sorry I massively disagree. Lamar was the deciding factor. He was bad. The Bills should have won this game handily but Brady went conservative with playcalling. Lamar chokes in another playoff game. That's 100% the story. He was rattled and obviously couldn't handle the pressure OR the weather. MVP my @$$