Locomark

I remember the dark days at the start of the year when the threads were about how doomed we were wearing all blue, oh my how that has changed.

Johnson looked poor early in the season so it has to be Marlowe IMO just for the soundness of coverage / no mistakes in the playoffs. We always seem to pick the safe choice versus the better athlete (see a Jackson over Elam.)

Genius Bill will try at least 1 fake punt / massive punt block overload and some trickeration today like going for it on his own 32. (As if we don’t expect either)

The home Dallas, away Cinci, Chiefs, and Philly games have Monday and Sunday night written all over them. I feel like the Thanksgiving late game could be Buffalo Miami from Buffalo. It feels like Tampa or the Giants have rarely ever played in Buffalo.

This is the game Mr. Diggs breaks our single season receiving yardage record also. He needs under 50. He’ll probably do it before halftime.

Best case outcomes for the Bills today: Bills Win of course Jets beat Phins, Ravens beat Cinci Chargers beat Denver Seeding then are we get Steelers or Pats and Cinci now gets Chargers, which is our easiest draw and Cinci’s toughest draw. Too bad Lamar is out.

I am starting to feel these are all signs that the Bills org is destined to overcome and will go down as the greatest organization story of overcoming adversity in the way to a championship in history.

First off it’s an assumption the Phins will beat the Jets which is not a given. If they don’t, we play either the Pats or Steelers. ( pretty easy) Second you are are assuming the Bengals will beat San Diego game 1 and they may not. Its a fair matchup of teams with good offenses and San Diego has good DEs and CBs. They are scarier than Miami.

So what if Mahomes gets wiped out by those 2 nasty D ends on the Raiders who have nothing left to play for but pride? If I were the Chiefs I would play pretty conservatively.

What amazing action by him and and the whole team! The NFL/Bills need to give his kids a free college fund or something worthy of his effort.

I have a dream for the snarky Chief board-At 3:33 of the 3rd quarter, an errant shotgun snap creates a mad scramble where Mahomes/Kelce/Humphrey all dive at the ball all hitting heads. All 3 require concussion protocol although they are fine for the next week. The Raiders 3rd string QB throws 3 TDs and 333 yards. The Chiefs proceed to lose the game 33-30. One can dream.

I always said he was headed to that position in a few years once he lost his supreme mobility. I don’t think we could judge it until next year when he is 100%. Today’s circumstances may dictate that if the other kid is back this week maybe you are right that he could be cycled into that role at times experimentally now.

So the latest the NFL network and ESPN are suggesting being tossed around is that should the Bills and KC win is they will decide by winning % and let the Chiefs pick between the bye or home field throughout the playoffs but not both. So KC would most likely pick the bye and we would get 3 home games. the other Option is KC gets the Bye and the AFCC game is played at a neutral site like Indy if Buffalo or the Bengals are in it.

McDaniel is overrated and it only took the 2nd round of division games for everyone to figure him out.

Just like any medical diagnosis, you stabilize and solidify the patients health first and foremost. You then in the future take all the analysis and then you systemically rule out what did/didn’t occur to come up with what created the outcomes. You don’t identify the root cause first. There are many types of underlying heart conditions that could have contributed and they will rule them out by process of elimination. Unfortunately the Twitter experts have already decided they know it’s either one root cause or vaccine related where it’s quite possible is neither. No matter, god bless Damar and get well soon!!!!!

ARE THE BILLS INTRODUCING THE FIRST RESPONDERS instead of the offense or defense Sunday? (CAPS intended)

They won’t change anything because basically the same thing could have happened to McKenzie if Josh Allen hits him with a hard pass in the Sternum at the exact right angle at the 30 millisecond wrong time. It’s just a one in a million thing. It doesn’t matter what padding he has.

Is this still a topic now that it’s possible that 3 teams may all finish under 500? I heard it goes to Pats, Jets, then Dolphins in last from the AFC East Roundtable on YouTube and if the Steelers lose, the Pats still make the playoffs even at 8-9.

By the way, I live in Chicago and have lived in East Coast cities. Dear Buffalonians, I hate to break it to you but you are considered the Midwest. You can call it something else, but you aren’t near either coast and there is no such thing as Great Lakers. You are the Midwest, so stop criticizing it. The Midwest is where the most genuine people live. If you think people in Iowa are cruel, you need to get your head checked and visit any East Coast city for 5 minutes. I lived in Des Moines and the first week i lived there, pre cell era, my wife got lost and some little old lady saw her confused in a parking lot and had her follow her 10 miles across the city to where she was going so she wouldn’t get lost. That doesn’t happen anywhere but the Midwest. By the way, the actions of the Iowa fans may be due to the behaviors or fan bases from Penn State. My wife used to play in the Illinois band and said both Penn State and Ohio State fans would literally throw trash at them in the stands while all other Big Ten venues were great. Of course that was years ago so maybe things have changed.

I would let my kids play unless they were undersized. I played 3 different sports and sustained lasting effects from all of them. You are going to get neck, head, groin, ankle, back, and leg injuries almost as much in hockey as football mainly because you play so many more games. You will get just as many knee or back injuries in soccer when two people kick at the same time since you will get countless hyper extensions and tears. I have had neck, leg tears, broken bones, and back injuries in all 3 of those sports. It’s in the college years that those collisions get much more dangerous in my opinion. It also depends on what position your kid plays at high school ages. I have seen some 165LB kids trying to throw their bodies around as a safety and that will get them hurt in high school. In younger pop Warner years the leagues are weight controlled so everyone is similar sized, which helps. Once you get to JV and varsity you see there are kids who have matured faster crushing kids that are smaller. That’s when you see more injuries start due to random size mismatch, often on chop or blind block hits.

Should the large not replay the Bills/Bengals game and they award KC seed # based on winning %, should the Bills and Chiefs get to AFC championship the league should have it at a neutral site. The Chiefs are all ready getting the extra bye week for free, let them give up the home crowd advantage.

There is a rumor being floated that the league is recommending playing the NFC playoffs on schedule and playing the Bills/Bengals game only in the AFC if it is meaningful to seeding in the AFC after the outcome of this weeks games. This would be logical although it would give almost all the other AFC teams and the NFC champion a huge advantage in the long run health wise. So this type of dumb approach sound exactly like something the NFL would do anyways because it meets their primary desire of having games and TV revenue every week even though it creates a lot of disadvantage and actually create disadvantages for Bengals and Bills.

A HUGE thank you to all that have contributed their expertise here. beck water, red tail Hawk, Herc11, garypnc, MR WEO, Turftoe and many others I have missed. Many of us have been through or had relatives experience induced comas but it has been through such a wide range of reasons that it is difficult to comprehend what is happening. I appreciate you helping us as we know this will not be a short process and there will not be quick public statements and Damar won’t suddenly be awake and talking. It nice to know he is in a top notch center and getting great care.

I think it may not be decided until the day before and it will depend on what the team knows about Damar. I assume Sean will let the players decide. I think the league has already probably given them a Saturday time to decide so they can announce it on the night game.

Knowing Damar is still purposefully sedated as they control his swelling on his chest and lungs, I have questions for those of you who are doctors and specifically neurologists. Isn’ t it usual that they wait around 2-3 days and then do something like a CT scan to confirm effective brain activity before risking removing him from that sedation and all o2 to make sure he will handle it effectively ? Then probably an MRI looking for further organ impacts at a later time? I am asking this based on experiences I have had with family and friends in traumatic situations and assume any cessation of oxygen must require some evaluation of these factors. Interested in your feedback.