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Great news for the Lions, who are still looking to make the playoffs. The Lions have a potent offense, so they should be able to score some despite the Jests' good D. I doubt that the Jests under Wilson can outscore them.

I will add that Lamar has really improved his passing over his pro career just like Josh Allen has. His passing skills are different from JA's, but he's a decent passer, and one of the top QBs in the NFL.

Absolutely. There's so much more to being a good/great QB than being a great passer, including leadership and decision-making. How many great passers drafted into the NFL have literally fallen on their faces because they never had/mastered the rest of the skills good/great QBs need?

I think that Lamar has proven himself more than just a "pretty good QB", and I think that the only issue that Baltimore has with paying him is the guaranteed money. I think that in the aftermath of the Deshaun Watson deal, Lamar wants it fully guaranteed for x number of years, and Baltimore isn't willing to go that far. I'm not sure if they will compromise over the off season.

In an NFL without a salary cap or if all they were interested in was filling Highmark Stadium and making the playoffs, this would be easy to do, but the Bills play in an NFL with a salary cap, and they aspire to not simply make the Super Bowl but win it They need a defense good enough to stop offenses like the Chiefs, Bengals or Eagles, and the Bills have invested a lot assets to get what they hope is a good enough defense. Despite the losses of Hyde and Miller for the season, other injured defensive players have returned or are getting healthy, and the Bills defense appears to be still improving. I'm willing to sacrifice some offensive power for a defense that can take the Bills to a Lombardi. I'm a believer in the old adage, "defense wins championships".

IMO, winning close games late in the season is far better preparation for winning in the playoffs than cruising into the playoffs with a string of easy wins that make fans feel great but don't enable a team to develop the mental toughness needed to overcome adversity that surely appears during any run to the Super Bowl.

Seriously upgrading the OL would solve many of the problems with the offense IMO. It would make all the RBs better. It would enable Allen to have more passing success by giving him more time to throw. I'd like to see the Bills use a first or second round pick on a top quality OLer and at least one other pick in rounds 3-5 on an OLer.

Yeah, back in August and September the Chiefs were supposed to be the weak sister of that division.

I think going on instinct and ad-libbing was Mayfield's MO going back to college. I think it was a siginicant part of his success in his rookie season, too. If McVay is smart enough to realize that Baker does best when he has the option to ad-lib and nurtures that, the Rams may have found themselves a QB while scavenging on the NFL waiver wire!

Baker has resurrected Baker of 2017 (Heisman Trophy) and Baker of 2018 (NFL OROY) ... at least for one game.

This is a perfect Sunday!!!! Fish lose. Jests lose. Chiefs lose. Titans lose. BILLS WIN!!!!

Yes! Yes!!! Yes!!!!!!

RIP, Christine.

I've had Amazon Music Unlimited for years so I wondered why I can still do those things.

Not really. "Bastard" refers to males or females born outside of marriage, although today it's mostly applied to males. "B word" refers to a female dog but is more commonly applied almost exclusively to women.

RIP, Irene. I've reached the age where many of my favorite singers/actors are passing on ... not necessarily from drugs/alcohol/accidents but from maladies associated with old age.

This is exactly how I feel. The Bills will be a better team in January for winning tight games in November and December. My sense is that good teams that have to scrap to get into the playoffs or to get high seedings seem to do better in the playoffs that teams that coast in.

Kyler just got picked by Derwin James.

He's also more durable. He hasn't been injured enough to miss many games. Gronk missed a lot of games. Same old Chargers ... going back to the early 2000s when they were loaded with talent. They made the playoffs then but they never did much in the playoffs. Now, they certainly have good talent but they don't make the playoffs because they continue to find ways to lose games. Yes, easily.

Lawrence really does have a "horse face"! I'm watching Red Zone, and they're flipping between KC/Rams and Arizona/Chargers ... and the team colors are almost the same: KC and Arizona in red and Rams and Chargers in gold and blue. It's a bit confusing!

I think it was to waste some time. That was the criticism of McDermott last year ... the Bills didn't squib kick against KC in the playoff game. Two or three fewer seconds and the game would have been a Bills win.

It looked like it until the very end when it kinda died. Trevor Lawrence has had the first real clutch drive in his career!!!

Jags win!!!!! Tucker missed 67 yard FG!!!!

If you come on a Bills fan site and have nothing positive to post, being "crucified" by other posters is the least you should expect. You could easily be suspended or banned by the moderators. Words have consequences, whether they're spoken or written. Once said or posted, they can't be taken back. That's true if you're in politics or in the media or in business or in a relationship ... or you're a fan of a sports team. "Free speech" guarantees that you can say what you want about the government and the government can't come after you. It doesn't mean that private citizens or businesses or organizations have to accept some horse's ass spouting trash or stupidity without taking action against said horse's ass. If you lie, don't whine when you're called a liar. If you call people vile names, don't cry foul when you get called worse back. If you send disgusting emails to co-workers, don't pretend to be a martyr when you get fired. If you don't want to be "crucified", then don't spout opinions to people you know won't like them.

I just love MB drama queens. So much angst about a regular season loss in OT to a non-conference opponent.