MJS

Bills: 33 Chiefs: 20 I think the Bills win this by multiple scores. The Chiefs have their clutch devil magic, but I think they lack the upside and firepower to hang with a supremely motivated Bills team.

Yeah, but they have been really close games, mostly. The difference has been one or two plays.

Looks good!

Allen was a game manager last week, but balled out in pretty much every other playoff game he has ever played. I think it is great that he is embracing different ways to play and win. He doesn't always need to put on the cape.

It's just the way offense is played in the NFL today. The teams with strong run games, mobile QBs, and multiple ways to win on offense, while staying efficient and limiting mistakes, are the teams who win. Defenses are taking away big plays, so offenses had to adjust. It is no longer just a passing, vertical offense league. Teams have bigger personnel, are getting backs and TEs involved a lot more in the passing game, and running the ball. Defenses have basically said, if you want to score on us, you'll have to string together long drives and stay efficient and patient. So, teams are doing that. Not just the Bills.

The Bills know how to play the Chiefs better than any other team. They are the only team that consistently beats them in the regular season. This time we are pretty healthy, so we won't have that as a major determining factor like we have the previous couple of times we met them in the post season.

I saw it a few times, but the Bills were crashing the line and getting penetration and hitting Henry in the backfield, and then in the 2nd half they passed it a lot more.

I guess they didn't watch him play this year, then... I saw the hit and I don't think it was intentional, btw.

Or RGIII. We've seen this movie before. You can't be elite after 1 season. You have to do it multiple times.

Yeah, he is a great dude. I respect him a lot. And he has really improved as a passer.

I don't believe this for a second. Allen and the Bills need to be smart, take what the defense gives them, and not turn over the football. They've been doing exactly what they need to, and they should continue that.

Or just dropped. Allen's are NEVER dropped. Defenders make insane catches. Meanwhile, Mahomes hits defenders in the numbers and they drop it.

With Brady. I guess we'll see if he is good without the best QB of all time.

This is insane. That's why both teams are in the championship game. Wow.

Exactly this.

I agree. I do acknowledge that they have a really tough job and they do it really well 90% of the time. The NFL doesn't help them out, though. The rules are too nuanced and complicated. They need to really simplify things. Stop asking the officials to make judgement calls ALL the time. It will always be a part of their job, of course, but too much is subjective. Like the catch rule. They have simplified it a lot, so we don't see as many controversial catch calls like we did a few years ago. That is a step in the right direction. But it needs to be simplified even further. No more "football move" subjectivity. If the receiver catches it, establishes possession, and has two feet down, it should be a catch. And that shouldn't change in the field of play versus the end zone. That will increase the number of fumbles, but so be it. Hold onto the ball if you don't want it called a fumble.

Well, the ball doesn't have to actually be delivered. They can start blocking as soon as the ball leaves the QB's hand. The official should be saying to himself, "It looked like the player got yanked down, but I didn't actually see Dawkins do that.". They need to stop officiating the reaction, only the actual action. They are cheating by guessing what caused it. And when they guess like that, sometimes they are right, and sometimes they are wrong. That is the whole crux of the officiating problem. They'll miss some calls if they stop cheating like that, but at least they have a defense. "I can only call what I see, and I didn't see that."

You aren't supposed to officiate the reaction. You are supposed to officiate the action. You see it all the time with phantom facemask calls. The player turns his head and draws a flag when the defender never even touches the facemask. Officials need to be trained out of that. You can't throw flags like that. You can only throw them if you see something actually happen.

I disagree. It killed a drive. And the penalty on Tre White was at least illegal contact. White was engaged with the receiver past 5 yards of the line of scrimmage, impacting his route. And when he fell, he further impacted his route. It was a borderline call that maybe you want to not see called for PI, but it was nothing like the Dawkins call, which was not holding by any stretch of the imagination.

Yeah, I wouldn't go that far. I want them to win it all and I will be dissappinted if they don't. But I'm not going to allow football to impact me in negative ways. It is entertainment and I view it as such. The minute the game starts causing me undue amounts of stress and grief, I need to step away and reevaluate.

Why? It worked out for Manning.

Sorry, I am not here waiting expectantly for you to respond to my posts. The tweet is super simple and I don't believe you when you say you don't know what it means.

If you can't understand that tweet, make sure you aren't one of those fans who criticizes offensive and defensive schemes and play calling, because that is FAR more complicated.

What do you mean? Are they going to forfeit the season next year? How do they not recover?

Fans do say that about the defense, but they don't even know what they are talking about. Basically, if the team converts, he was being too conservative. It doesn't matter what formation the defense was in, what play was called, if they blitzed or not, etc. If the offense converts, McDermott gets called conservative. It is just ignorant, honestly. And it is very similar to when he was being called conservative on offense. It just wasn't true, and it isn't now on the defensive side. The issue is the defense is not very good at stopping teams between the 20's. We don't have an elite defense anymore.