Inigo Montoya

That's a throw that Josh couldn't have made the last two years. Most everything he threw the first two years was 100 mph on a rope. Now he has found his touch and can drop the ball in a bucket with a nice little arc all over the field. When you combine that level of touch with his one of a kind arm strength, Josh has the ability to become the best passing QB in the League. He's knocking on the door now. What's even more impressive is that a lot of times he is dropping those dimes while on the run. I'm excited for that game when Josh connects with someone for a touchdown on a ball that travels 80+ yards in the air. That will be a sight to see.

If you read my post I say why yesterday's game was my final check box. You can disagree with that if you' d like. Mahomes had won in the playoffs and Josh hadn't. The last time we saw Josh in the playoffs he went off the rails when the chips were down. He didn't this time. Not only didn't he go off the rails, he's the reason we manage to sneak out a win at all. Mahomes is a generational quarterback. He also happens to be on the most talented roster in the NFL with one of it's best coaches. I hope Josh will win a Super Bowl, and a Super Bowl MVP, and NFL MVP someday, but we both know those awards have a lot to do with overall team play as well, not just QB play. I don't need to see those feathers in Josh's cap to say that I think he is as good as Mahomes. My last question was could Josh bring it in the playoffs, and he just did.

That is a lot of time to hold the ball.

I'm pretty certain I watched the game. Why don't you make a counter argument to my position instead of responding like a jerk? I'm a reasonable person, you could convince me I'm mistaken. Maybe I could change your mind. You know, like two grown ups having a conversation...

Fair point Bang, but the Bills might not make a Super Bowl for years despite Josh Allen playing amazing football. It is a team sport after all. I don't think it's reasonable to say that the only criteria for Josh Allen to be considered as good a QB as Mahomes is if he wins a Super Bowl. By your criteria Jim Kelly was not an elite QB.

There was a thread the other day on the board about Mahomes vs Allen. Mahomes got my vote. My position was that Josh's ceiling was higher, but he still needed to show that he could win when the stakes were high and all the chips were in the middle of the table. I said that when he can keep his composure during the playoffs and continue to play at the same elite level that he has been playing during the regular season, then I would change my mind. Josh Allen is the reason the Bills are going onto the Divisional Round of the playoffs next week. He was the running game and the passing game this week. He threw at 75% accuracy. He didn't turn the ball over. He took one bad sack in the game as the only play that he would probably want to have back. His shotput touchdown pass to Knox while falling down on a called QB keeper was preposterous. If Mahomes makes that play it leads SportsCenter for two days. Not only did Josh keep it together and continue to play fantastic ball on the big stage, he played well enough to overcome a poor game plan, a defense that couldn't make a third down stop, an O-line that could neither run nor pass block, and RBs who couldn't get anything going. He was solid as a rock despite everything going wrong around him and dragged his team kicking and screaming across the finish line to a win. I don't have any more questions about Josh Allen. The Buffalo Bills are set at QB for the next 10+ years. Pay the man, Beane

I didn't say that Reich called a bad game at all. I think his decision to go for it on 4th and goal from the 4 yard line was a bad call. It wasn't 4th and 1, or even 4th and 2 where you would have a decent chance of converting. They needed 4 yards which is a tough get, especially considering they were right on the goal line and Bills defense didn't have to defend the entire field, just the endzone. I respect your opinion and understand your point of view, we just have a difference of opinion on this one. 🍻

Three Colts in this game were pivotal in helping the Bills walk away with a victory today even though the Bills didn't play a very good game. These mistakes by the Colts are the kinds of mistakes the Bills used to make during the Drought that allowed them to repeatedly tear defeat from the jaws of victory. It's nice to finally be on the other side of the fence on those game altering plays. 1. Frank Reich, coach for the Colts, passes on a chip shot 22 yard field goal to go up 13-7 with 1:52 left in the first half. He decides instead to go for it on 4th and 4 and the Colts turn over the ball on downs. The Colts drive deep into Bills' territory comes up empty. Josh then gets the ball back and marches 96 yards for a TD before half. 2. Kemoko Turay, DE for the Colts, jumping off sides on that last Bills' drive of the first half with 37 seconds left on the clock. The penalty on 4th and 3 gave the Bills an automatic 1st down when the entire universe and all parallel universes knew that Allen was just trying to get the Colts to jump Offside. Instead of a 44 yard field goal try by Bass, the penalty leads to Allen's five yard rushing TD. The Bills to go into halftime up 14-10 despite a rough first half of play. 3. Rodrigo Blankenship, kicker for the Colts, boinks a 33 yard field goal off the upright taking three critical points off the board late in the 3rd quarter. The Bills get the ball back and march down the field and score another TD on a gorgeous 35 yard strike to Diggs in the corner of the endzone and the Bills go up 24-10.

According to Weather.com the Bills will have near perfect weather for their first home playoff game in 20+ years. 32 degrees at kickoff, zero chance of precipitation, partly cloudy, and most importantly... winds at just 6 mph. As good as it gets for Orchard Park in January. Let it rip Josh!!! https://weather.com/weather/hourbyhour/l/5c42bffa43df6982dc129049735910193259e13f1cf064308586bb9c73e6f515

Phillip Rivers. Two interceptions, one for a TD.

I think this probably means Beasley is out. If we had Diggs, Beasley, Roberts, Davis, McKenzie, and Brown ready to go, I don't know if you call up another WR from the practice squad.

It's a fair point and something I've thought about throughout this season. The fact that Allen had a better road record last season played into the thought that he got too amped up at home and played a bit too manic at home, the Kyle Brandt "Sugar High Allen". The lack of a crowd this year could have let him focus more on the game and less on the atmosphere. We'll know that answer in 24 hours.

The measure of success in this League, ultimately, is winning playoff games and Super Bowls. I love Josh Allen. I think he has a higher ceiling than Mahomes. I think he has the potential to win multiple Super Bowls. Until Josh wins a Super Bowl and shows he can still excel when all the chips are in the middle of the table, Mahomes is still the better QB. If Josh can grab a Lombardi this year or next then I think it's fair to look at this argument again. Josh hasn't shown he can succeed at the highest levels of competition yet. Here's to hoping Josh checks off that box emphatically this post season starting tomorrow.

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This is the way the coaching carousel works in the NFL. A hundred different factors go into who gets a job each off season, and one of those factors is who is available to interview at the start of the off season, which for 18 teams, starts today. The internet musings of one Inigo Montoya will have no karmic effect on what happens or doesn't happen to Mr. Brian Daboll. I think it's fair for a fan of the Bills to hope that we can keep the band together for one more year if we don't win the Super Bowl this year. I think it's inevitable that Daboll ends up a head coach, it's just my wish that he does it off the glory of a recently won Buffalo Bills Super Bowl. 🍻

Chiefs are on their bye. Hopefully someone snaps him up!

NFL rules limit the ability of other teams to interview assistant coaches / coordinators if the coach's team is still in the playoff hunt. If the Bills had earned a first round bye this year other teams could have interviewed Daboll during the bye week, so the lack of a bye week helps a bit in that regard. If the Bills continue to win, the earliest any team can legally interview Daboll for a head coaching gig would be the two week period between the AFC Championship game and the Super Bowl. Let's hope that the Bills continue to win and that head coach needy teams start hiring head coaches ASAP so there are fewer partners left for Daboll once he can finally join the dance. I would love to see Daboll back as the OC next year if we don't win it all this year. Once we win a Super Bowl, I will officially give my blessing for Daboll to move on. Until then, I want Daboll whispering in Josh's ear in Orchard Park on Sundays.

I am beginning to believe the only thing that can keep us from playing in the Super Bowl this year is a virus.

This offense is scarier than the Chiefs.

Even with that amazing stat line, the best thing is that we all know that there's still some meat left on the bone.

"Life is just a twisting, sucking, eddy of despair, occasionally highlighted by false hopes, in an ever darkening universe." My best friend in basic training told me that one night and I have never forgotten it (he was quite the optimist😉). Over the last two decades those words have been a succinct description of what it's been like to be a Bills' fan. I'm not going to belabor the point of how bad it's been, we all have the scars to show for it. What strikes me now after watching this season unfold is that for the first time in a long time I don't think this season represents a "false hope". I truly believe that the Bills have turned the corner from being a perennially dysfunctional franchise into being a well run organization that should be able to have sustained success. If you are under 50 you might not remember the dumpster fire that was the New Orleans Saints year after year. Fans routinely showed up for "Aint's " games with brown paper bags over their heads. The Tampa Bay Bucs were another model of dysfunction. |They were historically bad. For years and years they lost week in and week out. In the first twenty years of the franchise they had seventeen seasons with six or less wins. The Saints and the Bucs were just horrible. Then something happened... Sean Payton and Mickey Loomis teamed up in New Orleans, and Tony Dungy and John McKay got together in Tampa. They stopped the skid. They drafted soundly. They coached hard. They changed the culture. They built professional football organizations from top to bottom. They began to win. They won Super Bowls. That is what I see happening now with Brandon Beane and Sean McDermott in Buffalo. They are working in concert. They have the same philosophy of how to build a successful organization. No detail is too small. Every part of the organization is being optimized to strengthen the whole. They are bringing in staff, coaches, and players who all are pulling on the rope in the same direction, and they are getting traction. They have stopped the two decades long skid. The Buffalo Bills have become a model NFL franchise. How long has it been since we could say that? I think we have a real shot to win a Super Bowl this year, but even if we fall short, I would be shocked if this organization doesn't win a Super Bowl in the next three years. I think we are set up as a franchise with the Pegulas, Beane, and McDermott to enjoy a sustained period of competitiveness in the NFL. I think we will be a franchise that is consistently at the top of the NFL. After so many years of wandering in the desert, I think the Bills have finally arrived.

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I think Belichick was upset because he just got humiliated on national TV. Making things worse is that he knows he is going to be coaching the third best team in the division for the foreseeable future, and there's not a damn thing he can do about it. That BB press conference was the cherry on top of a fabulous Monday night.