CincyBillsFan

But this is the Arizona, Dallas and soon SF problem - good QB's being paid like Great QB's.

On a positive note for he Chargers is Ladd McConkey the best rookie WR this year? I mean 9 catches for 197yards and a TD in a playoff game after an 82 receptions for 1149 yards, 7 TD's regular season? I would say he is.

The issue IMO is Herbert.

The Chargers only hope is for Houston to go into a prevent defense and then Herbert can rescue his stats and only lose the game 23 - 20.

Throwing a one yard pass on 4th & 2, yea that's the ticket!

Throwing a pretty ball every once in a while a great QB does not make.

Herbert stunk up the 1st half going 8 of 20 for 97 yards and an INT. Stroud at least caught fire at the end of the half. If Herbert doesn't get better in the 2nd half it's going to bring up some interesting questions going forward.

Damn, I didn't expect to see such bad quarterbacking from these two.

It depends what you mean by "discrediting Lamar". If you mean people are discrediting Lamar because they point out the advantages Lamar has had this year in his surrounding talent and acquisition of King Henry then I very much disagree with you. To me that is a valid and fair point to bring up. It's also not discrediting Lamar to point out his shortcomings in the playoffs compared to Allen's elite play in many of his playoff games. After all those supporting Jackson never fail to point out Allen's TO's as being excessive. As an aside I think Jackson is going to explode this playoff season. He has an abundance of weapons around him and he should be comfortable in the playoffs in a way he hasn't been previously. If the Bill's & Ravens both win I expect next week to be a shoot out.

Yep that's what I've noticed since Allen got drafted. For sure it's not all media members and there are a lot of football media types who praise Allen in the same spirit that Mahomes is praised. But there is a weirdly large number of these NFL media people who are relentlessly negative about Allen. It seems personal with them and I don't get it given that Allen seems to be a nice guy. The notion that Jackson has been "disrespected" & "under appreciated" is ludicrous on its face as the guy has won 2 MVP's and seems poised to win a 3rd all without any sustained playoff success or accomplishments. Yea I know it's a "regular season" award but there has to be some connection between the award and playoff achievements or the award is no better then a Peoples Choice award. Also 4 of those 5 games were played by the Bills on the road. Beating the two 15 win teams, one on the road, eclipses the Ravens better overall record against playoff bound teams IMO.

And their D has not been all that good late in the season.

As I recall after starting slow the Bills opened up a 24 - 10 lead early in the 4th quarter with Allen's 40 yard TD throw to Diggs. Then the McD/Frazier Defense went into its playoff prevent mode and allowed Indy to score on 2 long TD drives to make us sweat bullets at the end.

Is it though? In early 2021 a 13 - 3 Bills team with their newly elite QB but having very little playoff experience met a wildcard Indy team in Buffalo. Now that was a game where Buffalo was under great pressure as they were expected to roll the Colts that day. Flash forward to early in 2025 - the Bills are playoff experienced and battle tested. I think they will come out in a very business like manner shrugging off any pressure while dispatching the Broncos by 10 - 14 points. It will be close in the 1st half with the Bills pulling away in the 2nd half.

That's what I found when I looked at their last 4 games before KC. I posted these stats and I would be nervous if I was a Broncos fan: I keep hearing about how great the Bronco's D is. So I went back and looked at the Bronco's last 4 games against teams that were trying. Sorry but you can't include the KC game. These 4 games are a decent measuring stick as they're at the end of the season and Denver needed to win them in its quest for the wildcard. Cleveland; gave up 32 points and 552 yards Indy; gave up 13 points (should have been 20 as Taylor dropped the ball before he crossed the goal line with no Bronco player in sight) and 310 yards Chargers; gave up 34 points and 380 yards Bengals; gave up 30 points and 499 yards.

Detroit took Cooper away as he didn't even get a target. How did that work out for the Lions D? Your point is spot on and if anything is understated. No team in the playoffs is less reliant on a single skill player then the Bills.

You just gave me a freaking HEART ATTACK!!!!! Make the fine print at the top bigger!

Jets and Dolphin fans pretending to be Bills fans to troll us.

But there defense at the end of the season hasn't been very good. Sure any team can get sloppy and lose a playoff game they should win. But I don't see the Bills, who had 8 total TO's over 17 games this season, suddenly committing half that amount this Sunday against Denver. Which is what they did against Miami in that playoff game.

I keep hearing about how great the Bronco's D is. So I went back and looked at the Bronco's last 4 games against teams that were trying. Sorry but you can't include the KC game. These 4 games are a decent measuring stick as they're at the end of the season and Denver needed to win them in its quest for the wildcard. Cleveland; gave up 32 points and 552 yards Indy; gave up 13 points (should have been 20 as Taylor dropped the ball before he crossed the goal line with no Bronco player in sight) and 310 yards Chargers; gave up 34 points and 380 yards Bengals; gave up 30 points and 499 yards. So tell me why folks are touting this D going into the playoffs?

And this is why "facts" can be misleading. The Bills victories against KC and at Detroit were arguably the two best wins by any team this season.

And dropped passes. The Bills came out firing on all cylinders to take a 17 - 0 lead. But even here it should have been 21 - 0 as Knox dropped a 3rd down TD pass in the end zone. Then you had some fluky TO's and Shakir dropped what would have been a 55 yard completion late in the 2nd and the game was suddenly close. An Allen fumble returned for a TD at the start of the 3rd quarter set the stage for a bit of a dog fight. Even then the Bills had a 10 point lead going into the 4th quarter and out gained Miami in yards 423 to 231 and in 1st downs 25 to 16. Weird game that's for sure.

Went back and looked at the play by play because my recollection was that we came close to blowing the game wide open in the 1st half and 2 bad plays by Kelly saved the Jags and gave them big time momentum. Bills went up 7 - 0 in the 1st quarter. Then after stuffing the Jags they get the ball back at their own 13. First play Kelly hits Early for 11 yards. Then on 1st and 10 the Bills get cute and try a shovel pass to Thomas which was intercepted and returned for a TD. Now it's 7 - 7 and the Bills then go down and score a TD to go up 14 - 7. The Jags kick a FG to cut the Bills lead to 14 - 10. Moulds has a great KO return and the Bills drive into the Jags red zone. Then on 4th & inches at the Jags 16 yard line Kelly is stuffed on a QB sneak. So instead of scoring and going up 21 - 10 the Bills are stopped and the Jags take the ball and go on a TD drive. The rest is history.

No it doesn't. The 10 - 6 Bills were old and in terminal decline. This years 13 - 3 (I don't count the exhibition game) team may be the best of the Allen era. And while Kelly was over the hill and fading fast, remember he couldn't get 6 inches on a QB sneak deep in Jags territory and he threw a pic 6 on a freaking shovel pass, Allen is at the top of his game.

The Bengal's defense is what got them to that Super Bowl a couple of years ago and was a big reason they made the conference championship the following year. There had to be a scapegoat and it wasn't going to be Taylor. We had a snowstorm today down here in Cincy (over a foot) and while I was shoveling was listening to Bengal's talk radio and a lot of callers didn't want to see the DC fired. In fact I would characterize it as a real disquiet that this will not help them next year when they put a likely inferior coach in at DC.

Bishop and Hamlin play different positions. Bishop needs to beat out Rapp who is having a great year.