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This isn’t a coaching problem. This is Josh turning the ball over.

Benford trying to guard the best WR of his generation caused that TD. Sometimes you just tip your hat.

Offer Miami a trade. They’d 100% take it.

Call was correct.

I blame Gabe Davis.

That was 1000% on Josh.

Is that goal line a foot tall? That’s twice Dolphins players have tripped over it.

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Good enough for me. Just put one of my biggest wagers of the year on Buffalo ML. Let’s do this.

You’re sure Buffalo wins, though?

Y’all wouldn’t dare.

If a team can’t win a 4 team division, then why do they deserve any kind of preferential treatment?

Imagine complaining that other teams have the advantage of playing in weak divisions when a week from today will mark the 50th anniversary of the last time a team in the AFC East other than the Patriots won a Super Bowl.

Aaron Hernandez was also only 20 years old when he entered the league. When he played his final game in the NFL, he was six months younger than Kincaid was when he played his FIRST game.

I didn’t say that. I said it was the most talented, and yes it is. Kansas City has the youngest defense in the league while giving up the fewest points. There’s a difference between that and being the best. The 2020 Chiefs team was the best team of this dynasty, but they lost to the Bengals in the AFCCG. I didn’t expect Smith to be an upgrade to Brown. I liked the signing (and still do) because we got a serviceable LT for $3,000,000 a year. Taylor has been a bust, but he’s still an upgrade over Wylie. Truth be told, Taylor’s actual play has been solid. It’s his penalties that have been a disaster. I didn’t love the signing at the time, but I understood the rationale. In retrospect, it looks like a mistake. Then again, the book hasn’t been written. Chiefs fans hated Brown last season, but he was the starting LT on a Super Bowl champion that didn’t give up a sack to the team who led the league in sacks. I actually liked him more than most Chiefs fans (@Zerovoltz for example hated him), but he was absolute garbage today, and I’m glad he was wearing orange instead of red. Regardless of how the season ends, it’s pretty funny that the Chiefs are in line for the 2 seed in the playoffs in a “down year” following a Super Bowl win and posters here are acting like there’s some shame in that. Y’all should be so lucky.

Cool. We’re a week away from finishing up a “disappointing” regular season 11-6 and winning 8 straight division titles and a home playoff game. The last time the Ravens got the 1 seed, we won the Super Bowl. Maybe history will repeat itself. If not, flags fly forever. Sometimes we win Super Bowls. Sometimes we don’t. Either way, I’m not going to freak out over regular season wins and losses. Cheers, so are we.

Okay. So you’re 9-6 and the Chiefs are 9-6. Neither look like legit contenders this season. It makes me glad that we’ve banked 2 Super Bowls in the past 4 seasons, especially given the fact that last season was supposed to be a rebuilding year with the 2024 season in mind. 2022’s win was a complete bonus. We’re in a great spot cap-wise to compete going forward. Chris Jones will bring a comp pick and Sneed will either do the same or be tagged/traded. Rice has already proven himself to be what the Bills hope Kincaid will someday. Morris is already a capable LT, and our secondary is stacked with young talent. Don’t you worry about the Chiefs. As much as I appreciate your concern for our dynasty, your time would be better spent hoping the Bills can make the playoffs in the final season before they have to tear it down.

What’s the question here? Smith has been hurt, but he’s been worth a 1 year, $3,000,000 contract while Morris has been developed. It sounds like the bigger question is about the Chiefs in general. They’re a mess at the moment, but they’re 9-6 and nearly a lock to win the division for the 8th straight time with 3 weeks to figure it out before the playoffs. The Taylor Swift thing is still great. Travis’s house is walking distance from the house I grew up in, and my mom excitedly told me about bumping into him at Trader Joe’s this weekend. Doesn’t sound like there will be any new Super Bowl merch to buy this season, but who knows? 3 trips in the last 4 seasons while still being the defending champs in the meantime is still pretty fun, though. You’ve got the same record as Kansas City due to an offensive Offside call. Raise a banner, I guess.

By calling it against everyone but the Eagles. They just called it against the Browns.

There's a big group of Bills fans at Chicken and Pickle in Kansas City. Any TBD members?

I don't disagree that the rebuild doesn't necessarily mean a tear down. Kansas City looked likely to take a temporary step back last year when Tyreek wanted the massive contract. If the Chiefs hadn't already banked a title, there's no way they would have traded him. It was a great move for the long term that happened to also pay dividends in the short term. That should be the blueprint for Buffalo.

Remember before the season started when this board was on fire raging against the "national media" for having the temerity to suggest that the Bills were likely to take a step back this season? The "narrative" was that Buffalo had an aging roster and that it was likely going to catch up with them. Nobody on here wanted to hear that, so it was largely disregarded while expectations rose ever higher. Fast forward a few months, and the Bills have taken a step back and find themselves fighting for their playoff lives. Suddenly the fans are shocked and want to fire a coach for having a down season and finishing second in the division after winning it three straight times. In any given season, there are maybe a half dozen teams with a championship caliber roster. Of those, only one actually wins it all. The Bills had a championship caliber roster the last two seasons. They don't this year. No coach was going to win a title with this roster unless, against all odds, one of the oldest rosters in the league had remarkable injury luck. Predictably, that didn't happen. The organization made a decision to push all in for one more run this year instead of revamping the roster. It's a defendable decision, but it was a longshot that hasn't worked out. Now, it's time to rebuild. McDermott (and Beane) had a plan when he came in to build a championship quality team, and he did it. They didn't win it all, but they were very much in the mix. I think he deserves another chance to go back to the drawing board and try again, and the fanbase needs to understand that 2024 and 2025 are likely to be rough. You've got a guy who has proven he can build a team up from nothing to a legit contender. One 9-8 type season shouldn't erase that. If it does, the franchise deserves what it gets if/when the new guy inevitably is worse, IMO.

Why is that? Successful business owners don't make franchise altering decisions based off of tiny snapshots in time. McDermott is the second most successful coach in franchise history, and he's miles ahead of third place. He's a good coach who will have his choice of jobs if Buffalo is short sighted enough to let him go, and the line of elite candidates hoping to relocate to Buffalo where they'll get fired if they're merely really good is probably shorter than you realize.

You can’t judge a win by what happened afterwards. That was a massive moment for the Bills. They were the best team in the NFL, and they made a massive statement in front of every football fan in the country. They didn’t win a championship, but that shouldn’t retroactively diminish what McDermott did that day.