Chaos

As far as the roster goes, step 1 is bringing in a defensive coordinator with a history of winning divisional playoff games. Tell him he needs to figure out what he wants on defense, but he is not getting premium draft picks or big free agency dollars this year. Piece together what we can, and it will have to do. Then build to the teams strength. Try to trade spencer brown and use that plus the first round pick to get the best LT you can. Then use the second round pick to draft the best center you can. We could have a great oline if those selections are done correctly. Diggs, Shakir, Kincaid give the team three solid pass catchers. Bring in the best WR you can get with the rest of the draft. Based on history, the defense is going to suck in the playoffs regardless of personnel.

This was the week that mattered. Prior to the season more or less 100% of Bills fans expected the team to make the divisional round of the playoffs. And they did. And they lost again. This team was built to win last year. But with an aged defense and salary cap issues, it is not clear next years team is poised to be better. So I will flip the question back to you, if not this year, when?

This is the core problem "complimentary football" has become Billsspeak for "all hands on deck to make the defense look better than it is" Govenor's observation is the main reason for the statistic posted by BarleyNY.

Allen needs to spend the off season learning to punt and kick. He let us down again in that regard. Always delegating those responsibility instead of doing it himself.

This post game press conference with McDermott is one of his better efforts.

Bills fought hard tonight. It wasn't enough. The Bills under Sean McDermott remind me of of Rory MacAvoy (Kevin Costner) in Tin Cup. "I qualified for the US Open playing the back nine with only a seven iron" And every other team is Davis Simms (Don Johnson) who responds with "why". The Bills seem to make things so much harder than they need to be. "We won six in a row just to stumble into the playoffs". Why does the team with so much talent put itself in that postion. The Good: Bills made it to the divisional round of the playoffs Josh Allen played a great game. It was not quite perfect, but it was a game winning performance. The Bad: Bills did not make it out of the divional round of the playoffs Defensive performance. Chiefs offense is excellent. The Bills had injuries on defense. But it did not acquit itself well. Chiefs scored on every drive until late in the game. Team has been investing in defensive linemen with draft picks and free agent cap for years. Tonight we had 10 healthy linemen. They provided no pressure, and were gashed by the run. The ROI on this investment is almost -100% The Ugly: Special teams. Failed fake punts. Bad punts, missed FGs. Just awful. Each recent Bills seasons seems to end with an emphasis on the adversity and drama the team faced. Not really sure other teams end up quite this way (Eagles seem to be similar this year) The Future: Once again the Bills focus on how much adversity they faced is the real problem indicates that the only choice will be to "run it back' and hope next time ends better.

Imagine the Bills chances without Josh.

Lamar is proven to be a far better QB than I ever expected. Kudos to him. However, in terms of importance to his team, Tyler Huntley demonstrated last year, that the Ravens can win even without Lamar. The even were competetive in the playoff game against the Bengals last year. The Bills hopefully will never be tested in this regard, but I think we all know the offense stalls completely without Josh. I think Josh is more valuable. If you just go by stats, than you have to think Brock Purdy is more valuable to his team, than 30 other QBS in the NFL. Brock is an excellent QB with a great future. But he is not more important to the 49ers, than quite a few other QBs are to their teams.

The "double dip" is a myth. Its an alternating possession game. If each team has the same number of possessions in the first half, neither team got an advantage, but that means the team who kicked off first ended with the ball. In the second half if each team has the same number of possessions, the team that kicked off has the last possession of the game, which proves critical time and time again. If the team who recievest the ball first in the half also has the final possession, that is the actual "double dip" because it means the recieve first team actually had one more possession. Defer or receive probably does not matter statistically. If you defer and get a 3 and out, that feels like momentum gained. If you receive and score, that fills like momentum gained. But in reality these guys are professionals, and momementum is not particularly important. To the pros each possession is the same, either a win for the offense, or a win for the defense. (maybe field goals are a tie) .

is that Jason Garret making my ears bleed?

is the stream sketchy for others or does my internet provider suck?

I dont think the dolphins should be allowed heaters on the sidelines.

aobut 70% as often as we here how history is being made because the game is on Peacock.

Chiefs will dominate. Peacock stream qualifty sucks so far. select the little icon that looks like a chat icon

chiefs play tonight. The players don't play a game on sun, monday, tues, wed, thursday, friday, saturday = 7 days between games Bills play monday. The players don't have a game tue, wed, thur, fri, sat = 5 days between games. There is no gettting around it, this is a big advantage to the chiefs

If the Chiefs win, they will have 8 days rest next sunday, the Bills will have 6. Two extra prep days is huge for top tier coaches like Reid.

The best part is rooting for Allen is that he plays the whole game to the end, and regularly makes complete fools of his critics.

Officially available

Dak does not fit in that first group.

Josh Allen yesterday the first player in NFL history to throw for 350+ yards, rush for 65+ yards and complete 75%+ of his passes in a single game. This is possibly the most crucial game of the season. Josh Allen is the NFL MVP.

To me,the nature of being Billsy includes a requirement of something being fairly unique. All teams have turnovers. All teams blunder and allow kick or punt returns for TDs. Last nights unique moment was the strange decision making with 2:00 minutes left in the fourth quarter. I honestly do not know what I saw there. Can someone explain the sequence of events that transpired there?

Apparently until Vic Fangio pointed out the Elway comparison, that had never occurred to Colliinsworth before. It seemed to turn on a lightbulb in his head.

In the game that mattered most, Josh was twice as good as a QB as Tua, and a better RB than Achane. Josh Allen is the MVP of the NFL.

A great thanks to the Titans. Not sure I could have survived the Bills Dolphins game without knowing we were at least in the playoffs

hopefully the Dolphins take out the chiefs for us.