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I was there. Same side of the field, but opposite side of the stadium, and I swear to you for an instant I thought it was good and the refs were stepping forward to raise their hands up. bruce Hornsby (wow, some of you just don’t know) was a couple of rows back and one section over, closer to the opposite side end zone. ...I love that I had better seats than him.

So much spot on in what you said, Promo. Additionally, you know my feelings with respect to the last choke loss and I won’t go back into here as it will...get my blood up. ? Dare I say this, and forgive me for it, but if this team is 9-3 through 12, wins the MAC and then wins a bowl then I think an 11-3 team, and 21-7 in 2 years gets programs really sniffing around Lance, even given his age. I know the bigger programs like the younger guys, but I a, just home we get a continued run with LL. Honestly would be something I’d the man is here another 5 years or so.

Promo, what a surprisingly nice season with a satisfying ending. Please correct me me if I am wrong, but aren’t they 22-9 in their last 31 games, which I believe includes a 4 game win streak at the end of 2017? at least I know they 18-9 in the last two. Just great.

Please, no, Heitz. I felt you, brother. I got it the first time!

Alpha...what if he finished the Houston game last year and the Pats game this year? In a weird way I am glad he didn't finish against the Texans. If he wins that game, No Oliver at #9 this year. ...and sure, he was taking his lumps against the Pats and I love me some Barkley...but given his 4th quarter comeback record i would love to have seen him finish and win that first game. Just think...we would be playing to clinch the division this weekend with an eye towards clinching a first round bye thereafter.

Alpha this is great, but a minor change, if I may.

Because we wish those we've loved and lost were with us here right now to enjoy the best Bills season in 20 years. Because, personally, the common ground my father and I had much of the time was football and in 2007 on the way home from the Giants home loss that ended the home portion of that season my father said he was getting too old for this (the losing), upon which I responded, "enjoy it, dad, you never know. It could be your last game." He said, "Good point, you're right." He died 3 months later. I will talk with him about this team. However, I would really love to converse with him about it, too. The losses, the personal ones, have the tendency to remind us of our youth...of different times.

I was thinking that, too, while I was typing this post.

...he really would. So would my dad, and many of those out there whose loved ones live on in their hearts and in their memories and as some of us believe, in the hereafter. Cheer loudly Pancho and Patsy and all you others. We will hear...we will know. GO BILLS.

HUDS gets it...always.

You, Sir, are in serious danger of winning the internet today.

BB81 gets it! ? ...and I've been for re-signing Phillips since about 5 sacks!

Not gonna lie, for the first six quarters of last season I thought this was the worst team I had ever seen, Bills or otherwise...anywhere...ever. ...and that’s not knowing at the time that we had a guy who quit at half time.

Poor Wade Philips. ?

Bless this team and these players. Bless them, indeed.

Please enjoy the game, gentlemen, and "Go Bills". I am going to be with my wife and daughter at the festival of lights carnival in Hamburg on Saturday during the game. I love football, but this is the only time we can go from now until Christmas and I wouldn't miss this time with my little girl and wife for even the Super Bowl.

Outstanding, section122...and you should still start that post. The above is only the beginning. Just great.

I wanted Shady, Motor and Gore...I just...you know... Maybe Shady would have been a problem with less touches and maybe it could have become an issue, but I just think the guy would have helped as opposed to what we don't get...or aren't be allowed to see, with Yeldon.

Dollars to Donuts went on to write, "Phil the Thrill's analysis here is spot on, and funny." The portly but handsome frequent contributory to TSW continued, "I might start quoting myself, too, or at the very least paraphrasing or plagiarizing some of the material I write on this Board."

Don’t be silly, Yolo. Why would an interior defensive linemen with almost 10 sacks in 14 games make the pro-bowl? ...plus, he’s a Buffalo Bill, to boot.

My high was 10-6, but would have been fine with 9-7. 9-7, but with no playoffs...I would have been sort of ok with as it still showed progress. ...these are good times.

@elroy16 @section122 @NoHuddleKelly12 - See EDIT below, too. "Oh well. That’s how these pre-season predictions go, and let’s face it, it’s been a cynical reflex for a while now to suggest both the Browns and Bills are teams that will always disappoint." Just FYI, author of the article, the Bills have a winning record the last six years (48-46, including the playoff loss), are 46-37 over that span against teams not named Patriots. In six years have had only 2 losing seasons and are now going to the playoffs for the second time in 3 years. yeah, yeah...I know this year helps and I know we are not one of the teams of the decade, but for about the last half decade this has been a middling team at the very worst (33-32 including the playoff loss after McD's rookie year as coach, and 39-42 after the "take the lumps for the future" year of 2018), but generally they are thought of as one of the laughing stocks of the nfl, with no less than 3 prognosidiots having this team going 0-16 in anyone of the years 2016 and 2017. ...again...just gets tiresome. EDIT: Oh, and author, I know you like groupings, but before the ball snapped for the first time this September: Bills since 2014 (incl. playoffs): 39-42 Browns since 2014 : 18-61-1 ...yeah...they're like the same team, aren't they?! We only had...wait for it...wait for it...116% more victories than Cleveland over that span. Someone please try and tell me there isn't an astigmatism about this team?

Yeah, honestly this is not a difficult first round pick for this team. Whatever you don't pick up in FA between a WR or pass rushing DE/LB is what you take in the first (mind you, if you are strictly picking by position...which I know is a big sin in the world of Best Player Available). Second round is more debatable (replacement LB for Lorax, OL?), but I would stick to the above in round 1.

I know it is a very inaccurate term, K-9, but when I was a kid during my high school games my father used to refer to that as "arm tackling". Again, not a great definition or term for it because it likely means the opposite, but he thought of it just as you've stated...taking your shoulder (or arm) throwing it at a guy and thinking it is going to work. Used to drive him crazy and i have come to realize what a true football sin it is. I'll stand by what I have said before, if you remove the sort of projectile tackles or head shots from every level of the game those who were trained that way would be out of the way in just a few short years and the game of football can most certainly survive and you'd be surprised how much it is NOT a wussificaton of the game...rather, a safety concern decision that just makes sense.

Swim I didn't say that. Did you just accidentally post it within one of my quotes? IF so, seriously, would you really order it that way?! I honestly had no idea.