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Let's hope not. Baltimore had 150 yards rushing in that game, we had 32. Don't see that being a winning formula on Sunday. Pittsburgh also has much better skill position players than the Ravens had then. Pittsburgh may be a better team than most realize. They're 10-7 in a battle hardened division.

We keep hearing about what s monster Cook's been under Brady. Shouldn't even be a problem then. Weather schmeather, we're a better team playing at home. Find a way to win. If not, well, this place will be a real hoot with the monster pendulum swing that would take place.

Allen's on his third OC in as many seasons, and people wonder why he's not playing perfectly. For a moment I thought that Daboll had berated one of his assistant coaches for having gotten a gift from his unit.

As stated, there's zero excuse for not winning.

FWIW, the Steelers are 5-1 when they rush for more than 150 yards. We are 0-3 when we allow more than 150. It's beyond likely that it comes down to that given the weather. The problem for us is that our defense is not built to stop the run. We rank 28th in yards-per-attempt allowed.

We're 0-4 in road playoff games. Of the four playoff games we've won, three are Wild-Card games, all four home games. Of those three games, two were against marginal playoff teams to begin with, all three at home. 10-7 New England with Mac Jones, Damien Harris, and Jakobi Meyers as their three top skill-position players, and 9-8 Miami with Skylar Thompson playing QB and JAG Jeff Wilson as a RB. The other was against Indy, which outplayed us here at home with Rivers at QB and the rookie WR Pittman as their only decent WR. Miami was the 7th Seed, New England the 6th Seed, and Indy also the 7th Seed. The only solid playoff game we've played has been against Baltimore a week after that Indy game where we won 17-3, but where Baltimore, apart from Jackson and Andrews (TE) featured a bunch of mediocre all but JAG skill position players. The Ravens were the 5th Seed. To date we've never beaten a 1st thru 4th Seeded team. We have our work cut out for us this playoffs. We're all hoping for a Super Bowl run, but our playoff history is somewhat sordid. Beating Pitt at home and the winner of the the KC/Miami game also at home are musts for this playoffs to be a success for us, at minimum. Then if Baltimore gets upset, so would be a home game AFC CG win.

As well, I have no doubt, but if we lose either home game, it's quite reasonable that there will be a significant swing in sentiment like that. How often can a team with Allen at QB fail to advance beyond the D Round. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Other than the Dallas game, Cook hasn't had a significant rushing game and has averaged an incredibly pedestrian 3.6 YPC So sure, if our Dallas offense shows up, agreed. If not, then not necessarily.

Allen hasn't gone on a tear in five games except for the 2nd half last week. We're the better team on Sunday no matter what the weather, and they have them same obstacles with a worse QB, by far, so there's zero excuse for not winning.

Our rushing defense may very well be the key to winning on Sunday.

Watching ESPN at all is the first mistake. Watching anything football related is the second mistake.

Our problem with the current team/franchise has not been the regular season, where we've generally done fine. Our problem has been in the playoffs. We're 0-4 in road playoff games. Of the four playoff games we've won, three are Wild-Card games, all four home games. Of those three games, two were against marginal playoff teams to begin with, all three at home. 10-7 New England with Mac Jones, Damien Harris, and Jakobi Meyers as their three top skill-position players, and 9-8 Miami with Skylar Thompson playing QB and JAG Jeff Wilson as a RB. The other was against Indy, which outplayed us here at home with Rivers at QB and the rookie WR Pittman as their only decent WR. Miami was the 7th Seed, New England the 6th Seed, and Indy also the 7th Seed. The only solid playoff game we've played has been against Baltimore a week after that Indy game where we won 17-3, but where Baltimore, apart from Jackson and Andrews (TE) featured a bunch of mediocre all but JAG skill position players. The Ravens were the 5th Seed. To date we've never beaten a 1st thru 4th Seeded team. We have our work cut out for us this playoffs. We're all hoping for a Super Bowl run, but our playoff history is somewhat sordid. Beating Pitt at home and the winner of the the KC/Miami game also at home are musts for this playoffs to be a success for us, at minimum. Then if Baltimore gets upset, so would be a home game AFC CG win.

So as you see it, if we were to lose to the Steelers for instance, then given our playoff history over the past three seasons, you wouldn't view that as any sort of issue?

This will also be a defining playoffs for us whether we like it or not. How many years back did you go with that data?

"The clemson Special" --- "Him and Watson must have had some fun in that locker room" LOL

He essentially won it in '21. I have no idea why anyone watches any of them. What a grand waste of time.

3 weeks off. The week prior to week 18, this week, and next week before their game. That and this Miami/KC game will likely be the only two other non-Bills playoff games that I bother watching.

We've been here before. Perhaps it's Bills fans more than other fans, but we tend to overreact win or lose, particularly bigger games. We have a very dicey playoff history with McD. It's great that we made the playoffs, again, but media perceptions aside, we have an advantage over every team in the AFC except maybe the Ravens. If we lose to Pittsburgh or to the Miami/KC winner, then it's an entirely new discussion. None of those teams are better than we are and we've beaten the best two the times already, twice in their houses. Against almost all of even our expectations here, we made the playoffs and won the division, but some of that also has to do with Miami folding and losing two off their last four other than us. Our offense has scored significantly fewer points than it has the three years prior, even under Brady's games on a per-game basis The goal, particularly for the players and coaching staff, hasn't been achieved, it's to first win the AFC, then the Lombardi. This is old hat, just as winning the AFC was on the '90s and we haven't done that once, arguably with a better team. So as a few other posters have implied, we now need to do something besides lose to inferior teams or because of our own stupidity and/or poor decision making. Do that, i.e. make the AFC CG and don't underachieve there, and all the BS goes away. Don't, and it's deserved. It is that simple.

I have difficulty believing that there will be more than a token number, especially given the cold. Besides, they go on Ticketmaster or wherever, the sites don't discriminate. Bills fans have the same chances of securing them that Stooler fans do.

As if a majority of those here thought much differently. LOL

The thought of her in our stadium ... UGH! On the flip side, the look on her face after a thorough pounding ... ... I just realized the double entendre there, ... take the football game version.

Apparently I'm the Black Knight.

I was referring to defensively. The Philly game wasn't great defensively, they hung 150 rushing on us in regulation. We're not a good rushing D. We were awful in the 4th Q in that game. In Miami we were also terrible in the first half allowing over 200 first half yards.

True, but that's also included playing against teams led by Shtick, Zappe, and Wilson, and a Pacheco-less KC. We didn't play so well against Philly or even Miami for a half. Let's hope that holds up tho!!