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He was not on my radar because of the injury history, but as a one year deal at 12 mil, considering what is left isn't bad. (we were never getting Henderson in a trade, nor were we drafting an impact double digit sack rookie at DE.) There is a high upside here, worth taking a shot at, and we've limited the risk to a year.

I don't get how Palmer is worth 12 million a year and Hollins not worth 4 mil a year to us. Sure, Mac is no superstar -neither is Palmer. The intangibles are what we may miss with Hollins. Certainly, his downfield blocking, where he was more effective than even our TE Dalton Kinkaid. He led the team in receiving TD's. actually showed up in the playoffs and was a special teams demon. His locker room presence and charisma will be missed. We may regret this.

There is a paywall here, but Drew Magary's article on Defector "Patrick Mahomes Will Always Make You Pay" sums up what teams have to do to beat the Chiefs, Play mistake free football. Not just no turnovers -avoid all the little things that cause you to lose momentum or put your team at a disadvantage. You can't go three and out. You can't lose field position. You can't turn the ball over on downs. You can't settle for FG's instead of TD's. You can't take costly penalties. You can't fail to get off the field on third and long. It's crazy, but the Chiefs will capitalize on every flaw in your gameplan, every weakness. You have to be perfect. Good luck. Patrick Mahomes Will Always Make You Pay | Defector

Well that's another season. We just can't get by the Chiefs. Mahomes put on his cape and Allen did not. That was a key factor. I'm not saying Allen didn't make plays, but he started very wobbly, got it together but seemed in a panic at the end. If you look at their numbers, they are similar, but in key 3rd down situations -when they needed it -Mahomes delivered. We were outcoached on all aspects of the game. Even though it was a close game it felt like everything we did took tremendous effort, whereas it seemed they always knew where we would be and where we wouldn't be. That's not execution-that is coaching. Yes, some questionable calls, but nothing egregious. It's galling that in the draft we skipped on Worthy (8 receptions 85 yrds 1 td, 2 carries 16 yrds) for Coleman (1 catch 12 yards). Coleman did not make contested catches and Worthy did. We worried Worthy was too small to be durable-this season he missed less time due to injury than Coleman and performed better than him in season and during the playoffs. That's simply bad drafting. Keon Coleman's numbers didn't even equal Gabe Davis numbers in his first season. At best I see Coleman as an average #2 player, and he's going to have to work himself towards that. Worthy is already a #1 for KC. Before the season I said people were overhyping Dalton Kinkaid, who basically racked up big reception numbers in his first year by running s8 yard hooks and falling down while the entire defense collapsed on Diggs. I'm not just upset at him for dropping a long shot pass Allen blindly lofted up in desperation. The truth is Kinkaid is nothing special, and we played better when he was hurt, and Knox was starting. Von Miller invisible, Greg Rousseau Invisible. Oliver and Phillips generated some pressure in the middle. Milano was hit and miss. And we all know Elam has no business on this team-it's not just that he's bad but we've shown so little faith in a first round pick we've undoubtedly broken any confidence or football sense he had, and we should have traded him long ago. Good on you James Cook and Mack Hollins. I don't know where else to give love. Bass. The defense needs a game wrecking DL and it's not Rousseau or Oliver. We can't let Josh Allen become Phillip Rivers 2.0

One more until the Superbowl. The Chiefs are our true nemesis and the Ravens a challenge-if we can make the big dance I feel AFC is just a better conference by far. I think Cole Bishop is ready. He's a second round player and now he's had a whole season to learn the defense, and get on the field. Athletically he has the numbers. Of course Kelcie will get his catches, but at some point Cole will have the opportunity to make a big play. I don't care whether they are going to throw flags or not, the D line still has to hit Mahomes. You pick your poison. We can run on this team, and hit stuff over the middle. Shakir. Knox. And about time Kinkaid had a big game. Our O line can neutralize their D line, and Josh can face their blitz -whether with his legs or hitting Ty Johnson . At some point we need to be a bit more aggressive than the past to seal this game. KC won't choke like the Ravens. If Mahomes puts on his cape Josh has to also. I don't expect McDermott to outcoach Reid, but he can't make a call that loses a tight game. Look, nobody in the nation outside of Kansas wants KC to win. The Bills deserve this. Let's go kick those frackin' insurance peddlers in the mouth. Bills 30 -KC 24. Go Bills

I feel like we match up better with KC than Baltimore, so we've overcome our major playoff hurdle. The Cheifs will have home field, an issue, and refs tend to bubble-wrap Mahomes. We may have to adopt some unique rules for our pass rush approach. We can't play KC like we did Baltimore in the second half of the playoff game-we will have to actually win the game, not just let KC make mistakes. Mahomes handles adversity far better than Jackson. We honestly had a little help from the football Gods last game-lets hope for it again, because it used to be on the side of the Pats and KC. Let's go beat those damn insurance pitchmen.

I agree with a lot of what you have to say. The offense has exceeded expectations, and we should celebrate that no matter what. And actually I don't think a bad game would tarnish the legacy of Josh Allen-after his performance in multiple playoff games and throughout the season I'd just count it as a sad fluke. But if we lose despite an excellent performance from the offense I think we do have to look at McDermott, but I don't know how to do that, trapped in sunk cost fallacy. He did drag us out of the drought, and here we are, in the playoffs again in a year as you said nobody expected us (let me note that expectations for the Jets and Dolphis were always ridiculously overinflated, and the schadenfreude joy of this season has already been achieved in the collapse of that conspiracy theory poser qb/confederacy of dunces management and vaping teenage coach/zombie brain dead fragile qb. Mission one accomplished, but it wasn't as tough as they imagined.) If we lose we say good season, get em next year, keep the offense as is, and do---something --about the defense. But please let them win so all this anxiety is irrelevant. And then everyone find some weird witchy chick, donate some blood to her, so we can overcome the Cheifs voodoo magic-cause they ain't better than us.

This is obviously a legacy game for the Bills. I have optimism, not confidence, for a win. Both of these teams are excellent, and on paper either should be able to defeat KC and win the Superbowl. Optimism. The Bills have home field advantage. The weather slightly favors the Bills-while the raven's playstyle isn't affected by the weather, Jackson is a Florida guy at heart, and Josh can play in any weather. The Bills are healthy, whereas the Ravens are missing their best WR (who is only their third best offensive player). Optimism: we have Josh Allen, and Josh Allen can and will need to put on the Superman cape. The trouble is, that's not a huge advantage over Lamar Jackson if he does the same, since he is, respectfully, a great player himself. Concern: The Ravens Run game versus our light box defenses. The return of Milano, Bernard, T. Johnson, and Rapp (who missed much of the game) should help, but McDermott may have to adjust. Between a game script where we get out to an early lead- Josh will have to be perfect against an exceptional defense -- and either playing heavier boxes or some real heroics from a defense we all know has weaknesses --we have to neutralize their running game and make Jackson one dimensional. While Jackson has put up good numbers this year throwing, I believe he throws as a compliment to the run, off the threat of the run. Isolate that and make him just win the game with his arm, he is mistake prone and has limited resources. Moving forward, if the Ravens win this game just based on exceptional play on their behalf, while we play them hard, it's just the football gods having their say. If Josh has the rare bad day, it's the football gods again sporting with our Buffalo fanhood. If the Ravens pound us with the run and we don't adjust we have to look at Sean McDermott as a guy too stubborn to get us over the edge, and that puts the team in a bad quandary moving forward. If it's a close game and we lose in the end because of some time management issue or poor play call, once again the blame lies with McDermott. If we lose, next year I'd suggest bringing the offense back as is, including Cooper. The biggest improvements on that side of the ball will be made in continuity and comfort. Most of our draft and FA resources should be spent on revitalizing the D and developing new schemes. But if we win-if we win -McDermott is vindicated, and we move on to KC to play against Mahomes and the refs on their field, and I still think that is less of a challenge than the Ravens. Go Bills, a fan for 36 years.

Cook and Shakir on offense - the middle of their defense is weak as is their slot corner. Ed Oliver sacks on D and Terrel Bernard another pic when Purdy floats one over the middle with a weakened shoulder.

The turf. The turf has beaten Tua's head in the last few games we have played.

Quandre Diggs of the Titans. Free safety, Tenn is selling, in last year of contract, salary cap hit of only around one mil. Someone can check my math on the contract-seemed like that first glance. Vet with a little left in the tank. Probably an upgrade over Hamlin, especially if we have completely soured on Mike Edwards. Wouldn't give more than a 5th or 6th rounder.

Hobe Sound, so this is going to be west and north of me -best I'll see is a tropical storm. Thanks for the well wishes, and love to all of our West Coast Floridians, because the impact will be rough around Tampa.

1. Mack Hollins got 6 targets. Mack Hollins should have zero targets, not because we shouldn't throw to him, not because he shouldn't be a starter, not because he shouldn't be active, not because he shouldn't be on our team. because he shouldn't be in the league. We already have a guy who runs pass patterns sometimes/to catch a ball in theory but is mostly here to block. His name is Dalton Knox. 2. I said we would miss Stephan Diggs. Diggs had more receptions and yardage than our entire wide receiver core. I was told that Dalton Kinkaid, the great white hype, would replace him in receptions. Kinkaid is what he is-not a Gronk or a Kelce -he is a guy we saw today, a Dalton Schultz. That is his upside. You don't win with your main threat as Dalton Schultz. 3. Cook played well but we can't run him first and second down into a heavy box that is expecting him. That's suicide. 4. Josh had a terrible day. And we're going to get him hurt if we keep subjecting him to the type of abuse he took the past two weeks. 5. This team is no longer built for playing from behind/heroics because we've completely lost the ability to throw downfield, and that started last year. 6. Our coaches fold under pressure. Horrible management at end. I get the "we're only one play away" risk mentality, but there's little awareness of time management. 7. We all know the rest is the division is hot sewage -I'm not impressed with the Jets, but I'm not even going to feel confident there. What we have to ask ourselves is, is this a playoff-winning team? Do we have the WR core, or the coaching to get us there?

It took them six minutes to "decide" Tua had a concussion, a conclusion anyone could have come to within 5 seconds. Don't care that most of us are not "medical experts" man hits his head, goes unconscious, crumbles up and initiates an automatic "fencing pose," you can't hide that. Why did it take so long for the official word?? Because that is five minutes trying to invent some excuse as to why what is obviously a concussion was not a concussion -pay some fake team Dr. Nick Riviera to say "it's only soft tissue damage to-the hip" and cart him right back out there, in a desperation attempt to win a game that they needed to win, just like two years ago. I don't want our team to be responsible for the death of a player-Miami has to do the right thing. I live in Florida though, and I can attest "doing the right thing" and "Florida" are just not congruent in this tropic dystopia. We look pretty. Everything else is a moral abyss.

Final line "Most of all, Bills Fans, I want you to take heart. No matter how fraudulent you are, you're always less fraudulent than the F***ing Dolphins." If you can't appreciate that, maybe you are the thin skinned "Perfectly rectangular dude from Cheektowaga."