Low Positive

Gotta go out there and execute our game plan and out compete the other guys.

The Bills have to overcome the Bengals and that horseshoe that is firmly shoved up Joe Burrow’s backside. They are the luckiest team.

400 games of it?

I’m about ready to drive to Oxford to move my son back into the dorm.

It’s legit snowing here in Cincinnati. I think it’s an omen.

The reason Kelce is open is that he starts a lot of plays as a blocker. He then spins his blockeee/defender out when he releases and creates separation that way. Once he gets the ball he's good for 10.

Remember, Josh Allen took the last snap in the WC game against the Pats and that was a huge blowout.

Kelce gets open a lot of the time by blocking and then releasing. On the release, he spins his defender away from him creating space. He did that a couple of times on that last drive.

Get a hit on King Patrick.

Good game

You ask why they don't take a shot? That's why. Their OL can't hold up.

I think I really like Doug Pederson.

Ankle

The problem is that the Jags spent the whole game planning to stop Mahomes. Now everything has changed, even if "King Patrick" comes back in.

King Patrick? What does that make Brady in Collinsworth land? Emperor?

Did he just say "King Patrick?"

It’s like Brady with Edelman and Grimm. You knew what was coming, but you couldn’t stop it.

But Kansas is only a few miles away.

How does he still have a job?

Do you want to know why Gregg Rosenthal said that? He is extremely invested in Josh’s failure. His was the hottest of draft night hot takes, where he called the Bills the biggest loser of the 2018 draft. He said that Josh Allen had an uphill battle just to equal Tyrod Taylor’s production. https://www.nfl.com/_amp/2018-nfl-draft-debrief-winners-and-losers-from-round-1-0ap3000000929261

And three of the four MMQB writers.

And what type of team is that? Against the Bengals, the Ravens play cover 2 or soft man coverage. In the last game, their nickel corner played over 95% of the snaps. Here's Joe Burrow after the Monday Night loss in Baltimore earlier this year: That's exactly what the Bills do all the time. Much like with the Steelers, Terrell Suggs is not walking through that door.

Because it introduces doubt into your own mind. Watching the Bills in the playoffs and the accompanying stress and potential for disappointment is something that many of us are still adjusting to.

What people here in Cincinnati say is that none of that matters if the Bengals just keep winning. I want people here to image the scenario if the shoe was on the other foot. They are in year two of being a contender. So, for the Bills its the divisional round last year. Remember the 2020 playoffs? We eked out a win against the Colts in the WC round. Then, we beat the Ravens thanks to a Taron Johnson pick 6 in our own endzone. We should have lost that game. But I don't remember any handwringing about the close win. No, we were on a run of good fortune. Now, we all know what happened the following week in KC. The Bengals had a similar run last year, where they won the their first playoff game in over 30 years in the WC round and then got tipped-ball INT to win in Tennessee. But then they went into Arrowhead and won. It seems to the team and the fans that they cannot lose in the AFC playoffs. And yeah, they lost the Super Bowl but only by 3 points. Most people here attribute this to Joe Burrow being a "winner," because the stats and the eye test tells you that the Bengals should be losing these games.