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This is your daily reminder that NFL contracts are not guaranteed.

Because he's still pissed at us for not drafting him?

That Betamax has a much better picture than VHS, or so I was told by everyone who ever bought one. Beta was the Cross Fit of the 80's.

The Vikings were supposed to be really good that year.

We used to be like that too. In the mid 80’s, Rich Stadium was empty. Even during the SB years, some local company had to buy up extra tickets to lift blackouts so we could watch home games on TV. It’s only since about 2000 or so that the Bills fans started attending in large numbers in down years.

1. I was born a Bills fan in 1973 2. My earliest memory of a specific game was listening to the Bills lose to the Pats on the radio in my mom's car driving back to Buffalo from my grandma's house in Rochester on 1/2/83. Another early memory is being in Rich on 9/29/85, with the sparse crowd singing "Goodbye Kay" at Kay Stephenson as the Bills lost to the Vikings. 3. My favorite memory is sitting in my mom's living room watching the Bills destroy the Raiders 51-3. It just seemed unreal to me that the Bills, who had back to back 2-14 seasons in recent memory, would be playing in the Super Bowl. Then watching the NFCCG to see who we would play. I rooted hard for the Giants because I didn't want to see Montana. Little did I know what heartbreak laid just one week in the future. That, BTW, is my worst Bills memory. 4. Talley/Josh. By this time next year, it will probably be Josh/Josh. 5. I was just surprised that it wasn't taken on a Buffalo sports message board. Funny Sabres story: I was in the Aud during a game when the Sabres were eliminated from the Playoffs. I want to say 4/1/86 against the Hartford Whalers. I could be totally wrong about the year and the game. But as the game wound down, the crowd started chanting "Oh, Ah, Sabres on the golfcourse."

There may be a sliver of truth to that. I saw Mahones arguing with someone going up the tunnel at halftime. It was a coach that I now realize was Bieniemy. Also, he did squeeze his helmet a lot in the second half. And we all saw Hill and Hardman arguing on the sidelines during the 3rd quarter because Romo pointed it out. My takeaway was that the Chiefs are a team with a lot of big personalities who point fingers when things go south. If they did indeed fall apart, why couldn’t it have happened a week earlier?

Exactly. The Bengals were handed the ball down 3 with almost two minutes left with 3 TOs and couldn't drive into field goal range.

Two things: 1) I loved the Big Lebowski bowling ad, but Payton can't bowl. Keep your hand behind the ball champ! 2) That QR code thing went on for a whole minute. Coinbase spent 14 million dollars on that. That's the pets.com SB ad for the crypto bubble.

I watched every Bengals game this year, and you're right. They also were not that good this year. They got destroyed by the Browns 41-16 at home. They got to play an incredibly injured Ravens team twice and the Steelers without TJ Watt both times. They just went on a run, starting with that win against KC in week 17. Every ball bounced their way until last night. Now they are thrown back into the grinder that is the AFC North with the worst owner in the NFL. Everyone points out their cap space, but Mike Brown has never spent up to the cap. He just doesn't have the money. They really had to get it done last night.

I don’t know, but I want a really strong team week 1. I don’t believe in trap games except for week 1, so I don’t want the Bills to think that they can ease into the season. How about opening the season on SNF at KC?

The Bengals don't have a GM. Look at their org chart.

It already has been

They have almost no scouts.

It's a copycat league, so if the Bengals win I think that smart teams should fire their GM, almost all their scouts and tear down their practice facility. I mean, why have scouts when an ESPN+ subscription gets you access to Mel Kiper's big board?

Murray never faced adversity in his football career before getting drafted. Just like Josh had to learn how to win on the big stage, players have to learn how to lose and grow from it. Kind of like how Urban Meyer didn't know how to develop a team while losing in Jacksonville.

I don't want Carson Wentz anywhere near the Bills. You can have some players with less than good attitudes, but your backup QB cannot be one of them.

I was going to suggest fish tacos.

I live in Cincinnati, so I've been thinking a lot about how they got this far so fast. I think the fact that Burrow didn't need to learn to win really accelerated their rebuild. He won a lot in High School (HS football is a big deal in Ohio) and we won a national championship in college. The CFP games are as big a stage as any NFL playoff game. The stage felt to big for Josh in that first PO game and yet again in the AFCCG last year. The Bengals just had to give him a year to adjust to the higher game speed and he was ready to roll. It also helps that they absolutely nailed the last two drafts. In addition, all their free agent spending on defense this past offseason worked. All that being said, they are really just on a run right now. Remember, they got absolutely destroyed at home by the Browns 41-16 on 11/7 going into their bye week. Local radio callers wanted Zac Taylor's head on a platter. Now they think that they're the next Patriots.

I went to Frisch's Big Boy this morning and ate Goetta. I don't think it get any more Cincinnati than that. I'll probably drink red wine, but I'm not sure that it is from California. But I did buy it in Trader Joe's, and that was founded in CA.

A QB spends a lot of time studying what defenses do, so it makes a lot of sense to me.

Unless Tampa releases him, he can only play there.

I know that we want controllable outcomes, but both the Bengals and the Rams got a lot of good fortune to win games. If Carr could find an open man in the EZ at the end of the WC game, the Bengals playoff drought continues. The game deciding interception in the Bengals game against the Titans was broken up by Eli Apple, but it popped straight into Logan Wilson’s arms. 9 times out of 10 that ball falls to the turf. And if Tartt catches the easy one at the end of the NFCCG, the 49ers and playing on Sunday. Also, what the heck happened to the Chiefs in the second half of the AFCCG?

Just a little over 2 years ago, the Texans had a 24-0 lead in KC in the second quarter of a divisional round game. It's really couldn't have gone much worse for them since that point.

The Bengals did that too. They drafted skill position players and signed FA for defense. They also only have 6 total scouts, so they probably just asked Joe Burrow who he wanted the day before the draft.