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I have been reading post-mortems on the Belichick era in NE, and I think that this one by Seth Wickersham might be the best. It's interesting that the relationship between Kraft and Belichick was never all that good, but as they kept winning the Krafts stayed out of the way. But whenever the team saw any adversity (like losing SBs), the Krafts would try to get more involved. Even during their last few SB years, it seems like Kraft and Belichick basically didn't speak. Now it seems that Jonathan Kraft is going to start having a much larger role in football operations. If I was a Pats fan, that's what would scare me the most. BTW, someone on the Pats board put it in a service to get around a paywall, but it was from ESPN. https://archive.is/cljLt

That website creates “scandals” based upon angry fan tweets all the time. It’s hardly news.

Slowik and Evero would be unwise to take those jobs. Both are lose/lose situations.

There was a QB named Tom Brady His head coach was named Billy B On opponents they spied And for calls he once cried And now both are out of the league He let his dog make some draft picks Of opponents he took secret flicks Then Brady left Boston And Mac couldn’t toss ‘em So he’s leaving Foxbourgh real quick

He wore a hoodie Deflated footballs and spied It was mostly Brady

Bills fans will look at any scenario and imagine the worst possible outcome.

Chandler Jones singing the blues over Belichick was not on my 2024 bingo card.

I would have gone with the all-red in the snow just for visibility.

Their win against the Browns is the game where they lost Nick Chubb for the season. The Steelers won on a Watt fumble return. That was their season in a microcosm. For the majority of the season, they were winning with a negative point differential. They were the opposite of the Bills. They were not losing games that they should have won, but scratching out wins while being outgained and outplayed. I know that everyone here is worried, but they really are the weakest team in the AFC playoff field and if the Jags hadn't choked like they did they would have cleaned out their lockers on Monday. That being said, they are a playoff team that does certain things well and the Bills could lose this game just like any team can lose any game.

The only thing that anybody watching that cares about is Orchard Park, and is the one town that channel 4 leaves off of their map.

It's all about matchups. That was against two pretty bad run Ds in Seattle and Cincinnati and the Ravens' second and third-stingers. And that 113 on Cincinnati was actually below the Bengals average of giving up 126.2 rushing YPG. To prove that point, before this current run back when Kenny Pickett was playing, the Steelers beat the Bengals in Cincinnati 16-10 on 11/26 in Jake Browning's first game as the starter. The Steelers had 153 yards rushing in that game. So I would argue that they didn't find anything so much as they got favorable matchups for three straight weeks to close out the season. To that point (again), Pacheco had 130 against the Bengals on New Year's Eve in by far his best performance of the year.

Who cares who gets the yards? Do people denigrate Baltimore's rushing stats because Lamar is their leading rusher? Lamar accounted for 31% of their total rushing yards. Josh is the Bills second-leading rusher and accounted for 24% of the Bills' rushing yards. And yet somehow, Josh running is proof that the Bills can't run the ball while Lamar's running is what makes him MVP.

There seems to be a narrative building around here that Pittsbugh is a run-first team and has a better rushing attack than the Bills. Let's take a look at the numbers, shall we? 2023 Stats STEELERS: 2010 RUSHING YARDS ON 487 ATTEMPTS BILLS: 2212 RUSHING YARDS ON 512 ATTEMPTS Your 2023 Buffalo Bills have the 5th most rushing attempts in the NFL. The Bills also rank 8th in YPC. In other words, the Bills have been a better rushing team than the Steelers this year. I know that doesn't fit historical reputations or the popular narrative, but those are the facts.

Not just NIL. The transfer portal really changed recruiting for top schools. They can no longer stash guys for years like Saban, Urban, and Dabo used to do all the time.

The Seahawks wanted to let Carrol go last year, but the team went out and made the playoffs.

A lot of people bought CB radios that they didn't need after they watched Smokey and the Bandit.

All of that. It was also the same mistake that Mahomes made in the AFC CG two years ago that caused a screaming match in the tunnel at HT.

Ah, Jerry Glanville.

Here are highlights of Kay Stevenson's last game as Bills coach. I was there as a kid, and I remember fans wearing bags on their heads and serenading Kay with "Goodbye Kay" to the tune of some old Vaudville or pub song.

I just gotta say that I'm so happy to be worrying about a playoff game than being in a coaching search.

Steaming? Some of the old guys here on TBD have prostates so big that they haven't had a steady stream in years.

But Vrabel and Belichick are getting another job this week.

And Mike Tomlin and Robert Salah.

Get outta here with your facts and positivity! We've got a game to mentally lose four days before it happens.

EXACTLY! People see Steelers helmets and expect certain things. Just as an aside, do people here know that the BIlls have given up the fewest number of sacks in the league this year?