Dr. K

I'm still trying not to think about it.

To a degree, yes. I'm sure I'll still feel awful if they lose a heartbreaker--there've been so many--but I've enjoyed this season more than any in a long time, and life will go on.

I'll feel better if they can keep Kelce from being open in the middle of the field without any defender within five yards of him.

I am overjoyed the Bills won that game despite giving up as many yards as they did in the earlier Ravens game where they got beaten by 25 points. The Ravens really looked like the better team much of the game, but the Bills still won--it reminds me of the way the Chiefs have won crucial games, and the way the Patriots regularly beat teams who played well enough against them that they should have won. I am very curious as to how they are going to come out against the Chiefs.

I really want the Bills to win in order for them to go to Arrowhead and beat the Chiefs on their home turf. Tomorrow is a big deal.

Having spent entirely too much time in the last couple of days reading and listening to what the commentators are saying about the Ravens and Bills, the consensus seems to be that Derrick Henry and Lamar Jackson are unstoppable, the Ravens are the greatest team since the Monsters of the Midway, and the Bills should just curl up into the fetal position and beg for mercy. What the point of even playing the game, let alone watching it? /s

Well said. That KC loss hurts whenever I think of it, but there's not a team in the league that doesn't have losses that keep their fans awake at night twenty years after the fact. People who obsess about such moments (I've been one) can never move forward, and cannot see clearly the dozens of other choices and chances that go into every victory or loss. McDermott is a better coach than such people are capable of seeing. And the hypothetical coach they want to replace him will always be somebody who has never made, and will never make, any of the crucial mistakes that real coaches do.

Teams (not just the Bills) do that so that, if the drive fails, they don't leave enough time on the clock for the opponent to drive the length of the field and score.

Jack Kemp never completed 50% of his passes in any season of his career.

Dumbo’s magic feather worked until he didn’t need it anymore.

Under Vrabel the Pats could become a problem for Buffalo.

Does anybody beside me think it is idiotic that the NFL has added the "Super" to "Wild Card Weekend"? Do they think we are seven-year-old Marvel Comics fans who will be more excited if they add meaningless adjectives? How long before it becomes the "The Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious Tesla Maybelline Jesus McDonald's Wild Card Weekend"?

So, clock management. If McDermott did what Harbaugh did in the last two minutes, people here would be screaming for him to be fired.

At 21-10 in the third quarter and the Bills driving (two first downs, 2nd and 7 on the Ravens' 44-yard-line) it was turning into a game. If the Bills scored a TD it's a new ball game. Then Brady called the trick play that backfired, Josh got the ball knocked out of his hand, the Ravens recovered, scored, and it was over. My point being that despite the terrible first half it was not over yet, and in fact the Bills were coming back and might have made it a close game (as they did the previous time they played the Ravens in Baltimore, when they came from way behind in the second half to beat them 23-20).

For pity's sake, this is silly. Nobody had such expectations--I certainly didn't. And I've been generally supportive of Coleman and expect him to improve. But there's no denying that, for whatever reason, he looked bad yesterday.

I realize he was being thrown to by Trubisky and White instead of Allen, but against a bad secondary he got zero separation yesterday. Two catches on ten targets. He's shown some real flashes this season, but I'd say I'm more worried about him and his prospects now than I have been before this game.

I just love how this has turned into a thread blaming McDermott for losing games that haven’t happened yet.

Whether Josh wins the MVP depends on whether he plays badly in these last two games. A couple of crappy games while Lamar plays well might put him out of it.

This MVP choice is far from over.

I want Allen to get the MVP for all the reasons you state. But right now I want him healthy and able to play. That's much more on my mind given what he said after the game about his shoulder.

This is the thing that really worries me. How many times have we figured at the end of a game that nobody got injured only to find out early in the week that somebody has a serious injury that will affect their ability to play in future games? I, also, hated that particular run at that point in the game. It was not necessary.

I think Allen is great and I would love to see him win the MVP. But I for one am tired about all of the MVP talk. When it gets down to it, I bet Allen is, too. It's irrelevant to what is important for this team, which still has a lot of work to do. Allen needs to stay healthy, not win the MVP. The team needs to stay healthy. The defense needs to pull itself together. The defensive backfield has a lot of vulnerabilities that need to be dealt with. Milano is hurt again. Josh hurt his shoulder on a play that he needn't have made. The first thing I want to know after each game is what's the injury situation. All this MVP yammer is a distraction. I can't imagine anybody on the Bills is spending much time thinking about it.

This worries me. But just about everything worries me.

Thanks. Forget the game and take a walk around that desert. Avoid the gila monsters.

The more I think about it, the more obvious it is that the Rams played way above their heads against the Bills. It was a freak game. They will lose to San Francisco.