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How so? If I'm a Bills opponent, I see red meat.

Then why am I smiling?

I focus on the negatives, too, but give Beane credit for giving us, in no particular order, Oliver, Bishop, Walker, Hoecht, Bosa, Thompson, Hairston, Kincaid, Hawes, Shakir, Cook, Benford, the entire offensive line, and of course number 17. Most teams would snap these players up in a heartbeat. He's also provided quality role players, filled holes deftly (Prater, Wishnowsky), and, as GunnerBill pointed out, over time built a deep roster, with players like Trubinsky, Knox, Ty Johnson, VDM, Hancock, and the many recycled oldsters on the team. Picking very late in the draft every year (late on the waiver wire doesn't help, either) it's not surprising he's found it hard to find impact players, but he has done an admirable job filling out the roster, overall. The glaring, neon-blinking, jaw-dropping, almost unforgiveable exception of course is wide receiver. That's the big hole on his resume. If he turned out right on either Coleman or Palmer, we would be the Super Bowl favorite, hands down. But he wasn't right. He could not have been more wrong. It's not much of an exaggeration to say he is asking Allen to play with a nice line, quality RBs and TEs--and NO wide receivers at all, aside from Shakir, who is like a little 12-year old asked to support his five younger siblings. Put it this way: The Bills might have the worst set of wide receivers in the league--and still be the best team. That's both a testament to Beane's work as GM and an indictment.

The transition is continuing in real time.

Seeing him in the same game as Tee Higgins is sobering.

Now we need Mahomes to throw five picks and lose in utter humiliation.

Shades of the Baltimore game. Same vibe.

How can he not be voted MVP after that game? What other quarterback does that? Stafford? Maye? Mahomes? Not even Lamar can carry the entire team on his back like that in such clutch fashion. Just amazing. Folks, we are so lucky to be able to just watch this guy, let alone have him as our own.

He might be good enough to carry even this team all the way. Certainly he did today. That was ALL Allen.

You don't see Burrow doing THAT!

Best QB of all time.

Biggest down of the year.

The Bills had the most entertaining one last year, too, also in the snow, vs. SF.

Especially with the possibility of a Bills turnover.

Pretty wild game.