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I owe the refs an apology. I was positive they would throw the game to the Chiefs. Time to look deep into my dark heart...😔

Not sure what they can do differently that would work. Short passes aren't doing it, and neither is running. Pitches? Trick plays?

Who expected a defensive battle?

Agree. If you give up the run, it catches up with you.

Sarcasm?

I was about to say the same. Can't run, can't pass short, not easy to thrown deep, good pressure. They're the real deal.

Knox is no substitute for Kincaid.

I'm telling you: Fake those "Offside" plays and it'll go for a touchdown.

Gave up running the ball. Quite a concession.

That might have been Samuels running the wrong route. Seems more likely given his performance so far this season.

Well, at least we have all three of our time outs left. Oh, wait...

Could be that for the first time in his career, he has the same level of talent around him as most of the rest of the league.

I have to say, the officiating is pretty fair so far.

Who?

That's the catch Hollins didn't make a few games ago.

They'll overturn it, saying he didn't have possession before the second foot came down. But that's not correct. He caught the ball, with one foot down and then the second came down.

Well, it's not like KC wasn't going to score in this game.

Maybe he was going to call a timeout anyway and thought, Hell, why not challenge? I'm reaching, I know.

So little innovation in the NFL, apart from Detroit. Why not try a hard count on the punt instead of the obvious fourth down and long? Why not do a hard count on fourth and long, act like it's all over, then snap it at the last second, when the defense has lost concentration?

Why does the commentary guy always resort to superlatives? It's constantly, "This is the best quarterback/safety/pass rusher in the National Football League." Can they think of nothing else to say? I mean, there is SO much going on out there.

Lamar does not look like an MVP candidate.

Maybe I'm just speaking for myself, but it seems to me no one can predict the outcome of this game. (I mean, to the extent that we can predict more or less accurately.) The outcome will seem obvious only in retrospect either way it goes. "Of course the Bills won. They always win the regular-season matchups." "Of course KC won; the refs rigged the game!" "Of course the Bills won; KC was overdue for a loss." "Of course KC won. How could Allen overcome losing three starters on offense?" And so on. Tell someone who hadn't watched the game either outcome and they'd nod knowingly. My take is that the Bills at full strength (including Milano) are flatly better than KC this year, better enough to win in Arrowhead in January. But not having Coleman, Kincaid, Brown, and Milano, offset only by KC missing Pacheco and the kicker? Edge to KC. But it's in Buffalo, so more or less a tossup. Hate to say it, but it'll come down to the refs. If they call a fair game, it really about as 50-50 as a game could be. (A BIG if!)

I think you might be right. They're triggered even at the suggestion the two players are equal. If they knew Mahomes was better, they would just laugh or make some dry comment. The hysteria is a tipoff that they know the truth: Mahomes isn't better, or even as good as Allen. Allen is better: bigger, faster, stronger, just as clutch, just as much winner. And he's done more with less. (Plus, he's not a whiner like Mahomes.)

We see what we want to see, right? Applies to me, too. I'll try to be objective today. It'll be hard. I'm already primed to say, "See! See!"

Or (Art) Van DeLay.