The national media narrative since the Bills won

[klos63]

9 hours ago, Pete said:

KC is afraid of Buffalo.  Buffalo is like a rising tide, about to flood Arrowhead.  Its been building for 17 games.  Familiarity breeds contempt.  5-5 the last 10 meetings.  Bills have KOed the top contenders.  KC struggles against mediocre teams, and eek out wins.  KC knows they are in for the fight of their life.  JA17 gives them nightmares

High Tide!!!

[UKBillFan]

31 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

Harbaugh also screwed his team.  Got greedy on the first 2pt. conversion... What was he thinking!  Chasing points, he didn't need to tie there! If he makes 20-21 then it's tied on last TD w/PAT.  Possibly OT if Bills can't walk them off.

 

McD out coached Harbaugh. 

 

The Ravens pulled out a classic Bills post season loss out of their back pocket. Arguably the better team but couldn't get out of their own way, then lost on a play which will be remembered by their own fans forever more. What would we call it if it had happened to us? The Two Point drop? (Football gods - I do not want to find out next weekend. Thanks)

[Governor]

On 1/20/2025 at 4:08 PM, whorlnut said:

As a Bills fan, I’ve seen this team lose in the most historically spectacular fashions, so I’m not giving a single rip how we won or what the national narrative is. Like Peter shrager said this morning…this might be the first time that something like that didn’t happen to us. I’m not going to let it bother me one bit. 

Everyone has seen us lose in a multitude of ways which is how these narratives come to life. A dropped 2 point conversion to tie the game becomes “losing the game” because we’ve always lost those types of games. People assume that if they tied it, we would definitely lose.

Edited 12 hours ago by Governor

[ProcessTruster]

48 minutes ago, UKBillFan said:

 

The Ravens pulled out a classic Bills post season loss out of their back pocket. Arguably the better team but couldn't get out of their own way, then lost on a play which will be remembered by their own fans forever more. What would we call it if it had happened to us? The Two Point drop? (Football gods - I do not want to find out next weekend. Thanks)

we already have the Ronnie Harmon famous "drop" vs Cleveland many years ago.  So we have ours already. 

[QLBillsFan]

7 hours ago, MikePJ76 said:

I don’t believe that.  Wilbon is an intelligent guy.  He is above that stuff.

Correct and why he won’t get into it publicly.. or has a good friend associated with the Ravens in some capacity. Yes he always been above that good point. 

[ExiledInIllinois]

54 minutes ago, UKBillFan said:

 

The Ravens pulled out a classic Bills post season loss out of their back pocket. Arguably the better team but couldn't get out of their own way, then lost on a play which will be remembered by their own fans forever more. What would we call it if it had happened to us? The Two Point drop? (Football gods - I do not want to find out next weekend. Thanks)

"Arguably better teams" don't turn the ball over 3 times and then try to get their act together in 2nd Half and pull game out of their azz.

 

The arguably better team won on Sunday. Period.

 

Now... Don't get me wrong, I got nothing against my team NOT being the better team and winning, that was simply not the case on Sunday.

 

What we call it?... Like getting screwed by the Refs on a bogus holding call that whacks a very likely scoring drive.

 

Anyway... No team can cough the ball up 3 times while the other team doesn't and still declare they are the "arguably better team."

[Governor]

Stephen A said we don’t have a chance unless Cooper gets catches.

[The Jokeman]

2 hours ago, klos63 said:

High Tide!!!

 

[GoBills!]

IF the Bills win Sunday. IF, I like our chances against either team in the SB. The media narrative will be well Mahomes had an off year; Kelce is old, he lost Wr's and had to bring in old man Hopkins and Hunt to work with. Lamar was without his top weapon, Houston is too young at QB, therefore the Bills won in a down year.

[ProcessTruster]

6 hours ago, GoBills! said:

IF the Bills win Sunday. IF, I like our chances against either team in the SB. The media narrative will be well Mahomes had an off year; Kelce is old, he lost Wr's and had to bring in old man Hopkins and Hunt to work with. Lamar was without his top weapon, Houston is too young at QB, therefore the Bills won in a down year.

works for me. 

 

During the season, trends and background events are analysed and pulled apart.   in the tournament its not how you win, just that you do win.  the media actually knows this.   no one remembers the SB loser, only the winner

[BobbyC81]

On 1/20/2025 at 1:09 PM, Billsfanatic8989 said:

You get that recognition when you consistently get to AFC title games and win several SB's. They got the credit because it was earned.

 

The Bills haven't done anything to really get that recognition yet. Win a SB and the narrative changes.

Some of them will still say the other team should’ve won.

 

The media is also overdoing it regarding Andrews’ “dropping “ the 2 pt conversion pass.  His foot slipped on the frozen tundra. He was lucky to have almost caught it.

Edited 43 minutes ago by BobbyC81

[Scott7975]

12 hours ago, UKBillFan said:

 

The Ravens pulled out a classic Bills post season loss out of their back pocket. Arguably the better team but couldn't get out of their own way, then lost on a play which will be remembered by their own fans forever more. What would we call it if it had happened to us? The Two Point drop? (Football gods - I do not want to find out next weekend. Thanks)

 

They all want to blame that 2 pt drop so they coddle Lamar. If he catches that 2 pt conversion, then Allen marches down the field while he kills the clock and we kick a fg to win then who do they blame? That is likely what would have happened. There is no doubt in my mind that Allen would have gotten 40-50 yards with 1:33 and two time outs left. It's stupid to blame just Andrews. It's a team sport and everything in the playoff matters.

[Utah John]

On 1/20/2025 at 6:35 PM, L Ron Burgundy said:

I suspect KC will try to do what Baltimore did to us in the 2nd half yesterday.   I hope we see a more aggressive offense.  

Baltimore didn't do that to Buffalo, Buffalo did that to Buffalo.  For whatever reason they had, the Bills coaches went ultra conservative. 

 

For the KC game, I think Brady will be opening up the last six chapters of the playbook, the part none of us have seen yet.

[Sweats]

10 hours ago, Governor said:

Stephen A said we don’t have a chance unless Cooper gets catches.

 

 

 

 

Stephen A also said the Bills had zero chance against the Ravens and would get steam-rolled, so............

[Pete]

Just now, Sweats said:

 

 

 

 

Stephen A also said the Bills had zero chance against the Ravens and would get steam-rolled, so............

He also corrected the idiot panel when someone correctly stated that Josh is the all time great playoff QB.  Aggressive stupidity kicked in, and Smith corrected the truth teller- “”let me correct that- Josh is the greatest wildcard game QB” 😠