The national media narrative since the Bills won

[GASabresIUFan]

Let’s relax and let the games happen.

 

The Bills were out gained but won TOP, turnover battle and the game.

 

KC was also out gained and lost the TOP, and still won.  
 

I’ve never seen so many so down about a good win.  It wasn’t perfect, but we still beat arguably the most talented team in the league.  Who cares what Steven A and others like him say.

 

 

[DCofNC]

1 hour ago, VW82 said:

I just think it’s funny people around these parts who in the past hand waved Bills turnovers and pointed to drops and the occasional bad play calling as a way to what if their way through convos about who was the better team/QB are now steadfast that Bills were the better team despite getting badly outplayed on both sides except for the turnovers.

 

Bills played mistake free and we won. Ultimately, we were lucky to win, and we’ll need to be much better if we want to win next week. 

End of the day, they won.  No turnovers to 3 is huge. I HATED the way they went limp in the second half, that was beyond awful.  That said, they did what they had to do.  They also got the ball back with 1:32 left and timeouts, they could just as easily marched down and set up a winning FG as time expired and Jackson could have lost that way.

[Tulsabillsfanz]

The media is just helping us keep the chip on our shoulder attitude. Let them keep underrating us. Let us go into the game as the underdog.  Then, let’s show them again how wrong they are.  

[H2o]

7 minutes ago, streetkings01 said:

Thats not my issue. My issue is there is genuine sadness amongst some in the media that Baltimore didn’t win which has me confused.

Of course this was always going to be the narrative. They all have been advocating for Lamar to get the MVP for weeks now. They have to continue to prop their guy up even though he lost head-to-head this time against the other leading candidate for MVP. If we would have lost, the narrative would be, "Josh can't win the big game.....Josh can't lead his team past the Divisional Round." Now, even though they lost, Baltimore was the better team and it's not Lamar's fault. In the end, who cares. They're on the couch and we're on to Arrowhead. 

Edited 5 hours ago by H2o

[Punch]

The Bills played a very efficient & opportunistic Chiefs style game, although more conservative than I'd like to see.

 

If the Ravens and Bills performances from yesterday were swapped:

• Lamar would be praised for playing tough, error free football, taking what the defense gave him and overcoming his demons against a very good opponent.
• Josh Allen would be TORN TO SHREDS for turning the ball over multiple times and making several other mistakes, losing once again in the Divisional Round.

This is undoubtedly true, and we have already seen the difference in ESPN's Ryan Clark's reaction to Allen losing to KC last January and Lamar losing to Buffalo this year.

 

The media believed Josh Allen was the "wrong Josh" and could never develop into an NFL QB because he "went to Wyoming for a reason" and they also nearly unanimously declared the Bills for dead this offseason.

 

All I can say is, confirmation bias is a helluva drug.

 

 

[Chugga]

Todays talking points are just like last years/this years MVP.

 

If this is how you are going to judge things moving forward then I’m 100% on board.

 

If we are going to give QBs grace for making mistakes and stop the narrative of “what have they won” to decide every argument when only one team a year can win it and we are smack dab in the middle of a dynasty.  Then I welcome this new era of sports talk and I embrace the new positivity that hosts will be bringing.

 

But something tells me that just like the MVP race, the story hasn’t actually changed.  It’s just the goal posts have moved.

 

If Allen doesn’t win the Super Bowl this year and doesn’t throw on his cape at all times I would find it terribly hard to believe that he will be given the same amount of grace I’ve seen Lamar receive today.

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

19 minutes ago, GASabresIUFan said:

Let’s relax and let the games happen.

 

The Bills were out gained but won TOP, turnover battle and the game.

 

KC was also out gained and lost the TOP, and still won.  
 

I’ve never seen so many so down about a good win.  It wasn’t perfect, but we still beat arguably the most talented team in the league.  Who cares what Steven A and others like him say.

 

 

Baltimore outgained every team they lost to this season outside of Cleveland fwiw and the Cleveland game had incredibly close yardage totals. 

notable highlights include:

outgained kc by 100 lost  

outgained Philly by 125 lost 

outgained raiders by 120 lost 

outgained Buffalo by 140 lost

outgained pit by 26 lost 

 

i I know something three of those teams have in common 🤣

the only game they were outgained and won was the cincy rematch, so Baltimore in 19 games was outgained twice.  Kind of expected where if they’re gonna lose they’re gonna be outgaining the other team 

Edited 5 hours ago by Generic_Bills_Fan

[Real McClappy]

I will take 2 more ugly mistake free football wins. 

[RochesterLifer]

FEA, go Bills.

Edited 5 hours ago by RochesterLifer

[Big Turk]

25 minutes ago, HappyDays said:

The Chiefs win like 75% of their games because their opponent makes a big mistake in a big moment. That's championship football. The media is right about the narrative but they are wrong about the meaning behind it.

 

 

Essentially the Chiefs win by keeping the game close and waiting for the other team to make a mistake and then capitalizing on it to win.

 

It only works because the other team can't pull away. 

[JimmyNoodles]

16 minutes ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:

People can say whatever they want and it doesn’t bother me much usually but the only thing that kind of irks me in this one is that 2 point play seems like it’s being portrayed as it would’ve won the game which is so far from the truth 

Absolutely. I had total confidence at that point the Josh would have got points to end the game. I’ll also give McD props for the field goal decision since it put us up 8.  The Ravens needing 2 saved the day. 

[Billzgobowlin]

Man TBs forced fumble was all him and nothing to do with Andrews.  Too bad still no respect

[Orlando Buffalo]

1 hour ago, VW82 said:

I just think it’s funny people around these parts who in the past hand waved Bills turnovers and pointed to drops and the occasional bad play calling as a way to what if their way through convos about who was the better team/QB are now steadfast that Bills were the better team despite getting badly outplayed on both sides except for the turnovers.

 

Bills played mistake free and we won. Ultimately, we were lucky to win, and we’ll need to be much better if we want to win next week. 

We were up 11 at half time and you would think we had 3 lucky TDs. We smashed them the entire first half and the only reason we did not have the 4th score is horrendous officiating. We turtled up in the 3rd but we scored the same number of points as they did in the 4th. The only stat they won is yardage because they had no short drives for a score. The game had a razor thin margin because the difference was razor thin. 

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

 

[Bermuda Triangle]

1 hour ago, ChronicAndKnuckles said:

They are also saying the 1 penalty is the result of favoritism and the “fix.” Gladly ignoring the amount of flag free holding the Ravens committed 

Not to mention the repeated OPIs committed by Andrews.

 

Did the Texans “lose” the game on Saturday to the Chiefs?  Were the Chiefs not deserving of the victory?

[Chicken Boo]

1 hour ago, ChronicAndKnuckles said:

They are also saying the 1 penalty is the result of favoritism and the “fix.” Gladly ignoring the amount of flag free holding the Ravens committed 

 

How many penalties were called on Buffalo yesterday?  

 

If roles were reversed, we'd never hear the end of it.  

 

Take the win and stop whining.  Man, this stuff gets old.  

Edited 5 hours ago by Chicken Boo

[Jauronimo]

Its kinda been the Chiefs narrative all year.  Getting lucky.  Opponents blowing their chances to win. Flukes.  And then 15 weeks in the media changed their tune to something like KC just knows how to win close games.  I don't really care about narratives.  No one remembers the narratives much once the season ends and the Lombardi is awarded.  

[Buffalo ill]

My best advice to Bills fans is to ignore the media.

[Bermuda Triangle]

1 hour ago, klos63 said:

Examples?

 

[ProcessTruster]

1 hour ago, 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. 

Exactly.   

We just need to end up with more points than the other guy.  For two more games.   That's it. 

 

 There are no style points in the tournament.   Just score more than the other guy.    It's really simple at this point.