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'How Soon is Now?'

The 'Battered Bills Fan' in me was glad that Coleman got tripped up at the end. The Bills would have had to make the 2-point conversion then kick off to the Ravens putting the ball back in Lamar's hands with however many seconds remained and all (?) their timeouts. Feels like we've been down that road before and it didn't end well.

All of them, except the Sabres.

The Tex-***** will not be near the #1 seed. Who do they play outside the division - not sure, but this part of the schedule will keep them in the 10 to 12 win range. What a game. Play of the game has to be Oliver poking it out with 2 or 3 minutes left. This is what the NFL craves. Of the big 3 (may have to include Cincy at some point this year) in the AFC only the Bills are on 1 win after week 1. I think the Chiefs will have a down year and will end up a wildcard. Kelce is obviously distracted. Mahomes does not look right - just a bit off in game 1. All those close wins last year was an indication of them faltering a bit. I don't think the same luck will prevail this season. Not sure how it would all work out, but I would love to see a Bills - Ravans AFCCG in Orchard Park.

This is also a true fact. TV in the room must also be on the game before I get up 😂

Well that's different. Of all the teams that are are in the playoffs now, I would think the Jets would be the least hated... Of course nothing is universal.

Until proven otherwise, the supposition is a good one. The thing that might be a fly in the Bills ointment as far as getting the 1 seed is the Texasses play in a division that is at least as bad as the East and very possibly even worse. The results of the Dolt Fishies game not withstanding. 😉

A post-game caller to WGR - who was surprisingly sober and coherent - observed that Harbaugh screwed up how he called his timeouts at the end. He basically played right into how the Bills wanted him to exhaust all three timeouts and let the Bills have a chance to kick a walk-off field goal. If Harbaugh had called his last timeout with maybe 12 seconds to go, the Bills would have been forced to kick during that timeout because they would not have had time to run another kneel down play and get the field goal off (although maybe then the Bills would have run a time-wasting pass play?).

My random thought during that sequence of plays was that if you're Baltimore, maybe you don't call the timeouts. Anything you do is an incredibly low probability at that point, but maybe keeping the clock running messes with the Bills' plans.

This is an understated comment. I was considering the Ravens/Chiefs/Bills* division schedules yesterday. The Ravens play four games against the Steelers and Bengals. The Chiefs four games against the Chargers and Broncos. The Bills four games against (pick two) Pats/Jets/Fins. Advantage: Buffalo. Last night's win is obviously huge if playoff seeding comes down to head-to-head and/or conference record. *The supposition is that these are the three best AFC teams. But the NFL is weird.

Where‘s @inkman when you need him?

Camp should start next Wednesday or Thursday

he hated Bettman and the NHL for ignoring the CTE crisis with ex players. His book mentioned above is a must read. all his books are. His scotty bowman book is fantastic. He also suffered from tall mans disease lol. his back would get sore from being a stand up goalie and he was 6'4". his famous picture leaning over his stick were to give his back a break. It is what drove him to retirement eventually. if he was born ten years later he would have been butterfly goalie. Met him once in Amherst. nice guy. very quiet. he listened more than talked if that makes sense.

It’s a game of inch.

I put him on the list. Three tickets left.

Hamilton definitely got like a finger on the ball. He played a whale of a game.

It was. Anything could have happened with that rushed set up and the kick was nearly blocked. But you gotta' love the execution and the result. A walk off FG was fitting given all the missed two pointers.

Yes that’s exactly what I mean. I presume there’s enough tickets left @tom webster? Once confirmed I’ll DM you @JoeSchmoe

The angle from behind looked like he may have gotten a little bit of it; the ball may have changed direction a little on the way. I think I saw that he only needs like 6 rushing TDs this year to have the record (or some top-N) for TDs in the first 8 years. There are 4 guys like Marshall Faulk and whatnot on the list ahead of him. Sure, different eras but wild.

Why terrifying? There were about 25 seconds left when the O raced off the field and the kicking team raced on. They were fully set with at least 10, and more likey 15, seconds left in the game. Everybody knew they wouldn't snap it until at most 4 seconds were left (that's how long FG attempts typically run off the clock). Ball went up a little lower than Prater probably wanted for a kick that short, but it was true and Hamilton was unable to get his good mitt on the ball. And in their last home opener ever in the stadium Ralph had built, they won one for the ages.

TCU did something like that a couple years ago. Considering this is the first game of the season, I wouldn't be surprised if this was a drill they ran in preseason and was still relatively fresh on everyone's minds, so *they* knew what they were doing but no one else (fans, broadcasters) did. After mismanaging much of the game to that point (3 failed 2 point conversions in particular), I felt that the coaching was perfect at the end.

Thanks, but I can mail or drop it off myself

^ This is wrong. Sounds like you are a casual football fan and not watching very closely. He is top 2 the league right now and already destroying the NFL record books, and that is without any HoF level receivers and running backs on his team so far. How many players elevate their team like him, just a very few.

This sounds awesome. Wish I could be there, I would break my boycott. Go Bills!

The winning field goal setup was terrifying. And exquisite.