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They should be well-rested since they didn't play last night. 😒

I'm sure that the refs could have found a penalty one each, if they had wanted to. 😉

😯

Yeah, we start with redundancy, but once you lose one ...

If they don't play the Bills-Bengals game, then as far as Chiefs vs. Bills for #1, how you count a skipped game (tie or no contest) wouldn't matter, regardless of what happens in Bills-Patriots and Chiefs-Raiders ... Chiefs win% would be: Win: 14-3 (14/17 = 0.824) Loss: 13-4 (13/17 = 0.765) Bills win% would be: Win: 13-3 (13/16 = 0.813) or 13-3-1 (13.5/17 = 0.794) Loss: 12-4 (12/16 = 0.750) or 12-4-1 (12.5/17 = 0.735) So, the Chiefs would get the #1 seed unless they lose to the Raiders and the Bills beat the Patriots, irrespective of whether you count it as a tie or as no contest. In essence, it would count as loss by the Bills in the Bills-Bengals game for this purpose. Unfortunately for the Bengals, in the case where the Bills and Chiefs both lose their final games, but the Bengals win theirs, the missed game would also count as a loss for them. They would miss the chance to take the #1 seed by beating the Bills. (Note: Bill-Bengals for #2 vs. #3 would come down to the third tie-breaker, common game win%, since they'd both have the same conference record in this scenario.)

I feel like Tage is a character on Warehouse 13. One of these days, Pete and Myka are going to show up looking for his artifact.

For the playoffs? They don't even know who's playing against whom, or when. I'm not talking about giving them this coming weekend off, but rather playing Bills/Bengals on a short week (if they'd prefer more rest before the playoffs) and then pushing off the first week of the playoffs.

They could schedule the makeup game for Thursday (1/12) and give the league the weekend off, so that the Bills and Bengals at least have 9 days (10, if you want to force their respective games to Sunday (1/22). Not perfectly fair, but at least it would reduce the benefit (plus, some say the week off makes it harder for the team with the bye to be sharp.)

Took a while, but they finally made the right decision.

So ... he's done for the season, then?

Throwing to McKenzie with two DB's in the area ... not a good strategy, Josh.

SDS has one on the front page. We'll see about the others ... True, and I also seem to remember him being pulled off of Jack's line in the second half (I think).

Remember when Skinner has 26 goals in 37 games and didn't hit 40 until game 82? 😉

Freakin' Texans. Stop Mahommes in OT, only to fumble it away deep in their own end.

Technically, they don't, right now. They're 15-14-2, so they've lost 16 and won 15. They're listed as W and L, but while W is all wins (Reg, OT, SO), L is only regulation wins.

There was one a couple of years ago where the back clearly tried not to score, but fell in, after which the other team scored to win it. But, yeah, you're talking about a really small chance of missing a chip shot or a missed snap vs. the chance that the other team either drives for a winning touchdown or gets a tying field goal and then wins it in OT. Small in both cases, but the former is likely much smaller. Win % are both very high, but it's probably more like 99.9% vs. 99%.

In good weather, that's the play. Fish couldn't stop the clock, Bills could run it down and walk off with a chip shot, instead of some really small chance that they tie the game had he scored there with time left. That said, with a snow-covered field, it made me a little more nervous, especially when he dropped a little early. Yeah, it was two yards, but ... again ... snow.

Trying to rank two different types of things is always tough. If the season ended today and there was a Sabres MVP vote, it wouldn't be unanimous, and it would likely be close. That's all I need to know.

Scary that Tage could easily have had four points tonight. I'd have to watch really closely to see why he didn't get an assist on Cozen's EN. Then, he didn't actually try at the buzzer, but it seemed like he could have added another EN if he had really wanted to.

Second? Did I miss Gretzky coming out of retirement to take the first star?

The next two games (Jets and Miami) are tests, too. Both teams can (and did) beat the Bills. Yeah, there were factors in each that were different than these games, but I'm certainly not taking either as a given.

Look, a hockey stick!

Which outcome you wanted, Cincy vs. KC, depended a little on whether you think the Bills will "right the ship" and finish strong, like last year, or continue to stumble a bit as the find their game. Even in the latter case, though, it would have to be bad enough for the Bills to be on the cusp and it would have to come down to the Bills or Cincy. I'm going to take the outcome as a positive. Everything else was great, except the minor blip of Baltimore.

They almost came back against the Vikings, but another L for the Jets.