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...and lose horribly the next night. Nothing to see here.

Bills doing exactly what they should be today. Attacking a vulnerable defense with pace, and not taking their foot off the gas against a lesser opponent.

The good news about the kick return is we might get to see Josh Allen throw for 300 for the first time.

McDermott won a challenge!

It was a really good throw, but he moved all the way through his progressions from the other side of the field. That's what made it so impressive.

That may have been the best throw of Allen's career.

I didn't watch the game. What in the world happened?

I just think it's narrower than that. How many merely good players have been worth their UFA contracts well into their 30s?

I'm mostly on board with this. The one thing I'd say to flesh it out a bit more is if you have a truly elite player, you're probably pretty safe. Teams get into trouble with the good-but-not-great Ladds and Okposos of the world.

Correct. There is huge value in offloading 2 years of a $6M cap hit for a 4th line player.

When I read yours, I completely missed the "KO" part and thought you proposed Scandella for Kovalchuk straight up. So one of us missed something, but it wasn't you.

Hopefully Botterill. The last thing we need is another cap albatross. You might not, but you should. You may like Okposo's game more, but those 2 years of cap benefit should be worth way more than that preference.

The real question is why do you have a poop flavored lolli to trade in the first place?

You're still sorta new here, but Callaway is the McDavid of Sabrespace bridge jumpers. If he wasn't jumping off a bridge at this point, we'd all be concerned he had actually jumped off a bridge.

I swear, if I lose to @WildCard because Sanders just hurt his ribs...

I'm just not interested in another hopefully maybe possibly half-measure. Fix the forwards or don't, but I don't need Botterill selling me a bill of goods.

As long as it's out of a cannon to another team. Bennett is trash. May as well try Tage again, at least he's free.

Speaking of bad play calling, anyone catch the end of the Sunday night game? Holy smokes....Prescott torching the Vikings on the (what should have been) final drive, and then 2 handoffs to Elliott lose yards and obliterate the red zone possession. He also wasn't the solution, which is becoming a consistent problem. Our standard for QB play is so low that as long as the guy doesn't spontaneously combust, it's okay. The play calling was definitely bad, but Allen also left plays on the field that could have changed the complexion of the game. At some point he has to start making those plays.

Yea but probability also says that things like this happen without it being mysticism. Law of large numbers! Improbable things happen all the time. Edit to add: the likelihood of Buffalo specifically going 100 years without a title is, I would guess, pretty low. But the likelihood that some city would do that probably isn't all too low. We just happen to be the one. But hey, in recent years Cleveland, Toronto, the Red Sox, the Cubs, Philly....all cities/teams that ended enormous droughts. It'll happen.

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Aaron Jones needs to score more TDs. 3 this game isn't enough. Give @WildCard 6. Why not? ???

I just think it's hard to necessarily equate breakdowns in play with breakdowns in effort. Is a bad pass a lazy pass or did he legitimately just not see the opponent? Stuff like that. I have a pretty strong prior that fans tend to gravitate towards effort-based explanations, probably because it's easier. But that doesn't mean it's the right explanation.

Well, when you chain together some bad decisions across regimes it can be hard to turn it around. Some combination of having the wrong priorities and picking the wrong plays with, yes, some bad luck tossed in for good measure. Put a little differently, I think for both teams they've done some good things in the past 5 or so years, but those good things have been mostly singles while the misses have been catastrophic strikeouts. Mixing sports metaphors is the best. I don't think there's rampant incompetence, just a lot of things adding up. Every NFL team misses on QBs, but missing on the QB hurts a lot more than hitting on a CB helps. Ya know? In the trade that shall not be named, Botterill identified the player as the problem rather than the coach. That's a lot more painful than the help Johansson brings as a value added UFA. And so on.

Buffalo sports have claimed another victim. Funeral services for @Derrico's heart just before the holidays.

I don't see how anyone can actually watch either team play right now and think there's an effort problem.