Buffalo Bills Season's End: The Off-Seasons Starts Now

[Clark4Ever]

Credit to the Bills for putting themselves in the position to win the division tonight. It was almost unthinkable a month ago.

A huge sigh of relief and a thank you to the underdog Titans for clinching the playoffs a few hours earlier.

 

[NotABadPeriod]

I've had that thought several times this week -- that the Dolphins might legitimately be better off going into KC next week than facing us AGAIN next week.

Miami's best case scenario is tie. They host Pittsburgh, and force us to go to Kansas City.

 

[MOGlLNY]

JJ Watt is great on tv

 

[NotABadPeriod]

I gotta find video of this. Saints faked a kneeldown at the 1 yard line and scored a TD to go up 48-17 under 2 minutes left. Talk about trolling a rival.

 

[TehDoak]

if we lose tonight, it's the exact Moe throwing barney out and barney already back in the bar

Edit: Pretty much this:

meme.

 

[Ace]

It’s going to sound weird since one scenario involves losing to the same team tonight…but I feel better about either likely scenario (we aren’t going to tie) than I have about a lot of our playoff games. Cinci is out. KC is extremely unlikely next week. Those are the teams I fear. Cinci because we’ve shown zero ability to figure them out. KC because Mahomes saves the best game of his career for us every year.

Lets win and get Miami to beat KC.

 

[Herman Hessian]

If the Bills lose they play the Dolphins again in Miami.
Tie is Chiefs at Arrowhead.
Win is Steelers at Orchard Park.

guys - now the potential matchups are known, are the timings already fixed for each game or are they yet to be determined - would be good to know if I need to book a day off work to accommodate an early morning start here in the UK next weekend - thanks

 

[misterchainsaw]

guys - now the potential matchups are known, are the timings already fixed for each game or are they yet to be determined - would be good to know if I need to book a day off work to accommodate an early morning start here in the UK next weekend - thanks

Times won't be announced til all 6 matchups are set in stone which won't happen until after the Bills game tonight.

 

[Vito_81]

Starting to think about the schedule for next week and hoping Bills avoid the Sunday 1pm game for personal scheduling reasons.

Bills vs Mia/Pit likely isnt Sunday or Monday night worthy. Which leaves the two Sat spots, Sun 1p and Sun 4p

The sun 1 pm slot should be the worst of the games, which has to be CLE vs HOU, no?

 

[MOGlLNY]

Dolphins got f***ed so bad.

What is even your preferred outcome? I would think you'd want to kinda just rest up for KC instead of going to war two weeks in a row against a team that's been your kryptonite.

 

[DolanPlsGoSabres]

ok so this set of games is more or less meaningless.

time to get my heart rate back to normal over the next few hours because still a lot on the line on SNF

 

[SabresFan26]

10 wins ended up being the magic number.

 

[Ace]

Dolphins got f***ed so bad.

What is even your preferred outcome? I would think you'd want to kinda just rest up for KC instead of going to war two weeks in a row against a team that's been your kryptonite.

In a weird way our tiebreaker problem against most of the conference hurt them more than us. If we lose they don’t get Pitt. They get us. Winning two in a row against anyone is hard. And we’ve had their number big time most nights. If we win we do get Pitt…which is what everyone in the conference would pick if they could pick their opponent.

Meanwhile…a loss and they have to go to KC. We get to go back to Miami. I think everyone would pick the latter. I know we win in KC often. But playoff Mahomes is a damned animal specifically against only us.

Their realistic path with a win is like…Buffalo, KC, Baltimore. Good luck.

Ours starts with Pitt if we win. So it’s already a thousand times better.

 

[DolanPlsGoSabres]

10 wins ended up being the magic number.

Highest magic number since the introduction of the 7th seed, outside of 2020 where AFC seeds 5 through 7 all had 11 wins and Miami was out with 10. Every other year and conference it was around 9.
Man, the AFC had to be so stacked this year. At least 10 teams with .500+ records.

 

[SwordsgoneWild]

Can we just take a moment and reflect on how ridiculous it is that Pittsburgh is in the playoffs?

That would be a ideal first round match up. Mason Rudolph, No Watt, No Safties, thin at linebacker , and get to pick on our old friend Levi Wallace.

 

[Dubi Doo]

if we lose tonight, it's the exact Moe throwing barney out and barney already back in the bar

Edit: Pretty much this:

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Now this, this is a funny meme. Thanks for that!

And, oh yeah, playoff bound, baby!

 

[ValJamesDuex]

Things can change but: Cold, blustery, snow in the long range for next Sunday in WNY

 

[kirby11]

Feels great to be in regardless of what happens tonight, and I think the pressure now shifts to Miami.

The Bills were lucky to even get in at all considering they were 2 plays away from losing to NYG and TB. But now, being in without having to win tonight *and* having a shot to steal the division and the 2 seed? That’s playing with house money.

Meanwhile, during Miami’s 2 biggest chances to win the division before tonight, they blew a 14 point lead to the Titans in under 4 minutes and got vaporized by Baltimore. So now, you have to face a division rival coming in with both nothing to lose, and the safety net of already having a spot clinched.

 

[HOOats]

Things can change but: Cold, blustery, snow in the long range for next Sunday in WNY

It's finally winter here at least for the next few weeks. Some volatile weather on the way. Lake effect machine wants to kick into gear but it's not clicking yet as far as forecasters can tell.

 

[Ace]

Things can change but: Cold, blustery, snow in the long range for next Sunday in WNY

So three quarters of playing it safe before someone remembers Allen can throw through wind and we turn it on late…hoping it isn’t too late.

….

Rest everyone who matters and let Miami win.

 

[old kummelweck]

if we lose tonight, it's the exact Moe throwing barney out and barney already back in the bar

Edit: Pretty much this:

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What the hell is moe doing to barney?!?!?

 

[SwordsgoneWild]

Going to be low 60s down here tonight. No rain. Great weather.

 

[Djp]

I gotta find video of this. Saints faked a kneeldown at the 1 yard line and scored a TD to go up 48-17 under 2 minutes left. Talk about trolling a rival.

What led to thst was a pick return by honey badger who seems to celebrate before getting tackled at the one.

 

[yahhockey]

I gotta find video of this. Saints faked a kneeldown at the 1 yard line and scored a TD to go up 48-17 under 2 minutes left. Talk about trolling a rival.

Apparently the players made the decision after the coach denied their request to let Williams attempt to score a TD.

Arthur Smith hot at Saints after loss, and Dennis Allen understands why

Saints players went rouge and ran for a TD with 1:10 left in a 48-17 win, Allen explained.

www.nbcsports.com

 

[ValJamesDuex]

Going to be low 60s down here tonight. No rain. Great weather.

Did you see there was tornado last night in Fort Lauderdale ?