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Week 9 - Dolphins @ Bills

After the Dolphins had tied the game 27-27 late in the 4th, Bills K Tyler Bass would kick the game-winning FG, a 61-yarder and career best with just 5 seconds remaining. The Dolphins woes continue as they fall to 2-6 and the Bills improve to 7-2 lead in the AFC East.

IG: buffalobills (11/3/24)

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I'd give a lot of money to see the nfl made into a sports anime. Two of my niche hyperfixations put together to create a show I'd watch for hours. Naturally Mahomes would embody the overpowered natural-born leader. You know like Oikawa, or Naryuma, or Akashi. His style of play would be so fun to animate.

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First touchdown of the year was Allen to Diggs💕💕💕

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Buffalo Bills Off to Later and Later Starts

You’re ready for the game.  Your team was not.  Fans strive to emulate positive qualities displayed by beloved athletes.  The Buffalo Bills could reciprocate by showing up at 1 p.m.  That’s the conventional NFL start time, which should be written on a dry-erase board displayed in a prominent locker room location.  Sleepy openings turn truly stressful when culprits nearly run out of time to get peppy. Getting thrown off by daylight saving time can only be used an an excuse once annually.

These two particular teams being tied after the first quarter was unpleasantly surprising.  Don’t worry: it got worse.  The Bills listlessly got around to trouncing the Titans and Seahawks.  Their lackadaisical approach nearly caught up with them while hosting Miami.  I have never been a professional sports coach, but I humbly suggest using each minute provided to maximize point potential.

Sean McDermott’s plan of having Josh Allen create a miracle paid off again.  His more active decisions proved less beneficial.  Only McDermott could throw a flag regarding a play where the opponent deserved better field position.  He should be challenging defenders to tackle, not obvious first downs.

Not showing up ready is their signature.  There have been dominant NFL clubs known for more appealing aspects than waiting until after the unearned break.  Insouciance is uninspiring.  The unwelcome habit serves as the most prominent coaching failure of a franchise that still feels like it’s underachieving despite its sweet record.

Half-efforts for half the game is ensconced as a trend.  It’s important to not read too much into an aberration.  But the Bills remained stubbornly sluggish against a desperate divisional enemy playing like they have nothing to use.  It has become their wont.

Players are bound to occasionally flub.  Please don’t let the essence of humanity stop you from criticizing every error, because I certainly won’t.  There are not many games with zero incompletions, and even those don’t all go for touchdowns.  But outfits reach a tipping point where the lack of success becomes unacceptable.  Six points from three first-half red zone drives is not the result produced by a serious contender.

A field goal is still better infinity percent fewer points.  I’d be eager to praise Keon Coleman growing into a top option for an offense with a singular quarterback if he didn’t do unproductive things like let a catchable football bounce off him near the goal line.

The Bills won despite often losing the line of scrimmage.  Overcoming a battle loss makes war wins arduous.  Dion Dawkins is too busy starring in commercials to block.  As for a counterpart, Ed Oliver works on his sack dance like Bobby Hill without getting to use it.  Von Miller made an impact.  Of course this is not praise.

The line can blame the secondary for underwhelming results and vice versa.  Kaiir Elam was a first-round pick, which is something new fans are alarmed to learn and older ones wish they could forget.  The steady bust got an opportunity with Christian Benford hurt, which is not to his benefit.  He’s inactive even when he’s active.

Seeing how long he can get away with screwing up: Tyler Bass is the emblematic 2024 Buffalo Bill.  Making up for earlier flubs is a pattern with this squad.  We call it the McDermott precedent.  Coleman is already accustomed to it.  Bass is a C student who doesn’t apply himself unless he feels challenged.

Exasperating wins are what this year’s Bills are about.  You could fire their coach after improving to 7-2 and cut the kicker after making a winning field goal without either transaction being truly jarring.  In fact, a high percentage of team followers would be appreciative despite the most recent results.  Longterm thinking outweighs present euphoria.

Relying on the Dolphins fumbling worked.  It’s too bad Taron Johnson can’t punch the ball into Coleman’s hands.  Miami deserved to be scored on for thinking Coleman was the target.

Miami not tackling is as cunning a strategy.  An implosion is only reliable against the rest of the AFC East.  Ray Davis has emerged as a demolition expert.

Who’s responsible?  Jerry Seinfeld can feel relieved that it’s finally a question where people want to be noticed.  It depends on the play.  Josh’s statistics credit him for both the Davis touchdown and Coleman-caused interception.  Life balances out.  Quintin Morris’s fantastic catch on a spectacular improvisation from his imperiled quarterback is the most deserving of shared billing.

Khalil Shakir continues to impress even without a score.  His elusiveness means the catch is just the start, so don’t check your SimCity presuming the play’s over after the reception.  The same goes for rushing counterpart James Cook, who is uninterested in when anyone else thinks a play should be over as he maintains his balance.

Trying to enjoy entire games has become infeasible.  It’s not ingratitude to hope that domination goes beyond the last few moments.  I didn’t even have the decency to thank the Bills for maintaining tension for an entire game.  I must not appreciate drama.

The desired ultimate result doesn’t obfuscate excessive difficulties in reaching it.  The rest of the league will see only the win.  Even the shockingly close score’s psychological impact will fade.  Outsiders will know the Bills got it done.  Meanwhile, the doers should focus on how much they struggled to do so unless they’re eager to get exposed as playoff impostors.

Divisional games don’t have to be competitive.  A matchup between eternal rivals is traditionally framed as hazardous even if second place in a division means being the franchise with the least amount of flaming toxic waste.  The Bills could fight stereotypes by blowing out the AFC East consolation teams.  Sweeping the Dolphins is what’s important.  But the one thing better than redemption is not bungling in the first place.

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Miami Dolphins Dominate Regular Season in AFC East 2024

The tide is turning in the AFC East 2024, but one thing remains constant. The Miami #Dolphins dominate the regular season, or at least the warmer months. #NFL

The tide is turning in the AFC East 2024, but one thing remains constant. The Miami Dolphins dominate the regular season, or at least the warmer months. Prepare for the intense sports debate that only sibling rivalry can conjure. Seesaw Sports, where Dan Salem and Todd Salem throw down on the NFL, MLB, NBA and more. Only on BuzzChomp. Two brothers from New York yell, scream and debate…

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Non-Sports Fans Only!

I have a weird desire to get non-sports fans opinions and views on sports things, so here's the first of... 11 or so polls.

Here's the most meme-adjacent gifs I could find featuring these teams:

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Week 2 kicks off with the Bills @ Dolphins on TNF

Bills RB James Cook scored 3 touchdowns (2 rushing, 1 receiving) in the Bills 31-10 rout of the Dolphins on Thursday Night Football. And more bad news for the Dolphins as QB Tua Tagovailoa was ruled out in the 3rd quarter with a concussion after a collision with Bills S Damar Hamlin.

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AFC East Draft & Roster Review 2024

We’re closing week two of this series, where I go through all eight NFL divisions with a heavy focus on the draft and the player acquisition process generally, as we look at the AFC East.

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AFC EAST IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER AGAIN I’M LIVING 💙❤️🦬❤️💙

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Buffalo Bills Keep Going As Is

Back-to-back-to-back-to-back wins tops even Tom Emanski.  Fred McGriff thinks this is the team that gets results.  A Buffalo Bills home playoff game seems both like a fitting result and improbable occurrence.  The club embodied humanity while winning a fourth consecutive divisional title by not changing who they are for the regular finale.  Accept underachieving during victory as the best possible result.

This is Sean McDermott’s team, all right.  Winning while infuriating is a signature like Marv turning on faucets.  Workers who sort-of get the job done are not going to alter their approach to finishing their assigned tasks now.  It’d still be nice if they’d show up from the start of their shift in lieu of doing twice the work in half the time.

Figuring out where the end zone is and how clocks work would be productive uses of playoff preparation time.  The first half’s end and second half’s start combined to be as productive as the time in between.  Buffalo also scored zero points in the locker room.  A coach’s dream felt like a real one where they slept while having no control over events.

I hope they’re spending this week seeing how Leonard Fournette’s catching skills are, too.  Ronnie Harmon thinks James Cook’s drop was bad.  I wish George Lucas weren’t correct about history rhyming.  There was a James Cook glass, but he dropped it.

A punt returned for a touchdown just like McDermott planned proved to be the difference.  Points count no matter how you get them and affect what happens next, which should assuage guilt about lack of productivity.  That was some nice work by Deonte Harty, even though players need to stop celebrating before getting to the end zone.  Not dropping the ball is like avoiding an accident despite driving while texting: you won’t get away with it forever.

Convoluted cheering offered a distraction until prime time.  Trevor Lawrence finally inspires.  Let’s all give to his foundation.  A fourth down throw which still hasn’t landed reduced the magnitude of the league’s regular-season coda.  But settling for seventh would’ve reflected a lack of ambition.  The divisional winners spent much of the outing shaking a wild card mentality.

Making the tournament was not an excuse to look nonchalant.  The Jaguars melting down into the new year removed a good deal of potential stress.  But that was no time to coast.  Will those presented with an opportunity react by seeking more or dodging it?  A chance to win the division again was thrilling precisely because it’s simple.  We still had to learn who gets to patronize the New Era Flagship Store.  The home team’s fans had to travel back from Miami.

Finding a new way every game to keep results close is not the best approach to maintaining an interesting life.  But the Bills weren’t about to change their routine of not having one.  Unpredictability is predictable.  Everyone has an exhausting relative who’ll tantrum over trivial matters; some of us have more than one.  The particulars of any nasty outburst may differ, but the one consistency is that they’re lamentably bound to happen.  Self-improvement means not being the same any longer, which may be a good outcome and is certainly a near impossibility.

Josh Allen strives to overcome Sean McDermott and Josh Allen.  The single-handed hope doesn’t have to keep acting recklessly to prove something psychologically demented Hank Schrader-style.  Foolishness doesn’t have to be included in the package.  Presuming insane risks are intrinsic to a bold quarterback is like thinking rock stars live too intensely to live long, and meanwhile Keith Richards has had more birthdays than you.

A miscommunication with Gabe Davis is a tradition to abandon like spending Christmas wading in your contaminated gene pool.  Getting Eli Apple an interception is the best way to avoid cockiness.  Knowing he was out of position worse than Larry Brown just makes the attempt that much more regrettable.  Don’t aim at the trash receptacle.  This isn’t Kan-Jam.  

Throw to Stefon Diggs instead.  He and his quarterback occasionally act like they’re suddenly not soulmates.  The lack of chemistry is particularly frustrating given that they’ve previously had the relationship to which all aspired.  Watching them reunited like a Hallmark movie was satisfying even if they could’ve skipped anticipated drama.

Bounces go your way if fate’s on your side.  Or maybe fate takes your side if you’re acting with effective aggression.  After we’re done debating the universe’s nature, we can enjoy success from chaos.  Turning “What a drag” into a compliment is the result of Trent Sherfield's Divine performance.  A deflection going Buffalo’s way may mean existence’s sole purpose is not to crush us.

Doing as they please shows the Bills at their most successful.  Defenders know the call and the offense makes it anyway.  Daring them to stop you smirks at deception.  Josh is going to dive leftward like he can see the televised line, so go ahead and try to shove back.

Griping about the 11th win is a unique way of maintaining high standards.  Avoiding taking success for granted is a challenge for which we beg.  Make sure to never grow tired of adding to a divisional champions hat collection.  It’s remarkable how ordinary success has become despite this roster’s confounding tendency to complicate goals.

A playoff team that’s inspired an alarming lack of confidence finished as conference runner-up in spite of themselves.  The best choice entering the playoffs is to make a deal to continue enjoying wins no matter how aggravatingly they may unfold.  Regular practice creates routines.  The Bills established one during the regular season that worked, at least in the end.