#AFC East

[nationalfuckupleague]

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[the-football-chick]

Week 14 Jets @ Dolphins

The Jets were without two top players, RB Breece Hall and CB Sauce Gardner, but still managed to take a 23-15 lead into the 4th quarter. The Dolphins though tied the game on a Jason Sanders 42-yard field goal with just 7 seconds left that sent the game into overtime. Then it was a QB Tua Tagovailoa 10-yard touchdown pass to TE Jonnu Smith that would win the game in OT.

[nflballgirl]

love this team, love these vibes

[idkidkdidkdidkdidkd]

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.

[baddawg94]

[charlizeyouknowit]

[anthonybialy]

Different Games Off for Buffalo Bills, Sabres

Remember when New England’s waiting to draft that the Bills game counted.  Winning by inflicting damage on a divisional foe is the best kind of losing.  By contrast, Patriots fans learn which triumphs ache after their team shrewdly saved ownership money by not having to pay some entitled first overall pick.

One of Buffalo’s franchises has set the standard for hoping they lose in the hopes it’ll lead to wins.  I’m not one to offer comfort to Boston’s sports enthusiasts, but the Sabres show deliberate losses may not create victories.

The Bills and Sabres offer different sorts of anxiety relief.  Having a playoff spot clinched for about a month permits slacking in a way self-banishment to the Postseason Exclusion Zone doesn’t.  Checking one’s phone in gameplay’s midst Sunday afternoon was nothing at all like doing so Saturday night for the Buffalo sports enthusiast.

Sabres fans hate the Sabres.  But the latter hated the former first.  A franchise that cursed itself is uninterested in cause and effect, like how a hockey school supervisor who’s mysteriously serving as an NHL general manager will extend a league-record playoff slump.

Sisyphus was an amateur.  Lindy Ruff was appointed captain of a sinking ship.  Fixing a rotted culture is trickier than installing shorthanded formations.  Players know ineptness won’t lead to punishment because it’s the same with the executive who added them.  Kevyn Adams is the 13th-longest tenured general manager because Terry Pegula disagrees that it’s a results-oriented business.

Failure is at least an opportunity to fix what’s ruining outcomes.  Ownership should’ve fired and traded at will after the previous disaster against the Avalanche.  The worst part of hitting rock bottom is Pegula always thinks drilling helps.

Some use the new year to make phony vows about changing. That doesn’t apply to the Sabres, who’ll keep losing in unimaginably devastating ways. Those aware of who they are don’t make resolutions.

A soft reboot sort of rhymes as the club frittered away happy memories long ago George Lucas-style.  The Sabres are as awful as the prequels.  I know we shouldn’t say things we can’t take back, but I’d rather learn about how bacteria causes the Force than watch a feckless roster muster 10 shots in the first two periods against Vegas.

Context only makes the Sabres look worse.  Losses like the second squandering against Colorado would be unacceptable if they won a playoff series after last season.  They didn’t quite do that.  If a historically woeful franchise turned around today, the agony already sustained wouldn’t be worth it.  Oh, and they’re not turning around today.

This kind of pathetic effort after the last devastating game in this awful season during an unprecedented playoff drought is exactly what’s expected.  A late Saturday game prompted fresh choices for the alienated.  I switched to Off Beat Cinema. They show bad things on purpose.

You know, you could charge more if you played better.  The Sabres have a plan to increase attendance.  If you guessed a better team, I admire your sweetness.  The worst franchise in the universe’s history is going to have to offer a bigger discount.  If you want to pay 29 dollars to get frustrated, you’re better off going to a strip club.

I know it’s frustrating for Sabres fans to live through an endless nightmare.  But at least we can dread the possibility of wasting Josh Allen’s career with an underwhelming wild card playoff win Sunday before getting outcoached to a next-round exit.  Fans hope a repeat of similar postseason scenarios will not take place while bracing for the possibility of consistency.  If habits persevere, there’s a different level of disappointment ahead.

Fretting based on precedent is how we prepare.  It’s not just in football.  Life is spent looking for patterns, especially ones that signify impending doom.  Recent repeated outcomes could be broken this time.  Free will competes with tendencies in individuals that sure seem hard to alter.

The finale against the Patriots was meaningful game in terms of illustrating why it’s meaningless for each.  Half a dozen championships sure don’t seem to assuage present wretchedness.  Two decades sure sounds like a long time when Satan offers a deal for a soul.  But people notoriously struggle to think past the next five minutes.  Consequences past immediate rewards are as incomprehensible as eternity.

Josh Allen benched without a single pass attempt like the bust we were assured he’d be.  Others excelled just when they thought it was needed.  Von Miller nabbed a sack at the most important time, namely when he can get a small fortune.  The occasional player’s greatest contribution is showing the difference between statistics based on circumstances.

Removing drama takes different forms.  A Bills loss will always count even though they used it like a January preseason game.  People will look up this season’s record years from now without checking how many fans won a raffle to play in the fourth quarter.

A game in which they’re not really competitive is like their hockey counterpart and also completely unalike it.  The Bills were checked out of the finale like they were tanking for a prospect they liked at the World Junior Championship.

An unofficial bye week gave the Bills a chance to rest before what’s now a familiar setup.  If there’s ever been a better chance to rally around a postseason run, it’s now.  This has been an especially rough time for Buffalo as it keeps losing it gathering places.  The only way Brick Bar burning down could be rougher is if the Old Pink met the same horrible fate.  It’s still tough to believe Swannie House is closed just like it’s infuriating that some garbage band breaking Mohawk Place’s stage-diving ban may cause its closure.  Hosting wild card holder Denver is a chance to add something after much has been taken from us.  Hockey joy is just the start.

[thingsmk1120sayz]

5 years in a row!!!

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4K – Madden NFL 20 – 2019 – Season – Week 2 – New England Patriots At Mi...

#Madden #MaddenNFL20 #MaddenSeries #NFL #NewEnglandPatriots #AFCEast #MiamiDolphins #NationalFootballLeague

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FIRST QB WITH A RUSHING, RECEIVING, AND PASSING TD IN THE SAME GAME

EARLIEST DIVISION CLINCH SINCE 2009

FIRST TIME THE BILLS ARE 5-IN-A-ROW DIVISION CHAMPS

LETS. GO. BUFFALO.

[the-football-chick]

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)

[buzzzchomp]

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…

[the-mic-drop]

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:

[baddawg94]

[godefylife]

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.