This All Seems Familiar For Some Reason, Never Forget The Christmas Panic of 2023, What Taylor Knew In Advance AKA The Prophecy II: The Swiftening, Life Is Just A Fantasy, & Other Random Items!!!
McD is a laughingstock. Ridiculous how some Bills fans just don't get it. To finally have the team good enough and the first mvp quarterback in our history then hire a guy who has never been affiliated with a Championship organization in any way ever. 8 years the guy has proven that ..... sigh. This is so ..... Buffalo. 50+ years as a die hard Bills fan on the West coast. Thanks O.J.
I think you're right Gary. Nobody really cares about a regular season loss to the Bills, and nobody really ought to either. It doesn't change anything, and therefore doesn't matter. I can go on another playoff tangent about some games being given an artificially raised level of importance creates a false narrative that the Chiefs have the Bills' number, despite the overall record between the two being 4-4 over the last five years. Nobody has anybody's number, as far am I'm concerned.
Much like Peyton Manning ending his career with a 3-2 playoff record over Tom Brady once all was said and done, the better player will end up with the winning playoff record eventually. Whether Josh Allen or Patrick Mahomes will finish as the better player is yet to be seen. Neither are even halfway through their career yet, knocking on wood as I say that.
I think you're right in your 'emotional response' section that the Chiefs have no aura anymore. In one of my articles last year (I forget which) I used the sentence: The modern day Chiefs in the regular season are not a very intimidating opponent. I expected to have to defend myself very rigorously on that one, but no. I didn't get any blowback at all for it. That showed me that the aura is dead. The Chiefs these days are thought of like the 2006 New England Patriots. A good team. A team that will be difficult to beat, but not a team you have nightmares about anymore.
We all know what happened there. Things turned back around dramatically in 2007, and the aura came right back in New England. Can the same thing happen in KC? I hope so. 2018-19 Patrick Mahomes is one of my favourite players ever. I want him back. Right now he and his team are not to be feared, and I think everybody knows and can accept that, even if they (like I) do not like it very much, because the NFL desperately needs some greatness. It hasn't seen any in a while. I don't care if it comes from the Chiefs or anybody else. I just want to see some.
If the Chiefs do pull off the three in a row this season, I hope they at least finish with a great looking regular season record, to cover up last year's paper tiger, and make everybody forget that it ever happened. That way this can be remembered as a great era in NFL history, instead of two flukes in a row.
Once again, I think we're both pulling in the same direction here Gary, just holding the team to a different standard. I (as a neutral, albeit one with a soft spot for the Chiefs) want to see all-time greatness, and therefore am slightly disappointed with the last few KC seasons. You (as a lifelong fan) just want to win, and therefore are very happy with the way things have transpired. I want the aura back. I want the fear back. I want the constant Patrick Mahomes fellating to actually feel deserved. This is why I can often sound so negative on the Chiefs, and perhaps it's true that my standards are too high.
I, as a child of the new century, just want to see something the likes of which we'll never see again occur in my lifetime. The threepeat would be that, but as we talked about last week, I'm less convinced than you are that that's looking so good.
BTW, I have a curiosity. Were the Chiefs ever down ten points in this game? Did it ruin the whole ten point plus thing that I see you bring up sometimes?
McD is a laughingstock. Ridiculous how some Bills fans just don't get it. To finally have the team good enough and the first mvp quarterback in our history then hire a guy who has never been affiliated with a Championship organization in any way ever. 8 years the guy has proven that ..... sigh. This is so ..... Buffalo. 50+ years as a die hard Bills fan on the West coast. Thanks O.J.
I have to admit, your comment made me literally laugh out loud.
You never know with McDermott, though. It took Andy a long time to win it all. Of course he had to leave Philly to do it…
You mentioned OJ, so now we all have to hit YouTube and watch clips of Norm MacDonald trashing him on Weekend Update…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NaiaTdIQ-wQ&pp=ygUgbm9ybSBtYWNkb25hbGQgd2Vla2VuZCB1cGRhdGUgb2o%3D
We all know by now that Andy toys with his former protege. It isn't even chess to checkers, more like Texas hold em to go fish
I think you're right Gary. Nobody really cares about a regular season loss to the Bills, and nobody really ought to either. It doesn't change anything, and therefore doesn't matter. I can go on another playoff tangent about some games being given an artificially raised level of importance creates a false narrative that the Chiefs have the Bills' number, despite the overall record between the two being 4-4 over the last five years. Nobody has anybody's number, as far am I'm concerned.
Much like Peyton Manning ending his career with a 3-2 playoff record over Tom Brady once all was said and done, the better player will end up with the winning playoff record eventually. Whether Josh Allen or Patrick Mahomes will finish as the better player is yet to be seen. Neither are even halfway through their career yet, knocking on wood as I say that.
I think you're right in your 'emotional response' section that the Chiefs have no aura anymore. In one of my articles last year (I forget which) I used the sentence: The modern day Chiefs in the regular season are not a very intimidating opponent. I expected to have to defend myself very rigorously on that one, but no. I didn't get any blowback at all for it. That showed me that the aura is dead. The Chiefs these days are thought of like the 2006 New England Patriots. A good team. A team that will be difficult to beat, but not a team you have nightmares about anymore.
We all know what happened there. Things turned back around dramatically in 2007, and the aura came right back in New England. Can the same thing happen in KC? I hope so. 2018-19 Patrick Mahomes is one of my favourite players ever. I want him back. Right now he and his team are not to be feared, and I think everybody knows and can accept that, even if they (like I) do not like it very much, because the NFL desperately needs some greatness. It hasn't seen any in a while. I don't care if it comes from the Chiefs or anybody else. I just want to see some.
If the Chiefs do pull off the three in a row this season, I hope they at least finish with a great looking regular season record, to cover up last year's paper tiger, and make everybody forget that it ever happened. That way this can be remembered as a great era in NFL history, instead of two flukes in a row.
Once again, I think we're both pulling in the same direction here Gary, just holding the team to a different standard. I (as a neutral, albeit one with a soft spot for the Chiefs) want to see all-time greatness, and therefore am slightly disappointed with the last few KC seasons. You (as a lifelong fan) just want to win, and therefore are very happy with the way things have transpired. I want the aura back. I want the fear back. I want the constant Patrick Mahomes fellating to actually feel deserved. This is why I can often sound so negative on the Chiefs, and perhaps it's true that my standards are too high.
I, as a child of the new century, just want to see something the likes of which we'll never see again occur in my lifetime. The threepeat would be that, but as we talked about last week, I'm less convinced than you are that that's looking so good.
BTW, I have a curiosity. Were the Chiefs ever down ten points in this game? Did it ruin the whole ten point plus thing that I see you bring up sometimes?