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Bills Fans Can Turn Trauma into Wisdom, Win or Lose
It’s ‘Take Two’ time on a quiet Sunday morning in northern Wyoming leading up to the showdown between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Buffalo Bills. I’m usually filled with trepidation on a playoff Sunday, but this season is different. This season is way different. After many reminders of the tragic events wrought by the city…
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Fedora Forecast: Bengals at Bills Divisional Playoff
Sunday, January 22, 2023 at 3 p.m. ET Television: CBSHighmark Stadium, Orchard Park, NYWeather: 30s, snow showersLatest line: Bills, -5.5, over/under 49 “It’s deja vu all over again” Yogi Berra. The much anticipated Burrow/Allen heavyweight battle resumes, and the stakes are much higher. Both teams struggled in their playoff openers to division foes who had…
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Larkin’s Lessons: “We’re on to Cincinnati”
“It doesn’t matter how you win, it’s if you win” These are the words Josh Allen preached leading up to last Sunday’s Wild Card game against the Miami Dolphins and the same words he calmly said afterwards. The 34-31 home victory served as Allen’s fourth playoff win in his career and set the stage for…
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Buffalo Bills Advance, I’m Convinced
The Bills didn’t beat the Bills despite trying their hardest. A team fatigued in multiple senses coped with in-game burnout for understandable yet still stressful reasons. Prevailing is all that’s recorded even if the way of doing so counts. This round’s playoff opener would’ve felt like the longest game possible even it if didn’t run…
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Bills (barely) Squish the Fish
The Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins faced off in the AFC Wild Card round on Sunday. After splitting the previous two meetings this season, the playoffs provided a winner-take-all scenario for the AFC East rivals. Josh Allen has had his best performances against the Fins, but Tyreek Hill still haunts the memories of Bills fans,…
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Addressing Bills’ Positional Needs For Offseason 2023
Don’t just think draft; Brandon Beane always goes into a draft with for-now answers for each position. Big Baller is the master at the 1-year conditional contract with veteran free agents, and he’s a master at having an in-house mentor (Von Miller) for a just-drafted wunderkind (Rousseau, Basham). Positional Needs can come into play because…
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How Soon We Forget Buffalo Bills’ Emotional Challenges
I realize it doesn’t fit the news cycle. Media focus appears to have moved on past the post traumatic issues players for the Buffalo Bills are experiencing after watching Damar Hamlin be resuscitated on the field only a couple of weeks ago. After narrowly defeating the Miami Dolphins 34-31 on Sunday at Highmark Stadium, some…
