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Originally Posted by Bearcat
Yeah, but we did that in 2020 to ourselves and it was ****ing annoying.... people calling out how the Chiefs "weren't winning by enough", and even after proving themselves against the Bills and Bucs and Saints, they didn't best the Falcons enough to show they could beat the Bills in the AFCCG. 
And I'm not disagreeing with the thought that the Bills aren't an unstoppable force.... it's a ridiculous narrative, like they're a combination of the 85 Bears and 99 Rams.
I'm amused by it... as a fan of a few teams with some recent postseason success, I certainly don't mind when my teams are in the underdog role, and end of the season, none of us will care if they played the most vanilla game ever on Sunday if the result is beating them when it really matters in January. |
Personally, the only thing I really care about are wins and losses.....all the other stuff, like "we were injured" or "we didn't win by enough" or "if we only would have done XXX" or is just noise.
However, it would be silly not to have some context to these games either. Agreed that the narrative on the Bills is quite ridiculous, which is why a little bit of context is needed to show that they aren't on some type of football pedestal.
I've said this before: the football gods do not favor "anointed" teams, and the Bills are one of the most anointed teams we've had for quite some time....