Sal Maiorana
@salmaiorana
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Well into my fourth decade of covering the Buffalo Bills for the Democrat and Chronicle. I'm told I'm a pretty good husband and dad. Author of 22 books
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I remain convinced Bills-Chiefs was the Super Bowl. This has not been an enjoyable game in any way.
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Cardale Jones just threw a pass so far off target it knocked the phone out of the hand of a reporter 40 feet behind the sideline.
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Still think the Bills would have beaten the Bengals. And I’m pretty sure most of you know I’m not a homer.
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Um, the Dolphins are a problem. This team is better than any Bills fan is giving them credit for.
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Kelvin Benjamin was one of the most disappointing players I can ever recall covering. I can’t remember a guy who seemed to care less about his craft.
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Think about this. The
#Bills
are trying to prepare to play two unbeaten teams and they still have no idea if or when the games will be. The NFL is a joke, such an arrogant entity building a schedule without any contingencies for something all of us knew would happen.
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If this latest forecast is accurate , the Bills-Dolphins game should be pushed to Sunday night. It's beyond stupid to me for 70,000 people to be trying to get to and from the stadium in a raging storm, then dealing with shoveling their cars out in the lots after the game ends.
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Josh Allen just gets it. Great face of the franchise.
Everyone needs to see this sweet moment with Abbie and her super fan Josh Allen
#billsmafia
#nfl
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Remember when the Bills just played every Sunday at 1 p.m.
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The patriots are the most despicable team in sports history. Bar none. Despicable. And the NFL is even worse. The league is a sham
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And then, Lamar Jackson, who absolutely was NOT the league MVP, wins in a landslide. Josh Allen, who was the MVP if I had a vote, finishes fifth? Behind Dak Prescott and Brock Purdy? I mean, the stupidity of these voters is astounding to me
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Doctors have also made it clear the Bills training staff saved his life.
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Kelvin Benjamin is the laziest WR I've ever seen. Just runs awful routes
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No team has helped the Bills more this year than Miami. They beat the Patriots and Ravens and lost twice to the Bills
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You can shove the Music City Miracle where the sun don't shine. That right there is the worst loss in Bills history. That's the one. There's just no way that should have ever happened
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The Bills ultimately moved down only five spots from 28 to 33, and picked up a third-round pick, got a better fourth-round pick, added a fifth-rounder and now Beane has plenty of ammo to make more moves, maybe up. Why is everyone freaking out? There are several WRs right in the
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Why couldn’t the Chiefs have played like this two weeks ago?
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On a day when Brian Moorman led the Bills charge, the Bills did not punt for the second week on a row.
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If the Bills defense had been healthy we’d be making reservations right now in Las Vegas.
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The start of this game is an indictment on just how average the Bills pass rush is.
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No. 1 defense my ass. What an utter joke. They had 13 seconds from their own 25. Are you kidding me?
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Where the hell was this team against the Jets, Patriots, and Broncos?
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Seriously, it's going to be incredibly hard for the Bills to cut some of their players. They have talent everywhere. What a world we're living in after all that misery of 17 years without the playoffs
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Facts. The Bills are descended into mediocrity. This is not the same team we saw from 2020-22. Not even close.
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Right around 6 tonight it’s really gonna hit Bills fans what might have been. Because at around 6 tonight, the Bills should have been celebrating a blowout victory over the Bengals and a trip to the super bowl.
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Give me Allen over Lamar every day of the week. Lamar is gonna win the MVP even though he’s not the MVP. Allen was. Not even close in my mind.
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Lamar is a prettier in accurate passer. The truth is, he’s playing the same way he has all year. Difference is a really good defense and his own defense is to bailing him out.
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Reading my timeline is fascinating. People, this was not a football decision! This was a common sense, safety decision. Just last year, 31 people died in a blizzard in Buffalo. Do you really think anyone with a brain wanted to risk another disaster? Man, football fans are insane
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The NFL is pointless. The despicable empire is just going to roll all the way to another title. No one is gonna beat this team and they haven’t even dressed the despicable wide receiver yet.
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For all of you who think I’m a tool, and I know there’s many, I give you this guy.
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The scoreboard at far end is no longer visible. Worst I’ve seen it here that I can recall.
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So I’m clear. The US played approximately six-plus hours of soccer in the World Cup and scored three goals. And this is supposed to be something I should be interested in?
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As a native Buffalonian who grew up with Boston teams being the arch enemy in every sport, it kills me how so many Buffalonians root for the Red Sox. I’ll never understand it.
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I remember a time, not too long ago, when there was an excited anticipation before every Bills offensive possession. Now there is just waiting for doom. It's amazing what has happened to this team
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Another incredibly lazy job by the media just handing Brady the MVP. Let's just give it to the winning QB like we do every year. Meanwhile, there were probably 3-4 guys on the Bucs defense who deserved it way more.
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What a joke the NFL awards were. Damar Hamlin loses out on the the comeback award to Joe Flacco? Why, because Flacco was able to get off his couch and play pretty good for a few weeks? More of a comeback than a guy nearly dying yet returning to play? Idiots who voted. All of them
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At the risk of infuriating the masses, that's four absolutely horrendous Allen interceptions in the last 4-plus quarters. Not one came where the defense made a great play. All four were thrown right to them.
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The Bills have to replace Dane Jackson. He's a nightmare. I'd throw every ball his way right now
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I really hope America is loving this. Seriously, hasn't everyone wanted this to happen to the Patriots?
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FitzMagic worked it again for the Bills. Four meaningless wins kept Dolphins away from Joe Burrow.
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Mitch Morse signs with the Jaguars. I really didn't like the
#Bills
releasing him. They could have easily reworked his contract to get his cap number down. The O-line was coming back intact, and now they're mixing it up. Just doesn't make much sense to me
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Matt Barkley, nice guy, had a couple nice moments with the Bills. But Trubisky has hugely upgraded the Josh Allen insurance policy.
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The NFL has a solution to the impending weather problem in Buffalo if it chooses, though it probably won't. Monday is a holiday, many people are off, so move it to Monday afternoon as the lead in to the Monday night game
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Unreal. It's simply unbelievable. The Patriots win again. This is the worst pro sports league in the universe.
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Referees ruin football. They really do. So many stupid calls, because of so many stupid rules in this sport.
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Seriously, I can't believe what I'm watching. This is almost as perfect a half of football as the Bills played in the 1990 AFC title game, the 51-3 game against the Raiders.
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It's pretty clear that Dalton Kincaid as a pass receiver is a massive upgrade over Dawson Knox.
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Kaiir Elam's dad, Abram, was with the Browns in 2009 when they played the Bills in Buffalo. The Browns won 6-3, one of the worst NFL games I've ever watched. Do you remember that one?
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Shocker, Chiefs get the call. Ballgame. Just total bullshit call.
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Apparently Bills players don't wear facemasks, because the officials never seem to call it when it's blatantly clear
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Honestly, I don’t know what more needs to be said. Because if this doesn’t make sense to you, I have no words
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More than a foot of snow is expected in Orchard Park today. Winds are blowing steady at 25-30, gusting higher. You can't see where you're going on the roads. Stadium is probably inaccessible and unusable. And still, idiots continue to be pissed the game was pushed back a day.
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Bengals offensive line - with three backups - is dominating the Bills. What an embarrassing effort.
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Bills might be the most overrated team in the league. But that won't be the case now because they're going to be rated where they deserve to be. In the mediocre category.
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I’ve seen some people on Twitter and Facebook lamenting the Bills raising ticket prices. For all those who continue to lobby for a new stadium, what do you think will happen to ticket prices then? Bills fans pay the cheapest ticket prices in the NFL. Gonna be a rude awakening
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The Bills are 5-5, and there's almost zero chance they can win even three more games this season. It's over folks
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And now the most blessed team in the NFL, one we’re all sick of, will get its ass kicked by the eagles.
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The Bengals offensive line is missing three starters. The replacements may all be better than the Bills starters today.
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Can you imagine this Eagles D-line against the Bills O-line? For that matter, can you imagine the Eagles O-line against the Bills D-line?
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The Bills have had some truly sickening losses. This jumps into the top 5. Simply incredible
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Incredible win. Just incredible that they overcame all those mistakes
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All you idiots calling me out for a tweet I made seconds after Hamlin went down, thinking like every one of you that it was a normal football injury, with obviously no knowledge how serious it was, shut up and back off.
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Bills booed off the field. As they should be. What a deplorable half of football
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Let's call this what it has been, and continues to be. An utter ass whipping.
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Sad day at the
@DandC
as the company refuses to be fair to its already vastly underpaid employees - which has gone on for the 38 years I've been employed there - and now, as of 12:01 a.m., we journalists are on strike. So, I guess I'll see you when I see you, as they say
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Masters degree graduation today at Ithaca for my son Holden. A good day for sure.
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If you were ever wondering how much of a joke the Pro Bowl is, Rodger Saffold being added to the AFC roster should confirm it. He was literally one of the worst guards in the NFL this season. Laughable.
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Just saw a hearse on 490 with Bills flags. Sign in the window: Hey Brady, support your local undertaker- drop dead!
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Do my eyes deceive me? The Patriots had a big gainer called back due to a penalty? Amazing
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The Bills defense has been disgraceful to have let that happen
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Here’s your Bills traffic update. Another complete shit show
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To this point, Von Miller's name is still not on the stat sheet. Invisible for a fifth straight game
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Mike Trout about to sign for $430 million. Bryce Harper signed for $330 million. I'd say that's about right because Trout is that much of a better player than Harper.
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The next time someone gives us shit about the weather in Western New York ...
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No questions now. We severely overrated the Bills. Fooled by all the blowouts over shitty teams. This is who they are, a team that will have to fight just to make the playoffs
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We know the Jets stink, but the Bills playing without CBs Josh Norman and Levi Wallace, John Brown at WR, Dawson Knox at TE, Cody Ford at LG, and possibly without CBs Tre White and Cam Lewis and LB Matt Milano (questionable) poses some problems. This may not be a layup game
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I talked to Jordan Poyer on locker cleanout day and I told him, in my opinion, there's no way the
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So for all you "football weather" people out there, this is what happens in football weather. It equalizes the game for the underdog. The conditions are awful and both offenses have been lousy.
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Sickening loss for the Bills. Well deserved. They stunk in every possible way tonight
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Tim Settle penalized for playing tackle football. This league is so beyond stupid with these roughing the passer calls
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Dawson Knox is such a major disappointment. It wasn't a great pass, but he needs to catch that
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Where's the star MLB Edmunds? Has he made one game-changing play this season? Where's Ed Oliver, another high draft pick? This defense doesn't have one true difference-maker.
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It looked like Kelce grabbed White and pulled him into him so it looked like he interfered. These officials are just brutal
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I really don't understand some of you McDermott haters. Really, it's insane to me. Barring a total collapse, they're going to the playoffs for the fifth time in six years. After not going the 17 years before he got here. Stop.
@fitz_ct
@salmaiorana
The point isn’t about Jackson lol… McDermott is becoming more of a liability.
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OK, so the Bills are in. But that's not the goal. Beating Miami and getting the No. 2 seed is what matters most. This Bills team is not making any playoff run as a No. 7 seed. It needs to be home at least twice, maybe three times
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Crossing one of the bucket list tonight. 35 years in the business, never covered an MLB game until tonight. In Buffalo for the Jays-Marlins.
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Fire Dave Roberts right now. And whichever geek is giving him his stupid numbers. What a travesty
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People throwing snowballs at players during the play is beyond idiotic.
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Sickening loss. Once again. Sorry, their season is pretty much cooked. NFC loss or not, 6-6. As soon as the Bills kicked the FG it was over
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