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Why did we deserve this fucking torture?

i was so ready to be rooting for a top 10 pick last week
now i've got to psyche myself up to watch ravens steelers with excruciatingly annoying stakes

which mediocre team will win the chance to get fucked by the bills at home in the wildcard round
which mediocre team will win an annoyingly middle of the road draft slot

find out (probably) on primetime wk 18
 
i was so ready to be rooting for a top 10 pick last week
now i've got to psyche myself up to watch ravens steelers with excruciatingly annoying stakes

which mediocre team will win the chance to get fucked by the bills at home in the wildcard round
which mediocre team will win an annoyingly middle of the road draft slot

find out (probably) on primetime wk 18
If we beat Pitt we KO Buffalo

And get trounced in the divisional
 
i was so ready to be rooting for a top 10 pick last week
now i've got to psyche myself up to watch ravens steelers with excruciatingly annoying stakes

which mediocre team will win the chance to get fucked by the bills at home in the wildcard round
which mediocre team will win an annoyingly middle of the road draft slot

find out (probably) on primetime wk 18
The crazy thing is that if the Bills lose to the Eagles (possible) then the Bills could be the 7 seed and it would be either Chargers or Houston (or even Jaguars if things get very crazy).
 
Fellas. Astounding that I have to say this out loud. We gave Derrick Henry, the guy with the 21st most rush attempts and counting, the most carries he's seen in his 10 year career. He clearly should have had the final totes the week prior. But turning what is a qualifiable outlier into a replicable week-to-week game plan, and therefore the basis of benching Lamar for Huntley, is among the biggest mental lapses I've seen this year. In a perfect world, Henry sees the ball 20-30 times with a healthy YPC, and Huntley is relied upon for capable game-managing and 3rd down conversions.

But we're playing Pittsburgh. In Pittsburgh. Short-handed as they are, it's far from a gimme under the best of circumstances. Even now, it's closer to a 50-50. Treating it as an opportunity for Lamar to become healthier specifically for a postseason that is as unlikely to happen as it's likely to happen, is as mind-numbing as it sounds. Depending on Lamar's health, we'll be one of the healthier teams entering the final week with something to play for.

Are we slated for a deep post-season run? No. But the teams coming to the dance hall are arguably beatable. Personally, I couldn't care less about the drop in draft positioning. The 4 of 4 players who are the betting favorites for DRoY were selected were picked after the 26th. Last year's DRoY was selected 19th. Would be fun to consider the possibilities of the earlier prospects, but the talent will be there. I'm hoping only a SuperBowl run saves John Harbaugh at this point, and if we make it to the big dance, would be hard to complain. Look, it's the holidays, we were just given the biggest, unlikely set of gifts we could've hoped for, and the mood here reeks of devastation. Free to do whatever you want, I'm genuinely relived with the outcome and am praying for us to make the postseason. A decade from now, during the inevitable down seasons when we're praying to be praying for the playoffs, I'll at least look back and know that I didn't take any of this for granted.
 
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