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No Brian Graham the headline team news for us, Adeloye gets the start ahead of Diack in his place

Only Mitchell and Ngwenya injured according to the preview but we normally don't disclose every injury if it's just occurred that week.

Are there any other landing spots for Belichick or is that him done?

Assume this tweet means Killie can no longer recall him

We play Morton the week before the women's cup final. If the cup final isn't moved from the Saturday then a tactical* red card might be an option for Graham *two-footing Imrie

If he gets the pass off a quarter of a second earlier before his own lineman gets pushed into him it's a TD regardless of how open Diggs was. Very fine margins. As you said there were two (I thought three) drops from the WRs on deep balls plus the Cook dropped TD although that didn't hurt them. It came down more or less to what I thought it would, banged up D couldnt get enough stops. The worry is this is now a bit of a narrative about the Chiefs in the playoffs, fully expect a 4th win in a row vs them in the regular season next year but counts for nothing in the end.

That had been coming, Bass has gone to shit the last few weeks. Mahomes would have got them into FG range anyway, needed a TD

Ball was still in his hands, such a late flag too

Reiterating this, Chiefs are averaging nine yards a play FFS

On the plus side the running game is good so Allen hasn't had to do too much high wire stuff to put up points, and it's killed the clock. Chiefs only got 3 proper possessions in that half On the downside the linebackers are getting toasted and can't stop the chunk plays on the ground either. The Chiefs scored on each of those possessions and should have had a TD on the middle one, twice. Feel that the Bills will need at least a plus one turnover differential to win this. I am fully expecting the last minute kick in the balls again tho

Third play, missed illegal forward pass not biased, just shit

First play, flag Second play, missed flag for helmet to helmet. Strong start

When all the stuff about our finances came out in the summer the figure that we got from that game was quoted as ~£300k but obviously will depend on attendance and pricing. edit: found a source

I think Rudden is fine at this level, my issue with him from his time with us was that he didn't score for ages then scored loads in a burst, rinse and repeat. In half a season you might not get the burst.

It's not a hugely open draw for a lower league team to sneak through with 9 Premiership sides still in including the whole of the top 6. That said we're only 2 wins away from Hampden so if we can get a home draw against a non Premiership side and hope lots of the Premiership sides draw each other that's fine by me even if it means playing someone in our own league a 5th time . Bonnyrigg away obviously the target though.

Bills had to use their 2 practice squad call ups on other positions so will be going in with a half fit punter. Suppose the best way round it is not to punt...

Robinson in for Alston, and wearing the white third kit which has seen us lose both games we've played in it, in the other two cups.

4 months in Saudi then straight to Amsterdam, man is going to be off his tits for about 3 weeks.

Another travel ban in western NY today so unlikely the Bills practice in person today. Weather forecast to clear by Sunday so no issues with the game.

For the other games I'm surprised at how big a favourite the Ravens are, yes I'd have them favourites but not by 9.5. Wins for the Niners and Lions as well I think.

A lot will depend for Buffalo on how many players they can get back on the defensive side of the ball on a short week. AJ Klein had booked a road trip to Florida for the weekend just finished but got called up to the practice squad on Wednesday, ended up playing in the game after Spector got injured early on, and made 11 tackles. Terrel Bernard is definitely out which is a huge blow but if they can get Rasul Douglas and one or two others back (and stay healthy during the game) then it will stop Allen having to win the game on his own.

Jesus Christ , Bass looked unmissable a year ago but he's really struggled of late

Some play from Shakir, settles the nerves. Hard not to see Kelce getting about 200 yards and 4 TDs against the string of backups at LB and CB especially with KC having 2 extra rest days, but it will of course be the first time Mahomes has had to play on the road in the playoffs. Forecast for Sunday is similar to today, more snow due Wednesday.

Offense needs to step up, this D won't stop anything.

With Bernard out that's the season over, maybe not tonight but I genuinely don't know who the remaining linebackers are.