Finally, the playoffs begin in the NFL, and then as usual or almost, all eyes will be on the Buffalo Bills.
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Because there is no other team that fascinates as much as these Bills, who come from a place that time forgot, somewhere between a chorus of Gram Parsons and a sip of lukewarm Brador. Because these Bills are lovable losers, who always come close, but never get there; They have made the playoffs every time for seven seasons, but have never been able to reach the Super Bowl after losing four straight times in the early 1990s.
It would be easy to chalk it all up to witchcraft and Scott Norwood and the Goo Goo Dolls, whose musical mediocrity could only have come from Buffalo, but that would ignore the obvious: the Bills are allergic to big moments.
The Bills are Sisyphus who spends his time pushing a big rock up a hill for nothing. It’s the Dion family who arrives on a TV set forgetting the words ofOnce upon a time there were people happy.
We ask you: can we really trust such a team? This is what we will see on Sunday, 1 p.m., when they travel to Jacksonville to face the astonishing Jaguars.
If the Bills can hope for anything, it is undoubtedly with the rush, they who gain on average 159.6 rushing yards per game, a record in this regard in the NFL. The Jaguars often shine on defense, having caused 13 turnovers this season, the third highest total in the entire league.
But let’s come back to Sisyphus and the Dion family. Let’s come back a little to this pressure which seems to stifle the same people all the time, and then it’s perhaps no coincidence that Buffalo and Toronto are two almost neighboring cities, because the Bills are a bit like the Maple Leafs of football, aren’t they?
The other thing is that time is starting to run out for Josh Allen. At 29, the Bills quarterback isn’t ready for the retirement home, and he’s under contract through 2030, but also, he’s been in charge of this team since 2018, and by now, he should at least know what a Super Bowl weekend is like.
Also, you have to have spent 15 minutes in downtown Buffalo to understand that these people deserve a victory, and a little sunshine in their lives.
Five other games will be scheduled for this first playoff weekend in the NFL. The Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos, the top two seeds, will benefit from a bye.
The New York Jets are also taking advantage of a leave of absence, of course, which did not prevent them from covering themselves with ridicule by pointing out on social networks that of all the NFL clubs, it was theirs which was the only one to play all 17 games of the calendar with the same offensive line. It’s like the time Marc Bergevin said that Carey Price won plenty of cups in his career, including the Molson Cup.
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The Dallas Cowboys have fired defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus.
Since we’re on the subject of incompetence, let’s look at Dallas, where the Cowboys fired another defensive coordinator for the third time in three years. It seems that poor Matt Eberflus wanted to stay, but Jerry Jones decided otherwise. “Trump just said it, I run Venezuela,” replied the owner of the Cowboys, as if to demonstrate that he is the one who makes the decisions.
Cowboys fans now have to hope Jones doesn’t appoint Pete Hegseth to lead his defense, because the club’s defensive schemes could end up on Facebook.
From Quebec, Claude Lussier writes to us to ask this excellent question: “We rightly make fun of the Jets, but it’s not much better in Vegas. From one year to the next, the Raiders demonstrate a mediocrity that overcomes the most patient of fans. Will Tom Brady make an Aaron Rodgers of himself? As Simone de Beauvoir once said: it looks like a zoo over there! »
Claude, if Tom has seen Philip Rivers go a little this season, I think he will wisely choose to stay where he is.
So here we are, the big moment, the first weekend of the playoffs, and then also, the start of the one-on-one matches. After 17 weeks of sometimes erratic play, we deserve that.
The first playoff round is often the best, and we will have some high quality dishes: the Packers against the Bears on Saturday night, of course, and also the 49ers who will be at the Eagles on Sunday at 4:30 p.m., among other wonders.
We take this opportunity to remind you that peppers in a plate of nachos count as a portion of vegetables.
