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Christmas Day supplied some terrible football. The Buffalo Bills' OPOY candidate is here to help you recover.
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Oversized ladle in hand, the NFL slopped something that resembled food onto our collective dinner trays this Christmas. This league can present quarterback Max Brosmer in all of his 51-yard, seven-sack glory because the league knows we’ll happily consume terrible football. Nobody cares that Nikola Jokic is the first player in NBA history to produce a 55-15-15 line when another quarterback, Chris Oladokun, is supplying a 66-yard masterpiece for the Kansas City Chiefs.
No day is sacred. Owners claim “football is family,” before then plucking everyone from popcorn vendors to coaches from their homes on Christmas Day.
All while making everyone buy another streaming service.
All while spamming us with more gambling ads.
The whole thing’s gross.
And… yes. Guilty as charged. We had Lions-Vikings playing in the background of a white elephant game at my in-laws. Before this, in true Dallas Cowboys fashion, Jerry Jones’ gang won a game that doesn’t mean anything. In the nightcap, the only team playing for anything (No. 1-seeded Denver) eked out a win over that third-string Chiefs QB nobody’s heard of before. This craptastic lineup of NFL games did serve one purpose. There were practically no highlights worth rewinding. Watching five of these six teams stumble to the finish line should remind everyone what separates the legitimate Super Bowl contenders on the offensive side of the ball this time of year.
Special individual talents.
Bad football made me think of something Josh Allen, the reigning MVP of the league, likes to say: “It’s not the X’s and O’s, it’s the Jimmys and Joes.”
As the playoffs near, it sure doesn’t hurt to be the team with arguably the best quarterback and best running back in the entire NFL: the Buffalo Bills.