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Because Darius Slay didn’t miss a field goal in the Super Bowl today.

Darius Slay tells Bills he will not report to Buffalo after being claimed on waivers: Source Slay's time in Pittsburgh did not go well. He recorded 28 tackles and zero interceptions over 10 games and was also a healthy scratch.

Slay’s aversion to Buffalo is an embarrassing reminder of the club’s problems with waiver claims during the 17-year playoff drought.
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Failed challenge, sloppy play cost Sabres in loss to Flyers: 5 thoughts One minute of calamitous play created a deficit the Sabres couldn't overcome.

The Sabres started their six-game road trip with a loss in Philadelphia. Buffalo is now 11-12-4 on the year and 2-7-2 on the road. A failed challenge, sloppy play and other thoughts from the Sabres' loss to the Flyers.

The Bills somehow turned being shorthanded into a manhandling of a legacy franchise.

“How many years?” Bills center Connor McGovern said when I told him the stat they dumped on Pittsburgh.

Fifty.

“Fuck,” McGovern muttered. “The Steel Curtain?”

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What Bills’ historic, emotional win with two backup linemen, zero sacks says about them Facing an urgent situation without some key players, the Bills showed up in a big way.

How backup Alec Anderson says he approached T.J. Watt: “Just go out there and, wherever the dude is lined up, block the motherfucker.”

How Watt says it went: “It was an ass kicking in all areas.”
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The Bills somehow turned being shorthanded into a manhandling of a legacy franchise.

“How many years?” Bills center Connor McGovern said when I told him the stat they dumped on Pittsburgh.

Fifty.

“Fuck,” McGovern muttered. “The Steel Curtain?”

✍️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/685...

What Bills’ historic, emotional win with two backup linemen, zero sacks says about them Facing an urgent situation without some key players, the Bills showed up in a big way.

How backup Alec Anderson says he approached T.J. Watt: “Just go out there and, wherever the dude is lined up, block the motherfucker.”

How Watt says it went: “It was an ass kicking in all areas.”
www.nytimes.com/athletic/685...

YouTube video by TGAF: Tim Graham And Friends TGAF: Josh Allen a marked man against Steelers; Sabres yak up a bone

Josh Allen might need a shield and a weapon Sunday afternoon in Pittsburgh. "Tim Graham And Friends" by CTBK ...

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TGAF: Tim Graham And Friends "The Tim Graham Show" began in 2016 as an independent alternative to rightsholder broadcasts and became "Tim Graham And Friends" when it left terrestrial radio. Graham is a senior writer for The Athle...

"Tim Graham And Friends" by CTBK digs into an ugly week for Buffalo sports. Josh Allen is running for his life. Sabres are losing ugly again. UB football drops third straight

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YouTube video by TGAF: Tim Graham And Friends TGAF: Josh Allen a marked man against Steelers; Sabres yak up a bone

Josh Allen might need a shield and a weapon Sunday afternoon in Pittsburgh. "Tim Graham And Friends" by CTBK ...

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TGAF: Tim Graham And Friends "The Tim Graham Show" began in 2016 as an independent alternative to rightsholder broadcasts and became "Tim Graham And Friends" when it left terrestrial radio. Graham is a senior writer for The Athle...

"Tim Graham And Friends" by CTBK digs into an ugly week for Buffalo sports. Josh Allen is running for his life. Sabres are losing ugly again. UB football drops third straight

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Every couple weeks, Josh Allen seemingly achieves something unprecedented, matching or passing top-shelf HOFers like Peyton Manning, Otto Graham, Earl Campbell, Jim Brown.

Is Allen being wasted?

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Every couple weeks, Josh Allen seemingly achieves something unprecedented, matching or passing top-shelf HOFers like Peyton Manning, Otto Graham, Earl Campbell, Jim Brown.

Is Allen being wasted?

✒️https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6838275/2025/11/26/buffalo-bills-josh-allen-hall-of-fame-credentials/

They have an 8% chance of winning the division they've won five straight years and are tracking toward not hosting a playoff game.

Five keys for Sabres after 22 games: Josh Norris’ return, role players step up, more At the quarter-point of the season, what are we seeing from the Sabres heading into a pivotal stretch of games?

Happy gameday, Sabres fans. What I'm seeing from the Sabres through 22 games. Beck Malenstyn's emergence, Mattias Samuelsson's bounceback, Josh Norris nearing a return and more:

Josh Allen has historic postseason passing stats, more rushing TDs than Earl Campbell, highest YPC of anyone with >70 TDs (0.3 over Jim Brown).

And the Bills are regressing. I talked to PFHOF voters to ask if Allen's greatness is being wasted:

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Steelers in must-win territory vs. Bills? Spotify video

This week on The Yinziders with @jennaharner.bsky.social:

Why didn’t Aaron Rodgers play in Chicago? The Steelers’ explanation doesn’t check out.

Plus, @bytimgraham.bsky.social joins us from Buffalo to break down a must-win game against the Bills.

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Sabres bounce back with blowout win over Blackhawks. How will they respond now? The Sabres helped themselves with 9-3 drubbing of the Blackhawks, but the challenge now for them is handling it the right way.

The Sabres responded to an embarrassing loss to the Flames with a blowout win over the Blackhawks. The real test, though, is how they respond to this win. That and other thoughts on an entertaining night of hockey in Buffalo

Texans hit Josh Allen 12 times, sack him 8: Why the Bills can’t protect their star QB Allen took a career-worst eight sacks as the Bills fell to a fourth loss in seven games after a gruesome display in Houston.

There are a couple maxims about wounded animals.

The first claims how dangerous they are. The other pertains to how quickly predators will sniff them out for the kill.

In the span of five days, we saw a desperate Josh Allen thrive and then get slaughtered.

Josh Allen, Bills left wounded and looking vulnerable after Texans mauling Allen took a career-worst eight sacks as the Bills fell to a fourth loss in seven games after a gruesome display in Houston.

Dion Dawkins is right. This is a game of inches.

It’s also a game of bruises, and his quarterback collected a bunch.

Josh Allen, Bills left wounded and looking vulnerable after Texans mauling Allen took a career-worst eight sacks as the Bills fell to a fourth loss in seven games after a gruesome display in Houston.

The last time a Bills quarterback lost so many yards on sacks was 1984.

Before that? You must go back to the LBJ administration.

Josh Allen, Bills left wounded and looking vulnerable after Texans mauling Allen took a career-worst eight sacks as the Bills fell to a fourth loss in seven games after a gruesome display in Houston.

Dion Dawkins is right. This is a game of inches.

It’s also a game of bruises, and his quarterback collected a bunch.

Sabres’ ‘soft’ and ‘casual’ loss to last-place Flames another red flag: 4 thoughts "We didn't control things that were within our control tonight, and that's puck battles and intensity," Tage Thompson said.

The Sabres were “soft” and “casual” in a 6-2 loss to the last place Flames. Games like that make it difficult to take them seriously as anything more than a playoff outsider. That and other thoughts from familiar and predictable loss:

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Florida nonprofit news reporters ask board to investigate their editor’s AI use Suncoast Searchlight’s four reporters told the board their editor-in-chief was using AI editing tools and inserting hallucinations into drafts. The next day, one of the reporters was fired.

Last week, Suncoast Searchlight's four reporters wrote a letter to their board. Their editor-in-chief had secretly been using ChatGPT and inserting hallucinated quotes into their drafts.

The next day, one of those reporters was fired. My latest for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...

The value of being at the stadium It's easy to cover a game off TV. That doesn't mean it's always best to

New at Sports Media Guy: It's easy to cover a game off TV. But there is real value in being at the stadium.

How a single paragraph in @bytimgraham.bsky.social's story teaches a valuable journalism lesson.

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