A chronicle of the season · Anno 2026
“Young And Unafraid”
This house is young — it did not exist until 2002 — and its wound is correspondingly modern: it has never reached a conference championship. Not once. Two divisional-round exits in a row, the most recent a 28–16 defeat in New England, is the ceiling as currently constructed.
There is no ancient grief here. Just a house that keeps arriving at the same door and finding it locked.
C.J. Stroud. Composed beyond his years since the day he arrived, and now past the stage where composure is remarkable on its own. This is the season he is asked to be more than promising.
Anderson extended, Danielle Hunter and Ed Ingram added, Montgomery traded for, Tytus Howard sent to Cleveland. A house spending heavily on being difficult to play against.
A conference championship. It is genuinely the only thing left on the list.
Josh Allen had never won in this building. He won it with a minute and a half left, and then his Watch ended the argument by force.
The line you say tomorrow“Houston had the ball and the lead, and Buffalo simply took it out of C.J. Stroud's hands.”