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That was the correct call , otten didn't have control of the ball at the point the knee was down

Canada was terrible in Pittsburgh so I'd want nothing to do with him.

OMG! Never saw that. Hysterical and spot on. Thanks, made my day.

A shame they won't be out longer

Honestly, it was a whole series of things, not just one thing. I actually think our Offensive Line has been very overrated. They absolutely stunk on Thursday. All five of them.

Lowe was awful last year, yesterday he wasn’t awful but I think him being in sped up Maye clock in his head.. I was expecting injuries rather it was elsewhere lol

It's not that he can't do it, he just doesn't like to do it Like you can tell the games/stretches where he does his homework and the ones he doesn’t. The start of the 2024 season predictably was a trainwreck in large part due to his postseason "I'm the best athlete in the world/I'm not much of a film guy" arc Still obviously an amazing quarterback but he has yet to come around to WANTING to kill teams with homework, and it does limit our offensive options to an extent

That's a very fair question. I'm not sure I can answer it well, but I'll try. To me it is the constant negativity, that all is lost and there is no hope. Constant bashing of Beane and McDermott as being incompetent fools who should be working at Walmart when they took a disaster of a team in 2016 and turned it into a franchise that is thoroughly respected, gets teams up to play against them(especially in the frequent prime time games we never had much of before), and have movies made about the fan base. Winning 5 Division titles in a row. Endlessly complaining about poor draft picks and taking for granted the good ones. Saying other teams are so great and we aren't-- poor little old us. There are lots of things I wish were different too. I wish we had a Chase or Higgins at WR. I wish the big decisions made to shore up the defense had not come up short because of injuries and the like. I wish there were fewer injuries overall. But it is what it is. 10 years ago we would have been thrilled to be 7-4. Now anything short of a SB appearance/win and the whole organization-- outside of basically Allen and Cook-- is entirely inept. That is whining to me, feeling sorry for yourself and endlessly talking about it. Best I can do.

Great story. Well, not great that you had to go through it, but still great. People tell me all the time that they're not concerned about the flu. I ask them if they've ever had it, and most say "I'm pretty sure I had it before." My response is always: there is no "pretty sure". If you've had it, you'll always remember it, and you'll never want to risk it again!

Bills fans sitting here complaining that we never draft WRs in the first round. Brandon Beane telling us he's never in position to draft a WR as good as Tee Higgins. Les Snead over here grabbing Cooper Kupp in the 3rd round and Puka Nacua in the 5th round. Yikes.

But do they have a Carolina Panthers retread pipeline?

Its good that some teams hold their coaches accountable for incompetence. In Brady's case though its more than just a poor offensive gameplan. He almost got Josh killed on Thursday. That combined with the ineptitude in the play calling should get him canned.

This game is kind of the season for the Steelers. They will very likely lose on the road at Detroit and Baltimore, and 9-8 will not get them in the playoffs. On the flipside, if the Bills lose yet again, they'll be 3-5 in their last 8 and 1-4 in their last four road games -- a bad sign for January even if they manage to slip in as a #7 wild card. Huge game for them too. They need to stop the bleeding and prove they can beat a team on the road not named the (now tanking) Jets or the Andy Dalton-led Panthers.

Maybe this week OBD will leak that Beane was in on Adams, Pickens and Metcalf, but they just didn’t want to come here, or some other such nonsense. The common theme is that this administration is always a day late and a dollar short when it comes to finding a force multiplier for the most talented QB in the team’s history.

The level of suckiness that can scheme a once in a generation talent under center into what we saw Thursday night almost deserves a weird kind of respect.

...again.

Mesh concepts in short yardage situations are absolute killers in Madden. Brady is 34, let us pray there is no correlation...

greetings music peeps. I just discovered something. Music releases emotional and physical changes within the human body. I have been so focused on my side hustle business that I haven't even looked into the music threads. its like my brain couldn't handle both at the same time. Maybe that makes no sense to anyone else. But the other day I saw a Neil Young clip in the shout box. It was the first music I'd listened to in months. Which brought me to the rocker chicks thread. which is where I rediscovered THIS gem. This artist is a rock shining star. Listening to it just now was a musical ***** LOL OMG I cannot stay away from music this long ever again. I just need to get my mental chit together. . Listen to the vocal intro. Concur.

The one thing that drives me nuts is how predictable our offense has become. Essentially, we are relying on our OL to win up front every game or we are doomed. It's too much 1-1, mesh concepts, lack of intermediate passing killing us right now. Brady and Kromer do a good job in the run game, but we "go the well" way too often with Hawes in motion and run the counter with James Cook with Gilliam lead blocking. With an offense limited with playmakers on the outside, we need to be more creative with route designs. There is only so much you can do with this group of WRs though. What has really killed our offense is the turnovers. There is a lot of blame to go around, in order IMO: 1. Beane - lack of WR talent 2. OL - they have regressed as a unit in pass blocking this season 3a. Brady/playcalling 3b. Josh - he is not playing efficient, way too many turnovers/he's not in sync right now and trusting his reads #1 is an issue every single week and no chance that gets corrected until next offseason. But it's a rotating issue with #2 and #3a/3b, that's the major difference between LY and this season in terms of production/consistency scoring. I think Joe Brady is the definition of an avg o-coordinator in the NFL --- very good run attack / slightly below avg to avg passing game. To me, that's not ideal but we can win despite that and be dangerous on offense this season still if the OL steps up like LY and Josh gets back to playing mistake-free ball.

Or Joe Burrow, for that matter. Josh is elite at many things, but the presnap part of playing QB is not one of them.

I was working at the Stadium at that time. On the Wednesday following that Pittsburgh game, Bruce came to the stadium to pick up his paycheck. He literally looked pale. Not meant as a joke or anything. He didn't look good at all.

This was a joke of a call, the TB player had a knee down with the ball in his arms. That should have been the end of it. The mistake he made was reaching forward with his arms out which made the ripping out by the defender possible. But the play was dead. As you said called different ways by different crews.

Ed Oliver is an undersized DT. If he was bigger, is he arm tackling in that situation? It’s bad luck, yes, but sometimes you make your own luck. I don’t see too many other teams constantly dealing with injuries to their best DT. Michael Hoecht, we signed knowing he was on a PED suspension. Bad luck, maybe.. also PED’s are known to lead to more tendon injuries like popping an Achilles. Landon Jackson, bad luck again .. he also has an extensive injury history. No reason to think that will change. Terrell Bernard, undersized, hurt all year.. forced to sit probably a blessing in disguise. Joey Bosa, constant soft tissue injury history. Shaq Thompson, older player coming off injury Taylor Rapp, injury history and aging player TJ Sanders missing time is something out of our control but everyone else hurt on this defense, nobody is surprised.

Part of being successful in the NFL is avoiding injuries. The Pats have been INCREDIBLY lucky on that front this season. They can cry when they lose Hunter Henry and Stefon Diggs for multiple games and Christian Barmore for the season.

I don't disagree. It implies that he's not really that interested in managing more complex protection schemes pre-snap, which is not how Manning and Brady operated.