BRH

No doubt about that.

The Jets fans, on the other hand, were perfect gentlemen and ladies, right?

Is your friend a physician or a player?

Sssshhh....that would interfere with the meme here.

Starting to seem like it's par for the course. Stevie didn't have any trouble making it over to Northtown for that stupid ESPN segment when it was all about him getting on TV.

Costas was over the line with his editorial. As someone else pointed out, his alma mater was the biggest story of the day and he chose to bemoan the decline of sportsmanship instead of the horrors of child molestation. I didn't think there was anything in Stevie's celebration that we haven't seen before by countless look-at-me wide receivers. What I had a problem with was not the celebration but the fact that he added a component that he KNEW would draw 15 yards BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN FLAGGED FOR IT BEFORE (with the Minuteman salute in New England last year). Giving the #1 return team in the league an extra fifteen is just flat out stupid and selfish no matter how you slice it. Same thing with the drop. Guys drop balls, okay? It was unfortunate and probably karmic that he dropped this one yesterday, but what made it much worse was the fact that he threw his quarterback under the bus afterward instead of owning it. Yeah, maybe he expected a later ball with more air under it, but so what? You keep that to yourself and you own your failure. Fitz took the high road after that. Stevie could learn from him. Then again, it was the lead story in the "C'mon Man" segment on Countdown tonight.

It absolutely was foreseeable that a dumb celebration penalty would lead to a 15-yard-penalty, which in turn would lead to a decision to squib the ensuing kickoff. It was probably not foreseeable that Rayner would hit the up man square in the nuts with the ball, but you can still argue that the 15-yard penalty introduced more chance for error on the kickoff. I'm still going with proximate cause. And I forgot the Rule Against Perpetuities the day after I took the bar more than 13 years ago. I vote uncatchable as well. It was a heater too. Had he taken a little off, maybe it wouldn't have sailed. But then again maybe the defender would have closed the gap sooner. The first one in the end zone was thrown behind him. But I have seen the great ones make those catches.

Let's hope so.

I cannot get over this "miscommunication" ****. A man steps up and says "I am paid to catch the ball and I didn't." This is the same **** we heard from Ronnie Harmon -- "he threw the ball too late." Even if it was a "miscommunication," you own it. The first thing Chan should ask for tomorrow morning is his phone. Then he should hurl it against the wall and stomp on it.

Holy crap. I mean, holy crap.

Rayzer, you're a good poster and I don't think we've ever crossed like this before. I do realize Stevie is human and that humans drop footballs. I'm just saying that he doesn't need to do all the other stuff and that him doing it today very possibly cost us the game. It certainly didn't help us. As for the botched squib, humans miss kicks too. And that 53-yarder shows he's not exactly some duffer off the street, but we should have realized it last week when he kicked the longest FG ever by a Bill not named Steve Christie. A squib made football sense. He messed it up. But if hadn't been for the mental mistake by Stevie, Rayner doesn't get put in position to make a physical mistake. And mental errors are far less excusable.

You are guessing.

So he threw Stevie under the bus to protect his backup kicker?

No, he only kicked at Michigan. And nobody ever practices squib kicks. They're too fancy.

Shhh. Don't you know we don't know anything about football?

And Sanchez absolutely did miss some fourth quarter passes today, some badly enough to draw boos. The throw to Burress was a prayer and .... Burress made the play. He made another sick one earlier in the quarter too when he skied to get a high pass and somehow came down before Florence could push him out. I hate him but if we had him today, we win the game. End of story.

And you want to know who's one hell of a baller? It kills me to say this, but it's Plaxico Burress. He made THE play of the game on third and long with that circus catch and saved Sanchez's bacon. Meanwhile Fitz hits Stevie right in the f'in hands and look what happens. Ronnie Harmon time. Okay, so Chan lied when he said he called for a squib. Now we're comparing Stevie to Jerry Rice?

One hell of a baller does not drop the biggest pass of the game. It's not like he's Jackie Smith playing out the string after a HOF career. He's still trying to make a name in this league. After the drop last year and the drop today, plus the third excessive-celebration penalty in two years at critical times, it's clear he's making the wrong kind of name for himself. Shut. Up. And. Play.

This lawyer says it was the proximate cause. No stupid penalty = no attempted squib = 99% chance ball goes through end zone = much more difficult row for Jets to hoe. This is hard to understand why?

His celebration cost us 15 yards. We had no desire to kick the ball to McKnight so we called a squib. Rayner screwed up the squib and hit a Jets player. The Jets recovered and had a short field: no room for Edwards' defense to bend, so it broke. Maybe the Jets still score from their 20. Odds are pretty high that they don't..not seven, at least. We go in tied instead of up. Without Stevie's celebration, Rayner kicks it deep...the one thing we know he is capable of doing consistently. But since I don't understand a bit about football, none of the above can possibly be true.

That said, he did own up afterward and said his celebration cost us seven points and that his drop could have been a touchdown. Good for him. But why is he learning this NOW?

I love how every time a Bills fan dares to criticize a player he's accused of trying to run him out of town. Jesus christ folks. The selfish excessive celebration cost us 7 points, yes it did, and his drop at clutch time may have cost us 7 more. If he was worth two touchdowns to us with his play today, he was also worth two to the Jets. I call that a wash, and that's not what I expect from him. Although maybe I should. That's two huge drops with the game on the line in two years. And we're talking wide-open, hit-him-in-the-freaking-hands drops. Meanwhile Plaxico saves Sanchez on a terrible throw with a circus catch with the game on the line. Plax is a thug and a loudmouth....but unlike Stevie, he backs up his big talk. If Stevie's wittle feewings are hurt then too !@#$ing bad. Shut up and catch the ball next time.

New rule: anyone posting something like this has to share his stash with the rest of the room.

I think the roster broke down long before this thread started.

Except I don't think he was bracing. I think he thought he was walking in.