CodeMonkey

It would be too difficult to "rig" games and have it not leak. But there are more than a few NFL fans, not just squealer fans, who firmly believe the NFL wanted Chiefs + Swift vs Bills who point to the 2nd half of todays game officiating as proof. I am by no means a conspiracy theory person, but they did get some help today. It does help my world domination plan. Swift comes to Buffalo and falls in love with the city and its people. Meets T Pegula and buys both the Sabres and Bills so Terry can spend all his time with his wife. Hands of gold Swift brings the cup and superbowl to Buffalo!

Exactly, particularly when they lose.

More unsafe to play in 100+ degree heat with the direct sunlight on the players bench.

I know, too bad so sad fish fans. But just goes to show perspective can be a funny thing.

Just answer me one question. How could it be scripted? Who is scripting it, who is benefiting? And how are they doing it with no leaks. For it to be scripted at a conspiracy theory level, there would need to be a LOT of people involved. No one gets mad and blabs? No whistleblower gets approached and leaks? Come on man. Bad calls happen because the NFL rules are too anal retentive and abstract to be enforceable. That's what you are seeing as scripted. It's the same old "the refs hate the Bills" being the reason they sucked for so long.

A routine catch and terrible tackling makes play of the year over there, awesome 😂

My wife got 2 of these from one of our sons ...

Hamlin, IMO, is on the roster for the public relations bonus to the team. Or, to avoid the PR fiasco if they had cut him. But based on the CPOY definition... "shows perseverance in overcoming adversity, in the form of not being in the NFL the previous year, a severe injury, or simply poor performance." ... he probably deserves to be considered. However it also says "who overcomes adversity to return to remarkable performance" There has been no performance really, much less a remarkable one. Hamlin will win because it is a very feel good story that the NFL loves to put forward to the public.

It's the NFL as always making the money grab, they made the deal with Peacock. The one and only thing they care about the fans is how deep their pockets are. No you won't

3 hours to kickoff, pace yourself my friend

Hopefully she made a 5pm reservation.

Yeah a lot do and more will follow because it works, unfortunately.

I expect it when mediocre players do it. It bothers me a lot when very talented players do it. And Josh not only does it all the time, but gets demonstrative to the officials claiming a hit to the head for example when it wasn't even close like Sunday. The only way to get rid of it I think is for booth reviews of all head contact and if its a flop, penalize and fine the flopper. It shouldn't take long. The Sunday flop would have taken < 30 seconds to review and reverse. Like the OP, it bothers me so much because Josh is so talented. And it cheapens his talent IMO.

Bills can only control their own games. They won what on paper were the hard games. Just win baby.

What else ya got

Amen to that. The Bills could not have asked for a better weekend.

Smartest post in this thread.

Yup. 11 times in about 208 games (unless my math is off). And what, say 120 snaps per game maybe. So 11 times in about 24,960 snaps. But how many times did someone actually line up Offside, no way to tell that I know of. [Why does this board capitalize the O in Offside for me )

D1 athletes take classes on how to deal with press and interviews. So certainly possible. But across the entire team the support for McD has been universal as witnessed with the 9/11 thing.

Agreed. But they should probably be consistent about it. Make it always be the players responsibility for the legality of the formation as well as offside. Take away the warning/asking completely. And, of course, call it every time it happens.

Glad you had a great time. From what I hear, most stadiums/cities are that way and the fans treat it like entertainment, not life and death. With only a few exceptions.

In one of those "parallel universe" theoretical discussions, what would the reaction be here if it was the Bills called for that offside on a TD scoring play late in the game? Josh would have kept his cool, McD probably as well. Better than KC handled it. Yeah Josh said when he saw the flag he figured it was on the Bills as that just isn't called. But fortunately is was called.

I get it. Has anyone ever seen offside called on the offense? I don't remember ever. No one I know remembers one either. He was clearly offside, no one can refute that. But no warning at that point of the game is inexcusable. I get why he blew up and why both Mahomes and Reid made (the likely expensive) comments they both made after the game. There are many reasons for the extremely poor officiating this year. But lucky for the Bills (and by extension us ) that one got them the W and kept the playoff hopes alive.

Has been the dream of the more-money NFL for quite a while now. There just isn't much interest outside of the US except with displaced Americans. Tackle football is just a curiosity at best outside the US and Canada. The NFL keeps trying to change that like FIFA is trying to make football (soccer) popular in the US. Neither is having much success so far.

A person on my work team lives in KC and is a huge Chiefs fan. He's been telling me this week that Chiefs fans are worried about this game for 2 reasons: The Chiefs receivers have a bad case of stone hands and are dropping everything. They feel this is the game where the Bills look like a good team again, impress everyone with a win ... then lose out the remainder of the season. I hope its true for this week, we can deal with the rest of the season after Sunday