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The NFL media machine is so week-to-week that they might be diagnosed with retrograde amnesia.

Everyone knows what reasonable criticism looks like. But for Josh it has gone beyond that for 4 years.

Haters seize on every opportunity. They still haven't let go of Rosen.

The reason I don't get you is that we seem to be living in two different worlds. In my world, there has been a 100 year history (at least) of rigging games in baseball (Black Sox), basketball (see indicted ref), NFL (see Frontline documentary, hell look at Rooney and Mara bookie family history), Soccer, Boxing, Horse Racing, etc etc etc. I mean, just look at this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_match-fixing_incidents So I understand someone coming from a place of "yes, this stuff exists, but it seems to be rogue and I have trouble accepting it at large scale". That's fine. That's understandable. But this extraordinary arrogance of "tin foil hat brigade"? Insulting people who are bringing up questions after a very questionable game. If I was a dime store psychologist, I would start wondering why YOU are acting so strange and hanging around this thread and keeping it alive. To add to this, look at the Wiki article. Look how much match fixing has been exposed in the last 20 years! This isn't some relic of the past. It's human nature and greed.

They'll explain it away. Nudging is a great word for it. Subtle manipulation. You can spot it when you know to look for it. Refs are like conductors or puppet masters, they are subtly controlling the game and can help and hurt both sides depending on how exciting they want to keep the game. I think they were happy with a TB blowout, but when they saw Buffalo mount a comeback they stopped throwing flags until it got too close. They must have got word from NY to let them come back to make the game more exciting, and it was. Of course, it got too close for comfort and that's where all these terrible calls came to light. Amazing number of fans starting to wake up to game scripting. Two years ago a thread like this would've been closed after 3 pages.

Insult then plays the "bigger man" card. Weak. Put your money where your mouth is.

If they had an example in the dictionary for revisionist history, it would be this sentence.

You bring up a good point. Maybe we should.

Didn't know about Tom Brady Sr. How in the world is he worth $3B and that is never talked about and literally zero mainstream articles are written about it? Insane. Even in his pictures, the father has that Bob Kraft billionaire vibe.

Go back to the Jets board.

You're a good poster, but you appear to be naive when it comes to certain things.

Wake everyone up, and then, slowly, stop watching. When you wake up, it takes a long time to lose the emotional attachment. There's all the stages of grief. But slowly, you start to detach and care less and less.

How rigged is it?

He never did have a feel for the moment. He's always in his own head.

You feel like a bigger man now?

The amount of energy expanded on every critical play during an NFL game is absolutely enormous. For penalties to eliminate good plays and/or non-calls on obvious penalties is incredibly difficult to overcome. The Bills overcame it anyway but the refs and NY made sure their hero Brady won in the end. Those fans that act tough by saying the Bills didn't do enough are unfathomably foolish. It was a Herculean effort that was taken away from them.

Stockholm syndrome.

This city is not tough. Just more Bills mafia pandering.

The fan polls didn't include bucs-pats as an option. So we don't know. You have to be naive to the point of being a dunce. After what happened in the NBA and Soccer, fans should just ASSUME it's rigged after every bad call.

Has there ever been a "Pats cheating" post on this board that hasn't been downvoted by some "Bills fan"? Weird. Nothing gets some fans out and about like defending the Pats or reminding Bills fans that we are not and never will be good enough. Stockholm syndrome? Fake fans? Addiction to suffering? "Realists"? Haha

I hear you. I just believe that you don't mess with great chemistry by letting outsiders in at the top. Great culture is rarer than high level consultants. We should give more time to the guys who did the impossible and got us there to figure it out. Once it's clear they can't do it, then you make a move. I don't think we're there yet, or even close for that matter. As Steve Jobs once said "Oh you're consultants? You guys should go and do something."

Business guy here. I think we're about a year away from knowing. Just because a CEO has never made it to these heights before, does not mean that they can't have a learning curve to adjust to the new environment. Some of them don't have what it takes to make it at the higher level, but some just need some time to learn. As for the Colts game, we were missing Star, Edmunds, and Brown. That's a big loss going up against a run-heavy team. And consultant. That could backfire more than it helps. We have a great culture here. Rare culture. Unlikely you can find a consultant that wouldn't mess that up while improving whatever is wrong (if there is anything wrong).

There's a percentage of posters here that feel a negative feeling, and then come up with the logic second. They'll just move the goalposts now that you've caught them in a logical trap. It's not about actual reality. It's about twisting reality to fit their pessimism.

I assure you that it smelled like he routinely carries 3.5 lbs of weed in his car. If it was a minor smell of weed it would have barely been a conversation point.