Livinginthepast

I'm glad this ahole is gone, but losing to him is even more embarrassing now.

I find it hilarious that someone else beyond me actually remembers the Eddie Robinson "get faked out of his shoes" play. What a forgettable team and era for the Bills. That play epitomized that team as the fraud joke they were. As for Obada, his whiff on Brady might be more embarrassing because Brady is 42 years old and at least Robinson was fooled by a much younger Pennington.

Ball Spotting could be easily fixed by a chip in the Ball. I dont fault the refs for not seeing it in real time when the guy jumps into the scrum. Tennis knows exactly when a ball is in or out so it should be quite easy to do this in a football if you want accuracy. The rest of the fixes are much more problematic but some are doable. NFL just has to get their heads out of their butts and stop with the excuses for incompetent officials and not implementing Tech.

When another poster mentioned this, I have to admit I had no recollection of this (like a few things pre covid) but was there even one instance where a Bills coach used this challenge? I dont remember it being used at all. I found this article but like many on the subject, they say the owners "didnt support it" but it doesn't really explain the reasoning that deeply. https://www.mlive.com/lions/2020/05/pass-interference-challenges-are-dead-for-the-2020-nfl-season.html Personally I think like some have suggested it might be better to have the officials throw a flag when in doubt and then have the booth official quickly review it to confirm the call. However the CFL have kept their rule in place and it does work, so for the NFL to claim that this kind of rule was unworkable is just stupid. Reminds me of the old days when the CFL allowed 2pt convert attempts yet the NFL resisted it as if it was some sort of outlandish idea

Make PI a coaches challenge. It works in the CFL and is limited to once a game if you have a timeout. Had the Bills had any timeouts they could have challenged the endzone pass play. But the Big time NFL cant possibly poach a good idea from the two bit CFL can they?

Yes thats a good question. Unfortunately as I said an offensive player has to embellish a hold just to get the officials to notice. And even then they dont seem to notice!

Bills players need to do what soccer players do looking for a penalty in the box. They need to feel the hold or the interference which is definitely there (Obviously a lot more times than it is called ) then collapse like they have been hit by a sniper. They need to literally oversell the foul. Otherwise these idiot officials, who in some cases are staring right at the illegal contact or hold, wont get the message. It seems like cheating or faking but if Diggs had done that in the OT on the 3rd down play where he was held by the jersey, we would have got that foul called and the drive would have continued. The play near the end of regulation I think he did enough to get the officials attention but they STILL didnt call it.

I agree. I saw a several ghosts of Bills teams past in last nights game. It was very SBesque in parts of the game. Unfortunately the huge gut punch as we lost in tragic fashion was all to familiar. My wife questions why I dont get a new team (after 40 years of heartbreak).

This game in the first half reminded me of the 2nd SB vs the Skins and the 3rd SB vs Dallas. We were getting blown out, dominated and playing scared and nervous. All of course on national TV. The 2nd half was a bit reminiscent of the 1st SB vs the Giants and unfortunately just like in that game we should have scored a TD at the end to win it but failed. Year after year this damn team rips my heart out. Can the football gods throw us bone for once?!!

You are absolutely right. If The DB doesnt look its PI, However, Why is the NFL's new interpretation of appropriate pass defense seem to be you can smother a receiver and have you hands all over him as long as you are looking at the ball. In years past its PI all day long.

Diggs was literally held by the jersey on that play in OT. Watch the replay. The holding was clear and obvious

Diggs was interfered with on the last play before the tying FG and then held on the incomplete pass in OT. TOTAL BS officiating. I swear on the overhead view that the TB Rb didnt make that first down on the run either.

No thats not even close to what happened. Jackson just dropped it

OMG jackson you choked any possibility away

Where was that offense and that anger in the first half?

Chance for a pick 6 and maybe a route back into the game and they do their best hot potato with the ball!

Im so sick and tired of 20 years of not just losing to Brady but being Bradys Bit*h.

How do you give up a floater pass like that off the back foot?!! You had 3 seconds of that pass in the air!!

One of Josh's worst throws of the season at a killer bad time

Obada? Just BAD a

Bills are playing scared. Their offense game plan is easy to stop with no run possibility and the OLine is getting embarassed. Maybe Daboll the genius can do a screen or a draw play? to break up the predictable offense.

WOW that is crap

No only can we not run but Daboll apparently cant protect Josh with a quick release play on pass plays so he gets killed .

People talk about a team having "statement wins" The Bills did that against KC this year. Conversely though the loss to the trainwreck Jags is a "statement LOSS". A perfect combination of McD not having his team ready for the Jags, the Bills offense taking the Jags lightly and some freakish bad luck. Did the Bills talk smack about the Jags the week before? Because it sure seemed like the team was motivated to defeat the Bills. I still cant get my head around the fact that despite all I just mentioned, that the Bills still lost. The Jags look like a really badly coached team who cannot stand their coach (who just looks and acts like he doesnt want to be there).

That is very sad news. Tasker is right, Pike would blow people up on the Special teams. Damn that whole era of the 90s Bills right up to the playoff loss to Tennessee was filled with great players but also a huge supporting cast of talent and interesting characters like Pike. It makes our current squad of Bills look pretty vanilla.