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And has been for 2 decades! And has been for 2 decades!

Last Bills drive was pathetically planned.

Golladay looks better than any receiver we have fielded in years!

I think Gregg deserves a shot next year. He has at least got the best out of that team. He still seems the total dbag he was here years ago. I love his new hipster glasses BTW! When he made that time out call just as the Broncos were going offside. I could not help but be reminded of all the humiliating gaffes he had here and all his blowhard bravado about the 2001 Bills "can win the SB"!

Both coaches acted like they were trying to outdo each other with stupid calls to LOSE this game.

Oh thank God, Lets get him back starting asap!! The magic of his performances must return!!

Why they haven't been using him regularly in this role is beyond me. He is very good at short passes and YAC and even has the hands for a medium pass attempt. With all the frustration that the Bills and McCoy have experienced with the run game and the Oline, you think this would have been a no brainer!

The story about 1500 fans showing up to argue on Norwood's behalf is complete BS. By that time Norwood was the scapegoat for not only the wide right SB miss but for his very shaky 1991 season. As others have posted it was the LA Raiders game in December of 1991 that finished Norwood off in the eyes of the Bills management and also the fans. In that game the Bills were in tough against a pretty solid Raiders team. All the hype the commentators were spewing was on the Raiders to win easily but it was the Bills who ended up winning on a Norwood FG right at the end of the game. The problem was that before that kick Norwood appeared to have cracked mentally and completely lost his kicking mojo. He had missed a PAT and 3 FGs. In many ways the game should have been a comfortable Bills win but Norwood's ineptness had kept it close. I can remember watching the game on TV and becoming livid with each Norwood miss. It was a small miracle that he hit the winner at the end! The writing was on the wall though after that game and a few months later he was gone for good.

The brawl was first time I have seen a Bills player (Lawson) stand up and show some fire for his team in a very long time. If you really care, check out my posts on Lawson about it right after the Jags game. I mentioned that it was like a hockey brawl back in the 80s. You clearly missed my point which is that all too often the Bills have no reaction to dirty hits by their opponents. What Lawson did was notable because it was so rare. Its exactly that kind of fire and support that the Bills should be showing regularly throughout the season!

Exactly, The Bills of recent years have been way too wimpy about backing up their own players. Jarvis Landry on Aaron Williams went completely unpunished, then Landry repeats the same dirtiness in the exhibition season this year vs the Bills and once again no retaliation. This whole year opposing players have been taking liberties against Allen and now Huasch and the Bills players either are too dense to notice, too scared or don't care. Hausch may have missed that long FG anyway, but he was sure as hell going to miss it with bruised or broken bone in his back!

LOL, Actually He looks very Robert De Niro esque in the snow pic!

Its a little like Warren Sapp's dirty blind side hit on Clifton of the Packers in 02. But this one is much worse as Anderson outweighs Hausch by about 100lbs!

Mr.X ?? LOL I love the Wikipedia entry here, it covers the Jets perfectly yesterday: "Distraction or incapacitation of the referee is usually a precursor to the villain wrestler either performing a normally illegal move without any consequence, or outside interference in the match "

Honestly that dirty hit on Hauschka was like something from classic wrestling in the 80s. Ref was distracted by something near the ropes and strangely saw nothing. You would think the league would hand out a fine today.

Actually I haven't found Schopp to be as arrogant recently, I think he has mellowed a little bit in the holier than thou category and to be fair he was right in calling out McD last year for benching Tyrod vs the Chargers for the useless NP. The person who grates me most at WGR recently is Sal C when he hosts that show on Monday morning. For some reason he reminds me of smart ass joe pesci clone when he goes off on callers really rudely when they make a nervous slip up on air. That to me is douchey.

I was thinking the same thing. I get that nobody saw the play on the Bills because it was far down the field but did the players not see Hauschka in agony on the ground? DId nobody ask what happened? Did nobody think to get a jersey number to exact some street justice? Hauschka has been incredibly important to this team in the past two years, are these Bills players too dense to realize this? It wasn't just Hauschka though, Allen was taking dirty and late hits left and right and his linemen don't seem to care .

The same crew just followed up with another doozy of a call where they called the Eagles receiver for offensive pass interference and it wiped out a TD. There was absolutely no interference at all on the play, just an imagined foul called by the back judge. Interestingly enough the same Eagles receiver who was called on the penalty was hit twice on the same play by Dbs who hit him helmet to helmet and the refs saw nothing! It just amazes me that these guys are the best they got to do this job.

Today was an example of a team that had put itself in a position to win being let down by really bad coaching decisions on all sides of the ball. Frazier is just a puppet for McD so when our defense started to sputter and break down, we needed McD to make some adjustments at half or on the fly in the 3rd and 4th. He did neither. The decision by McD for Hauschka to kick the long FG when he was obviously hurting was unforgivably stupid. Kickers are like soccer players, a small knock or Charlie horse hit or a smash to the lower back (like Hauschka got) really effects their accuracy and their execution. Should have punted. Instead we gave them the ball (yet again) in great field position.

There was no call on the initial fumble, refs didn't appear to see it. Then they looked at it on replay after Pedersen challenged. On the replay you could clearly see the fumble and the Eagles recovery. But it was the idiotic rationale for not overturning the call that really got me. Then the ref in the Fox booth also amazingly agrees with the on field ref's bizarre decision as if it was obviously correct. But I guess the refs can see better than an HD camera can!

Charles Clay was just as useless as always today. He apparently doesn't have any pride in his performance and his ego probably still believes he can do it. At least Vontae Davis had the intelligence/stupidity to know he was done and admit and quit. Clay just keeps on floating along collecting a paycheck. He hasn't stepped up his game, Why wouldn't you start a backup now or elevate someone from the practice squad? Its pointless to play Clay at all.

If you weren't convinced that the NFL officiating is the biggest joke of all the major sports. Just watch the replay of the opening kickoff in the Dallas Philli game. The Dallas returner clearly fumbles before he is down. 3 Eagles players recover the ball but because the player who recovered the ball used his legs to squeeze the ball into his possession. They GIVE THE BALL TO DALLAS. Why? because as the ref says, "there is no clear recovery on the play"!! 3 Eagles players around the ball no cowboy on the ball or contesting it and no clear recovery. Just mindboggling !

Bills defensive lineman Philipps was tackled on the Jets Td at the end there. No call of course.

Worst game in recent memory for injuries!

Time to cowboy the F up defense!!

ST's strike again!!