Livinginthepast

They review most plays automatically in College football already and the games are normal length.

This is exactly what should happen. All the plays should be reviewed real time by a guy in the booth who is part of the referee's team. The refs in the past few years have screwed up over and over again. The standard of officiating is just not good enough. They need a keen set of eyes up in the booth on every play and not this nonsense of a coach needing to challenge ! The rules need to be clarified to all the refs and training should be improved. They also need some accountability when issues happen,

The Pats lose so rarely but when they do I cherish the moment! No ref to save them on that run!

Why is it so hard for Rex to understand that the refs in this league may be the worst in professional sports? Its been years of this incompetence and this year has been particularly bad. So if that is the case it makes having a spotter in the booth ultra important for watching replays so we can challenge. Not only that he needs his players to understand that if a call looked questionable they need to make a point of telling him clearly to challenge. He also should be getting players to take a knee or stay down feigning injury on plays like that to get some extra time for the spotter to review the replay. Either way Rex's explanation was his Gomer "he's a punt catcher" moment. At least Wade had the excuse of no headset (bad as it was). Who is Rex talking to if it isn't a spotter?

Why arent we running hitch screens like the Pats do? why dont we do reverses? like ever? I would love to see Sammy on a reverse!

Its not unusual to have Chaplain, esp in the NFL. so many of these players are major holy rollers. However whispering in Rex's ear like wormtongue in the Lotr? What does the shaman know about football or if the player caught the ball or anything? Totally embarassing!!

Thigpen was decent and had a great TD on a PR last year. When Thigpen was in the CFL he a had a bunch of TDs on PRs but yet after all that the Bills jettison him? Why? Why is he not at least on the practice squad? Did he fumble as much as Leodis? Cant remember! So what gives here?

Why did they get rid of Thigpen?

That crew couldn't do anything right. They botched every situation. I am surprised that they didn't wear their uniforms inside out or put their underwear on over their pants. Totally unacceptable. The Bills and Pats should be complaining to the league office about these boneheads!

I reviewed this play over and over on my DVR in slow mo. The ref that calls the holding was at the top of the screen. He calls the holding on Graham? even though he is obscured by Gronk. If you watch it Gronk doesn't seem to be held because he moves at regular speed on his route. In addition he throws the flag real early even though the "contact" (whatever it is) is within 5yds. It was a really chincy call. Graham doesn't impede Gronk at all. And they didn't show a clear replay of it at the time. Even though it was a huge play for the Bills D!

One of the most incompetent attempts at officiating I have seen in 36 years of watching football. What followed though was even more bizarre, They screwed up and then tried to make it right by saying the whistle blew when the ball was caught. Total BS then the penalty on Rex for what exactly? Ridiculous amateur garbage!!!

This is the problem. QBs today don't have either the confidence or intelligence to think on their feet. If the headset signals get fouled up they are helpless. Taylor should have just gone with his gut on that play. If he screwed up then own the mistake. Instead he looks to the sideline and time is wasted lip reading. Can you imagine Kelly, Montana, Bradshaw or Staubach doing that? They were leaders that thought on their feet. The OCs are not on the field. They don't even appear to be intelligent in their play choices. Its so stupid. The technology has made the QBs completely dependent.

How do these guys get jobs as OCs over and over? You dont hand it off 5yds back to try and gain 1yd!! Bring in someone else to do a sneak if you are worried about Tyrod but for FFS do a sneak!!

I watched the so called "holding" over and over again on that play. There wasnt any at all. Of course it was a huge play and MNF didnt show any replay. The refs were amateurish tonight. It was really embarrassing.

Big game players rise to the occassion. Leodis is a big game choker. He has proved it way too many times.

I was debating this with a friend. Is the Pats dubious victory last night going to be a wake up call for them not to get complacent or will it further galvanize their invincibility complex in their minds and leave them open to an upset? I hate them so much that I cannot sort out which might have been better for us. I still hate to see the Giants play a pretty solid game and the Pats still win with their usual BS luck and help from he refs! But will the game last night alter anything with the Pats about their prep for us? Can we exploit anything ? Coughlin seems to always have the Giants prepared for the Pats, can Rex study his gameplan?

Why have we played KC so often in the last 5 years?

I will say this . If OBJ pulls the ball into his chest we are not having this discussion. Why in the hell the bonehead decides to hold it out after the catch is the most mystifying part of the sequence. Great talent but not the sharpest knife in the drawer!

The Mike Pereira comment is hilariously stupid. "He has to maintain control of the ball long enough to become a runner after getting the second foot down". No he f'ing doesn't! The catch is made, the feet are down, he's in the end zone. The play is over! TD!! How many years of the NFL's history would this have been a TD and now because of idiots in the league office it isn't? The stupidity of the rule is breathtaking, just like the tuck rule.

I dont think that play was an INT but Beckham's was a TD. He caught the Ball touched the two feet in bounds because he is in the end zone its an instant TD. However the NFL rules are plain stupid. You saw it with the playoffs last year. So whatever illogical BS the refs want to cite from the rule book to explain how a catch isn't a catch doesn't make it not a catch I the real world. Heres another thing, if that was Brady to Gronk and the same things happen. Do you think theres a snowflakes chance in hell they overturn the TD call?? Total BS!!

Fitzpatrick looks worse than I have ever seen him. No touch whatsoever!

I live in Southern Ontario and watch a ton of CFL as well as NFL games. One rule innovation from 2014 season that seems to work is that pass interference is a challengeable penalty in the CFL. Coaches can challenge a bad pass interference call as well as challenge that a call should have been made but wasn't. At first I thought it wouldn't work and sometimes even upon review the refs and the command centre don't get it right but most of the time bad calls are overturned and bad non calls are instigated. It works and if the NFL didn't have its heads so far up its posteriors in regards to how to run the game they should be considering it as well!!. A rule change like this would have overturned that horrendous call on Robey.

That might be the worst phantom call I have ever seen in any NFL game!! Of course it goes against us!

Why in the hell do you run a pass on 4th and 1 with EJ? Pure stupidity.

Colts and Luck look awful last week and last night. In addition they looked terrible in the AFC championship game. I still give the Bills full value for the win and their game plan in wk1.