Dan

Regardless of how they buy or when they buy, it was pretty sickening to to hear the Duece calls every time he ran the ball. I expected to see a rabid Bills team fueled by an insane home crowd with pandemonium running rampant as we stampeeded into the playoffs. Instead, the team looked flat, and the Steeler crowd seemed to cheer louder from the get go. If I didn't know better I would have thought the Steelers were the team trying to make the playoffs and the Bills were just there going through the motions because they had it locked up. I guess that's what troubles me the most about this loss.

The decision to kick wasn't bad. It's the safe thing to do. However, I think that was the flaw in the entire gameplan. We won 6 in a row by not being safe - we took chances, threw a few long passes, blitzed like crazy, ran trick plays. Where was all that yesterday? In my opinion, the game plan was too vanilla, too safe from the start. Am I wrong, but from my living room we looked flat and uninspired. It just didn't look like the sameteam that I had seen the last few weeks.