D. L. Hot-Flamethrower

WOW!!!!

LOL that's pretty much the NFL talking isn't it.

They will not be getting anymore money from me.

Something smells over at PFF! Baltimore number one overall (is Mel Kiper doing the ratings!), Pats offense a minus 11 and tenth overall, Cardinals 27th in the league for the whole season etc. I tallied up the overall offense,defense and special teams to get a total team rating. Team OFF DEF ST TEAM Baltimore Ravens 60.6 62.9 33.3 156.8 Denver Broncos 41.7 93.5 -14.1 121.1 Philadelphia Eagles 6.0 69.2 40.1 115.3 Dallas Cowboys 62.5 -5.5 20.0 77.0 Green Bay Packers 67.0 -1.7 3.1 68.4 Indianapolis Colts 11.8 -25.0 72.4 59.2 Detroit Lions -53.1 77.8 24.9 49.6 San Francisco 49ers -25.3 71.8 1.7 48.2 Seattle Seahawks -10.3 30.2 15.4 35.3 New England Patriots -15.2 33.7 -4.0 14.5 Miami Dolphins -56.6 64.6 3.2 11.2 Pittsburgh Steelers 45.9 -20.9 -17.0 8.0 Cleveland Browns 2.8 11.5 -7.6 6.7 Kansas City Chiefs -64.8 27.6 31.8 -5.4 Buffalo Bills -111.7 83.3 16.6 -11.8 St. Louis Rams -80.0 11.0 43.6 -25.4 Cincinnati Bengals 12.8 -67.6 19.3 -35.5 New Orleans Saints 7.7 -75.5 30.5 -37.3 Houston Texans -34.9 2.0 -7.0 -39.9 Minnesota Vikings -74.7 44.7 -21.4 -51.4 Chicago Bears -46.2 4.2 -17.5 -59.5 N.Y. Giants -56.6 -10.0 -0.9 -67.5 N.Y. Jets -111.5 40.1 -4.1 -75.5 Atlanta Falcons -50.2 -48.2 20.6 -77.8 San Diego Chargers -69.5 -21.1 7.4 -83.2 Carolina Panthers -88.3 -30.3 9.6 -109.0 Arizona Cardinals -97.8 -5.8 -13.2 -116.8 Washington Redskins -57.0 -69.1 -10.4 -136.5 Tennessee Titans -84.0 -58.7 -16.0 -158.7 Tampa Bay Buccaneers -105.7 -50.0 -31.3 -187.0 Oakland Raiders -128.7 -42.8 -18.6 -190.1 Jacksonville Jaguars -125.6 -59.5 -12.8 -197.9

I bet Mike Carey gets a call from the NFL of Russia and is told to tone it down....or else they'll release those pictures of him to the media!

Agreed this is an enormous issue and needs immediate action.

I have been saying all year the league needs to do something about the rules and officiating. After watching college one day and then the NFL, it is apparent that the games are becoming unwatchable and downright random. They are going to drive fans away from the game. There was no need to change the emphasis heading into this season on illegal contact. The game had plenty of scoring an offense.

Thank you for this. I wish some on this board would just thankful for what we got in the draft.

The Bills schedule according to SRS over at PFR is +1.4 the Browns -3.7. Yes a 5 point plus edge supports Bills schedule being tougher!!!

All the power ratings I have seen point to the Bills as the better team clearly.

One of the best, most simple, intelligent posts I've seem in awhile. Agree wholeheartedly! The Bills have one of the toughest remaining schedules, only SD is tougher. So the sentiment seems to be they go 7-9/8-8 tops. I'm wondering, and I have no evidence other than I think they have pretty unfortunate a couple times, if they don't finish stronger than many think. The past week may have created a rallying cry and another solid win this week could get the train rolling. Even a competitive loss at Denver, followed by beating Oakland, should give them momentum coming home to play Green Bay. Barring a complete disaster I don't think Marrone is fired.

There are 2 keys in mind to this game. Avoiding turnovers on offense, they have created a fair amount this year- I believe 20 if memory serves me. And, secondly not giving up the big play in the passing game. They are number 1 at 14.0 YPC and now have Gordon back. We do these two things and we win IMO.

Bills schedule has been a lot tougher than Browns for sure.

I don't know what evidence there is for Florio to say the Browns are the better team other than a one game advantage in the standing. Would hope he was a little deeper than that.

I don't need to apologize. But have noticed the improved play almost since the beginning. Kudos to the Bills for identifying an area of needed improvement and addressing it with better players.

What QB can't you say that about. If he plays well we win.

Rest is highly underrated!!!!!

Well that was fun!!!!!!!

Like we can't read about this decision in the papers.

Its not the player's job to take matters into his own hands!

I am a subscriber to PFF, first time this year. And, I'll tell you what Im pretty disappointed, there is an awful lot that makes no sense. Your view of those sites getting a bad rap because the Bills stats aren't great is a bunch of malarkey. FO and others have had the Bills ranked very appropriately and well at times this season. Like top 10, and it matched up pretty well with what you see. I leave you with, the Bills are 5-5 not 1-9 or 0-10. Im sick and tired of some of the negative extremism on this site. People B word about drinking Bills cool aid and good teams can win no matter what the refs call. Some are just trolling and trying to cause a stir, probably. But, every now and then its nice to have a little objectivity. Try it sometime.

Agreed!!!!!!!

We don't do it. But Ive noticed teams creating penalties with their passing games this season. Now thats entertainment.LOL

I believe the biggest problem is the rule book and the emphasis the league has placed on certain things. It leads to inconsistency and undue influence on the outcome of games.

I disagree with the notion we sucked the whole game and therefore deserved to get the game influenced by poor officiating. A 10-9 game where that safety call was made that was bad, followed by a ****ty PI call that lead to 7 pts and a 10 point deficit completely changed everything that happened afterward.