Perry Turtle

Let him walk. There is no reason to pay a CB top dollar in a cover 2 scheme, which the Bills play. Spend that money on the defensive line.

Cousins, Smith, Bradford are all a waste of time and money. The Bills need to draft a QB and start him his rookie year like the Eagles did with Wentz, the Cowboys did with Prescott, the Raiders did with Carr, and the Rams did with Goff (after initially wasting time on Keenum). Buffalo has too many holes in the lineup to fill to waste a large amount of cap dollars on a caretaker QB who will keep them at 8-8. There are a few potential franchise QBs prospects in the draft. The Bills have the draft ammo to get one of those guys. After cutting Taylor, the Bills won't be on the hook for a huge QB contract; they could use that money to build around their young QB, like the Rams, Raiders, and Eagles did the last couple of seasons. And if the rookie QB doesn't pan out, at least the Bills will be able to recognize the mistake quickly and take action to fix it the next season.

The backup RB position has been bungled all season. It's not difficult to find a backup RB in the NFL, which makes the Bills handling of the position malpractice on the part of the GM and coaches. Imagine if the Bills had drafted their franchise QB their season; how would you feel watching him run open sets with Tolbert in the slot? Would you believe that would be an example of setting up a young QB for success. And if this was a "process" decision, I want nothing to do with the process.

That's a valid perception. You'd think that after 7 years of this nonsense they would do something to fix it.

"Survive the ground" has no real definition and is subjective. That's the problem.

Here's the problem, at what point do you "land." When your knee hits the ground? Elbow? Shoulder? Face? When does the process of the catch end for a player hitting the turf? A player with the ball in his hands on his knees isn't considered "landed?" It's a poorly written rule that is poorly applied.

The pass was desperate because when it was snapped it had no chance of working. The confusion on the play call, NE with DBs hanging out in the endzone, again, no chance. As for the call, my position is that the catch process was complete when James knee was on the ground. After that he was a runner who broke the plane of the goal line.

The desperation call after the Refs stole a TD from the Steelers? Yeah that was a bad play call. The NFL coaching ranks are made up of 31 idiots and one idiot savant.

Okay, then I'll pull Kraft's press conference about Goodell's ruling. By the way, the Steelers lost on a crap call today.

I agree with you wholeheartedly. The reason why receivers don't hold the ball all the way through is because they're trying to make football moves, not trying to fulfill some byzantine rule set defined by confused committee.

Right, and Pats fans NEVER whine. Brady DESERVED that suspension last season because Goodell as completely within his power to suspend him, and the evidence that the NFL collected showed without a shadow of a doubt that the Pats tampered with game balls. I'm sure that Pats fans were completely fine with that ruling and accepted it all without complaint.

He did. Tomlin didn't want to argue it in the media, but it's obvious he sees it for what it is, a bullcrap call.

When he has possession of the ball and his knee is on the ground he is ALL THE WAY TO THE GROUND. If he's touched there, the play would be over and the ball spotted inside the one. Any other definition of 'all the way to the ground' beyond the standard rule of knee, elbow, backside is subjective. You can't have a different definition of being on the ground for a tackle and a catch. Crap call.

Both his knee and elbow hit the ground before the ball shifts, after breaking the plane. Total crap call.

In 2010 the NFL referee made a horrible call on Calvin Johnson's TD that wasn't. The NFL has spent the last seven years creating the most obtuse rules in sport to define what a catch is to justify that horrible Calvin Johnson call. For every other play in football, a player is defined to be on the ground when a knee hits the ground, or an elbow, or a player's backside. That goes for tackles, plays on the sideline, fair catches. It's for everything but a catch, because as we saw today, a player had the ball in both hands, with a knee on the ground was not considered to have taken the catch "to the ground." Easy fix here is to say if a player has possession of the ball, and a knee, elbow, or rump hits the ground, whether the player is contacted or not, the catch is considered to be "taken to the ground." It's common sense that would remove the air of corruption that stinks up the league today.

HE WAS ALREADY ON THE GROUND. The first few replays on the broadcast showed focused on that his knee was on the ground SHORT of the goaline, but was not touched. He had possession of the ball, short of the goaline and then extended the ball. This. Was. A. Crap. Call.

The ground never helped him CONTROL the ball. He had control of the ball when he move the ball to his body and then extended it to break the plan of the goal line, (with a knee on the ground). The ball shifted after it broke the goal line.

He had a knee ON THE GROUND with the ball IN BOTH HANDS. He then extended the ball and broke the plane, and the ball "hit the ground." Bullcrap rule, bullcrap call, bullcrap league.

Stretching out to score is a "football move." Or it's not, based on the officiating crew, the team playing, the time left in the game, or the weather. That's the problem. There's no definition for a "football move," which determines possession.

The problem is that there are two rules for crossing the goal line based on a run or pass and the idiots and morons who run the league have never fixed it.

The problem is that the "complete the process of the catch" is an ill-defined crap rule. The guy moved the ball into his body, extended forward, but didn't have control or possession? It's ridiculous. That was a catch, he had possession before he extended his hands. Fans pay to see plays like this. They don't pay to watch 70 year old accountants in stripped shirts squinting at a replay over and over, trying to find a slight error to get their big moment to overturn a play made by a real athlete. And despite the total BS this rule has called in the past, the ivory-tower executives have done nothing to fix it. Screw the NFL, if you give reason to believe that your league is corrupt, people are going to believe that it is corrupt.

This is the most over-officiated crap league in the world. Why let the talent of the athletes determine the winner of the game, when you can rely on a pencil-necked 70 year old geek with a tablet to figure out the winner.

The guy who is not injured will start, so Joe Webb.

McDermott the fraud. Just another clueless loser in a long line of them as Bills coaches.

That's because Belichick coaches to win Super Bowls and other coaches coach to teach after-school-special lessons. When Carr lights up the Chiefs secondary Sunday, and the Chiefs lose, continuing their season ending death spiral, at least they'll know that leaving the field during a game is wrong, and knowing is half the battle.