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  1. 3 minutes ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:

    I have to say that Knox at least redeemed himself in the second half. Had a critical 3rd and 10 conversion and drew the long PI call. I know he is the favorite whipping boy, but can he at least get half a game ball? 

     

    1st Half he had a negative ball

    2nd Half he gets one of those small children's footballs.

     

    He was a net negative but certainly tried to dig himself out of that 1st half.

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  2. 7 minutes ago, JoPoy88 said:

    No, you really don’t. You’re horrible at this compared to Bill and Shaw. 

     

    You really need to step off Mr. Gnome. Last I checked Virgil isn't holding a gun to your head and demanding you read his opinions. He isn't perfect but he gives us a great overall summary of the game each and every week and that should be appreciated and not thrown to the wolves.

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  3. 45 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

    Apparently Pete Carroll was totally prepared for the Bills running attack.

     

    :lol:

     

    Bills taking a page out of the Patriots playbook; attack the enemy's weakness regardless of the prior week.

     

    We ran 200 yards last week and every other year the Bills would of gone run heavy again after such success last week. However instead we never even thought about the run and just butchered their DBs for 4 quarters. 

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  4. D in the 1st Half

    C- in the 2nd Half

    for a D+ Overall

     

    One thing Daboll needs to make sure of is Allen having early success in the game as it seems to reverberate for the rest of the game. The 1st Drive was Allen failing then making a great throw to Brown who missed it completely. He catches that, who knows if that fixes the jitters. 

     

    Allen wasn't putting the touch on the long ball like he did in the 1st 4 games; perhaps due to the rain?

     

    He had one great drive however which was awesome. That throw to Diggs in the endzone was also spot on by both parties.

     

    I do honestly feel our defense's inability to stop opponents is psychologically effecting Allen into playing more hero ball as he feels the pressure to win games by his arm alone.

     

    Could his non-throwing shoulder be effecting some of his accuracy somehow? 

  5. 10 minutes ago, Shaw66 said:

    I said it a few weeks ago.  I expected Tre to give a hometown discount.  McDermott and Beane are selling TEAM all the time, and part of TEAM is the beat players playing for less than top dollar.  

     

     

    Best part is he didn't take a discount really. He just wanted to be the highest paid DB and Beane made said dream a reality. Tre even said he knew it wasn't going to last long but he was happy regardless. So it wasn't truly a discount but rather a great contract which was soon after hopped over by another GM

  6. I'd imagine Beane would of tossed out an offer but I highly doubt BoB wanted to trade in the Conference with the team they barely got past in the playoffs.

     

    I don't think the relationship problem would of mattered seeing as we wanted AB last year. 

     

    Hell, maybe BoB feared Gainey's knowledge being able to fleece him lol. 

  7. For those who think this happens all the time I believe you are forgetting the exact course of events. Typically, if a player tells his blockers not to worry the KR will just allow the ball to hit the ground in the endzone and bounce out. The key difference between this play and the vast majority was that he called off his blockers, never signaled a fair catch, and then caught the ball. The KR then proceeds to take two steps forward and toss the ball at the ref. 

     

    In the end the KR gave mixed signals and passed it forward which should of resulted in a Safety and Bills ball.

     

    Instead they bailed out the Texans KR thanks to "common sense" which is never used during the season as a free pass on stupidity.

  8. Just now, Aussie Joe said:


    Yeah that’s probably fair..The ref does blow his whistle in the Bengals game...but can that be reviewed though?

     

    Like I said, can we at least agree the rule is subjective and might need a tighten up?

     

    Oh certainly, they need to clean up that weird oversight but as the law states is how its supposed to be played. Why does the rules bend against us but never for us? 

     

    Whistles cannot be reviewed to my knowledge

     

     

  9. 2 minutes ago, Aussie Joe said:


    He intercepts at the 10

     

    Now that I have reviewed the play, the ref blows the play dead. You can see the ref behind the play holding his hand up with his whistle in his mouth marking the turnover's spot. 

     

    Had the endzone ref or another ref blown the play dead then this would be null and void. Since the the play was not blown dead its a live ball until a whistle blows it dead. 

     

    Hell, they could of said they had the intent to blow the play dead and that would of been the end of it. They worsened the situation by saying that after a discussion they were overturning the call on the field which was a touchdown. Not only did they give no legitimate reason for the overturn but also ignored the fact it had been ruled a TD on the field which would require a Booth Review as all scoring plays are reviewed.

  10. Just now, Aussie Joe said:


    So if he runs out the back of the end zone, isn’t that a safety and the Bills punting it back? 

    See, my take is that if you are throwing the ball to the ref, then you are “giving up”..
     

    Can we at least agree the rule seems pretty subjective and might need to be more definitive?

     

    No, he intercepted inside the endzone. As long as he doesn't leave the endzone he can go out of bounds anywhere for a touchback. If he ran it out to the 1 and then back into the endzone that would be a safety.

  11. Just now, Aussie Joe said:


    But according to Scott1975 who posted the rule, there is no giving yourself up..

     

    If he ran out the back then he cannot be anything but out of bounds for a touchback.

     

    If he lays there until an opposing player touches him its a touchback.

     

    He didn't stand up and toss the ball to the ref, he didn't run in and out of the endzone.

     

    To give up requires 1 of 3 things, a kneel down, a slide, or a refusal to get up while no one is around. A fair catch can also count in most circumstances.

     

    The Texans player did none of that, he told his blockers what he was going to do but never gave the ref any reason to rule he'd given himself up. He walked a step forward and then just tossed the ball.  

  12. It should of been a touchdown; had he not fielded the ball and waived it off then fine. But he caught it, walked forward and flipped it to the ref. That is by rule a fumble and not giving yourself up.

     

    Tre's pick in the endzone is giving yourself up. He just laid on the ground/ ran out the back. That is clear cut. There is no questioning his intention on the play as he doesn't go forward to advance the ball.

  13. 1 minute ago, Warcodered said:

     

    Aren't there 2 players between Beasley and Endzone besides his own man?

     

    Also the decision was made before Beasley got open. I don't really see it as a bad decision he thinks he has a window to get it to Brown and apparently did or he can wait longer lose that window and maybe the guy underneath gets open and has room to manage to get the 1st down.

     

    Based on the replay, Beasley could have gotten open but its hard to tell if the DB stopped due to the throwing motion or stopped for another reason. 

  14. I would retrofit the present stadium in OP. Mainly for two reasons, cost and infrastructure.

     

    It wouldn't be as expensive to renovate Rich Stadium as it would be to build a new stadium. Right off the bat just the land acquisition and  utilities being set up costs a lot and a downtown stadium would require a lot of space

     

    Even more so would be the infrastructure required to make it work. Sabres games are bad enough with 30+ min wait times, now multiply that by 3 or 4 and just imagine the gridlock. The state would need to pour funds into Buffalo just to build infrastructure with the stadium itself being a separate funding enigma. Parking would be ridiculously expensive. And Buffalo's public transit is rather tiny. 

     

    An inner-city stadium would likely kill tailgating which is effectively one of the primary draws for Bills fans year in and year out and or reduce it to a degree that would make it nothing special. Buffalo Bills fans are an older average crowd (season ticket wise) and still have some struggles with paperless ticketing; how will that demographic deal with price hikes and travel time increases? There isn't enough of a young rich crowd to pick up the slack thus we'd likely see the Bills crowds shrink by a great number as tailgaters stay home to party and some of the older crowd just stay home lamenting of days gone by.

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