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The Bills benefited from a soft PI call against the Rams last season. Also, that's the same game where Kroft made a catch and the refs just inexplicably called it an interception for the Rams. So yeah, we got hosed in that game too. Good memory.

Yes. Thank you.

Probably would have had more yards if Diggs weren't interfered with on a 60 yard touchdown pass. "Absolutely, we would have won if not for those calls, but you can't blame the calls for us not winning." Brilliant.

So we need to win handily whereas the Bucs only need to win marginally?

And yet that's exactly how the Bucs won the game.

And you don't see that as a problem? Anyway, I'd point out that it is inconsistent only in that it is consistently bad for some teams and consistently good for others.

So you're simultaneously arguing that the officiating wasn't a problem but also that the Bucs and Chiefs use them to their advantage. And now you're simultaneously arguing that the officiating didn't affect the outcome but also that we need to score extra points to beat them. Are you on drugs?

It was far from a perfect game by the Bills, but no team ever has a perfect game. You shouldn't have to worry about beating both the other team and the refs. Even with all those mistakes, we. still would have won fairly easily on equal playing ground.

Yeah he was being hauled down by Evans and still managed to get his head around and put out an arm to make a play. Really great effort by Wallace.

That unofficial requirement is applied to some teams and not to others. As we just witnessed.

As soon as Evans saw the pass was going to be short he pulled down Wallace with one arm and reached with the other. You and the refs fell for it unfortunately.

If Evans hasn't tackled him, he would have been able to make a play for the interception. Seems like some people want defensive backs to just run backwards the whole play.

Actually, they were good enough. Two touchdown passes to Diggs where he was interfered with and no calls. Then a drive extending DPI in overtime where Evans tackles Wallace. The Bills sucked in the first half but they still played well enough to win and were screwed.

If you were still skeptical about these games being fixed, well here's your sign.

"Just give it to them."

Not sure what you mean by that. If Diggs wasn't pulled backwards then he catches that and goes in for an easy touchdown.

Well a long touchdown would have been really helpful towards getting us back in it, right? Because that's what would have happened there without the DPI.

Do you want him to do that every play? Because that's how often he's under pressure.

No, a bare minimum play there is Gronk scores a touchdown. The next worse thing is Poyer gets flagged for DPI. He's a safety covering one of the best TE's of all time. It's a bad matchup and he played it as well as anyone could ask.

Beautiful play by Poyer. Everyone always talks about getting your head around (even though that's not even an actual rule) and he was able to do it and not give the refs an excuse to throw the flag.

Fournette's longest run of the season. Brady's longest run of the season. We make runners look really good.

He might have had a slight outside leverage on Brown but Brown had him blocked up nicely. No way he catches Moss if he goes outside. Morse did completely miss his block but there was a linebacker waiting in that gap even if that DL hadn't made the tackle. I'm usually in the camp that the offensive line is a bigger problem, but on this particular play Moss could have had a touchdown or at least gotten close. Singletary or Breida probably bounce that one outside.

He definitely stiff armed the defender. You can watch the helmet move sideways and he gets pushed away from the tackle. Just because Josh was moving backwards doesn't make it not a stiff arm. It was good coverage and a good breakup by Phillips but you have to expect your TE who is twice his size to muscle his way to that catch.

Okay pump the brakes. Brady, the best QB of all time, never won a Super Bowl without a top 5 defense. He has had the best offensive lines a quarterback could ask for. And he's always had a solid running game to keep defenses honest. He didn't take a pay cut all those years out of the goodness of his heart. He knew that better players around him would help him win. Rodgers and Brees are first ballot HOF QBs that have both had multiple losing seasons and have only won one super bowl a piece in almost 20 years of play. Regardless of the QB, it takes an entire team to win consistently. Josh threw an absolute dime to Diggs in the endzone that hit him right in the arm and was dropped. He threw multiple great passes to Knox that were dropped including one in the endzone. Allen missed the last throw which probably sticks out in your mind more than all his great throws, but he played more than well enough to win this game. Edit: And P.S. Allen did all that in a game in which the conditions were so bad that the opposing team didn't even trust their QB to attempt more than 3 passes and while he was under duress almost every play behind a terrible offensive line.

Yes, the wind greatly affected the game. But we lost because of failures in coaching and execution. The wind is just an excuse. There was no wind against the Steelers or Jags or Colts and we lost because of the same reasons we lost this one.