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I agree about the over-officating, but in this case, it was the right call. Toney was lined up almost parallel to Von Miller before that play.

I must say, I was extremely pessimistic for most of the game, I even stopped watching the second half. Too much heartbreak this year. I expected them so fail, but I stand corrected. Great job Buffalo for hanging on and being on the right side of one of those games.

This might be the worst that I have seen the WR's do since we had Zay Jones, a bunch of practice squad caliber JAG's and a 380 pound Kelvin Benjamin as our WR unit.

It's 17-14, but does anyone actually think that McDermott will lead this team to victory? It is so demoralizing to watch this week in and week out.

I know we are winning, but the last two minutes is yet another McDermott, mismangement special. Any other playoff contender manages at least three there.

The last three minutes of game time has had over 30 minutes of commercials.

I think that fans need to be more unified when this happens. Looking at various sites and social media sites this week, I noticed that too many Eagles fans this week were dismissive "Your just sad that you lost", "refs did great" even though they were robbed during the Super Bowl and should have been able to relate as much as anyone. This is not about just the "Bills being screwed" We need to be as vocal when games like the Jets/Chiefs and 49ers/Browns happen or even when others perceive that Buffalo was handed a win in the Giants game. This is about the big picture and the integrity of the game. Players and fans deserve better than what the officials are giving us.

It's not just questioning whether games are fixed, it is bad calling altogether. There are some games where it feels like there is a flag every other play. I dislike the Jets, but I had sympathy for their fans when they were blatantly robbed in the Chiefs game/Taylor Swift cross promotion earlier this year. I know a few non Bills fans who felt that the officiating in Sundays game was an embarrassment. I propose a system similar to a PFF rating for players based on call consistency, bad calls and non calls where an independent party reviews each performance after a game. If a ref is above a set high number, they get the bigger games, if they fall below a set low number, they are fired, suspended or "benched". Whatever they decide, something needs to be done.

If the allegation is true, it is Ironically the first time this year that Miller has hit anyone.

When asked about the horse collar Hochuli responded saying ""We felt that the force from the front of the collar and what pulled him down was not from the back," referee Shawn Hochuli told a pool reporter after the game. "So, that’s pretty much it. We felt he was pulled down from the front of the jersey and collar."" That's pretty much it? Not only does he refuse to take ownership of a mistake that the rest of the world saw, but he doubles down on it in one of the most arrogant d-bag ways possible. I hope that he get fired or least suspended and fined.

I do not think that it is fixed, but that the officiating is more involved in the games than needed. It isn't impossible for the other team to win when this happens, but I think that for example, when you play the Chiefs in a prime time game, you have to play well enough to win by 10 in order to offset the calls that they will get. My opinion is that some refs are just incompetent, but others like Shawn Hochuli have an extended history of favoringthe larger team and need to be investigated.

McDermott may have been better at building a team than the drought era coaches, but his game management is worse than anyone besides maybe Jauron. I truly think that you hand this roster to Doug Marrone, Rex Ryan or Chan Gailey before the season starts that each of them bring this team to eight or nine wins at this point of the season. The game management on the two minute drill is off the charts record level poor under McDermott.

The only two wins that I can think of were the Giants and Bucs this year and that took a PI non call and a missed hail mary that was a foot away from being caught. There never seems to be a three and out, shut the opposing drive down before it starts, victory formation, game over scenario.

It's at a point where I want to turn the channel after a Josh Allen drive for the lead with under two minutes. Yesterday, I looked at every one in the room with no excitement after Allen took the lead late in the 4th and just said "I know what happens from here". It should not have to be that way.

This team despite the injuries on defense took the Eagles to the limit on the road, so Yes. Yesterday on its own, would be forgivable, but bad coaching has reared its ugly head in many games this year. If the team simply lines 11 on the field in the Denver game and stop Mac Jones on a TD drive, they are 8-4, talking about fighting for the top seed and this loss is not as big of a deal. There are at least seven games over the past three years off the top of my head that I can think of where Josh Allen drove the team near the end of the game, with under two minutes(even after bad days in some cases) to the lead, only to result in a loss because of bad decisions. Holding on to a lead after a two minute drive touchdown is an exception instead of expected, that is not normal. McDermott is not just below average in that, the ratio of failure on that is an off the chart outlier that is inept on a record level. That comes down to bad coaching and in game decisions.

It is possible to both acknowledge and appreciate what he did in it past and at the same time realize that what he is doing in not working anymore. It is time to move on from him.

It did not end up directly costing us the game, but we cannot forget what happened with the refs. Buffalo played undisciplined in the first half, but there is no way that the Eagles only got one penalty for five yards in the first half. The inconsistency is bad enough, but ignoring the horse collar and calling Allen for grounding is egregious enough on it's own to warrant discipline. A quick google search on Sean Hochuli shows a history of problems, he is even more corrupt and incompetent than his father was. He is the poster example of the problems with officiating in the NFL. We need to reach out to whoever we can find and complain about this. The NFL needs a serious overhaul on their officiating in the off-season.

This game individually was not a bad effort, but the team desperately needed this win to offset what Happened in the new England and Denver games. Something is not right with how the team responds to clutch situations. The Eagles found a way to win, we found a way to lose. That is the difference between a pretty good and a top tier team. I appreciate what McDermott did to get us out of the drought era, but we need to move on to take that next step.

If you spelled what the ref should be called correctly, you would get a violation for language. That ref needs to be disciplined.

The two minute defense finally did everything right at the end of the 4th, and we still caught a bad break with a 60 yd fg in the rain that is missed 99 times out of 100. It just isn't meant to be this year. I appreciate the effort over the last two weeks, and I am encourage that Allen is turning it around, but we still need to move on from McDermott next year so that we can get out of this losing the big game culture and get to the next level.

My suggestion for Josh Allen's first play in the second half.

For the first two offensive plays, Josh Allen needs to go the path of Adam Sandler in the longest yard remake, whip the first two passes into the refs crotch, then walk up to him and say "how about calling a fair game now?

I am more comfortable saying this because we are winning. This is a blatant hatchet jobs by the refs and this needs to be looked into. People need to be filing complaints. This is unacceptable and a disgrace to the game.

Defense wasn't the problem. They held the Dolphins offense to 13 in the first three quarters and put six on the board themselves. There is only so much that a defensive unit can do when offense does not even cross the 50 until the 4th quarter.

When are NFL coaches going to learn that hailmarys at the end of the first half are stupid. It cost the Jets just now and came very close to costing Buffalo last Sunday.