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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.

We have a LAMO ("look at me officiating!") game here.

All three units are playing well, but I feel like the players have to overcome McDermott's coaching strategy on top of the Jets.

Unless there is a miraculous turnaround and a run to the Super Bowl, I would say no. I appreciate how McDermott got us out of the playoff drought and turned the franchise around, but he has taken this team as far as he is capable of doing. The in game management will always keep him in the tier of pretty good instead of elite as a coach. He appears to have lost the team and it is time for a change.

This exposes the inconsistency of the NFL. Every year it seems, there is one more thing taken away from the defenses or special teams in the name of "safety". They are now talking about banning a waist tackle next year and a Washington Commanders player got a 15 yard roughing the passer penalty for sacking Mac Jones two weeks ago. Meanwhile on the offensive side, this actual dangerous play that comes from the leather helmet era not only gets overlooked, but gets a cutesy name and a bunch of excited comments from the announcers. There are more injuries now than ever, so these changes made on defense are not about safety, they are about profit and creating the narrative for the juggernaut offenses and who will be the next GOAT at QB.

I am an Orioles fan and this team is a lot like the Orioles were from 2011-2018. The manager Buck Showalter quickly rebuilt the team out of a playoff drought and crated a winning culture. This led to a few years of playoffs where they could never get past the championship. The team had strengths and weaknesses, but the weaknesses were never addressed. As people from the original team left the team or retired, they were replaced with bad free agents and a farm system that was on the bottom. Eventually the bottom fell out fast and you out of nowhere had a 100 loss team again. Showalter was fired and a full rebuild was needed. The Orioles are back now which a core of good young players and a manager of the year, but it took a few years to get back there. I see a very similar path with Buffalo (but we are not quite at the end of that cycle). Bad coaching in the playoffs, the same weakness every year, and unproductive replacements added by free agency and the draft. It might be possible to retool in the off-season and keep this team contending, but we need to move on from McDermott and Beane before the bottom completely falls out.