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Illegal contact, on a corner in a play that was a fumble behind the line of scrimmage to give a team the ball back? F you NFL.

This season is more frustrating to me than most of the drought years. At least those teams tried, this team is loaded with talent but has no sense or urgency and seems to be going through the motions.

I was ten years old, barely understood football and still realized how ugly of a game that it was. The scenario was a picket line crossing Lawrence Taylor against an offense full of taxi-drivers, car salesman and gym teachers yet somehow we won because the Giants were even more inept in offense. One of the very few games in the modern era where a 0-0 game was a real possibility.

You posted this yesterday, so why did you feel the need to post this again? People have a right to their beliefs. McDermott has a right to be a Christian, you have a right to be an Atheist. That is exactly where the conversation about religion should end and steer back to football. Take your agenda elsewhere. I reported you yesterday and I will report you again. Seek help for your hatred.

One of the only positives is that Buffalo may have gotten a win out of what will hopefully be their worst game of the year. Also a decent turnaround by Allen after an awful first half. Kelly, Elway and Favre also had a lot of clunkers where they got it together at the end. Terrible overall game to watch, not just because of the Bills performance, but the officials were flag happy and had no control of the game. There were stoppages every two or three plays. Never thought that I would see the day where a baseball game would be a quicker pace than a football game.

This guy was done three years ago to the extent that he was infamously posterized by Derrick Henry. Do they really think it would be any better in 2023? I don't get the veteran mentorship angle either. We have Poyer and Hyde, along with Taron Johnson, Dane Jackson, Siran Neal, and Cam Lewis, who have also been with the team for a few years. I know that the pickings are slim, but there has to be a late rd pick/UDFA who is used to the defensive scheme on a practice squad somewhere who could do better than Norman would if we needed him.

Even if someone wants to look past the Bills game yesterday in order to avoid looking like we are blaming the refs for the loss, the Chiefs/Vikings game gave us all a more blatant example to reference. The non PI call was on the border, but more than what Bradberry got called for in the super bowl. Too subjective at best, corrupt at worst. Then there is ignoring the helmet penalty which there is no excuse for. The Bills game is not as blatant, but at the very least you can say that there was over-calling of penalties and that the calling back the first TD to Davis made the refs look incompetent in the way that they handled it. Whether or not the corruption is true, the perception is there more than ever. This is something the that NFL needs to acknowledge and address.

The loss itself was a fluky set of bad circumstances, but the injuries concern me a lot more. Losing Milano for the year is going to be painful. The only consolation is that it looks like Bernard and Espeneza may be ready to help fill that void a little bit.

Honestly, not very many people are going to quit watching right now, but the direction the game is going in a way that many people don't like. Me personally, I've enjoyed watching the Bills in the Josh Allen era, but it is very hard for me to sit through a football game if the Bills aren't playing. In the past, I used to watch all of the NFL football that I could. Even if it was something like a meaningless preseason game between the Cardinals and Buccaneers, I would take the time to watch it. Now the games are painfully slow, bad officiating, obnoxious announcers, more commercials than ever, non football related tangents etc. Goodell is slowly destroying the product. To be quite honest if the Bills fell out of contention at any point this year, I could see myself not watching any game for a few weeks for the first time in my life.

At this point, they should just change the name of the NFL to the "Roger Goodell Football Entertainment show presented by DraftKings."

Lets see who the refs want to win tonight, my guess will be San Fran.

That was worse than nything this morning or even last Sunday's Chiefs Jets game. The intergity of the league is on the line. One of the players or coaches has to speak up and call the refs straight out for this. Hell, I'll start the go fund me to cover the fine for them if that happens.

Officials are at it again in the Chiefs game. They are shamelessly blatant. Just arbitrarily deciding not to call pass interference? When will they be held accountable?

Goodell's experiments more often than not leave the Bills on the short end. Is the God awful officiating of this morning and last sunday night an experiment too? was the cross promotion with Taylor Swift last Sunday an experiment. Goodell needs to go, he is ruining the NFL just a little more every season.

Look on the bright side Bills fans, at least we aren't New England.

Crackdown on inconsistent officiating. Makes the rules less subjective. Audit from an independent third party on each official throughout the season. This isn't "boo hoo the Bills lost" to me. This is more of officiating is getting worse every year and it is getting out of hand.

I am not going to blame this on the officials, because Buffalo played too poorly to justify deserving to win. However, the officiating was atrocious today. Between this, last Sundays Jets/Chiefs game and the call at the end of the Super Bowl, there needs to be some type of accountability on refs. It is now at a point where it is starting to ruin the watching experience and hurt the credibility of the NFL. Too many people are speculating on whether the games are fixed. Even if they are not, that is not what the NFL wants. Regardless of whether or not that is true, we can all agree that there are too many subjective calls and flag happy refs. The example that stands out to me today the most was when Buffalo scored and mysteriously had to line up again. Fortunately they scored again, and a replay showed a holding on Knox, but they way that it was handled with no announcement from the ref and the broadcasters having no idea what happened is a bad look. It seems to be getting worse every year and I hope that Goodell starts to realize this.

Ref was just telling Pederson "dont worry, we will throw a flag if they stop you.

Defense actually held up pretty well considering the situation. The offense has been the bigger worry, but they got it together in the last drive.

Same here, I am also grumpier than normal. No worries and no hard feelings. Go Bills.

Glad to be this close after all of that. Hoping we turn things around. Go Bills!

If that is what you got out of my statement, your reading comprehension is as good as your posting.

Never said that the Bills are playing good. The Bills are playing bad, and refs are atrocious, both are accurate. Look, if you get enjoyment out of playing the Devil's advocate troll and rubbing salt in the wounds of everyone when the Bills are off, go ahead. We are done talking, have a good day.

Despite everything, if Buffalo can manage a score before the half, this may be salvageable.

Trent Edwards would be proud. What the hell was that?