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dgrochester55

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  1. Just now, dave mcbride said:

    He has 4 picks on the year, which is a lot  for a LB. Maybe he’s not having a terrible season after all?🤔

     

    He was always in position to get the interception in Buffalo, he just couldn't ever actually hang on to the ball.

  2. I would say to move on.   The three or four big games a year are not enough to offset the other games where he is a complete non-factor.  

     

    He is going to look for starting WR money, and the Bills are going to be in cap trouble.   With the way that Davis is playing, production from a young player like Shakir or a veteran on a small contract would most likely be better or equal at worse.  

     

    I have nothing against Gabe.   He had a great start to his career and showed enough for Buffalo to give him a look at a #2 option.  He was not quite at that level and it didn't work out.   If he doesn't get hurt, he still has a few years  ahead of him as a #3 or #4 option with potential for a handful of big plays a year.   Not a bad career for a 4th round pick.

  3. 2 hours ago, T master said:

    The Taylor Swift BS is getting to be a little bit much !! Any time Kielce touches the ball or makes any kind of play they pan to her WTH !

     

    I know it's all about ratings & the Swifties could start watching to see her but come on man just play football & leave the other crap alone !! 

     

    I don't care about Taylor Swift !!! 

     

    Up until recently, I would have given her a pass saying that it wasn't her fault that the NFL is over-hyping her.   However, her dismissive "dads, brads and chads" comment only makes her look just as entitled and arrogant as Mahomes and Reid did after this past game.

     

    I've never seen a franchise do much to make themselves public enemy #1 to the rest of the NFL as quickly as the Chiefs have over the last couple weeks.

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  4. 12 minutes ago, JohnnyBuffalo said:

    The message is wrong when using that penalty as the example to complain about the refs though.   
     

    I am thoroughly frustrated by the refs this year and am bewildered by some of the calls/non-calls/reversals/non-reversals at almost every game.  
     

    However, I am not ever going to point at a clear penalty, that is known well by everyone, getting called when it’s obvious to everyone that the infraction occurred and complain that it was called… That’s just illogical and dumb!

     

    I think their attitude in that moment may hurt the effort to improve the officiating.   It’s diluting the validity of other arguments in my opinion.  

     

    I completely agree with this.   My worry is that the Chiefs (who have been the biggest benefactors of shady officiating over the past three years) are going to make it all about them and use that as the poster child for the officiating issue when there are about 50 better examples to use this year.  

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  5. Say what you want about McDermott or Allen, but I  have never seen them play the full blown victim card and blame the refs in the same way that Mahomes and Reid have over the past 24 hours.   I didn't see Mahomes or Reid complaining after the Jets and Vikings games.   Even Brady and Belichick knew better than to bite the hand that feeds them in the few cases where a ref call didn't go their way.

     

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  6. 1 minute ago, Nextmanup said:

    Negated because "lined up in the neutral zone" which most fans never see, don't know about, and don't care about.  League might want to look into simplifying the game a bit.  It's SO OVER OFFICIATED, IT'S BRUTAL.

     

    Glad they threw the flag though!

     

    LOL

     

     

    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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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. 

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  9. 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.

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  10. 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.

  11. 3 minutes ago, Big Turk said:

     

    It's nice remembering what that was like watching the Ravens D do that to the Chargers twice last night.

     

    I mean even during the drought years we had a bunch of games where that happened.

     

     

    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. 

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  12. 1 minute ago, Scott7975 said:

     

     

    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.

  13. 2 minutes ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

    It often seems like the McDermott coached Bills taking a lead into the final two minutes is playing the 80s era Denver Broncos, quarterbacked by Elway.

     

    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.

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