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I am skipping out on a family Christmas celebration to watch the Bills. Win or lose, playoffs or not......I win!!

NY office should have a bank of officials that have one job. Know the rules inside out and backwards. They then can call the game site if a rule is being applied or interpreted wrong. Those game refs can also call the NY office for clarification of a weird rule that comes up occasionally. I guess making the original call be replay changed should be left to on site game officials. Unless Riveron is fired and they go back to interpreting the rule of "clear and obvious" for an original ruling overturn I would kill any decisions from that office.

#3 This is interesting but?? would make all WR catches falling out of bounds incomplete as the ball would hit out of bounds? yes? #1 I would give them 90 sec from when ref announces the play is being challenged or reviewed. Then scoreboard clock counts down the 90 sec and horn sounds at end. If Ref is not speaking on his mic and explaining why the call is changed by 90 sec then play stands as called. In fact if call stands. Ref does not need to even speak to the crowd. Let horn sound and we all know it is done deal. not sure what to do with !@#$ head Riveron NY office. I guess abolish it. Otherwise they would not be allowed to look at vids until ref in stadium starts vids on monitor. How to know that happens per the rules would involve a congressional inquiry.

Is that Clay Aiken?

If it all falls like you write.....then yes Marrone is far far out of my doghouse for good.

Really? Then how do you explain the Grinch launching off mountain peaks and cliffs like a North Korean missile with no navigation sense? PS: keep feeding use Dunkirk Don.......I love the info and controversy it stirs up....lol

Steve Freeman is a former Buffalo Bill. Played for 12 years.

If he wants to be a bridge QB for two years at 5 mill per year and QB/player coach to new drafted QB and Peterman. I would listen.

+ other Super Bowl QB's =Brad Johnson, Trent Dilfer, Matt Hasselback, Craig Morton, David Woodley, Tony Eason, Mark Rypien, Stan Humphries, Billy Kilmer, Chris Chandler, Kerry Collins, Jake Delhomme, Rich Gannon, Rex Grossman, Jeff Hostetler, and even Joe Flacco and maybe Jim Plunkett. Cousins is as good or better than all of these.

Smith contract in trade is 17 mill for next year.http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/kansas-city-chiefs/alex-smith-3337/ Tyrod is about 9.34 mill if Bills keep him next year.(18 mill cap hit if they keep him. 8.640 dead cap if cut/traded) http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/tyrod-taylor-7899/ If they trade for Smith(17 mill) they will have 17 mill + 8.654 mill = 25.640 mill tied up in QB position and only one QB to show for it.(Smith) If they sign Cousins for 27 to 29 mill a year avg. the first years will have a much lower cap hit and likely much less cap hit than Alex Smith 17 mill. AND Bills will instead have a better younger good QB named Cousins. In the short term then they can still build a team around him before the big cap hits hit. I choose Cousins over Smith.

JWill

Why does a throwback uniform have the navy strip on helmet and on pants??

The guy had a finger over the end of the ball. It may have never made the part of the white line that we do not know where on that white line is the actual line to gain as they never spotted and measured.

OK you win. In my WR EX the WR never escaped the grasp he just pulled back and defender had not yet tackled him. Do you spot it at the 40 or the 37? the 4th and 1 is inconclusive. The guy had a finger over the end of the ball. It may have never made the part of the white line that we do not know where on that white line is the actual line to gain as they never spotted and measured.

Ralph Wilson just asked St Gabriel to hold his beer.......

no no no. The whistle was not an issue in my WR example. You brought the whistle into this I did not. It did not blow in my ex. Just like it did not blow in the 4th and 1. Just like a player getting tackled forward and stretch's the ball out ahead of him as he is going down, the ball is placed WHERE the ball is when his knees are down. Everytime.

just like you agreed in my WR ex you spot the WR on the 20.

when Patriot knees were down he had the ball in his body short of the line to gain. Just like you agreed on my WR example.

ok then the 4th and 1 should have been spotted short of the line to gain. Thanks for agreeing.

Shady should have been spotted where the ball was when his knees touched down with contact from a defender. Let me give ex: WR catches ball runs forward with a DB defender contacting him all the way to the 40 is contacted by pile of defenders and falls forward but not down and bounces backward staying on his feet. He then runs backwards 20 yards and is tackled. Where do you spot the ball? On the 40 or back at the 20?

Your last statement supports no first down. When he stretched he was being contacted by a Bill. Knee was not down yet and he was not being pushed backward. He then voluntarily brings the ball back to body short of the line to gain and then his knees touch down. No forward progress should have been given to the white line. He was not down yet and his knees had not touched yet until he had ball back into his body. Romo got it wrong also. he showed a still of knees off ground and ball extended to the white line. He failed to mention player was not down so he does not get that stretch unless break goal line situation.

That is right. It is inconclusive. Also he had his finger on the tip of the ball. The ball is always spotted where the ball is when the knees touch down with contact of opposition player. Except in break the plane goal line situations because when you break the goal line plane the ball is dead and play is over except if you need to survive the ground on a pass play catch.

Who is Dupree?

short answer. Bills player was making contact with Patriot but his knees were not down when he stretched the ball forward and maybe hit the line to gain.(not obvious as he had a finger on the forward tip of the ball) He then pulled it back into his body and then his knees touched down. At that time he was short of the line to gain. That is where the ball is always spotted unless it is a break the goal line plane situation. You should not bet your life on it, due to the following. When he had full control is a complete judgement call.

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