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Houston made the same mistake Chicago did in week 1. If you can't trust the kicker to boot a touchback just kick it out of bounds. The 5 yards is so much less important than the extra time off the clock burning the 2 minute warning. Will the HOU defense go into revolt after this game? With a mediocre offense they'd be 5-1 or even 6-0 right now. How do you lose a game where your DEF scored a TD and forced 4 turnovers?

Sean McDermott worked hard and completed a self evaluation to find that it's everyone else that is wrong. An older piece by Tim Graham: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5299472/2024/02/26/buffalo-bills-sean-mcdermott-nfl-combine/

An actual, respected (?), sports journalist that's critical of McBeane? I'll get my popcorn ready

Any movement by the O-Line before the snap should be a false start. No more of this 're-adjusting the back foot' nonsense that isn't even in the rulebook! I'm sick of seeing the OT's move a full second before the snap and it's not a penalty. Defensive holding and illegal contact should not be an automatic first down. Illegal formation needs to be more evenly enforced. Call it on Jawaan Taylor every single time he's not lined up properly.

I'm curious on the 3rd down play. I'm not an X's and O's guy, but I see the Falcons rushed 5 guys and 2 of them were un-blocked. How do the 5 guys on our O-Line only manage to block 3 defenders? Did Josh make a bad pre-snap read? Did the O-Line (with McGovern injured on the sideline) botch the play? By the time Josh moves on to the Shakir read there's 2 unblocked defenders coming in at full speed on him from a few yards out. If he makes the throw to Shakir he's probably taking a huge hit. Should he have started with that read based on pre-snap stuff?

Do what KC did to us last year. Line up a few inches Offside and see if the refs have the stones to call it

I don't think it's injury. There was a play he collided with Rapp earlier in the season and it looked like Benford had the wind knocked out of him. No other injury scares that I've noticed and he hasn't been on the injury report. The scheme hasn't changed much. I guess he might be suffering from gotpaiditis

Should probably add in Tre's 4.1 mil dead cap from his previous Bills contract. Fulton missed 3 games due to injury and was limited by it the other 2 games with only 17 snaps. Let's see what the guy does while healthy before calling the signing a miss

Chiefs might be buried under the 49ers logo? The graph has a few spots where 2 teams have the same number of holds for and against where they overlapped team logos. I scrolled through all the Bills games play-by-play and can confirm we have 13 offensive holding penalties called on us to only 1 by our opponents. I'm willing to bet the rest of the graph is legit. FWIW 'offensive holding' includes punt/kick returns. We have 4 'offensive holds' committed by our ST, the other 9 were committed by the actual offense. The 1 opponent 'offensive holding' call we've had in our favor was a kickoff in the Saints game. The Patriots were called for an offensive hold, but Bills also had a penalty on the same play that offset it. Offsetting or declined penalties aren't counted for stats like this. Maybe we should bring Kyle Williams back as a consult to teach our D-Line how to throw their head back and arms up in order to actually draw a flag on the opposing O-Line.

When the offense was playing patiently and Josh was taking what the defense gave him in the first half we scored 3 points on 5 drives. There were 2 lost fumbles (Knox and Coleman). When Josh played more out of structure and put on the super hero cape we scored 17 points on 4 drives in the 2nd half, but also has a red zone INT on a play he tried to force. Even with the bad INT i'll take that 2nd half performance over the 1st half every time.

He was the guy picked right after Rousseau in 2021. 23 career sacks vs Groots 26.5 Interesting the Ravens are giving up on him after he had 10 sacks last year. Is Gilman supposed to be any good?

Tre White and Jordan Philiips are both recycled former players well past their primes that we brought back. White's started every game this year in an important role. Phillips only has 1 start

Yea, Flacco is going to die behind that O-Line.

Watching it live I thought he was down but all the replays I saw looked like he threw it before his knee was down. The replay angles were not very good so I can't say it was conclusive but there was absolutely not enough to overturn it.

Just playing devil's advocate here, but maybe the pepper spray and knife escalated a simple misunderstanding into a violent confrontation.

Either the refs didn't see it or they thought it was accidental contact (like feel tangling).

Shakir is legally allowed to block before the throw is completed if he's within 1 yard of the line of scrimmage. It looked like he was 1.5 yards downfield when he started blocking. Wild that the back-judge threw the flag when he wouldn't have any depth perception on how far downfield Shakir was. By the strictest possible interpretation of the rule it was MAYBE penalty.

The defender isn't allowed to make a play on the ball if it means going through the WRs back. It's pretty cut and dry that it was a DPI the refs missed Article 2. Prohibited Acts By Both Teams While The Ball Is In The Air Acts that are pass interference include, but are not limited to: (a) Contact by a player who is not playing the ball that restricts the opponent’s opportunity to make the catch; (b) Playing through the back of an opponent in an attempt to make a play on the ball;

When a QB is out of the pocket there's no longer an illegal contact penalty, but DPI is still very much a thing. It's true that defenders are allowed to make a play on the ball and incidental contact with a WR would not be a penalty. On this particular play I don't think the defender was trying to catch the ball. He went through Shakir's back to swipe at the ball in an attempt to break it up. Pretty easy DPI call - especially in a game called this tightly

Not sure why Josh bailed on the pocket when he actually had good protection for once. Although I don't think it would've been an easy TD to Samuel if he stayed in the pocket. There was a safety back there that read Josh rolling to his right and he chose to let Samuel go. If Josh stayed in the pocket the safety probably sticks on Samuel.

Nobody mentioned Zac Taylor yet?

It's recency bias. The DEF was pretty bad in the 2nd half (17 points allowed on 4 drives including game winning FG) and that's what people remember. DEF was amazing the 1st half and even with the bad 2nd half still out-played the offense.

We'll see how the rest of the season goes and who is available, but right now I think it would be pretty easy to just promote Joe Brady.

God awful officiating in this game. Ticky-tack garbage killed 3 of our offensive drives. Illegal formation on 2nd drive. Holding on McGovern killed the 5th drive. OPI on Shakir led to the INT in the red zone. I think we win this game pretty easily with a non-biased officiating crew.