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Plays that I would've loved to see a replay but we never got one, in no particular order: Illegal contact on Douglas in the end zone that turned a 3rd down stop into an eventual TD Potential OPI by the Colts when they ran a pick play. Douglas was asking for a flag the whole time Colts 'catch' on the sideline where the WR toe-tapped, but our DB knocked the ball out as he was going out of bounds. WR gave the 'I don't think that was actually a catch let's hurry up and snap it' gesture. Colts quickly ran a play (that T Johnson almost intercepted) Holding call on Knox Couple of false starts that didn't have obvious pre-snap movement Illegal shift/offsetting DPI play Spencer Brown injury Dalton Kincaid injury We did get a replay of the first Colts TD, but it's hilarious that the broadcasters didn't mention the BLATANT hold on AJE https://imgur.com/a/RcGfWYz Might've been the worst broadcast I've ever seen with regards to replays. Not sure why a matchup between 7-2 Bills and 4-5 Colts gets the "F" team Could've used a few more replays of the ridiculous no-calls on the Allen slide and the defender throwing punches at Allen plays

Smith wasn't penalized on that play. So of the 3 plays that the NFL deemed worth of fines, the Dolphins only had 1 penalty. Highly ironic that Rapp was penalized on a play that the league went back and fined the Dolphins player for. Rapp did get fined for taunting on a different play where he tackled Mostert (no penalties given). Could see him jawing after the play, but didn't make any gestures. Rapp wasn't penalized on the play. Not sure how talking some smack after a tackle is worth a fine, bit whatever

Hate it. Phillips was washed up last season. This is as silly as bringing Beasley and Brown back in '22.

Well, other than that deep ball to Tyreek that would've been an easy TD if Tua hadn't underthrown it by 5 yards

I'm normally a fan of advanced stats, but this one doesn't really pass the eye test to me. With traditional stats this is how the Bills rush DEF ranks: 15th in rushing yards allowed per game 26th in rush yards allowed per carry T-25th in 20+ yard rushes allowed T-30th in 40+ yard rushes allowed T-6th in forced fumbles on rushing plays EPA has us as the 3rd best rush defense? At best we're somewhere around average (depending on how much weight you give to the forced fumbles). If we didn't have a handful of games where we jumped out to big leads and the opponent had to abandon the run I think the rushing stats would look even worse. I'm also not a fan of the philosophy to just let teams run on us. If there's a blue-print to beating elite QBs it's to have your own offense put together long clock killing drives to limit the elite QBs possessions. Why would we invite teams to do that to us?

I thought his hit on Shakir was worth a penalty, but not a suspension. Poyer came in low and unfortunately Shakir was in a position where his head was also low, so it was helmet to helmet. The hit on Coleman though, yikes. Poyer is late and launches himself upwards to make helmet to helmet contact while completely ignoring the ball. Absolutely worth a suspension. The NFL is pretty stingy on suspensions and might view Poyer costing his team the game as enough of a punishment.

I might've called that a hold, but facemask? Wow

Dawkins holding - I'm guessing that the ref saw the defender go down to the ground and assumed that Dawkins had latched onto him and thrown him down, which would be an easy holding call. Obviously that's not what happened, but if the ref had a bad angle I could see how he makes that assumption. Torrence holding - I don't know what the ref thought he saw on this play, but I don't see anything that remotely resembles a hold. This exact block could happen 100 times in a game and this would be the only time it was flagged.

Bills 34 Dolphins 20 Allen racks up another 300+ yard 3+ TD game against the Fish

PFF says that Allen has 12 turnover worthy plays on the year. I think it should be about half that number. There was one easy INT dropped by the Texans, but that's about it. If we want to count each fumble as a turnover worthy play that gets us to 6. The INT he did throw shouldn't count b/c Cooper slipped

It looked like he hurt his shoulder or clavicle on this play 1st & 10 at SEA 10 (9:28 - 3rd) (Shotgun) J.Allen pass incomplete short left.

Bills: 23 Seahawks: 17

I hate Mahomes as much as the next guy, but he did absolutely nothing wrong on that play. People crying about it look as foolish as the people that said Josh faked a slide against the Steelers on that long TD run in the playoff game.

It's possible. If you look at this season in a vacuum he would definitely be the front runner. However, I don't think I'm alone in viewing his MVP last year as fraudulent. His stats were not remotely close to good enough for MVP, but the league gave it to him anyway because the Ravens had 13 wins and dominated the 49ers in a primetime matchup late in the season. Lamar then ***** the bed in the playoffs (strictly speaking that has nothing to do with regular season MVP, but it effects peoples view of him). Unless Lamar completely dominates the field this year I don't see him winning the MVP.

I will lose my mind if Mahomes wins MVP this season. Based solely on how QBs are playing this season, Mahomes is not a top 10 QB and maybe not even top 15. If KC had an average defense they'd be lucky to be 3-3.

As you said, T Bass's struggles have been well documented. Sam Martin has been flying under the radar as a pretty bad punter. His 47.5 yard average punt is 18th in the league, but his 40.3 average net punt is 27th. His kicks tend to not go very far and are in the middle of the field with poor hang time. That's a bad combination. Coverage has been spotty as well, we were the first team to allow a kickoff return for a TD in this new format back in week 1. Coaching is also suspect. Remember when we had a kickoff from the 50 yard line towards the end of the Jets game? Had we kicked the ball out of bounds the Jets would've started their drive at the 25. Instead we kicked for a touchback and Jets started at the 30. Either Bass meant to kick it out and butchered it (entirely possible), or our coaches don't know the rulebook. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/41908327/houston-texans-kickoff-loophole-green-bay-packers-kaimi-fairbairn-week-7

Given our limited cap space and that we just acquired Cooper I'd say our trade deadline wish-list look like this 1) Safety 2) Run stuffing DT 3) Depth players we can acquire cheaply I don't have any particular players in mind and honestly my money would be on Beane not making another trade during this season. We need a new kicker as well, but we're going to sign some UFA not trade for one.

Tom Brady would never advise QBs to break a cell phone to hide evidence. He'd tell them to hire a fall guy to take care of stuff like that for them

We need to draft a player like Chris Jones. Not trade multiple firsts or sign him as a 34 year old FA

Bass's 4.4mm active cap hit turns into 4.3mm dead cap if we release him saving 100k against the cap for the current season. We'd also eat a 3.1mm dead cap for 2025 With just over 3mm in available cap space, can we find a better kicker that'll sign in the 2-3mm range? The answer is probably yes. It doesn't need to be a guy that kicked in the NFL before. The Cowboys signed a professional soccer player that spent 20 games in the USFL and he's one of the most accurate kickers in NFL history (with a small sample size to be sure). Bass has been a disaster since the Giants game last year. He cost us multiple games last year and will cost us games this season, it's only a matter of time.

The refs ruled that Rodgers started his pass, then was hit by a defender that caused the pass to go awry, therefore it doesn't matter where the ball lands it cannot be intentional grounding and/or backwards lateral.

Item 1. Forward Movement of Hand When a player is in control of the ball and is attempting to pass it forward, any intentional forward movement of his hand starts a forward pass. (a)If contact by an opponent materially affects a passer after the passer begins his throwing motion, it is a forward pass if he passes the ball, regardless of where the ball strikes the ground, a player, an official, or anything else. When this occurs, intentional grounding rules do not apply. (b)When a passer intends to throw a forward pass and is contacted by an opponent before beginning his throwing motion, the direction of the pass is the responsibility of the passer if he passes the ball, and intentional grounding rules apply. (c)If, after an intentional forward movement of his hand, the passer loses possession of the ball during an attempt to bring it back toward his body, it is a fumble. Looked to me like Rodgers arm was past vertical and he was trying to bring the ball back into his body.

There was even a hail mary that one ref ruled incomplete and the other called a TD! Instantly reminded of the fail mary

This isn't getting talked about enough. Not only did the replay assistant blow the call, it then locks the Bills out from challenging the play. That's the man behind the curtain trying to fix a game levels bad.

Jets 20 Bills 10 Jets come out angry and motivated after Saleh's firing. Josh has always struggled against the Jets and I think it's gonna get ugly with no Shakir/Cook (not ruled out yet, but best case seems like they will be limited).