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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.

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.

Bills 34 Patriots 28 We score 30+ yet again and pull out another win. The DEF will continue to flounder playing well enough to win but not to cover the spread

Trading Knox does free up 9 mil in cap space, but at this point in the season what would we spend that on? Knox for a late draft pick doesn't make any sense Knox + 3rd-ish for a game wrecker like Hendrickson or Simmons is intriguing. I'm not a capologist but I'm assuming we could make it work I'm not really interested in targeting a WR/CB/S/RB unless we have some serious injuries. Trading for Cooper last year was such a waste of assets

This is from DraftKings. A little different from OP's odds: Josh Allen: +110 Lamar Jackson: +650 Justin Herbert: +700 Patrick Mahomes: +1000 Jalen Hurts: +1300 Jordan Love: +1600 Baker Mayfield: +1800 Matthew Stafford: +1800 Jayden Daniels: +2500 Jared Goff: +3000 Jackson is once again compiling some ridiculous stats, but that 1-3 start is going to be tough to overcome. Mayfield, Stafford, and Goff all have good value at those odds IMO. It's ridiculous that Daniels is even on the list. He's already missed 2 games with injury, and was terrible in 1 of the 2 games he did play in.

He's really damaged his reputation the last few years, but what about Russell Wilson? 10x pro bowl, 1x 2nd team all-pro, 1 SB ring. Every single eligible player with 10+ pro bowls is in the HOF.

I was stunned by the goal to go situation when Russ threw it into the stands on 3 of the 4 plays (one intentional grounding called, but honestly all 3 could have been). It was as bad as Trent Edwards running out of bounds on 4th down rather than chucking up a hail mary. That was the last snap he ever played for the Bills. You just can't go back to a guy that gives up like that.

Must be the same person that had Jerry Hughes constantly leading the league in pressures.

80 yards and a TD in garbage time doing some WORK. Don't forget eating a sack on 4th and goal instead of risking an INT as well

To steal a Buffalo Sabres phrase, the Lamar Jackson Ravens are mental midgets. That team could go 17-0 with some mental toughness, but any time they face some adversity they crumble.

Lamar is a stat chaser. Would rather eat a sack on 4th and goal than risk an INT.

I understand that this is satire, but I'd bet good money that at least one of these coaches is fired this offseason.

Challenging a 5 yard gain on a 3rd and 4 is NOT wasteful.

You're ignoring some pretty important context, the 5 yard pass happened on 3rd and 4 from the Bills 41 yard line. I think it's a pretty easy over-turn and the Dolphins would be facing 4th and 4. They could either go for it, attempt a 58 yard FG, or punt. That's absolutely worth a challenge. If John Parry is still our replay assist guy he should probably be fired.

How about Bass's kick against Miami last year?

Dropson Knox was the only Bill that had a bad game last week. Couple of awful drops and he embarrassed himself looking for a flag when there was very little contact.

I'm going with the Bills this week. Prime-time home game, Dolphins are spiralling, and Josh historically owns the Dolphins. We're 12.5 point favorites, next largest spread is only 7.5.

Bills 31 JETE 21

Going back to the AFCCG we've now failed 5 consecutive 2 point conversions. Pretty insane with Josh Allen as QB We really need to figure something out on short yardage, have to have it, type plays

You must've missed his 28 yard punt in the 4th Q.

I left the same time you did, for the same reason. My dad (getting up there in years) wanted to leave after the Henry TD made it 40-25 so that we could beat the traffic on our drive back to Rochester. I convinced him to stick out 1 more drive and to stay if the Bills scored, but then we punted with 9 minutes left in the game. Couldn't justify sticking this one out when my dad was already exhausted from the long day and it felt like we had 1% chance of winning. It's nothing short of miraculous that our DEF forced two 3 and outs and a fumble after that. We had only forced 1 punt (and no turnovers) on the Ravens first 9 drives.