Simon

Even the 1st down call on the series before the 2:00 warning was yet another example of him trying to be tactically smart but ultimately being strategically stupid.

I hope McDermott and Daboll spent halftime kicking each other in the giblets for allowing that 3rd down call to go into the huddle coming out of the 2:00 warning.

At this point, I think Devante Parker is probably their best bet. Being intra-divisional might complicate it but I think the Bills would get the best bang for their buck both short-term and long-term. Nothing shocking about it. He's smart, fearless, skilled and learned the pro game from Hines Ward. I think it would have been more shocking if it hadn't worked out for him.

Seriously? That would be stunning to me. Between the initial hit and his head bouncing off the turf, I assumed it was just a foregone conclusion.

Not today they weren't. There's not a single team in the league with a pass:run ratio of 3:1 and probably only a tiny handful that are over 2:1 I'm not calling for them to take the air out of the ball. Just for Daboll to be a "little" more willing to think strategically about the whole team concept of managing a game.

Thanks, Goat.

The difference is that Allen was a runner downfield and Rudolph was still a QB delivering the ball from behind the LOS. I wouldn't be surprised if Earl Thomas was suspended for delivering a blatant Rod Woodson. And I didn't have a real problem with Jones' hit on Allen.

I'm trying to find the part of my post where I asked about the quality of the officiating. Oh, here it is:

Thank you for that informative answer to my question regarding the Bills OLine.

I don't know why, but for some reason I am inclined to think that somewhere his Mom is sitting on a piece of lawn furniture drunk in her underwear.

Yeah, I should have known what the end result would be of typing the word "penalty" into a title......

That ***** absolutely fires me up. There are few things better in football than standing on a sideline watching your offense repeatedly punch people in the face late in a game.

Yeah, it's probably just as well I didn't see that or I may have eaten my television. Oh, did "we"?

I really don't care about the "quality" of the officiating so feel free to take the whining about referees to another thread. I just want to know how many flags the OLine had thrown at them today.

Thank you for your invaluable contribution to the subject