Wraith

I remember being so hyped when MLB started back up in July 2020, but that regular season was a total dud because the broadcasts couldn't hide the empty baseball stadiums and the missing energy. Therefore I had low expectations for the NFL. When that season started up, it was a revelation because those games actually felt normal. The camera angles could hide the empty stadiums and the play-by-play announcer supplies a ton of the energy on a football broadcast. I have often thought about how those environments affected the quality of play of those baseball and football players.

The heated field isn't enough to prevent snow build up while it is actively snowing. It just prevents the turf from freezing solid and also from going dormant. Cleveland and Green Bay both have natural grass/heated fields and both still have snow games. Check out images from the Browns/Steelers game last November.

The long touchdown run was on 2nd down though.

It was wild how much they were blaming the windy conditions for the offensive ineptitude in Philadelphia last night. Meanwhile, it was crazy windy in WNY yesterday and yet Josh is airing the ball over the place and the wind is barely discussed. Exactly this. By the end of the game, Tampa Bay is no longer willing to crowd up close to the LOS and the running game started to find lanes again.

You're analysis on the play from Point #1 is not accurate. If anything, Allen locked in on Knox too early and/or for too long. As J.J. Watt mentioned during the game, the Tampa LB gets lost in coverage immediately, which Josh recognizes, but due to the nature of Knox's route and the cross-traffic, Allen has to wait several beats before pulling the trigger. Josh throws the ball with two defenders crossing in front of Knox but their momentum carries them out of the throwing lane. Unfortunately, the Tampa LB recovers and is able to cover a ton of ground to break up the pass.

Oh please. Analytics absolutely know how to quantify the value of a time out and coaches are well aware of that value.

Yup. Defender ripped it away after the TE (not Knox) was down by contact. The Bills challenged and the call was upheld. The announcers were mystified.

Indeed, PFF had Poyer rated higher than Taylor Rapp, Cole Bishop, and Damar Hamlin last season. I also threw in Justin Simmons and Kyle Dugger for comparison as those names have come up this preseason.

It's really not that different than the players that transition into coaching.

This is a weird way to cope, man. It's not just Bills fans on this one. Go to your favorite social media and check out what the media and pundits are saying. Seems to be nearly universal agreement in favor is the Bills, which is wild and both frustrating and calming.

This is crazy logic. The Chiefs played far from a flawless game and yet were on the receiving end of two wildly wrong and impactful officiating calls.

You're a moderator, you're supposed to be better than this.

I think you're misremembering the timing of the play. I suspect a lot of people are making the same mistake. The video link posted earlier shows that the entirety of the contact happens while the ball is in the air. You can tell when the throw starts in the video as Khalil Shakir whips his head around to watch Coleman. Coleman is at the 20 yard line at that point. The illegal contact from Tre White then happens while Coleman is running between the 19 and 13 yard lines. The hand fighting happens after Coleman has passed the 13 yard line. This was textbook illegal contact that upgraded to DPI.

What are we doing here, man? Your own video shows Tre initiated contact at the 20 yard line and is full on holding him from the ~19 down to the 13 yard lines. The line of scrimmage was the 27 yard line. There is a five yard zone where DBs can make contact with a receiver down field. This was textbook illegal contact that converted to defensive pass interference because he did it while the ball was in the air. This was not a bad call by the official.

He's not even the MVP on his own team. The 3rd quarter, where the Ravens offense looked unstoppable, was all Henry.

Heat lamps are a thing.

That color effect is only for heat transfer via radiation (like from the sun). It's not relevant when the sun is down. There is not nearly enough radiation coming from the stadium lights to have the jersey color make a difference.

The thing is, the people that feel that way are very wrong. The Bills had the most lopsided win of the Wild Card Round! By every metric!

He injured his ankle early on but returned to the game, hobbled. He missed the following game against Houston with the injury. I think it is fair to include him in the list of players we were missing for that first Baltimore game.

Earlier today. Was also on the roster back in August.

Agreed on both counts. The snow during the Cinci game was not forecast and started right at game time. The entire game I felt like the Bengals were wearing the right cleats and the Bills were not. The same thing happened again this year against the 49ers (the snow had stopped by Sunday afternoon and wasn't expected to start back up again the way it did) except this time it was the Bills equipment manager who won the day.

It was a weird game in that Bills pretty much thoroughly dominated the whole game, the final score accurately reflects that domination, and yet the distribution of points within the game made it seems close for a long while. It felt like the Bills took care of business in the second half after letting the Broncos hang around in the 1st half. Yet, the poor angle by Taylor Rapp on the Bronco TD and the uncalled pass interference against Kincaid in the end zone were the only differences, scoring wise, between the halves. In hindsight, it really was a consistently dominate performance.

A whole bunch of folks who never learned how to properly process anxiety and are taking it out on the rest of us.

That number for Joe Burrow is crazy. Almost three whole games?!

Yes, I went through the game logs and he lost ~8.5 quarters of playing time, so 2+ games. He sat for the entire 4th quarter against Jacksonville, Baltimore, San Francisco, and the second New York Jets game. He sat for half of the 4th quarter against Seattle and essentially the entire second New England Game. Trubinsky also took the kneel downs against Indianapolis and Miami but Josh took all of the meaningful snaps in those games.