Wraith
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2 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:
You need to play a flawless game if you expect the officials to have an impact.
Flawless game? No.
Refs making questionable calls? Yes
Recipe for expected L.
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.
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3 minutes ago, Simon said:
You're a moderator, you're supposed to be better than this.
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17 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:
It was close I think as Josh jet go of the ball it had turned into the players hand fighting and arguably Coleman was the aggressor. I think the foul was earlier in the down.
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.
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24 minutes ago, QB Bills said:
Maybe there's another replay out there that will show something different but this is not DPI. If anything, they could have called Coleman for this. But with how Andrews was committing OPI on every route, they seemed to let them play on that side of the ball.
This was a third down play that was a pretty big turning point in the game imo.
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.
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17 minutes ago, Sweats said:
I agree that last year, Lamar was not the MVP, however, he has more than earned it this year.
Prove me wrong.
He's not even the MVP on his own team. The 3rd quarter, where the Ravens offense looked unstoppable, was all Henry.
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21 minutes ago, MarkMiller said:
what .. what if … what if we install lights with extra radiation?!Heat lamps are a thing.
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2 minutes ago, Special K said:
Also, white jerseys reflect heat where darker colored jerseys absorb heat, so the Ravens will be colder by wearing white as well.
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.
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12 hours ago, Sierra Foothills said:
I saw where some fans were not happy that the Bills didn't win more decisively... as if style points matter. The Bills did what they had to in order to win and they weren't interested in impressing anyone by needlessly running up the score or going pass happy on offense.
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!
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1 minute ago, jletha said:
I agree that the vibes in this game are mismatched from the reality of how close we are. But I keep seeing that Shakir was out in the previous game but its wrong.
Shakir played! And he had the biggest play of the game in the 3rd Q.
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.
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4 minutes ago, boyst said:
When?
Earlier today. Was also on the roster back in August.
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40 minutes ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:
I want to believe we had some cleat issue in that light snow but that could definitely be cope lol. The niners bills game actually reminded me a lot of that bills bengals playoff game but that time the niners were on skates so if my cope is somehow true maybe we figured that issue out 🤣
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.
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13 minutes ago, Beck Water said:
Sooo was watching Sean Payton's presser. He said he liked where they were at halftime. They weren't looking good. The game wasn't as close as the score would indicate.
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.
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1 hour ago, Kelly to Allen said:
The negativity before the playoffs is off the charts.
A whole bunch of folks who never learned how to properly process anxiety and are taking it out on the rest of us.
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1 hour ago, transplantbillsfan said:
Lamar played 107 more snaps than Josh and Burrow played 170 more.
The average NFL offense has 63 snaps per game.
That number for Joe Burrow is crazy. Almost three whole games?!
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2 minutes ago, ScotSHO said:
I've seen an estimate of approx. 2 games for lost playing time. Take Josh's averages for 2024 and add 2 more games worth of output to the totals?
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.
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Every once in a while I still marvel at how wrong the scouting reports were about Josh Allen and I think this video reinforces why. He looks like a kid in this video. Compare him at 19/20 to guys like Sam Hartman. We are all very used to high level college athletes basically being fully physically developed when they show up as freshman and that just was clearly not the case with Allen. He was an extremely late bloomer (relative to other elite athletes, not so much other normal humans) and that is why he has managed to get faster, more agile, and throw more accurately while a pro. Even the scouts who were optimistic about him due to his arm talent were not expecting his elite running ability - I swear Allen is a faster and more agile runner now, after 7 years, than he was as rookie.
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2 minutes ago, Success said:
I'll definitely take it, I'm glad we got the win.
But this coaching staff is not off the hook w/ that. They need to match Allen's excellence - not rely on it.
I beg you to rewatch some of the angles Cam Lewis took in center field as the deep safety. I love him in his normal role but the defensive coaches pulled off a damn miracle through almost three quarters with him, Bishop, and Elam back there against that team. You're whining about a prevent defense that could've been better.
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1 minute ago, GunnerBill said:
While I agree didn't like Babich's playcalling so much from there... being down to a fella who has been on the PS all year at safety and a guy who we know can't cover at linebacker by the 4th quartet didn't help.
I agree with you!
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This thread is completely irrational to me. The Bills defense had the Lions down 35-14 with three minutes left in the 3rd quarter before they shifted into an admittedly mediocre prevent defense the rest of the game while up multiple scores and playing their second and third string defensive backs. The Lions have the best offense in the league by a mile. Also keep in mind the Lions had a ridiculous amount of possessions because the Bills offense was scoring too fast to chew the clock. A lot of you are projecting your feelings from the Rams game. This was not a replay of that game defensively.
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18 minutes ago, Simon said:
I think they may have actually done that this year.
I'm not 100% sure but it may now be a rule that if you dive headfirst in the field of play you're still afforded protection but are marked down at the place you began the slide/dive. I doubt if it would apply at the goaline though.
That rule has been in place for at least six years based on this article. I recall Allen losing at least one rushing TD by diving head first into the head zone when the rule was applied too aggressively - back in 2019 or 2020 I believe. I feel like the officials don't apply the rule as much anymore, it may have even been retracted at this point.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/24277319/ball-spotted-first-touch-head-first-dives
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16 minutes ago, RousseauRage said:
Pass was already out of his hand, wasn't it?
No.
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18 minutes ago, cgg716 said:
Burrow ain't Manning. Browning was respectable with that supporting cast. If he's still on that level when he loses pieces, starting with Tee, we'll talk
Browning outplayed Burrow!
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Just now, Bob Jones said:
The counterpoint here is that JA and a couple other QBs in the league (Stroud is one) do not have to "step into" their throws all the time (within reason/obviously can't arm only throw a 60 yarder) to make a good throw. So bottom line is that you're making an excuse for JA.
Allen does not really step into throws. He rotates his upper body in a violent snapping motion to generate all that power. A lot of modern QBs are taught this way. The blow from Jones/Dawkins was unfortunately timed and placed to hit Allen so he couldn't finish the snap.
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1 minute ago, djp14150 said:
I would have wanted thr underneath route. Even if Diggs doesn’t get the 1st, it’s 3 rd and short and burns clock or forces KC to use time out.
I wanted to score to tie or win with under 20 seconds snd KC has no time outs.
I wouldn’t have gone to the end zone
I think intentionally passing up on a very high percentage touchdown to go up by 4 points with 1:55 to play to instead set up a 3rd and 5 and a potential 39 yard field goal attempt to tie the score would not be the correct decision, thinking probabilistically.
Hard to beat the Chiefs and the refs every post-season
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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.