Generic_Bills_Fan

This whole ‘let them play down the stretch because the refs don’t want to impact the game’ philosophy has to die off. They are even more involved in the game with ridiculous no calls now Call it consistently for both teams all game long idk why that’s too much to ask…we were called for much less obvious pass interference/holds than that diggs play

We don’t really know that was the primary route though do we? That was just too good of a matchup not to exploit. Tough to pin it on the offensive coordinator when refs blow something so badly.

Im not sure I agree we were ‘relying’ on a penalty there. We identified a good one on one matchup…diggs and Davis do some back and forth handfighting…diggs wins his matchup easily and we throw him the ball. I don’t see anything wrong with that. When you’ve got defenders purposely trying to rip guys down by their jerseys when they know they’re beat to trade a penalty for a TD and it’s not called by the refs that is far beyond the scope of playcalling imo. Who’s to say we weren’t gonna get held on any route we ran…windows get very tight down there in the red zone…we should know we are terrible down there lol if you’ve got a matchup that good you take it every time

Yea that jags game is quite the blemish…he was under siege all game but if he limited the silly turnovers I think we win that 12-9 and a win is a win.

Right moss could’ve bounced one run outside against the pats and we’d be 8-5 right now leading the division

They are the kind of team that I expect to see in the super bowl assuming we start putting it together (big assumption I know) l don’t think this system of ball control offense and play good fundamental defense wins you multiple playoff games when someone like the bills or chiefs could score 14 points in like 2 minutes on you even if you’ve done a great job defensively the rest of the game. As the bucs game SHOULD have proved if we didn’t get screwed 😂 bucs pass rush started to gas out and they played some soft cover 2 to prevent quick scores which we absolutely lit up Very important game though it’s a tough call…season is pretty close to over if we lose this one. And we seem very capable of playing with or playing down to anyone

Did Marvin Lewis ever make it out of the first round of the playoffs? Lol that’s what he was fired for. McDermott made it to the afc championship game in what…year 4?

Yea it’s too early for this…fire him now and then what? You promote one of the two coordinators that nobody likes? Lol if we miss the playoffs I’m all for starting to talk about this

Yea I put the bucs game in a different category…titans/pats/jags we could not get it done in a one score game but this one we played well enough to win…Steelers game goes down as a one score game but it really wasn’t one

Crazy how many completely obvious ones there have been too…I think there were triple the amount of uncalled 100% obvious holds that get called every time in the bucs game as we’ve gotten all season

They didn’t though 😂😂 we were down more at halftime and you are literally just completely ignoring an entire second half td drive… Or are you counting wrong? I don’t really understand what’s going on lol We lost the first half 24-3 and won the second half 24-3 with a ridiculous no call in the end zone late in the game that should have made it 28-3. That is an absolute drubbing that at the least is equal to how badly we played in the first half…and this scheme shift you’re using as an excuse for their coaches letting us back in the game is literally my point lol they blew a 21 pt lead in the second half and got bailed out of a loss by deus ex machina. Were they running a prevent offense too and trying to score the least amount of points possible to increase their chances of winning? Haha can’t imagine a 3 point second half was their benchmark. Clearly the defensive adjustments took off right away in the second half. Again if you wanna say maybe their coaches did a little better job…I wouldn’t have much of a problem with that. But this notion that we got laughably outcoached is 100% false. And the fact that you have to completely leave out an entire offensive possession from your argument should kind of tell you that lol

if josh Allen reaches Brady levels of popularity then yea maybe. I really only see Brady led teams getting lopsided officiating like that. The refs straight up win them games…this is not the first time this season this has happened for them so it’s certainly not an anti bills thing. Packers even got hosed against the bucs last year and Aaron rodgers is a big deal lol then we all saw the super bowl where the chiefs were just randomly not allowed to play in the secondary like they had been all season. I do think the chiefs dbs got away with a lot all year but you’re gonna let it happen all the way up to the superbowl where Tom Brady is on the other sideline huh 😂There’s definitely plenty of awful officiating to go around but usually over the course of a game it evens itself out…like the pats game we got screwed a few times but then we got a pretty soft late hit on josh Allen that I wouldn’t have called. it is absolutely mindboggling that we had 5 holding/dpi calls and they had 0 against the bucs though with all the obvious cr*p they got away with

Yea that’s the big story to me…like how can a team commit so many obvious holds/dpis yet win the penalty battle 5-0 in that category lol even if that late diggs end zone play was a tossup they very much owed it to us for the litany of other jersey pulls the bucs got away with. Of course it wasn’t a tossup at all mind you 🤣

You’re still leaving out 7 points in the second half to drive your point home huh 😂😂 bucs absolutely flubbed the second half and were bailed out…or we were great. Either way we outcoached them in my opinion. They had a chance to go up 3 scores again late and passed it up to go for it on 4th and got stopped…absolutely abysmal coaching in the second half by them they are lucky they got those Brady specials from the refs…but a win is a win for sure nothing against the ‘don’t blame the refs people’ …my general point is why is the first half so much more important than the second half in your view? They went to the cover 2 shell early and we lit it up and they had absolutely no answers. We took the points when we needed to and even that controversial punt ended up being the right decision. I’d think the second half would be the most important no? Half time adjustments are critical

Why are you ignoring the earlier td in the second half 😂😂also… ‘the bucs stopped blitzing and went two high vanilla after going up 17’…to prevent quick scores right? And what did we do…scored quick all second half loll aka poor coaching by the bucs you are openly admitting to. How on earth does saying the bucs made a coaching blunder prove your point that they were superior coaches

Then what….. lol you stopped at a super convenient time after we already scored a td in the second half mind you 😂 what was the second half score

Haha I’m gonna reply to my own comment… I’m honestly more optimistic about this teams chances this season over last year because we frequently come out hot out of the gate after halftime. Last year we’d come out of the half so flat

Not that we were trying to be ineffective on purpose by any means but I think some of the success of the second half is directly tied to things we were trying to set up in the first half What is this overwhelming sense around here that football games are over at halftime lol I just don’t understand it…we were up on the jets 10-0 and everyone in the game day thread is panicking omg we’re gonna lose to the jets 😂 halftime adjustments are the most important thing a coaching staff does. We absolutely wiped the floor with them in the second half

That’s not even a win assuming you know that the play is going to end in a horrible uncalled dpi which diggs has no way of knowing lol I’d take the opportunity to go for it on 4th and 2 over a 3rd and 17 with a longer fg try.

I think we outcoached them honestly…that’s why that game hurt. Fake punt was certainly a blemish but I think that’s offset by us absolutely torching them in the second half when they went into a shell to prevent quick scores…they also passed up a chip shot fg to go up three scores…just a lot of head scratchers over there

How we can better react to how the players react to penalties 😂

I don’t understand this take…diggs is wide open…Davis had to literally try to tackle him to save the game. Should you really have to plan on horrendous officiating and ignore a great one on one matchup that your best receiver easily won? I’ll second that I’ve been in a lot of penalty threads and this one is definitely different haha

I mean in the heat of the moment like that I’m not sure how much thought you get to put into how to make it most look like you’re getting held to be fair lol he doesn’t get to see himself from 37 broadcast angles. Shoving the defender when you know you’re due an obvious dpi call in a game where your team is getting no calls to begin with doesn’t make a lot of sense to me…in the moment how does he know he’s gonna be victimized by an awful no call…100% they’re calling OPI if he does that and he’s likely not catching the ball anyway

Bucs gm deserves all the credit for building a roster talented enough to lure Brady…I don’t think arians is an impressive coach in any way and that comment was very foot in mouth lol

I think the hands up thing is a common move to show you’re being held and draw attention to it…I think it was more about davis doing such a pathetic job tripping on his own two feet and going to the ground diving at diggs jersey that ended up giving the refs ‘enough’ ammo to call it questionable and move on. It looked like diggs had to have something to do with davis falling when he very much didn’t