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Virgil

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  1. Can we just make everyone put TT Supporter or TT Basher in their signature and move on? No one is bending and believes they are right. These get ugly quick.
  2. And Goodwin. Can't say enough how well he is coming along
  3. Last 4 plays when 1st and goal. 1 - run play 2 - sack 3 - sack 4 - incomplete. It's hard to not challenge the protection and play calling. I still think an elite QB gets it done.
  4. If everyone believed it was dead, why did Carp still kick it? The logic has to go both ways
  5. Watch it again. He's going for the ball. Carpenter kicks into him.
  6. Knowing you are going to win and hoping to win are VERY different things. It's like a free throw. Those who expect to do it don't need to think about it. Those who haven't done it a lot may know all the motions to go through, but it's not the same to execute. I can tell you how to be a scratch golfer. I can show you a perfect swing. But I'm still poor and a working class guy.
  7. Great players find a way. You can break down tape and look at each play all you want, but there is some truth to that. I genuinely believe that Brady or Rodgers wins that game. The good ones find a way, even amidst the officiating adversity. I see the logic in what the supporters are saying too. His blocking was terrible on the last drive so I don't blame him for leaving the pocket. The penalties knocked him out of a closer field and the draw plays were terrible, which took the ball out of his hand. I really liked how Tyrod played for most of the game. But there is something to the fact that he couldn't pull it out in the end. It's an 11 man offense yes, but you're lying if you don't know what I'm talking about.
  8. I don't think it should have been roughing after watching the replay. Sherman did play the ball. Carp hurt himself by kicking into Sherman. If you want to blame Sherman for following through with the play, then Carp is equally to blame for following through with the play as well. The real mess up was the delay of game and not resetting the play clock.
  9. I feel like I've seen illegal contact called many times on WR when the QB was outside the pocket, but what do I know?
  10. http://buffalonews.com/2016/11/08/richard-shermans-hit-walt-powell-wasnt-penalty-bills-seahawks/ I've seen this explanation twice and I still don't get it. Does this mean that any time a QB is out of the pocket, every receiver downfield can be straight up tackles? I feel like this can't possibly be right and that I've seen many illegal contact penalties before when players roll out. Is this one of those rules that changed around scrambling QB's and being a runner? All I can think is that they are trying to say that Sherman was blocking as TT was in "run" mode. No matter what, that's a ridiculous rule. Delete this. I didnt see the other thread somehow. Delete this. I didn't see the other thread somehow.
  11. Normally, I take the side of the players on this as it is just a game and a job for them. However, Sherman's actions on the field and against his coach makes me hope this wouldn't have happened. If I'm Rex, that picture doesn't make me happy.
  12. There's missed calls in the speed of the moment and then there's what happened to Carp. You can't possibly compare the two
  13. If only the moral victories got us into the playoffs. It's still a loss and we now need to go at least 6-1 to have a chance at the playoffs. It's going to be a long bye-week.
  14. No one deserves to post game thoughts, but I'm really trying to do the other one in respect and objective. With that.... This one hurt. Really hurt. I wasn't expecting a win. The way the Defense played, I expected a long night. But the way the offense played. The way they kept finding a way. The way it seemed like we were finally going to get over all the humps: Primetime, last minute drives, offensive light show..... And as the Bills do, they build you up just to tear you down. It's a game. It's a game. It's a game. We are 4-5 and this just !@#$ing hurts. Oh yeah, and !@#$ Sherman!
  15. A Primetime Bills game meant a few things going into the game. We are going to show some great flashes. Someone on the other team is going to play out of their mind. The Refs are going to do something stupid. And we will lose in normal BS or gut-wrenching fashion. With that, I'm going to try and keep this to the end results and try not to get too into the shoulda, coulda, woulda's..... 1 - Goodwin. While not any amazing plays that are going to jump out at you on a stat sheet, we was a big part of this offense. He ran deep a lot (Harvin too) which spread the field and allowed a lot of underneath throws. More importantly, he seems to have become TT's escape valve, finding ways to come back to him and make some great sideline catches. I'm really impressed with his development this year and hope to see more from him. I know Woods had 10 catches for over 150 yards. That's nothing to sneeze at. He was the rock out there. Just makes the loss so much harder when it overshadows what these guys were able to do. 2 - Runningbacks - Debate whether or not they ran the ball too little or not, there's a lot to talk about here. Gilly seemed to get the 2/3rd's of the snaps in the first half with it evening out to 50/50 in the second half. Both ran well. The passing game was going well enough where I personally couldn't get upset at the pass/run ratio. I wonder how much of the ball distribution was Shady being hurt and just natural flow. Either way, I really enjoyed the game plan as it adapted to the tempo needed because of our porous defense. 3 - Hughes - Great to see him in on the punt block and contributing everywhere. However, the first Wilson TD was on him for breaking contain. 4 - I hear more than I like to... so I boil my head in a sense of humor... I laugh at what I cannot change... I throw it all on the pyre again...go then and do this I'd do it for you... when all that I want is so badly to be... by myself again... it's going to drive me right out of my brain 5 - Defense - 28 first half points is absolutely inexcusable. 3 in the second half helps though. I don't care how great the Seahawks played, we have to match it. One handed catches, hurdling Gilmore (sorry, but that doesn't happen to elite players), rushing 4 without pressure....It was all just a joke. Darby just got abused a few times. No safety deep and Wilson just throwing it deep down the middle, making our guys draw PI calls. We got beaten up and called out. We make a few plays per half, but it just doesn't outweigh the big plays we give up. (Shout out to the Lorax for his 10th sack). Rex, these are your guys and your supposed specialty. This may cost you your job. 6 - Refs - Let's do this. I've never seen the Ref's Association so quickly throw the refs in a game under the bus. They were on twitter within 5 minutes saying how it should have been Unsportsmanlike conduct. That play cost us being tied in the 4th quarter. And I wish I could say that was all there was. Making Carpenter come off the field, the ump standing over the ball until 5 seconds left on the playclock, but not resetting the playclock....just a smorgasbord or travesty. Then we have the unsportsmanlike conduct call against Woods in the 3rd? Just plain bad and what I expected against the Bills during Primetime. It's hard to say that 3 points at the end of the first half is the game, but needing a field goal on the last 2 drives gives us a 3 point win possibly. On the national stage, this just can't happen. 7 - Overall Offense - While it wasn't our normal scheme, I was pretty happy with what we showed on the field today. There were a few dud drives and some headscratching decisions by TT to play it safe, but I liked our look. We executed a pass-happy offense well and saw a good last minute drive before the half. We saw some 4 wide sets. I saw a formation I've never seen before with a FB and TE lined up behind the tackles. Run plays seemed to be well timed and good plays down the middle. Offense was not the reason we lost this game. I'd be happy to see this offense for the rest of the season. It kept the Rb's fresh and let TT get going. The draw play on 3rd and long at the end of the game, after the Glenn tripping penalty, was horrific. Terrible call and it was good to see TT get into the face of the coaches after the call. Doing it again before the 2 minute warning also made no sense when they were clearly waiting on it and we have a back-up center trying to block for it. 8 - Mills - I don't know the PFW rankings but I'm tired of seeing him get abused. A glaring need going into the offseason that was addressed and he just gets beat too often. Sometimes he does his job, but when he does get beat, it's bad. This is a top 3 need for us in the offseason if Henderson can't make his way back. 9 - I'm a Tyrod fan. I admit it. I've listened to the accuracy and urgency comments and started to question him a bit this past week. Even in this game, he threw the ball away on 3rd down a few times when it looked like there were guys open downfield. On those plays, I wonder if he's too worried about playing it safe. However, that's all I got against him. Tyrod was pretty great tonight. He ran a pass first offense, found guys all over the field, broke away from sacks, and almost broke 300 yards! Kept up with an offense that was shredding our defense. His play at the end of the first half was great and what I've wanted to see at the end of games. Final Drive - We were in it until the final drive and I felt like this would be the perfect cap to TT's night and finally give something to make the naysayers chew on. Playcalling and support killed TT with the draw play and then the sack. But TT made a great play to Woods on 3rd and I could feel it. But alas, we come up just short again. I'm sure the anti-TT guys will only focus on the last drive and that was the game, but this is just a tough one for me. I challenge those guys to show me what TT could've done differently. No one was open on the last play and most QB's don't get us to that last play. On the road in Seattle, MNF, minus Sammy, I was very happy with TT. He made some great, ACCURATE throws tonight and kept this a game. Tyrod gets a solid B+ grade from me. 10 - Reggie Bush - How many stupid plays can he make in each game before he doesn't have a job anymore? His dragging out that play before half and running across the field created the block in the back. It's mind blowing to me how out of place he looks on the field and the damage he does. He's got a case of the Spillers and just can't run north to south 4-5 going into the bye isn't where we wanted to be, but it's our reality. We haven't had a complete game in 3 weeks now. We can't get all three facet of our team to show up. Tonight was the defense, as it was last week. Offense gets an A-, defense a C-, and special teams a C+. It's easy to point to the Sherman hit, but Carpenter is 0-4 over 45 yards. That's not okay. Enjoy our bye week to think about Cincy and our season Go Bills! Sherman is a POS!
  16. +1 Just thinks it's him vs the world and he's the smartest guy in the room. The more I hear him speak and see him play, he's just an !@#$
  17. I feel bad for the kid. Without a bowl game, senior game, and combine, I think he's a 4th rounder at best. With EJ being gone in the offseason, I wouldn't be surprised to see the Bills take a flyer on him and see him, maybe stash him on the practice squad. I don't think he's shown anywhere near enough to merit a higher pick
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