Virgil

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.

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.

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

Thank you sir

Yup, that's what I was implying. Well done you!

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.

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!

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!

+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 !@#$

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

Seahawks 9 Bills 9

Bills 9 Seahawks 9

Is he allowed to say it Tuesday when we are 4-5?

Let me go ahead and dust this off for the week... !@#$ Dareus

My referencing the Pats is more about how we don't get the ability to luck our way into the playoffs. Think of the teams that have made it in because their division is terrible. You take the dynasty Pats out of our division and I bet that we stumble our way in at least once over the past fee decades. I'm not saying I want it to be this way. I WANT to ride into the playoffs on a car made of Brady's bones and tears. Yes, that's kinda the point I forgot to mention the people attacking others peoples posts as a annual tradition about this time of year too. Thanks for the reminder.

I had plans to write a mid season review. Try the unbias, post game approach and break it all down by position, good and bad. On Tuesday, I saw two things that bothered me. One was the tweet showing how many times we've been 4-4 in our playoff drought. It also showed how many times we were 5-3, 3-5, etc. Then I saw the Gilmore, Dareus, TT threads attacking or defending them. I kept waiting to find the energy or desire to write my little recap and I've now realized that I just don't care. We aren't going to the playoffs this year and I think I've reached the point where I just can't enjoy the ride of the whole season. I love watching the games and enjoying a win. The losses have me numb and are almost expected. I'm tired of debating who is playoff good enough and who is worth the money because in the end, we always end up wrong because none of them are good enough within this franchise. There's always the excuse or the what if. Fact is, we doomed ourselves with our 0-2 start and 1-3 division start. I'm not going to call out why. Everyone has their opinion. But regardless, it's another season where I have absolutely no hope for the playoffs before November started. And worse yet, I expect more of the same next year. Agree with their reasoning or not, but Rex and TT will be back next year unless they finish with 9 or more losses and show the players quitting on Rex. He will get 3 years. TT will be kept because he is the best option. I hope he does turn things around as his accuracy is bothering me too. And year 3 would be enough time to know what we got. But overall, nothing in this franchise is changing for me this year or next. And probably not until Brady is gone. Our curse is Brady, plain and simple. Take him out and our futility isn't close to the 15+ years. It only takes a year in a bad division (which ours had had plenty) and a quick hot streak to be in the AFC championship game. The Jets proved that twice. Either way, I'm going to enjoy my games this season as football is too short and I love it too much. But the playoff watch? The FireRex? I just don't know how to convince myself to care. Midseason reviewed.

It was hard to come off as unbiased with that moniker. I still think he's responsible for our record, especially the 0-2, AND our lack of roster depth because he went all defense, but I'm waiting for the season to end.

What do you do for a living 😋

We will win the next 11. Write it down

Also, how many drops did you count? I counted 4 in the first half, but stats keep saying he only has 7 against him the whole season. I don't see how or know what they count as drops but that seems very wrong

These are awesome and I really look forward to them. One question, on first and goal on the first series, I thought I saw a wide open Reggie Bush running in he flat, TT missed him and scrambled to the opposite side of the field. Are you able to confirm that. It really pissed me off.

I don't know why I find this to be depressing, but I do

Someone just tweeted that he's the 90th rated DB in the league right now on the season.

Wrong. Very wrong

Yeah, as much as I like TT, that's a bad reference