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    12/8/24 Game 14 GAMEDAY! Bills vs Rams post game Thread

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    That’s it. Simply a binary thing and inexplicable to misunderstand the situation. Seems to me after this game there are 3 long term potential solutions: 1) replace McDermott; 2) keep him but with a new title, “chief team executive and culture officer” or something like that, and then hire a new head coach; 3) bring in a specialist to call the game in the last 5 minutes. The problem with 2) is that it is unlikely a good coach would take the job. So it seems to me it is 1 or 3, and I am not sure how feasible 3 is. Probably best just to promote Brady to head coach and move on…

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    NFL officiating is broken. How do we fix it?

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    1 minute ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:

    I would go the totally opposite way. No instant replays, no challenges. Simplify the rules. Just call what you see and move on.

     

    the “problem” isn’t the officiating. The officiating has actually gotten a lot better. The problem is we now have about a thousand cameras in slo mo reviewing every angle of a guy’s shin possibly touching down, which makes every call or non call subject to scrutiny. 
     

    they need to just simplify the rules (eg, what is a catch?), and make quick common sense decisions, and we should accept that errors will be made but that they will mostly get things right.

    Yes, there are 2 options:

    1. Old school: complete human accountability with no replay. Add a ref or two if needed to cover the entire field effectively 

    2. total technology solution. Just 1 human as mouthpiece for sensors, video review, total tech. 

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    Josh Allen Performance Yesterday..a Redux

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    Josh took vicious shots on the failed trick play in Baltimore and then yesterday on the play that sent him to the blue tent. He also has been playing since the end of the Cardinals game with a damaged left hand, how severe we don’t know. My concern is that we are simply seeing the natural result of a freak of nature getting the freak knocked out of him too frequently. If I were Pegula I would be asking some hard questions about the long term plan to maximize the effectiveness of the extraordinary Josh Allen for the next 10 years. And if I didn’t like the answer I would start making a plan to clean house. 

    Another Keon Coleman thread. This man is pure charisma, every Bills fan should watch his press conf

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    Big personality, self-deprecating, funny, from the wrong side of the tracks, has worked his tail off to get here and knows It’s just the beginning of a whole new ballgame…that is the vibe I got. Plus an obvious gratitude for hitting the lottery with #17 about to be throwing him the ball, and a strong commitment to hold up his end of the stick. What’s not to like? 

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    Definition of a #1 receiver

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    Lots of thoughtful comments in this thread so I hesitate to weigh in, but I would assert one thing, which is that if your definition of a #1 is someone like Kelce, Moss, Gronk, or Lofton, then you have set the bar really, really high…Clearly most teams won’t have a #1 if that is the bar, because most teams won’t have a Hall of Fame receiver. So it seems either like we need a lower bar, or we need a new label—don’t call the player a #1, call him a HoF wide receiver…

    So day 1 was a bust

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    4 hours ago, Low Positive said:

    Benjamin Franklin was a notorious womanizer and James K Polk was one of the worst Presidents in American history. #justsayin

    That is really unfair to James K. Polk. In 4 short years he seized the entire southwest from Mexico, drastically reduced tariffs, made the English sell the Oregon Territory, and built an independent Treasury Department. Having done all this, he sought no second term! (Source: They Might Be Giants, the James K. Polk song.)

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    Anyone else more low-key about this loss than you thought you'd be?

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    I was there; first home playoff game since the Kelly era. I really had a feeling when the touchback took place and the Allen fumble was recovered that the football gods might finally be on our side. Then getting down to the 25, first and 10, a plausible path to beat the clock and keep Mahommes off the field…it just felt like it was meant to be. Something special in the air. Then it all went south in ways being discussed ad nauseum on threads here. The instant Bass trotted out to kick I looked up at the sky, and said, “and here comes Patrick Mahommes. Why god?”
     

    So for me the disappointment was big in the sense that I went from a feeling that fate might be turning, to—very rapidly—the opposite. All in the space of about 3 minutes (if you include the 2 minute warning TV timeout). But as soon as the “our time has come” spell was broken I kind of took it fatalistically, which is how I am feeling now.

     

    My other feeling is a deep sense of relief that it did not seem, from Highmark, as though Ed Hochuli cost us the game. That would have been very hard to take. This was different: Hope. Poof. Resignation. 

    Referees (officials): NFL 2023 divisionals: KC-BUF: Shawn Hochuli (UPDATE: full crews announced)

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    56 minutes ago, chongli said:

    Full referee crews have been announced. Craig Wrolstadt is our alternate referee.

     

     


    So it looks like 4 of the 7 refs (Hochuli, Holt, Killen, and Padroza)  for the Chiefs game on Sunday also refereed the Eagles game in November. The remaining 3 (Fremont, Hall, Meyer) were not on the crew that gave the week 12 game to the Eagles.
     

    Never clear of course how much of the bad officiating is free lance stuff based on personal bias or incompetence and how much is imposed from NY based on the perceived financial interests of the east coast media elites and NFL.
     

    What we do know is that 4/7 of the crew, either on its own or at the behest of NY, was part of a set of egregiously bad calls that nearly put a dagger in the heart of the Bills’ 2023 season. 

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    From a former McDermott Supporter: It is OVAH

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    A key question is, who is the accountable decision maker? A strong GM would fire McDermott tomorrow and probably would have after the Broncos or Pats games. But Beane did not do that then and is unlikely to do so tomorrow. Is that because Beane is compromised in some way given his tight interrelationship with McDermott throughout their tenure? And if that is the case must Beane and McDermott go together? And if that is the case how much confidence should we have in Terry getting these choices right without Kim there to call the shots as she may well have done when they drafted #17? Or is there another path forward? Can Terry just call Beane in the morning and say look, I need to roll the dice with one of you chuckleheads, clearly it’s not Sean; he is a loser. The whole world can see it …  so bring me a plan in 7 days for how to turn this thing around or else you are done, too? 
     

    it is an interesting management and governance moment…

     

     

     


     

     

     

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