Ralonzo

"Holding, defense #23, 5 yard penalty, replay 2nd down" How bad have the refs been this year to not know an automatic 1st down?

If we're going down the Mod rabbit hole, i'm good w/ it.

To be fair, Romo has more experience losing the handle on balls.

How is he not down by contact? Review it and take the 10 second runoff too Where's the 10 second runoff for replay ?

TD or not, Allen throws that pass and we're hearing about Sugar High from here to Christmas

"Boneheaded throws"

At least there's something in common

Suamataia is physically freakish but was so so raw coming out, an ideal situation for him would have been getting drafted to a team like the Bills or Eagles as a 3rd rounder where he could red-shirt a year while getting trained up. The Chiefs threw him in completely unprepared at LT. I don't know why, were they counting on the refs covering for him?

I'll own up to it, my take was this was the next Kelvin Sheppard.

How is that the wrong way? The inference is, "Congratulations Bills, you won your Super Bowl again this year by beating the Chiefs in the regular season." Same as Kelce clapping, or talking ***** in the tunnel. Douches. Even the other guys on the show were laughing about "all that good will you built up, you just flushed it in one second"

The wise words of Tony Romo rang in my ears (and cavernous nostrils) which were: "Mmphghhlg Blrrghhhfmmm Grrrpphlbbg" He might have given props but if you watch it through, he's still every bit the douche Kelce is

If he's running toward the LOS that's simulating a snap (unless you're in the CFL) and a false start. I think it didn't get flagged as the play clock was already at 0:00 Going from memory here, but yeah it looked goofy as Mahomes basically ran a slant pattern to the bench while the ball was still under center.

Which one, the one to Morris? I'm assuming you're referencing the INT to Knox. Let's say he doesn't throw it and takes a sack, what would have been the result? Oh yeah, Chiefs ball. That play doesn't concern me, it was GOOD decision making to grenade it up there at the last second, because the downside of the pick is not much worse than not throwing it at all. This was no Sugar High Josh play no matter how many Romos try to dress it up as such.

That's been going on all year, but in a show of respect facing the Chiefs in the first half, Brady chose to run the same play on second down every series. Interestingly both teams had set up a play by running certain things in the first half, to be a killshot in the second half. For KC it was the play to Worthy, for the Bills it was the play to Morris. Both missed by a slim margin, but it's another parallel. Either one working while the other failed would probably have been the difference in the game.

Not as nice to be missing an elite run-blocking tackle, and it showed.

"And I knew there was no help, no help from you."

Everyone is jocking on McD for finally being aggressive but agressive ALL the time is just as predictable as being a wuss. In the first half, when McD faced a fourth-and-a-couple just a little over midfield he punted, pinning the Chiefs back to the 12. The point being, situationally, that was the right decision in a game where the Bills were clearly a cut above, not to give the Chiefs a cheapie to flip the momentum. TBH the game situation coaching from McDermott (sans the challenge on the DHop catch) was plus for NFL coaches. I haven't been able to say that a ton, but I generally agreed with all of his strategery today. Now Brady... I guess it worked out in the end, but the key play of the game to me was the TD to Samuel. I think it was a 3rd down Spags sent the whole student body to blitz there because that's what he does and it almost always works. However the Bills line held JUST long enough for Allen to locate and deliver JUST into Samuels radius and of course he was wide wide open thanks to the blitz and scored. That just castrated Spagnuolo, it took the biggest arrow out of his quiver... and that paid off later on 4th and 2 where he DIDN'T try to bring the pressure. In fact it was a terrific defensive call against the Brady swing pass that was called for the 40th time in the game to beat that predictable Spags jailbreak blitz - he zoned it off and it was a dead play on the snap. Allen just made another TFG play where the D makes the perfect call, and plays it perfectly, and Allen just beats it because he's Allen and the DC can only stand there and mutter "This *****in Guy!"

And while he threw 2 picks, they were the first ones he's thrown in 3 whole weeks.

Zebras are furiously helping the Chargers as if they were wearing red and white.

"Wow look at that Justin Herbert running with the football, he almost reminds you of the other great AFC running QB's like Lamar Jackson and Patrick Mahomes" - Crispy Collins

This is probably the Allenest team in the Allen era.