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Why did it take until page 4 for someone to point this out? Why did I look through all of the posts to discover this? Why can't I have back those 45 seconds of speed reading? Mentioning Flutie as a Bills legend should immediately place asterisks on your profile ...

Again ... I had to scale down the pixels to meet the posting limit. I'll give you confusion on the glove/ball. However, you can blow it up enough to see that the lower white stripe on the shoulder disappears into the white boundary line. I agree that this frameshot is not conclusive ... but it is not HD ... I've attached another from a few frames before to help you see the fingers touching the ball. Here you can also see his white hip blend into the boundary line.

I've attached the frame that I was looking at ... I had to scale it down to fit in the 200k limit, but I see Landry's fingers touching the ball at the same time that his shoulder and hip are on the white. Reading the rule like that may make sense, but the actual principle is that a player out of bounds is an extension of the boundary line and the ball is dead immediately upon touching the OOB line. You cannot recover it because it becomes dead before you can fully possess it. It becomes dead the moment that Landry touches the line and the ball reverts to the last team in possession. This one of the few rules that actually shows some consistency. Again ... it's not when he loses possession ... it's all about when he completely stops touching the ball in conjunction with touching the boundary line

Check out the video again ... https://www.clippituser.tv/c/glrlnm just before the ball leaves contact with Landry's hand, his shoulder (and maybe more of his side) touches the boundary line. It was the right call

Anyone ... just get in ...

On #4, I watched the ref right from the start as I knew it was PI ... the ref was trying to pull out his flag almost immediately, but was trying to do it without looking down to grab it. He just didn't find it right away. Each of your other points are clear and indisputable!

So ... are the same people who claim that this is not a sustainable way to win the same people who complain that we aren't scoring enough points off of the takeaways? Seems that way ... enjoy the wins. When we get early 1990s awesome again, then we can nitpick.

RB has possession while running ... catch is not possessed until two feet down

On the sideline, they removed that subjective call ...

Serious question about a loophole in the rules ... why was that a touchdown? Possession is not established by a receiver until both feet are down ... Hogan never touched his feet down in the end zone. Is there something I'm missing?

It was interesting to hear the commentators belittle McD for waiting until Carolina lined up before calling TO at the end of the game, but when Carolina did that on the Bills' last drive, it was a smart play by the coach. McD made the smart play.

Wasn't that a lateral a couple plays back? He threw it backwards out of bounds ...

No, he would fall down and injure himself on the flag without being touched ...

To be clear, Flutie was the 24th rated passer in 1999. He didn't lead us to the playoffs, we got there because of a dominant defense in spite of Flutie's play. Was he the better option? Probably ... but we didn't get there because of him.

Averaged less than 200 yards per game through the air ... but he also brought 22 yards per game on the ground ... wasn't he great?! Just because he had more durability than Glass Johnson doesn't mean that he is all that.

My friend's wife was an ER XRay nurse on duty at the hospital when Thiesman came in ... pretty cool story for her to tell. She got to help read the film. That and my friend got peed on by Jim Kelly in the high school locker room after football practice one day. Cool story, bro ...

Tallinn is a beautiful place, but the time I was there in January ... we only had about 2 hours of daylight. Any home playoff game is a night game ....

I know Gordon (Kim's brother). Very cool guy, talented musician himself.

I'm not sure the Cardinals can express interest in a player under contract with another team ...

They ran the end around fake a few times inside the Miami 20 during the game, including the go ahead drive (I think). My thought was that was stupid to do in the red zone, even dumber when they didn't fake it.

Absolutely! They needed to treat it like four down territory

The snow game in Cleveland was 8-0 IIRC ... the 6-3 one was in Buffalo, I sat in the end zone for that painful JV game.

Smartest play of the game, actually. It shows he knows the rule book. Once the Bengals touched it, the worst that would happen is we get the ball at that point. If he picks it up and fumbles it and the Bengals return it for a touchdown, we get the ball where they last touched it before Tate picked it up. Unusual rule, but always been the case. At least one of the announcers knew the rule.

The best answer in my mind is found in his CFL days. Flutie set records there. He won the Grey Cup three times, Grey Cup MVP three times, CFL MVP six times ... all in seven years. It sounds amazing until you understand that he did it with three different teams. There was something about him that made teams want to unload him, even as he was the best in the league there at that time. From what I could see ... it was ALWAYS all about him and proving everyone wrong about his height. He was not a team player.