Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Agree it was a penalty, but then why did it take so long to figure out? My thinking was the official planned to call PI, but they realized that wasn't going to go over well so came up with plan B.

I'm sure all the fans in Baltimore would agree with you. The simple question to answer is if Josh Allen is significantly more valuable, why did he manage to lose two more games and likely had been three if last game mattered to Ravens. Take the Denver, NE, Jax games. If the Bills had won two of them good chance then Allen would be the MVP.

As Gene S the rules expert stated on the air, don't get hung on the exact words of "the ball was fumbled out of bounds." Did the Steeler players helmet glance off it. Did I clearly see it hit the helmet no, but can't say it didn't wither. The replay wasn't clear enough to say for certain, so without being able to answer that question it goes back to has to be clear evidence to overturn. It's one of those plays where if they had ruled Bills ball, it never would have been over turned the other way either. Should they have given a better explanation, yes I agree there and probably in a couple days will read somewhere what it was. But there were also a number of calls that went against Pitt that could have easily been called. If I were a Steeler fan II'd be furious on that DH call that went against them late. The announcers were all saying, the ball was un-catchable. So the refs talked for about two minutes and figured out, lets change it from PI to DH, then the Steelers can't argue it couldn't be caught. To me the ball was in the air when contact was made which means the right call would be PI.

I will say one thing about Diggs, I do think he is still a great WR, but is very comical to watch him try to block downfield. If I were a defensive player and I had a choice between taking on Diggs or Allen to shed a block, I'd prefer taking on Diggs every time.

Definitely agree on punter competition or just sign or draft someone who has better stats. Kicking think it's hard to bring in competition for a guy who is 85% lifetime and is still pretty young so it's not like his leg has worn out. Looking at the lifetime list there's not many kickers above him that either haven't long retired or active on another team. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/leaders/fg_perc_career.htm

Since this thread is about singers. Just curious recall Bon Jovi saying he'd never do a concert in Buffalo. Is that streak still standing or has he in more recent years relented and performed in western NY?

If they really wanted they could sign him for punting, but keep Martin active for holding, but means giving up a roster spot someplace else which may be hard to do with all the injuries.

If Bernard is out next week which good chance he is, think I'd give Klein the green dot on the helmet next week as he has the experience for the role.

He's 85% for his career which ranks him #25 lifetime out of a list of 178. So I think with those stats, he deserves a long leash. During the regular season he missed 2 that were 50+ and 3 40 to 49 yards. While the field looked real good on TV who knows how slick or frozen it might have been. Recall yesterday on one of the shows they were talking about, regardless how well they cleared the snow off the field, it was going to be frozen solid. Prior to this year, everyone was raving about him.

They have a week to practice too with the backups

You could hope you could find a team to trade Tua to for an early 1st round pick. But then you're taking a chance on the guy you draft ends up being even as good as Tua is and likely will take a couple years for him to get there. By that point, the rest of the team has turned over Maybe you match him with a RB like Henry and mainly feature the run. It likely also has to be a team in warm weather or a dome. Miami did get lucky this year in that Tua didn't get hurt, will that luck hold out for another season?

He's saying you keep them in a heating device, maybe every 2 snaps bring in a new one out of the oven. The oven keeps them say at 70 deg.

You think?? Seems KS is a better slot guy than a #2. I can see it being like it was 3 or 4 years ago. Beasley was the slot guy, not the #2, but had more receptions and many more targets than the #2 WR. That brings up what do you do with Davis. I'd like to see him brought back mainly for his blocking abilities assuming he takes a number representative of what he's done. I would then draft a true WR in the 1st or 2nd round. Think that would especially help if replacing the #2 WR with a rookie, when need blocking, bring in Davis and even early in year let Davis play more Davis is then the $4 WR or moves up in case on injury to someone. I'd also then look to sign someone who's a good return guy to take Hardy's place, maybe it's Hines on a cheaper deal, that would allow the Bills to then release both Hardy and Shefeld WR group is then Diggs, rookie, KS, Davis, Shorter, and maybe someone like an Isabella as a PS callup when needed or they sign someone else too.

I have no idea, but I don't live anywhere near Buffalo and when I did live in Western NY it was in Rochester. I just assumed there'd been responses from a number of posters all who knew where the team stayed. I figured I was the exception in not knowing.

Read an article believe it was in the Athletic that states their plan is to fly out of Pitt Sunday afternoon at 3:00. That could change or be incorrect, but that's what it stated. Wow, I figured this was the 2nd worst kept secret in buffalo, behind only the whereabouts of Pegulas jet. Would tyhink they need a hotel with large meeting spaces and areas for food setup too.

Where/what hotel do the Bills typically stay in for home games? How close to stadium? The players probably came to practice today assuming they were going to hotel afterwards as normal for Sunday game. So wil lthey do that and also stay there Sunday night too?

You must have read the same article a couple week back that I did! LOL True could be by bus. Pretty certain it won't be train though. Seems like Pitt to Buffalo is further than NJ to Phil?

I wonder how this affects Pitt travel plans? Did they already leave for Buffalo, I'd guess not. Will they now stay home till Sunday, but then risk having a hard time getting to Buffalo, or will they fly in Monday morning? That creates an unusual travel plan which could mess with them. OK just read they are flying to Buffalo Sunday at 3:00

But if the refs had called the interference on first drive, Bills would have 1st and goal on 1. Much better odds they'd have scored there. So it evens out.

Just remember Dolphins are warm blooded mammals. I do wonder how many dolphin fans who still live in south Florida will make the trip to KC with this weather?

Fines seem to always be announced on Saturdays. Maybe that's the day pay checks go out?? I'll bet if that play is ran 10 times, 9 times, the Bills score. I think with it being the end of the half, with the running clock, the refs were distracted by more trying to spot the ball quickly so no complaints from the Bills and watching the clock. Likely too in situations like with clock potentially running out, that the ref's have different priorities to watch for rather than than what they'd be doing in a normal play with say 8 minutes left on clock. No excuse, but think that was the reality.

Steelers aren't a big passing team, add to that potential weather, not as worried about Douglas and Rapp being out as I would if they were playing Miami or KC.

Yes but these guys aren't brain surgeons. As also was pointed out, some have contract incentives for Int's plus most NFL players have big egos so they will catch it and if given the chance attempt to run it out too rather than take the touchback. Add to that they maybe have about a tenth of a second to process all that, not the amount of time you took to write this post. So yes what you're saying is true, but if the same thing happens 10 times, 9 of those will likely have the same results as what happened here.

Except Steelers run 3 WR 75% of the time.

I don't know about stepped back, but sounds like a dicey situation with the Giants. I read on Monday Martindale quit, but today read it's up in the air, that he hasn't resigned, nor been fired. Think both sides waiting for the other to blink first.