Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

On #6 and 10 #6 The kick was close, but I felt watching the replay it was good. #10 Pretty sure a player called the TO as initially the clock was stopped at 5 seconds, then reset back to 7 seconds. How could that happen? Here's my take, before they ran the last play, McD told the sideline official stay by me so you'll hear when I call TO and he did and McD called it with 5 seconds left. But then another official came over and told the head ref, #XX called a TO before and I looked up and there were still 7 seconds left. So they reset it.

So you feel the elbow has nothing to do with it, but he got hurt in week 9, pretty close to lining up with your assessment of when he went downhill. Listening to Romo, as an ex QB he likely has a better chance of understanding what that type of injury can mean to throwing. Good chance at some point he may have even had the same injury. It may not even be that it actually hurts him, but just affecting his throws. Overall my take on it is the injury, but also OL play and maybe defenses have figured out Dorsey's play calls. Allen's amazing arm can overcome much of this, but take that away the arm strength and he's maybe looking like a middle of the road type of QB. Then throw in some weak line play on top.

Yeah well it's where things are. Beginning to think the defense is falling apart due to lack of Edmunds. They talk all the time about his size and how he shuts down the passing lanes. Once he went out in the Vikings game is when the defense fell apart. Will be interesting when he comes back.

Yes, but he was a PS call up. They are only allowed to call him up one more time from the PS from what I understand. After that they'd need to move him to 53 and cut someone else. Could happen, but it's far from a given particularly since White now is back. I'd assume next week he'll play more.

Or you could just as easily say: When our O can’t do much of anything, it’s putting so much pressure on the defense who’s playing without starting DE, LB, FS and had other DE leave game very early, plus all pro CB only played was it 1 series.

Rhodes isn't even on the 53 man roster so a few things have to happen for him to play. Not saying he shouldn't be on the roster, but right now he's on the PS.

So CBS graphic showed White and Dodson starting. Was that correct? I know I saw Klein on field on 2nd down

I guess they weren't kidding when they said it was about a year recovery for White!

Yeah probably more people passing out in the stands than on the field. Then add some alcohol and 95 degrees!

Probably, though think there's a better chance of it being either a coach or official as they aren't in as good of shape as the players. Never thought about it, but when do the officials get a water break, maybe during TV time outs. Meanwhile players are subbing in and out and getting water whenever they want it.

I fixed it for you. That's what Miami calls it. You may not like it. Is it fair, no oh well. Unless the NFL requires it, it's not going to happen and not sure the league has the authority to dictate wha ta team must do other than provide equal facilities.

They rules require the same man made help on both sides, i.e. heated benches, fans, etc. One team will be on each side of the field. One side is always shady, the one advantage the home team gets is to choose which side of the field they get. The home team is in the same heat at the visiting team, minus the sun. Until a player or coach suffers seriously from heat stroke, it's not going to change and no reason to change it. It's the home field advantage. The one thing the league may do in the future especially since Miami has got better so more prime time games is schedule them for more early season night games and more road games, even a 4:25 start would better. Looking at the Miami schedule 4 of their first 7 games were at home, they had one Thursday night game ironically on the road and one Sunday night, but that wasn't till Oct 23rd. Is Miami requesting early Sunday 1:00 home games in Sept, don't know. That is one thing the league easily can control is they want. No Sunday 1:00's in September could easily be done as typically only 3 Sundays in the season. Give them 1 or 2 road games, plus a prime time game.

Yeah but unless it's actually snowing, it doesn't look good. Cold or wind don't portray all that well on TV, other than seeing peoples breath. Actually that wouldn't work, if the Vikes didn't work, by rule they'd need to also turn off the Bills benches too. What the Bills could do is decide not cold enough for heated benches for either team and remove them. Don't know of any rules in place that require them? Recall back in the 70's Bud Grant would not allow heated benches in Minn for either team as felt his players were use to the cold so would hurt the visitors more. Didn't help him much though in warm weather SB sites. If I were a maintenance worker at Highmark, what I would do with about 5 minutes left in the Miami game, I'd go into the service room near the visitors locker room with a hammer and a punch. Not sure what happened, but a pipe burst, the good news is there was shut off valve about three feet in front of the leak so once we found the issue after the water running for about ten minutes, hopefully not too much seeped under the wall into the visitors locker room so were able to shut it off. But it was the hot water line so there will not be any hot water in the visitors locker room after the game. Sorry about that Fish, but you understand it is an old stadium. In other news for some strange reason McD awards a game ball to a maintenance man??

Forgot about that one for NE. Yeah returns for TD's usually will win the ST award. I'm guessing the guy in Atlanta won ST in NFC for his kickoff return too.

If the old rules were still in effect, may see that happen. Likely so little data to review, but wonder too, in the situation you describe, does the defense tend to pull up more knowing how easy it is for team to kick out of end zone, so they are more looking for squib kick or short kick, but it over the heads of first line of defenders, etc. Could be the receiving team is more in a natural position to defend the on-sides kick??

I was more expecting to see Bass win than Milano win for defense. Wonder who did win it?

Well actually he probably is right as in the NFL if you do any of those things you mention, you often will get a new contract for more money! For sure couldn't have been hitting girlfriend or wife. Admittedly with coaches, it is a much shorter rope.

Not saying this is wrong, but can recall similar comments made about Daboll too. Many posters wanted to run him out of town the 1st couple of years. Admittedly we didn't have an overall roster nearly as strong as we do now either.

See the Bills send donuts and coffee among other things to the Lions for doing all the did to have the game this past week. Hope they asked Tim Horton's to add some Ex-Lax to the recipe.

Believe they just taxi all the way. There's a long runway that runs through the middle of Lake Erie, west to East. Need to have a EZ-Pass to use it though, no more cash.

Don't think there's an Uber for chartering a plane, so yeah they weren't leaving till Friday at earliest and by then storm was here. Arranging for a plane, then getting it there takes time.

Like one is a rookie, another rookie out hurt, and the other CB is only in 3rd season, 1st full season starting. Plus missing DE, LB, Pro Bowl CB, and FS. So yes they've struggled, but still not a high draft need. If I were to guess now, I'd guess 1st round WR, 2nd round IOL, plus sign top IOL free agent

I'm no doctor, but did stay at the Holiday Inn last night, wonder if it could have anything to do with flying home, Change in air pressure could increase swelling so they add the boot??

The last two were what they learned from the past game. They were not going to pass the ball, they were satisfied with just wanted to run the clock down and kick.

Seems the teams really needs both Edmunds and Milano out there together. It's a different defense when both playing. Basically past thee weeks only out there for about 1/2 of one game together. Second half last week showed the difference. For all the Edmunds haters good chance he gets resigned