dave mcbride

I honestly don't understand this response at all.

A terrible Giants team with a backup QB, a terrible NE team, and a truly mediocre TB team on the road all proved to be bad matchups for the Bills, so maybe the conventional wisdom on TBD is correct?

I think the Bills might get curb-stomped. To beat the Bengals, you need strong DT play, particularly interior push. Otherwise, Burrow just picks teams apart. The Bills don't have a credible 1T now, and they'll be exploited again (just like in the playoff game last season). The Bills' offense will need to score over 30 points to have a chance, and I just don't see it. I mean, they could only put up 24 against TB and they looked good on offense on Thursday. In the previous three games, they didn't surpass 25. The Bengals' defense is better than all of those other teams, and they'll be playing at home.

By committing an unforgivable penalty. The coaches have to drill into the players’ heads going into a situation like that that the only way the jets can tie it is if they commit a penalty. Jumping Offside there was so stupid. It’s ok to be a step behind the OT out of the gate if the clock doesn’t stop. Also, it was so fitting that the game basically ended on what I believe is the worst penalty rule in the league: the DPI call on the well-underthrown ball. It’s a penalty that rewards a bad athletic effort by the quarterback.

Meh. Bills fans complaining about nonsense like this as opposed to actual plays in the game and athletic performance is the gaming world equivalent of rules lawyering. No one likes those people (except for other rules lawyers, who appear to be well represented in this thread).

Brav-o!

Fans spend WAY too much griping about calls already, and to complain about a call/non-call that actually had no bearing on an actual play? It’s tiresome. Refs neither favor nor or biased against the Bills.

Why are people complaining about this?

Yes, when that happened I started looking for the flag.

KC had three timeouts, though. Very different situation. Here's what I'll say about 13 seconds: it wasn't a crazy or outlier outcome for Mahomes to hit two passes to elite receivers over the course of two plays against a D they had been shredding. The issue was always the kickoff out of the end zone.

Yeah, but they had seven guys in coverage against the Bucs five. They could have done a much better job of it, schematically. There is no good reason why a team with no timeouts should make four positive plays in 21 seconds (and I include the hail mary as a positive play because it was a good throw and almost worked - the Bills were lucky). That's just inexcusable.

Oh come on! Taron Johnson held the receiver the ENTIRE play. That's an easy (and totally correct) call.

That is a hilarious line!

But it's not even that aggressive. It's not giving them any chance at all for a successful bomb, to say, the 40 yard line of the Bills (because it would have ended the game anyway without question); it's about treating the clock as your ally. That seems safer to me.

If it was 30 yards (a probable 8 second play), I don't see how Mayfield and all five o-linemen get 35 yards down the field to get down the field and get set in time to spike it.

NE is going nowhere and the way they stay on the road to nowhere is by racking up enough wins to be drafting 13th or 14th, when all of the good QBs are gone.

The Bucs got the Ball with 21 seconds to go at their own 20. If the Bills had guarded the sidelines instead of giving Mayfield THREE easy throws to the sideline that resulted in clock stoppages, there would have been no (nearly successful) hail mary attempt. My thinking is that if they funneled the easy completion to the middle of the field (20-25 yards downfield), a completion would have ended up running out the clock. A play of that length is going to run 6-7 seconds off the clock, and then all of the players have to race back and get set in 14 seconds before a spike. Mayfield would have been running from the 15 yard line or so. Point is, the clock was the Bucs main enemy. Allowing them to use the sidelines with ease--with the result being four legit plays with 21 seconds and no timeouts--strikes me as pretty bad tactics.

They lost a yard on 3rd down, so on 4th they were 1.5 yards from the end zone. Kind of a passing situation there.

Again, a lot more OPI than DPI on that play.

OPI was the call to make. Still, the Offside on Miller was so stupid. Mayfield would not have reached the EZ except for that.

Yes, that was OPI if anything.

LOL. He held EVERY moment of that play. It was terrible by Johnson.

The bills deserved that

No, it’s on taron johnson. You CANNOT hold on that play, and his hold was blatant. The facemask was kinda flukey - he is trying to make a tackle. Johnson held the whole play.

Gotta let people play defense. That was excellent coverage.