dave mcbride

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.

It was good D.

Agreed.

He is missing the free rusher in pre-snap diagnosis all the time now.

Terrible play in every way from allen, from pre-snap diagnosis to decision.

Dorsey sucks.

Unfreakingbelievable.

Vita Vea is out, which is everything for the Bills. No score prediction, but I think they might finally cover the spread. With Vea, I would have taken Tampa with points.

Just read this myself. I thought it was very intriguing and think it makes a ton of sense.

I think it could possibly be a function of them not having more than one credible TE and needing numbers to play 11 personnel pretty much all game.

My view about turnovers is as follows: do they result in points for one side or the other? (Points-off-of-turnover differential is one of the "king" stats in the NFL.) If so, they really matter. If the turnover happens between one's own 45 yard line and the opponent's 40, you can't really assume a score even if the team that forces the TO gets one. The defense can still make a stop, and the offense still has to put together a normal-ish dive. If you turn the ball over when you're in FG range, though, (the 20-25 yard lines for instance), the other side gets assigned 3 points off of turnovers by me (because you can't assume a TD). That doesn't show up in the points off turnover equation, but it should. The Pats didn't really get any points off of turnovers (in the classic sense) in that game because after the INT they started on the other side of the field. The Bills couldn't get a stop, but given the distance they had to travel to get the TD, it was a "real" TD drive and wasn't handed to them.

Some context: https://www.twobillsdrive.com/community/search/?q="high level business meeting"&quick=1&type=forums_topic&nodes=1