Offside Number 76

Really. 7 was the gate on my ticket, you ass. We passed 6 on the way to 7. And since the answer above takes care of it, no apologies are needed for anyone.

Thanks very much for this answer. And judging from the two posts above this, we just showed up about five minutes too late (dumb luck, we were trying to get in early) and got stuck in the line. I guess they must have given up on the scanning system by the time we got to the front.

sh--, who cares? I like JP, too. Edwards is better.

What was going on? When we got to the front, it took about seven seconds to get through. What was the holdup? In all seriousness, there were people around me who were having anxiety attacks because of the crowding. Not exaggerating.

It was pitch black in all of the bathrooms. I have no idea how I ran a two minute drill when I needed to, either.

Sorry if this is posted elsewhere; I did scan the first three pages. Did anyone else have trouble getting into the stadium at these gates? Took us 55 mins. at Gate 7, which we only went to because Gate 6 was worse--and we got to the gate at 1220, not at 1pm. It had nothing to do with the volume of the crowd; at both gates, they were letting folks in about fifteen at a time, then holding EVERYBODY else for a few minutes thereafter. Rumor in the waiting corral was that the ticket scanning machines were down, but when we finally got through, our tix weren't scanned at all. If this is related to the power outage, ok. If it's anything else, wow, the Bills owe a lot of fans some apologies, and the Bills can be very happy that there wasn't a stampede (which was threatened a few times and thankfully never happened).

I've been to a few NFL stadiums. We have the best party, but we also have the biggest jerks, by far, that I've seen. And it's starting to spill over to HSBC, too, unfortunately.

Then what do you do when there's a legitimate reason for a timeout at the last millisecond? (See my comment above.) I think the needless last-second timeouts are poor sportsmanship, and in fact, tactically questionable, but I don't see a practical way to legislate them out of the game.

I didn't see a good team in the first half of this game. The second half was another story. So I'm happy and sad.

Good point.

I really hope so.

Cool.

Refs didn't see the injured player in time. If they had, the right move would have been to blow the whistle (hurting Arizona), and--I think--charging Arizona with a TO, right?

They can't. A coach might have a legit reason to call that timeout--for example, he realizes right before the snap that 12 men are on the field. The only hope is that enough coaches get punished for this bs tactic the way Whisenhunt just did.

I hope this happens to every coach who makes that chicken-sh*t timeout call.

And the Shanahan timeout strategy backfires again.

They're fixing it. I'm not sure I understand why the TV crew thinks the penalty is unfair. I'm sure Dallas would rather have had the refs recognize the injury and blow the whistle w/ 11 or seconds left, than the extra 5 yards w/ only 4 seconds left.

Both Dallas and Arizona have looked bad today. This isn't a good home Arizona team; these are two teams that are playing bad football today.

If I had to guess, it's because at the time, Atlanta was up by two scores and wanted to run time off of the clock. I'm not saying it was the smartest strategy, but I think that--and not lack of confidence in Ryan--was the reason.

You missed his point entirely.

Did you write this from your phone?

From what I saw, it was lost on the lines--both of them. No pressure on Warner without a blitz (which they usually expected, leading James to large gains), and poor run-blocking and protection on offense. Playcalling wasn't great, but the lines, wow, they were bad.

What he said. It wasn't a helmet-to-helmet hit. Their helmets DID hit each other, but that's not what the NFL ban is about. This was a legit, full-body tackle, and while I'm not sure whether the concussion happened when the helmets connected or when Edwards's head hit the floor, it doesn't matter. It was clean; this isn't another Wilfork incident. Sometimes the injuries just happen.

I always have loved the no-huddle offense, and I wouldn't mind seeing it back in Buffalo some day. But by its nature, it depends upon an experienced QB. We don't have one here now.

I really like reading about coverage from the other team's POV. I can read the newspaper articles, but I can't always get a sense of what was said during the game. Thanks for this.