MattM

Does Gronk get free reign to push off whenever he wants? Certainly seems that way this year (and just now)....

This^^^^^. A thousand times this ^^^^^! How can you not show the replay on penalties that are that big? Not once, but twice. You know they have the footage, as they cover every angle in the game. Makes me wonder whether they intentionally don't show BS calls, so as not to generate further undue attention.

Temporarily--if they were cheating for gamblers, they wouldn't have let us score the last TD (which they tried, come to think of it).... It can happen on any play. One specific instance I recall is Warren Sapp's hit on a defenseless Packer OL about 15 years ago....

I think that's because the Jets are on at 1 and it's Fox's turn for the doubleheader in the NY area (Seahawks-Eagles, which ain't a bad game either)....

I agree--he's come very far in a lot of ways, and I think will make an excellent talking head when his playing career is over

That sell-out streak started around the time they went to the SB, though, no? I lived in Boston in the early '90s, when they sucked, and they literally had less than 20k season ticket holders one year. Consider that in a city probably 5 times the size of Buffalo for a comparison. Can anyone imagine any circumstances in which the Bills have less than, say, 30k season ticket holders? I'd guess that even in our darkest years we had more than 30k, but could be wrong. I also agree with this assessment as a general matter.

Certainly on offense....

You missed the usual BS IC/PI call on the Packers on a key 3rd down much earlier in the drive. The usual utter garbage call only the Cheats* seem to get consistently. Edelman ran right into the DB and then whined to the ref for the call until the ref threw it about a minute late. In other words, par for the course.....

I wasn't kidding--most of his PI and defensive holding calls all year were against us in the 2 games he and his crew screwed us in.

Look where Walt Coleman falls on the defensive holding and PI calls year-wide--did he call all of his on the Bills?!

This had me concerned last week until I realized that it goes two ways, with the Bills knowing a good bit about Pettine's D schemes and tendencies, too....

Ahh, good old "Toast" Watson...

Eddie Robinson 2.0. No thanks, I'll pass.

I'm glad to hear that it wasn't just me who thought those guys were worse (much worse in many cases) than normal announcers. Almost like they took their own bye week and didn't bother to study up on anything. For ex., when TJ Graham made a ST tackle, nothing about how until training camp he was a Bill.....

Who says anything about stewing, fussing and pulling hair other than you? I'm a fan of the sport and the Bills and so follow topics of interest to both. That's something that I enjoy, win or lose (with winning being more fun obviously).

That's ok--some of us prefer to get more knowledge on things that interest us so as to have a more informed opinion, while others prefer to bloviate on a topic while bringing little knowledge to bear on it. I'd rather be the former than the latter, but where you fall on that spectrum is up to you.

Folks who haven't read it should read O'Leay's book on Spygate. It details a lot more than the videotape. Among the other interesting nuggets was a section describing the analysis of their home field advantage by a stats PhD candidate. He found that even with all positive factors considered, they were several standard deviations above anything that could be explained normally/randomly, implying that there was further cheating going on (at least in Foxboro)....

I don't believe that, but I'll play along--"you mean the refs just screwed them in favor of the NEW YORK (as in the largest, wealthiest city in America) Giants?" You kind of set yourself up for that one....

How about call a pass play near the Pats* sideline and have your receiver target Belicheat out of bounds? That way at least you're targeting the right guy. Never happen (nor would I actually endorse it), but in theory at least there'd be some measure of justice as you're defining it

Totally agree--it will be interesting to see the crowd's reaction tomorrow night notwithstanding the Schwartz stuff. I suspect it won't be as bad as we fear....

That may be scummy by the Cheats*, but if true, that's even scummier conduct by Raiola. No excuse for possibly ending the career of a competitor because of a decision his coach makes.

They have looked scary good the last two months--I agree. Here's hoping the 2-2 Pats* that barely beat the Raiders at home makes a reappearance before season end....

He just cost his team the game with that boneheaded call

Anyone else catch the ESPN pre-game show this morning when they were talking about how physical New England's* DBs have played this year? On one play they showed a DB basically tackling the receiver ten yards down field with no flag, while the assembled talking heads congratulated them on how successful it's been. Ditka did, however, get in a "and sometimes they cheat just a little" dig at them....

We seriously need to upgrade the TE position next year....