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This year's schedule is great for those of us who live 12 time zones away 🙂

Exactly. I would have given game balls to these two. Milano was a tackling monster, showing some great balance in maneuvering to make his tackles. Both of Poyer's INTs were really athletic. The first was backwards and over his head, the second one was just pure power and coordination.

I was at that game, sat in the Dog Pound during the drive. Looking back it's a good thing Harmon dropped the pass, I might have been killed.

I'll be streaming the game at home in the heart of Bangkok, Thailand. Tailgate 4am, game 6:30am. I'll be making a homemade Garbage Plate! Go Bills!

Good point!

and not only did he give it sufficiant time in one (almost) RB's grasp, but on the Tommy Doyle touchdown play he sold it with both backs.

Setting aside the fact that the play action worked last week because of the great play calling mix and successful run game, I saw two things when Allen ran play action that really set it apart. Watch the TD play to Tommy Doyle and you'll see both of these: 1) Unlike many QBs running the play action, Allen did not hold the ball out to the RBs with both hands. He held it out with his left hand only, keeping his right hand free. When he began to curl around to his right after faking the handoff the ball was completely blocked by his body, and his empty throwing hand sent a signal to the D that the ball had been handed off. 2) Allen took the ball very deep (a 9 yard drop at the apex of his curl-around) and very fast into the backfield, leaving him a ton of time before any Defensive spies would have a chance to reach and pressure him. This left all options open to him -- passing if his target was open, looking for a secondary target, running himself or throwing the ball away. On the Doyle TD, the nearest defenders were 6 yards away from him when he threw the ball. If the Bills can sell the run this weekend, I believe Allen's technique on the play action will open up some big plays for the Bills. Thoughts?

it just looks like a completely different set of plays than we've been running all year. And I don't understand why. I know the OL has been juggled today but that wouldn't require a completely new game plan.

Not sure the OL is capable of giving Josh enough time to throw down field.

Only at the idiot sitting in front of me.

Yeah, it definitely was a hole, and a frustrating sequence to watch. But they got out of the hole, which in retrospect could have been a killer sequence for Cleveland had we called a rational third-and-short play. I'm just saying that there's a difference from a hole and a momentum killer. Any momentum lost because of the two penalties was immediatly regained as a result of the next two plays (evident from how quiet the stadium became). But we never got momentum back after the 3rd down play and resulting punt. At least we didn't in my living room ?

I disagree, it wasn't 1st and 25 that killed momentum. In fact the next two pass plays were great, leaving us with 3rd and 4 and putting Cleveland on their heals. What killed momentum was the play call on 3rd down, having Allen throw a bomb which wasn't within 10 yards of his receiver. What we needed at that time was a sustained drive from a 5-yard play. The bomb killed our momentum. I'll never understand that call, especially when Allen is so poor with his accuracy when throwing long.

Living in Bangkok, I watch the games at midnight, but I miss our old tailgates. For kicks I googled Buffalo Bills Tailgate Live. The first link that came up was my own Ustream page, it must be 11 years ago. Of course there is no stream there now, but the placeholder image is still there: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/buffalo-bills-tailgate-live At another tailgate I wore a DSLR on my head taking a 30-second-apart timelapse images ? These were the days before GoPros. Is anyone streaming their tailgate? I'd love to join.

The little tool icon at the bottom of the player in the computer browser, change the audio there.

On my TV, I click on the game and at the top right I get a little icon that I can click on to select the audio feed.