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I still like this one.

This has been my theory on the Russia "hacking" the election from the beginning. They didn't get us by hacking into emails or voting machines or whatever. They snookered us with our own invention, FakeBook. People were shocked on election day because Mark Zuckerberg had been feeding them feel good articles about how awesome Hillary is and how Trump is a racist/sexist/homophobe/xenphobe for a year and a half. So did their echo bubble "friends". Of course, they used this and some ingenuity to their advantage. It's not illegal or underhanded, it's just how FakeBook works. I don't do social media but I have a very smart friend who is a FakeBook addict. During the run up to the election I was told several times that there were users on FakeBook that had just joined and had no followers that were spreading fake stuff. My friend would call them out and they'd go away. It was obvious to some FakeBook users what was going on. But most FakeBook users are sheeple who believe what all their friends do. A major concern I have now is that Congress will pass laws on what is fake news. Or, that Mark Zuckerberg will be the proprieter of what is fit to post or not based on his politics.

Maybe it's my misunderstanding of the game, but I thought winners were determined by POINT SCORED. Not on yards or TOP etc. Catch the freakin' football when it hits your hands. It's not that complicated. Actually what we have seen many times before is the Bills being in position to win IF someone steps up and makes the play, but they don't. Sunday was a shining example. A win would have told me that Coach McDermott had indeed changed the "culture" and "love" was paying off. Instead we just got another Chan Gailey/Dick Jauron style loss. Blowing it at the end had been the constant in the drought and is what has kept us out of playoffs. Fix that, and everything else will look a lot better.

Good point. This is exactly why I don't buy into the whole tank thing. I have ZERO confidence that Bills FO will pick the right guy. I hold out a bigger hope that somehow Coach McDermott can somehow motivate the guys we have to play better and learn how to win these close games. The difference between making playoffs and not has less to do with QB passing stats and a lot more to do with team mates coming together and somehow someway winning the close games. Thats all the Fish did better than us last year. They beat us and the Clowns in OT. Meanwhile we blew our chances in very winnable games like Miami and Seattle. But yeah,keep hoping that McBeane is a draft hoss and will NEXT YEAR get us that golden armed franchise QB, and here we go.

Receivers not dropping the football on 3,Rd/4th down could go a long way to improving our offense. We has 3 drives killed that way last week. ....Are you sure?.... ....in 2017, the Panthers have given up 6 points while Denver has given up 38.....The Bills...20....

Seahawks won with 1TD pass and 198 yards. Heck we could have won with 150 last week if you know who catches you know what.

My only concern is that once again were losing games wd should win because no one steps up. It's been constant in the drought. I was hoping the new "culture" and "love" would change that. Yet 2 games in, it continues.

Could we have upped the ante and offered another pick? If so, we should have. As to the original question, I would offer their 1 back. Then I'd go up from there to whatever it takes. I diagree with a lot of posters here who have their head stuck up a stat sheet. I believe Alex to he a great QB. He takes care of the football. Is accurate. Can run (I remember him running around Manny Lawson at the Ralph for a tD,) he makes big plays during the game resulting in wins. He's a leader.

Just curious. The Seahawks only had 6 points in the first 53 mins. Did they "deserve" to win? The difference was, their guy caught the pass (it was not an easy catch) and our guy didn't.

Does a loss count less if a rookie flubs it up? I admit I'm a little persnickity today and down on Zay. I'm just really tired of losing games we should win. Even if the guys tried really hard and a rookie in his second game dropped the pass. We didn't lose because we didn't have talent, or coaching, or bad Gatorade. We lost because when it really counted and we really needed it, we fugged up. No one stepped up. That needs to change.

In SB XXV Norwood almost made one HELL of a FG.

It's been the Crux of the biscuit throughout this whole drought. Losing close games we should win. I could probably come up with at least 10 off the top of my head. Dallas 2008 at the Ralph Pittsburgh Sunday Patsies** home opener 2013 A Jets road game where SJ dropped one late Patsies** in the Leodis muff fest Seahawks 2016 when we had 1st and goal for the win Clowns at the Ralph on MNF (missed FG) Jacksonville in London At Oakland 2014 The difference between the Fish making playoffs last year and us was they won OT games vs us and Clowns. Meanwhile we lose to them with 10 men on field and lose to Hawks because we couldn't put it in and whatever we did vs Jets. I was hoping Coach McDermott and his "culture" and "earning to win" stuff could turn this around, yet 2 games in here we are. As former Bills HC Hank Bullock said "We keep beating ourselves, but we're getting better at it."

But if Zay caught it and SH makes the kick we would have had 10. Is that enough? I remember one season when Marv was still coach we won 2 games one year 9-6. Sweet wins iirc. I got the stupid comment. Thus the smiley face . I just beg to differ.

You win if you score more than the other team. There's no magic number you have to get before you "deserve" to win, whatever that means. Zay comes down with that football and rolls into EZ, we not only would have "deserved" to win, we would have. You don't be stupid.

Except this time he did. He put the football on the WRs hands on the 1 yard line on 4th and 11. What does he have to do? Gift wrap it for Zay? Could be argued he had come through in 2 out of his last 3 games.

No. It depends on how many points the other team gets. I'd take 19-0 with all 3-2 games if I could get it.

We'll see. He's dropped 4 so far and I'm scratching my head to think of any good catches he's made. It was absolutely a drop. I don't really care if it was a bad pattern or if it was a bad throw. When the football hits you in the hands with no defenders in sight and you don't catch it, it's a drop. This isn't Saturday afternoon beer league flag football. This is the bigs. You gotta catch that. Zay made harder catches in the Senior Bowl.

They would never do that. We wouldn't want to wake up to a mushroom cloud now would we? SH has tubes to make nukes and has (fake) uranium. He is within weeks, not months of having a nuke. The commies blew up our ship in the Gulf of Tonkin.

I don't understand what's up with Zay. 3 or 4 drops in 2 games. I thought he was supposed to be Joe Hands. He made harder catches than the ones he's dropping for us in the Senior Bowl.

Partly not throwing as many long passes.

Nasty Nate can't start yet because he hasn't completed "the Process". That's what Coach McDermott says anyway.

THIS is the downside to bend but don't break stategy. When your D bends on the other side of the field and finally stops them around mid field or later, you end up with bad field position frequently. The answer of course would be for the O to play better.

I don't buy the we don't have WRs to throw long to. ThRowing long is more than putting a track athlete out there and letting him out run the DB. Zay was able to get wide open 30 yards downfield. How long do you need? Speed isn't the only way to get a guy long open. You can also use trickery and send guys long when isolated on a LB. I see other teams do it.

What did we hear and see from Zay when we drafted him? The kid can catch anything. He made harder catches than this in the Senior Bowl. So far he's had 3 drops in 2 games. I hope he can pull out of this and start catching the freakin' football. We can't afford a WR that drops passes on 3rd and 4th down, both of which he did in the game Sunday.

Maybe about as long as last time we pissed away a good D with a bad O (2013-2014) or as long as we pissed away a good O with a bad D (2015-2016).