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The old rule was that it was offsides if the defender made contact or was across the line when the football is snapped. Much better and easy to tell who was at fault without a 45 second ref huddle. Is there a difference between encroachment, offsides, and a neutral zone violation? or do refs just get to make up their own names for penalties?

None. You "deserve" to make the playoffs when you win enough games to get in. This year's team (contrary to TBD logic) still does have a chance to make it. Go BILLS!

I read this on TBD over and over and over. Last year the Bills were 5th in penalties while the Jets were 17th. In fact, we've been in the top 10 the last 3 years. Did y'all already forget the plethora of drve killing offensive holding calls last year?

Right, because Aaron showed a lot of leadership in the first Patsies** game.

This is how football works. Did you just notice that?

While Odell has had a great start and maybe looks better than Sammy, I wonder if Sammy had Eli throwing him the football the last 2 years and Odell had EJ and Hotrod not throwing him the football all that much if we'd think Sammy was better?

Fred was the team leader, but Rex wanted his main man Hotrod to be the leader, so Fred had to go is the way I see it.

This year we lead the league in penalties. In 2014 we were 5th. In 2013 we were 9th. 2012 15th. Trending down for sure, but it's been a problem for a while now spanning 3 coaching regimes.

But Kyle did. And thats why we had a winning season. And if you want to take away the Patsies** win last year, we still must win 2 out of the last 3 to match it. Not as given.

I know there is a lot of talk about looking at the catch rule. I think this needs to be looked at as well. What is a pick and what is not? Looks like a lot of teams are running it a lot with very inconsistent calls.

Really machine gun. However, I don't see what Eric Wood has to do with Karlos' plethora of injuries.

He's still injury riddled even if he doesn't have a conclusion. Seriously, the dude misses momre time than CJ.

Not too far fetched. He had a concussion at FSU and another a few weeks ago.

Good, I'm sure they will make it much more complicated than it already is. With the NFL's love of high scoring and offense I'm a little perplexed as to why they current rule is so restrictive. You'd think they'd want more catches and especially TD catches.

Herm and I disagree as to the first part. As to the second part, yes. Actually I never turn it on because it's a total time suck and I really don't care what famous people are saying anyway.

Or, a player could shut down his social media BS during the season like Hotrod did. You know, concentrate on football. Leave the other BS to the Kim Kardashian and Snoop Dog types.

I think jocks are really good at this. Aaron Rodgers has a chip on his shoulder because he was picked late in the 1st round. McCoy because he was traded. On and on. Jocks like to have something that they can use to fire them up. If there's nothing legit like a division opponent that knocked them out of the playoffs or something, they always have stuff like this.

Just for the record, this is what he said "He wants the full control. You see how fast he got rid of all the good players. Especially all the good black players. He got rid of them the fastest. That's the truth. There's a reason. ... It's hard to explain with him. But there's a reason he got rid of all the black players -- the good ones -- like that." http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/12827934/buffalo-bills-running-back-lesean-mccoy-discusses-race-chip-kelly-rex-ryan

Certain kind of white guys too it seems.

I agree with him. I hate watching sports shows when it's all about so and so said such and such on Twitter. Sports shows have turned into gossip shows. Thus, I watch a lot less. It's not only sports. Most media has gotten lazy and just reports what's going on Twitter and people's reaction to it. If I cared what was going on on Twitter I'd look at Twitter. Give me something I can't get on Twitter.

My favorite part of the whole Shady thing is that he said Chip Kelly was running off the the black guys. Then, after the Suck for Lucks game he posed for a picture of the Chip Kelly rejects. It was 2 black guys and 1 white guy, which is probably close to the percentage in the NFL. http://sportsmasher.com/2015/09/14/lesean-mccoy-gets-a-picture-with-chip-kellys-rejects/

I think the point is that if we improved on some things we could rank 9th? Or higher ...

I went to a lot of games at Texas Stadium from 1972 until 1988. I sold programs and then we got to watch the rest of the game. Far from reserved during the Tom Landry 20 straight winning seasons hayday. And we could bring in our own beer. Never saw anyone doing bowling ball shots, but still ...

Yeah I went to that game too. It was awesome. We whipped 'em good. However the fans in 2015 are different than those fans. When Pete came and the Hawks got good again with all their trash talking and swag they attracted a ton of new band wagon fans that are not like the old fans. So it will be interesting to see how it goes next year. But you're right. It is a nice stadium. New, but not with too much cheese like a lot the new ones like the Boss Hogg Dome (Cowboys) or 49ers. But hey, I love the Ralph and hope we just sit tight there. Game experience as we know it will be gone. Tailgating and bowling ball shots as we know it will be gone forever. We're talking major gentrification here. Be careful what you ask for.

When we have attacked and blitzed we have had success. Indianapolis and the 2nd Patsie** games for example. I feel like I'm in the football Twilight Zone where we think we got an aggressive defensive coach who keeps playing coverage instead of coming after the QB. Kurt Warner says you can get any QB off his game with pressure. We can get pressure when we want to but often, it seems, don't want to for some unknown reason. Why can't resident geniusses such as Sal or Tim ask Rex about this at one of the press conferences? The thing that really gets me about the D is how many 80+ yard drives we give up. Again, I think I'm in the Twilight Zone and Jauron is back with his bend don't break defense.