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Why not? They did beta testing on not showing the game on TV and live streaming it instead. Goodel says the stream was a success (obviously he was not at my house watching my TB buffer). It was only the Bills that it didn't work for, so he probably thinks the headset thing was a success too.

Nuanced my sweet bippy. You can watch it here: http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/2015092001/2015/REG2/patriots@bills?icampaign=GC_schedule_rr#menu=gameinfo|contentId%3A0ap3000000534702&tab=videos I don't know about the route etc, but you can clearly see the pass was HIGH. Too high for Sammy to catch. Megatron have gotten it, but he's not on our team. I like Tyrod and if you look in the TBD archives you'll see I advocated signing him even before FA started. He has played well. However, when he throws a bad pick I'm not going to sugar coat it and say it wasn't his fault when the available video evidence shows otherwise. Tyrod throws that football a foot lower and it's a catch. Heck, 6 inches and Sammy at least has a chance to catch it. Do we provide the same "nuance" to EJ's picks Sunday? Maybe someone ran the wrong route. It's possible.

Not if the pass is as high as that one was. If it were a nice thrown ball and went through Sammy's hands, then yeah, not on the QB. If it sails over his head and he jumps as high as he possibly can and barely gets his hands on it and it becomes a tip drill pick, yeah, QB's fault.

So it's OK if it bounces off a WR's hands? Sammy jumped as high as he could to catch a high pass. It was a bad pass even if it didn't hit a LB in the chest twice. You're full of excuses for Hotrod. Hotrod's a big boy. He doesn't need you making excuses for him.

While down by 8 in the 4th with 2 minutes left with the football to try to get a tie, throwing a pick on the first play is not a mistake?

I would argue that Whaley has tried really hard to find us a QB, but good ones are hard to find. Since Whaley took over, we've had the following 15 QBs on staff at one time or other: Tarvaris Jackson Fitz Tuel Time Kevin Kolb Thaddeus Lewis Matt Lienert Kyle Orton Dennis Dixon Matt Flynn EJ Manuel Matt Cassell Jordon Palmer Tyrod Taylor Matt Sims Vaughan I may have missed one or two. 9 of these guys are presently on NFL rosters.

I think this is because they can't practice it anymore. With the new CBA they can't even practice in pads very often. I have no idea how they practice tackling these days. Looks like they don't. The not wrapping up and just trying to shoulder the guy down or dive in front of the runner are my favorite ineffective tackling styles in today's NFL..

Drew Brees and Peyton Manning, the Franchise QB's Franchise QB, became available as well. It does happen. Not as often as we'd like, but it does. Kurt Warner comes to mind as well.

Tyrod's transition is not far off either.

Did Jim and Joe forget how to play in the off season? I know Schwartz didn't like to blitz, but I thought Rex did. We had success blitzing a lot the year before last. We also had a lot of success blizing Suck for Luck. But now it seems Rex likes to play soft prevent. I think it's both actually. Not taking advantage of our guys strengths, and some loafing.

I'd rather see them try to school up the refs and hold them accountable. If a ref blows an obvious call (s)he gets suspended for 4 games and to be re instated (s)he must pass a 100 question test on the rules to get back in. I'm also 100% behind Mr. WEO's idea of simplifying rules. I'd add, allow DBs to bump players wherever before the ball is thrown. Smart OCs can figure out what to do about it. Change a catch to catch it and get 2 feet down. Dump the whole "football move" and "process of the catch" nonsense. I prefer less replays to more. There's already too much standing around in football. We don't need more IMHO. ONE question for the OP. How can you challenge everything if you only get 2 challenges?

This an excellent point. If I recall correctly, we made a lot of stpid penalties last year as well.

Depending on who else is available I'd give him a shot. Bring him in, go through OTSs, camp etc. We're desperate. What do we have to lose? If he sucks, cut him.

I just saw the end of the Cardinals/Ravens game. Ravens get ball down by 8. Arizona, as I've seen them do several times before, blitzes heavily on almost every play and guess what, game ends when Joe throws a pick. Why didn't we do this to second year QB Blake Bortles, running the 30th best offense in the league? Our D playing soft against chumps is mind boggling to me.

So there's a chance!

Because we aren't slowing down the WRs/TEs/etc at the line and the QB is getting it out fast. The WRs are always open because our DBs are giving them a 10 yard cushion. And Rex is having the line drop back in coverage. I see a lot of plays (some yesterday) where some of the DL don't charge the QB but instead hang back at the LOS. And, we aren't blitzing very much. We blitzed the peejeebers out of Suck for Luck with great success. The one time we got a good blitz on Bortles he threw a pick 6. Were the safeties covering well on that play? Didn't look like Graham was covering anybody. That's what I think. It's definitely not because of the safeties IMHO. It's a bad plan by Rex and Dennis. Let the guys do what they do well and stop trying to bee too fancy.

Ok, if you say so. It would seem pressing and bumping the WRs at the line would be a way to slow down the QB getting it out fast. But that would be the CBs doing that I would think. Who is telling them not to do that? Did we do it last year?

How so? If Dalton couldn't find anyone open for 9 seconds, somebody was covering the receivers I would think. I'm having a hard time seeing how sloppy arm tackling by safeties have to do with the pass rush? So, the pass rush is the same as last year except now our safeties can't cover or tackle?

I suppose, but the 3rd down conversion where we had 3 guys rush sort of and the linebackers all stay put 3 yards behind LOS giving Dalton 10 seconds to throw the football seems to indicate a different cause. This would seem to indicate that LBs or safeties had their guys covered pretty well. Was Searcy that good? But thanks for the explanation anyway.

I didn't start watching until we were already behind 27-3 because the game started at 6:30 my time. Then I could either watch it in low def which looked like I had found an old VCR tape from the 70s and was watching it, or watch it in Hi Def and have it jump due to buffering. Looks like we did get a little better rush, not much. What about the rest of the games? Safeties sucked in those games too. Please explain your self. It may be obvious to you, but to some of us it's not. I'm having a hard time understanding how sucky safeties causes the DL that led the league in sacks over the last 2 years is now getting little to no sacks due to poor safety play. Help a Bills brother out.

So we can't get a pass rush like we could last year because our safeties suck? Please explain how that works. I'm curious.

The season when we fired Dick and went with Perry was pretty dark. Rex has the same career record as HC of the Bills as does Perry by the way.

Like I said earlier I think it's part of the CBA that says the players have to get time off. I did a quick internet search for "nfl cba bye week" and found the following article which could explain what's gong on: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d820e8b52/printable/teams-learn-of-new-regulations-tied-to-ownerapproved-cba

They also make sure the opposing coaches can hear the play by play in their headsets.

I agree. Jocks eat that stuff up