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I don't believe our offensive issues this year has to do with a lack of talent. Execution has been the problem. We lost 3 games due to it at least. Pitt because our punter only lined up 13 yards back instead of 15. Tenn due to "The Slip". And NE due to dropped passes, bad penalties, and a fumble in FG range. That's either on the players screwing up or coaching, not lack of talent IMHO.

I am hoping for this: 1 - BPA 2 - BPA 3 - BPA 4 - BPA 5 - BPA 6 - BPA 7 - BPA

I'm rooting for the Colts cuz I too think the division is still very much in play. But if the Colts lose, it could help us in wild card. A win win. Go Colts !!

If it weren't for football I'd hate the NFL. But like you, I'm hooked.

Where are these young refs going to come from? Here are the minimum requirements to be an NFL ref: https://www.liveabout.com/how-to-become-an-nfl-official-1333790 Less than 10 years experience is a good idea? Working in varsity collegiate of other pro games is not necessary? What evidence do you have that older officials are missing penalties etc due to poor eyesight? I also don't see any old looking guys like I used to when Walt Coleman was calling games.

I would suspect pushing it back to next year will only embolden the opposition.

A better pass by Josh on 3rd down wouldn't have hurt.

At that point in the game our best player(s) had put up a whopping 3 points in over a 1/2 of football and had just sputtered on its first 1st drive of the second 1/2. Maybe he thought he'd give someone else a chance? It looked to me, and Tony Romo said it too that TB was in a regular defensive formation. Shouldn't there be someone on the punt team able to call the play off if its not a good time to run it based on defense?

Yes I was.

Reminds me of the guy Rex drafted in round 1 or maybe 2 that was injured and didn't play his first season. A defensive lineman too.

When we wear the all red with white tops we look like ketchup bottles.

Its not that we can't run the football. We choose not to.

Looked to me like the whole point of the play was to throw that quick pass out to Singletary with room to run. All the other receivers run patterns to the other side of the field. Except Sanders goes long hoping to take the DB with him. Josh drops back and looks right tor a split second and then looks left and hits Singletary. The play only gets 1 yard cuz the DB didn't buy it and came in to make the tackle. We ran several plays like that early on.

The WR did not get open until after Josh threw the ball. The CB let him go to tackle Singletary.

I would be in favor of just dumping replays altogether just live with the calls. Also make officials full time employees and make them practice too. There's already too much standing around in football as it is. Even with the amazing technology we have today they still can't get it right. What makes you think if there were more they could? The idea of a 4 hour football game does sound good to me. I'm old enough to remember when they were 21/2 hours long.

Brady didn't miss easy throws cuz he "got sloppy". He missed those throws because our blitzers were breathing down his neck so he got rid of it too fast like he always does under pressure. Here here for Coach McDermott dialing up the blitz in the 2 nd half. A similar strategy may very well work against Jones next week too.

McCarthy has the hardware. I'll compare Coach McDermott to McCarthy when he does.

This is all true. But that's football. Good teams win those games like we did last year. Teams that aren't as good lose them. Its really the story of the drought. We were always close. The real question is WHY is this happening? Coaching? Players? Smoking too many press clippings and tweets in the off season? Not sure. I share in your optimism however. Hopefully we can change this the rest of the way.

I see your point. In today's go for it craze it makes sense (to some) to go for it. I love Josh too but I don't put a winnable game all on one play unless its like the last play. I can agree that in this situation there really is no "right call". Either could work and either could fail. The execution was what caused both of these calls to fail. Josh slipping vs Tennessee and us not scoring when we had the football first in OT. I prefer to kick FG for tie and you prefer to go for it. Cool.

Not necessarily. We were also scoring points in that game. Perhaps we win the toss and score a TD first. I take that chance over putting whole game on one play. The right call is the one that works.

That's your opinion and you are certainly entitled to it. I agree with the other poster who says you don't put the entire game on one play when you don't have to. Play better in OT. We had the football first. Do something with it. We choked ... again. And maybe Coach McDermott was playing the odds with the refs. Had we scored they could easily call holding or offensive PI or something. It would be a lot harder for them to call a good FG bad. Besides our D was humming and causing 3 and outs at the time. You gotta base a decision like that on what's going on in the game today. Not what other teams in other games with different weather weather etc did in the past. It was the right call. That decision did not cost us the game. It was the same reason we lost the others. Execution.

I love these percentage to win stats. They're always right. If the Bills make the playoffs, its right cuz there was a 67% chance we would. If we dont, then, well, there was a 33% chance we wouldn't.

How'd that work out in Tennessee?

Steelers loss was because our new 3 step punter lined up only 13 yards back to punt and got it blocked for a TD. He did make some nice ones today though.

In the first half we gave up 24. In the sec whale after adjustments, we gave up 3. Whoever did that did something good. I was glad to see us do a lot of blitzing in the 2nd half and it worked. When Tommy gets pressure, he melts. A lot of those bad passes were due to pressure. In the 1st half we played that "we can't blitz cuz he gets rid of it too fast so we'll cover everybody" fools errand with the usual results. I thought it was good to see the change, but sadly, too late