Not really. Just like the Bills, the Titans have been blown out of the water in their losses, and sport an even worse points differential than Buffalo.
It's just funny to me that, because it's the Bills, we're expected to chalk up the victory to good luck. Replace Jairus Byrd with Troy Polamalu or Ed Reed and you have an entirely different headline.
"You're not wrong, Walter. You're just an !@#$."
Criticisms on Gailey and Fitz are fine. Even Brad Smith. But that's three guys. What about the other 51, none of whom played an appreciably bad game and ended up with a road victory against a 4-1 team?
Where are the plaudits for Byrd? Spiller? Levitre? Mario? Kelsay? I could go on. Good team win and it wasn't stolen. Carrington tipped the field goal attempt and Skelton was only playing because the same man drove Kolb into the turf.
Pretty amazing that the Broncos are going to be 2-4 (probably) after making the playoffs and adding a top-5 all time QB. They've played a brutal schedule, but I expected them to contend.
Trust me, I enjoy delving, but I'm not a student of X's and O's like some around here. I do know that this season, we win when the opposing QB "fall down, go boom."
The AP write up seems to think so...
http://scores.espn.go.com/nfl/recap?gameId=321014022
That would make me feel a little better, because a straight up miss from 38 yards is just a measure of good luck. A tip is a nice play.
When Spiller broke a 17 yard run in OT to Arizona's 35 and we proceeded to throw 3 consecutive incomplete passes, I wanted Chan to resign then and there.
From the very first few weeks of the season, I expected them to drop off and it just never happened. So appropriate that Game 5 was the rubber match of what turned out to be an epic 23 game season series.
You didn't miss much. Jeter, Ibanez, and the entire pitching staff showed up to this series. Been enough for a 2-2 split. Let's see if one of the other supposed all stars wants to play tonight.
In this series...
Robinson Cano is 2-16
Alex Rodriguez is 2-15
Nick Swisher is 2-14
Curtis Granderson is 1-15
Ichiro is 4-19
And yet, they're one swing away from taking the series. It's mind boggling.