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2009 McKelvin choke fest takes the cake for frustration. But for pure embarrassment the 56-10 loss by Jauron's team on SNF is probably my angriest moment as a Bills fan. Bellichik kept going for 2 even with the score way out of hand. The Bills couldn't stop anything and they kept Brady in the game to throw even more TDs and extra pts. All the while wimpy Jauron just looked on with his 1000 yard stare completely helpless. Instead of manning up the coach and the players just put their asses up like a submissive dog. If Jauron had even one small iota of balls or pride he should have called an all out suicide blitz at Brady and broken him in half. Instead he did what Jauron did best, stare uselessly with no clue. Still enrages me every time I think about it.

Brady has to be hurting after the Fins relentlessly pounded him yesterday. Even though they got burned on some of those blitzes they had a great gameplan to wear Brady down. The problem for us is that I don't think we can come close to what they did based on how poor our pass rush has been. There has never been a QB as great as Brady for not just getting rid of the ball but zinging it out there with incredible accuracy while under duress. Also Brady unlike other humans, shows no discernible effects even when he gets hit on his throwing arm/hand/etc. He seems to take hits that would ruin the throwing motion of a regular QB like he was getting bumped by Pop Warner players. Hopefully they can jam up the receiving lanes and somehow get some pressure. Or it will be the usual long day vs the Pats.

Tyrod throwing for 500 yards WOULD be an act of God!!

Lets be honest, banning them was really stupid. Stevie J getting a penalty for doing that rifle shot after the TD in NE was particularly stupid. The NFL denied the existence of concussions and focussed on banning celebrations, unbelievable!!

Aikman's ok. I don't think he sucks not like Solomon "everybody knows your name ladanian David Beckham JR" Willcots SUCKS. Its nice to get a color guy like Romo who is honest. Too many shills for the NFL in broadcasting who spout nonsense and cant even look at an HD slo mo replay and see obvious things.

The Bills need to pull a page from Lawrence Taylor's winning playbook and send some of WNY's finest Ho's to the Patriots hotel room Saturday night. Of course golden boy Tom will not partake but some of the other weaker morally challenged Patriots will crumble!! Its the only chance we have!!

Yes that was amateur hour direction there, never seen that before!

Being a Bills Masochist, I just watched it again on YT. Wow that was epically bad officiating!! Cost the Bills a home playoff game vs the Fins.

I remember Wade and the Bills being so angry at that bogus call that there no Bills players on the field for the PAT. Terrible PI right after a bogus ball spot gave the Pats a 1st down. Still angry at that call.

Easily the worse call this year vs the Bills and arguably the worst ever. I just have no idea what he thought he saw?? Watch the receiver's head it doesn't look like it gets touched, moved or anything. Did he think that Gaines speared him with the helmet. If he did then he should retire now or be fired because he is blind. If he wasn't sure and made a game changing call like that when he wasn't 100% then fire his ass as well. I may have had a small aneurysm raging at my TV after watching that play!!

Its pretty scary looking at those teams in sports who were "cursed" and never won a championship in decades like the Red sox, Cubs and then thinking about how close we were . Sure we can demolish the stadiums but the bitter memory will remain until we finally win one!

Revis was probably one of the best ever at his position in his first 5 years. I find it hard to believe that he has nothing left in the tank. He came back from a serious knee injury in 2012 and although he wasn't the same star he once was, he still had quality and teams still sometimes avoided testing him. In 2015 he had 5 INTs. When I heard he had signed for KC I was surprised that nobody had taken a look at him before this. In fact I thought he was still with the Jets. My 2nd thought was why didn't we think of trying him out? Our D has been horrible lately and has been banged up here and there. throughout the season. A vet like that might have helped our secondary and added some depth for a bargain price. But isn't that obvious?

If you went back all the way back to the 2000 draft you would also see a similar pattern of ineptness. We have drafted absolutely terribly and missed the playoffs at the same time. coincidence? some of the picks listed here were at least decent for a while. If you go back before this there are a ton of flat out busts, Erik Flowers, Mike Wiliiams, JP Losman, Tim Anderson, McCargo were all garbage and all #1 or #2 round picks. A complete waste.

Only the Bills would find themselves in this predicament. I cannot honestly think they planned to tank. Because if so they are doing a terrible job of tanking. They have won 5 games which effectively ruins their chances at one of the first few picks. If they wanted to tank they should have traded TT before the season and just started Peterman. At the same time they are now in a great position to make the playoffs in an unusually weak AFC. Instead of seizing the opportunity the coach starts an unproven rookie who he hasn't vetted properly. Which is a spectacular failure. They trade away their run stuffing (but incredibly overpaid) D lineman and their defense is ripped apart in 3 straight games. Its almost like they WANT to lose now. Which if so is absolutely insane.

Tyrod gives us an opportunity to win this game. Peterman might have all the potential in the world but that doesn't matter with this current Oline and blocking scheme. Peterman will be eaten alive. That and the fact that we are away from home make this a no brainer. Also we have lost 3 straight to the Chiefs where we have blown completely winnable games (Jeff Tuel pick 6??) . I think we match up well against them and if our D can limit them and we can hang around, we might finally get a break and win one of these games.

Are D has been abysmal for 3 straight games we have injuries and YET we don't go out and sign either of these guys?? Seriously?? I think both of these guys have something left in the tank for the short-term. They could be a rental to plug some holes and get us to the playoffs, but we don't do anything? The Pats do this all the time. Save a player from the NFL scrapheap and put them in a position to contribute with a good scheme and coaching. Yet once again even though we have a glaring NEED here we let a useful player get away. Just plain stupid.

TT cannot audible correct? There is no way in hell they would have let Peterman do it. I guess when the play is called Dennison expects that play to be run. If he had seen something obvious from the D they were opening up he would have buzzed down to Peterman's helmet head set to change the play. He was up in the booth yesterday so he has no excuse. Unless of course that he just isn't very good at his job

I honestly didn't think that the Dareus trade would make much of a difference at the time. He only had one sack before he was gone. But Dareus' best skill set was stuffing the run or at least forcing opposing rbs to run around him where others would make the tackle for minimal gains. Dareus was never going to be a monster sacker of QBs, just too heavy. I remember back in 1990 seeing Bruce Smith out on the town at the Late Show in NF and I couldn't believe how huge the guy was. He was a man mountain. Dareus outweighs Bruce by 70lbs!! and is almost the same height 6ft3! They now have a more space (literally) in that defensive line because Washington is much smaller than Dareus. Its looking like a bad move by Beane and Co now because they really didn't have a plan B. In addition the late round pick they got for Dareus was not acceptable. It just further adds to the questions surrounding this regime's competency.

God also abandoned his loyal servant Nate yesterday as well. He seems to be a Pats fan.

Actually this did cross my mind but I don't think that Pegula would have interfered with McD and Beane like that. He doesn't seem like that type of owner. Perhaps I am being naïve here but he seems to be to trusting in the "process" and giving these guys a long leash. I sincerely hope I am right because that would not only reflect badly on Pegula himself but remove any respect I had for McD to cave to the owner like that. But that's the sad part here McD looks really bad no matter how you try to spin it. If you played Peterman because the owner ordered you then you are a wimpy coach who doesn't stand up for yourself. If you played Peterman because you incredibly overestimated his talent and preparedness then you look like a fool. Either way this spectacular failure might be devastating for McD's long term trajectory as a HC.

In the Jets game and this one it really looked like both opposing HCs really did their homework on both sides of the ball. Both these teams looked really prepared for what they faced in the games. Bills looked really unprepared like they were just going to show up and beat the Jets in their house on national TV and then today they didn't tailor their game plan to help Peterman. The Bills also didn't look like they made any adjustments to their Defense with pass rush (mostly terrible), pass coverage (abysmal) and run defense (poor). I get that they have injuries but do SOMETHING different after getting gashed in 2 straight games! Bills set themselves up to lose today and that's on all the coaches!!

I always find it kind of funny when professional sports teams point to certain things and say "they dissed us and that's why we whupped them". So SD needed added motivation to beat the Bills? If the Bills had started TT would SD have not tried as hard?

you are correct because we are gluttons for punishment!!

Its pretty scary how things turned out for Nathan Peterman in his first start but I am really concerned about what this debacle of a game exposes about McD and Beane. A few observations/questions trying to understand today's disaster. 1.If you benched TT in reaction to a pathetic offensive performance vs The Jets and Saints then I can kind of understand the rationale to a point but TT has had some good games this season why give up on him when you are still in a playoff position? That shows a scary lack of poise and patience in a HC. 2. What scares me much more is that either McD or Beane thought Peterman was ready to start. He looked absolutely in over his head. The fact that they believed he could succeed when he was that inept is stunning. If you watch Peterman’s mechanics in that game he is basically telegraphing where he is throwing the ball to allowing the dbs time to get there. He is not sensing the blitz and overthrowing his receivers. Totally nervous and not ready. If they actually believed he was ready they must be delusional or intensely bad judges of talent. 3. If you benched TT to light a fire under him to perform down the stretch well I guess you got his attention, but to do it when the playoffs are in sight? Really bad idea. 4. Did they bench TT because they were afraid as Vic Carucci said that he would lead them into the playoffs and they don’t see him as part of the future? So they would actually deny us the chance at the playoffs to further their "process" . Then McD and Beane are truly evil and against anything this fan base holds dear. 5. If they benched TT because they wanted to distract from a horrendous defense effort then they are simply morons. 6. Why in the hell if you are putting a rookie in to start do you not work with Dennison to call the simplest game plan ever. McCoy should have been used non stop, simple passes to keep the defense honest. It seemed to me that Dennison’s game plan was a little too much for Peterman to accomplish and once they were down it put Peterman into an impossible position. 7. If you knew how bad our O line has been in the last 2 weeks with an elusive mobile QB then why the hell would you put a less mobile pocket passer in?? That was suicidal. Beyond stupid. Peterman tooks some incredible hits that led to at least 2 of his INTS. Once again this seriously questions McD’s intelligence. The bottom line is that this game has exposed McD and Beane in multiple ways and they have egg all over their faces. Although I was skeptical, I thought McD was an upgrade on Rex’s gong show. Now I am not so sure. It seems like he could be just as much as a fraud.

TT wins only if he plays on D and sacks Rivers or maybe stays within 5ft of an open Charger receiver. Hell he couldn't have been worse than the Bills D today.