Livinginthepast

Sure the Bills defense is bad but they appear to be really dumb as well.

All day to throw and still playing this useless zone.

They dont have the cunning or the cojones for that.

Why punt there? Defense is stopping nobody.

This is an utter embarrassment.

Whats better than a loss to a crap team (Like Jags in London)? A loss with injuries!! (like Jags in London).

Damn Palmer looks hurt

Bogus call on Tre

What a waste of a great throw by Josh and Shakir should have had got the feet in.

OMG idiots, All they had to do was hurry that up. Now punting.

Personal foul on the Bills, No replay of course.

Once again on that first drive, the Bills D does nothing to confuse a young QB. Its the McD way!

Perfect throw!!

Great Tv replays so far. No replay of the offside on the fumble and no replay of the hold.

They completed a deep pass!!! Is Brady drunk??

Yes Dabol should be fined. No way he should be interfering with tent assessment. On the other hand with his job probably on the line and after seeing that pathetic Wilson pass attempt, I can understand his desperation!!

I noticed that too on the Lawrence fumble. Of course the doubt could be easily eliminated if they actually used the chip they supposedly have in the ball. There's no way that the NFL could not be accurate like tennis or have a perfect line like VAR in soccer where the first down/goal line is . Why are they waiting?

He should use the "I ingested Bath salts" defense from a few years ago. Guaranteed winner!

Flotts INT that sealed the game was a thing of beauty. Its what our Db's used to do with regularity. Great game changing play and great ball instincts. Dabol really planned an impressive game last night on both sides of the ball. Dart looks legit. Thankfully for the Giants, Wilson was only in briefly for Dart. The pass Wilson threw on that third down? Eeesh.

This is true but at least in man there's a chance that one of our slow or hesitant dbs will be within 5 yards of their receiver and therefore "theoretically" in position to break up the play. I dont expect them to intercept the pass but they can at least make a quick tackle. With the zone that we have been playing on key plays throughout the McD era, the opposing players are not only open, they catch the pass unopposed and in space, so the YAC is better. Our D doesnt seem to be the best at tackling and I think one of the reasons is we are so far off the receivers that when they catch it we dont have the angle for a tackle.

There's lots of great feel good stories in sports about players getting a 2nd or even 3rd act after injury or being cut/traded. Maybe some of us (myself included) were hoping for a Brad Marchand of the NHL's Panthers situation where Trey comes in here as a the old vet, regains his form and mentors the young kids to a SB. Unfortunately the eye test from last year of Trey being slow, out of position and compensating with PI (with both the Rams and Ravens) is the reality of it. Yes it was a little bit too optimistic but I am still shocked by how poor Trey has been. I have seen maybe 4-5 impressive skillful plays from him and that's it. He doesnt seem to have the instinctive ability to know where the receiver is compared to the ball and sometimes seems lost out there. Diggs ate him up.

I completely agree. McD is never a few moves ahead in his strategy. 13 seconds was the classic example but we have seen it time and again (last year in the Texans game was also abysmal). The last Pat drive was shades of 13 seconds in that they were giving the Pats receivers too much cushion. It was great that they pressured Maye but they were playing too far off the receivers. The Boutte reception was even worse and sealed a much easier FG try. By the time that FG was good McD just gave up. There was seemed to be no strategy for the kickoff or the subsequent play. The Instruction should have been clear. Let the ball go through the endzone and give Josh time for two deep strikes or one to get us into FG range. Once Samuel has his brain cramp there is barely time for one play and that was just going through the motions. I've said this for years we will win a SB despite McD's game management and never because of it.

Maye wasnt down. By pure luck he release a split second before his knee touched. Was he hoping to hit Diggs? I think he was possibly but I seriously believe he was hoping to just get rid of the ball to avoid the loss and got lucky. What bugs me is that the refs by not calling 2 previous throws by Maye into the ground as intentional grounding made that miracle pass much more possible. Maye probably just thought get rid of the ball as close as I can to Diggs to save the field position. And why not try it as the refs are not going to call me for intentional grounding. In any case, Daquon should have closed faster and got to the throwing arm quicker to stop the play. The real culprit of the negative play for the Bills though is Shaq Thompson who whiffs on the tackle of Diggs, followed by the 3 Bills (Benford was one) who stand there instead of trying to meet Diggs before the first down line. Tackling skills and taking the right angle to the ball should be something that a player figures out in high school let alone by the time they turn pro. Yet the Bills and other teams have players that seem to lack this basic skill. Its not like Thompson was tackling AJ Green, DK Metcalf or some other beast of WR. Diggs should have been stopped right there when he caught the ball.

Bath salts apparently.

True but a chip in the ball would always determine where it was on the field hidden or not by players bodies. Last night the Jags got a first down where Lawrence was a yard past the line yet he was marked as getting the ball so the tip just touched the line, this was with no obstructions. The video assist staff did not buzz down for a respot of the ball either. It didnt matter in the end because he got the first down. The play where Lawrence tried to reach over the goaline and had it slapped out would also have been solved very quickly had the NFL used this same possible technology. For the record, I dont think he broke the plain of the goal line, but a high tech look would have been nice.