TC in St. Louis

I cannot think of any possible scenario that involves him attempting to pass that ball. Unfathomable call. Even the expert tv ref called it a fumble. We lost a sack, a forced fumble, and a touchdown on a horrific call. Good thing we won.

Let's rock those Browns and talk next week. I'm going to the Denver game either way, but I hope we're on a winning streak.

Let's start with Cleveland. Nothing matters till we get through those guys. BTW, our defensive coordinator is head coaching material. That may be why he stands out. He believes in himself.

Bradford. He's got great skill but needs a line to protect him. We are in the process of building that line. The Rams might trade him for a 5th round pick.

I think our owner will spend whatever is necessary to get this team to the next level. They overspent to buy the team by about 200 million, let's see what they do in the offseason. I think we will be happy.

EJ may turn out to be great. A lot of top flight quarterbacks don't come out of the gate and win like crazy. He is a great athlete, smart, and has a big arm. He's working very hard. Maybe he'll work out. I don't know how we can rule this out.

Mike Evans has a big game and suddenly the world has collapsed. Sammy is fine, but Kyle forgot how to be a quarterback. We've been playing some pretty good defenses lately. Factor that in with a dumb OC, a blind QB and tough defenses. Sammy is great and will be fine once we figure out how to use him. And he's been playing hurt nearly all year.

Not for nothing, but that would actually be hilarious.

I ran with the hand-held camera guy on the Denver sidelines in St. Louis yesterday.....I wanted to see Peyton Manning up close, and I was up close. I could see the scar on his neck. But what I didn't see coming was the pasting put on the Broncos by the Rams. Which makes me believe that anything is possible. I'd like to believe the Bills can come back and win a bunch of games. They blew the Kansas City game. They could have beaten the Dolphins. No game is easy. I'm going to be in Denver for the Bills game. I am hoping it means something. If we beat the Jets and the Browns, we will be 7-5 and the game will mean something. I think Pegula will do whatever is necessary. He already overpaid for this team. Why not spend money on players and coaches?

Les Grossman says what I wanted to say last night to Walt Coleman.

If there was cause for intentional grounding, why didn't we see the Miami coach screaming for it? Why wasn't the crowd going nuts? Why did the Bills line up to punt, and Miami get into punt return formation? Because it was an incomplete pass, and it's time to punt from the end zone. It's not time to get together and hand points out to an unexpecting Dolphins team. When they announced the penalty, the crowd got a little worked up because suddenly they had an extra 2 points!! What a gift. That should come with a reach-around.

I did see that pick. In fact, I said "Pick" as it happened. Nobody heard me. I was like a tree falling in the woods with nobody around.

My original post was trying to make the point that the Bills were so bad in the second half that it made the bad officiating irrelevant. In fact, the team is irrelevant. They were so bad, they almost made me forget about the officiating. Almost. The thing that bugged me most about the grounding call was when they called that referee consultant guy, who of course is going to suck up to the refs on the field. He is full of crap too. The more that guy talked, the more he sank himself in the quicksand. They just handed 2 points to the Fins. But three plays earlier we had an 8 yard run wiped out on a questionable holding call on our center. Questionable in the respect that they allowed holding all night on the Fins, why choose that particular moment to throw a flag? Took us from 2nd and 2 at the 28 to first and 20 from the 10. Walt Coleman was the ref who invented The Tuck Rule? I forgot about that!! He must live on the Gillette Plantation.

The officiating was poor as usual. It is expected, and they deliver. Screw them. But the team just stunk. The run defense? What? So many letdowns. I haven't seen a QB play like this since Collins in the Bears game years ago. He dropped back and just threw the ball into space. Something must have happened to him. He folded. This is the first time that I turned off the game to watch something else. Granted, I hit the record button so I could come back and fast forward between plays so I could watch a condensed version, and not throw away an entire evening. I did enjoy the part where they called that ref to verify the excellence of the intentional grounding penalty. It doesn't matter if the receiver ran the wrong route. Scuse me? It's a spot pass. What if the receiver fell down? Is that intentional grounding? BS. Handed the fins points. I screamed "F You!" four times in a row and woke the kid on that pass interference call. If you can't make a play like that, a textbook perfect pass defensive play, then why bother putting on the pads? Walt Coleman needs to have surgery to remove his head from his arse. There. A thread about the officiating. The Bills stink right now. On rice. They made me stop watching for the first time in about 40 years.

The team gave up. The coaching is not right. The new owner can keep some of the coaches and most of the players. But something's gotta give.

Perhaps Marrone's success as offensive coordinator at New Orleans is related to having Drew Brees as quarterback. Much like Tom Brady being quarterback while the assistant coaches get jobs all over the NFL and pretty much stink after leaving New England. Perhaps Marrone is overrated.

Hell, in the Miami game earlier in the year, their guard actually stood up three separate times and wasn't called.

Wait. Are you saying that Henderson moved on purpose? That would be insane. The snap count was intended to draw the guy offside. I cannot fathom coaching a guy to twitch and risk the penalty being called.

All that video shows is how pathetic a call it was. The guy jumped because of the snap count. Our left guard moved a bit too. These are human beings who breathe and stuff. They are not statues.

I think he threw the flag because the guy jumped offside, and when everybody pointed at Henderson he decided that it must be true. Replays showed that Henderson flinched a bit, but the reality is that the snap count is what made the guy jump. He could not have seen Henderson's right knee from his position while he was looking straight ahead. Nevertheless, we all agree the Bills gave that game away. However, when I felt the game was over when they blew that call. I was texting my friend, a Chiefs fan, and I texted Game. He said :"there's a lot of time left." I said, "You don't understand. This is what the Bills do. They set you up and tear your heart out." And they did. Again.

Good job. Sanctimonious, but good. We're all friggin' idiots, including the 67000 at the game, the players and the coach. You are right. No offense, but you're playing the holier than thou to the utmost here. That was a ridiculous call. The guy jumped after Henderson flinched. He jumped in reaction to the quarterback's snap count. That's why he jumped. He didn't even see Henderson. The ref threw the flag and made a bad call. We're not whining. We are right. You are out of line to criticize us for being passionate about a bad call. However, it was gutless for Marrone to not call a sneak on the play, or at least try to get the first down. In the end, perhaps he deserved the bad call for having testicles the size of tic tacos.

This is it. Season.

Yeah. Thanks for posting that. Now I can see that earth shattering infraction.

Henderson's Flinch. That's the novel I'm working on in my tin foil hat. I watched this for the 8th time this morning. The reason the guy jumped was the snap count. He was looking straight ahead, and could not have seen Henderson's Flinch from that angle. How come the guy right across from Henderson didn't jump? Simple. It was so slight it didn't affect the play. What made the guy jump was Orton. The referee is supposed to call the penalty on the guy who committed the infraction. That would be the DL who jumped on the snap count. That Henderson's Flinch took place is a mere coincidence. It had nothing to do with the guy jumping offside. There was no causal relationship. Therefore, Henderson's Flinch has become a novel you can put in the category of Pulp Fiction. It was not the cause of the offsides. I watched Chandler's Infraction. That was fiction as well. Slight push while engaged with the safety, before the pass was thrown. Happens every day.

I just watched it again. The call should be based upon WHAT CAUSED THE GUY TO JUMP OFFSIDES. He was looking straight ahead. There is no way on earth, hell, heaven, or any asteroid in existence that in any way THAT GUY SAW SEANTREL'S LEG TWITCH. HE WASN'T LOOKING AT THE GUY. HE JUMPED AT THE SNAP COUNT. IT WAS A ROTTEN CALL. I DON'T CARE IF HIS LEG MOVED. THE GUY NEVER SAW IT BECAUSE HE WASN'T LOOKING AT IT. THE GUY ACROSS FROM SEANTREL DIDN'T MOVE. THE GUY WHO JUMPED DID SO AS A RESULT OF THE SNAP COUNT. GOOD DAY. SORRY BOUT THE CAPS.