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Hopefully one day when you're a franchise QB, you can get hit out of bounds by a defender and show us how exactly to fall. Sanchez could have, but he was too busy fumbling his career away.

I don't. Make sure we all appreciate the era we've been lucky enough to find. Yeah, we don't have a ring yet, but I also never want to look the gift horse in the mouth and assume my team should always win or else...that.

I thought the comment by Sanchez about Josh getting an Oscar on the OB hit was unprofessional. Sorry, that's a foul every time, and he shouldn't be perpetuating crap.

John Hussey seems to be the most corrupt referee out there now.

McDermott is behind the times on strategy, and got blasted in the first Miami game for clock management issues. So I think he drilled this particular strategic point into the heads of his players, and honestly, I'm not sure I want a jump ball between Hill/Waddle and this defensive backfield. But it's kind of like McDermott's "see, I know what I'm doing" trick. But yes, taking a touchdown lead with ~ 0:30 to go would seem insurmountable. But then again, 2022 seems to be the Year Of The Bills Defensive Choke Job and finding new ways to screw up endgames.

Honestly, the rules are so perverted now from what we remember as kids that it's annoying af. First off, an ineligible receiver being the first to touch a forward pass is a penalty. Plain and simple, the officials completely missed that, egregious and stupid. There are so many passes now where the defender impacts the receiver before the ball arrives that get NO flags. Every team gets this benefit. But it ends up at a point where nobody knows what DPI really looks like, because it used to be if the defender arrived early, it was a flag. This rugby b***s*** is annoying too. It used to be that helping a runner forward was a penalty. Someone is going to get hurt in one of these scrums, but hey, concussion protocol is enough to show they really care about the players' health.

The only squishy thing about that call was the flag appearing before the contact was even made. I assume the official was calling the hold by the defender guarding Davis, but then conveniently adjusted his call once it was clear that the defender boxed out McKenzie.

At this point, we have to hand it to Brady. He must have developed himself. I'm pretty sure the spying helped win their first couple. But I also presume that, rather than passively using whatever information was afforded him, he actively chose to learn to read defenses, digest the schemes, and couple that with the physical characteristics needed to make every throw. Kudos to Brady, clearly the Bucs Super Bowl win should have been his riding into the sunset, but he's still better than a lot of the current starters floating around (including DadBodMcCorkle).

I'm sure this has been quoted and commented eleventy-bajillion times already, but what the heck, YOU HAVE FIRE IN YOUR HANDLE. We might have Terrell Davis right now, but he's stuck behind Model Citizen Who Runs Into The Back Of OL.

My God, why can't they schedule home playoff games in September?

Closet Patriots fan if there ever was one.

A lot of homeless Las Vegans working off 50% tells.

We all want Josh to bring home the MVP and lead this team in spectacular fashion to a Super Bowl victory. With that said, I have to wonder if the coaches viewed yesterday's matchup & conditions as a potential repeat of the road Jets loss. Bad weather, same dogged defense & coaching staff, & an O-line not at 100%. He slung the ball a bit more at NE, and I could imagine the coaches implored him to be less risky in his approach to throwing - avoid tight coverage or potential disguises that were effective at MetLife. It led to a rather pedestrian stat day, but it might be the type of performance against a b***h of a defense that won't cause him to devolve into another funk. In fact, I'd say the entire team seems to struggle in the rain. Recall the Indy nightmare at home last season. At least in this one they a) didn't give NYJ short fields on turnovers, and b) bottled up the run game quite effectively. McKenzie must be replaced at WR3 soon. He can't be relied upon. Way too many games where possessions are squandered from his concrete hands. If you want him for trickery like gadget jet sweeps or pop passes, fine, but my confidence in him is basically zilch now.

the dude knows what not being talented offensively is all about.

He seemed to pick it up late. I think he's a guy that doesn't have the tools, so in the end he gives up his share of completions but does a good job when he's able to attack a receiver in front of him in zone. What brand stopwatch do you use?

3) So I've been down on Edmunds many times, but when he does his job vs. the run like last night, it frees up that whole backfield. White & Poyer are key. But frankly, it seems like NE abandoned the run which might have done in the Bills late in the game if they had stuck to their guns. 5a) When a receiver dives, it's really tough on defenders. The call made sense, the hit was just a typical bang-bang on a guy who's diving, judging those angles can be tricky. 5b) The sooner one realizes that the league tells officials when to find things to call, the sooner you understand that there's a reason they wanted to get those big sponsorship bucks from the gambling huts.

I think these are the types of rules that you hate when they take something from your team, and love when it benefits. Unfortunately you have to come up with bland, blanket rules to cover these types of things. If he lands inbounds, the ball pops out, and a NE player grabs it, do you go berzerk because he didn't establish possession and instead of it being a 1st down for NE it's an incompletion?

Yeah there would be better uses of a functioning crystal ball at this point.

No issue with the conversion try. Big issue with players like Gilliam who offer one real trick and then don't even pull that one off when needed.

So that's because they have an offensive-minded head coach. You were 13 seconds from taking them down last year, and could very well do the same this year - because they have a susceptible defense aside from a couple of marquee rushers. We have the trappings of a solid offense, if some players get their heads out of their asses (looking at you Gabe & Lil' Dirty). And if/when Tre returns, I think their ability to thwart Mahomes will be even greater.

Yeah wonder how much he had to fight the urge to back away from the Diggs TD. The way he blasted that pass, it seems like he's waiting for ghosts to pick off his deep over the middle throws.

The way he went to McDermott - and this is just me speculating - it looked like his body language was saying, "what did I tell you?" as much as anything. I'm guessing Allen & Diggs are getting sick of Ken Dorsey. He seems like the kind of guy who is arrogant & thinks every idea he comes up with ought to work (see the laptop suplex in Miami). My guess is he blames Allen, but it's highly likely his ability to draw up plays and understand offensive concepts is dwarfed by that of Daboll. Maybe that comes from the fact that Dorsey was a QB in college and the pros, and that in itself could breed ego.

I think teams have begun to realize that our current starters at corner are deficient at breaking up passes. Ever since the opponents started attacking more down the field on 3rd down, it's shown these guys aren't good at reading the receiver's eyes to react to the arriving pass.

Just arrogance mostly. Self-scout. It shouldn't take another team's exploitation to realize you have tells. There should be people on the rolls whose job is to identify this stuff so you aren't caught with your pants down. I have felt that Daboll, coming from NE, did this himself.

He didn't bring the whole thing here himself. It was posted by another. Maybe it's not wise for him to carry on in the weeds over here, but I don't think he went very deep here. And what happens when you have a trusted source who asks you to leak out these minor rumblings in a way that won't point suspicion their way? These are transactional relationships - one gets scoops by being a conduit. So it could be that the person (or people) who are leaking these items think this will lead to a positive resolution in the clubhouse. Or, it could be selfish by the source. But that's the game one plays when in the media. Gain trust, and be trusted.