Dan

Personally, I was hoping they would call Shakir’s last TD back. It was far better to have the game end as it did, then with the Chargers have 2mins to score. They would have needed a touchdown, but still rather have them have 25-30seconds and no time outs than 2mins.

Sent you a message… In short, to answer all your questions from paragraph 1… NO. Except, overall, I thought Josh had a good game. A couple of off throws, but I don’t expect him to be perfect. In the end.. he won this game for us along with Ed Oliver. I thought McDs defense showed the affect of injuries again. They struggled. But held the Chargers to FGs with short fields all night. Gotta give them credit for that!! Ed Oliver was easily the defensive, if not entire team, MVP. Poona was ok. But ..nothing special. Bottom line. Defense came up big when they needed it most but suffered from having to take the field after 3 turnovers. to me it felt like a game where… the Bills got this, no problem. Then ..bam.. big set back play. Ok. Reset. We got this now… back.. turnover. Ok reset. We got this… bam. Wtf!! We can still do this.. reset looking good… bam! No you don’t. It was just a game of miscues and missed opportunities. But they did just enough to win and get out of there.

Watching that play and noticing Spencer Brown is a little bit like … looking at this picture.. ..and commenting on the quality of tacks in the upholstery. Too many people are just looking for ***** to B word about! Enjoy the beautiful win before you. Life is short.

I’m feeling good! Get to relax and enjoy Christmas now. Had the Bills lost and I sat here watching all the other teams playing and talking about their playoff spots… there would have been a miserable pit in my stomach. As it stands.. the sun is shining, presents are under the tree, Bills are currently #6 seed! I don’t watch any of the NFL shows anymore. So I don’t care what the idiots are saying about the Bills narrow win. We won. We’re on to the Patsies! Keep winning!!!! Go Bills!!

I know a lot of posters are frustrated and out of their heart meds. But Josh and the Boys just gave us a win to savor over Christmas, while vaulting into the #6 seed position. Yeah it was ugly… but man it feels so much better drinking to this win than the alternative would have been. Enjoy people. The season is just beginning !! Go BILLS!!!

Interesting… a lot of the camera work looked like real drone footage to me. I was thinking a few AI generated characters or “enhanced” scenes. Certainly sounds like some over dubs. Pretty interesting how it was all put together.

My concern is ..at what point is there no real new content out there and it’s just AI generated from AI. At what point do we hit the tipping point and we’ve lost creativity, and more importantly the ability to discern what is creatively generated and what is just regenerated. can I ask… what parts of this video do people think at AI generated? I bit specific but I want to know if what I’m seeing is what I think I’m seeing.

It’s hard to imagine anything being produced without some amount of AI (photoshop in my day) enhancement. However, most of that footage looked like drone footage to me. Albeit, extremely well done flying if so! But I know folks that can easily fly one that well. I seem to recall a similarly shot video being posted last year? Maybe they used AI to update it with this season’s references, rather than reshoot the entire sequence? Either way… this group has some serious talent. It’d be great to see more content from them.

I thought the OLine was all supposed to be within a yard of the LOS.. but it seems everyone just has one lineman slightly behind the next, by the time you get to the tackle, he’s usually 2 yards off the ball. Look at the infamous KC offensive Offside play, for ex. Am I seeing this all wrong?

Fair point. LOL. I even second guessed writing that sentence. Kyle may not have been as good with it… I was trying to imply that we didn’t need one of the best QBs in the league because the run game was Cooking! But, it’s definitely a fair point… having the threat of Josh keeping it and running is just another wrinkle to make defenses pause. I guess ideally we can beat up a couple easy teams here, but play a much more balanced game - mixing it all together making upcoming coaches have to prepare for …everything.

Agreed. Dallas seems to have a defense built entirely to stop today’s passing offenses. It’s why I think they can rebound (or hope they can) and give Miami a much needed loss. Miami can run… but only to set up the pass. The passing game is their game. Its also why I think Buffalo dominated Dallas last week. We went full heavy run and they just didn’t have the tools to respond. They expected Josh to be Josh… and Brady designed a game plan that Kyle Allen could have delivered. This is also why Buffalo, if they can keep this level of intensity and focus up, are getting a lot of talk as the team no one wants to play. Because we all know what Josh can do… but if they can flip a switch and run with power… how do you defend them? IMO, they go as far as the defense can take them at this point. The very real run threat combined with the Allen passing/running game is a nightmare to try and defend. edit: wanted to add… I hope they get a big early lead and then the game is comfortable enough to put some plays on tape to give other teams something to think about. End arounds, different formation groups, etc.

You are wrong. You can’t just ignore all his good play and conclude that what’s left is useless. This is a different team. I would be shocked if they come out flat. At some point we have to leave the past failures of this franchise ..in the past.

Unfortunately, I think this is the last year Hyde, Poyer and Tre take the field for us.

This international crap has been unwanted by the fans and players since day one, and the league just keeps flipping us all off. If they want to be international… just go all in and put new franchises in these markets and let them see how that goes. I mean what could go wrong with a bunch of teams playing nfl style football throughout Europe? But stop shorting the US fans, and increasing injury risk to our players. It’s just flipping ridiculous.

That… yeah. And a whole lot of cheating and bending every rule in the book. Of course, having a few refs in your back pocket don’t hurt either. But yeah, just a great coach.

The only people that would say this are bandwagon fans that weren’t around for or too drunk to recall the decades of repeated house cleanings and all the mediocrity that brings.

We’re digging up 2 year old threads now? It’s gonna be a long 2 weeks.

And none more egregious than the non called horse collar illustrated just a few posts up. Its just unfathomable that a QB that is one of the faces of the NFL, could be rag dolled to the ground by his pads, his jersey nearly ripped off.. and the Ref literally feet away with one responsibility… to watch the QB misses that? ??? AND somehow looking directly at all that decides the QB commits the foul by not throwing a pass well enough to hit his receiver in the hands while getting tossed down. These are game changing calls and non calls that the refs are making. The fact that they are never punished and the league has not done more to eliminate such clear and blatant manipulation of the game can only mean one thing… the league is ok with refs influencing the outcome of the games to favor certain teams over others. If the league wanted to have any appearance of impartiality, they should fine Hochuli and suspend him pending a review of who’s paying him off. It’s just unacceptable to think he just didn’t see the horse collar or that he saw it but didn’t think it was what it so blatantly was. He’s either on the take or completely inept.

Apparently now there’s a 3 second rule or something according to posters here. What I don’t get is does that apply if you catch it and fall down? Like do you have to fall really slow to reach the required made up time? Bills got screwed. Think the league cares? Nope. They just been giving calls to the opposition for decades now.

How many games of the year, thriller, one for the record book type games have the Bills lost? Just add this to the pile of amazing games I’ll never wanna see or hear of again… because Buffalo is the team that lost.

To be fair… Josh is pretty good at scoring on the last drive of the game. The current team’s problem is we have no one on defense that can get the stop when they get the ball back with under 2mins. …and when they do force a fumble to seal the game…the refs just step in and say uhhh no.

I was gonna say play Line Backer. Because this defense needs some serious help. That’s the problem going forward. We’ve drafted primarily defense for years… and now they’re old and washed out. Time to draft more defensive players, while we rely on Josh to be the only playmaker on offense.

The Bills need to develop a breakaway jersey for Diggs. The Refs routinely let him get mugged like this with no call. But a jersey that just rips away once grabbed… 1. He could finish the route and make the catch. And 2. It would be blatantly obvious the DB had a handful of his jersey. Only problem… they would need a dozen or more jerseys for him every game. Somehow that was not a penalty. But the Bills DB got called for touching a guy on the arm on 3rd down extending an eventual scoring drive. Literally touching, in no way was his progress impeded or his jersey pulled. But that was a drive extending penalty. Diggs and Allen get there jerseys ripped off… result penalty on Buffalo. The refs rigged the game. The league office needs accountability.

Agreed. I think because it epitomized so many of this team’s failures and us fans’ torment. 1. The league clearly hates Buffalo or at least doesn’t care to call games fairly. There’s zero doubt the refs were biased against Buffalo in this game. I don’t have to point out all the bad calls and missed calls. The whole football viewing world saw it. But why are they so biased against us? One theory I have is it’s Bills Mafia’s fault. The league knows we’re loyal and will follow the team through thick and thin. So they have zero incentive to see the Bills win, and can blatantly referee the game to maximize betting profits and league narratives. As a fan base we should really boycott the league until they fire this officiating crew. 2. We all lived through the 13 second game. We all have seen what can be done with 13 seconds on the clock. We had a chance, with 20 seconds… and kneeled down. You can’t create legends and legendary endings when you give up. McD gave up and we were robbed at the chance to have our legendary moment. 3. A 59 yard FG in the driving rain. It reminded me of the Dallas MNF game years ago when they beat us on an improbable last second, long ass FG. Why do other kickers always make those kicks against us, but our guy can’t even make relatively routine ones? 4. When we need it most, we have no playmakers other than Josh. We watch amazing highlight reel plays against us every week and watch our team lack that same ability. We had a great play call after several runs, perfectly setting it up. Josh read the situation and makes a perfect pass. Cook runs right by the defender and is free and clear as the ball hits his hands… and he drops it. Not once, but twice, WRs run the wrong route and Josh throws a great pass with perfect timing, placement and anticipation in the end zone. And the ball hits the turf because the WRs turned the wrong way. The list could go on, but does it need to? The Bills lack focus. They lack playmakers that win games. Is it poor preparation or poor players? I don’t know but it’s on display time and time again. We watch other teams make the play to win the game, while our players.. drop the ball and we wonder why God hates us. 5. I woke up this morning with an image of Josh - dirty, soaking wet, jersey ripped. He looked tired and battered in the pouring rain. But it’s the way this team loses that is making us all so tired. We’ve seen it all. We’re battered, beaten, dirty and standing there - helpless - as the other team, coaches, fans get their legendary wins. I imagine he is tired. I know I’m tired of seeing this same ending play out over and over again. This is a hard loss to get over for a number of reasons. Mostly because, once again, we were at the precipice of greatness just to have the league and our coach screw us out of that moment.

I had Dolphins fans texting me asking why the league wants Buffalo to lose. That says all you need to hear. It’s not just Bills fans.. the football world knows we got screwed on multiple calls and should have won that game.