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I enjoy telling my son about Bryan Cox getting ejected from a critical late-season game after getting into a dust-up with Carwell Gardner. That was one of my happiest memories as a Bills fan.

New England would never stoop to something like this.

With Hodges, the Steelers have beaten the Bengals, Browns, and Cardinals. All three of those games had a final margin that was within one score. That's hardly "on a roll." Hodges hasn't faced a defense even in the same general universe as ours.

The problem is that any in-game fix will simply be ignored by the officials themselves, like the rule change to allow reviews of PI. The ultimate solution needs to be full-time, professional officials who are accountable to the league.

How many players from that game are still on our roster? How many are still on Pittsburgh's roster? How many coaches are still on their respective staffs?

It's worth noting that when Allen misses on deep passes, he misses them in a very consistent way -- they're all overthrown. There's nothing erratic about these passes. It's not as if some are overthrown, some are overthrown, some are too far off to one side, etc. I'm pretty confident that he's deliberately erring on the side of overthrowing deep balls to eliminate any chance of an interception. I'm also pretty sure I read him saying that somewhere a few weeks ago. If that's the case, then this is definitely fixable.

Cleveland can theoretically still catch us if they win out and we lose out. They play @ARI, BAL, and CIN. They could easily lose to the Cardinals and will probably lose to Baltimore. You're absolutely right that we should all be Houston and New Orleans fans for the next few weeks. If the Saints beat the Colts and Titans and Houston splits with Tennessee, we become strong favorites to back into the playoffs even if we don't win another game. But backing into the playoffs blows so let's just win out.

This was a very poorly officiated game, and the calls went both ways. I personally thought the PI on Beasley was extremely soft -- there are professional soccer players who would be embarrassed to flop so blatantly. Then again, Foster was clearly interfered with and that one went uncalled, so I'll happily take it and not feel the least bit guilty.

No it isn't. We need one win over the next three games, and we're slight favorites to get in even if we go 0-3. Stop making it sound like the sky is falling. It isn't. The Bills are fine. We're fine. The season is fine.

We're going into the Jets game on a two game winning streak.

I agree that the offense was bad today and needs to do better.

Murray might have run for a TD and instead throws an INT. Nice job, Arizona.

No. The fact is that every NFL game is a %-based proposition, and you should be updating your priors after each game. This game is one in which we faced an extremely good team. The fact that we went toe to toe with them is a good indicator of our team's quality.

It won't matter next week when we give them the business.

Arizona is not getting it done for us today. Gotta handle our business next week.

First half: D Second half: C I love the guy, but this was not a good day for him. Or, in fairness, for any of his offensive teammates.

Would love that. Anything we can do to kneecap this team qualify us for some sort of federal subsidy or something.

The unstoppable Steelers just allowed 10 points to a 3-win Arizona team and it's not even halftime.

I fully expect to win next week. We're just better than Pittsburgh.

I mean, Allen had quite a few bad plays today, especially in the first half. He rebounded nicely, but it's not like there's a shortage of stuff to criticize about his game today. He absolutely delivered on what would have been the game-tying play. That's was a great pass. Sometimes the defense makes an even better play.

That 4th-down pass to Brown is a TD but for the defender making an excellent play to break it up. No regrets on that one at all.

So did the opponents. This was a poorly-officiated game overall. The PI on Beasley was soft, but the PI on Foster was blatant and went uncalled.

Baltimore was obviously the better team today, but we would have tied it up and gone to OT but for a great defensive play. The team showed good resilience today.

It's time for Clutch Josh.

How do seasoned announcers not know that going for two is the right call here? You need a two point conversion at some point -- find out now if you've got it or not.