CincyBillsFan

Chris Brown & Eric Wood say no.

The offensive skill player talent on the Lions is superior to the Bills and that is not debatable IMO.

Eye in the sky should help on all 15 yard penalties. They called TB for an offensive face mask when in fact it was a simple holding of the shoulder pad. In a tight game that 5 yard difference is a big deal. An eye in the sky assist would have corrected the egregious miss of a clear Face Mask in the Vikings game and would have overturned the penalty on Rapp in Sunday's game.

With less talent?

The key is Cooper. If he's ready to come back this week then they should hold tight at WR even if Coleman is out for a long time. However, if they think Cooper may be out for several more weeks and Coleman is out long term it would be criminally negligent not to add quality to what would be a seriously depleted Bills WR group.

I agree on the first 3 points as this is the best O line, RB & TE groups. But the WR's are probably the 2nd worst after 2018. It's also the weakest defense the Bills have had in the Allen era. Fortunately though this is the best Allen we've had and that is making all the difference.

Probably not but it would have cancelled a decent run that made it 3rd and less then 1 from the 2. It would have been 2nd & 11 and with the rain pouring down who knows? Bottom line is that for the NFL to continually let this guy and by extension the Chiefs get away with these obvious pre snap penalties is undermining the faith in the league. I hate incompetent officiating but figure that over time it will even out. But what we're seeing here over and over again is something else and much more suspicious.

Because the refs would probably call off sides on the DE.

Read the comments at the X post. The NFL has a real problem with the almost universal perception that at critical points in a game the refs favor the Chiefs. This is not good for the credibility of the league.

It makes me sick to see that. I have no doubt that the NFL told the refs not to call a holding penalty on Miami when it involved protecting Tua. Call me a conspiracy nut but there is no way the league wants to see Tua withering on the turf. I will be real curious going forward to see how many flags for holding are called going forward on Tua pass plays.

Like Boles, McD would have had a misplaced faith in his defense.

Boles lacks any situational understanding of the game. It was clear that his defense was falling apart. You go for 2 and then hope you can hold KC off for 30 seconds. The overall chance of that succeeding is way higher then willingly going to OT at Arrowhead against Mahomes/Reid.

Judas Priest how do the refs miss the tackle moving early again? That would have been a big penalty that might have forced a FG. If the NFL wants people not to think they're giving the Chiefs breaks at critical moments in the game then they must call that. This is either pure incompetence or in your face cheating.

Greeny is a big Jets fan and he had to be rooting for the Finns but he thought the holding call that took away the Allen TD run bull feces:

There has been some very bad QB play today. INT's all over the place.

Doesn't bother me in the least. Last week Jackson was average and the Ravens lost to a one win Cleveland team. Some people say Jackson is better then Allen some say Allen is better then Jackson. Most say Mahomes is better then both. But almost all folks say Allen, Mahomes & Jackson are in the top 5 QB's in the NFL. That's enough for me. As long as Allen is leading the Bills to victory and they win their division and advance in the playoffs I am confident that the Bills will win a Super Bowl and Allen will receive the accolades he deserves, Yep. It appeared he audibled to that throw to Davis when the safety tried to sneak up to the LOS to blitz.

This is how you guys roll: "I hold JA17 to a higher standard cuz he's my guy". Then you make what has to be one of the most ridiculous statements I've ever heard on 2BD "I guess I want JA17 to be perfect". PERFECT! No NFL player has ever been nor will they ever be PERFECT.

You are not being overly "defensive". This has been going on since 2020 when Allen elevated his play to an elite level. Before that in 2018 & 2019 these people came at Allen from all sides insisting that he was a bust. Then when Allen took his game to another level these people had to change their tactics and resort to snipping at him over what were often trivial things. Like today - gee, Allen had a few bad throws. How can any thinking fan throw that out there in a game where otherwise Allen was brilliant?

Are you just trolling? QB's having great games and throwing 39 passes will have a couple that look ugly. In a game where the Bills won and Allen played fantastic these misfires, that did not come close to being TO's, are not worthy of noting.

I don't think these posters are setting standards at all. They're just nitpicking and it's been going on for the last few years in the face of consistently elite play by Allen. I don't know if these people are still pissed off that we took the "wrong Josh" or that they were dead wrong when they predicted that Allen would be a bust. Like you said it's like these people don't watch any other NFL games.

On the Poyner PF on Coleman the refs missed a clear pass interference as the DB was tugging Coleman's jersey as he jumped for the ball. And in spite of Poyner's targeting hit and the PI the ball was perfectly placed and Coleman almost caught it. And are you seriously criticizing Allen on that last drive of the 1st half where first Cook dropped a perfectly thrown pass that likely would have been a TD and then the refs threw a ticky tack flag robbing Allen of a brilliant 25 yard TD run?

Yep, just ask the Ravens after last weeks loss to a one win Browns team.

If Coleman and Cook make their catches on perfectly thrown passes Allen has 5 TD throws for the day. And if the ref keeps the flag in his pocket on Allen's great 25 yard TD run (like they do for the Chiefs) then Allen has a 6 TD game with NO turnovers. By any rational standard Allen played great today.So he threw 4 passes to receivers feet. Big deal, this happens to almost every NFL QB. Allens play was why the Bills won today.

And a lot of others. In fact week to week it's pretty common for teams that are supposed to win their game to lose.

This was what should have been Allen's game winning 4th quarter TD pass that put the Bills up by 7 with less then 6 minutes to play in the 4th quarter. And his only INT the result of a WR letting the ball bounce off his shoulder pads at the 2 yard line and our RB dropping a perfectly thrown pass that would have resulted in a TD right before half. It is beyond weird that we see these kinds of crazy & lazy posts snipping at Allen after a win in which he was the only reason we won. As great as the Bass kick was, if we had an average QB we lose today.