Mikie2times

Douglas is leading the Bills in receptions, yards, and TD’s 😂

Love AJ this year

Just getting over Covid but about to grab the bottle with how this is going

I think by the end of this game Sunday ticket will cost a pack of gum for the rest of the season

He has been elite

Rasul, hold my beer

We will settle down, but let’s not pretend this isn’t who we are. We have gone for quarter length stretches in so many games this year where we can’t get a first down. It’s not new.

What I was thinking. This is sort of a stinky deal. Sure, it seems the refs made a mistake. They also announced the mistake they made before the ball was snapped. The Lions most certainly heard it but as you said, no time outs. It would have been nice for somebody from the Lions or Cowboys to have commented on this specific aspect. Detroit handled it post game reasonably well. It's not like they just torched the earth. But they did make it seem like they had no awareness that confusion could have occurred pre play. They could have taken the penalty and kicked.

100%. It's a game with a lot of volatility in play to play outcomes and if played long enough you will see things you might only see one time in thousands of plays and you will see them when it doesn't matter and when it does.

It looked like he was going to just check on the lineman, perhaps even to make sure he reported. It got the refs eyes. Then the ref just made a human mistake and mixed the two up. Humans do make mistakes like that but you really hope they would sort that out. Not throw a flag after the play concludes. I mean the ref had to feel a little unsure in that moment. A little in doubt. If they just walk away at that moment the worst that uncertainty can bring is the natural result of the play. Really bad. Just brutal loss.

That call reminded me of a poker player on tilt.

I would be so pissed off I was a Lions fan. We talk about bad calls a lot, but not unreviewable calls that determine the outcome of a game that are against the natural outcome. Holy *****. The last one this bad was probably Fail Mary.

Now it looks like the ref improperly noted the player who reported as 70 and not 68. The Ref looks like he messed this up. WOW. Brutal.

Well, nobody can actually speak to what somebody else said. But this part of it is pretty black and white.

Covered- Ineligible 8 , the WR is covering the LT "8" which makes him ineligible X 8XOXX X X X X X Not Covered (What the Lions did) with 7 men on the LOS means the LT "8" is now eligible. Since he did not report as such it was an illegal formation. 8XOXX X X X X X X

He was saying you could call either penalty. But both penalties are a result of him not reporting. When he wasn't covered by the WR he became eligible but he never reported so he couldn't be eligible. So had he done so it would have made him eligible and the formation legal. They're explaining exactly what I said earlier right now.

He would have only been ineligible because he didn't report. Had he reported it would have made the play clean.

In the replay you see the two Lineman far away from the play walking to the ref. They were clearly reporting. The ref then starts to walk away toward the line of scrimmage right when the OT ran up with the rest of the players. He couldn't have spoke to him. It looked like the player assumed he was good. Perhaps by the other players interactions but I think YOU have to be the one to report. Not somebody on your behalf.

At the 7 was flat out the wrong decision. The probability of conversion is much lower than OT and really not close.

Billsy loss and absurd to go for two at the 7. Completely reckless.

It’s crazy what Allen’s mobility brings. Put all Josh’s arm talent in Geoff’s mobility and we lose last week

I hate that the Cowboys landed Cooks for a 5th and 6th in separate years. He was exactly the kind of addition that would have really transformed the WR room. They're elite.

Even though he didn’t play as much as I would have liked he was a good piece for the team that year. Miss him as well.

Flacco has made some really puzzling decisions and is turnover prone. The Browns OL is not very good at pass pro. Njoku has been a revelation. But consider who they're mopping up in this streak. A decimated Jaguars teams off that Bengals Monday night game, which they still have yet to recover from. Then it took a miraculous Bear collapse to win at home vs Chicago. Then a Stroudless Texans team whose defense is among the worst in football. Then the Jets who have routinely been destroyed by playoff teams. That defense IS very good and even better at home. Also props to Stefanski as he has really scripted Flacco into some great PA calls with wide open WR's. Flacco also throws a great deep ball, still, just not fully sold that this team is dangerous. Most teams can beat most team in these playoffs and to me they qualify as most teams. Baltimore is also not a team I'm concerned with. They hit like a MF, but we have the script on Lamar. That offense is dependent on downfield plays and Lamar doing Lamar things with his legs. To McD's credit, that's about the worst style you can try against us. We have been excellent in lane discipline with mobile teams and we will not give up much over top. If we play "Allen" defense vs Baltimore which is what we are designed to do and force them to beat us 3-5 yards at a time a playoff Lamar will fail. While I'm not super bullish on the Bills, I do still feel like they're the most dangerous. I'm not bullish because I'm holding this team up to previous iterations and I just don't feel we are as good. That said, we are playing a more playoff friendly style with Brady calling plays. We have a closer in Josh, defense is improving, getting healthier. Nobody in the AFC this year looks like they can role us. If you can't role us Colts or Bengals style, we are very dangerous. We will occasionally role a good team ala Miami and if we can preserve a late lead, Allen will put you in that spot in most competitive games.