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Some of it was just bad luck/freak plays too. Brady made two absolutely impossible plays in the first half that both led to tds…I remember one was on 3rd down but I’m not sure about the other. He’s not making that back foot lobbed rainbow throw with guys in his face to a receiver perfectly in stride twice in the same game haha Hold them to 6 there instead of 14 and it completely changes the complexion of a game and we’re back in the ‘yea they have plenty of yards but are they scoring tds’ realm.

It’s certainly set up well for us to have a chance…pats are far from unbeatable and they are the best team in the conference right now. Titans and ravens have had a bunch of huge injuries. If we were in the nfc playoffs I wouldn’t be holding out hope but you never know with the afc this season. Could be anybodys game. It’s a bunch of good but not quite powerhouse teams

I’ve been chuckling about this all day…like man how much do refs hate Xavien Howard to actually call only him for two holds against us haha Oh they notice…it was a conscious decision not to throw the flag there…guaranteed they saw it correctly. They figure…if we make this call the story will be we chose the winner of the game so let’s let it either get to a 4th down play or go to OT where either team has a chance. And it is terribly terribly flawed logic. The Wallace play in OT has a separate set of rules applied because it is not a game winning play

Because our offensive has been bad and he’s new lol Heads up play by the defender…stayed with the receiver long enough so that josh moved on in his progressions to the correct read and then broke on it early…that’s a potentially big gain for the rb if the db stays with his man

Is Aaron Darnold some kind of cross breed between two different current nfl players lol

Yea I have never once this season been like wow refs really cost us this one. Then this game happened and I remember the entire first half thinking ‘thank god this is a blowout or id be so pissed at the refs right now’ 🤣 then we started coming back and I was like ok now I’m retroactively mad at the refs. Then diggs gets mugged in the end zone and I’m like ok that’s kind of bs but they don’t normally call stuff like that late in games…I thought they owed us but whatever. Then Levi got called for dpi in OT and I absolutely lost it. He did such a nice job staying in position while avoiding contact on that play

They really shafted us with a spot late in that game but we ended up picking up the first on the next play so nobody is talking about it. I thought that fournette call of whether he picked up the first in OT was a bit of a tossup. But given all that was going on you’d think we’d be owed some tossups lol

And cost us a couple fgs at minimum in the first half…that easily could’ve been a 21–13 game at halftime

I think we’re underselling the potential points one sided holding/pi calls can cost a team. Not only are you stopping bills drives by not calling obvious bucs holds like diggs’ jersey being nearly ripped in half in the first half…you are extending bucs drives with ticky tacky calls. Could easily be a multiple touchdown swing and idk anyone that’s beating a bucs team getting spotted 10-14 points…they were at home playing with one of the most talented rosters in the league. Realistically how good would the bills have to play to overcome that. They cost us a sure 6 points or more in the first half with I mean laughably obvious uncalled PIs/holds

I know I wish there was some forum flair for being someone that usually defends the refs 😂 I think they’re awful but they’re usually awful for both teams equally over the course of a game. This was objectively completely one sided Idk why it’s a conspiracy…anything that could possibly lean Tom Brady’s way they will make do so because he is a huge brand/revenue stream for the league. This has been the case for years…refs were very pro bucs all throughout last years playoffs too. It’s not just salty bills fans complaining the Brady pats/bucs get all the calls lol

Yea cb2 is always gonna look worse than he is because he’s getting a majority of the action

I’m surprised the pats fans have proclaimed themselves division champs already…not sure they understand how division tiebreakers work lol a loss in Indy and it could get super hairy for them…as far as winning the division goes that bucs loss while it stung pretty badly did not hurt our chances terribly…it was really always gonna come down to that second head to head matchup

Haha we meet again in another thread 🤣 I just don’t understand how the offense gets zero credit for scoring quickly on a defense that is specifically designed to prevent quick scores. They blitzed a good amount in the first half but they were also winning easily with 4 rushers too which we completely flipped the switch on in the second half. Also defensive adjustments held the Tampa bay buccaneers of all people to 3 points in the second half. If I was a betting man I’d say you’re wrong…we have been extremely competitive with all the best teams in the league (outside of the colts game of course which is looking more like an outlier) and just have not been able to make the one clutch play to win the game so far (outside of the bucs game which I will go to my grave saying we did more than enough to win and got screwed but I respect it if you don’t see it that way) we have also almost always come out of halftime looking like the hotter team this season as opposed to coming out flat last season so us performing much better in the second half against the bucs really wasn’t anything new. so I’m thinking our luck evens out…if Josh’s feet were a size smaller and his arms a cm longer we have two more wins against great teams right now lol we are losing by literal inches this season so far. I don’t think it matters a whole lot as the chargers are one of the teams I’d expect to be ahead of us no matter what barring an absolute meltdown. Probably chiefs though to encourage said meltdown lol

I got three teams from the east a few times I fiddled with the playoff machine lol that would be something

Me too obviously but Eli was totally underrated in those playoffs…just for the record 🤣

Or 2020 buccaneers haha were not getting that suspect call in the afc championship that the packers got screwed by in the nfc championship though 😂 so we’ll have to be a little better than the bucs last year lol Haha I could see this side of it too…but the afc being as wide open as it is I’d say it’s possible. If we were in the nfc playoffs heck no. Pats are the current 1 seed and I think we’ve got a 50/50 shot against them each time we play. We’ve got a more talented roster but they’ve got the coaching. We already beat the chiefs once and this is gonna be controversial but we did enough to beat the bucs Sunday in my opinion…lost a close one against the Derrick Henry led titans gotta think we win that one relatively easily if he doesn’t play. Lamar may be hurt and the ravens have looked as bad as us or worse at times…they’ve just gotten much luckier than us. So it’s certainly not impossible but it obviously hinges on us being more consistent

I think they’ll start josh and limit the playbook…that’s huge though if they could start trubisky and win. I’d be too scared to pull that trigger though so I’m glad it’s not a fan vote type thing and someone is payed to make that decision for my team haha

They have plenty offensively skill position wise…arguably as much as anybody. This offensive line is just blowing too many blocking assignments…you’ve gotta think they at least incrementally improve as time goes on. And that could make all the difference. We all saw what happened when TBs defensive line gassed out down the stretch tough decision but I respect it lol I certainly wouldn’t have the guts to go through with that

Yea I think there’s some nuance to it though…this team definitely has flashes of a great team at times and I really think they are going to put it all together…we certainly could tell ourselves we don’t deserve to be in the playoffs if we drop one of those games but I really think if we make it in the playoffs there’s a decent shot we get hot at the right time. Pats just barely squeaked by Houston also…lot of weird stuff happening this year with Covid/injuries/the cap reduction so I think you’re right to not read too much into one or two losses. Our offensive line was missing a ton of ‘talent’ in that jags game…maybe not the right choice of words lol

This whole ‘let them play down the stretch because the refs don’t want to impact the game’ philosophy has to die off. They are even more involved in the game with ridiculous no calls now Call it consistently for both teams all game long idk why that’s too much to ask…we were called for much less obvious pass interference/holds than that diggs play

We don’t really know that was the primary route though do we? That was just too good of a matchup not to exploit. Tough to pin it on the offensive coordinator when refs blow something so badly.

Im not sure I agree we were ‘relying’ on a penalty there. We identified a good one on one matchup…diggs and Davis do some back and forth handfighting…diggs wins his matchup easily and we throw him the ball. I don’t see anything wrong with that. When you’ve got defenders purposely trying to rip guys down by their jerseys when they know they’re beat to trade a penalty for a TD and it’s not called by the refs that is far beyond the scope of playcalling imo. Who’s to say we weren’t gonna get held on any route we ran…windows get very tight down there in the red zone…we should know we are terrible down there lol if you’ve got a matchup that good you take it every time

Yea that jags game is quite the blemish…he was under siege all game but if he limited the silly turnovers I think we win that 12-9 and a win is a win.

Right moss could’ve bounced one run outside against the pats and we’d be 8-5 right now leading the division

They are the kind of team that I expect to see in the super bowl assuming we start putting it together (big assumption I know) l don’t think this system of ball control offense and play good fundamental defense wins you multiple playoff games when someone like the bills or chiefs could score 14 points in like 2 minutes on you even if you’ve done a great job defensively the rest of the game. As the bucs game SHOULD have proved if we didn’t get screwed 😂 bucs pass rush started to gas out and they played some soft cover 2 to prevent quick scores which we absolutely lit up Very important game though it’s a tough call…season is pretty close to over if we lose this one. And we seem very capable of playing with or playing down to anyone