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Remember him blocking on kickoffs? Damn. kj

I wonder how the coaches feel about Marrone now. On the one hand, he supposedly tried to get them extensions before walking. On the other hand, he is getting paid regardless and they are in limbo. Even if he made them promises about getting the band back together in the next town, there are a boatload of contingencies that could mess that up. Plus, they could be having the same concerns about Marrone's ability to commit and level of class that anyone else would have right now. Some of them are going to be unhappy with how this shakes out. kj

How'd I forget that? That should be in there for sure.

Let's take a thread and look back at the good times from 2014: What were your favorite single plays from this season? Mine: #3: Watkins catch vs. Detroit #2: Mario gets to Rodgers to secure win http://marcusd1.blogspot.com/2014/12/mario-williams-forces-fumble-on-aaron.html #1: Duh. (I don't know those Jedi tricks that allow you to embed videos.) Yours? kj

Someone named Kyle came to play.

Like a lot of us, he's penciled in a win next week already. kj

Thanks for the responses!

All of which he acknowledges in the weekly posts. He is not claiming to be scientific or producing results that are beyond any margin of error. He's saying--follow me here--he literally says that this is what it looks like to him. And it's a starting point for conversation. Sure we don't know what was supposed to happen or who exactly screwed up or did a good job. But we can get a sense of what went down. And guess what: every conclusion he reached is supported by everyone else. You don't need to know the play call to know Orton missed Woods for an easy first down. So read the disclaimers and lighten up. kj

Thanks for that. Anyone else? kj

A question from the article, for the knowledgeable fans here. Marrone is quoted in that article: "Obviously, they played at a very high level," Marrone said of his defense. "We were able to go in and, early on, we took away some of the stop-nines they were trying to run and get them to the second read..." What exactly are 'stop-nines'? kj

If anybody knows camouflage, it's Rambo.

Hard to fully evaluate Hughes's from that short clip. But it looks like it was close enough to the play based on the action around them, and he hit him from the front of B, not the side. And he doesn't look like he got a running start and fully jacked him up, based on the angles where the 2 finished. I'd like to see more, but I'm leaning toward hard but within the scope of the game and not dirty. Wood's was definitely clean, to me. kj

The Dean Wormer approach to talent evaluation? Sometimes it works. kj

"And one other thing, can I borrow a hundred bucks?" Compare JM's two-bit money sign (see what I did there?) with Chandler's snow shovel celebration against the Jets. His was about something bigger than himself and JM showed it was all about him. kj

"... the same culture that I have helped perpetuate since joining the Bills front office and couldn't or wouldn't put a dent in." Anyone else find that odd? kj

"This video is private."

I don't see how that could be considered dirty. The hit was only a few yards from the path of the ball carrier, maybe 5. It is easy to see how circumstances would allow CM to make a play on the ball. If he weren't on the ground looking for his teeth. Sapp's hit, came on the other side of the field from where the ball was, against a player who had no chance to impact the play. 20 yards away. And he left his feet. Totally different. Here's Sapp's hit: Not even close to the same thing, IMO. kj

Don't forget Dixon fighting to recover his fumble.

With under 2 minutes to play (not sure if it's both halves, or just at the end of the game), a fumbled ball cannot be advanced by any member of the fumbling team except the guy who fumbled it. As soon as someone else on his team recovers it, it's a dead ball. So AR fumbled and he would have to have been the one to recover in order for them to advance the ball. As soon as the RB recovered, the play was dead. Since it was dead in the end zone, safety. kj Edit: And I'm slow.

It really takes 10, so you'll get 8. kj

Yikes. That's a tall order. Actually 2 tall orders. CIN 9-4-1 plays @ DEN, @ PIT PIT 9-5 plays KC, CIN BAL 9-5 plays @ HOU, CLE KC 8-6 plays @PIT, SD SD 8-6 plays @SF, @KC BAL has an easy path to 11 wins, it seems to me. PIT plays 2 other teams on the list. So any outcome of those games hurts and helps us. If PIT loses both and stays at 9-5, then CIN gets to 10 and KC gets to 9. KC also plays 2 teams on the list. I don't think they win both, however. Only BAL doesn't play another team on the list. We want them to lose out, but that isn't likely. Yikes. kj

First of all, the Fox announcers were utterly clueless today and did nothing that would give me reason to put faith in their reporting skills. Second of all, Marrone is really not all that good at expressing himself to the press. (Which I don't care about, but it's true.) It's like a game of telephone, with 3 opportunities to screw up the message: beginning with what Marrone thinks, then what he conveyed to the Fox team, then what the Fox team heard, and finally what they tried to get across. It's meaningless. kj

I would have settled for 2 yds up the gut there. If ever there was a time to play it safe...