MattM

How was that not holding on that last pass play?

Yup—to me that was the blown play of the game. And to guys had the chance to make the block.

That’s what I told my wife—“Teddi Bruschi, the man, the myth, the legend. Half man, half centaur....” f

And wasn’t DiMarco out there and missed, too, on that play?

My 1987 “faux” Jim Kelly number 12 jersey that my best friend in college got me at great personal expense back when we were kids with no cash. I’ve been wearing it all season after the McCoy trade left me jersey-less on active players. Go Bills!

Wow

We’re leaving Monday—been here a week. We come about once a year. Love LSR—one of my favorite meals anywhere. Love the chorizo and cheese (number 7 or 14?), plus several number 1 tacos. Many thanks for the advice on the bars. I’ve been to one on State Street years back, but it was just a general sports bar.

Many thanks. My in-laws live in Hope Ranch. I’ m here literally LMAO at your comments on La Super Rica and Los Agaves—we love both (and I may try to grab lunch at one tomorrow, but not sure they’re open on Sundays). Unfortunately, we’re leaving Monday (been here a week). I love SB—been coming here for 25 years (married for 20, and get married here). I laughingly tell my wife that I won this trade—I get to visit SB and my wife gets to visit Rochester, LOL.... Many thanks, CGF—and good luckj tomorrow!

Here visiting my in-laws and my Sunday Ticket/DTV app isn’t working. Anyone know if there’s a Bills Backers bar in Santa Barbara?

Yes, he admitted that after the game- he was faking the injury to try to get out of the penalty.

This. It was plain as day that the ref gave them at least an extra yard on that third down play.

That sucked

Because New England

They gave them a full yard

Bs spot

My wife made plans for us to go to the neighbors for what she thought was an early evening holiday party. I told her I’ll be there as soon as the game is over—a bit embarrassing is that my neighbors will be able to see me in my sun room TV room during the party. Thank goodness that it turns out the part starts at 8 rather than the original 6 (and that my neighbor buddy is a big FSU fan, so he knows the drill when it comes to fandom).....

I signed in just to make the exact same point. Did some of these folks just not even watch the game?

Let’s wait and see, shall we? Time may very well tell. Some of us just know what our eyes see, as noted above, and wonder why it never, ever seems to even out. Does that definitively mean that they’re cheating (yet again)? No, of course not. But to me at least, it plus all else we know about this team and its dirtbag owner means that the possibility of something untoward going on should not be shoved aside so easily. And BTW, it has happened already in other Leagues (NBA and Italy’s Serie A soccer league).

Please simply list examples of games they lost on League-wide controversial bad calls—it’s a very simple question. Off the top of my head I listed a whole bunch they won that way. If there was anything close to randomness involved here, it would even out, yet it doesn’t seem to when it comes to them. Remember, too, that we’re dealing with a team that has been caught cheating and pushing the envelope of acceptable behavior many, many times. If it’s simply “the Jordan effect”, please explain (a) why Peyton Manning didn’t seem to get a similar benefit of the doubt during his HOF career (in fact, one of the most egregious examples of multiple bad calls at the end of a game going New England’s way (the aforementioned 2004 AFCCG) came against Manning), and (b) why no other teams are known to get the benefit of calls anywhere near the level of New England (look no further than the cottage industry of “New England owns the refs“ memes that have cropped up over the last few years). Please be specific.

LMAO—you pontificate one this issue as if you’re a pro, but yet can’t answer a simple question to name a single game they’ve lost on a bad call. I can name probable a dozen they’ve won that way—let’s see, we’ve got “just give it to them”, the Ravens Monday nighter in 2007 (in which there were multiple pro-Pats bad calls in the 4th quarter to allow a game- winning drive, so bad that several Ravens got fined for making comments about the refs, to the game one week later that year against the Giants for game 16 (30 yard penalty swing late when a Pat hit a Giants return man late and out of bounds, but the G-Men get the penalty, to the AFCCG vs the Colts where on successive plays in front of a ref Marcus Pollard was obviously held (the League changed a related rule the next year), to a personal favorite vs the Texans where late in the game Brady throws a late apparently game-sealing pick, but wait, wait, wait for it, there’s an incredibly late flag totally away from the play that the announcers couldn’t even understand, to this gem from a few years back vs the Saints— here’s a shot from the last play of the game where a Saint defender was clearly held as Brady threw the game-winning TD. All off the top of my head. Please provide a similar list of games they got jobbed on and which was controversial across the League, like all of those above were.

Very simple question—name us some games New England has lost on blatantly bad calls over the years. We can all literally name about a dozen or more they’ve won that way. I follow this all fairly closely and can name 1 they lost on an arguably bad call (a Monday or Sunday nighter vs Carolina about 6-7 years ago). Shouldn’t it even out at some point if it were truly random or even semi-random? And it doesn’t have to be the League itself fixing games—any billionaire certainly has the resources to explore doing it. And remember, we had an owner who didn’t even swear. Bob Kraft, meanwhile, started dating a woman his granddaughter’s age several months after his wife died. Not to mention assorted other moral issues he’s had....,

I think it was Johnson

Hope Cooper is ok—want to sign him this offseason!

Me, too.

Is Seattle going to tag him?