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The national media reaction to this game makes me realize that even after we win the Super Bowl, a large percentage of these idiots will try to cheapen it any way they can…and they will fail.

What in the world is Ohio State doing?

Is Freeman drunk?

Really????

This is not quite correct, but I'll admit, the rule is a bit unclear. As I understand it, you can challenge a spot if the challenge relates to whether you got a first down, or if it involves the goal line. Sometimes a challenge may be unsuccessful--when review shows that the ball was short of the first down marker--which causes the challenging team to lose a timeout, but the ball is nonetheless re-spotted because the original spot was wrong. Here I suppose McDermott could have challenged on the basis that Allen scored a TD on the run...the challenge would not have "succeeded" because he clearly didn't cross the goal line, but the replay would have potentially resulted in a correct spot. At that point, we had plenty of timeouts so "losing" the challenge would not have mattered.

How does it do that?

Ray Davis, for example

There’s never been a Chiefs/Bills game where we got more big calls than last year’s divisional game, although the biggest one came from upstairs.

Tom Brady was a game manager only on the rare occasions where it was called for…maybe last night was just one of those occasions for Allen…

Agreed. Bishop is a second round pick (equivalent to a first round pick for a safety) and has been in the system almost a full year. He’s got to be ready to step up and McDermott is unparalleled at developing safeties at the NFL level. I’m far more worried about Joe Brady turning Josh Allen into a game manager…

Can we all agree that playing that game in Orchard Park was HUGE, and that it was a big deal to win 14 games in the regular season (yeah, I know)? With all the talk of how great the Ravens were…they lost six games this season, twice as many as the Bills. They were a flawed team and deserve to be going to Cancun right now.

Kicking the FG was the correct decision, but that whole goal line sequence was disturbing. First, Allen absolutely made it to the half yard line on the second down run and yet the ball was somehow spotted at the 2. We had 3 timeouts; use one to challenge that ridiculous spot. Then, if challenge fails, run a damn QB sneak on 3d down from the 2. Even if you don’t score, you’re inside the 1 and another sneak for a TD is almost automatic. Just a really poor sequence where points were left on the field in a crucial situation.

On the other hand, a quick 3 and out would have given the ball back to Baltimore with maybe a minute left and a chance to win in regulation….

Let’s hope Joe’s interviews went well last week…

There was another one this weekend where they called a face mask penalty and the defender clearly only touched the guy’s jersey…I think it was in the Detroit game. It gave Detroit 7 unearned points.