Big Turk

Not sure what part of anti-competitive behavior is illegal you don't understand. I suggest you read up on it.

I guess it wasn't the exact same thing...basically the guy caught the ball in the endzone and just flipped it to the ref without actually downing it, which made it a fumble.

Unfortunately it doesn't matter what you think, it's illegal.

Bills players apparently don't think they look good in these and their play suffers from it.

That's true, but in large part they go by precedent. They aren't forcing their hand, the company could tell them to kick rocks and then the employees could decide to walk out. Neither employers nor employees are obligated to continue a working relationship in most cases, unless they have employment contracts. That is a solution that benefits no one. So both sides try to work out something fair that is a compromise. Unions aren't perfect, but help corect certain things businesses won't correct on their own.

Unions were made necessary due to collusion and poor work conditions. If businesses didn't collude back in the day for many decades prior to the advent of unions, there wouldn't have been a need for them.

Dorsey needs to run more pick plays.

Of course it is...otherwise there wouldn't be free agency. Players would just be stuck with whatever team drafted them like it was backcin the day before the courts got involved and ruled in favor of the players. Except it's not really. If nothing comes from it, it will because they don't have definitive proof, not because it isn't illegal.

Free markets getting together to ensure something happens that is considered anti-competitive behavior? Yes. It's called collusion. It comes in many forms, there isn't a one form fits all definition.

Unions were needed pretty much BECAUSE businesses often colluded back in the day with little to no penalties. The argument isn't that this isn't possible. The argument is that all of the owners, which would almost assuredly have happened with the commissioner's knowledge, got together and decided to put an end to fully guaranteed contracts. That is illegal and in fact one huge reason why unions exist today. They were in large part, born to combat this type of thing. It has nothing to do with guaranteed contracts happening or not happening, it has to do with WHY they aren't happening and if the owners are "in it together" to prevent it. With the argument you make, collusion wouldn't exist because any business could make the same argument. However, free markets are expected to act as free markets, not as one giant conglomerate that limits compettion.

#2 in offense and scoring offense...we get frustrated pretty easily I guess...how quickly forget the years when simply having a 300 yard passing game seemed like climbing Mt. Everest and scoring more than 24 points was a huge accomplishment that happened like once or twice a year. QB1 is good to go.

That doesn't matter for it to be collusioin.

About 7 players handed the Dolphins game away...that was a true team effort. 😂

Yes of course, but collusion implies all of the owners got on a call or in a meeting room and agreed not to do it again. If they have proof of it, that's illegal.

Tasker on the call too...greatest special teamed of all time must have been absolutely beside himself after seeing that from the Bills

I believe that was a rule change...I distinctly remember a game where the Bills recovered the ball for a TD on a similar play and it was ruled not a TD after the fourth official overturned the call in a way that I wasn't even sure was legal. Basically they ruled that the rule shouldn't be followed because it wasn't the "intent" of the rule even though if you just went by the "letter of the rule" it was clearly a Bills TD. It was honestly kind of stunning really. The NFL basically just made up the rule as they went along in that situation. Want to say the rule was changed prior to the following season. I want to say it was in the playoffs also...maybe the Houston playoff game?

I think the Dolphins was the game they had to do the most to lose in terms of not making plays that were there and how they still dominated the game even with all the injuries, heat and 4th quarter players dropping like flies... Jets game is the one I'd say they didn't do enough to win even tho they were the better team.

Looks like this could be heading to a court soon. Claims Owners illegally colluded to prevent players from getting fully guaranteed contracts... https://sports.yahoo.com/nflpa-claims-nfl-owners-colluded-to-prevent-teams-from-offering-fully-guaranteed-contracts-151929807.html

Goes back to my insistence that the Bills are not bad at running the ball, they simply too often choose not to, or choose to do so in ways that they are not that good at(ie, up the middle instead of more edge ruins, inside zone versus pin and pull runs). When they focus on that, and especially focus on doing what they are good at, they can do it and do it well.

You are absolutely right in terms of them being 9-1...according to DVOA numbers, that is what they are expected to be, they have the highest expected win total in the NFL. I assume the one loss would be to the Jets, but they had every chance to win that game and had a 14-3 lead in the 2nd half.

Argentina losing to Saudi Arabia despite outshooting them 15-3, having a 70-30% possession edge and having 3 goals disallowed in the first 35 minutes due to Offside, one to VAR review was basically like Bills-Dolphins or Bills-Vikings. They lost a game they had no business losing.

Scoring 31 points on 7 consecutive drives is pretty awesome for a "boring" offense.

Bills are better in pretty much every offensive category under Dorsey than under Daboll from last year, and especially on the Offensive Drive stat numbers. Average over 7 yards per drive more in terms of yards. Doesn't seem like much but it's a LOT considering the number of drives per game.

Bills are still #1 in DVOA. #6 on Offense #3 on Defense #3 on ST Bills are the ONLY team in the NFL in the top 10 in all 3. Lions: #10 on Offense #25 on Defense #12 on ST

Maybe Tuel's 101 yard INT against the 8-0 Chiefs as we were about to take a 17-3 lead coming out of halftime in a game where the Chiefs were doing next to nothing on offense? https://www.thebiglead.com/posts/jeff-tuel-threw-a-101-yard-pick-six-against-the-chiefs-01dxehy4fbqj