If you thought we get almost no DPI/Holding calls

[Big Blitz]

You were right….
 

And it was historically low:

 

 

 

Edited July 6 by Big Blitz

[Saxum]

Part of the great experiment?

[mrags]

Why on earth would the defenses we play against even bother to try and hold us? 
 

1. They don’t need to because none of our WRs have been fast and they aren’t trying to slow them down. 

 

2. everyone except Shakir dropped everything thrown at them. 

[nedboy7]

3 minutes ago, mrags said:

Why on earth would the defenses we play against even bother to try and hold us? 
 

1. They don’t need to because none of our WRs have been fast and they aren’t trying to slow them down. 

 

2. everyone except Shakir dropped everything thrown at them. 

 

3 comments in and you had to turn this into a "lets ***** on the Bills" thread. 

[Fleezoid]

Sometimes they make the call....

 

[Bermuda Triangle]

waiting for the resident referee apologists to chime in.

[BillsDad51]

Side note: watched last season's 2nd Bills-Jets game last night (needed a Bills fix). Sauce Gardiner holds or makes illegal contact on every single play. He's as bad as Dolphins' Kohou, who does get flagged.

Edited July 6 by BillsDad51
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[LeGOATski]

Meh. Doesn't seem to correlate with success at all. Other great teams are low on that chart.

 

Maybe it says more about our receivers or our QB's play style. Idk.

[LABILLBACKER]

It's all Jerry Hughes fault 

[UConn James]

And one of the three was the phantom one with no time left vs. the Giants.

Every team with single digit PI calls per year but it was too much for the refs to review, right?! F them AND the league that allowed the refs to give a huge 🖕to any questioning of their ‘judgment calls.’ One of the biggest ways scores & outcomes can be influenced to either make games more watchable (ad $) or to please Vegas & gambling.

[Don Otreply]

45 minutes ago, nedboy7 said:

 

3 comments in and you had to turn this into a "lets ***** on the Bills" thread. 

Thats the MO, of a select group that always sees the glass half empty here on  Two Bills Drive , they stand out like a sore thumb, 

 

 

[US Egg]

49 minutes ago, LABILLBACKER said:

It's all Jerry Hughes fault 

[mrags]

1 hour ago, nedboy7 said:

 

3 comments in and you had to turn this into a "lets ***** on the Bills" thread. 

I call it as I see it 

[90sBills]

2 hours ago, mrags said:

Why on earth would the defenses we play against even bother to try and hold us? 
 

1. They don’t need to because none of our WRs have been fast and they aren’t trying to slow them down. 

 

Good thing we drafted Coleman. 

[mrags]

2 minutes ago, 90sBills said:

Good thing we drafted Coleman. 

Yeah great. Slow and can’t separate. He’s got McDermotts blocking WR job on lockdown 

[frostbitmic]

How many were the Bills flagged for ?

 

For some reason I'm thinking it's at least twice as many as our opponents.

[Shaw66]

3 hours ago, nedboy7 said:

 

3 comments in and you had to turn this into a "lets ***** on the Bills" thread. 

The fact is, he's more or less correct, in the sense that teams didn't feel the need to be all over the Bills receivers.  Defenders seemed to be able to stay close to the Bills' receivers without having to get to close.  

 

As defenses prepare each week, the emphasis always is what it is that the defense has to stop - the think that can just eat them up.  At the beginning of the season we all would have said that's Diggs, but by the end of the season, Diggs could be stopped without making him the primary focus.  The focus shifted to Kincaid or to Cook, and either case, those guys weren't striking fear in anyone's heart. 

 

It makes sense that defenses weren't interfering with the Bills.

 

It's been obvious for a while now that for the Bills passing game to be a serious threat, it's going to be about route design, play calling and execution.  That's primarily Brady.   They have a roomful of receivers who are route runners and after the catch guys, with the possibility that either MVS or Claypool emerges as a real threat.  The route runners will run their routes; if the routes stress the defense, and if Allen makes good decisions, it'll be a good passing offense and then, maybe we'll see more PI and holding.  

[nedboy7]

16 minutes ago, Shaw66 said:

The fact is, he's more or less correct, in the sense that teams didn't feel the need to be all over the Bills receivers.  Defenders seemed to be able to stay close to the Bills' receivers without having to get to close.  

 

As defenses prepare each week, the emphasis always is what it is that the defense has to stop - the think that can just eat them up.  At the beginning of the season we all would have said that's Diggs, but by the end of the season, Diggs could be stopped without making him the primary focus.  The focus shifted to Kincaid or to Cook, and either case, those guys weren't striking fear in anyone's heart. 

 

It makes sense that defenses weren't interfering with the Bills.

 

It's been obvious for a while now that for the Bills passing game to be a serious threat, it's going to be about route design, play calling and execution.  That's primarily Brady.   They have a roomful of receivers who are route runners and after the catch guys, with the possibility that either MVS or Claypool emerges as a real threat.  The route runners will run their routes; if the routes stress the defense, and if Allen makes good decisions, it'll be a good passing offense and then, maybe we'll see more PI and holding.  

 

Appreciate the intelligent response Shaw as always. 

[Billl]

4 hours ago, Fleezoid said:

Sometimes they make the call....

 

Yeah, look at all those calls Kansas City got. 

[Goin Breakdown]

4 hours ago, BillsDad51 said:

Side note: watched last season's 2nd Bills-Jets game last night (needed a Bills fix). Sauce Gardiner holds or makes illegal contact on every single play. He's as bad as Dolphins' Kohou, who does get flagged.

This bugs me so much and then we have to hear how he's the best on the league. Well yeah he gets help. I'm not a "game is fixed guy" but I do believe that the NFL has narratives that they want played out.