Hoss

I just rewatched - my memory failed me. I thought Darby was much farther behind. He would've made the tackle in all likelihood. In the end the inadvertent whistle cost the Bills 15 yards for no reason.

Probably not. They were set up to block the only person in between him and the end zone. It was butchered bad by the refs regardless. You messed up, don't punish Buffalo for it.

No difference from what?

Better photos: https://twitter.com/mnwild/status/669215972860035076

The Wild put theirs out. They leaked like two months ago and I still love them. https://twitter.com/mnwild/status/669213410219921408

Agree on Kaepernick and Foles. RG3 is at least the same player as Taylor, but he's far more talented. Manning is an interesting debate that I wouldn't know which side I'm on. He can't just suddenly be this bad. Maybe if Denver keeps him out the rest of the season and he rests up the rest of the year he has a shot to be decent. Cousins is a guy I've always liked. He's got some Matt Schaub-type decision making at times, but if he can reel that in and play for a talented team he's got a shot to be good. He had a very good November.

I think they're at least somewhat competent enough not to do this. I think Sean Payton is going to be the next coach of the Colts which will help. There could be a very interesting number of QBs available this offseason, though. Draft: Jared Goff (Cal), Paxton Lynch (Memphis) and Connor Cook (MSU). To a MUCH MUCH lesser extent (I'm not endorsing these guys): Christian Hackenberg (Penn St), Jacoby Brissett (NC State) and Cardale Jones (Ohio St). Possible via trade: Drew Brees, Jay Cutler, Matthew Stafford. Possible free agents: Kirk Cousins, Robert Grifiin III, Colin Kaepernick, Peyton Manning, Sam Bradford, Nick Foles Of those guys the only ones I'm keen on are the first three draftees (Lynch, Goff, Cook), Brees (not sure what he does at this age in Buffalo weather, though), Stafford. Cousins is better than people think, but I have a feeling Washington commits to him for a few more years. I'm still a huge RG3 fan but I'm not interested considering how much of a question mark he is having sat an entire season and dealt with injuries. Manning would be very interesting, but he's been just about the worst QB in the league this year. Cutler is very good, and Cutler/Rex would be a beautiful marriage but he seems to be too much of a head case to handle a losing culture. That's about it. I don't want a half measure at QB. Go all out.

Now the Blackhawks have unveiled theirs https://twitter.com/NHLBlackhawks/status/669184483921403904

Morning thoughts: this team won't have a QB until it finds one so talented and unwavering that they're abilities trump the culture of losing. I have no doubt they've had one or two QBs since Kelly that could have been good elsewhere. They need to strike gold. Move heaven and earth to draft high. The NFL legitimately needs to have a conference on reffing. Bring in like five heads of refereeing and every team. Then hold town halls in each city. Bring in neutral parties and essentially re-write the messy parts of the rule book. The fact that the NFL had the inadvertent whistle play removed from the NFL Network replay is hilarious. You can't write the history of this game without it. This team has very few pieces I feel attached to. They could blow it up.

Those teams are just examples of the fluctuation in this league. Very few teams are able to be consistently great... But you've got two Super Bowls (1 NYG, 1 NO) and 13 playoff appearances (4 ATL, 2 NYG, 4 NO, 3 SD) since the youngest (Matt Ryan) joined the league in 2008 (the Giants other SB was the year before Matt Ryan got drafted). And they've been on some pretty mediocre rosters during that time. The Bills have had multiple rosters that are better than most of those QB's teams. It's often the difference and is by far the biggest factor.

Jared Goff and Paxton Lynch say "hey, I don't want to play in Buffalo because they smell." But there's two. Connor Cook is another.

Listening to the Tom Brady post game presser and everybody is so sure to compliment him before asking their question. "Hey Tom, you made a great play on that inadvertent whistle, but what happened?" "Hey Tom, how hard is it to get the ball to Gronk on some of these plays? You made a great throw at the end of the game there."

You're right. They didn't fight for it. Refs failed to do their job and the Bills didn't check them on it. Rex just said "the NFL is not doing us any favors." (It was in regards to the Bills recent schedule)

The Bills play all three teams they're tied with at 5-5 before the end of the season, including the next two weeks against the Chiefs and Texans. If they win the next two games they should be in the playoffs despite today's failure. But they're going to need whoever is under center to suddenly become a good QB.

Just went back and watched it - the whistle on the fumble declaring Bills ball is blown at :32. The ball is finally set down by a ref who WALKED the ball to the line at :17 and the ball is snapped at :08. Watkins was called in bounds because he wasn't going forward out of bounds, but it's a call they normally give the offensive player. Edit: I'm wrong on Watkins. You don't have to go forward out of bounds if you are not touched.

The team was going to lose anyways but the refs butchered the clock management there. This league is a mess.

Wow. That was a joke. The refs didn't set the ball for 30 seconds.

Tyrod got hurt when he stumbled to the ground... Fragile and mediocre. No thanks.

Tyrod hurts his shoulder and finally drops in a bomb...

Hogan cost them that drive. Still should've went for it on 4th. Also, here's the facemask that got picked up: https://twitter.com/BuffSausageKing/status/669007425819779072

The Pats defense isn't good.

Rambo was the one who was out. Got hurt. So close to guessing s in hangman. "Tyrod suc_s."

HOLY . Somebody needs to get this info the Bills. I never realized how obvious the game of football is. https://twitter.com/bustedcoverage/status/668962138434744320

Good call. I was 0-for-2 with that post. SECOND best and he was talking about Gay. Which reminded me we have two kickers. Ugh. Tyrod has almost entirely lost me this game.

Gostkowski is the best kicker in the NFL