I didn't see any of the Bills-Eagles game how bad was the officiating? I see Buffalo got a lot of penalties. I saw the highlights but they didn't show anything major. Buffalo is a piece or two away from being a top team.
How is the Buffalo cap situation? They are lucky their QB is cheap they can spend more elsewhere.
The officiating was predictably bad but who cares anymore. The ratio was 3:1, it probably should have been 2:1. There were 5 off-sides by the Bills D-line, which I don't know is the coaches' fault...1-2 of them were of the he-said/she-said variety but taking those out, and it's a 2:1 ratio, which might be appropriate.
Bills' fans would note the inconsistencies around big, controversial calls/non-calls again, but like I've said, they're going to have be 7 points better than bigger markets to win:
1) Against the Patriots the officials misrule the sideline, last-gasp play chance gone (low probability, but "easier" than the Packers a week later. This week they "get it right" along the sideline and stop the clock, when they'd ruled it wrong initially, put the time back on the clock, and the Eagles get a FG at the half...they won by 3.
2) Bills lose a game on a phantom PI penalty against the Jags earlier in the year on a final drive...this game on a critical last drive there's an embarrassing throw behind Sammy Watkins on a third down, and you're cursing Watkins and the QB. But then they show the replay, and the defender is battling Sammy all the way down the sideline, 12-15 yards off the line. Surely a Defensive Holding penalty will come in to keep the drive alive, as it has against the Bills so often? No. The play right in front of the side-judge is uncalled. I guess Bumpin's Racin'
3) Game-changing play on 3rd Down and 3 for the decisive drive for the Eagles. Clear pick play to free TE Ertz...the WR collides intentionally with the player covering him. Sure, Bills player should have made a tackle to save it for an 11 yard gain, misses and goes for 40...but it's gotta be coming back right? I mean the ANNOUNCERS called it out, and they are not the highly-paid professionals on the field, each with their own quadrant to monitor, who've been told to crack down on the "pick play" since Day 1 this season...so it's coming back right? 3rd and 13?
Nope. I've seen the rhetoric on the Eagles sites, they could have called more Holding on the Bills (they called enough) and the Eagles D-Line played well, but this is just the stuff that drives you crazy as a fan, when it NEVER goes your way.
Both plays 2 & 3 referenced above are quintessential calls in critical situations that we've had called on us, but it just doesn't go the Bills way, and it hasn't regardless of players or coaches.
Whatever, on to next year, they need to replace Roman, Tyrod needs to mature and they need to stay healthy early next year.
Should throw the next couple so they get the weak schedule in the group.
