3rd & 8

[jdbillsfan]

Down by 8, running out of time, at mid-field, running game isn't working... and Fairchild calls a running play?? The season was on the line and they called that play.


Wow. I still can't believe that happend.

That has to be addressed by the Coaching staff. How can that be justifyed?

I thought with that call, they must be going for it on 4th down. Nope...

[Mitchy moo]

Re: 3rd & 8

Running for the exit.

[Typ0]

Re: 3rd & 8

take a look at how many passing plays were going for zero and how many running plays were going for over 20.

[Typ0]

Re: 3rd & 8

Running for the exit.

we played a good game today. Needed someone to make a play.

[Mitchy moo]

Re: 3rd & 8

we played a good game today. Needed someone to make a play.

We need a real TE, it quite possibly is our biggest need. We haven't had one since our last SB.

[Billzz]

Re: 3rd & 8

Conditions you can chalk alot of the drops, high pass's etc on

[OpIv37]

Re: 3rd & 8

Conditions you can chalk alot of the drops, high pass's etc on

didn't seem to affect Cleveland NEARLY as much as it affected us. There's no excuse for that.

[jdbillsfan]

Re: 3rd & 8

take a look at how many passing plays were going for zero and how many running plays were going for over 20.

How many running plays were going for more than 20? They averaged 3.4. They had the one play, but besides that they were getting stuffed.

[jdbillsfan]

Re: 3rd & 8

And a screen at the goal line? Who calls that?

[jpdex12]

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didn't seem to affect Cleveland NEARLY as much as it affected us. There's no excuse for that.

Then why did Anderson have less completions and a worse completion percentage than TE, genius?

[OpIv37]

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Then why did Anderson have less completions and a worse completion percentage than TE, genius?

they scored 6 more offensive points, had 70 more total yards, 66 more rushing yards and won the TOP battle (albeit not by much). They only botched 1 punt, we botched 3. They had several completions down the field, we had 0. They had less drops than us. So explain that, genius.

[jdbillsfan]

Re: 3rd & 8

Conditions you can chalk alot of the drops, high pass's etc on

My point was more the terrible play calling.

[Bufftp]

Re: 3rd & 8

Buffalo Passing C/ATT YDS TD INT Edwards 13/33 124 0 0

Cleveland Passing C/ATT YDS TD INT Anderson 9/24 137 0 0

we had more pass attempts than Cleveland....

1st Downs	11	16
Total Yards	232	304
Passing	124	130
Rushing	108	174
Penalties	2-15	2-15
3rd Down Conversions	3-16	4-14
4th Down Conversions	2-5	0-1
Turnovers	0	0
Possession	28:13	31:47

Their running game, or inability to stop it, killed us. Also our special teams failures and bad field position were also contributing factors.

[Billzz]

Re: 3rd & 8

My point was more the terrible play calling.

Gotcha

[Billzz]

Re: 3rd & 8

didn't seem to affect Cleveland NEARLY as much as it affected us. There's no excuse for that.

Minus a few stellar receptions on high pass's that B. Edwards caught they pretty much played the same game QB wise. So besides a outstanding individual effort from their WR he would of had stats and a much worse game and less first downs.

Again Winslow had 2-3 drops along with some other problems, all around bad conditions to judge a QB's performance. Your claiming Anderson was some how a much more prolific passer which didn't occur.

Field position and ST is what made the difference along with the ability to run more effectively than us. I do not know the number of first downs, but they where 3 to 1 at one point in the game in favor of the Browns. That is the only thing I can see being a factor in your comment but most of those, again, where short pass's set up by the running game, runs themselves or great individual efforts from BE pulling in high pass's.