Only Losers blame the Refs, This was on the Defense.

[Ingtar33]

title says it all. The defense has been bad for 4 weeks... week 1 we got matt cassel to bail us out, and of course that KC defense sucks. week 2 and 3 we had the offense bail out some atrocious performances by that defense.

This week we run into a solid defense, who slowed us down offensively... Fitz had a terrible game to compound the problem...

And that god awful defense allowed almost 500 yards of offense. You give up 460yards of offense to the Cincinnati Bengals with Dalton throwing for 300yards, and you're going to lose.

[clumping platelets]

Re: Only Losers blame the Refs, This was on the Defense.

Who's Matt Castle?

[Crisis]

Re: Only Losers blame the Refs, This was on the Defense.

I'm sorry but that Stevie play completely changed the game.

Go from having a 1st down in Bengals territory primed to go up two scores, instead they get the ball back.

There's literally NOTHING that showed ANY reason to call that pass incomplete.

Yes the defense sucks but we shouldn't have to overcome BLATANTLY OBVIOUS miss calls to win games too

[Novacane]

Re: Only Losers blame the Refs, This was on the Defense.

The offense can't be "on" every week. Once in a while the defense has to win a game. Against a rookie QB should of been one of those games.

[Mad Max]

Re: Only Losers blame the Refs, This was on the Defense.

Who's Matt Castle?

I don't know..but I'm sure he's the queen of it.

[bills4ver]

Re: Only Losers blame the Refs, This was on the Defense.

lol did you watch the game?

they got like 2 penalty's we got like 10 and most were bs calls.

A 3rd and 1 clear as f'in day pass to stevie to win the game and incomplete?

Come on man, that was some putrid refs

[Novacane]

Re: Only Losers blame the Refs, This was on the Defense.

2 of 4 games We've made Jason Campbell and Andy Dalton look like all pros. What does that say about out defense?

[Johnny Bugmenot]

Re: Only Losers blame the Refs, This was on the Defense.

They lost, didn't they?

[Ingtar33]

Re: Only Losers blame the Refs, This was on the Defense.

I'm sorry but that Stevie play completely changed the game.

Go from having a 1st down in Bengals territory primed to go up two scores, instead they get the ball back.

There's literally NOTHING that showed ANY reason to call that pass incomplete.

Yes the defense sucks but we shouldn't have to overcome BLATANTLY OBVIOUS miss calls to win games too

yes, the refs were bad. but they didn't score points for the bengals. they weren't running the ball, they weren't passing it.

In the end our defense sucked up and down the field.

[Meathead]

Re: Only Losers blame the Refs, This was on the Defense.

sometimes it doesnt matter if you give up a thousand yards, it can STILL be pinpointed back to one watershed play that changed everything

make the case that the defense didnt get the job done, fine

but this game still turned on an utterly indefensible unexplainable non-reversal

bills have had luck on their side for two straight weeks. this week it came back to even the score big time

[Night Train]

Re: Only Losers blame the Refs, This was on the Defense.

Agreed.

D got rolled hard and exposed. Can't expect to post a basketball score on Offense each week to bail them out.

The OL & DL both lost their batles today.

[Crisis]

Re: Only Losers blame the Refs, This was on the Defense.

sometimes it doesnt matter if you give up a thousand yards, it can STILL be pinpointed back to one watershed play that changed everything

make the case that the defense didnt get the job done, fine

but this game still turned on an utterly indefensible unexplainable non-reversal

bills have had luck on their side for two straight weeks. this week it came back to even the score big time

It's not even luck... just incompetence.

[zone]

Re: Only Losers blame the Refs, This was on the Defense.

The defense score 2 touchdowns if the pussy Tom Brady rule wasn't called.

This game was clearly lost because the refs wanted those piece of crap thugs to win, period.

[Banks2Pierce]

Re: Only Losers blame the Refs, This was on the Defense.

You can blame both. Not mutually exclusive. Just a bizarre call since there didn't seem to be a hint of an incompletion. A fresh set of downs in Bengals territory with under 10 minutes left is a game changer. It's not like the Bengals played a perfect game either. If a game changing call went the other way, there'd probably be fans on their board saying, "well you can't win when you come out so flat in the first half."

[Night Train]

Re: Only Losers blame the Refs, This was on the Defense.

Cinci- 458 Yards 25 first downs

Buf- 273 Yards 12 first downs

Our D hasn't been good the last 3 games and Vick is coming in next week.

Time to step up because if the O doesn't score 30, this is the result.