Balls and goats

[TacklingDummy]

Tyrod: you suck
Sammy: 2 firsts and a 4th for what?
Rex: wish I made millions for being douche.

[The Natrix]

Goat: Sammy. Continues to be so scared to take a shot.

[YardRat]

Goats---Tyrod for sure, he really isn't much better than EJ. Roman for some real questionable play-calling.

Balls---defense. They deserve props, played all night long.

[feldspar]

Are you kidding so far?

McKelvin...holy ****

[Luisito23]

Taylor is ass.

[Scumbag College]

Balls:

Lawson- solid.
Hughes had a big game.
Dareus was solid..
Hogan was open all night, Tyrod couldn't get him the ball.

Goats:

McLovin. 'Nuff said.
Tyrod- see Hogan. Still he's our only hope.
Roman- Too many third and shorts not converted.
Sammy- disappeared again in a big game.
Graham- I am a big Graham fan but just tackle the guy before the half and it's a FG instead of a TD.
Clay- I keep forgetting he's here.

[coastal]

Taylor is dumber than sh1t.

Mario Williams is a butt ****ing quitter.

Rex is a **** bag.

Russ Brandon is a bigger **** bag.

[kscdogbillsfan1221]

Taylor is dumber than sh1t.

Mario Williams is a butt ****ing quitter.

Rex is a **** bag.

Russ Brandon is a bigger **** bag.

i will address all four of your points as concisely as you made them.

point number 1) perhaps

point number 2) just stop

point number 3) yup

point number 4) f*** yea

[feldspar]

The refs get a goat.

Made me sick to hear Tirico and Gruden go on and on about the "inadvertent whistle," but they still gave them the pass from where he caught it (not sure if I've seen that before), and also gave them another 15 yards tacked on for whatever else on that play.

The Bills got the raw end of the refs starting early, when they called a bogus holding call on Corey Graham which took back the Rambo INT on the Pats first possession. That probably ended up being at least a six point swing after the Pats ended up scoring a field goal on that drive.

The roughing the kicker non-call was absurd as well.

[Scumbag College]

The refs get a goat.

Made me sick to hear Tirico and Gruden go on and on about the "inadvertent whistle," but they still gave them the pass from where he caught it (not sure if I've seen that before), and also gave them another 15 yards tacked on for whatever else on that play.

The Bills got the raw end of the refs starting early, when they called a bogus holding call on Corey Graham which took back the Rambo INT on the Pats first possession. That probably ended up being at least a six point swing after the Pats ended up scoring a field goal on that drive.

The roughing the kicker non-call was absurd as well.

I really wanted to see a replay at the end of the third quarter where it looked like Shady had his head damn near ripped off with a facemask, a flag was thrown, and they picked it up. Never saw a replay, it was never talked about again.

[tomz]

Balls:

Lawson- solid.
Hughes had a big game.
Dareus was solid..
Hogan was open all night, Tyrod couldn't get him the ball. while Hogan was indeed open etc, his classic Hogan step-back from first down yardage was a major screw up in the 4th quarter. He should know that we cannot execute a 1 yard dive play for the first down!

Goats:

McLovin. 'Nuff said.
Tyrod- see Hogan. Still he's our only hope.
Roman- Too many third and shorts not converted.
Sammy- disappeared again in a big game.
Graham- I am a big Graham fan but just tackle the guy before the half and it's a FG instead of a TD.
Clay- I keep forgetting he's here.

Sammy and Clay I put down to Taylor and maybe scheme/play calling.

[TacklingDummy]

No one can complain about the Refs. If it wasn't for them the Bills would have lost by 30.

[WagonCircler]

This is a dumb football team, assembled by a hack GM.

Once again, the Bills played checkers. The other team played chess.

[OpIv37]

Balls: Hogan and Hughes

Goats: McKelvin, Taylor, Watkins, Roman, Rex

[Thurmal]

GOATS: Roman (never took any chances all game). Refs (typical NE BUFF game).

BALLS: Ryan and the defense. McCoy. Hughes. Defensive backfield (were absolutely awesome).

[mysticsoto]

This is a dumb football team, assembled by a hack GM.

Once again, the Bills played checkers. The other team played chess.

I don't know how you can say this with a straight face. The Bills defense had Brady confused most of the game. The Patriots have been blowing out opponents left and right and with us, they barely squeaked by! I thought the ref'ing was terrible, but that's become the norm with us. T-rod didn't have the best day, but I'm not ready to say EJ would have been better. Not sure what's up with Sammy. Was he covered all the time or did T-rod just not throw to him?

Here are my balls & goats:

Balls:

Bills D - Had a great battle plan. Of course, I'm sure it helped that they had a week and a half to prepare for this game! Still. Good execution. Some missed tackles cost us, but overall, great play. I love how much Brady got hit yesterday. He must be black & blue in many places today!!!
Shady - Ran well. At times the calls became too predictable on the runs though but that's not his fault.
Hogan - Was impressive today, probably b'cse everyone was making sure Sammy didn't get the ball.

Goats:

McFumbles - way to make us remember what you're known for...I had actually forgotten until he reminded me twice.
Sammy - I thought he might be sick at 1st, but that didn't seem to be the case.
Rowan - Quite a few of the run calls were just so predictable. The Pats had everyone up @the line b'cse they knew a run was coming also. Way to surprise them by running straight at the crowd.

Honorable mention - I was disappointed Karlos Williams didn't score a TD. I wanted to see him get the record...

[Historian]

Balls:

Shady
Hogan

Goats:

Carpenter
McKelvin
Taylor

[Saratoga Slim]

Defense played absolutely well enough to win. At Foxborough? C'mon. That was a great game plan and well executed. As bad as our offense looked most of the night, it was tight all the way and finished with the ball in our hands and two minutes left down one score. That's all you can ask for from a D on the road at the best team in the league.

The Bills & Pats defenses basically played straight up. Both kickers missed a field goal, and each team had one turnover. The difference was Brady just made a few more plays than Tyrod (who played like the average/slightly below average starter that he is).

[trapezeus]

Goat: duke Williams. Comes in for Rambo. Way out of position on the all out blitz to let them score 17. He's been a weak link all year and not adequate depth. Should not be on team next year.

[Ingtar33]

Balls:
Hogan - 7/11 always open
Shady - came to play, he was electric
Darby - completely erased Gronk.

GOATS:
Rambo - he was made Brady's b**** time and time again
Refs - HORRIBLE, worst officiated game i've seen in a while, i could write a book on the crap job they did in this game
Watkins - Elite WRs get open, sticking your hand up when you're double covered and giving up on your routes doesn't count as being open, and generally it's bad form if you just give up on your route and the ball is in your QB's hand. This is why you were barely used last night
T-Mobile - I know BB dedicated his plan to taking Watkins out of the game, but there were a lot of plays T-Mobile left on the field. On the bright side i've seen young QBs play a lot worse against BB, so it's not like this is critical, but our QB play really dragged the offense down. Woods and Hogan should have had a monster day with the defense BB was playing. Your QB has to get the ball into their hands.
Mario Williams - dude gave up. I get how he doesn't want to play OLB (I don't want him to either), but that first patriot TD was on him. Glad Ray Lewis called him out after the game. I was ready to throw the remote through the TV when i saw it live, cause it was clear he just ignored the RB and rushed Brady when he was supposed to get the RB. I don't like using MW to cover either, i probably like it as little as MW does, but he's gotta man up and do his job, not freelance. Looked like he refused to play the rest of the way after that too. don't know if he was benched, was injured or was sulking, but it looked like he was sulking.