Chargers 24 Bills 21

The season is over, Denver and KC lost...if the Bills would have won they would have more than a glimmer of hope...but they didn't and they don't.

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1. How bad is the Bills run D? I predicted under 80 yards and 0 tds from LDT...I was wrong. Tim Anderson, send your resume to the Rhine Fire or Toronto Argonauts please.
2. Ed Hoculi and his crew were absolutely lost. There were so many head scratching calls. The "in the grass" or "in the grasp" (?) call on Losman when he hit Cieslak for 15 yards in the first half was ridiculous. Losman was moving forward when he threw it. The non pass interference call in the 2nd half on Josh Reed...Reed got drilled like a second before the ball got there. How is that call missed? Price was forced out on the infamous 2 timeout play, they missed that. Steroids are getting to Hoculi's head or something.
3. The Bills coaching staff/players have no clue how to manage the clock. No comment on the 3 timeouts in 2 plays situation in the beginning of the 4th. If you are a head coach and you call a timeout before challenging a play and then lose the challenge to lose another timeout the next thing you should be losing is your job right after your team loses that game because of you being completely lost. I don't know who decides when to snap the football on a punt but when you are trying to kill the clock you think you would let the clock tick down to hmm 1 second before snapping, not 20 like the Bills. Of course the Chargers scored a TD.
4. Apparently Dicky J didn't watch the Jags game. I thought Roscoe Parrish proved he can make game changing plays. I think he might have had 1 catch for 2 yards or something and they showed no effort to get him the ball. Where is the end around?
5. Takeo Spikes finally showed up. He led the team in tackles and made some good plays on LT. He strung out a stretch play and forced LT to the sideline for a loss which showed Takeo maybe is getting his speed back a little.
6. Clements was good again. He made 2 great pass breakups early.
7. Angelo Crowell is out for the season. That is good news. Now we have Keith Ellison out there. This should help our run stopping. When I see Ellison, I see the 2nd coming of Derrick Brooks circa 2002. Seriously, if our run D could get worse, it did.
8. Coy Wire was on the field for more than punts.
9. Moorman hasn't had a good punt since Indy.
10. McGahee...you aren't an elite back.
11. Anthony Thomas, you aren't a good backup.
12. Losman had some nice 3rd down scrambles. All in all I wasn't too upset with JP. He made some good plays against a pretty good defense. He didn't get help at all from the run or the refs. He looked to me like he had more talent than Rivers but Rivers was very efficient.
13. The Bills are 2-31 this season in stopping 3rd and 1 (this is an exaggerated stat, 2-31 is not accurate, it is being used here to overemphasize how bad the Bills and their playcalling are on 3rd and short so go F urself Janis).
14. Merriman is a joke. How can you respect a guy that cheats. Your team was 4-0 without you buddy, you are a joke.
15. I think i touched on Jauron, but I hate him.
16. The decision to run the ball 3 times at the end of the half and not even really try to get a first down accomplished a lot. It showed you have no confidence in your quarterback and it let San Diego get the ball back with a minute left from our 42 yard line. I guess by running out the clock you mean allow the Chargers to tack on 7 then nice job.
17. Bills nation is a joke. Back to back blackouts is embarassing. We don't deserve a franchise. Keep buying Sabres tickets bandwagon fans, they aren't winning the cup because they can't win enough games 5 on 5. No shootouts in the post season.
18. O line has been better since it has been revamped. Nice signing with Reyes. He doesn't even dress. That gives us 2 great guard signings in 2 straight years.
19. The small fast defense strategy hasn't, doesn't and will not ever work.

The Bills need to win out and hope the Jets lose to a bad team and the Chiefs and Broncos fall apart. This could happen but it won't. Soon we will be discussing the draft before the first day of January for the 7th straight season.