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I rest my case, Buffalo got screwed

Posted on 1/18/26 at 7:43 am
Posted by TigerChief94
Member since Nov 2024
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Posted on 1/18/26 at 7:43 am


Ignore the facts if you want. The League decides when to allow bullshite. They choose when to enforce their own rules.
This post was edited on 1/18/26 at 7:45 am
Posted by Eighteen
Member since Dec 2006
37190 posts
Posted on 1/18/26 at 7:47 am to
Agreed on that play. Even the booth ref guy made it worse in all of his analysis by kept saying Cooks didn’t have “firm control” or “complete control” on the way down whenever every replay showed two hands on the ball and the ball pinned against his body. He even had two hands on it before the defender even touched it. How do you define “firm control” or “clear control”?

He hits the ground, then defender rips it away as they roll over. It was never bobbling or loose until after the ground and the defender rips it away
This post was edited on 1/18/26 at 7:49 am
Posted by Swagga
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Member since Dec 2009
18977 posts
Posted on 1/18/26 at 7:51 am to
Steratore very clearly carries water for the officiating crew. He doesn’t disagree with anything.


I can’t believe they didn’t at least review that play. Just a complete joke.
Posted by ReauxlTide222
St. Petersburg
Member since Nov 2010
89863 posts
Posted on 1/18/26 at 7:52 am to
The ref repeatedly saying Cooks didn’t have firm control was just a real time lie.

A tv ref could watch a guy walk around the mall with a football for 20 minutes and still contend they can’t see “firm control.” Mfers will be holding the football on a play and fall to the ground with it and a tv will use words like firm control. What the shite he’s got the ball what do you mean firm control?

It’s all to distort the rules on purpose to give the NFL more ability to control outcomes. There’s no other explanation. They’d fix the rules if not. In that sense, the NFL is absolutely rigged. They rid the rules to better allow them to control games.
This post was edited on 1/18/26 at 7:52 am
Posted by DownSouthCrawfish
Lift every voice and sing
Member since Oct 2011
40927 posts
Posted on 1/18/26 at 7:52 am to
That was a pick too
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
29179 posts
Posted on 1/18/26 at 7:52 am to
It was egregious referee frickery. Right up there with the Tuck Rule and the Saints pass interference no call.
This post was edited on 1/18/26 at 7:53 am
Posted by Eighteen
Member since Dec 2006
37190 posts
Posted on 1/18/26 at 7:54 am to
As the rules are written, a tie goes to the offense. The only way it should have been a pick is if Cooks was bobbling it on the way to the ground, which he wasn’t. He had it firmly
This post was edited on 1/18/26 at 7:54 am
Posted by TigerChief94
Member since Nov 2024
906 posts
Posted on 1/18/26 at 7:54 am to
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That was a pick too


So why was it reviewed, sent to NFL HQ and overturned?
Posted by Crow Pie
Neuro ICU - Tulane Med Center
Member since Feb 2010
27307 posts
Posted on 1/18/26 at 8:00 am to
What about the DPI that wasn’t called that would basically won the game for Buf.
Posted by PeteRose
Hall of Fame
Member since Aug 2014
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Posted on 1/18/26 at 8:02 am to
It’s one thing to call it an int when the play happened. It’s another thing to look at it on replay and say it’s an int. If you show this replay to the football community and put a poll on it, does more than 50% think it’s an int? I think not.

It’s obvious the league doesn’t know what the catch is because there’s like 10 different requirements and definitions that’s open to interpretation. I remember a few years back in a playoff game between the bengals and titans where the defender made a questionable int. While the ref was watching the replay, the special guest ref in the booth saying that it wasn’t an int and stated his reasons only to have the ref on the field make the opposite ruling.


I always tell people that if you show a questionable catch replay to 10 refs, half would say no catch and half would say catch. How can these guys enforce the rules if they have different interpretation of the rules.
This post was edited on 1/18/26 at 8:03 am
Posted by FeauxPaw
BRuh
Member since Sep 2015
1107 posts
Posted on 1/18/26 at 8:06 am to
quote:

Ignore the facts if you want. The League decides when to allow bullshite. They choose when to enforce their own rules.


Thank you for acknowledging our complete and utter domination.
This is why my team is the Refs. MY reffies always win.

And you'll sit there watching every Sunday in your cuck chair in the corner.

Posted by TexasTiger08
Member since Oct 2006
29514 posts
Posted on 1/18/26 at 8:08 am to
quote:

It’s all to distort the rules on purpose to give the NFL more ability to control outcomes. There’s no other explanation. They’d fix the rules if not. In that sense, the NFL is absolutely rigged. They rid the rules to better allow them to control games.


I think this, but sometimes I think the NFL just fricked itself with slow motion replays and the obsession with getting everything right down the minute detail. It’s impossible to do, and there’s an element of paralysis by analysis. You’d think the NFL would want Buffalo to finally get to an SB. It would be a way to push Josh Allen to true superstar status.

As it stands now, we are left with Stidham, Stroud, and Maye in the AFC.
Posted by FairhopeTider
Fairhope, Alabama
Member since May 2012
22628 posts
Posted on 1/18/26 at 8:10 am to
Didn’t this same thing happen in the 2011 Game of the Century between Alabama & LSU?
Posted by Hangover Haven
Metry
Member since Oct 2013
32525 posts
Posted on 1/18/26 at 8:15 am to
quote:

Ignore the facts if you want. The League decides when to allow bullshite. They choose when to enforce their own rules.


That’s how the game is controlled….

They call, and don’t call, penalties when it comes to the outcome of the game…. Hence the infamous “no call”..
Posted by lsupride87
Member since Dec 2007
109989 posts
Posted on 1/18/26 at 8:23 am to
The didn’t replay it. Thats one reason McDermott was so mad. They refused to go and so a full review
Posted by msudawg1200
Central Mississippi
Member since Jun 2014
10753 posts
Posted on 1/18/26 at 8:26 am to
I think the worst call, or non call, was the non DPI call against Cooks in the endzone on the last Bills drive when they kicked the game tying field goal. The Denver DB grabbed his damn arm and prevented him from getting to the ball. I mean, I thought it was blatant. I realize you don't want the officials deciding the game, and I'm pretty certain the Bills score a TD from the 1 with a time out and about 25 seconds left. If those were DPI's on the Broncos game "winning" drive, then that play was no doubt DPI. It was way worse than the two on Buffalo.
Posted by SludgeFactory
Middle of Nowhere
Member since Jun 2025
2981 posts
Posted on 1/18/26 at 8:31 am to
LOL did the NFL blatantly rig yet another playoff game?!?!

NO way!!

I still can't believe people really and truly believe this shite is real
Posted by RandySavage
9 Time Natty Winner
Member since May 2012
35157 posts
Posted on 1/18/26 at 8:34 am to
It wasn't a tie, that's why the defender came away with the ball.
Posted by lsupride87
Member since Dec 2007
109989 posts
Posted on 1/18/26 at 8:34 am to
This was worse than the cooks catch if you want to talk officials

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Posted by Mo Jeaux
Member since Aug 2008
62687 posts
Posted on 1/18/26 at 8:44 am to
Nice rage bait. I find it funny that so many of you are blind, blatantly lying, or are just too stupid to understand the rule.
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