(10-09-2023, 10:14 AM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(10-09-2023, 04:49 AM)iapetus Wrote: Funny, I remember a lot of ref blaming here in the past. Winning helps in these things.

The bills message board I checked out yesterday was very much like what we've seen here at times.

• The refs gave the game to the other team
  
• Fire the OC - play-calling killed us
  
• The dropped passes killed us - So many dropped passes! 
  

The most prevalent complaint however was a new one.
Many posters there said some version of:
"The NFL set us up to lose by making us fly overseas to face a team who had been there for 10 days" 

(nevermind that the teams signed up for it willingly)

This is the dumbest argument I've heard yet. Apparently we had an advantage being at a hotel for a week over the Bills who practiced all week at their facility.

Teams used to fly over straight after the Sunday games and I think it was us who one year decided to practice at Jacksonville until Thursday then fly over. We won that game so that became the new routine for teams which theyve done for years. Both us and Atlanta flew out on Thursday the week before so this idea that Buffalo got cheated is hilarious to me. The media have to excuse their darling's.

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