Seahawks 39, Steelers 30 – In a wild game in Seattle, Russell Wilson threw a career-high five TD passes, including two to Doug Baldwin in the final 8:12, and the Seahawks (6-5) held on for a victory over Pittsburgh (6-5).
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Those fond and fun memories have now become nothing more than meaningless words, a waste of breath that Rex will likely have to hear about for a long time coming, and after his disastrous job this past Sunday, deservedly so.
Jamaal Charles, the epicenter of the Chiefs’ offensive attack, tore his ACL just five games into the season. Buffalo is now 10th in the playoff race and on a two-game losing streak. “There were actual moments out there that it wasn’t that bad, ” Smith said.
“We would have had to forfeit”, Reid said with a smile of what he could contribute. “We didn’t do that in the second half”.
In the second half, Watkins was targeted just one time, and failed to catch a pass. There’s no justification for it, there’s no rational explanation.
Over the next five games, the Chiefs play the Oakland Raiders twice, the San Diego Chargers, the Baltimore Ravens and the Cleveland Browns.
Buffalo looked very good in the first half offensively but struggled both offensively and defensively the second half.
If the Chiefs can win today it would be their fifth consecutive victory, and things feel a world apart from when they suffered a fifth straight loss earlier on in the season, which left them feeling that their season was already over. Tyrod Taylor and Sammy Watkins put on an offensive show in the first half, combining for six receptions and 158 yards in the opening 30 minutes as the Bills surged to a 16-7 lead.
Ryan didn’t challenge a spot on a later first-down run by Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith that led to a Twitter photo of the quarterback being down a yard or two before the first down marker. We were in complete control of that game and then they threw some balls over our heads.
The other miss he had, and the biggest failure of the game, was on a called incomplete pass to Chris Hogan, who would have had first down yardage on the Bills potential game-tying drive. “I think he’s doing OK”. Later, they got the first touchdown on the board on a 28-yard touchdown pass. The duo added a 21-yard scoring play late in the second quarter.
Ryan didn’t throw the flag. A short pass to Robert Woods was bobbled and dropped, but Woods dove and attempted to save the catch, reeling it in.
Ryan refused to get into the specific chain of command up in the coaches booth in terms of which assistant has been or will be assigned to monitor video replay to determine if a challenge should be made. The game began with Buffalo seeming to get that but ended, as most games have this season for the Bills, with disappointment.
Reason to hope: If the Chiefs can continue running the football and winning the turnover battle while making teams pay with the occasional downfield pass, they will be hard to beat going forward. “I thought it was going well this year, but obviously we need to find a way to get it where it’s better, where something like where people at home can see something and we don’t see it. To me, that can’t happen”. I’m exhausted of being “in the hunt”.
It could be a win-win for Bills fans.
Nearly as confusing and as responsible for the loss was the Bills’ inability to stop the Chiefs’ from running up the middle for big gains. Opposing teams can not take chances against the Chiefs’ opportunistic defenders, many of whom possess tremendous ball skills.
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The Bills proved this Sunday, that no matter who is behind center, who’s coaching the team, or who’s sitting up in the owner’s box, the 2015 Bills are still the same old Bills.
