NFL Week 10 After Further Review: Buffalo-Minnesota, Part One

Jake the Asshole took my advice.

Immediately upon completion of the debacle in Buffalo, I told Jake he might well have an entire Top 10 for this game.  So he made a separate video of it.  It's going to be the first of at least three different parts, because the NFL has posted everything regulation two-minute warning on forward.

So, first, Jake's take (linked above) from the highlights video:

Play One:  27-10 Buffalo, 1:46 left in the third, Minnesota ball, 1st and 10 on their 19.

Jake, unlike myself, really gets into the "slop play" motif.  This is the 81 yard TD run by Dalvin Cook.  Not really even challenged, one player dives at his feet and the rest of Buffalo appears to simply go into the blocks and let Cook score for 27-17.

Play Two:  So blatant, he covered it separately in a video Sunday.  27-17 Buffalo, 12 1/2 minutes to go.  3rd and 3 at the Minnesota 31 for Buffalo, Stefon Diggs with another of those "grip catches" you're seeing a lot of.

I really want to know, without question, how you can catch that kind of a throw without magnetic assistance by gripping the end of the ball in that manner.  If any believers that the NFL is legitimate want to try to explain to me how in the Hell you can do that -- how that is even possible...  And it happens every, damn, week...

The kind of grip strength which would be required to pull this off would not be unakin to the "Iron Claw" holds you see in professional wrestling over the decades.

Play Three:  The first of two Josh Allen picks Jake believes were scripted.  4th and 2 at the Minnesota 7, four plays after the Diggs catch.

Who or what is he directing here, because this play was pretty much screwed from the go.  Two Viking defenders have the run taken care of, so Allen throws it...  five yards underthrown where the only person in the area code was a Viking defender who could easily pick it off.

And, worst case scenario, he brings it out and returns it to the 34, and Josh Allen appears injured on the play.  I think I relayed to a pirate group I was watching with that there were at least four bad decisions on the play...  That is, UNLESS.........

Play Four:  Jake gets another round of singing of the "Return of the Doink" after Minnesota scores, missing the PAT off the upright.  

You cannot argue that it really does appear, doesn't it?, that the NFL is having far more kicks go off the uprights than any natural result would imply.

Play Five:  This should end all discussion of magnetic gloves (and even some "slop play" manipulation as well).  Jake covered this one Sunday too.  Justin Jefferson is able, somehow, to use one hand to take a clean interception out of the hands of the Buffalo defender and somehow also retain possession.  I believe this is the two minute warning, 4th and 18 at the Minnesota 27, and it gains Minnesota 32 yards.

Play Six:  4th and goal from nine inches for the Vikings, down 27-23, 50 seconds left.

Jake calls this a pro wrestling botch.  Fact is, Cousins scored, but it's so conveniently hidden from the cameras that the call on the field "Stands", and the Bills get the ball basically with the back nose of the football effectively touching the goal line.

Jake actually thinks that Cousins WAS supposed to score (I think the refs were protecting Buffalo at this point -- and there's a lot more to that!), which leads to...

Play Seven:  The ensuing fumble touchdown on the next play.

And Jake missed a big one, as the next play, Play Eight, is a blatant DPI in the overtime, first and 10 for Buffalo on the Minnesota 20, after Minnesota kicked a field goal in their possession.

Oh, Jake, you missed a number of things -- which I'll get to later today when I post a review of the NFL's "crazy finish" 45 minute video of the last two minutes and OT...

Play Nine and Last:  The game-losing interception on the next play.

And, once again, same as with the other one:  If he's not throwing it to the defender for the pick, who's he throwing it to?  The ball is badly underthrown, if you wish us to believe it's legit, and, this time, the pocket is secure.

So...................

And the stupidest part of the whole thing is that doesn't even SCRATCH THE SURFACE of what went down.  So, later today, Part Two, I'll delve into that 45 minute video the NFL put up on YouTube.