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

Well, I gave the NFL credit for almost two extra minutes, but linked here is the 43+ minute video of the entire game between the 2:00 warning of regulation and the end of overtime.

Now we already went over Jake The Asshole and nine different plays HE listed on the game, five of them on this video.

0:00:  First play out of the box is the Jefferson magnet catch.  (Jake #5)

0:53:  Christian Benford gifts the Vikes a clean 15 with a cheap shot throw out of bounds.  Stupid or rigged?  Pick one.

2:02:  Jefferson with another catch, and you'd THINK by now the Bills would realize it's a one-man show on the other end of the ball.

Replayed 4:35:  2nd and goal from the 7 after Cousins trips on a lineman's foot.  Dane Jackson gets away with murder, no call.

5:33:  Jefferson, called on the field a touchdown, but RIGHTLY reversed.  4th and goal from a half yard out.

7:57:  Cook drops it, seemingly intentionally, but Buffalo illegally jumped the snap, another try from nine inches.

8:50:  The failed QB sneak.  (Jake calls it a botch:  #6)

12:11:  The fumble touchdown.  (Jake #7)

Now, from here, the only two plays Jake references are the missed PI on the OT Bills drive and the interception to lose.

But watch this ensuing drive:

• 18:00 on the video, 36 seconds left, 1st and 10 on the 20 for Buffalo.  Dawson for 12, no coverage.
• 18:44, 29 seconds left, 1st and 10 on the 32.  Knox for about 8, no coverage.
• 20:17:  After an injury timeout, Minnesota's last, 2nd and 2 from the 40, 24 ticks left, Gabe Davis is given credit for a catch at the sideline at the green field goal range target line at the Minnesota 40.  No coverage, but the throw is wide...
• First look from the bad angle says it's good, and Buffalo rushes to the line and runs another play.  20:39 on the video, 18 seconds left, 1st and 10 from the Minnesota 40. McKenzie, with no Vikings within TEN YARDS OF HIM, for 15 to the 25.
• 21:00 of the video, you see a replay of the Davis "catch".  Ball clearly moves as it hits the ground, and that has usually been the criteria for the league to reverse these completions under the cockamanie Catch Rule.
• 21:22 of the video, 13 seconds to go, 1st and 10 on the MIN 25, and Davis is interfered with, but with the clock now down to just five seconds, the field goal happens.  So you call that bump, and you don't call the other way the complete corral and shirt-grabbing of the BUF receiver.  REALLY!!   

So overtime.

• During the break for overtime, FOX' Dean Blandino tells you TO YOUR FACE that Davis never should've been given credit for that catch.  And then doubly roasts the NFL for not even stopping play for another look.

Here's the Vikings drive:

• Cook for 10.
• Cook for 9.
• Cousins to Jefferson on the sideline for 14.  Catch is good and survives the ground.
• False Start Minnesota
• A lateral to lose another 7, and it's 2nd and 22 at the MIN 45.
• And then Benford deliberately annihilates Jefferson for another big penalty...  1st and 10 at the BUF 36.
• Cook for 10.
• Semi-pick play to try to free Jefferson goes incomplete on 1st down.
• Cook loses 1.
• 3rd and 11 from the MIN 27.  Time Out Minnesota.
• Jackson grabs Jefferson by the illegal shirt-tail, but Jefferson gets it to the 2, first and goal, and it now looks like Buffalo will never see the ball.  (That was also good catch.)
• Cook loses 3.
• Sack to lose another 11.
• Pass nowhere close to ANYBODY.
• Field goal, 33-30, but Buffalo gets the ball with 3:42 to go and two time outs.

Here's Buffalo's drive:

• 3:35 to go after the return to the Buffalo 28, 1st and 10
• Allen for 18, and I don't think much effort was made to down him in that run.
• Allen for another 20, and no one close to make the effort.
• Allen to Diggs for 6 to the MIN 28, two-minute warning of overtime.
• Allen to Diggs for a first down to the 20.
• And then the two plays Jake marks.  The "missed DPI" in the corner of the endzone.
• And the pick to lose it.

Again, if you're going to call the bump in regulation (the one in overtime was completely taking the guy out of the play -- no doubter there!), but you don't call this???

Especially when the refs are basically on the record as on the take for Buffalo???

So, other than the nine plays Jake has here, and having watched several of his videos, I can count another...

• The two penalties by Benford
• Jackson getting away with everything in the end zone.
• Was the 4th down offside intentional?
• Three plays other than the no-called "catch" by Davis where there was no appreciable defense.
• Possible pick play in OT.
• Not much defensive effort on the two Josh Allen runs
• and the missed DPI in the corner of the end zone.

I mean, seriously...  WHAT????

REALLY??

You're for real if you actually still think these games are for real!!  I could count at least TWENTY PLAYS in that game that were suspect.

Really....