The Bills received in teh first half, so I'm assuming this means the Browns chose to receive in the second. This means the Bills decided which goal to defens in the second half. For some bizarre reason, they took the wind at their backs for the Third quarter and not the Fourth. And I thought to myself, "Wow that's dumb!"
Lo, how does the game end? Browns kick a really long field goal to take the lead with the wind at their backs with less than 3:00 left. Bills miss a really long field goal wide right into the wind.
Come on guys! This was a dumbass move! You fail at football. TAKE THE WIND IN THE FOURTH.
The only possible reason I can think of to take the wind in the third, is if you have some sort of gaurenteed knowledge that the wind will die down (or even reverse itself) at the end of the third quarter. And even then, that means trusting a weather man. You better have a damn good weather man AND damn predictable weather patterns before you try to claim that.
This isn't to say there weren't some dumb calls in there. The refs certainly didn't help the Bills; lack of Offensive interference on what could have been a pick in the end zone in the second, and the Unnecesary roughness on the hit on a guy in bounds. I would have actually bought Taunting on the Roughness call, and I'll admit I couldn't hear everything the ref said, but I'm pretty sure I heard "Roughness". Even still, if you can't hold your thumb up and figure out which way to go...especially after the kicking game of the first half...I can't muster much sympathy. Mine's all wasted on myself after the baseball season.
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Flynn, you get to choose whether to kick or to receive OR which end zone to defend.
If the Bills chose to receive in the first half, the Browns got the second automatically. They also got to choose which end zone to defend.
That's why that happened.
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