Week 12 Buffalo Bills: Good, Bad, and the Ugly

[SteelAbility]

GOOD
Shaun Suisham (Game Ball)
Ben
Mendenhall

BAD
Kemoeatu (got chewed up and spit out by that Bills DE)
Arians (the usual predictable play-calling)
Le Beau (ZERO 2nd half sacks)
Officiating
Keyaron Fox (Very Very BAAAAAD Penalty )

UGLY
The way we won
Officiating

Feel free to add ...

[birtikidis]

Re: Week 12 Buffalo Bills: Good, Bad, and the Ugly

Our offense in the 2nd half was putrid... how you have the ball for 25 minutes in the first and only come up with 13 points is beyond me. defensively, I thought we did alright. Refs totally killed me. I thought Deebo was gonna fight one of them.

[hawaiiansteel]

Re: Week 12 Buffalo Bills: Good, Bad, and the Ugly

UGLY

The way we won

there is no such thing as an ugly win, they are all beautiful!

[Flasteel]

Re: Week 12 Buffalo Bills: Good, Bad, and the Ugly

I thought BA did a great job in the first half. We were balanced, the timing of the run-pass ratio seemed to be working, and there were some new wrinkles he threw out there. The second half was pretty damn vanilla and there was seemingly no strategy involved.

In the end, we were lucky to walk out of there with a win...but I'll take it

Go Bucs!!!

[SteelAbility]

Re: Week 12 Buffalo Bills: Good, Bad, and the Ugly

UGLY

The way we won

there is no such thing as an ugly win, they are all beautiful!

Result-wise. Yes.
Confidence-in-future-wins-wise. No.

:P

[birtikidis]

Re: Week 12 Buffalo Bills: Good, Bad, and the Ugly

I thought BA did a great job in the first half. We were balanced, the timing of the run-pass ratio seemed to be working, and there were some new wrinkles he threw out there. The second half was pretty damn vanilla and there was seemingly no strategy involved.

In the end, we were lucky to walk out of there with a win...but I'll take it

Go Bucs!!!

It seems to me that when something doesn't work, Arians has NO idea what to do. Even if that play has been working all game... first time it doesn't, he just loads his drawers and panics.

[flippy]

Re: Week 12 Buffalo Bills: Good, Bad, and the Ugly

The Great!!!

Danny Sepulveda

He hits a 55-60 yard punt from our 1 yard line in OT. This is the punter I've been waiting to see since we drafted him. That was his first clutch cold weather punt.

Tomlin

For dumping Reed. He'd have missed a FG or 2 and cost us this game. Might be the difference between last year's 5 game skid and this year.

[Crash]

Re: Week 12 Buffalo Bills: Good, Bad, and the Ugly

Ward gets a game ball.

[BradshawsHairdresser]

Re: Week 12 Buffalo Bills: Good, Bad, and the Ugly

Ward gets a game ball.

Coming from you, that's really a high compliment.

[SanAntonioSteelerFan]

Re: Week 12 Buffalo Bills: Good, Bad, and the Ugly

Ward gets a game ball.

OK, Crash, here's what you need to do: Sit down, take your pulse and BP, and temperature. Oh, and check your skin for spots. I suspect by your comment above, given your posting history, that you have some significant illness!



JK, bro!

[DukieBoy]

Re: Week 12 Buffalo Bills: Good, Bad, and the Ugly

The good ...

That first drive, when we ran the ball 9 times (5 passes) and pounded it in for a TD.

That last drive, when we mostly ran the ball down the field for the winning FG.



This O-line is better run-blocking than pass-blocking, as shown today against a weak run defense.


The bad ...
The Ratbirds might destroy this weakened O-line next week.

[Oviedo]

Re: Week 12 Buffalo Bills: Good, Bad, and the Ugly

Our offense in the 2nd half was putrid... how you have the ball for 25 minutes in the first and only come up with 13 points is beyond me. defensively, I thought we did alright. Refs totally killed me. I thought Deebo was gonna fight one of them.

So was our defense. Same problems still no fixes.

[Crash]

Re: Week 12 Buffalo Bills: Good, Bad, and the Ugly

The useless Randle El also dropped a pass inside the 5 at the end of the half. Would have had time to run one play to the endzone.

[hawaiiansteel]

Re: Week 12 Buffalo Bills: Good, Bad, and the Ugly

Steelers' ugly victory still counts

By John Harris, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Monday, November 29, 2010


A month from now, no one will remember the score. Only that the Steelers won a game they were supposed to win, and the Buffalo Bills lost a game they were expected to lose.

"Good road victory for us, and by that I mean things didn't always go our way," said Steelers coach Mike Tomlin in describing Sunday's 19-16 overtime win. "We didn't play as well as we'd like to play, from an execution standpoint. It looked bleak at times, but we didn't have a bleak approach to our work on the sideline."

Bleak? Calling the Steelers' three-point victory over the 2-9 Bills bleak is a major league stretch. In the NFL, a win is a win is a win.

OK, so the Steelers were a dropped Steve Johnson touchdown catch from being upset by a team that is still learning how to win close games against good teams.

Buffalo fans should be encouraged by the excellent job that first-year coach Chan Gailey is doing. The Bills are a lot closer to respectability than their record would indicate. But they still have a long way to go before they catch the Steelers.

Buffalo has lost three overtime games this season. The Bills also lost in overtime to Kansas City and Baltimore -- the same Ravens who host the Steelers next Sunday night for first place in the AFC North.

I don't see the Ravens giving back their win over Buffalo, one in which they squandered a big lead (Sound familiar?) And I don't expect the Steelers to say yesterday's win was tainted, nor should they.

"The speech is always the same when you win," defensive captain James Farrior said in describing Tomlin's postgame words to the team.

In other words, the Steelers would rather be lucky than good.

Bad teams like Buffalo lose close games.

Good teams like the Steelers win them.

"You have to tip your hat to Pittsburgh because they are used to big games," Bills safety Bryan Scott said.

When it comes right down to it, the game got too big for the Bills. The Steelers know the feeling.

A year ago, the Steelers resembled the Bills. They lost five games by three points each and missed the playoffs.

This season, the Steelers are 2-1 in games decided by three points or fewer.

Coincidence? No.

"Our games are always like this. For some reason, that's how our games end," cornerback Ike Taylor said. "We knew this wasn't going to be a soft team. We could see it on film."

Taylor lived life in the fast lane against Buffalo. His break-up of a sure touchdown pass to Lee Evans late in the fourth quarter forced the Bills to settle for a field goal and sent the game into overtime. In the extra session, Taylor watched along with the rest of his teammates as a wide-open Johnson dropped the sure touchdown pass that would have won the game.

Strong safety Ryan Clark defended his teammates. He insisted the game was won before Johnson's drop.

"The biggest thing was that guys stepped up and made plays," Clark said.

Nickel back William Gay deflected a fourth-quarter pass that was intercepted by strong safety Troy Polamalu, who also recovered a Buffalo fumble in the third quarter that was forced by outside linebacker James Harrison.

The same Buffalo offense that scored 49 points against Cincinnati, 34 points against Baltimore and 30 points against New England managed only one touchdown against the Steelers.

"We're starting to make strides in the right direction," said Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward (seven receptions for 107 yards). "We're not playing our best football, but we can learn from what we had to overcome today."

That's what good teams do. That's why the Steelers are the Steelers, and the Bills are the Bills.

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