When I see the word fix, I think of the exchange of money to influence the outcome of a game. I don't think any of the referees or officials on the field are being bribed. I do think that as people they have a bias toward what teams they like or dislike and that influences their calls. Not all officials have equal skill and not all crews are of equal strength. This crew and officiating were pretty uneven in the way they called the game. We see the game at game speed, with instant replay, in slow motion, from multiple angles and for minutes on end and at a top down angle that is simply not available to the officials on the field. How many times have we watched a play only to see an infraction on instant replay and think it's a blown call. Still it's the infractions that the whole stadium sees and the TV audience sees but somehow none of the official happen to notice that bug me. The whistle to blow a play dead because the officials were not in position just shows that this really wasn't a very professional crew. These were the Cleveland Browns of officiating crews.
Whoever was spotting the ball on the field should be fired. Not only was the spots not accurate, they were more like guesses that sometimes were a whole yard off. Still we had chances to score TD's and didn't. The officiating didn't help but we lost the game because the execution of the plays wasn't as good as usual. Special teams, defense and offense all had miscues. The Bills also played well, even though they only put up 16 points, they controlled the game from start to finish. No, there was no fix in the game but there is some things we have to fix before the next game.
