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Originally Posted by Megatron96
Toney was aligned off-sides most of the game. Even Dan said multiple times that the other WR opposite Toney was aligned correctly, "a few inches behind the line." Dan never says that Toney was aligned correctly, in fact he says the opposite.
NFL WRs in their 3rd year should know where to line up, period. And even worse, on that last play, Toney's basically looking right at the other WR on the other side, and never once notices that he's way ahead of that guy.
The WR coach should've been in Toney's ear at some point during the game about his alignment. If they both do their jobs correctly, maybe Toney doesn't line up like that on the final play, and at least we score the TD and force BUF to score one in 1:15.
And it boggles my mind that a professional 3rd-year WR in the NFL didn't check with the officials ONCE during the game about his alignment. That's inexcusable.
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I'm placing quite a bit of blame on the officials here for breaking precedent by not giving a warning first in such a critical game situation, but you have a good point about the coaching staff not seeing this throughout the game. They either never noticed (not good coaching) or noticed and never said anything to Toney (awful coaching).
The WR coach especially should have been in Toney's ear about this, warning from the refs or not.