There are two things guaranteed to make penalty recaps way more fun. The first is a Buffalo Bills victory. Buffalo took care of that part, handling the Carolina Panthers pretty easily in the end. The second thing is wackiness. And Spencer Brown took care of that.
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This chart is a friendly reminder that low penalties don’t often correlate well to “winning.” Buffalo has been relatively highly penalized siiiiiiince...
Doug Marrone’s teams. That stretch includes some dreadful years, and the more recent hopeful ones.