yeah, because Moon played defense that day, too....riiiiiight.
Moon was 19/22 for 220 yards and 4 TDs in the first half. What more do you want from your QB? It's not his fault that the team did not even have a TE on the roster and had no ability to run the clock, and it's certainly not his fault that the defense could not protect a 32 point lead for 30 freakin' minutes.
While Moon certainly shares partial blame for throwing those INTs, he didn't miss those FGs or make those bad calls by officials or run the prevent. Besides, with a lead like that, most teams have formations to run clock off the board and keep the ball out of the air. One of the inherent flaws with the Oilers run & shoot was the lack of players to run power formations.
I can't blame Moon for that loss, and find it misguided of those that try.
Sorry, DB. My memory is bad, but I have the game film.
Follow this and decide whether it was more Moon or more D!
The Oilers led 28-3 at halftime.
McDowell intercepted a pass and ran for a TD to start the second half.
Oilers led 35-3
The Oilers then foolishly decided to go with an onside kick.
Why? Why? Why?
That gave the Bills the short field at their 49.5
On 1-10, we had a chance for an INT.
The ball went through the hands of #50 Robinson?
McDowel almost broke off the pass.
We had a sack, a QB hit,
a good hit that couldn't jar the ball loose from the receiver,
two more passes defended on the goaline.
They converted a 4th down then scored to trail 10-35
The Bills got the ball back on an onside kick.
Then came the bad call when their receiver #82 Don Bebe stepped out of bound
and came back in for the 40yd-TD catch.
Bills now trailed 17-35
The D was still playing very well.
Oilers went 3 and out, with Moon late on a pass to Duncan on third down.
He was temporarily open on the sideline.
A bad punt gave the ball to the Bills at their 41
Now the D started to show some bad signs.
Miss tackles and receivers let completely wide open for no reason.
On the long TD pass to Reed, #24 Jackson just let him go free to walk into the end zone.
The Bills trailed only 24-35
The fix was in full swing.
On second down,
Moon's pass was high; Slaughter got his fingertips on the ball;
it doesn't matter whether he touched it or not, that ball was to be
intercepted.
The Bills now got the ball on our 23.
McDowell almost intercepted a pass.
On 4-5, Jackson let #83 Reed go free again for an 18yd TD.
He just stood there waiting for Reed to get pass him, then started to chase.
(Either he was on drug or he got some money from the bookies, LOL!)
The Bills trailed only 31-35 with 2 mins left in the third.
The Oilers went 3 and out again.
Moon's
pass was high again to Slaughter on 3rd down.
Almost an INT.
Moon was 2 for 7 and an INT so far in the second half.
A 35yd punt gave the Bills the ball at their 48
On 3rd down, two Oilers got to the pass at the same time.
Al Smith would have had that INT if only Jackson had not jumped into him.
I really think Jackson was wearing the wrong color jersey, LOL!
PUNT
Instead, Moon would be
intercepted on the next drive;
He was lucky as Bruce Smith made a rare mistake roughing the passer unecessarily.
Smith didn't need to pull Moon down onto the ground.
Moon almost got intercepted again on the next play.
On 2nd down, Moon had good protection but decided to take off
and ran right into the DE for a sack and a loss of more than 5yds.
He sacked himself.
That proved to be costly.
On 3rd and 10, the pass was way short of the marker.
4yds short to be exact.
Then Montgomery bobbled the snap on the FG try.
The fix was so so fully on.
The Bills would score a TD to lead 38-35 with some good plays.
The Oilers got the ball back at their 28 with 3:08 to go.
They only needed 3 to tie.
They moved the ball well to get a first down at the Bills' 16 with a little over 1:30 to go.
They burned more than 30 secs on the clock before the next snap.
An incomplete pass by Moon,
ball way too high for Duncan.
There was a
receiver open in the middle who had a good chance to run toward the sideline for a TD.
A 5yd run.
Oilers time-out (they had all 3 left.)
43 secs to go.
Moon then
decided to run for 2yds instead of waiting for a receiver to get open.Another bad decision.
The Oilers settled for a FG to tie the score.
Oilers got the ball first in OT.
On 3rd and 3, Moon had
several receivers open.
He could have thrown it to Duncan on the sideline,
but he decided to throw over a DB to Givens on the inside route.
The DB caught Givens' heel but they probably called it accidental contact?
A bad non-call.
The ball went directly into the hands of #37 Odomes who was in failure mode of covering Duncan.
The safe throw was to Duncan on the outside; he couldn't me more wide open.The RB was also open out of the backfield.
That gave the ball to the Bills at our 20.
An easy FG.
Game, set, and match!
