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This was what I was thinking. If he doesn't have the ball, he can't be a hero. Reduce the Najee threat and flood the secondary. Easier said than done, but that has to be the game plan. This won't be one of those zero blitz games though.

Can we just take a moment and appreciate how well the secondary is playing? If it was June 1st and you had told me that Hyde would be lost for the year. Tre would not be back before Green Bay. Benford would break his hand. Poyer would miss a game and be persistently dealing with nagging injuries. Jackson would have a scary career-ending-appearing hit and miss a game. All the while playing @LA, Ten, @Mia and @Bal and holding their own. Would you have believed it? Result 3-1, should be 4-0. Crazy.

I was laughing at Michaels last night. He swapped out the SNF game for TNF. He has chased the dollars and now is saddled with some of the worst football each week. He's off to Chicago for the scintillating matchup of Chi-Was.

man-o-man Denver and that Wilson contract is the definition of albatross... I'm pretty sure Pete Carroll had a big old bowl of popcorn and a sh!t-eating grin last night.

Remember when Wilson balloon balls used to be the prettiest in the league?

Over under on how many more times Michaels is going to bring up Melvin fumbles? 3?

That’s a first. 2 receivers from same team fighting over a catch.

Russ Wilson … sheesh … a shell of his former glory making 48M.

These are two bad teams. How’d the Colts beat KC?

The world saw him skip a pass to McKenzie. What the world won’t acknowledge is that only TWO players were on the field for all 90 plays. Dion and Josh. Sure their defense was tired, but they were rotating people. Josh was running it and throwing it north of 60 times. He was spent. He couldn’t come out of the game. And that throw proved it. The narrative will continue that he missed a wide open guy to win the game. I saw Nick Wright use that pass as a reason Josh should not be MVP. Others will to when they try to make a point. Don’t acknowledge the forest, just focus on a single tree.

I have very clear memories of Jerry Butler doing it. He was the first I remember doing it (probably not the first, just the first I remember). Yeah I'm not buying it.

REALLY!!!!! Not unless we are redefining the screen play. If throwing a quick out to the boundary is included. Okay. But if the traditional sweep of a QB dropping deep to suck in the DT/DLs while guards and linemen are setting up, then NO. HELL NO.

WHY I LOVED THE BALTIMORE WIN When you looked at the schedule on release, 4 of 6 on road, B2B Primetime national games to start, and worthy competition, I circled the Bills-Ravens as the most important game before the Bills-Chiefs. Here was/is my thinking. 1. I think everyone recognizes the challenge of playing Baltimore in Baltimore. You could expect a tough, competitive game. 2. I believe that Buffalo has more quality players at this moment than Baltimore, but each team possesses and "X" factor QB. 3. Both teams are likely to be Division winners so H2H was uber important 4. I thought that Baltimore with Tucker was a bigger advantage than Buffalo with Bass and this was likely to be a single digit victory for either team 5. And this is the type of game that championship teams win. They outlast the other good team. 6. When you scan the "yeah but who did they play" around Week 14-15, this win will look really good. 7. Confidence. Getting a hard fought, gritty win on the road, with a M*A*S*H unit playing has to really instill confidence in this team. Now go out and follow this up with a blow out of Pittsburgh.

I really didn't like the tackle. I thought Knox was going to get hurt on that one.

I was Monday Morning QBing this with some Ravens fans. I also said the 3rd down play was the big play. My sense is he slipped on the wet turf. The play was a designed pass and he ran late. Looking at this pix, a WR is alone on the "V". But my guess was that was only after he decided to run.

yeah but the number of incriminations on this board might have approached epic levels.

As someone who sat through the game, I push back on this. It was raining, but I would never call it a deluge. The third quarter was probably the worst. And even then, it wasn't a driving rain. It must have looked bad on TV, but it wasn’t terrible. I stayed dried the whole game with the thinnest of ponchos on.

As someone point out up thread, KR and PR could be an adventure. Stevenson and Austen? I'd imagine there will be wind, why, because there is always wind.

I was too. And yet the week before, Indy bottled them up. They always say it’s a week to week league and the Chiefs in the last two weeks are a good example of that. That Bills-Chiefs game in two weeks is going to be so over hyped.

Cannon fodder 🙂

Geno Smith leading the NFL with an all time high passer rating of 77% through 4 games per some source I heard today somewhere..

But did the math say so? According to Greeny today on his show, the math said it was 0.4% better. They went because Harbaugh did not trust his defense. And I'm here for it. I can never ever ever root for the Cleveland Ravens.

In the spirit of WIIL-I-AM, I pronounce Canisius as CAN-I-SEE-US.. You're welcome..

The first clip brought up another observation yesterday. Because the game was so close in the 4th, nobody left. And then when Singletary got the big run a bunch started to stream out. And then when Josh got the first, a bunch more headed for the parking lots. And then the 2 consecutive kneel downs, swarms were heading out. They didn't even stick around to see if Bass missed and the game went into OT. When the game was over, you could absolutely see how many Bills fans were there. Answer, plenty. It was glorious. I had this Ravens fan sitting behind me and my family all game. And he was screaming derogatory stuff about the Bills all game and I mean all game long. "Allen sucks", "Where's Diggs?", "MVP", "Move those chains", "Your defense sucks", etc. It was so satisfying to turn around and celebrate in front of him..

New England -- Packers game If you saw the play where BB went ballistic toward the end of the game, can someone explain the clock? As I recall, Rodgers throws all the way to endzone. Looks like a completion, but then ruled incomplete. The clock continues to run and is finally stopped at 2:02 as I recall. They never put time back on the clock and BB was losing his mind, rightfully so.