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We ready, we ready, we ready... 12 hours to Shock and Awe

Don't be too hard on him. He just realized Maryland crabs are from Maryland. It's been quite a week.

Yeldon will have the freshest legs on either team.

The amazing thing about Baltimore is it really doesn’t matter who their DC is. They have lost a bunch of them over the years and the new/next guy comes in and they don’t miss a beat. Amazingly consistent defense is played there. I suppose it helps when Ray Lewis was your ML for so many years. Wink is just a guy. If they replaced him tomorrow with “chad”, they’d be the same.

Two things I think are going to surprise folks when the game is over: 1. Buffalo played better run defense than expected, and 2. Baltimore was much better at throwing the ball than people expected. Playoff pregame narratives don't always hold up. Exhibits: 1. Steelers barf all over the first period and lay the biggest playoff 1st quarter egg the world has ever seen, 2. Bears defense played the heavily favored Saints tough all game long 3. Washington was in the game at the end with a rookie 3rd string QB. 4. Buffalo was going to roll the Colts and Taylor was going to run wild on the Bills 5. Seattle had found their defense and their offense was going to do enough to stymie the Rams and their 9-digit QB. 6. Henry was going to roll up a 100 yard on the Ravens

Here's how I see it. Last year, Baltimore was a team of destiny. They let their shot slip away. Number 1 seed in playoffs. Bye week. Consensus MVP. Blitzkrieged the teams they played. They can do all the ball washing they want, but they choked away their opportunity. To the extent that they beat Tennessee this year, they can feel good about their season now. But fact of the matter is, they let COVID run rampant through their franchise. Harbaugh was out on TV early in the season saying no one was doing more to be diligent about COVID and protocols. The NFL levied a huge fine. So much for that narrative. The Bills are this year's team of destiny. They have played a harder schedule under the national glare and vanquished demons just like the Ravens did last year. Buffalo has a red hot QB/WR tandem that every team has tried to shut down. Buffalo is home. Judon is ailing. Campbell is skipping practices. While I know they will play, I suspect something is going on with both of them. Buffalo will not steamroll these Ravens, but will essentially outlast them. Buffalo is going to take this show to KC.

Tyler Big Ball Bass. He’s matching kicks against the best PK in the league. Bass’ kicks are going to be huge. I have him down for 3FG and 2xps. Bills win 23-20.

Someone needed to be sacrificed to the football gods. Of course it won't be the HC and his gutless 4th down call..

Bullseye on Orchard Park.

It's out there. It was a mutual love fest between the two QBs this week.

Heard this on GMFB. If Josh wants to duplicate Brady’s longevity, he will be playing into 2041.

Judon missed practice again today. Peters too. That's a win

This gif is going to be around for a long, long time,,

Williams and Stills are getting closer to getting in the game.

This falls squarely on the coach. He rushed the playing of Tua and then pulled him twice. You could not have scripted it more poorly, especially with Fitz out and Tua getting blown out to end the season.

The most plausible explanation I could make up for the delayed call in NY, was the replay official was having an in-game Lamar moment. The ref was under the hood, but NY was still on the can. The ref had to wait a good five minutes for the replay official to finish his business.

Them missing Judon would be big. I think we need to have a few tackles block down on Peters during a sweep play.

Buffalo 20 Baltimore 17

I'm not going to start a new thread for this, I'm just going to drop it here in the middle of a cleveland thread.. Mayfield vs Mahomes, Oklahoma vs Texas Tech, final score 66-59, passing stats: Mahomes: 52-88, 745 yards, 5 TDs; Mayfield: 27-36, 545 yards, 7 TDs. Oklahoma also had 263 yards rushing from Joe Mixon, Mahomes also ran for 85 yards and a 2 TDs.. Check out this stat sheet for some of the wildest numbers I have ever seen in a stat sheet. https://www.google.com/search?q=66-59+oklahoma+texas+tech&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS808US808&oq=66-59+&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j6j0i457.5004j1j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#sie=m;/g/11f541gfd7;6;/m/012hfxch;tb1;fp;1;; Damn...

second cousin to a enke

A whole lot better than DNP. Hammy for Edmunds.. Hmmm.. No Mckenzie and Davis good...

First time I read this I missed that little word "a". This paragraph takes on a whole different meaning when you read it: "I have little confidence"and "I have a little confidence". It's what makes English such a joy to learn. My bad...

I was chatting up my son last night and made the following observations (which I fully recognize can be construed as homerism): 1. Every week, I think this is the week that there is going to be some dip in Josh's game.. This is the week he's a little off. But each week he throws one incredible throw after the next. He's on fire and dropping dimes. 2. We can get so enamored by the aura of the Ravens that we can lose focus on the fact they lost 6 games. So they are not infallible. 3. A controlled passing game can be just as effective as a controlled running game. If this team can go on 10 play, 5m drives, they can be the ones wearing down the Ravens DLine. 4. Why do we expect the Ravens will play a perfect game and we won't? 5. Josh Patrick Allen is a gamer. He is a consummate pro. And he doesn't like to lose at anything, not even rock, paper, scissors. As the week goes on, I am feeling better about this match up. It will be a slug fest no doubt. But I saw what Mahomes did to their overpaid secondary and I don't see why an arsenal of Diggs, Beasley, Davis, McKenzie, Brown, Knox, Singletary and Dawkins can't replicate that performance. What my eyes tell me is that Buffalo has a very special QB in the making. He has "it". We see "it". The world is being treated to "it". What better way to climb to the top of the QB mountain than on the path of Rivers, Jackson, Mahomes and Rodgers/Brady/Brees.

I could be wrong about the timing, but it was AFTER this game or the next, where the Ravens of 2020 returned to the Ravens of 2019. I think they tried to make them into a conventional offense where Jackson dropped back more with the first intention to throw, vice run. They went into a dip. When they came out, they began running more than passing. So I don't know if this tape helps much,

Be curious what you thought about the 4th down pass. Everyone I have talked to so far would have kicked the FG. Your concerns about them disappearing were not founded. The Colts played an entire 60m game. A few bad breaks, a bad replay challenge, and a few missed passes was what separated your team from the W.