SageAgainstTheMachine

Personally I think his job was secure anyway. If you’re the Pegulas who also own a team in the midst of an embarrassing playoff drought, are you ever considering firing the HCwho’s delivered the playoffs 7 out of 8 years?

That 3rd & 5 screen to Dawson Knox made me want to puke. Whatever BS Brady was on today needs to get fixed quick.

In a game where the refs mostly pocketed their flags it’s super puzzling that that one got called. Dion won that hand fight like a damn ninja.

It would have been a situation where our 4th down snap would have happened with like 5-7 seconds on the clock and then Josh could have run around for 2 seconds and heaved it out of bounds.

I always think it’s funny how turnovers are treated like they’re just a random thing that happens instead of the result of skill and decision making. Lamar’s INT was an ill advised throw with even worse execution. On the fumble he tried being heroic instead of going to the ground. Bernard made one of the better punches at a ball that I’ve seen.

I don’t think Brady called a game that accounted for the fact that he has the best player in the NFL. Josh hit Shakir on that huge 3rd and 8 on the opening possession and then didn’t go downfield again except for the DPI against Coleman.

I was already praising the decision regardless of the outcome personally.

Throwing to the boundary just wasn’t a thing today for some reason. Coleman and Hollins were also barely glanced at. We’ll need everyone against KC…

11/11 on kicks in these playoffs, albeit only one kick over the length of an XP.

For the record, I think the opposite holds true if it’s the exact same decision next week. Mahomes in KC, that’s a dragon you slay.

I’d say part of the decision is that you make your opponent play mistake free in slippery conditions. Andrews paid off the strategy, just like any other Raven might have during that drive.

Brady was awful today. Don’t understand a lot of what happened.

Was the best and most important call of his career. Everybody loves this unrelenting aggression on 4th down and McD shows a ton of it, arguably the second most after Dan Campbell. There’s also the common sense inclination that you let your best player win the game. But the strategy of this game comes down to probability even when it’s boring. Make your opponent be perfect. You go up by 8 points, make them score the TD AND the 2 point conversion AND stop your final drive afterward. Worst case scenario you take it to OT and accept your 50/50 odds there. It’s like making a big fold at a poker tournament with your two pair on a board with straights and flushes possible. Not fun, but right. He made that decision with an entire city, many of whom hate him, watching over his shoulder. Well done, coach.

Revenge of the whipping boys. Sean McDermott made the right decision in kicking that FG. In the face of an NFL that wants unrelenting aggression he went with probability. He gets my game ball. Also, Terrel Bernard has had a difficult season and then made the most important play so far. How about Tyler Bass 11/11 in the playoffs including a 51 yarder in the snow in a game decided by 2 points?

There’s absolutely no use fretting over this game. Expect the KC win and be pleasantly surprised if it goes the other way.

I’s just being sarcastic anyway.

Weird timing indeed on the content, but on my browser it does show that yours was posted first.

The effort is laudable but this is simply too arbitrary to mean anything. The very premise of the equal three way split between HC, QB and everything else is too flawed a foundation.

Win: “I can’t believe that giant kaiju sand crab came out of Lake Erie and devoured Highmark Stadium after the Bills won.” Lose: “I can’t believe that giant kaiju sand crab came out of Lake Erie and devoured Highmark Stadium after the Bills lost.”

Whatever. The only celebrities *I* care about are firefighters and teachers or something.

Bills 33 Ravens 30

"When it's too tough for them, it's also tough for us but in a marginally less substantial way."

I would have said “Wait, isn’t the plural of bison, ‘bison’?” and then died of polio.

Being an NFL HC probably doesn’t combine well with being an attentive parent. Not a great bundle-rooskie.

Dick Jauron made their jobs nice and fun. McDermott installed both a family culture and excellence.