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The 51 yarder was huge, kicking can singlehandedly lose you a game or win you a game. Bass made his kicks that's literally all you can ask someone to do as a kicker. My confidence level is pretty high, its remained fairly high since the 60+ yard kick against the Fins.

The Ravens are also in my opinion the most physical team in the playoffs with several dynamic offensive pieces. I looked at them as the worst matchup in the playoffs for the Bills. I know Mahomes away is hard but I think just looking at the matchups in KC from an X's and O's standpoint KC doesn't present the same issues. KC is different issues but hey there's no easy playoff games to be the man you gotta beat the man.

The two point conversion was a tough one but had he held onto the ball the Bills still would have had 99 seconds and 2 timeouts to just get a field goal to win the game. But the fumble was the tough one. The fumble was the true momentum shifter. The Ravens had the ball down just 5 and on a 11-3 run with a lot of momentum. And to give the Bills the ball back on good field position was the "mistake that sent the team home" to quote Bill Pacells. Then to compound that mistake with the 2pt conversion drop is a tough one. I feel really bad for Andrews, he's a fantastic player he just had a few bad plays.

All week pundits were saying how the Ravens were a bad matchup for the Bills. And in the second half we saw some of that manifest, the Ravens offense scored 15 points and the Ravens defense held the Bills to just 6 points. But the Bills managed to get a win off of clutch turnovers and an offense that was able to get it going just enough. Sometimes you just gotta grind out wins in bad matchups and that's what this team did. To be the man you gotta beat the man.

Turnovers are a killer in any game. If you are -3 in turnovers that's gonna put you behind the eight ball so to speak. The Bills made the margins tight and forced the Ravens to execute a tight game and they just made too many mistakes. Even had Andrews tied the game the Bills still would have had the ball with 99 seconds and 2 timeouts only needing a field goal.

What a game, Bills got punched in the mouth again but came back and got a two possession lead before Baltimore took the game and made it tight. Not gonna lie the Ravens defensive adjustments made the Bills offense a lot less effective in the second half. The Bills only scored 6 points in the second half clearly the Ravens had something on the offense. But the offense was also able to scratch out some yards and first downs when needed. The Ravens choked a bit with the drops and turnovers but the Bills also just made plays too. Great game all around what a way to end the divisional round.

If you are 50/50 and you gotta win like that 3 times in a row that's not good.

I think Von's gonna have a big splash play, I also think Groot's gonna have a big game too. I am hoping the DT group really shows up like they did against the Lions who are a top O-line in the league.

Lions hanging tough after getting punched in the mouth. But the Lions issue was that their defense still isn't great so they are going to be consistently in shootouts and shootouts are 50/50 propositions.

This is gonna be a 45-42 type game. Awesome.

I was shocked KC got run on so much. KC's defense doesn't usually get run on like that.

Lions behind two scores, crazy.

Honestly at this stage of the week, all the game plans are set the offensive plays are scripted for the first quarter plus. Josh knows what they are going to try to do and the pivots they will consider depending on the flow of the game. All McD needs to let Josh know is that he's gonna have to execute just like everyone else. That's what it is going to come down to.

This game is so much more fun than the last one.

Stroud is only in year two going into year three, I think the jury is still out on him if he can compete with the "Big 4" AFC QB's. He's not there yet but I want to see him behind a better offensive line, with more starts under his belt, and his WR core healthy (while replacing Diggs). Texans got a soft division and 2 years plus the 5th year option left on Stroud's deal so they have the tools they need to get some more pieces.

They have to make personal fouls reviewable, you can't have a large chunk of the customers of the league thinking the league is rigged in favor of one team. KC likely was going to win this game, but if you get 2-3 bad calls tossed your way each game that's going to make it dam near impossible for a team to beat you unless they have some sort of monster at QB. The Pats had this issue with Brady who seemingly always got a big call or two each game. But I never felt like Brady was overtly flopping or pulling up while going out of bounds to get calls. Mahomes is actively working the fact that the referees protect him into giving him a bunch of calls. Making personal foul calls reviewable would go a long way to taking away the blatantly bad calls and it would also make Mahomes and other QB's think twice about risking a hit by pulling up or sliding late.

Von's sack total is made more impressive not only by the fact that he had a 4 game suspension but also by the fact that early on in the season he wasn't getting a ton of snaps. He only ended up playing 30% of the teams defensive snaps this season. But what could be a massive difference is that he seems to be peaking at the right time with a strong game against Denver and leading the NFL in pressures since week 13.

I would love to see a "signature" defensive gameplan for McDermott. McD in the divisional round has only had one great defensive game and that was the 2020 divisional round and that was a very windy day that also had Lamar get hurt half way through the game (I think, I know he got hurt during that game). I would love to see McD come up with something that throws the Ravens off offensively.

As others have stated a big time DT is probably a more pressing need than DE. Ed is a very good player but he’s not consistently great. Carter is a decent rotational piece with potential. But after that it’s Daquon who might be washed and is old and Austin Johnson an older role player. DE for 2025 is pretty solid in my opinion even if you might want a little more juice there. Groot is a top 10ish player at the position, AJE is a starting caliber DE or a very high end rotation player, Von showed he’s got gas in the tank and can still be a quality rotation player, and Solomon flashed potential and is a decent depth/development piece. I think there’s a need to add a piece at DE but I think that can be filled via a vet to add some punch there. I think there’s a lot of fairly affordable veterans who can be rented for a season like Chase Young or Mack both players who can punch up the edge rush for a season.

It’s crazy how concerts in the early days of the modern music industry (1950’s and early 1960’s) used to be money loss promotional events. People were seeing Elvis for the inflation adjusted equivalent of 30-45 dollars in small venues of 1000-2500 people. They just did the shows so people would buy the albums and tell their friends to buy the albums. It took the Beatles doing arena/baseball/football venues making millions on high volume shows to change the industry. But before TicketMaster became the price gouger it is and digital markets made scalping and setting markets higher much easier there were at least relatively affordable tickets for big arena shows for the most part esp if you were willing to wait a few hours in line.

I think people forgot just how much the 2022 season was the “season from hell” in many ways for the Bills. The offseason contained the Topps shooting which rocked the community. During Training camp Dawson Knox’s younger brother passes away tragically. In season Buffalo had a tragic snow storm that (I believe) was the deadliest or among the deadliest in the cities history that impacted the team as well. There was a game relocated due to the storm while the team had a flu/Covid outbreak. Then there was the storm in and around Christmas which caused the team to reroute travel plans. That all happened before the team had to deal with the DeMar Hamlin situation which was very traumatic for the team. That’s in addition to a worse than average injuries situation. The Bills just were insanely overmatched in that playoffs. This years team is just not comparable to 2022 on and off the field

Not much of a sports better there was one time that I bet against the Bills and that was last year in the Jaguars game. I thought the Jags staying in London the previous week was a completely unfair advantage for the Jags and I knew the Bills were running into a bad situation. I took the money line, I made about 70 bucks on it. Can't think of any other time.

To be the man you gotta beat the man. Winning a Super Bowl is not easy and you are going to have to win some difficult games against great teams. The Bills have Josh Allen and they have the homefield for this game, they got a beastly offensive line and a lot going for them. Bring on all challengers, no easy outs.

That hit looked brutal, I would be shocked if he plays this week, if/when the Bills advance I think he would have a shot of playing in the AFCCG.

The key to slowing him down is hitting him at, near, or behind the line of scrimmage. He's a powerful dude but he's that much more powerful with a head of steam behind him. If the Bills defense can get first contact early then they can contain him. But if the front 7 can't hit Henry early and often that's gonna hurt.