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What did Darius Leonard say about Josh Allen? Keep him in the well? Well that's what you do to Lamar. A couple of things here. You don't trust the Raven's to consistently pound the rock up the middle. They'll inevitably attempt the ZR with Lamar, or a playaction, or something. That's when you gotta pounce Bills might be the rare team to be able to contain Lamar on the outside. Both safeties fly to the football and are reliable tacklers. The Linebackers are both sideline to sideline. Hughes, the slimmed down AJ Epenessa, Quinton Jefferson, Ed Oliver and Mario Addison all offer above average speed at their positions. The Ravens offense prohibits Lamar being effective against Zone defenses in the passing game, simply because they don't offer him enough reps to get comfortable doing so Play contain with your DEs, and get your DTs to push up field rather than try and eat lineman, because again, I don't think the Ravens are disciplined enough to consistently hammer the middle

My initial thought is that Lamar is going to break some runs, make some big playaction stuff. That’s just gonna happen - he’s too good. But overall I think the Ravens run with more speed than power and I believe that plays into the Bills D strength. They put a lot of speed on the field, front to back. offensively, the Ravens have a solid D Line, and can bring it. But I believe Allen will have his way with them. get a lead and attack Lamar when he’s in obvious pass situations

Not entirely. You get down to 8 teams and you’re always facing really good teams

Yup losing to the Steelers or ravens is well within reasonable expectations. here on out I just hope fir a good performance without expecting a win

Not sure I would watch another game of these playoffs

I mean I wasn’t expecting Rivers to be that effective on 3rd. Bills struggled in their coverage up the gut but Rivers also had about 3-4 desperation throws that were completed

if they could get Sherman at a low price that would be ideal

Oh and both Brown and Beasley are clearly not at full speed. something to watch for next weekend as them getting speed back makes this passing attack pretty close to unstoppable They’re playing at home no matter what

I honestly forgot Gaines existed but Wallace ain’t it

The guy was running a spread vertical offense up 3 with 3 minutes left. Because that was the only way for the Bills to win. that’s why you don’t put much blame on him for the fumble.

Bills need a 2nd corner. Unlikely they’ll get torched that badly by the TE again but Pittman did a number on them and I think a 2nd corner helps there. Think that’s the obvious and easy call unless an EDGE slips that you had high on the board. colts oline really handled the bills dline, though that’s likely the best oline in these playoffs

haha I’m getting happier but that was super stressful. Mostly my feeling was “god I hate the playoffs”

Neither the Ravens nor Browns are nearly as balanced as the Colts. That was an 11 win team that was top 10 in all 3 phases

You spelled “Josh Allen” wrong

Sherman would be an excellent fit in McDermott's zone system

Because he's got a lot of potential, and it costs them little to test him out

I mean, if you're the Dolphins, You'd trade Tua, a 1st and a 2nd - assuming Watson restructured his contract because no way he gets traded with that dead cap number

My post was mostly about current ability. So long as Daboll is doing the Yoda - Luke thing with Allen, I wouldn't change this for pretty much anything. I mean if you trade Allen for Mahomes, that's not worth it unless you bring along Bienemy

If he really wants out, he could re-structure that contract. He can't do anything about the 27M Signing bonus which he already has in his bank account, but is prorated over the next 4 years, that's going to stay on the Texans Cap no matter what. But his next roster bonus isn't till 2023, and he can re-negotiate his base pay to something far less significant. He'd be taking a ton less money to move on, but if he REALLY wanted to, he could facilitate a trade, to say Oakland who have weapons and a good coach.

Watson, Mahomes and Rodgers are the only QBs I'd even CONSIDER swapping Allen for, for the next 2-3 years (ignoring contract). That dude deserves a better football team around him

I participated cuz I love football, basically

As a penn stater I’ve been watching Justin Fields since a junior in High School, when we began seriously recruiting him and he committed to us, and then again with Ohio State as he tortured Penn State the last 2 years. My scouting report on him was that he has elite accuracy to all points of the field, good straight line speed, above average arm strength, poor escapability, and doesn’t always manage the pocket well. this season, I have huge doubts about his ability to handle pressure. I say all this because prior to the last 2 games, I would have locked in Fields at the #2 for either the Jags or the Jets. Right now, I sort of lean towards the Jets finding a new GM/Coach combo, keeping Darnold, and then trading down and snag Jamar Chase out of LSU, and then taking another WR with their next pick. I would give Darnold another shot than going with Fields, Lance or Wilson

On Darnold...wouldn't surprise me to see he has a Tannehill like resurrection.

Yea wouldn't be at all surprised if that was true, even though I'd hesitate to go as far. What I do know if that this kids parents were both incredibly successful, ivy league educated, and went out of their way to ensure that Rosen was on a successful path to adulthood, whether football or otherwise, with a large world view. That may sound like a criticism from me, but it's actually the opposite - as a parent, I'd hope to be able to give my kids such a platform to succeed off of as well. But there's costs to that, as we've discussed here.