Bleeding Bills Blue

Steelers were better than the browns - didn't work out so well yesterday.

How is this a nightmare scenario? You do have to beat some good teams to win a super bowl. KC is the one who's feeling pretty good I think. They get the team with the weakest offense, and weakest defense remaining in the playoffs.

Good DBs, some good pass rushers - they played a soft schedule, but they are a capable group for sure. I think buffalo is going to spread this team out quite a bit to identify where the extra rushers are coming from. Using a 4th WR forces them out of packages that i think they're comfortable in - and you can move davis in as a TE if you want to roll with more of a max protect.

Roberts took one out, but another i believe was kicked short and had an awkward bounce. They also had some pretty good punts in that area. Essentially they moved the ball to midfield on every one of their non-scoring drives and punted. The other was the 4th and goal. It was on a kickoff though and close to the sideline - you don't touch it because there is a chance it bounces out of bounds. That one had some sort of miracle bounce where it just died.

Running schemes are fine - but they're like a brees passing attack. One holding penalty - one play getting stuffed - mis-read, etc. and the drive now requires more of a conventional 3rd and long conversion.

If they get home it could pose problems - blitz/man is there for turnovers.

Easier said than done.

Yeldon. 12 career carries? In garbage time of a blowout week 17 game?

I agree here - makes it easier to get your playcalls in, and your hard counts are much more effective. But a lot of the pre/post snap stuff isn't really affected by noise imo.

Yeah - when they played KC they had edmunds play the pass on almost every run play. It resulted in getting shredded in the run game since reid just trusted mahomes to run RPOs and make the right call. Denver and NE had good running games, but athletic QBs factored into both of those totals - same with titans and cardinals. I think the defense is a tad different than it was early in the year. Edmunds and Milano are healthy, klein has been bringing that edge. As a unit the entire group has started to come together in the back half of the year. The thing with a run heavy offense is - if you get blown up once, or get one holding penalty... you are now forced to pass and play action becomes less effective. If you aren't good enough to do these things you will struggle.

Should buffalo get past Indy, I think they're going to blitz the hell out of buffalo and go for turnovers. Buffalo seems to have improved against it, but they'll have some weird man zone stuff to try and bait allen into throws. It'll be interesting.

Eh, i could see him taking an elway job. I'm in charge, but not in charge?

I might throw some odd blitz looks there too. But yeah, this makes the most sense.

SF with Shanahan - book it.

Tough schedule made it seem like 9 or 10 would be enough to win the division pre-season.

I'd think yes - offense is better for fans. I wonder how much the offensive improvement might also be attributed to lack of fans. I feel like false starts are down as well as Offside being up.

Definitely felt like holding was down across the board this year. Usually the refs go flag crazy in the preseason to reinforce any changes, but with no preseason i think the directive was get the flag numbers down.

So far he signed a HOF QB and squeezed all he could out of him. So I'm surprised he didn't go after rivers/brady (or maybe they felt there wasn't enough there to win it in a year or two). If Rivers retires, it makes too much sense for Reich to go after Wentz - but that could be an option. They may also consider Jimmy G, or Darnold. There's also veteran wildcards like Ryan and Stafford where everyones like... noooo they wouldnt do that. But new coach/GMs might see it as teardown time. GM might want a young QB, but Elway seems to always be a win now guy.

I'd assume... people who live there?

Skipped over Allen for Chubb - but even this offseason too. Couldn't or didn't make an offer work with brady. Winston and Dalton got paid pennies and they showed no interest. You just gave the keys to Lock without letting him earn anything.

His drafting resume at QB: Osweiler in the 2nd Dysert in the 7th Siemien in the 7th Lynch in the 1st Kelly in the 7th Lock in the 2nd Free agent QB resume: Manning for 4 years Case Keenum for 2 years 36M - Traded with a 7th for a 6th after 1 year. Was an overpay for sure, but he may have been the 2nd best QB to suit up for denver in Elways tenure. Flacco - Traded a 4th for Flacco, paid him like 20 million, and he was totally washed. So about 40 million over 2 years for keenum and flacco...

Basically - I'm the new owner.

The hole for the one TD was so massive I feel any running back could have scored.

Sure - but the offense was 9th in yards and 18th in scoring. They couldn't run the ball (Bottom 5 in YPC), so they'd pass as an extension of the run. They also were a full yard per play behind KC. Even with mahomes contract I'd take him over Herbert every time. He elevates the players around him, Herbert's numbers suggest the opposite.

Just going the ozzie newsome route and doing less day to day. But like newsome, i expect elway to continue to be involved in football decisions in some capacity.