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18 minutes ago, Success said:
I was surprised to see that stat this morning. And, as we know, that 1 penalty wasn't really a penalty.
It's hard to overstate how important this was to the win. Combined with zero turnovers, we played relatively unspectacular football, but it was efficient and basically mistake-free.
McDermott & the coaches deserve a lot of credit for this. The team was disciplined and didn't beat themselves.
As others have said elsewhere, it was prime "Patriots football". You watch and think, "that team isn't any better than us, how do they keep winning?". It's the little things.
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I think Josh is very aware of the narrative that he turns the ball over and has been extra protective of the football this season. It's hard to argue with the results to this point, even if it hasn't provided the same type of visual fireworks as past seasons. It also doesn't help that he has subpar separators at the WR spots. There's only so much "throwing guys open" you can do before you start turning the ball over.
Having said that, yes, last night felt an awful lot like watching Trent Edwards' brain in Josh Allen's body.
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4 hours ago, Brianmoorman4jesus said:
I listen every day and I’m way out of town, downstate. I gotta go out of my way to listen to it and the station is horrendous. It’s part of my bills season routine so I’ll keep doing it but these kids are terrible. Some of the least knowledgeable humans on earth when it comes to sports. Not even out of just sports radio guys….out of just people in general. Jeremy has always been terrible. I can’t remember the last time he made a point that I agreed with. The station is so unprofessional it’s inexcusable. I live an hour from NYC. This garbage would not fly down here. These people know absolutely nothing
Same boat. I listen everyday at work during the football season out of habit and to maintain some connection with Bills/Buffalo football culture from 3000 miles away. Schopp and Bulldog are terrible 90% of the time with the occasional good take, but I neither care nor want to hear about your gambling habits (this and fantasy have largely ruined the sports commentary industry in general). J and J sound like a couple of dumb kids who stumbled upon a mike in their parents' basement. "Brownie" and Tasker are annoying homers, but at least their show attracts the odd listenable/knowledgeable guest. IMO, Sal's the best of the bunch. Just comes across as a normal, knowledgeable guy, who exasperatingly struggles to rein in the inanity of WGR's mouth-breathing callers.
One bonus to WGR and its callers - I grew up in Buffalo (moved away in late teens) and would sometimes make fun of the Buffalo accent with my kids. They're like, "What does the Buffalo accent even sound like?". I tell them it's hard to explain, but you can pick it up in the way people pronounce their "A's", not everyone has it, and some are worse than others. Finally, the other day I made some comment about it again and my boys asked me to do it for them and then I said, "Hold up. Listen to this", and I pulled out my phone, pulled up Extra Point on Spotify and played a random caller into Sal's show. The kids laughed and said, "that's the voice that you and Grandpa use when telling jokes and pretending to be morons." So there you go.
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27 minutes ago, Beast said:
It was garbage by the coaching staff.
The Bills had a chance to take an 18 point lead but the coaching staff played conservative ball all second half. The Bills won today, IMO, in spite of their coaching staff hamstringing the team.
You have a chance to drive a stake through Dracula’s heart in the playoffs you better damned well do it.
Yes, but what does that mean? The Bills were running the ball effectively the entire first half. It would have been moronic to abandon it to start the second half. So, they hand the ball to Cook who's stuffed, then Kincaid drops a catchable pass and you're behind the sticks and punting. The Ravens get back to doing what they do best and the script gets flipped. The Ravens are a good team and they started executing.
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I think you're right. The first drive of the 2nd half was killed by Kincaid's drop. I don't have an issue with the play-calling. I thought the second drive was a poor one, and after that I think they were trying to bleed clock and limit the Ravens' possessions. It was clear we couldn't stop them straight up in the second half, so the strategy is shorten the game, squeak out a couple additional points and hold on for dear life.
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Yes. They aren't what they were in the past and we have had enough success against them to know we can do it. I think it's a real toss up game, maybe slight edge to Buffalo. Now, we just have to go out and get it done.
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8 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:
For God sakes. The first two drives in the second half were weak, but this offense scored 27 today and over 30 for how many games straight (ignore the Pats game). Everybody eats; if Cooper was getting open he’d get the ball. Brady has done a masterful job mixing run and pass, using RBs, and so on. But some of you want to go back to having Josh have to force the ball to a single guy and so on.
We had 273 yards in a home playoff game. I'm sorry, but in today's NFL that sucks.
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Our ball security all season has been something else!
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30 minutes ago, Shortchaz said:
I guess we can let his family go now
Today's Internet winner...
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21 minutes ago, Chugga said:
I’ve been holding onto this all season. But I like Lamar. I love the way he plays. I don’t think he should have won the MVP last year and don’t think he should this year. I also don’t think he’s on the same tier as Josh (and Pat). But he seems like a cool dude and unfortunately due to circumstances Ravens/Bills fans are forced to fight.
Even his quote from the other day saying he isn’t friends with QBs he wants to win (I kinda want my QB to have that old school mentality). Sucks that the playoff choker narrative will stick to him. But I’d rather it be on him than Josh.
Hats off to the Ravens, I’ve been confident, but their run game has scared me all week.
Go Bills
Agree with almost everything here, except I believe he's a worthy MVP this season and he's ascended to Josh and Patty levels. He was clutch all second half and he showed a lot of class after that tough loss. He's a winner in my book.
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Just now, Mikie's Bills said:
Looking at the replay on the 2nd down run by Josh it looked like the ball should've been spotted at the 1.
Wouldn't have minded McDermott challenging the spot of the ball. If it's at the 1 instead of the 2 I think we for sure tush push twice to try and get the score.
I think it might have netted another half yard, but wasn't worth the risk when you might need that timeout later. The issue was the third down play call and execution.
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How is everyone feeling about Tyler now? I think he's back to being a weapon. His kicks today in the weather looked confident and crisp.
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Tons of respect to them. Lamar is a worthy MVP. That was one tough and nasty team we took down.
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Just now, Success said:
Defense has to WIN A GAME.
That would be good for our confidence for a title.
Agreed. This is why KC has won 3 SBs. It hasn't been all Mahomes. Sometimes you have to find a way to win ugly.
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At least we can't lose now in regulation.
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At least Bass is back!
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Getting our azz kicked
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Does Brady think he's got Trent Edwards back there?
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Just now, sven233 said:
I think we can all agree that was probably the best possible half of football we could have all imaged heading into this game.
Have to be just as good, if not better in the second half.
We have an opportunity, though, to completely change the dynamics of this game if we come out and score a TD coming out of the half. A TD there and Henry might be a complete non-factor after that because of score effects.
Ravens have really got to be doubting themselves right now.
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The Brady/Allen partnership is a beautiful thing. Might have won a championship in 2022 if we had this guy instead of Dorsey.
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Just now, Process said:
McDermott has done this all year at the end of the first half. All year. I hate it. Priority should be TOUCHDOWN. Not running clock.
The ghost of 13 Seconds haunting his dreams (and play calling).
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Just now, SoCal Deek said:
He’s been hurting since the first quarter. I’ve noticed it every time he comes out. It’s his leg.
Yep. He hurt his leg early on. Think he tweaked his knee.
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We are beating the Ravens at their own game. Impressive stuff.
Being nitpicky: please let Allen pass the ball more
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I agree 100% and think we've largely followed your suggested approach all season (as recently as the Broncos game). For whatever reason, we remained in turtle mode during the entirety of the second half last night. I'm watching at home and can't see the entire field, so maybe our WRs were completely locked down all night and Josh and the coaches had zero faith in our ability to challenge the Ravens' secondary? That's the best I can come up with.