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Luka

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  1. Our front 7 (or 6) aren't comparable to the Ravnes in it's current state with no Von, no Phillips. It's going to take a real game plan to stifle Burrow and not get gashed for big runs. Oliver is so explosive, I would like to see him move around this game. Create mismatches in the middle, send him on stunts. Too often he's just left to bull rush a double team. That's where we miss Von most, Ed was eating early in the season as teams tried to protect against Von.

  2. 16 hours ago, Bob Chandler's Hands said:

    The bias of this coaching staff against rookies seems to get worse each year. 

    Elam would effectively be a "second year guy" by now if they had just let him play and learn throughout the season.

     

    They are finally starting to see the light with Cook. Maybe Dorsey will even dial up a pass to him this week. 

     

    YES.

     

    It pisses me off to no end that we kept trotting Dane Jackson and Benford out there over Elam. Elam is gifted, much like Tre. When you draft a guy like that in the 1st, you play him. He was still very impressive against Hill and will need a similar performance against Chase this week.

  3. 3 minutes ago, Turbo44 said:

    I'd much rather have an aggressive QB than one who checks down on 4ht down, with the game on the line, giving his team no chance to convert.  I would love for Josh to take the easy throw more often, but not at the expense of losing the two long TDs vs NE, the long bomb to Diggs yesterday, the 25 yd td to Davis yesterday and the 55 yd pass to Shakir (dropped) yesterday.  

     

    Being able to understand the situation and what's good for the team in that situation is the most important part of playing QB. I don't think those big plays go away if Josh throws for 5 yards on 2nd and 2 to a wide open Beasely. I think they actually become higher percentage plays the more he's able to spread the ball all over the field. That's why he was so efficient last year and the offense just looked unbeatable. He could strike deep but you never knew when it was coming as the opposing defense.

     

    This year it's more predictable. It happens in situations it doesn't exactly need too.

  4. 1 hour ago, NUT said:

    Allen is likely highly influencing the playcalling. And it seems so many of the concepts with Dorsey have a deep option.

    I think the difference isn't so much that he's influencing, just that Dorsey isn't reigning him in like Dabol used too. He knows what Allen is capable of and he thinks back to when he played QB and what plays he would've made with talent like Josh has.

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  5. I wasn't worried when we drafted him and I'm definitely not now watching him mature into an NFL player. He is seriously the best corner on this team right now. He's 2nd on the team in interceptions, made huge plays in coverage. He shut Tyreek down I think as best as anyone has this year. He's big, physical and capable of man to man coverage and as Shaq said in his presser, he's clearly been studying and working.

     

    When Tre is 100% again next year, we will have the best duo in the NFL.

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  6. 10 hours ago, Lionel Hutz said:

    Anyone that has watched this team the second half of the season knew this type of game was not unexpected.
     

    So many “experts” on here thought we’d crush the Dolphins because we beat the mighty Bears by 22 points!

     

    I got hammered for claiming this game was a coin flip and being favored by 10.5 points was kind of ridiculous. Then when it was announced Tua was out for certain I thought okay, Skylar Thompson starting? We're definitely going to win by 3 plus scores. We've got to, right? 3rd string QB? Practice squad offensive linemen?

     

    The defense played well enough for us to win by 3 scores. But the offense must've felt like it was the Dolphins' birthday because they just kept gifting them points. 

  7. 9 hours ago, LABILLBACKER said:

    Problem is JA is always going to have that Favre gunslinger persona and Dorsey's feeding it right now.

     

    Yep, which could end up being a very bad thing for this team overall. Dabol was obviously keeping Josh in check more than we thought. He's turned the ball over a ton this year. The media was touting his performance in the playoffs as historically excellent. Yesterday it was anything but. 

     

    In the end, the question is if this continues into the next game and we lose, who is going to take the fall for it? Josh? Dorsey? McDermott? 

     

    Situational football has eluded us this year. It's a shame, because if were just even slightly more sound, picked our spots a little more carefully, hell we might be undefeated right now. 

  8. 13 hours ago, Cygnus99 said:

    It seems like a  game in a parallel universe 

     

    That's exactly what I was telling my buddy from work. I felt like at 1 o'clock the Twilight Zone door opened and we were all transported to another dimension. I remember looking down at my phone after feeling like I'd watched the game for two days and it was 4:05PM... with 1:32 left in the 3rd quarter. 

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  9. 3 minutes ago, billsfanmiamioh said:


    I don’t like it, but with adding a 7th playoff team I think  the #1 seed became disproportionately valuable. I prefer the old setup with 1 and 2 seeds getting a bye, but neutral site championship games would neutralize the sting of missing out on a 1 seed a bit. It’s an interesting idea to say the least. 

     

    It would also be an interesting way to bring some prestige to the Championship game if they ever go 8 teams per side and lose the bye week all together. Or better yet, go to 8 teams and just take a week off so everyone gets a chance to rest up before the playoffs.

     

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  10. 8 hours ago, BigDingus said:

    This may have been discussed already, but I randomly read this in a Yahoo article by Mike Florio where he suggests the league might be secretly hoping the Bills vs Chiefs neutral site thing happens, just so they can experiment with pitting cities against each other & racking up big concessions like they do the Super Bowl. 

     

    "Would the league like to experiment with a neutral-site conference championship game, with an eye toward making the games neutral-site contests every year? An AFC stadium hosts the NFC game, an NFC stadium hosts the AFC game, and off we go — with the league squeezing the same kinds of concessions from host cities that it gets when it bestows a Super Bowl."

     

    Interesting idea. Fans would hate it, but it might bring a bit more prestige to the conference championship games if the league starts treating them like mini-Super Bowls in this way.

     

    I'm shocked they haven't done this yet. With the amount of money the NCAA rakes in every year with bowl games, I'm sure the NFL has considered the idea every year at the owner's meetings. 

     

    You get to pull revenue from the cities that host the games, you could sell sponsorships like the NCAA bowl games.

     

    And let's be realistic, most people that can afford to buy tickets to these playoff games can afford to travel for them as well so I don't think you would see any drop off in attendance. 

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