That's No Moon

Clearly they haven't played enough Renegade

Awesome, my son has hockey all afternoon. We will get home in time to eat and settle in. Perfect

I don't want it to snow, not at all, but if it does and it's supposed to snow hard we need to break out the reds and make the ravens wear white. Visibility is a thing.

Well. The 1 seeds are already coming off the bye. Giving them the Saturday game doesn't matter to them. They play the lowest remaining seeds so the lowest seeds get the shortest amount of rest. You are the lowest seed so tough teats. The higher remaining seeds play Sunday which means they at least get a full week of rest as their reward for being the higher seed. The teams who could have been potentially been stuck with a short week this year were Tennessee, Baltimore, Cleveland, and Chicago. At most, 3 of them would possibly have advanced and, at most, 2 of them would have played on short rest. Minimally, one of them would play on short rest. Top seeds in baseball do not have to play for several days and can set up their pitching while the WC play in game is happening.

Frankie, you're my brother and I love you; but never take sides against the family.

I would love to see that. The point of the thread was to ask what you would do to stop them. The Colts aren't just going to refuse to take the field so the exercise we are attempting to entertain is thinking through what they might actually do not to come up with reasons why everything they might try won't be successful. There are other threads for that.

This is exactly what I'm talking about. If Pittsburgh's own offense was able to get it's head out of its arse in the first half that game looks way different. FWIW, the Bills were down 0-3 after the first quarter last Sunday against Miami, had an INT and 2 punts and a grand total of like 42 yards of offense. They mess around on Saturday and do that and Indy goes up 14 zip while running the ball down their throat and with Rivers hitting play action to TY and Pittman and lots of sphincters will be puckering. One thing I am legit worried about is the Bills coming out too amped up because there will be some people there for the first time. They don't need to do anything different, they just need to play the way they've played.

There isn't a binary work/does not work option. You have to play the odds. Blitzing can work if you can confuse the offense and get free runners but it also exposes your backend quite a bit. Pittsburgh and Miami come to mind as teams that had some success early in the game but then the Bills adjusted and tore them apart. If you are Indy and your plan is to gamble then on the offensive side they REALLY need to score early and a couple of times to put pressure on the Bills offense because once they figure out what you are doing they've been taking people to the woodshed. I'm not going to fall into the trap of saying there is nothing that can stop an offense. We've all seen amazing offenses get stymied. It certainly helps that the Bills have played several good defenses already this year and have seen lots and lots of different types of ways to attack them.

Which is why you try to get them to want to run the ball. Give them looks that scream "run the ball". Even if the Bills average 5 yards a carry it still slows them down compared to giving up 10-15 per pass completion with stopped clocks on incompletions. I don't think Indy has the horses (no pun intended) to get pressure without blitzing and blitzing Allen is a very risky proposition and you run the serious risk of getting yourself behind quickly to the point that your own offensive gameplan is no longer viable. Make the Bills play 60 minutes of mistake free football to beat you. Make them execute and score touchdowns on the few possessions you are going to allow them to have. Every time you hold them to a FG or less that's a win. I don't see a scenario where Indy just comes out and pitches a shutout no matter what they do on defense so whatever their plan is it has to be based around the idea of protecting their own offense which is run oriented (despite P-Riv quietly throwing for 4k yards and 24 TDs this year). They do not likely want to play a 41-38 game with Buffalo so what are the most likely ways of getting that to succeed? I look at this as a SB25 type defensive gameplan. Mitigate the damage, make the opposition play mistake free, encourage them to do what they don't do as well and don't let them build up offensive momentum to just wipe you off the face of the Earth.

Offensively, I run the ball straight at Oliver and Edmunds and then take advantage of Edmunds with play action. On defense I play zone coverages most of the time to keep everything in front of me and to prevent Allen from using his legs for easy chunk plays. I try to entice Buffalo to run the ball as well via my personnel and alignments. I'd keep 6, 7, DBs on the field at all times. Getting Buffalo to run makes them play away from their strength and also helps me shorten the game and limit possessions.

They have no draft capital for a long time and you will be expected to win immediately. Chargers right now are the best available IMO, they have the best QB and lots of pieces in place already along with draft picks.

That's a good way for anyone to learn. Amateurs practice until they get it right, professionals practice until they can't get it wrong.

Total, with Josh I'm thinking it's yac because I dont recall a pass that long in the air.

31-21 good guys

Can we sign Julie and let the Eagles keep Zach? I read this and thought, "Yeah isn't he like retired by now?" Then I realized it was his kid. I will now go back to my rocking chair and resume yelling at neighborhood children.

I owned at least 3 things on that page...

Fun fact. Josh Allen's longest completion for this season was 55 yards. Philip Rivers longest completion for this season was 55 yards. IDK where this perception comes from that he's hucking bombs all over the place. Josh does his best work in the intermediate lengths.

No argument here. That hire smacked of Texas desperation as much as anything else.

He's only allotted one phone call....

The union should be in favor of it because it keeps more people employed, the coaches will be in favor of it because it gives them more toys, GMs will be in favor of it because it allows them to hoard players and talent, and the owners will be against it because it drives up costs.

I think it's obvious they aren't signing him. They are bringing him in to go through film and ask questions. FTR I'm fine with that and it's a good idea. Any tidbit you can find is a worthwhile tidbit and every minute you can make the other team spend changing something that otherwise wouldn't need to be changed is worthwhile as well.

How many breaks can one person expect to receive? This would be far more than #1.

One game at a time, but the goal is to have four games.

exactly. when you bench Fitz the first time you are saying it's about the future but then he got himself stuck on the fence. The Bills sort of did that the year they broke the drought. It was about the future when they put Peterman in but he was a dumpster fire and then got hurt so they had to put Tyrod back in and they won more than they thought they would and got in the playoffs. I don't think ANYONE thought Peterman was the actual future thought so jerking him around didn't really matter. Fitz would have been in this game before halftime today which begs the question, if that's what you are gonna do why didn't he just start?