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Lol not often you see a player hear footsteps of his own teammate

Wow! That's the kind of play a big underdog needs to win a playoff game. The Ravens punter has been brutal so far.

How about the QB finishing in total TDs which is what we're talking about right now.

Houston got way too cute on that drive. Your best player in this game is wearing #7. You just wasted a whole drive effectively taking the ball out of his hands. I will never understand it.

Singletary is just so slow. With that kind of space given up it should be an easy 1st down.

Lamar's legs just earned them a TD drive. I'm not sure why this is the hill you are choosing to die on. QB rushing yards and TDs have never been more important than they are today.

They forgot Lamar can run. No idea what the defensive scheming is on the drive. Wide open rushing lanes on every drop back.

In trade value he might be #3 right now depending on how teams feel about Burrow's injury history combined with his contract.

Officials are being extremely nitpicky with the pre-snap penalties against the Texans.

Wow... well I guess that more than makes up for Schultz's drop

Stroud is obviously a great talent. They need to get some better talent around him and the Texans are going to be a major problem in the conference.

My God the Ravens run defense is not giving up an inch.

It's more stressful for a defense when you score TDs.

Texans are doing a great job with their contain rush. This is what the 49ers failed to do when they got blown out.

This is as wide a talent discrepancy as you'll find in the playoffs. Baltimore by all rights should blow them out.

There's nothing to debate. Both show up as 6 points on the scoreboard. I thought we left "rushing from QBs doesn't count" in the last decade. In the modern NFL it's almost a requirement.

So has every OT... Bizarre time to suddenly start calling them now.

DeMeco Ryans is for real. He has his defense punching way above their weight class.

Sounds good in theory but he was totally abused against the Patriots. I think they've done a good job mixing him in at spots to get him a bit of game experience. Until he understands the defense he can't be relied on as a full time starter unless there are no other options.

? You don't think defenses respect Allen's running? In the Houston game specifically he was great. He singlehandedly willed the offense down the field while his WR2 was literally a CFL receiver. I guess everyone's lasting memory of that game is his goofy lateral to Knox. Watch it again some time if you can. He was excellent, creating something out of nothing a dozen times with by far the worst offensive supporting cast of the playoff teams that year. I came out of that game knowing we had a superstar QB, once he had a real team around him.

Not a great looking injury report, but I expected the team to be extra cautious with a Monday game leading into a two day rest disadvantage against the Chiefs. I would guess they are prioritizing rest for the injured players over one extra day of practice. Tomorrow we will get a real sense of who has a realistic chance of playing on Sunday...

PFF's fundamental flaw is they don't properly weigh the plays according to importance. With Oliver they consistently give him very high pass rush grades but very low run stop grades. Against the Steelers his pass rush grade was 90.9 which is top of the top elite, while his run stop grade was 33.9 which is bottom of the bottom terrible. His total grade ended up being 65.3 which is decent starter level... But Oliver is a pass rusher. That's where his value lies. Mixing run stops with pass rushes is not really a proper evaluation of his value as a player. And that's before getting into the numerous other issues inherent to PFF's grading system.

Bills 28 Chiefs 23 I think our inability to kick FGs may make things more difficult than they need to be but it may also force our hand with 4th down attempts. Ultimately I think our offense will do just enough to out pace them and I am predicting we convert TDs while the Chiefs are converting FGs. This is the weakest Chiefs team we are likely to get in the Mahomes era. This has to be the year we finally beat them in the playoffs. It just has to be.

It's somewhat of a myth on here that short passes are automatically available. That is not always the case. Allen failing to take profits was absolutely not the issue against the Steelers. I've watched the all-22. He was processing the field and reading the defense as well as he has all season. People on here think Cook/Kincaid/Shakir are just automatically getting open underneath... Trust me, those reads are often times covered up perfectly. Against zone defense I would say the underneath options tend to be there. But defenses are playing a lot of man against us lately because they know they can get away with it... And if you watch the tape you will often times see those supposedly always open underneath options getting zero separation. If we had a true "take the top off the defense" option we would probably see more favorable looks. But with the personnel that we have it is going to be tough sledding moving the ball down the field consistently. Luckily we have one of the toughest QBs in NFL history.

It is but we keep hitting these offensive lulls in the middle of games that allow inferior opponents to stay in the game or get back into the game. It has happened in every game since we blew out the Jets.