transplantbillsfan

Everyone knows I'm a huge Allen homer. I still am. But this week I brought up my concern with this being a home game. Allen has consistently come out looking a bit off in home games. Might be right. Might be added pressure at home. He's tight.

Time for Daboll to adjust his gameplan a bit. Games like this are why he went up in the box.

Mah bad!

Has our rookie Safety Jaron Johnson been active any other game this season? He is today. Plans for him in sub packages on defense?

Sounds great!!!

Interesting... this is EXACTLY what people have said NOT to do against Jackson in this game because he'll get a big gain on the ground evading pressure. Wonder if this is a game Allen dominates on the ground.

So who has the biggest game offensively tomorrow? I think Singletary is a safe bet, but what about in the passing game? My guess is Peters covers Brown. How are the Ravens in their other coverage spots? Is this a KNOX SMASH!!! game? Foster breakout game? Beasley for the 2nd week in a row? Old reliable Brown?

On defense, I seriously want to see 7 guys in the box the whole game with an 8th "ghost" spying Jackson on every play. And I mean I still want that guy lurking at the line at the snap to disguise things. I would like to see that rotate between Edmunds and Milano to keep LJ offguard. Run blitz every play and let Tre, Wallace/Johnson and our fantastic Safety duo handle the coverage. With the super windy forecast, I think this should be the plan.

But what does it mean?

I hope you're right, but the 2019 Bills have been a road team so far, so that homefield thing doesn't fill me with confidence. Buffalo hasn't been playing as well at home this year as on the road. Home losses to NE and Philly are obvious, but even our victories over terrible opponents like Cincy and Miami were pretty mediocre to poor on Buffalo's part for large chunks of the game--wasn't it one of those 2 games that we were booed at going into halftime? The Denver game was fantastic and our only real solid home win. Buffalo's best wins as far as playing well as a whole team were on the road at Dallas, at Miami and at the Giants. Even Allen has pretty wildly different home stats vs road stats: Home-- 57.4% completion %, 6.6 YPA, 10 TDs (8 passing, 2 rushing), 6 turnovers (5 INTS, 1 fumble lost), 80.8 QB Rating Away--65% completion %, 7.5 YPA, 14 TDs (8 passing, 6 rushing), 5 turnovers (3 INTs, 2 fumbles lost), 94.7 QB Rating The team has seemed tight at home with a crowd behind them. So far they seem to thrive off the adversity a road game brings. Now, I think given the team we're playing this week there's adversity no matter where we play. But I don't think our team will benefit from the home field unless Lamar and the Ravens are truly rattled. And from what I understand the game isn't even sold out yet(?), so I'm also worried about how many Ravens fans are in the stands.

Love it... I just don't think our D is an immovable object, unfortunately

Really? Why? I think we can win. But I don't expect us to.

We may not have conceded a 200 yard rusher this season, but the Eagles and Browns largely had their way with our Run D and Howard and Chubb are similar RBs to Ingram. If we give up even 100 yards on the ground to Ingram, what do you think Jackson will add to that? 50 yards? I'd say that might be conservative. Plus they have Gus Edwards who's a fantastic complement to Ingram. Forgive me if I'm pretty damn worried about our run D. I think it's justified.

Trump might be permanently buoyed by the 1/3rd of the country or so that are just die hard supporters of his, but a big part of the whole "Make America Great Again" campaign promise wasn't just an inward look, but it was also about the perception and standing of the rest of the world from other countries and his promise to bring that up, not down. He was voted into office largely on that principle, which clearly hasn't happened as we're becoming the country that doesn't keep its promises. We're losing our standing as that "city on the hill." Trump's base doesn't give a crap about that, but no one is swaying the "Trump base,; his base wasn't the reason he got elected and won't be the reason he's reelected, if he is. You believe what Pelosi did was attack a reporter????

When this stuff first started I thought it'd be a Biden/Harris ticket. That sure looks like what it's shaping up to be with Harris unexpectedly and preemptively dropping outta the campaign. Gotta wonder if she and Joe kinda agreed on this.

If that happens and we win, Allen propels himself into the peripheral discussion for MVP. I'm not overly optimistic that's what happens, though. Here's to hopin!

Allen can really shut his critics up this week. I know last week's game was on a national stage, but this week's game is against the best team in the NFL. I think expectations are he's going to fall on his face and have a terrible game this week. Then watch the national narrative very quickly shift back. But just imagine if Allen has a better game than Jackson and the Bills win?!?!

Again... Zeke didn't destroy us with his 71 yards because the Cowboys only ran him 5 times after drive #2.

Seems there's nothing to get ahead of...

Because the Cowboys abandoned their run game and threw Pollard in there rather than Zeke. It was bizarre. In the first 2 drives the Cowboys had he ran the ball 7 times for 54 yards. They only handed it off to him 5 more times the remainder of the game! Super glad they did that, but it's not as though they stopped running him because we were stopping him. They were just idiots and went away from him for some weird reason. I think the Ravens coaching staff is smarter than the Cowboys coaching staff.

In games in the 4th Quarter within 7 this year Allen has a passer rating of 123.7, completing 62.8% of his passes at 9.2 YPA with 4 TDs and 0 INTs. That's 5th in the NFL behind Matt Ryan, Ryan Tannehill, Teddy Bridgewater and Russell Wilson. And Allen has the most attempts (43) out of all those other QBs in those situations. Wilson has 39 attempts, Tannehill has 31, Ryan has 20 and Bridgewater has 17. That's such a vast improvement over last year, when he had about the same number of attempts (41), but had a Passer Rating of 71.3 with a 51.3% completion percentage, 7.3 YPA and 2 TDs to 2 INTs

Just being realistic. Our defense hasn't proven at all that it can stop powerful runners consistently, especially the ones between the tackles. There's a reason the team cut Pecko then signed the DT from Miami then signed Liuget: we're still searching for the solution to the big, powerful RB that runs between the tackles. And to top all that off, Edmunds has been a liability as a run defender. I would like this to be the week that we resolve that problem, but Ingram is probably the most powerful between-the-tackle runner we've seen yet, so this week is really sink or swim on defense.