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It’s a weird spot because our Defense usually does figure it out if they have a bad half, but with our Offense, when the game script flips and we are playing with the worry that it could get away from us, it seems to put extra strain on Josh Allen to where he doesn’t feel comfortable taking the easy stuff or avoiding sacks/turnovers. Combined with Brady’s struggles, it then snowballs to become an all-game issue.

I see people saying they don’t want to face Denver’s Defense or Indy’s running game in the playoffs. I am 100% going to bet on Josh Allen vs Daniel Jones, Josh Allen vs Bo Nix and honestly.. Josh Allen vs CJ Stroud as I don’t think the Texans, who are a horrible matchup for our Offense, would do that twice, in one year, in the Playoffs. We’re going to have to play someone. Give me any game where we have the decided QB edge in the postseason. Only games where that isn’t decidedly in our favor.. Burrow, Jackson (moreso due to his running game), Mahomes. Not putting Maye there until he does it in the playoffs.. I see Herbert look good most years and in his playoff games, disasterclass. I seem to remember having to play an elite defense in the WC last year. Allen & Cook went bonkers on them.

I’ve seen Daboll’s Offense, beyond Year 1, look elite in the playoffs. We’re in Brady’s full Year 2, and have defenses saying they knew exactly what we’d try to do, with film guys all but calling Brady a simple idiot. Absence does make the heart grow fonder. In this case, it’s warranted.

It’s like we constantly defend and make excuses for our abuser. “Well, the defense is so beat up...” This refrain is now going on 3 years in a row. Every year this is an excuse. Something can’t be an excuse 3 years in a row. At some point it’s reality and correlation does equal causation. Sign old players. Draft undersized players. Extend injury prone players. What do we think is going to happen? This Defense has: Current DL.. former 2nd Round Pick on an extension, former 1st Round Pick on an extension. $12.6M DE. Recent high 2nd Round Pick. Recent high 4th Round Pick. $7M DT and an $8M DT. LB..Recent extension at LB. Recent 3rd Round Pick. $6M LB. Slot.. $10M per year slot corner CB.. Recent extension. 1st Round Pick. S.. Recent 2nd Round Pick. But why should we ever expect them to be above average with a defensive minded HC with the losses of Oliver and Hoecht!?… that’s why.

Unless CIN runs the table, they shouldn’t be an issue for us. 10-7 is probably the line and unless we lose three in a row, we’ll have the tiebreaker over PIT & BAL and/or knocked CIN down to 8 losses with a tie-breaker over them. Im pulling for them to beat NE, not only for the faint hope of the AFCE, but I also want that game on Thursday with Burrow & Chase returning to have as much juice as possible. It’s do or die for them either way, but looking at schedules, even more real coming off a win. My rooting interests for the rest of the season are basically Bills get in and Baltimore, KC get left out. If NE beats CIN, I’m probably to the point where I’d root for them to beat Baltimore, because I wouldn’t see them losing to the Giants, Jets or Dolphins.

It’s a podcast. Go to where you can find those on your phone, look up Locked On Bills and then you’ll see all the recent shows. Bills Squad is an hour long one Joe Marino has twice per week with Jeremy White and Jerry Ostroski.

Dont care. The good guy squad can’t get it done. I hope he races his car tonight too.

They break it down really well on Bills Squad. Bills go to passing Offense under Brady is 5 man protection with mesh routes. Problem is, you have to wait for mesh routes to clear to see if/who pops open. You need time to properly run that concept. Otherwise Josh is throwing to a spot and bad things are going to happen if the player doesnt open up and get there. So Josh has almost immediate pressure and he’s looking at a friggin Picasso of people everywhere and nowhere to go with the ball. And we run mesh, because none of the WR’s our genius GM has provided stand a chance consistently beating Stingley or Lassiter. No Kincaid, so it became a pop gun offense that couldn’t protect and Brady, in his infinite wisdom, refused to help on Anderson/Hunter to such an extent that Spencer Brown with a shoulder injury was man up on them for like 3 drives.

Doesn’t this happen all the time when vets get released down the stretch? The Titans aren’t claiming Brandin Cooks and I’m sure his agent made that known. Not sure why this time it’s such a big deal.

I mean, yea I’ll give props to him for that. We’re a potential playoff matchup and/or team that keeps them out of the playoff. He could’ve taken us out. Cant say the same about Trey Hendrickson.

It gets dicey but every game is not a must win. That’s insane to say. 13-4 might be enough for the 1 seed if NE didn’t have the most cake schedule that ever caked. 10-7 probably gets us in with our tie-breakers.

With us losing Thursday Night, I’m over the Division race and honestly might rather CIN view Baltimore on Thanksgiving as their do or die game. Beat BAL, great. Keep stacking Ravens L’s. Lose, ok.. might just shut Burrow back down for our game as their season will be over. At the very least, they’ll have shot their shot and would come into our game with nothing to play for.

Having tie-breakers over Baltimore and KC is a big reason why. Beat the Steelers and we’re at 8-4 with a tie-breaker over them too. Lose and it’s gets real, but also helps keep PIT in the drivers seat for the division, knocking BAL with our tie-breaker, into a more likely WC race.

The more time that passes from the Houston game, the worse it gets. Houston players basically laughing at our Offense and NFL tape breakdown guys on social media all but calling Brady a clown.

Funny thing is, a lot of people here predict we’ll lose in the Div Round.. If we’re a WC, unless Pittsburgh holds onto the Division, Jax takes the South or we play NE, winning the WC Round likely means beating one of Denver, Indy, Houston (dark horse) or Baltimore on the road. If we win that game, on the road, I’d think we’re going to the Super Bowl tbh. Would mean we beat an elite defense or elite run game on the road. Two things that give us issues and we’ve never won a road playoff game with this group. The way this year is set up, our WC game could very well be a tougher matchup than the Divisional Round.