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51 minutes ago, Captain Caveman said:
Has anyone heard if any actual interviews have taken place with Joe Brady this week?
48 minutes ago, klos63 said:I recall reading that he had 2 interviews, but I think they were last week
It was said last week that the interviews would take place by Videoconference on Tuesday (14 Jan). So they have taken place.
28 minutes ago, klos63 said:He's doing an online interview with the Saints today
Seriously? I thought that the interviews were only allowed to take place on Tuesday, where did you hear this?
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2 hours ago, BillsFan130 said:
Ya exactly- will see what his practice status is today.
Generally speaking though from what I've seen- If he's limited today, probably going to be out.We will see
Limited today. Game designation "Questionable"
I think, though, if he's in a non-contact other than a QB he's "limited" by definition so we'll see
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Cool of Poyer to seek him out
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3 minutes ago, CaseyatBat said:
Exactly which is why I said I didn’t know he was a genius, thanks for letting me know he, in fact, is.i agree anyway I think we win by 2-3 TDs
Do you now.
No, I wouldn't call Turner a genius but he does know ball most of the time.
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2 hours ago, CaseyatBat said:
i dunno who erik turner cover 1 is, strange last name btw, but 4 yards per carry isn't a good thing. The Ravens will 4 yards per carry it to the endzone if that's really the desired outcome
If you google Erik Turner Cover 1, this is the top hit.
https://www.cover1.net/about-cover-1/
He's pretty well known in the Bills fan community and certainly on this bulletin board.The point of limiting the average ypc is, it's an average. Henry is gonna get his. But if breaks a couple of long runs that skew the average and the average is 4 ypc, it means he's being stuffed enough of the time to get his team off the field.
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2 minutes ago, CaseyatBat said:
I never knew Erik Tyler or Tucker or whatever was such a football genius
Coming onto a Bills fan board and getting a guys name wrong twice ending in "whatever" then saying "I never knew ....was such a football genius" makes you look tuff and genyus (not)
Let me help you out with what the rest of us know and Google could tell you. Erik Turner is a former college player and HS coach/scout who started a Bills-centered media company called "Cover 1" with the goal of "making the X's and O's of football more accessible to fans". Part of his goal was to help continue to grow his own knowledge of the game.
He's also really gotten into analytics of recent years.
We have a couple of guys posting here (not often enough) who are better X's and O's guys and better evaluators of play, but in general, Turner knows something and his stuff is worth watching.-
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48 minutes ago, PaattMaann said:
not to be disrespectful, but no, it isnt.
It's not disrespectful to say that, but it's more in keeping with a discussion board if you put a little more into it like, why that's your belief.
I'm not saying I think it's likely, but I think, meaning no disrespect, that Hamlin can totally get trucked by Henry especially as the game wears on.
If it comes down to Henry is killing us and Flowers isn't playing, I think it's possible.
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1 minute ago, Bob Chandler's Hands said:
I definitely do NOT know anything, but it seems like there would be a scheme within the existing defense to take Damar out for Dorian and leave Taron in the game. From a pure skill set perspective, this seems like the "obvious running down" lineup. That said, the Bills defense is highly Safety dependent so perhaps there is no such scheme, and it would constitute an 'overhaul', which I think is not wise to do within a week.
I don't think you take Damar out for Dorian. Not meaning to dunk on Dorian but I think he is still "progressing" in learning his role as an off-ball LB and asking him to learn to be a safety would be a "Bridge too Far".
As I commented in another thread, against NE in the 2nd game a couple years back, the Bills started taking out a CB (Dane Jackson) and substituting Siran Neal in a kind of variant of a "dime" defense. Jackson was 5 11 and 180 lbs, Neal was 6 ft 206 lbs and could bring the wood. He was also said by a fast WR to be "the fastest guy on the Bills roster". Neal was the backup nickel as well as the dime back, and they had him playing on the boundary some in training camp, so they could bring him in for more "Umph" in the backfield without losing too much in pass coverage.
And it worked.
I'm not sure if the Bills 1) have a guy on the roster right now who can fill that role though, or 2) if it's a need with this lineup. Rasul Douglas and Christian Benford are both 6'1", 6'2" 210 lb ish CBs. As long as they bring it and don't make "career decisions" we should be OK.
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4 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:
This sounds like the time the Mice had a meeting to decide how to defend against the Cat. They decided the answer was to put a bell on the Cat.
Then the littlest mouse asked the key question: "Which of Us Will Bell the Cat?"
Does Reed honestly think teams don't try to hit Josh Allen on every play, whether or not he runs? And while I do think refs give Josh somewhat less protection than other QBs, getting hit after he gives himself up could just add 15 to the end of the run.
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4 hours ago, stevewin said:
They had a little segment on inside the NFL going over Henry running all over the Steelers. It was crazy watching Watt just crash into Henry at the mesh point every single time just ignoring where the ball was. It was just crazy to watch. Belichick was stunned, saying it's basic fundamental defense to watch the QB and the ball before committing. They had other examples where guys just looked like they were on drugs. Clark said reviewing the film he's never seen as bad of a performance by a team on run defense. Have no idea what the Steelers were doing that game but 1) it gave a training video of what NOT to do and 2) I think it artificially boosted the 'unstoppable' narrative of the Ravens run game going into this game
This is just my opinion, but I thought the Steelers as a team had checked out on the season after the Eagles and Ravens games. Fundamentally, I think the offense lost faith that Russ Wilson could play QB at a high enough level to win against the league's top teams or to have a chance when it's close at the end of the game.
I give props to Tomlin and Teryl Austin for preparing them and bringing them out ready to go then having them give it a brief fight in the 2nd half, but they looked defeated to me after the first Ravens drive.
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1 hour ago, Big Turk said:
Does anyone (who knows anything) think they need a scheme overhaul? I think the questions are:
1) Johnson is one of the best nickel corners in the league. If we pull him off the field and put in a 3rd backer, what are we giving up in pass defense?
2) We would pull Johnson for Dorian Williams, who has had problems at times diagnosing his assignment in the run game. Will Dorian chose the right gap and maintain discipline?
3) All of our LB are relatively small. On paper, Matt Milano is 2 inches shorter and 25 lbs lighter than Henry. Bernard 1 inch and 23 lbs. Williams 17 lbs lighter. That means tackling him all game will wear them down. Are they "up to" it?
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12 minutes ago, BillsFan130 said:
McDermott:
-Davis still in concussion protocol.
-Anderson trending towards playing
Anderson playing would be big
Davis was yesterday, by virtue of being out there at football practice and by observer accounts doing a lot, at least in Stage 4 of concussion protocol.
Now he could have taken a step back. But if he didn't, he can be in concussion protocol and cleared to play on Saturday or even to my understanding Sunday.
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8 hours ago, Scott7975 said:
This is outstanding. You can see why Belichick teams were well coached and bought in. We start out with the former LB - is that Chris Long? expounding "take care of Henry first". Then Belichick shows exactly what happens when teams try that. Belichick doesn't need to argue with him. He cues up the film, and lets the film speak for itself.
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10 hours ago, Scott7975 said:
Nah she always acting about how much love she has for us then picks against us a lot too. I know people love her but she talks out of both sides of her mouth a lot.
Don't they all? If MinA Kimes is exhibit A for this, Kyle Brandt is exhibit B
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2 hours ago, Straight Hucklebuck said:
Question to Bills fans or football fans in general - does anyone get anything useful out of ESPN football analysts besides Orlovsky or Cosell?
Does Mina Kimes say anything about the Bills that fans don’t already know?
I mean, that's kind of where it is with most of the analysts on all the networks, right? Orlovsky, Cosell, Chris Simms sometimes - they know something.
The rest of them are just paid to yap.
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35 minutes ago, DapperCam said:
Rewatching the highlights of our first matchup. A few thoughts, with an eye on how we might play differently this time. Warning, this is sort of stream of consciousness.
- Kincaid killed us with a drop on our first drive. We were moving the ball pretty well before that.
- I think in a playoff game, now that we know how dangerous the Ravens offense is, we probably go for it at 4th and 2 at the 50 yard line.
- Douglas majorly wussed out on the big Henry TD. He was in perfect position to get in the way and he 100% made a business decision there.
- Hamlin also should have been in pretty good position to slow Henry down on the TD run, but he took his sweet time getting over there and by then Henry had the angle.
- Two holding penalties on the same set of downs killed the Bills second possession. You can't recover from that. Didn't see a replay to see if they were bogus or not.
- Bills 3rd possession was stalled out on a 3rd and 1. We probably tush push now.
- A recurring theme this game is Spector and Cam Lewis getting picked on. Majority of plays seem to be targeting them.
- They sent an extra blocker to take out Ed Oliver's knees most running plays. They were obviously trying to eliminate him. Not sure how he can counter that, or if other guys just need to step up.
- Morrow wasn't on the field much, but he was noticeably slow and bad. Milano or Bernard in those same spots make stops.
- I'm noticing Casey Toohill getting burned some as well. He isn't even on the roster anymore.
- I just saw a defensive lineup against a big screen play that got a first down where they attacked the side of the field that had Toohill, Cam Lewis, and Spector. Just goes to show how different it will be.
- Ravens 2nd TD targeted Morrow and it looked like was running in sand.
- First drive of the second half the Bills stall out on 3rd and 1. We probably tush push now.
- First big play of the second half for the Ravens, guess who it's targeting? Our buddy Spector.
- Ravens convert a big 3rd and 11. The ball is placed between Cam Lewis and Spector.
- 3rd and 14 and the Ravens convert on a screen pass, wtf. Not exactly sure what happened here. I think a LBer needs to get off their block to prevent this, or Von Miller needs to be a hair less aggressive.
- Ravens 3rd TD targeting Williams in coverage on a wheel route. Decent chance Milano or Bernard can make the play there instead of being 3 steps behind.
- Poor recognition by Allen, or maybe poor play design in 3rd and long on the next Bills drive. Ravens bring the house and there is no hot route, everything is down the field and all the WRs still have their backs turned. Allen has to eat it.
- Bills get a fumble, huge! But on the next drive they are passing on 3rd and 2 and it's broken up. But Harbaugh is an idiot and gifts us a first down by called back-to-back timeouts.
- On the next 3rd and long the Ravens only bring 4 rushers, but steamroll the Bills offensive line. Really bad blocking here.
Okay, I'm not even going to do the second half. It's too upsetting to watch the Bills start to scratch and claw their way back into this game just to throw it all away on a trick play.
TLDR;
- Other than the first big Henry run, almost every big play for the Ravens was targeting a player that isn't even on the roster anymore, or isn't going to see the field much.
- Bills seemed to stall out on 3rd and short a very unusually high percentage. I think they were trying to avoid the middle of the defense. Hopefully they have something figured out here...
- DBs were making business decisions here. Hopefully that won't be true during a playoff game.
- There was very little passing the ball down the field. Everything was around the LOS. Curious to see if that changes in the rematch (I think it will).
- Cam Lewis, Williams, Morrow and Spector occupying the middle of the field basically ensured we had no chance of winning this game.Good analysis. There's a couple things on offense. One is, Samuel was just coming back from being off a week and we didn't have Cooper on the roster yet. Then, Shakir sprained his ankle in the 1st Q and tried to play through it until the 3rd Q. We had absolutely no one the Ravens were scared of downfield and no one with the velvet hands that Shakir brings over the middle. So they just flooded the middle of the field with defenders.
I don't know about the OL blocking. They're the same guys. I don't know if they hadn't gelled yet or if they'll just prove to be outmatched by the Ravens again.Guess we'll see on Sunday.
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2 hours ago, DapperCam said:
Bills play nickel defense like 90% of the time. I’m not sure you can just switch on a whim like that (although I’m reminded of Belichick doing things like that in the playoffs). It would be impressive if McDermott could install a totally different defense in one week.
So no, the Bills aren't going to install a totally different defense in one week. But they do use wrinkles.
I was looking back a couple years - in 2021, the Bills played the Patriots twice 3 weeks apart.
The first time, Damien Harris and Rhamondre Stevenson just ran all over us for 222 yds and won (it was a weather game)The second time, we still gave up some rush yards but we contained it enough to win handily.
In the first game, we played about 53% base D with Tyrel Dodson as the 3rd LB.In the second game we played about 30% base D with AJ Klein (still had some juice in '21) as the 3rd LB. But, we also took out one of our CBs, Dane Jackson, about 20% of the time and replaced him with Siran Neal who was more of a "Thumper" in the run game. I wish I could remember if we were playing base AND replacing Jackson with Neal, but I don't remember.
They've also done some wrinkles - did it a little bit against Denver I believe - where we play 3 DE and 1 DT, or even 3 DE and 2 DT
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"I Wish It Were Colder", Ravens edition
It's 33 degrees in Baltimore today
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1 hour ago, BuffaloBillyG said:
I came here to share that.
If Ray Davis "worked a ton" during the media viewing portion then he is indeed now in Phase 4....very good news.
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2 hours ago, boyst said:
Interesting article chosen for the Ravens official site...
The media in Baltimore has been bordering disrespectful on all aspects of this matchup. I have listened to about 3 different shows in my spare time at work and it is much different than WGR. Any time Lamar and the Ravens are brought up it is with respect and there isn't much negativity or insult. The Ravens morning guys opened up the show talking about college basketball and hockey only to get to the game where a guy who sounds like he got his education topped off in 4th grade to say "can we all just admit the Bills defense is trash?"
Anything the Ravens media does to talk about the Bills is countered in the same breath to say something positive about the Ravens. Even if they are a better team, even if they win the Super Bowl energy it is so disappointing to hear the fanbase. They only have little dick energy.
Marvelous, we're going to listen to play-by-play from a guy who says "Baltimore looks unbeatable to me. They really at times look absolutely unbeatable."
Does it come across to anyone else as though Harbaugh doesn't really believe this? ""These Divisional [Playoff] games are really hard to win because you're playing the best teams," Head Coach John Harbaugh said. "[The Bills are] just a super talented, well-coached type of a team. On that stage, in their place – it's going to be cold; it's going to be blustery [and] all that."" ?
Who says "type of a team" when they're honestly giving props to a specific team with specific talented players? "and all that" - sounds like he feels the weather will be their biggest challenge and eh, It's Weather, We can do Weather.-
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23 minutes ago, thenorthremembers said:
In the past I've been hard him for this. That said, the older I get the more I realize how hard parenting is. So far so good with me, but I only have one out of the house and in college. Still have a long way to go. I also cant imagine the pain of losing a child.
It's not for the faint of heart, that's for sure. And chances are, you'll learn years after the fact about things that happened and choices your kid made that could have easily had things go to ***** if they chose differently or things went differently after they made some choice.
Like the song "It's quiet uptown" in Hamilton, "dealing with the unimaginable"
35 minutes ago, Mr. WEO said:It can't have come as a surprise to Reid that his son got drunk at work.
Agreed.
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2 hours ago, MikePJ76 said:
in regards to the Ravens defense you can count me as concerned.
The Dolphins running a similar scheme gave the bills a hard time on offense most of the game in buffalo and Baltimore did a really good job against the bills offense.
This is a tough matchup and it seems that something scheme wise gives Allen and/or the offense some problems.
Everything about this game is hard. The Bills have to play their best game of the Allen era to win it.
2 hours ago, MikePJ76 said:yep fair points but it looked different than most miami games when we were on offense.
more importantly Baltimore has better personnel with the exception of maybe Ramsey outside.
It's a valid point on the similarities in defensive scheme - I hadn't thought about Anthony Weaver's background with the Poebirds. Good catch.
Regarding offense in the Miami game: Cooper was out for that game, and Samuel was 1 game back from being out for a game and played limited snaps. I know they haven't contributed much in the way of receptions and yards, but the Bills offense seems to work better when they're on the field. Cooper gives them a genuine outside receiving threat, for example. Teams can't just squat on the run. Even so, with 325 yds, 24 1st downs, 50% 3rd down conversions, and almost 50% TOP it's not as though Miami just throttled the Bills offense. And a handful of plays can swing it - if Coleman holds on to that damn ball that hit his hands down near the goal line or even just bats it down instead of it being picked, the game is 10-3 Bills instead of 10-3 Dolphins - which points out the real problem - our D let the Dolphins drive 97 yds and 8 minutes 21 seconds for a TD instead of Doing Their Job and getting a stop.
Regarding the Ravens game, Cooper was not a gleam in Beane's eyeball at that point; I still maintain that game was a major factor in Beane saying "OK, we need more at receiver to compete this year." But I think the real problem on offense in the Ravens game was defense. Offense punts on the opening drive - it happens. Defense immediately gives up an 87 yd TD. OK, offense gets the ball, drives the length of the field, stalls out due to 2 OH penalties, settles for a FG, 7-3 Ravens. Defense immediately gives up a 4 minute drive ending in a TD, helped out by an UR penalty on Smoot. The Ravens scored TDs on their first 3 possessions, without any turnovers by the offense that put them in a poor position. That puts the offense in a deep hole they never did climb out of.
Yes, it's a tough matchup. I mean, it's the playoffs. Want easy matchups, earn the 1 seed.
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54 minutes ago, strive_for_five_guy said:
I knew you were a bot 🙃
The mic would talk more than MilanoI still die when I think about 2022, where Milano said in preseason he was trying to become more vocal.
One of the reporters asked him how you become more vocal. Milano looked at him deadpan and said "You Talk More".
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OK wise guys, solve this!
in The Stadium Wall
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Evidently a couple of the Buffalo Bills Beat reporters have a weekly riddle game.
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