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Perfect example. People can quote obscure rules if they want, but the league doesn’t enforce it and i’ve never seen it called. Brilliant move by the Ravens. There are tons of obscure rules that are never called. For example, if the quarterback is under center and doesn’t catch the snap, and the ball goes between his legs, he has to be the next player to touch the ball. If any other player touches the ball before the quarterback (even the defense) it’s ruled as a false start by the offense. Now, how often do you see that craziness called?

Yes because their CB got turned around on one play and got beat. And they had 3.5x more clock to burn than the Bills did.

Have you ever seen this rule applied or called, ever? I haven’t. And it wasn’t applied yesterday when Daboll did it. I can’t say for sure but I doubt McD was concerned about an obscure rule that was never called when he made his decision to play 10+ yards off the WR’s in the final seconds.

Sure. But the point is that the strategy burned block. They just had way more clock to burn than we did and they got beat once.

huh? You thinking i’m a pessimist is clouding your judgment on a post about football game theory?

The rule is that you can’t commit MULTIPLE fouls on the SAME down. So you CAN have: 1st down: Holding 1st down again: Normal Play 2nd down: Holding So you want us to talk football theory without any examples of situations it could possibly help or hinder in? We need to make up scenarios that never happened to talk out game ideas and theories? Ridiculousness in my opinion. Personally I would suggest not going into a thread and posting in it if you don’t like the topic.

Have you ever seen it called? I haven’t. And even if it was, the rule states “on the same down”. So the Bills could have held the Chiefs WR’s for 5-7 seconds on first down and then not again. That would have taken half the clock away right off the bat. The equivalent of a squib kick of time taken off. No, we’re talking football strategy. It matters this year and all years. .

Its smart.

I think you missed the point I was making. You stated that if you were his confidant, you could not in good faith advise him to take less money to be loyal to his team if he did not feel that way. So I asked you - at what point would your advice change? At what point would you tell him (as his confidant); “Dude you’re being an idiot. Take the money.” At what point? As a thought exercise (not rooted in reality), what if Lamar wanted more than a billion? Would you still tell him (as his confidant) to not sign and to keep pushing for more? He is selfish. That is undeniable. But that doesn’t necessarily mean a bad thing. The definition of selfishness is “concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure” Is he not concerned chiefly with his own profit? Does he not care more about getting every last dime for himself, rather than helping his team have cap space to sign support players?

The Daboll lead Giants had a 1 point lead and needed to stop Tennessee from getting into field goal range. With 0:45 seconds left, Daboll had a clear strategy. Just hold their wide receivers. They were holding them every play and got called for it twice on the final drive. Clear and blatant and purposeful holding. I imagine that Daboll figured: “So what if we get a penalty?” Defensive holding is only 5 yards and the opponents wastes 5-10 seconds off the clock each play that you’re holding them. It worked really well - at least until a CB got turned around and gave up a long pass. But the technique clearly worked for wasting clock. I have to wonder whether this technique was something discussed by the Bills coaches in the meetings after the 13 second ending and Daboll brought it with him to the Giants. Blatantly holding Kelce, Hill, etc in those 13 seconds likely would have burned enough clock to win the game.

I seem to have been caught in an idiot moment. I’m sorry. I didn’t remember McDermott facing the Titans before the last two years. Oops.

We have to beat this team now. Daboll did in his first try what McD hasn’t been able to do in two straight attempts (beat the Titans).

Where does it end? At what point? If you were a confidant to Lamar and the team offered him $1 BILLION, you would advise him to not take it if he doesn’t feel that way? Not sure I understand this world where wise decisions are made on how we feel.

Levi Wallace stops a TD. Defending Jamar Chase.

Jerry Hughes having a great game

For me, the line of selfishness is when you can’t see that the contract you want will negatively impact your teams chances of competing for a Super Bowl. Turning down almost $300 Million? Oofta. I’m glad we have Allen.

It’s a selfish mindset. Players have the right to have a selfish mindset, but let’s call a spade a spade.

Didn't notice it until you said it!

Wasn’t exactly impressed with our run game on Thursday, so not sure what to make of these changes.

How great is this? Courtesy of @lilythespacecadet on Instagram. What a perfect mixture of my two loves.

Von Miller averaged 45 snaps per game last season.

Remind me in 17 weeks.

Im not sue that helps your argument as much as you think it does.

Ouch

I hope he doesn’t burn out by the end. I think the coaching staff has a plan in place to keep him fresh.