Ralonzo

https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/ravens/amazingly-lamar-jackson-says-hes-never-ran-full-speed-during-game

Back before all the offense-favoring rules changes to make football more like something implemented by James Naismith than George Patton, the field position game was more important than simply having the ball, because rarely was a team just marching up and down the field at will.

On winning the coin flip you get dibs of 4 choices: receive, kick, defend a goal, or defer your preference to the second half. Generally the winner will defer because it's advantageous to have your choice in the 2nd half. Then the losing team has dibs and will usually take the ball for first possession. I vaguely recall one of those Witch Of November games in the 90's at the Rich against the Cardinals and if my memory serves Marv Levy opted to get the wind in the 2nd and 4th quarters, and kelly went bombs away with the wind and it was a complete rout. Yep, wayback machine has it: November 11 1990, Bills 45 Cardinals 14. ALL of the scoring in the game came in the direction with the wind. The Bills had the ball in the 2nd and 4th and ran roughshod. This is the one thing Allen hasn't mastered yet is how to gauge the wind in the home stadium. Kelly would lob the ball up as if it was a 30 yard throw knowing it was going to travel 50, and it did.

Ravens fans were wondering why the IG play wasn't roughing the passer, for sure. Late, or going after the legs (disregarding that is legal for a scrambling qb). I guess it's the difference between necessary and unnecessary.

Flip him to fullback, the next Ricard

They gotta take you in for concussion protocol if you do that...

Josh took egregious late hits in 2018 and 2019 with no call. It’s a way to discourage them, yes, but mainly it’s NFL protecting a valuable asset.

Compare and contrast with the logo dance on the Titans. I think the response is elicited by the opponent. It looked like they thought Jackson got taken out by a cheap shot but they saw on replay it was just a bad fall, Edmunds and Murphy were just trying to get the tackle because, hey, it's Jackson, you better tackle him.

And the Bills didn't? What game did you see? The Colts were a hell of a lot more of a threat than the Ravens were.

What the hell is the clock operator doing.

Well running into the kicker would be a bad bad bad bad mistake because it ends the game.

Which would mean what, that they're still losing? Unless every single thing went right for them, and them alone? The better team is winning.

Bills missed 2 TDs and 2 FGs. Better team winning.

Punt at the 2 minute warning with no first downs here.

Thank goodness, dropped on 4th down.

Mark Andrews took that post pattern too literally

Better to let him catch that one Milano

that's pathetic. bills just standing there waiting for the ball.

Prevent the win defense, here we go

The GOAT kicker is 1 for 3 too you know.

Wow. That would have been good from 60 if it had been good.

Oh boy. 44 into this wind is like 60.

Oh dear they are going for 4th and 8 and... false start? and... INCOMPLETE and it was OPEN for teh TD

"they've got Jackson in the locker room asking him questions" Hopefully not the same ones as the Wonderlic