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Dion Dawkins caught a touchdown. And they played off of the brown throw in the last NE game with the brown reverse. So offense wasn’t entirely vanilla. defensively, however, I agree with the premise the McDermott held his cards. The Texans and anyone else we might get in the playoffs will see a much more aggressive approach.

thank you. Spot on. It’s the give and take of employing the guards that we have. As far as the quoted comment about the Philly special goes, I submit that a guy who throws it twice w a WR this year, dedicates two entire goal line seuqences to trick plays this year, and throws to a tackle with no time on the clock at the end of the half yesterday should not have his courage questioned. I think we need a bigger x receiver. Brown is best as a y (at least in my view). I consider Beasley to be our WR2, and the spot other than brown/Beasley has been a black hole lately. McKenzie really aggravated me by failing to line up properly yesterday. If you’re not going to help the team, at the very least you can’t hurt it with presnap errors.

The throw wasn't back shoulder, nor should it have been. It was on the last set of downs, meaning that we didn't score on the drive. The route was open and it should have been a touchdown.

None of them had significant offensive snaps besides McKenzie, who lined up wrong twice in the fourth quarter. If foster looks like he can handle mckenzies role this week it’s time to scratch 19 for someone who might actually be able to line up properly.

Yes. And start game planning for Houston. I’ll add that i also would use the game to see if I ever need to dress McKenzie again. He’s not good enough to get away with not knowing where to line up.

I’ll middle this discussion. Allen HAS to hit Knox there. But we also have to throw the ball more on first down to win games like this one. Normally I think the daboll criticisms are very unfair, but I didn’t like our approach today. Also, for what it’s worth, I though we were way too conservative on D and overall didn’t play so well tonight. by contrast, NE was basically perfect. And they had to be to beat us. I have a LOT of hope for the playoffs and for the future.

He does but it’s hard to block screens when your guards are buoy like ours and they have an aptitude for stupid holding penalites (at least in Spain’s case). It was. Watch how Spain blocked for it. Daboll confirmed as much. First play was the setup for it.

Pitch to singletary in a fake sneak. It’s coming. and I agree we will see the kitchen sink today on offense / special teams. Literally nothing to lose and everything to gain by stealing this game.

actually there was one fairly unique thing about the jills back in the day - for playoff games the bills would have the cheerleaders wear tux jackets with the tails. It was a nice touch.

the genesis/Phil Collins song “feel it in the air tonight” was a big thing back in the day, too. That song was a staple of warmups until maybe five years ago or so. the one thing that’s new to the stadium that I really like is giving the mic to an alumni to lead the stadium in the “shout” refrain before the game. Great new tradition.

One of the unfortunate effects of whacking down down a fifth of Jack in the parking lot before coming into the stadium. I have never had a drink at or outside of the stadium in two decades of attending games as an adult, so maybe I’m out of touch with this part of Bills fandom. But the whole “using the sink as a p*ss trough” thing seems to have become far less prevalent lately. this one was a cool tradition. Haven’t heard that commercial in ages.

Going for it on 4th and 6 was not conservative. I think we play really, really good complimentary football and the offensive output (namely, scoring) is a little lower than it could be because of that approach. But it’s winning games. And a lot of them. We have a QB who can bring a team from behind and an offense that can grind a clock down. Sometimes that holitistic approach is characterized as conservatism, but I think they’re different things. agree on peterman, appreciated McCoy but don’t miss him a bit.

It was all about the HB option pass. The draw on 3rd was an attempt to be safe (no sack) and maybe catch them napping. BTW, for as much as that goal line sequence didn’t work out so well, the play call on the Kraft TD was brilliant. 3WR left hold one safety, Singletary angle route holds LB, Allen’s eyes hold other safety, Kroft wins and and Allen makes an easy, safe throw in a tight spot with probable pressure. Just brilliant.

Harrison mostly plays star’s position, so probably not many sacks there. gotta bring back Lawson. He’s our best DE. He can have Murphy’s money and then some. Would like to have Phillips back, but he is a bit redundant with Oliver. lots of guys are going to get paid, and deservedly so. I’d rather sink the big cap space into guys who have been here than bring in FA with big bucks. Much better for chemistry reasons, and the ones who put the work in deserve the reward.

he was throwing the second one. The first run was the setup.

we did have the Hyde return. But the point is well taken. Increasing the turnover margin would be a helpful thing as the games get more important.

I’ll add that belichick had what for him was a lengthy statement on the matter. It struck me as unusual given that the recording allegedly is independent of the patriots and unrelated to the patriots next football game. It tells me that the patriots are aware of the gravity of the situation, as is belichick, and they want to get in front of it.

because a patriots employee is being filmed. Unless the employee went “rogue,” one would think that the activity was sanctioned by the organization. bottom line here: the patriots lost the benefit of the doubt a long time ago. And the optics of what happened here are horrible for the Patriots. The league office cannot be happy that it has to deal with another incident like this involving the patriots in the home stretch of its 100th season.

I agree with you a lot, but I’m with gunner on this one. It’s fine to run a play. It’s unethical to run a play out of a victory formation. Just like it would be unethical to cheap shot an opposing qb kneeling in victory formation to close out a half. It was bad sportsmanship and should have been answered by pushing the center into Jackson’s lap on the kneel to end the game.

Schiano did it at least a couple of times. And we should have done it at the end of the game. Not only was the ravens playing bush league, it almost demands that nobody honor a victory formation “gentleman’s agreement” with them at the end of a half or at the end of a tie in regulation.

friend of a friend was with Bono from u2 when the news broke. Interesting story. U2 was playing a club in Buffalo that night.

the worst part was that man #12 sprinted out of the huddle a few seconds before the timeout was called. It as plain as day. on a play that would not have netted eight yards. Big non-call.

totally agree on foster. That was obvious. The call on Beasley ... I didn’t think think it was a great call (it was right in front of me) bc I didn’t see how beasley would have come near the ball. But it wasn’t horrible, either, and fair in the context of the game. this brings up another point. If/when we see them again, I wonder if we see Duke Williams dress. Baltimore was pretty physical with our smurf receivers yesterday, and if they’re going to play cover zero like that again we have to have a receiver who can win a slant route. The throw to brown at the end of the game is the perfect example of what we will have to connect on next time against them (or maybe even this week at Pittsburgh).

we should have blown them up on their victory kneels at the end of the game. This was bush league.

good catch. I couldn’t hear the penalty call at the stadium (official on ravens sideline dropped the flag late), so I figured that’s what it was, and I couldn’t believe the spot wasn’t corrected. It seemed to me the penalty wasn’t marked off at all, but maybe I had Neal catching the ball deeper than he did. Either way the math didn’t wash. FWIW, not sure how much of this CBS caught, but McDermott indeed lost his mind about the non-call on 12 in the huddle. As well he should have. It was blatant. And it’s not a judgment call, so there should have been no room for discretion.