colin

in division means rival, and their d has always given josh fits. i'm going to the game as a 9th birthday present to my son (he's coming too, lol). we got some cheap seats. I'm a little concerned about some of the ugliness that might occur, but i think it's gonna be a ton of fun. let's go bills!

this is where the suspensions to our new dlinemen bite us, would be great to have the rest of them there ready to play

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I'm a big effeciency stat fan, but these analytics were made to tell the story that production alone does not. What they don't do, is entirely replace production. Allen produced a career day for most QBs, and an absolutely solid day in the 4th quarter alone. Lamar was more efficient but he dropped back like 22 times, and a ton of contribution to his team came in that magic sack avoiding (20yard loss sack at that) scramble on 3rd and 10. The ravens crushed us on every single non scoring metric, except time of possession and total plays/yards. If Allen threw a couple extra incompletes between big passes to get us down the field for the go ahead score, or if keon ran it in with the clock expiring vs the kick, that would impact his efficiency numbers but would mean didly squat in the context of winning the game.

I can't believe I'm typing this, but I think this d is gonna look a whole lot better later in the year.

So, i have a couple few hot takes here. 1. offensive play calling in the first half was weak after the first drive. too much small ball, trying to be too "complimentary" 2. i thought bishop was OK ish, not good. Rapp was the worst player on the field last night, and milano and bernard had for like 3 quarters the worst games of their professional careers. rapp looked like he lacked the confidence to be physical vs the run, which is one of his best attributes normally. 3. the offense got fire hot late (was decent though the first 3 quarts, above play calling comment not withstanding), but the d got fire hot late too. after another two truckings (sandwiching a sick stop) in the 3rd, baltimore scored only once more on 4 drives, and that was on a horribly defended run by rapp after lamar performed a magic trick getting out of a would be 20 yard loss sack on 3rd and 10. the fumble by henry was all oliver91 destroying the play and having full stance and balance while engaging henry, which did on that sick stop i mentioned above as well (where he man handled henry in the backfield and big daddied him). it was a like 10 yard loss before the ball came out, after stuffing prior ravens plays. homer fan read on this: i've been a card carrying member of the mchaters club (mikey2times was a founding member, but he's sort of abandoned the movement, i might have to ship him some hateraid). i've criticized his scheme and particularly the playoff habit of over complicating and turning our d into a slow leaking sieve in the playoffs. this game, while a disgusting defensive performance overall, was simply not that. the d was aggressive and ran hard for all 60 minutes, and just got burned with horrible play in the gut (lbs and safeties were just mistake prone the whole first 3 quarters). they doubled down on it late, and got the stops and turnovers and big negative plays (almost had another that would have been a stop except for the fact that lamar jackson is lamar jackson). there is a part of me that wanted baltimore to go for it on that 4th down, because the d was a fire breathing pack of disgusting savages in that moment who woulda shot up the pitch and forced jackson to make a play that he might not have been physically capable of making given he had a cramp and just got crushed on the last play. if you recall allen's first or second year, we played baltimore in baltimore week 1, and i forget who at home game 2. game 1 we got run and gunned out of the building, and the first half of game 2 we were just as bad, and that gutless corner retired at half time. for every game after that, we were 1 or 2 in points and yards on D. allen was a wild child and turned the ball over a lot and we had lots of putrid talent on O, making the d's job harder. i think we had one huge let down game where we got run out of the building (was it new orleans?) but other than that the d kept is around in most every game. this game felt like those one and a half games to me, except it was concentrated into three quarters. for all of the disgusting play and mistakes and getting out coached with the ball being snapped while we were figuring out our fake coverage look forcing bishop to blitz from the 3rd row, they kept hungry and played green light d. i think they are gonna stick to this barbarian approach on d and just accept the mistakes that happen in exchange for the tunrovers and big negative plays and big pressure it puts on opponents. if baltimore up 40-25 with half a coffee break left in the game folded from that pressure, then any team in the nfl can be made to fold, especially when we get our rookie CB and steroid heroes back.

he's the goat of all time. also, they need to have him sling the ball more than what we did in the first half. w the oline, tes, rbs, and seemingly almost serviceable wrs now, we don't need teh small ball anym

im banging this drum, but i think it's right. i really am convinced that we have our d with too many reads and too much inter dependence. we have heard time and time again no d uses more pre snap communication that ours does. it just makes it too easy to break our integrity and it means teams, especially teams like baltimore, have too easy a time finding things that work. the bishop late blitz play was because the snapped the ball super quick, since they knew we were disguising out intent. we need more of a comprehensive and cohesive idea so we can play fast, but i think our coaches go the other way to make it too complicated with too many reads. i remember reading about rex ryan's d being so multiple and hard to run only certain players can run it properly. well, last year and every playoffs since the 2021 season our d has been worse that what that one was for us, there needs to be a way to run the d without analysis paralysis.

Insane heart and effort, coaches need to get it in gear, some shat calls

Players on d are making awful mistakes, but they are also making the odd play and showing effort. There has got to be a scheme where an NFL d with the same players ours has doesn't just let Henry run all day without being touched. I think the scheme/coaching has players over thinking and making to many inter dependant adjustments and it means they play tentatively. The gm could be a whole lot better, but this head coach is Marvin Lewis with Allen instead of Dalton. Every coordinator is a lick spittle, some first year unproven nerd until he gets hired away.

Really smart play calls on these two pointers.

This team need a new GM and that new GM better bring in winners for coaches. Clapper and his 2nd and 3rd year coordinators is just sad.

Our wrs blow, but this Ravens team is constantly getting away with physical fouls and no flags. Hamilton is another in a long line of big talented and super dirty afc North safeties

How have the dirtiest NFL team, the ravens, not gotten flagged?

Well, a couple good plays to start, and then constant and continuous breakdowns leading to an easy walk td. That third down blitz call was ######ed, and then such a simple screen with blockers on guys late to fill in. This team is not prepared to play tonight, certainly not on d.

The big failure on d is simple execution and being predictable. All the big plays have been Henry running off tackle on the right side, or Jackson reading the left end on a zone read. Basic college and even highschool stuff. They should know how to fix this, but they just might not have the horses

Well, that was some excitement!

It's our worst match up, and the bills almost always play their worst games early, but it still stings to see this so far. It's always some guy making a mistake w the ball on O, and just getting whip sawed on d

Dang, that coulda been our miracle turnover

The o is pressing and trying to be too cute. The d is just outmatched. Trash so far

In terms of skill set and ability, Parsons suits Green Bay about as much as a player can suit a team. He's exactly what they need, even more than Garrett was what we needed this off-season. But the cost of this was so insane I still think it won't work out for Green Bay. If they do get over and win a chip this year, then it's all worth it, but w Detroit and Minnesota in their divisions, and the rams, Washington and Philly ia d the Rams n their conference, and the monsters in the AFC, GB could be every part of a chip team this season and still not won it, and then they have no picks and guys start walking and they are in cap jail. To me, the formula that works best is the one the rams Philly and KC have, where you start w a great coach and top level QB (hurts stretches that, but they had wentz and a recent chip and still went for hurts, so they realized there was a min level of QB) and you add stars in important places around them, but that can only be done sustainability w some really good drafting. Dicky j was right, it is hard to win in the NFL

If you can find a woman who doesn't chuckle at men talking in a serious time about big slots and tight ends and a penetration based d, she's prolly either a coaches daughter or doesn't speak English as her first language. My wife chortles and smirks at me every time the announcer says anything like that.

he looked to me like he always did. really athletic and capable of playing well when driving forward, just entirely lost when he has to turn around or use any technique. he never got better after we drafted him, that's not a good sign.

Ricard and Likely have really done damage to us, as has henry. ravens in 11 formations and the bills having some outside and side athletes to block (coleman, knox and kinkaid, not to mention when we go heavy jumbo, or palmer on the other side) could be why we win this game. the ravens have not been good vs TEs or backs in the passing game. that would be the only other thing (aside from deep ball success, but i don't think we have the horses for that) that we need to add to this O.

I won't out collusion of some kind beyond anyone in the NFL, but I don't think this (or kap) is a case of a vast conspiracy. No matter what shenanigans may have happened behind the scenes, all players are evaluated on a cost benefit basis. What's the player cost, in terms of money and picks and all the B's he brings, and what benefits does he bring to a team, which is 95% scheme fit and talent. Sanders just doesn't have the benefits to beat out his costs IMO. He looks a bit like a less feeble Josh Rosen to me. Skilled, polished, knows his craft, but just lacks any elite traits to deliver high level play. I could be wrong, and he might be another brady or kurt warner, but he's not fast, big, strong, or a rocket armed guy. So I don't think the NFL are perfect or even good in most things at all, but in this case I think Occam's razor tells me that sanders wrote checks his talent couldn't cash