colin

I'm obv all amped up, but if we lose this is who we are. Gotta be a little zen

Bad, two Allen presses in the red zone

I really want an easy methodical drive here, we can't have Allen chase and press, but he's done that like twice all year

Playing a soft zone but allowing deep runs down the middle gets coaches fired

This is horrible

Oof, that 3ed down d

LFG!!!!!

Championship? Is the prediction championship? Rus looks so shot man, hate having to root for teams I don't like and they end up sucking

Dang,maybe Tunsil is overrated as well,

Honestly I think he's over rated. I think he's got some guys around him (not online, they have one solid blocker I think) and I think their coach is really solid. He just doesn't seem to me to be a guy who elevates his teammates

I get the feeling that this is how most games are gonna go this post season. Small play drives, the d makes a positive play or two, maybe a poor throw or penalty, that's what determines FG vs TD unless something goes wrong. I mean for all teams. It just feels like offenses are all playing at max efficiency and the ds have way too much to worry about

honestly, and i know some people are against this, if we had a dome it would be sold out and more expensive on the resale market. jan is the most desolate time of year, holidays are over and now it's just cold and sadness until april, with fake stuff like valentine's in between. people don't want to go outside in the cold if they can help it. make it a dome, and you have a nice warm place to go into after tailgating.

NANTZ IS A FRICKIN UNIT

the scariest team is the ravens, and it's not even close. computer cowboy put up a chart of teams ranked based on their combined epa per play on O and D. the upper right was best at both the lower left worst. the ravens were just above and just to the right of the bills, who were second overall. you can argue josh sitting out way more might have changed the offensive numbers, maybe some starters not sitting would have nudged the d numbers but it's pretty evident baltimore and buffalo are the two teams no one else in the play offs wants to see. kc being in KC and our 3 losses there in the playoffs is a whole other thing -- i think if we host and beat baltimore the confidence of the bills team going into kc will put them over, but it's a game that very few teams have won.

he will have to make meaningful contributions for us to win it this season. we'll need him to break the back of the baltimore secondary if we face them in the divisional round. he'll get likely less than a half a dozen chances, and he'll need to make good on a few of them.

honestly, this is a big basis of all of this. in college, up until a couple of years ago, the champion was decided by media opinion. it is still influential because how you are ranked at the end of the season gets you into the tourney, and how you and opponents are ranked early makes a big impact on how much love you will get for playing well enough to be in the conversation. every nfl player was a college player in their more formative years, so that culture is imbued in nfl football too. it's pretty obvious the bills have talent deficit to other nfl teams. big dead cap, only 3 or 4 players drafted outside of allen who can be compared to the top of their position (both tackles, benford, kindaaaaaaa cook) and our big name FA guys are old and underwhelming (von, cooper). mcd is a good but not great coach, and allen is the greatest player in nfl history, at least over the past 5 years. two years ago baltimore was one fluke turnover in the redzone from beating cinci late in the year with huntley at qb. they've overall added talent since then. lamar is a great regular season qb, but he's starting on third base compared to allen.

allen has his chance to prove everyone wrong again and get a ring out of it too.

there is a boxing coach near pittzburgh named tony yankello. he's got a youtube channel and does lots of instagram posts. he drills his fighters like mad (he's worked with some great fighters, including roy jones jr) and his basics are great. he preaches flat feet, particularly flat rear foot, 60 40 weight on the back foot, and rotation of mass through the fulcrum of the center of the hips. some of what he's specifically doing is building in defense into punch mechanics and set ups, so it's not all apples to apples, but the basics are entirely the same. throwing the back hand (right cross being the most popular for right handed fighters) is the same thing, more or less, as throwing the football wrt motion. i love seeing this kind of stuff!

bookies still have josh up, so i presume it is likely to happen. as much as i like josh and think he's the best ever, im not a fan of players, im a fan of the NFL Buffalo franchise, The Buffalo Bills. I want a chip. if it's all laurels and no chip, i don't want it. if it's snubs and anger and pissed off players showing the fugg out in the post season rubbing dirt in the faces of the media who said it shouldn't happen and a chip, then i really want that. the lombardi is Valhalla for football teams, and all of the players on them. awards are the prattling of people who do not hoist the lombardi.

the DE from michigan looks like a giant monster, but while sewell is obviously a great player, I thought Brown outplayed him over the last month of the season. I suppose the consistency would put sewell over brown, but brown is at least close. I think ex players generally don't make the best coaches, but there seems to be a select few of them that are just super top flight personnel guys. Spielman, lynch, both just know how to identify players who bring juice, and ozzy newsome might be the best of all. I remember ozzy had a selection critera and his three main attributes were height/weight, speed, and temperament. baltimore over his span had more top 2 round hits at more positions than any other team i can think of, but where it kinda stood out to me was how he did getting veterans signed in free agency. shannon sharp, rod woodson, mcnair, steve smith, all of them played some really good football for his teams coming in on discounted contracts vs what they did. i think someone with eyes like that is what we are missing in buffalo. our free agent signings for dline and WR have generally not been up to snuff.

if we are just looking at how the season ended, post the rams game the bills D has actually been opportunistic, i'll chalk up the 4th quarter vs detroit as playing too soft with back up back ups. sadly allowing drives to the jets and NE, but righting the ship and dropping the hammer when needed, and moving the ball at will except vs NE where they were kinda playing turtle. denver was in must win mode, and their d allowed a sad number of yards. i fully expect allen to go off and just chug the ball down the field like an on time train.

44-24 bills over broncos.

If he's right, he could but I don't think he's been right all season. He had a game here or there where he looked good in spots, but I think his injuries have basically removed his greatest ability. Hope he's actually better now tho.

on O, the bills do a little bit of everything and are decent at all of it at worst. we don't really seem to have a really tried and true tendency this season, aside from some like macro concepts (man beater on one side, zone on the other, which is a big part of the EP O). our highest efficiency has been when josh is blitzed/pressured (as in we exceed the rest of the nfl in that situation, not that we want to be pressured), and our passing game to the backs. we average nearly 11 yards per completion to backs. denver is awful at covering backs. their d kinda reminds me of the shwartz d's we had here. d line just assaults people w a four man rush, outside coverage is really solid with one total shut down guy, and they body up runs w dline impact and backers screaming into gaps. misdirection, passes in the middle (when protection holds up) and passes in the flat and on wheel routes and screens to RBs destroy them. we are going to see our backs have a game similar to the detroit one, and a few deep shots will keep the secondary honest. i also expect allen to hold the ball and scramble and run to great effect, and over time the run game might find a crack and show effeciency. on the other side, we will kinda let them run a bit, and send pressure on passing downs. nix will convert a few, including some with his legs, but he'll be forced into mistakes. i think by the third quarter the bills will double dip or score, stop, score and just open up a can on the broncos.

the biggest issue w big money WRs is there is only one football. multiple sick weapons is always the path to big offensive numbers and chips lead primarily by the offensive side of the football. obv qb matters the most, and upgrading the OL always helps (there are 5 of them so you really can't have too many, they play every snap and don't need the ball, so they add value on every play). don't get me wrong, if it fit cap wise i'd consider having hill on our team, we don't have outside speed and he might be the fastest. it would create insane issues for defenses. but if it's pay him 25 or pay like garrett or crosby or whever 25, i'm going w the d end. a defensive player can always contribute making plays and keeping the defense sound. a wr can be a decoy or a blocker, but really the impact of a top guy is when they have the ball in their hands. I also think an impact (not necessarily elite) wr is more common than an elite pass rusher, and that it's much easier to manufacture elite looking results in a given game for a wr than a pass rusher (gabe davis had 4 tubs in one game).