Low Positive

We haven’t heard anything from the team since tuesday mornings press conferences. That’s normal for the bye week, but it has left us all stewing in anger and misery while they play golf.

If Beane is letting what people say about him online, on podcasts, and on local radio shows affect his personnel decisions, then he doesn't have thick enough skin to do the job. The only thing hs has to say about it is "circumstances changed and we're trying to do what we need to do to compete for a championship." Full stop.

You can get vascular trauma and/or strangulated hernias down there that can be very serious. Maybe some of our doctors can expound on this, but that is what i found.

I see something else. I think the Ravens are about to go on a long winning streak and be declared "back" by the NFL media. They have Bears, Fins, VIkings, Browns, Jets coming out of their bye. Then they have a HUGE primetime game at home against Cincinnati. If they win that, which I suspect they will, given that CIN can't win in Baltimore even with Burrow, they will be at 7-5 when they host the Steelers on 12/7. The Steelers go Packers, Colts, Chargers, Bengals, Bears, Bills in that same run. There is a very real chance that they lose three of those and that both teams are 7-5 when they play on 12/7. That game, which is currently scheduled for 1:00, should be flexed to primetime. I wanna see Rodgers play a primetime game in Baltimore for the division. In fact, there is a very real chance that the week 18 game in Pittsburgh will be for the AFC North and the only the division's only playoff spot. This is a long way of saying that the AFC North is the most fun division in football and that it is far from over.

I keep watching it, and I don't always know what I'm seeing, but I can't figure out what was supposed to happen.

I saw a lot of baseball games there when the Bisons were AA. It was a hole.

They're not thinking about the draft. Mike Brown's got Hendrickson on a one year deal and has an out in Higgins' deal after this year. He was all in for one year before slamming that checkbook shut again. Flacco is only to act as a bridge (a free one at that) to Burrow in December.

Looked at it again, from the endzone view. He looks at Johnson first, who doesn't turn around. If that had been a screen to him it would have worked. Then he looks back to the middle, where if Knox had just turned around he would have had the first but as you pointed out he ran right into coverage. Then he takes off because he's got a free rusher. If Knox picks up that corner blitz, the play to Johnson works for more than the first. If Knox turns around, they get the first. Everything went wrong that could.

No, I'm talking about two plays. The other one was a sack at 12:43 in the second quarter where they somehow got two free rushers while one OL (Brown) just stood there because his guy dropped into coverage. In both cases, the protection wasn't set to pick up the blitz.

The Bengals haven't beaten the Ravens since the 2022 season. Last year, they lost to them twice. You can throw records out when the Bengals, Ravens, and Steelers play each other. That's why you cannot take nearly as much from last night as people on here want to.

But then why is Dawkins standing there like an idiot with no one to block right after the snap? It happened on the 2nd quarter sack too, when Spencer Brown was standing there with his pee pee in his hand with nobody to block while two free rushers were closing on Josh on the other side of the play. Nobody from Brady to Josh Allen seems to have any idea where the blitz would come from all night. Ulbricht called one heck of a game. And just to check, I looked at key downs in both the Carolina and Washington games and I cannot find examples of them blitzing a corner and dropping a DE into coverage. Looks like they pulled it out for this game, and the Bills couldn't adjust. Too bad, because the game was winnable into the 4th quarter, and the season would feel entirely different if they had pulled that one out.

Let's take a look at the failed shovel pass play. Like so many key plays in this game, the Bills lost this one at the LoS before the snap. Here is what Josh saw just before the ball was snapped. What will happen is that CB AJ Terrell (circled in blue) will blitz, while EDGE/OLB Jalon Walker (circled in red) will drop into coverage. There is nothing to indicate that this is what will happen from how they're lined up. Obviously, nobody anticipated this, because what ends up happening is that Terrell comes as a free rusher because Knox doesn't pick him up, while Dawkins stands there with no one to block because Walker (his guy) dropped into coverage. FWIW, the play was always to Ty Johnson.

A lot of guys can't tackle Bijion Robinson. At least Cole took the correct angle and was there to make the attempt. Just like when guys get "posterized" attempting to block dunks; I don't want them to stop trying to make the play just because they failed.

Did the Browns hire Rex Ryan without telling anyone?

Duper and Clayton? Rice and Taylor in 1989 both had over 1,000 yards in 16 games under the old rules. Heck, Jefferson and Addison come close right now.