Big Turk

Thought it was telling that McD maybe realizes the good is going to come with some bad. After the game in his post game speech he said "We are who we are. We aren't going to change now."

Perhaps they have noticed tendencies in coverage that lead to them doing it? I'm not sure. I think everything is gameplan specific. Bills have also been running the ball a lot against light boxes instead of throwing so perhaps some of those checkdowns turned into runs?

My God man, do you even watch the games? He HAS thrown them a LOT this year. The first two games of the year we were complaining as to why all of the throws were checkdowns.

That was the Daboll move that used to kill the Fins because they play so much man coverage. Allen's legs was the checkdown. He would just take off running up the middle for huge yardage. It was there yesterday too but the Fins were ready for it. They let him think it was there then closed it down as soon as he took off running for it.

You know things can be gameplan specific to attack weaknesses of teams right?

At times but he still breaks free at least a few times a game. He had his highest Yards per game rushing since his rookie year at 47.6, and averaged over 6 yards a carry, so how good of a job could they realistically be doing?

That tends to bring out the best in them. People talk about Harbaugh as one of the best coaches with situational football and clock management but what I saw yesterday was dreadful. A QB Sneak with him stretching the ball out and trying to jump over the pile from the 2 yard line?? I mean who the hell does that when you didn't even give Dobbins the ball at ALL inside the 5?? Then they run themselves out of time on the final drive with two timeouts in their pocket. Just brutal. Among the worst situational football I have seen.

The difference in this game is when the Bills dialed up the old Daboll move of sending everyone deep, leaving no checkdowns and counting on Allen's legs to be the Checkdown against man coverage, the Fins were ready for it. Several times it appeared the Red Sea parted up front, Allen was staring at 20 yards of open space right up the middle and when he went to take off to exploit it, the Fins DLine converged on him and stopped him for like a yard or half yard loss. That never used to happen and is the type of adjustment ONLY divisional opponents can make when they see something twice a year every year. If the Fins didn't make the adjustment, the game would have likely gotten out of hand as Allen would have run wild on them. Kudos to the Fin for the cat and mouse game of letting Allen think he had something and then taking it away as soon as he tried to take advantage of it. A very interesting wrinkle I saw 3 or 4 times yesterday. Also why I take those 7 sacks with a grain of salt. 3 of them at least weren't real sacks, they were tackles for like a half yard loss as he tried to run through the middle.

I'd say at least 3 of those were on plays where Allen tried to take off up the middle because the Bills were doing the old Daboll move against the Fins where Allen's legs were the Checkdown option and everyone else ran deep against man coverage which left huge voids in the middle of the field Allen could run through but this time the Fins were ready for it and as soon as he went to take off up the middle they closed the running lane and he got tackled. Most of those were like half yard losses. So yeah, technically it was a sack but not really.

Saw an interesting stat. Winning teams that have given up 30+ points on Wildcard weekend haven't won a divisional round game in over 30 years. They are 0-7 in that time. Bills need to buck this trend. I take that with a grain of salt tho. I would suspect those teams had bad defenses. This was more a case of multiple turnovers giving them short fields, a long punt return giving them a short field and a defensive score giving them 7 points. Fins averaged under 3 yards a play and barely had 200 yards for the game. Hardly a case of bad defense by the Bills.

Why? The Bengals are not a good running team. Worse than the Bills. The defense did not give up 30 points, they gave up 24. Miami scored a TD on defense.

Depends. Tampa Bay destroyed KC's offense in the SB. Denver's D destroyed Carolina's O in the SB. If you have an elite front 4, defense CAN win championships. Look at Giants both times against the Pats too.

Play smart, take the easy plays.

If anything it should have been reversed to make it equal.

Defensive DVOA rankings for the Bills by quarter: 1st: 23rd 2nd: 1st 3rd: 6th 4th: 6th Bills tend to adjust well once they see teams tendencies.

Maybe you could watch the game somewhere else then? 😂😂😂

And 234 yards of total offense.

Benford is back he was just inactive.

Nothing serious I don't think. CB Dane Jackson went down but McD after the game said head trainer Nate told him he would have been able to play if they needed him. Rookie CB Ka'iir Elam who was splitting time with him looked like he had a cramp towards the end of the game but nothing serious. Other than that I believe we came out clean. Gilliam looked like he could have hurt his arm/shoulder at one point and came running off the field holding his arm but was back for the kneel downs to end the game so maybe it was just taking a hit to the funny bone.

Cowboys/Bucs getting screwed. They get a short week and have to travel while SF gets an extra day rest at home.

Biased towards us usually if anything

They had 234 yards of offense on 54 plays. Maybe if they averaged more than 4.3 yards per play they would have had the ball more.

Allen needs to stop always trying to make the huge play. It's like once he hits a few of them he thinks every time he should try and do it again...

Based on the Bengals scoring 17 on O today? Amazing how people make every team out to be some offensive juggernaut

I wonder if Romo and Nantz will be back.