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WILD CARD Playoff 1/9/21 Bills vs. Colts PreGame Thread


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47 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

Watching/listening to all the coverage and I think people are sleeping a bit on the Bills defense. They really haven’t been mentioned much as a factor which is surprising since they are completely healthy and playing really well. A lot of talk about the colts defense (the big names) and the two offenses. Just something I noticed. Watch out for Milano today. He could be a huge factor. 

Been thinking the same thing. This defense has the ability to disrupt those quick passes. The DLine has been quietly improving all year and don't sleep on our middle LB either. Everyone knows our secondary and safeties are good and that is where all the focus is, but not much attention has been paid to other parts of the D.

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1 hour ago, YoloinOhio said:

Watching/listening to all the coverage and I think people are sleeping a bit on the Bills defense. They really haven’t been mentioned much as a factor which is surprising since they are completely healthy and playing really well. A lot of talk about the colts defense (the big names) and the two offenses. Just something I noticed. Watch out for Milano today. He could be a huge factor. 

The coverage in general has been pretty annoying. It’s literally been a whole week of “The bills better watch out. This is what the colts are gonna be able to do to expose them” ....

 

But you are 100% correct that the d hasn’t gotten their due. Down the stretch, they played better defense than the colts(the unit getting all the hype). Here’s a ranking of the top playoff defenses and what was said about them from the athletic....BTW the team ranked one spot BEHIND them was Indy. 

 

7. Buffalo Bills

Buffalo’s defense finished the season ranked 12th in DVOA, but the Bills were eighth in weighted DVOA, indicating that they were playing their best football down the stretch. Part of that had to do with getting healthier with players like linebacker Matt Milano returning. Up front, the Bills want to be aggressive. They blitzed at the seventh-highest rate. Buffalo didn’t have a single player produce more than five sacks, but that’s misleading. The Bills ranked second in pass rush win rate, behind only the Steelers. In the back end, Buffalo will mix things up, but the Bills lean toward zone coverage and two-deep safety looks. This is a well-coached unit with a ball-hawking secondary that features Tre’Davious White, Micah Hyde and Jordan Poyer. The Bills produced turnovers on 15.4 of their opponents’ possessions, which ranked second to only Miami.

 

 

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1 minute ago, Coastie said:

Surprised I got 4 hours but am so stoked. His is my game day accoutrements!

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And who says Bills fans are a bunch of drunken table smashers? This has to be the first time I’ve seen the word accoutrements used in a sentence! 

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36 minutes ago, Giuseppe Tognarelli said:

My stomach is in knots. Good lord.

Same.  Passed out on the couch watching tv last night from 9-10pm pst.  Went upstairs to bed; tossed and turned til 2am;   ran down to the couch so I could put the last bills pats game on and not wake my wife;  fell asleep around 3;  woke up again at 5:15;  now I’m writing about it.  3 hours sleep is gonna have to do!  GET FIRED UP!!

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13 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:

And who says Bills fans are a bunch of drunken table smashers? This has to be the first time I’ve seen the word accoutrements used in a sentence! 

That the first time I've seen the word accouterments, ever. 

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5 minutes ago, The Wiz said:

That the first time I've seen the word accouterments, ever. 

Its a great word and fits perfectly. It also sounds cool... Ah-coo-tre-ment. Admittedly if is more often used in the sense of a military kit but those days are long gone for me 😁

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3 minutes ago, zow2 said:

Let’s just remember this is an 11-5 opponent here. This won’t be the Pats, Broncos or crappy overrated Dolphins.

Im expecting a win,,, but a much tougher game throughout.

Best team we’ve played since probably Seattle, maybe Steelers. 

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16 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

No. If things aren’t going well by the half you can put it on to see if it changes things up. 

This.
 

I got my red Allen jersey right before Steelers game. Wore it for most of the first half. The offense was struggling so i took it off. Soon as I did the offense found it’s stride. 

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51 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

I just noticed that 6 of the Colts games this year were against the 31st (Jax), 30th (Houston) and 28th (Tenn) ranked D. 

 

They also played Detroit (32nd), Minnesota (27th), Cincinnati (26th), Vegas (25th), and NYJ (24th). Somehow they played 11 games against the current bottom nine defenses in the league by yards.

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I am as confident today as I was when I predicted the Bills would roll the Seahawks.  No disrespect to a great season by the Colts, but Buffalo has been slaying good teams in primetime for six weeks now.  It’s so on. 

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16 minutes ago, patzen said:

 

They also played Detroit (32nd), Minnesota (27th), Cincinnati (26th), Vegas (25th), and NYJ (24th). Somehow they played 11 games against the current bottom nine defenses in the league by yards.

 

 

The Colts have the second easiest strength of schedule of all the playoff teams... Guess who has the hardest?

 

1. GB: .428

2. IND: .443

3. SEA: .447

4. CLE: .451

5. WAS: .459

6. NO: .459

7. KC: .465

8. PIT: .475

9. TEN: .475

10. TB: .488

11. CHI: .488

12. LAR: .494

13. BAL: .494

14. BUF: .512

 

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