9/7/25 Post Game Thread - Bills vs Ravens SNF

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

2 minutes ago, CirclnWagons said:

Offense looked in mid season form. Decent pass rush and ok job keeping Lamar hemmed in most of the night. Run fits were awful and in their defense, it’s tough trying to tackle a small truck in shoulder pads. We won’t see a better run game. Thought Oliver looked like the best player on either defense and even though Bosa didn’t help much in run defense, it’s nice to have a legit pass rush on the other side of groot. Imagine this team with safeties that weren’t lost the majority of the ballgame and could be scary down the road. I’d take Po  and Hyde in their 50s over what’s back there right now 

If this continues I’d be shocked if poyer doesnt end up starting pretty soon 

[Dunkirk Donski]

 

[Success]

1 minute ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:

If this continues I’d be shocked if poyer doesnt end up starting pretty soon 

 

I kept thinking last night that we should sign Peppers.  That unit really struggled, imo.

 

[Dablitzkrieg]

[Dunkirk Donski]

 

[Scott7975]

1 hour ago, DCOrange said:

If Josh was outside of the pocket, illegal contact basically doesn't exist (and it is very close but I think he may have been out of the pocket).

 

Even if he was still inside the pocket, I think you could argue the contact doesn't rise to the level of illegal contact but ultimately I think they got this call right, or at least I think it's close enough that it could go either way and be justified. 

 

Ultimately it really doesn't bother me all that much. I could make the argument that shoving someone out of bounds is obvious illegal contact but its not worth the effort lol.

[Bob in STL]

On 9/8/2025 at 8:04 AM, Jerboski said:

Bosa and Oliver played really well, the rest of the defense, specifically the safeties, yuck 

Bosa failed to box his end numerous times in the first half, he was getting sucked inside and did not contain.   

 

He was better in the 2nd half but I thought his performance was not very good.  

 

Oliver was a beast.  

 

 

Edited September 9 by Bob in STL

[stlbills13]

So safety play is a serious problem isn't it?

[Goin Breakdown]

7 hours ago, Big Blitz said:

 

Crazy that it takes so long for our coaches to let Josh do these things. 3 quarters of screen passes....

[Bruffalo]

14 minutes ago, Bob in STL said:

Bosa failed to box his end numerous times in the first half, he was getting sucked inside and did not contain.   

 

He was better in the 2nd half but I thought he performance was not very good.  

 

Oliver was a beast.  

 

 

Bosa was getting fooled but he was also getting into the backfield often. I think from a pure pass rushing perspective he had a pretty good night.

 

Baltimore is also the single best rushing team of the last 25 years so I'm not going to hold it against him too much. I think against traditional offenses he'll be good to great.

[JGMcD2]

12 minutes ago, Goin Breakdown said:

Crazy that it takes so long for our coaches to let Josh do these things. 3 quarters of screen passes....

Josh checks into those a lot… 

[Jerboski]

31 minutes ago, CincyBillsFan said:

The safeties were the least of the Bills problems on D last night.  Tackling Henry 20 yards downfield when he has a head steam is a challenge for any safety in the league.  The issue was that our D line and LB's were often being abused at the point of attack.

 

 

The linebackers are small, they did much better when they went to a traditional front 

 

the safety play was terrible man, I mean terribleeeeee

 

[Scott7975]

22 minutes ago, Dunkirk Donski said:

 

 

Oliver was a damn beast out there today. It might have been his best game.

[JerseyBills]

Final home opener in that stadium and it was absolutely magical 

[Dunkirk Donski]

Just now, Scott7975 said:

 

Oliver was a damn beast out there today. It might have been his best game.

I've been very critical of Ed over the years but he was outright dominate last night 

[Jerboski]

19 minutes ago, Bob in STL said:

Bosa failed to box his end numerous times in the first half, he was getting sucked inside and did not contain.   

 

He was better in the 2nd half but I thought he performance was not very good.  

 

Oliver was a beast.  

 

 

Disagree 

yes sometimes he got himself trapped inside but he was causing issues on the edge and collapsing the pocket numerous times 

[Since1981]

I’m not a huge #3 fan. Not on field last night.
But, I thought he did pretty good playoff last year. LOL he knew how to grab Henry literally by shoes and hung on for dear life. Again, not great but he didn’t get beat on angles etc. just undersized. 

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

10 minutes ago, Bruffalo said:

Bosa was getting fooled but he was also getting into the backfield often. I think from a pure pass rushing perspective he had a pretty good night.

 

Baltimore is also the single best rushing team of the last 25 years so I'm not going to hold it against him too much. I think against traditional offenses he'll be good to great.

 

5 minutes ago, Jerboski said:

Disagree 

yes sometimes he got himself trapped inside but he was causing issues on the edge and collapsing the pocket numerous times 

I was thrilled with Bosa. Finally a guy that gets consistent pressure on the edge. 

[DrDawkinstein]

18 minutes ago, Goin Breakdown said:

Crazy that it takes so long for our coaches to let Josh do these things. 3 quarters of screen passes....

 

As much as I criticize our own coaches, that was more Baltimore changing their defensive scheme. Once they went into "kill the clock", they let Josh be Josh. String of bad decisions from Harbaugh, the big one being punting it back to us instead of going for it on 4th and 3. The other being leaving Alexander on an island against Josh.

 

Ravens coaches beat themselves more than our coaches did anything.

[Mango]

26 minutes ago, stlbills13 said:

So safety play is a serious problem isn't it?

 

Piling on the pass coverage. The amount of times that Baltimore got Flowers one on one with Bernard was concerning.

I thought Benford got burned bad a few times as well. 

 

Also I hate Bernard in 8. Hard to follow and train my brain that that is a LB. The same but opposite for Benford with no 47.