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I suspect that he was giving Allen the benefit of the doubt and some leeway cuz he's Allen, but I suspect he was tapping his chest and saying "I don't want to have to be the one to toss you from the game" for whatever it was that Allen said. I suspect by their reactions and Allen's sheepish owning of it in the pressor that if this had been Jerry Hughes who said what he said he would have been tossed.

The best thing I can say about Wrecks is that his suckitude is indirectly responsible for the Bills drafting Allen.

Yeah, he abused Surtain after the catch. Everyone is focused on him stepping over him or shoving him with his foot in the chest... the head shove at the beginning of the whole thing was probably enough to earn the flag on its own. Consider it a three-fer.

... psstt... the post you're responding to was from the September 29 Ravens game... no one showed up for that game.

I hope you're right. It would be refreshing to see them address their defensive liabilities against the Ravens pre-emptively with a game plan that employs the 4-3 on early downs. Watching Henry chew them up without a plan to try and contain it would be akin to watching AJ Klein predictably fail in the KC game last year.

The defense IS the healthiest they've been in the playoffs since the 2021-2022 season. Hope they have a plan to stop Henry next week. Lamar tends to look less than MVP-like when Henry is contained.

Allen looks more relaxed and composed… McDermott looks more relaxed and composed… the team seems like they’re having a great time… makes you wonder just how toxic Diggs was in that locker room.

Spielman must have tired of working for the communists that built the dome in Detroit.

The Ravens game to me was one part "one of those games" and one part "same old Bills run defense". The Bills offense from the opening kickoff looked out of sorts. On defense, Taron Johnson and Terrel Bernard not playing was a challenge, and losing Rapp made it worse. The killer, though, was Henry popping an 87 yd TD from their first play from scrimmage and the Bills then having to commit, unsuccessfully as it were, to stopping him leaving Lamar to sprinkle a few passes, a few runs and a few TDs around without having to carry the load. The BIlls offense has looked much better after adding Cooper, so I wouldn't expect the same problems they had in that game. It was probably THE reason Beane pulled the trigger on that trade. The thing that concerns me, regardless of the injuries in that game, is that has been the trend for the Bills defense against offensively balanced teams for years, most notably in the playoffs, leaving Allen going nuclear as their only option. They don't have any more of an answer now for Henry than they did in week 4, and watching them get chewed up by LA and Detroit, their secondary is now just as much of a problem as their run defense. If they face the Ravens it's likely to be a shootout unless subpar playoff Lamar makes his annual appearance. I'll definitely be rooting for the Steelers defense tomorrow night.

He definitely improved. He was unlistenable to start off. I think he can be inciteful. I say this as a biased Brady hater, but I think even if I wasn't a bBh I would still have thought this just maybe to a lesser extent, sometimes I think he's quick witted and a good listen and other times I think he's a bit of an unnecessarily arrogant dick.

5 rushing TDs W/L 5-5 3 rushing TDs W/L 2-4 I think the Ravens have lost a little differently in the playoffs than the Bills have.

Must have been a lot of tension in that Achilles.

Good thing for Lamar it’s a regular season award.

Kyle Williams reaction to the Bengals TD that broke the streak lead me to buy his jersey… the only Bills jersey I’ve ever owned. One of my all time favorites. I imagine it was hard to be that guy for his entire career during the drought. And the subject of one of my favorite opponent’s post-game quotes of all time when they asked Martellus Bennett what happened on the INT - “I dunno what happened on that sh!t. The fat guy got a pick.”

You give the Jests too much credit. Wrecks Ryan and the Jets are a match made in football heaven (for fans of other AFCE teams, at least).

I don't remember a lot of Cribbs cuz I was just coming into my fandom in those years, but the highlight reel actually reminds me a little bit of another #20 who used to be in the backfield with Thurman at Oklahoma State...

Lions or Vikings. I don't want a team that hasn't won a SB getting their first one before the Bills do against the Bills in the event the Bills were to lose.

Cleveland sucks. Mike Pettine would never be so stupid as to take that job...

Yes, but what did YOU do?

Dolpins playing the long game. With the combination of Tua and global warming, in 5-10 years they'll be unbeatable.

Have the Jets interviewed for a new owner yet? If not, then Jests is gonna Jest.

Not disagreeing, but the counter argument is that he restructured his deal to make it more cap friendly to the Bills and load up on incentives because he had such a poor season last season. I suspect whether he plays or not depends on how much the 1.5M means to him.

Is this a thinly veiled Zach Ertz thread?

I don’t want to see the Bills lose… that being said, if they could call up the whole practice squad and sign some guys off the street to 1 day contracts while bubble wrapping the starters and any important backups I wouldn’t be upset. 🤷‍♂️