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Neither Knox or Kincaid are top TEs. Knox is solid but gets paid llke he’s a top TE. Kincaid had a good rookie season then sucked last year. I hope injuries are the reason and I’ll give him a Mulligan because he did flash a lot of potential his first year. I think Beane and McD have both made it clear they need him to get bigger and stronger. They are seeing the same things we are. If Kincaid takes it to heart and works his ass off this off season, I think he can bounce back. Knox you have to keep because of his blocking ability and Kincaid’s regression. I’m cautiously optimistic these guys can be better contributors next year.

Rousseau sucked in the AFC Championship game. He’d been setting the edge all year and he gave it up at least 5x in the AFCCG including Mahomes TD. I don’t care if you didn’t see it on film, after the first 2 times Reid baited your ass inside you should have learned. I can’t believe how often he gave that edge up. So I’m in the let him play out his 5th year camp. If he explodes, we pay the man. Otherwise it’s another Tremaine Edmunds dump and hopefully we get a good comp pick. We can’t keep running back the same D-line that is the reason we get bounced out of the playoffs every single year.

You can never have too many old, injury prone, over paid defensive ends! Super Bowl.

Did I read that correctly? You think Bernard is an all pro level player? He’s a solid LB but not anywhere near close to all pro, especially this year. I think we need a game changing defensive tackle before Edge. The problem is no one is giving up those guys, so we might have to swing at DE. The game is changing where the best QBs are getting the ball out faster than ever which limits the impact an edge can have. A game wrecker up the middle is where we need to get to. DT, CB, Safety, DE. Lots of needs going into next season.

The defense is garbage. They only look good when Josh gets us a lead and they can just concentrate on stopping the pass. Can someone tell me what the hell Groot was doing rushing inside and losing contain on Mahomes at LEAST 5 times including the TD? We’d been playing contain all year, and very effective at it. What the hell goes through a dudes mind when facing the best QB in football who always uses his legs more in the post season? How after he lost contain the first time was McD not in his ear saying “I don’t care what you do but you better not lose that edge again or I’m playing Solomon all game” I don’t mean to pick on just Groot, the entire D sucked and Babitch got destroyed (although I think he was forced to play man because Elam is such an idiot that after 3 years he can’t figure out zone concepts).

Brady got destroyed. That game plan was absolute ass, especially in the first half. I’ll never understand how we didn’t come out with 6 o lineman and start pounding the rock. I don’t care if they expected it, we drove it down the throats of both Denver and Ravens. We needed to come out and smack them in the mouth physically. Instead, we played their type of finesse game while our QB looked like he hit a mountain of coke pre game. Brilliant strategy. I’m disgusted

How the HELL does Brady come out throwing the ball on the first couple drives? What the hell was he thinking? That’s outright coaching malpractice not to line up and start pummeling them with our O-line from the first snap. You know what would have helped Josh besides running the ball early? A couple dink and dunk throws just to get the jitters out and start to get him in rhythm. Brady absolutely sht the bed in the first half. Spags ran circles around him for the majority of the game. We have an offense that finally didn’t need Josh to be perfect to succeed and what does Brady do? Put him in a position where he needs to be perfect to succeed. Completely asinine play calling throughout the game but especially first half. Spags DEMOLISHED Brady. They were ready for everything and it was only Josh making some ridiculous tight window throws that kept us in the game. I’m livid that the coaching disparity was so apparent. It wasn’t even close. Reid and Spags took us to the woodshed like they do every post season.

No way. You don’t just come off the couch in game shape. He’d be gassed by the second quarter. Once we didn’t bring Micah up for the last NE game there was zero chance he was playing this post season.

This is going to be very similar to the Ravens game. Our O-line is dominating. KC’s rush D has been porous lately. Their secondary is their strength with Watson/McDuffie and solid safeties. We are going run heavily, throw to RBs, Hopefully use our TEs because KC can’t cover TEs, and target Shakir a lot. Only if KC throws everyone in the box and plays 1 high will we start tossing it outside.

I haven’t read the whole thread but this idea that we went conservative in the 3rd quarter is BS. We played a tight, conservative game the whole game. That was the plan. The difference in the 3rd quarter was execution. The plays were there to be made. On the first series, Kincaid was wide open and Allen threw a bad pass. Yeah, Kincaid should have caught it but that pass was ass for a guy who was WIDE OPEN On the 2nd series, Allen correctly alerted to the Knox screen. Why Knox was the target IDK, but that was the alert call in the huddle. Ravens were blitzing from that side. Knox screwed it up by running inside when he had blockers to the outside. Also, no one blocked Van Noy from the opposite side of the line. Poor execution. If you watched Hard Knox, the Ravens game plan was to take away the intermediate to deep passes and “plastering” the receivers on scrambles. They ran a LOT of Tampa 2 and Cover 3 (According to Marino and Cover 1) which basically doubles both your outside receivers. So where’s the beef? With the run game and short passes over the middle which is where we went. It was the perfect game specific game plan and it worked. Yeah, with a few better play calls and better execution it would have been a blow out but it wasn’t. Who cares. We are in the AFC Championship game. Everyone saying “we need to open it up” doesn’t understand the offensive philosophy. You take what the defense gives you. If KC loads the box you can bet we will look to throw it more. If we needed to, Josh would have opened it up against the Ravens. He never needed to because we were playing ball control especially in the 4th with a lead. Yeah, it got too close for comfort but we were playing probably the most talented team in the AFC who was peaking at the right time and we won.

Actually the hip is one of the last places you want to inject corticosteroids and it has very limited efficacy. There is no quick fix especially if he damaged the labrum. If he did that, his season is over. He got carted off the field, hasn’t practiced since and I doubt he plays. Hopefully he’ll be ready for the Super Bowl if we beat KC.

This game comes down to our O-line. We need to physically dominate KC’s D and grind them to a pulp. We just ran down the throats of one of the nastiest D’s in the league, we need to pound KC and make it a grind. I want to see several Josh power runs, not worried about injury it’s time to let it all out and Josh plays better after he takes a shot. I think it will be very similar to the Ravens game in that I don’t see us going downfield much against Watson and McDuffie. It’s going to be play action shots to our TEs and RBs. Knox will be key, he’s been playing better than Kincaid since Kincaids injury. I’m sure we will dial up a few downfield passes but Spags is going to be ready for that so it should open up the middle of the field. On D, we have to take advantage of Thurney going to LT which diminishes the effectiveness of their interior line. Oliver needs another good game like against the Ravens. Von should be on the field 60% of the time. Solomon shouldn’t see a snap, that guy was flat out horrific against Lamar and almost single handedly lost the game when he rushed inside several times instead of playing contain. McD won’t overlook that. Keep Kelce from beating us, make Mahomes hesitate and throw to Brown/Worthy. I don’t think Worthy will get behind us like several players have recently. Babitch will emphasize that. I’m quietly confident. This is the year Fink beats The Stomach Go Camp Northstar!

I’ve said it all year, I don’t care how it gets done, just get the W. This was a BIG DUB! We just won a Divisional playoff game against one of the best teams in football who was peaking at the right time and we didn’t need Josh to be Super Josh. That’s huge. I don’t care about how we won. I don’t care about style points. It’s about time we had the ball bounce our way for once. We’ve been on the receiving end of games like this so many times. The weather played a factor in our favor. The Ravens were not ready for the hard/slick ball and it played a role in our victory. Who cares what the talking heads say. Let them all pick KC next week. We play better with a chip and as an underdog. My big concern going into this game was that the teams were going to beat the hell out of each other in the cold and I’m worried about the injuries we suffered. I think Rapp is done for sure and wish we would have gotten Micah a little playing time at the end of the season. Big win gentlemen. Enjoy it. We are on to KC

Every time I catch one of their games I see Ford and Settle making plays. Can anyone tell me if they’ve been playing really good this year or am I just extrapolating from the few games I’ve seen? If they have, it’s really concerning considering our D-line or lack there of has been our Achilles heel since McD got here.

The ESPN football theme song sucks. Not as bad as that idiot Carrie Underwood on Sunday Night Football, but it’s bad. Oh, Houston is done already Get off my lawn

I’m glad everyone is picking against the Bills. We play better as underdogs and being counted out. We’ve seen how Buffalo plays in the divisional round when everyone is extolling how great they are

The Pittsburgh game was very interesting in what they tried to do to limit Henry/Lamar on the read option. The DE crashed every time to keep Henry from getting it and the LB scraped to Lamar’s side but they just got toasted constantly by Lamar because they weren’t fast enough or other guys lost leverage on the blocks. I think I’d do the opposite. I’d have the DEs stay home and not give Lamar the edge, but go heavy with 3 LBs and bring a safety down or run blitz on likely running downs. Without Flowers their WR aren’t great, and Andrew’s is coverable by TB.

Mack Hollins is a treasure. I hated him in the #2 role where he looked like a deer in the headlights trying to catch deep passes from Josh against Houston. I love him in the WR4 role and on special teams. He smoked the consensus #1 CB in the AFC who’d been talking smack this week and gave him the big stomp. Love it. Sign him for a couple more years at 3 mil/per. He’s earned it and worth it. Fits Buffalo to a T.

Dude can we enjoy a playoff win against a solid defensive team for a couple hours before you share your anxiety with the rest of us? Seriously, what is with some of you guys who so casually dismiss a playoff win at home? Smell the roses for a day or so. We dominated a playoff team. Have a drink, enjoy the W. These are the good days and don’t take them for granted.

The Chargers are gaaaaarbage. Herbert is no where near Mahomes/Allen/Lamar. He’s a mid QB just like Stroud. This is battle of the over rated QBs

Can someone tell me why Poona Ford couldn’t see the field with us? Is our ability to evaluate and develop talent at the DT level that bad? DT has been a consistent weakness on our D and this guy is balling out. From what I’ve read, he’s been pretty consistent all year too. So why didn’t he do a thing with us?

I think your feed is on a 20 minute delay

Stroud is straight garbage. Herbert can’t make cross body throws like Josh. LAC should be dominating this game and it’s going to bite them in the ass. What a crap display of playoff football. You know if either of these teams was playing the Bills they’d be having the game of their lives though. Seems to always happen.

Stroud sucks at football this year. He is horribly over rated. Pundits and fans are way too quick to anoint young QBs as the next Hall of Famer. DCs get a year of film on a guy and then can game plan against their tendencies. Stroud will need to counter punch and idk if he’s the type of dude to do it. Any rookie QB who anoints himself a top 5 QB in the league takes himself way too seriously and probably doesn’t work as hard as he could to improve. Next year we will be saying the same thing about Nix and Maye.

I’ve said numerous times I don’t care about these individual awards because they are basically just popularity contests. There’s no way Josh is winning a popularity contest with pundits and talking heads who he continues to prove wrong season after season, they just move the goal posts for what the MVP is to accommodate their desired choice (Lamar). I think there’s an element of racism against Josh too although we aren’t allowed to talk about that since he’s a white guy. Lamar is a phenomenal QB and I don’t think he needs to be torn down in order to elevate Josh. If the MVP meant anything it would be a no brainer that Josh wins it because he’s done more with less according to those very same voters (All Pro/MVP). The discourse this year on Allen vs Lamar has been toxic, not fun at all, and I’ve tried to avoid it as much as possible. I hope Lamar wins the MVP then loses to Pitt on Sunday Just win the Lombardi and then laugh in the faces of all these voters who have an elevated sense of themselves because they get a vote.