Miyagi-Do Karate

I am playing this guy in fantasy and I have Love and he has Jacobs. It has been back and forth all night. I have a 2-point lead now. i can’t have love throw a pick or fumble, or I will lose!

no doubt. Extremely stupid penalty. BTW, Elam burned on that TD.

That penalty was the game.

This ref crew calls everything. Like 20 penalties.

Good point. It might be hard to fashion the rule. the cleanest way to do it is “you basically have to be upright” in blocking a punt— like in basketball defending position. Arms straight up. it would kill blocked punts, but so what? Right now, on blocked punt attempts, it seems like odds are better that the team gets a penalty than a blocked punt.

For those complaining about the D, take a look at the drive summaries. Outside of that first TD drive (which was terrible), the D actually held its own. They gave up a long 11-play 65-yard TD drive in the 3rd quarter, but that was basically a bunch of 4 and 5-yard plays by the saints. That’s the sort of drive the Bills D usually will take, and hope the opponent makes a mistake. Otherwise, they pretty much got off the field. The FGs given up were long and due to terrible field position. They can be better in many ways. But it wasn’t terrible.

If the NFL were concerned about player safety, they might consider banning diving towards the punter like that. those roughing plays on punters are just a recipe for a leg injury. As a fan, I don’t want to see it. I don’t want my punter being taken out, and I don’t want my rush team risking a bad penalty by going for the rare block.

as soon we see that, then the concern is “peaked too early.”

Agree, though I think that 4th Shakir play is great. Just can’t run it 4th and short when everyone is up at the LOS.

well, now that we paid Him, they are working him— getting their money’s worth!

yeah, today for some reason I thought guys were slipping a lot. Off the top of my head, I remember both Palmer and Samuel slipping on routes, bishop slipping in coverage, the saints TE awkwardly slipping out of bounds, and even the Tre 4th down tackle on Kamara seemed To be kamara slipping. just seemed really unusual for such a nice day.

are you serious? That’s wild!

BTW, it seems like our field at Highmark is terrible. guys are always slipping. Today it seemed really bad. Did anyone else notice this?

didn’t he play against us?

exactly. I honestly think our D would be more effective with shaq and Dorian out there. Two guys running downhill and blowing people up.

Our D lacks physicality. We need more thumpers out there.

I don’t get why this staff is playing so much man coverage with Tre out there. Not exactly his forte at this stage in his career.

Awesome accomplishment! But I can’t help but remember the rumors on here of people seeing George Seifert at the Buffalo airport! We were so excited! (I think that was the year they hired Greggo).

I think we all noticed this in real time. the encouraging thing is it is entirely correctable.

This ravens team is mentally weak. Harbaugh wonders why his team blows leads and chokes in the playoffs? It’s the same reason Lamar came out in the 3rd quarter.

Got to keep Lamar’s MVP stats intact!!

Agreed. There are a lot of defensive gurus that need a very specific personnel to have success. I think he fits that Bill. Same probably with McD.

chiefs just have way more difference makers on D than us. Not sure what spags could whip up with our current roster.

Agreed. back several years ago when the colts had eberflus as their DC and Rivers as their QB (kind of the 2020-2021 seasons), they were frightening. I feel like they still have that same core, including core guys on their D, oline, and of course Taylor. They just needed a competent QB again, which they now have in Jones. (I still don’t get why there wasn’t a bigger free agent market for Jones. Steelers and Browns didn’t even look at him?).

Sort of funny how: like the Bills love their undersized LBs, the chiefs love their undersized speedster receivers. They have about 5 guys that look identical.