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He was inactive after that Broncos game (got pulled during it looks like). And yeah that was a rough move to pull him back in the middle of the game.

I was happy he used the stiff arm to prevent getting lit up. CB has to slow down when he presents it else hell just slide off the tackle. The throwing arm part is a good thought. Wonder how often people get injured on stiff arms versus hits near the sidelines.

Now he is but when he first came out it was easy. 2020 as a rookie he came in for an injured fitz and they won a bunch of games in a row. But was clearly more the defense (I think there were multiple defensive TDs) and when asked what he thought about the NFL he said he thought it would be harder. Proceeded to get beat by the broncos enabling bills to cruise to first division win of this era. But when he said that I was happy to root against his smugness https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/tua-tagovailoa-says-he-expected-transition-to-nfl-to-be-a-lot-harder-explains-reason-for-rookie-success/

Thanks for clarifying. Was legitimately confused. DQ is the 3 in that picture above. Very interesting. Got any thoughts? Wonder if film reviewers have caught this (haven’t watched cover 1 analysis yet).

paired with Sanders?

If youre saying that we got some luck go our way to pull out a close game then sure week 1 and the playoffs were similar (along with every close game). But the game scripts were opposites to me. We had a solid lead for much of the playoff victory and they were playing catchup. In week 1 it was the opposite and we were playing catch up the whole time. This defense is still figure itself out so Im not fretting about the run defense yet and will let it play out more before i do worry. I agree getting better is the primary focus; so do you also feel better after the run defense we showed yesterday?

I don’t even see Wallace in the league. Couldn’t find him on the jags roster.

Reynolds is really their only WR of note after Wilson. Means more attention can be paid to Wilson so that’s good. Michael Carter probably plays but he’s average to above average starter. New coaches so last year doesn’t mean much. They will blitz (5th highest % week 1) and play man so I agree they’ll be aggressive. I would just throw to whoever sauce is not guarding. Preferably whoever Stephen’s is covering. Sneaky game for 11 personnel though if they wanna leave Michael Carter out there against 12 we should be happy to mash them. Tough to use that data because it was with a different team/coach and it was like 0 deg at kickoff.

35.3% blitz. you aint kidding (5th overall). Also strangely all AFC East teams were in the top 5 for Blitz %.

Fair for DT. I think NYJ edge are a bit better (including depth) than BAL. Hope they can hold up. Q Will has wrecked things for us before and that’s my fear. Torrence seems to be our equalizer for him.

Maybe this conversation is missing the weight of rushing versus passing. If both are equal maybe it’s fair to say the ravens are clearly better. But passing is more important and we clearly have the better QB (for passing), pass rush, and pass catching backs. Ravens are great on the ground but passing > rushing.

I think NYJ has a better DL than BAL and that worries me a quite a bit.

Glenn messed this same situation up for the Jets. Could have had 40 seconds more in the first half he had been more aggressive

Logically it dont make sense. How were we in position to take advantage of one TO (that came really late in the game) if they had this game circled as revenge (all reporting from the sideline was they were just having a good time) and they are clearly the better roster? To me it seems that they had a lot to prove and set out doing it. We are similarly talented and so we kept pace with them (particularly through the second half) so that when they made a critical mistake we were in position to take advantage. Simply being in position to take advantage of ONE TO means they are not clearly the better roster.

Cowboys last year too (not included in the list on the link).