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This is just a monstrous game next week. I don't know what the hell I'm going to do for the next seven days. Besides drink I mean.

Congratulations on your 6 days of Bills fandom.

This is what I came in here to post. "Ravens trying to end it here . . . "

The Steeler's WRs are fine -- I'm just saying that they're not even close to the same tier as Hill/Waddle.

If this secondary could hold up okay against Tua, Tyreek, and Waddle, I'm sure it can handle a rookie QB and a few receivers that are nowhere near Miami's.

Our pass rush is still a thing though.

Well, first of all, Mahomes deserves the benefit of the doubt. He's arguably the best QB in the league, has a SB title to his credit, and leads his team deep into the playoffs every year. Of course you get the benefit of the doubt with that kind of track record. Second, I haven't seen anybody dump on Allen over the Baltimore game. It wasn't his best game ever, and I'm sure Allen would agree. But so what? He played well and pulled out a win that we wouldn't have gotten without him. As recently as just a couple years ago, people were obsessing over every off-target pass, every turnover, every missed deep ball, etc. Now Allen dirts it to a wide-open receiver on fourth and goal and the entire national media is all like "Well, even the best players miss the occasional pass" and just move on. Which is as it should be of course. Allen's proven himself.

Allen almost got sacked during the last drive of the game. Guy sucks.

I don't think there's anything wrong with noticing that the Steelers have a worse offense than ours and also a worse defense than ours. This is not a competitive matchup, and it's delusional to pretend otherwise. Yes, upsets happen sometimes. This would be a big upset.

Well, you have to keep in mind that no other NFL team had ever lost to an inferior opponent prior to that game. It tore everyone's world asunder.

Most NFL games don't require a rookie CB to play single man coverage against Young-to-Rice. The ability to shut down average-to-above-average WRs being thrown to by average-to-above-average QBs is very good and all can reasonably ask from your rookie CB2.

I'm going to reserve judgement for a while -- small sample size and all -- but man was this a good stretch of games for a rookie CB to step up.

I was incandescently mad about this for like a half a second yesterday, right up until the point where Poyer came down with the ball. Then it was like okay cool whatever. I mean, Lawson and the lineman are all by themselves on a little island, 77 has his arm absolutely hooked around him, and it's 100% in full view of the official behind the QB, who is supposed to be looking for this exact thing. How do you miss this?

I wonder if Ravens fans are thinking that we have their number on critical goal-to-go situations. In the playoff game a couple of years ago, it looked like they were about to tie the game just as the third quarter came to an end. Instead, they got the single worst possible result imaginable -- a pick-6 that more or less ended the game. Yesterday was pretty much the same. On 4th down, a pick-6 actually wasn't the worst result imaginable -- in that case, at least Baltimore would have gotten the ball back with a solid chance to tie it up and force OT. The worst imaginable result was a turnover that gave us a touchback instead of starting at the 4 yard line, followed by a clock-killing drive that ends the game without them ever getting the ball back, and that's exactly what happened. I have a feeling we'd be talking about that if the shoe was on the other foot.

Trubisky is familiar with our defense in the same way that a man on death row is familiar with how electricity works. Not gonna change the end result.

Allen can win track meets on days that defense isn't performing well. The defense can pitch shutouts on days that the offense isn't performing well. It's not like this team is built to win just one way or anything.

Pittsburgh has been hot garbage all season, with the exception of TJ Watt who won't be playing. They're going to finish last in their division. Trubisky has been brutal, and their best alternative is a rookie who would be making his first career start on the road against a SB contender. They just lost to the New York Jets. 14 is a lot of points, but this game is absolutely a mismatch.

I don't get why everybody's ripping on Harbaugh. We would have scored a TD if we had needed one -- he was absolutely right that a FG did him no good.

Zappe got zapped on that one. [Sorry]

They've already scored the winning points though.

Oh man Hoyer is hurt now.

The roughing call was soft, but you see similar calls in other games all the time. Not going to apologize when one goes in our favor.

I gave the Dolphins the benefit of the doubt when they put Tua back into the game against us. I thought he had obviously been concussed -- just like everybody else who saw him stumble around -- but I thought it was pretty unlikely that any NFL team would send a concussed player back into a game in 2022, so I figured hey maybe this "back" story is really true. If I gave the Dolphins coaching staff and medical people the benefit of the doubt, I'm sure I would have given the Bills the benefit of the doubt if the same thing had happened with Allen.

The officiating was fine on Sunday. We had a few borderline calls go against us, but so did Miami. I'm thinking specifically of a defensive holding call that we got in the first quarter that was basically a phantom. The refs also didn't give Miami a TD on a rushing play where the RB obviously broke the plane of the goal line, but the view was too obstructed to overturn. Also, I forget when this happened, but we got away with a false start on a play down near their goal line -- we either scored on that play or it set up a score.

Sorry, but every time I see Andy Reid dressed like that I think back to those "Hey Koo-Aid!" commercials from my youth and lose track of what I was supposed to be angry about.