HappyDays

That's how progressions work... People say "take what the defense gives you" without understanding what it means. Today the Dolphins gave us deep throws. I'm not disappointed that we took the available throws, I'm disappointed that 3 on-target deep passes hit the ground. Dorsey would be wise to put in some more blitz beating concepts when we face the Dolphins specifically because this is how they play us, but we're not likely to face anything nearly that aggressive the rest of the way through. And you can see why - the Dolphins strategy should have cost them close to 50 points. That isn't really a sustainable strategy and we didn't have the wrong counter, it's just that we shot ourselves in the foot too many times.

I don't think that was it at all. Allen just follows his reads. Most defenses don't play us like the Dolphins did today, they were in feast or famine mode on every play so our offense matched that style. If Allen's read tells him to take the deep shot against cover 0 then that is what he's going to do. I saw a next gen stat that said he threw 11 deep balls against the blitz today. 4 were completed. 3 of those by my recollection hit the receiver's hands before hitting the ground. If just 2 of those were instead caught we probably score 10-14 more points. I don't think Allen was putting on a show. He was making the throw that the coverage told him to.

The Dolphins defensive gameplan dictated that we throw the ball deep a lot. The problem is three deep throws bounced off the hands of Davis, Diggs, and Shakir, and on another one John Brown stopped running his route and it got picked. That's too many missed opportunities. We honestly should have scored like 50 points in this game and that's only because of Allen's arm talent.

Come on man. A ball that hit his intended WR in the chest and bounced in the air he was "directly involved" with? That's total nonsense. The first interception is a little ambiguous although Tony Romo seemed confident that John Brown was to blame.

I wouldn't. New OT rules mean both teams get the ball now matter what and you have the best FG kicker of all time on your side. Don't bet it all on one play with this awful collection of red zone talent.

Did you watch the game or the stat sheet?

That defensive drive makes it even more frustrating that they gave the Bengals defense a free TD. Ravens D has mostly shut the Bengals down, they just needed their offense to not screw it up for them.

If I was a coach I would tell my special teams don't even try to block the punt. The risk isn't worth it. There's no way of avoiding a hit like that unless you don't even try to block it.

The Ravens outsmarted themselves. All you have to do is run straight forward 3 times and walk away with a 3-7 point lead. Instead they have the QB loosely hold the football over a big pile of defensive players while two full yards from the endzone. It's not just a flukey play, they earned it.

It's been a bad year for former Bills OCs

-4 points really

If you're the Chiefs I think you'd rather see the Jags than the Ravens, right? The Ravens have the personnel to limit total possessions and cover KC's receivers. Especially if Lamar Jackson makes it back that becomes a scary matchup for them IMO.

The Ravens threw a bomb on 3rd and short? In this economy?

Man that turf is awful. The NFLPA needs to force them to get rid of it.

Wow I'll be honest I didn't think the Ravens had a single explosive pass play in their bag tonight. Apparently the Bengals didn't believe it either.

I still can't believe Roquan Smith flubbed an easy 3rd down sack earlier. Dead to rights and just ran right by him.

Why don't they ever double him?

That's such an undisciplined rush. Burrow isn't that elusive, square up and tackle him the right way.

After today I'm more convinced that trading for Hopkins is a no-brainer. Shakir, Diggs, and Davis all had deep throws fall to the ground after hitting their hands. Put Hopkins in that role and watch this offense explode.

Expectations for Josh Allen have once again gotten ridiculous. The fumble TD was 100% his fault. I saw him miss a slant to Davis and a crosser to Shakir. Other than that he was making a ton of big plays downfield. It's what the offense is designed to do. Dolphins pass rush played a great game and a few untimely drops for us in the 1st half led to the offense looking more sporadic than it really should have been. Allen, Diggs, and Davis on offense Edmunds, Elam, and Johnson on defense

It's weird that we've scored 34 points but somehow the offense has looked so out of sync. An all or nothing game.

If Waddle caught that we would have been happy with the TO. Defense was not ready for it.

Such a weird game. Our offense has put up 34 points but also gifted a bunch to the Dolphins.

Davis has had a fantastic game just when we needed it.

I criticized the defense earlier but they are playing absolutely outstanding today. It isn't just Thompson's limitations, they are locking down the Dolphins skill players.