Blank Stare

I brought up something similar in the other thread, but, making it more Bills specific, I think you have to track meet them. Hope for a couple key stops. Provided we win our game, fortunately, we’ve got a QB that can do that. Might just be one of those games of whoever has the ball last.

There you go!

Heyward out and now Watt banged up? Promising.

So…for those more Xs and Os intelligent than me, what’s the right defensive gameplan here against a team like the Ravens? Lamar and Henry in the backfield together and (understandably) everyone seems confused. Ideally, you try to get up on them to force them out of the running game, but I’m not sure they’d even abandon the run in that case. Unique challenge. Just wondering if there is an actual answer OR if it is just turn it into a track meet and hope for 1-2 key stops?

What a play call on 3rd and 18.

Tomlin and Arthur smith are a match made in heaven.

I wondered the same thing. Never noticed that until this game.

This is a pretty embarrassing effort by the Steelers.

Is this really Lamar’s first year being elected team captain? Wow. Would’ve expected he had it for years for someone so beloved by his teammates.

Embarrassing you don’t go for that.

Keep running routes short of the sticks freirmuth. You dipshit!

Steelers might want to start…you know…playing. Wake up!

Who didn’t see him picking Lamar? This guy is one of the biggest blowhards going.

Russ running in quicksand. Man I hate VanNoy.

Come on Steelers!

I didn’t say they weren’t better. Just not worlds better that the media is making it out to be. Especially when you factor in if Josh needed to play in every game and not go vanilla game plan for a lot of the last month of the season (instead of sitting out boat races in the 4th qtr or the last Cheats game) a lot of his stats likely would’ve been the same or better. Look, I got no problem with Lamar being offensive player of the year or first team all pro QB if you’re going purely off stats. Lamar has had a great season and has earned that. My problem is that first team all pro QB has been a lock for MVP forever. If you think the AP MVP voters are capable of such nuanced thinking this year where they are able to distinguish first team all-pro from MVP as a stats vs. moments/context award and give it to Josh Allen, then I’ll eat crow. You won’t hear nary a word from me on that because I think that’s completely fair and consistent with what they told us last year. But…that type of thinking, with the precedent that has been set with the historical correlation between first team all pro QB and MVP, it is not on our side.

It does?

Not sure, but, according to the Athletic, every QB who has been First Team all pro since 2013 has been the MVP. I’ve never been more confident going into a game now than I am this weekend.

Not according to Florio who is a voter: https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/all-pro-voting-points-to-lamar-jackson-as-mvp

These guys done f’d up now. Josh is going to go scorched earth. FAFO.

Oh I agree. It’s coming. Never mind Lamar’s stats aren’t that much better and Josh has sit out the equivalent of two full games because they didn’t need the game (pats) or they were kicking the other teams ass so badly he could sit. Clowns. F them.

F them. Wouldn’t put it past them to find a way to screw him out of MVP too. I hope Josh goes nuclear in the playoffs.

From a talent perspective, Josh absolutely has everything it takes to be a multiple Super Bowl winner. That said, as a fan, I don’t need any more than one. Just give me my one and I feel it would genuinely change me as a fan. Not that I’d love the Bills any less (or more) than I do now if it were to happen, but the “pressure” and “need for validation” (relative to the Bills) wouldn’t be there. The stress of it all wouldn’t be as high as it’s been my entire fandom. I’ve gotten better with age, but I think if I were to ever experience a Bills championship, I’d have a much healthier relationship with the team as a fan. No one could take that one from us.

Thank you, Michael Irvin! Stop changing the criteria all of a sudden.