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To me, McD had an elite 2017 offseason. Found 4 cornerstone defensive players. Had some great defenses. Now 8 years later. Half gone, the other half shells of themselves. And the defense kinda sucks. Is this a lesser version of the Seahawks being nasty because they acquired the whole LoB at the same time, and then when they all got old, their defenses fell apart? Was their DC some secret genius or did he just have great players?

I’m basically one more bad defensive season away from calling McD a “Hyde, Poyer, White” merchant.

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You don't beat Lamar by spying him. You beat Lamar accepting that he is going to beat you with his legs sometimes and you try to stop the run on early downs.

We’ll see. Josh’s passing totals have dropped significantly with Brady at OC. He missed that 4200 average by about 500 yards last year. I think the odds that none of them get 1000 are pretty high and the odds that Palmer has 1000 to be approaching 0.

Caleb to Shane Waldron after the game

????? Is this based on Josh throwing for 400 every week?

Do nothing. if Prater keeps it up, cut Bass. There is no reason to stick with Bass’ highly paid brand of mediocrity. Does it matter if he kicks well here? Are you convinced phones would be ringing off the hook if Bass was an FA? I’m not.

I don’t think there’s any meaningful update, but I also don’t think it’s some mystery. Much like it wasn’t a mystery why Kaiir Elam was always a healthy scratch. the team doesn’t see their value being active.

Hard to disagree with your list. The Ravens aren’t dissimilar to the Bills despite being “better.” They have no game changing pass rusher and no game changing receiving threat. So despite having mild to moderate improvements basically everywhere else, and a mild at best difference in QB (Lamar and Josh are both amazing but I think Josh takes the edge), it doesn’t really matter. The important positions remain important for a reason.

He was wrong, wasn’t he? They basically held the Bills offense in check for 3Q’s, and changed what they were doing and our offense exploded.

He played very well, but this thread was the first thing I thought of when he got rolled to the dirt by that Ravens DB

The ultimate “so what do you do here” type team building. It’s a reality in the salary cap era that it’s basically impossible to keep together both a great offensive and defensive supporting cast. Usually, you have to pick one in spite of the other. But we have picked… neither.

I actually thought Allen got confused quite a bit presnap in the first half. Some of those checked runs were him getting fooled. He figured it out by the end

I can’t get over how bad Harbaugh/Monken are at sticking with Henry. it’s actually insane. He has like 200 yards on 14 touches. How do they not run? Won’t complain but that has to suck so bad for Ravens fans. That’s how they lost the AFCCG vs the Chiefs, pre Henry. They need to run the ball.

Yeah Shakir is clearly still hobbled and getting battered around by Kyle Hamilton all night may not have helped. I’m hopeful that he can get right as the season goes on. Even if that means starting Samuel in his place for a game.

Superman does everything but is let down by basically everyone and the Bills lose. the Josh Allen story

What if the defense takes a step back? I couldn’t bear the thought.

There’s nobody who could do better unless they had won multiple Superbowls and were 50 years old.

Can’t. It’s a 2 score game with 8 min left. A TD and you can still make it interesting

Refs didn’t give Derrick Henry 200 yards again lol

Hey guys, don’t you believe that people can get better at their job? Let’s give McDermott another 10 years.

We have been saying this since 2021. Its time to crowdfund the fire everybody billboard

Haha what do you think Baltimore is paying Lamar?

We have the worst defense LMAO.