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Linebackers are the worst in football? Lol that is an absolutely incredibly incorrect take. Jaelan Phillips/Bradley Chubb/Melvin Ingram? Heck even Jerome baker is pretty good. Only average player at LB is elandon roberts. Jaelan Phillips was the best player on the field yesterday and it wasn’t even close.

Healthy Hendrickson might make it a different story, but I’d rather see the bengals defense than the dolphins with a healthy Xavien Howard. Cincy doesn’t have the talent in the secondary to man us up and send the house. Kohou and howard were playing well down the stretch…crossen isn’t very good but one mediocre corner you can gameplan around. Wilkins/jaelan Phillips / Bradley Chubb are all great pass rushers. Dolphins problems all season were on the back end with Xavien Howard playing well below 100% for most of the year. No disrespect to the bengals defense but no one on their team will play as well as jaelan Phillips did yesterday…he was absolutely everywhere.

Could’ve been less damage to the knee groove in mahomes’ case. There’s definitely varying severities…could be a pretty big injury risk to the ligaments too if you’re playing through that I had a friend playing basketball through a kneecap injury and it ended up leading to him tearing his acl

Miamis got a tough front 7 and they were blitzing often…our oline is going to look a lot better against cincy. Granted cincy will actually do things on offense haha it will be a completely different game no matter who wins I think the deep goes were the adjustment…we just didn’t hit enough of them.. they were giving us free tds frequently playing cover 1 press most of the day. Of course in previous games we have gone deep too often though so I could see people being frustrated at this one

That’s how I’m looking at it…we really gain nothing from blowing out the dolphins there

Really bad hold the play before their td too…I think it was a quick screen to Ahmed if I’m remembering properly

I don’t think hodgins is any better than kumerow and crowder they both just happened to get hurt

I’m strictly talking about yesterdays game…if cover 1 comes out and says ‘he shouldn’t be throwing to open go routes’ I will be shocked. Those ARE layups for huge gains. These were not often risky downfield jump balls like in weeks past…there was one of those to diggs that was a ridiculous throw that hit him right in the hands somehow. Lots of the shots were wide open go routes though…most notably the back to back to Davis that everyone complained about im not trying to say the criticism from previous games is false im just trying to say it doesn’t track with what happened yesterday. Miami basically inverted the formula against the bills that’s been employed all season long so the thing he’s previously been accused of doing too much of became the recipe for success imo. Miami was gambling that their dbs could jam long enough for the pass rush to get home and the results were pretty mixed…they were lucky to not give up a buttload more points lol I think any type of advanced play analysis from yesterdays game is going to be a lot more josh friendly than the posts here are making it sound but we’ll see. If you don’t want your qb taking deep sideline shots against cover 1 press you need a new qb. Trying to thread the needle deep into cover 2 like he’s done sometimes is a completely different situation

The offense is gameplanning around missing a starter too keep in mind lol they’re not just gonna leave some talentless hack on an island one on one. If the OL guy they’re replacing was responsible for picking up assignments one on one because the offensive scheme relies on flooding the field with wrs then you could start seeing major issues. Miami could run a one man route to tyreek hill and he’d still get open if Thompson can buy enough time 😂

Miami had armstead play which made a huge difference.. the other guys that were out are so bad that their replacements weren’t that big of a downgrade. Eichenberg is absolutely horrible and shell is pretty bad. No armstead and they would have gotten obliterated Miami runs a lot of heavy sets too so they can gameplan around missing some offensive linemen a little more successfully

Let them keep thinkin it lol give us the outside single coverage/ blitz heavy defense every game I still don’t even get it though…those two picks really weren’t on him.. the fumble was but he’s certainly not the first good qb to fumble a football

I don’t get how it’s not everyone’s cup of tea haha that’s what I’ve been trying to figure out 🤣. Those underneath throws are not just free yards especially when your guys are getting jammed and the pocket is collapsing. They could get tipped,they could go through the receivers hands, etc. if your guys are winning single coverage go routes that’s a throw you just have to make. In past games josh has been going deep into tight windows and that I certainly wouldn’t endorse but an open go route? Give me that every time. I hope every team tries to model the Miami defense

Nobody is going to duplicate that game plan lol it’s pretty much suicide but it was also Miami’s only chance…so much went right for them and they still gave up 34. It’s pretty much the polar opposite of how I’d play the bills…people are talkin about how we only run deep go routes…then wouldn’t you just play two safeties over the top all game long to take that away? Why would you let your dbs get beat one on one down the sideline with no help all game long. we were a couple inches from scoring 50+

Is it even high risk if you’re going to err on the side of overthrows like we were doing? Throwing short passes in a collapsing pocket is just as dangerous if not more so. I mean if we were talking about jump balls down the field that’s a different story, but our receivers were winning one on ones down the sideline all game long

I didn’t realize this was sarcasm at first and almost went off haha. People are carrying over their criticism from previous games and it just isn’t relevant to this Miami game imo. If you’ve got a guy in single coverage with two steps on his man, you throw him the ball every single time. I don’t care what team/qb you’re talking about. What are the odds you put together 60 yards of dink and dunk plays against that Miami front 7 compared to the odds of hitting a pass like that. that’s a presnap read/automatic throw every time and Miami was giving that to us all game…we just didn’t hit on enough of them to make it comfortable. Game plan wise that was a 20+ point win but the execution was terrible with drops/overthrows/receivers losing the ball in the air/receivers getting hit with the ball and it getting picked. Things could’ve gone wrong on underneath throws just as easily and the reward is nowhere near as high

You’ll probably get a lot of eye rolls on this one because nobody wants to give division rivals any credit but there’s definitely truth to it. Miami and pit are both real tough defenses up front and people were talkin like either opponent would’ve been a walk in the park: Miami is loaded with talent on the defensive side they have just been underperforming in the secondary most of the year despite Kohou lookin like a steal. Xavien Howard played most of the season banged up chiefs whole front 7 is pretty much one guy…miamis got 3 guys that can hurt you rushing the passer

Certainly not from that game alone. Up until this one he’s been pretty much lights out in the playoffs too so I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. I really think pick 1 was on John brown, pick 2 was a ‘good’ defensive play (questionably pi). He’s gotta be careful with those fumbles close to his own end zone though that’s my big complaint. If he wants to take a single coverage shot 60 yards downfield I don’t have any problem with that because at worst that flips the field I don’t think blowing out Miami yesterday would’ve reasonably meant anything in relation to the game next week. It honestly might be better that they had to gut it out. Miami might have given us some looks early that cincy could’ve thrown at us. We seemed to really be getting after cincy with our offensive line on that one drive so I think it’s going to be a completely different game.

Tampa loss was BS…this whole don’t throw flags down the stretch or in playoff games needs to end. Diggs got straight up tackled in the end zone while the ball was in the air

Haha imagine what the jokes would’ve been if they lost though…if they win next week no one will care about this game cincy easily could’ve lost their game as well

Hard to say they were ready for it when we were winning the go routes nearly every time. If you’re talking about the scramble part specifically then sure lol Idk maybe it’s just me but 9 times out of 10 with that exact gameplan against that exact defense we probably score 50+. Davis/diggs got behind the defense seemingly all day we just missed the connection by inches quite a few times

I don’t see it honestly…especially with their oline banged up. At worst it’s 50/50 and I’d lean towards the home team. On this board we have made it a habit to give our division opponents absolutely zero credit but Miami has a bunch of talent in the front 7. I don’t think any other team could or would emulate Miami’s gameplan from yesterday. It was literally the opposite of how I’d play the bills but their only chance was if they forced some turnovers and we were off on the deep throws Idk what it was but that sun heading to the west end zone seemed to be messin up everybody…couple uncharacteristic drops from Miami headed that way and shakir dropped a ball that hit him straight between the numbers and brown lost that ball in the air that ended up getting picked if you made that exact game a night game I’m curious what the score would’ve been 😂

Yea I’m confused why people are assuming we would’ve lost that game…we were steamrolling their defensive line and their offensive line was holding for dear life on the other side

Seems like Miami was counting on us not looking deep because they were hoping josh doesn’t like getting criticized on bills message boards 😂. Their gameplan just makes no sense to me

I don’t really understand what’s going on on these boards haha I’m all for anyone criticizing whoever…it is a message board after all…but this notion that Allen has a clean pocket and open throwing lanes to wide open guys underneath on every play is absurd. Especially yesterday. and even if he did, every qb in the league is going to take the wide open go route over the wide open dumpoff to a rb. It was just such a bizarre gameplan from Miami on defense that I think people just aren’t wrapping their heads around it lol I honestly hope the chiefs and bengals try to imitate that. Miami traded probably 60 free points if we could connect on routine plays for a couple turnovers. With the identical gameplan from the offense we easily could’ve won that game 50+ to 30+ . Miami was just selling out for the turnovers and despite just about everything going right for them they still gave up 34 and lost

That early catch to diggs was a quick slant where he got jammed and was completely off balance and came down with it still. They were jamming the heck out of short routes all game long. That deep 3rd and 1 to shakir Knox ran a 2 yard under route and he legit got tossed 5 yards back into the line of scrimmage lol. Not trying to say you’re wrong about previous games necessarily…I was not at any of the other games to compare. but in this one the go routes were there all game long we just did not connect on enough of them to win comfortably. Josh easily could’ve gone for 500+ passing yards with 5-6 tds with that gameplan even with the 7 sacks/3 turnovers. just a little bit off on so many plays.