Beck Water

Today is the day for giving players a designation Out - Doubtful - Questionable - -- When a player has DNP with an injury all 3 days, the league would, er, question if the team labeled them "Questionable"

If it's a partially torn ligament, he would be wearing a brace. Ligaments heal slowly, and the slightest bend the wrong way will re-tear the healing in progress and reset the healing clock. Source: have had partially torn ligaments.

He's got us playing them in the Superbowl. Let the man have his dreams.

The announcers conveniently left unmentioned that there was some pretty blatant offensive holding on that play as well.

Burrows to Chase, Who would have predicted that?

They really are, but the Ravens D is doing some dumb *****, like Humphries face mask and I thought they got away with a DPI

Yeah, I thought that was a legal hit. The defender is supposed to violate the laws of physics when the ball is released I guess.

I thought so but the refs disagree

Ravens got away with a facemask there, but I like the aggressive pressure. None of this "prevent" D crap.

LOL their DBs are playing "Dazed and Confused" on repeat. They don't intend to leave him wide open

Nah

LJax Saved by the Ground

Play action seems to be effectively confusing the Birdies.

RAC yards count as passing yards. Way it's always been.

WTF was that from Tucker? Cincy still in the lead, who woulda thunk. If the Poebird D shows up for a 2nd drive they got a good chance, if they let the Bengals carve them up for 5 minutes, eh.

They better set off the alarms and wake up their defense then, because Burrow is slicing them up like an electric knife through hot butter. 151 yds for Chase. Barring a pick-6, Poe-Birds gotta get their offense on the field in order to tie the game, and they gotta tie it before they can win it. Lamar Jackson sprinting backwards extensively not an effective ball moving strategy, either.

They'd better get on it then. Lamar playing at 0.5x speed, Trey Hendrickson rushing at 2x speed

That is true about Henry, and while I'd like to argue that previously the Ravens DID have Mark Ingram and Gus Edwards, they aren't in the same "weight class" as Henry; and 30 year old Henry is so far, looking as though he found the Fountain of Youth to return to his 2019/2020 prime. 1000+ yards after 9 games is ridiculous, especially when he's only playing 50-60% of the snaps per game. So I have to say you've got a point.

Recent history disagrees with your thinking. Bills are 2-3 vs Ravens under McDermott, including horrific loss in the 2018 season opener where Josh was thrown to the wolves; since Allen came into his own in 2020, 2-1 Bengals, we're 1-3 under McDermott; since 2020, we're 0-2

That seems plausible. Von Miller return from suspension also fills reps. My point was to @The Jokeman who suggested that Phillips and Jefferson were added to replace Smoot.

With whom?

So I don't know what the Bills thinking is, but Jordan Phillips is a 1TDT and Quinton Jefferson is kind of a "tweener", guy who can play both DE and DT. I'm not sure that either would be a good replacement for Smoot at DE.

Question: when has McDermott rotated players during the season?

He didn't rotate with Hamlin during the pre-season because of injury. Once the season started, the job was Hamlin's to lose. And he hasn't lost it. The Bills letting Edwards walk says to me that he's fallen off the depth chart for whatever reason, because otherwise why wouldn't they keep him in case of injury? If Joe Marino's info (via @HappyDays is correct, "bad attitude and low effort in practice" would be the reason for his fall.

Don't forget La'el Collins and Chase Claypool.