mbowman14

That is 100% the point and is not second-guessing because it was called for last week. Getting NE into heavy personnel and taking advantage of them with PA was the way to attack out of the gate. Get them behind and force them to play a game of catchup all night long. The Bills came out with a pathetic plan including Knox jet-sweep and a flea-flicker that was nearly disastrous. That is the stuff you try when Tyrod Taylor is your QB and you don't think you can beat the opponent with your conventional offense. NE couldn't and wouldn't have covered Kincaid all night because they don't have the personnel to handle him. Stop being cute and play to your strengths/the opponent's weaknesses. A few throws early would have greatly opened up lanes for Cook as LBs and S would be thinking PA first. Very frustrating plan from Brady.

Because he doesn’t want to go left and is less likely to take the bait.

True and the one stop in the 2nd half was a gift on 3rd and a foot with the false start.

Last night was the perfect game for a script similar to the Seattle plan last season. Play in reverse by setting up the run with play-action passes to the TEs/Shakir over the middle. NE has a good run defense, and you know Vrabel is preaching physicality out of the gate. Use that and their poor coverage LBs and S against them. Instead, the offense pissed away a good 1st half by the defense running jet sweeps to Knox, flea-flickers, and Palmer being unable to recognize he needed to be on the LOS. Really poor plan and execution that entire 1st half is what doomed the Bills. Again, game-script matters and the only time NE felt a little heat was after the 1st drive on the 2nd half when the D got super soft and let NE get the ball across mid-field before the KO team was seemingly off the field. Need to be better and more aggressive early to control the game-script.

And this is what I can’t stand. A mile from the play they will call weak illegal contact like on Benford tonight. Then a clear penalty that prevents a catch is ignored.

Brady is coaching like we can’t run real plays and are outmanned. Stop being cute!!!

I am not disputing that the Bills could lose. See Packers, Browns. I am saying the Ravens are far superior. The Bills play their A game, they beat NE. That isn’t necessarily true with Baltimore.

The entire argument about the Pats being the best team the Bills have played is flat out ridiculous. Sports books don’t like to lose money and right now the Ravens are around +1000 while the Patriots are between +10,000 and 15,000 to win the Super Bowl.

And because he played at an ultra-elite level in victories against the league’s two best teams in the most watched, hyped games of the regular season.

This game illustrates why you can’t pay Rousseau $25 million. He isn’t this level.

I think Rousseau is better relative to Edmunds, but only a step up from JAG and never going to be over-the-top impactful against elite competition. He also picked a very bad time for his worst game of the season. His edge contain starting with the 4th down-play in KC's own territory, that was an obvious Mahomes keeper, was brutal all night. He will be a very tough call because I think his price (similar to Edmunds) will ultimately leave the buyer remorseful. The issue is he is clearly the best the Bills have, and they still need another more impactful DE as well.

I agree with a fair amount of man-to-man and being aggressive vs sitting all game in a passive zone getting picked apart. The Baltimore success rate by coverage splits certainly backs that up as well. I hope if that is the plan, Douglas does not find his way on Worthy. Keep him on Juju or Hopkins. Worthy's speed vs Douglas will be no bueno in man-to-man and a big play waiting to happen.

I thought the tone for the 2nd half was set with the very first play call (toss to Cook). Harbaugh's halftime interview said exactly what you'd have expected (they needed to stop the run). Buffalo surely knew that as well and that first play was the perfect opportunity to run play-action and get things started aggressively. The Bills should have looked at scoring a TD on that drive as game over. It would have forced the Ravens to largely abandon the run. I am not sure if the decision to be so conservative was on Brady or was influenced by McD. It was very strange because Brady has been excellent this year and McD has proven to really trust Josh and has drifted away from his conservative nature. Thankfully they prevailed and hopefully a lesson was learned. As Romo started pointing out repeatedly later in the half, if you go down, go down firing your bullets with 17. Have to enjoy a win like that over a team as tough as the Ravens, but need to play to win and give our best player the chance to lead the team.

I feel homefield is much more important vs the Ravens than the Chiefs. Reasons: 1. Bills have proven multiple times during the regular season that they can win at Arrowhead and while their fans are great, Bills seem to relish that environment. Also, would have won a playoff game there if not for that period of time which shall not be named. 2. The Ravens feed off their home crowd and I feel that stadium with all of the darkness resembles a dark alley fight for which the Bills are not designed. 3. I don't think Highmark has much impact on Mahomes..he is seemingly unflappable. I do think the crowd and some mistakes can snowball on Lamar and my hope is that is what happens Sunday night.

Not getting ahead of ourselves, but the Bills were massively banged up in the Ravens game. Shakir hurt early, no Cooper yet, Bernard, Milano, Taron all inactive. Those are massive holes to fill. I still think the Ravens are the worst matchup, however that game is not a good indicator of what a rematch would look like.