Ralonzo

The Bills have been looking forever for that Big Nickel to match on TEs like a Chinn or Dugger. The closest they used to have was probably Siran Neal, a size/speed type of guy, but he was not terribly fluid and his speed was mainly straight line, he wasnt quick. The closest they have now might be Jamarcus Ingram, good size and length at 6'2", a bit light and not quite as fast (4.6). I don't know about his man skills, the plays he made vs Miami were system-generated and he benefitted playing his zone.

This is a thing and goes waaay beyond football.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves like KC and worry about what the Philadelphia Elgles are doing.

The right direction for Baylor Spector to trend is toward the waiver wire.

For that kind of money you should be able to sit on Taylor

Yeah he was the Devin Singletary of linebackers, always a step slow getting to the edge

They'll start by not have you-know-who's $31M dead cap hit next yeat.

Yes, Van Noy lifted Knox off the ground and drove him into the turf with full body-weight on top as well. Both of those being points of emphasis in the offseason as to PF-UR penalties.

Yeah, but in a historical perspective the Bills might never get to 4 Super Bowls without this game, as iirc it marked the first appearance of the K-gun offense - no-huddle with Kelly calling plays, and they were almost unstoppable with it. After the 1989 Bickering Bills season the K-gun became a regular thing and they mowed down the opposition for years.

Anyone else remember, I think it might have been 97 Rock with Snorton Norton the next day after that game where they staged a phone call to Ronnie Harmon... <Ring> <Ring> "Hello?" <Bang> <Crash> <Clatter> "Ronnie? Ronnie Harmon? What's going on there?" "Yeah man... I just dropped the phone. If only you had called me a second earlier I wouldn't have dropped it" Was it Chris Simms that was torching Lamar for double-clutching that throw and thought it threw the timing off and made it much much tougher for Andrews?

There's always going to be situational offense, 2-minute, tempo/no-huddle, etc. It's been established under Daboll/Dorsey that Allen can sling it all over the yard with maximum arm arrogance, and that's not going away, it'll always be available when needed. I guess the point I didn't make clear is the shift under Brady away from that high variance "modern" NFL offense back to something that looks a lot more like a bygone era. I'm pretty sure as a much younger man I groaned just as much when Check Knox was plowing Joe Cribbs and Curtis Brown and Rosey Leaks into opponents, until he took them to the playoffs. It's still a simple game - you throw, you catch, you run, you block, you tackle. Do it at a higher level than the other guy, and win.

Situationally it's not great, as we saw on the Dawkins phantom hold that took the Bills behind the sticks and off schedule. Part of the fun of the Bills under Daboll and to an extent Dorsey was that every play was designed to get a first down - but with a lower %age of success. But, we ask, who cares if the plays work 40% of the time? You get 3 downs, you only need it to work once. That was the mindset. Brady's the first OC who is more aligned to what McDermott wants. The plays will have a greater chance of success but with a lower potential yardage. This is to Buffalo's advantage as it gets you to manageable 3rd-and-short or 4th-and-1 situation where you leverage Allen to nearly automatically extend drives. That's the point of 4-minute offense, extended drives, consuming clock and registering points. There's a saying I've heard Josh use where they want every drive ending in a kick: PAT, FG, or punt if you must. Turnovers are regarded (rightly) as being so situationally harmful that the entire offensive philosophy in the 20-odd games since Brady's elevation has completely shifted and it only happens because Brady convinced Allen to buy in and execute it. It's like the difference between buying lottery scratch-offs and investing in bonds. You have high variance with the former - you can win big in the short term but go to that well enough and you'll eventually lose. With the latter, it's boring, but locks in your gains.

This is the one call that favored the Bills in the game. Of course it's the call that make the highlight reels with a commentary that it's "questionable." A few packages also showed the clear DPI on Shakir on 3rd down but the scripts did not comment that as a missed call. Hence the narrative that "oooh the refs are in da Billzz pocket$ durrrr." No mention of: above DPI, bogus call on Dawkins, a couple false starts, PF's against Kincaid and Knox ignored, and Andrews tiring his hands out holding Bills defenders to the point where he couldn't hold the ball.

If you finally turtle after running toward the sideline, stopping, and doing a 180 straight back toward the middle of the field jumping around like a Kansas City ferret, I don't think that ought to be considered a valid "slide" to give yourself up as a QB.

Yeah the idea occurred to me rewatching the first 2 drives coming out of the half after Romo was puffing the Ravens for forcing a 3 and out and a punt after half. I think Allen kind of missed the throw to Kincaid but it was there. Same with the Knox tunnel screen, he uses to blocking leverage to get outside and he makes it, but that's TE's for you: saw Higbee do the same thing where he keeps running to the stick he makes 1st down easy but cuts upfield right into the defender who stops him, and then the Eagles get the series stop. (Edit: Allen was PISSED that Van Noy lifted Knox off the ground and drove him into the turf with full body weight, which is supposed to be a penalty of course but...) Back to the point, those two plays were there but not executed, and had the effect of letting the Ravens back in the game. But one thing Brady isn't going to do is let the opponent dictate his offense. That 1st down dive gets 1 yard? He's not abandoning it. Why let the D pin their ears back knowing you won't run? He's also not going full Daboll with 4-wide splits running 20 yard deep overs either. He's going to play to his strength which is the OL, and use the cheat code (Allen) to extend drives, and grind and grind and grind.