dave mcbride

If the Ravens can't throw, it's really bad for them. I'll take Allen's arm against anyone's in a snow/wind game.

Exactly.

That’s not really accurate. In the previous playoff game for the Raiders, Bo Jackson went down with what turned out to be a career ending injury. When he got hurt in that playoff game vs. Cincy, he had 6 carries for 77 yards. The story going into that game was that the Raiders were missing their best player. The Bills were expected to win.

If the Ravens can’t throw, their offense generally gets stopped. Wind/snow favors the team with the qb who has better arm talent and better receivers.

The Ravens D is way more talented and formidable than the Gilmore-less Pats Covid D. It’s apples and oranges. Didn’t we draft a qb who can throw in the wind better than any other qb because of velocity/rpms?

I thought it was a very fair analysis. The Bills’ performance against the Colts has given outside observers legit reasons for doubt, and the Bills’ running game is bad. Moss is a better back in the run game than Singletary.

I don't think he's accurate. Sure, he's OK at lobbing bombs to open receivers racing past Clemson DBs, but all college qbs with half an arm can do that.

Well, he did play college ball in Boston ... Someone posted a twitter thread analysis with video of Tua's physical decline since Alabama. I think it might have been @Hapless Bills Fan. It's pretty interesting. He can't move as well, and he doesn't really push off very well on his back leg (the leg with the hip issues) relative to how he pushed off when he was at Alabama. Maybe it gets better over time, but who knows. Right now, though, he's not the same player physically as before the injury.

My bet is that Fitz ends up on the Patriots.

I am most concerned with their front seven. It is good, and could present real problems. Beasley being able to play at a high level is key — he is a blitz killer.

100 percent a problem. He scares the crap out of me! Thank you for posting that. He sounds like a racist, homophobic POS, and I hope he has a very bad game. How do you feel about how he views gay people? F***t hadn’t been ok in a couple of decades (at least) except among homophobes.

It gets better: https://www.google.com/amp/s/deadspin.com/mike-lombardi-wrote-doug-pederson-a-letter-apologizing-1828471653/amp Also, winning a SB for the Eagles is like the the 2004 Red Sox, the 2005 White Sox, and the 2016 Cubs: life defining. It is no small achievement. It is in fact one of the greatest postseason runs of the century. For that alone, he will always be a legendary coach. I have a LOT of friends from Philly, and they will never forget what he pulled off.

Remember this? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bleedinggreennation.com/platform/amp/2017/9/3/16249726/former-nfl-gm-doug-pederson-head-coach-philadelphia-eagles-mike-lombardi-carson-wentz-ringer-video

Neither had Doug Pederson in KC.

He was getting pressure and instead of throwing to the boundary, it ended up being a wounded duck to the hashmarks. He threw without stepping into it. It was inconsequential, however. A bomb from your own end that gets intercepted between the 20-30 yard line way downfield is basically a punt. All QBs make bad throws like that. Allen did it vs. Pittsburgh in the first half when he had a guy in his face.

I just don't think their defense can hold up vs. KC's passing attack. They have one of the worst pass defenses in the league, and KC has arguably the best passing offense.

I don't understand this at all. Reich had just been fired by SD, and Pederson called the plays in 2017, not Reich. Reich appears to be a good head coach, which I'm happy about, but he was barely more than a glorified Curtis Modkins in 2017. Reich as the genius who made it all happen in 2017 is a myth that deserves to die. The reason the Eagles offense was so good that year is because a) they were very talented, b) they had no real injuries except for an aging Jason Peters and Wentz late in the season. They were otherwise stacked, especially on the o-line in terms of both overall talent and depth, and they had a great backup QB.

One thing I'll say about Jackson is that he's a better passer than many think. Yes, his passing game is helped by the Ravens running game. However, in their last six games -- which is a six-game winning streak including the playoffs -- his passer rating is a sky-high 107.9, and he's completing 68 percent of his passes at 8.0 ypa. People shouldn't underestimate him. His passing numbers in 2019 were ridiculously good too.

Cleveland is balanced (and the Bills lost to them last year), but I think KC is going to obliterate them. Mahomes ain't gonna turn it over like Roethlisberger.

Lamar Jackson is one of the ten best players in the NFL. There’s a lot of inexplicable contempt for him on this board, which I don’t get. His numbers are amazing (36 td passes and 6 INTs and over 1200 rushing yards in 2019), and he’s 32-9 as a starter in the regular season. He deserves a LOT more respect from us, and if I hear another Bills fan (not you!) make fun of his accent, I’ll scream.

That INT was inconsequential though. Whenever you throw a 40-yard pick from your own end and the defense gets it between their own 20-30 yard line , it’s basically a punt. Those are turnovers you can always live with. It wasn’t a bad pass into the flat that flipped the field or resulted in a pick six.

Good stuff. One thing to note is that they didn't have Calais Campbell last year, and he's really good.

Getting plays in quickly is HUGE. If you're not giving your qb time to get out of bad plays and diagnose what is probably coming, you're failing at your job. It was a huge problem in previous years, especially with Roman. To be fair, Roman is excellent, and maybe that's not a problem in Baltimore. It takes time to be deprogrammed from Belichick martinet-hood.

Well, it is Philly media! (Although to be fair the baying critics are in every city.) Still, it sounds like a toxic relationship, and at the end of the day Peterson got them to the playoffs three times and won a Super Bowl in a 3-year period. Their problem has been abysmal drafting and talent acquisition, and that's not his area. In my opinion, the Chargers job is by far and away the most appealing one. You have three years of an elite young qb on a rookie contract and an excellent overall talent base.

A different perspective: https://www.inquirer.com/eagles/philadelphia-eagles-doug-pederson-jeffrey-lurie-20210111.html