Big Turk

Typically you get an extra second or so from the official watching the clock because they have to look and see if the ball has been snapped. If it's being snapped at that moment you don't get called even tho it's technically delay of game.

As far as I know it's when a clear and obvious reversal is seen. Simply eliminating the ground causing an incompletion once you have possession and two feet down going out of bounds would help enough in this regard.

A few were good pass breakups by the Bills DBs that most are calling drops.

We averaged 3 punts a game same as last year. For a while we were on pace to set the NFL record for fewest punts

I would find it hard to believe a player could player 7 days after dislocating a kneecap. Considered a 3-6 week recovery time. Apparently it's the second time this year he has had the same injury.

Looks like Jonah Williams is not playing...Zac Taylor confirmed it's a dislocated kneecap and both him and their starting guard Cappa were termed week to week...in McD land that means out for the next game.

Yes...I haven't seen it before from them. It was a brilliant wrinkle from them. Again, it is at times. There are also times he still kills teams with them. I think it depends on the team. Bills also have done far fewer designed runs it seems this year.

If awful means 7th best in the NFL(6th if you include the playoff game), then yeah, I guess we are awful. What it says more tho is that OP likely doesn't watch very many other games so he has no comparison point

This doesn't add up. The Bills finished 7th in the NFL on 3rd down defense this year. Opponents converted 37.5% against them. It's seems hard to be 7th in the NFL based on the splits you gave. Unless opponents were in 3rd and 4-6 a lot more often than the other distances. Do you have the number of times for each?

Probably just you since the Bills finished 7th in the NFL on 3rd down percentage. Also the Fins were 4 of 16 on 3rd downs so I am not sure why you would post this after one of the worst 3rd down performances by an opponent of the year.

And then have 10 minutes of "stoppage" time added on each half.

They had 2 first downs in the second half.

He will not realize it because most of the checkdowns were his legs. Once again, not sure how many times it has to be said. Allen had gaping holes to run through and 20+ yards easily several times. The Fins almost baited him into it and then shut the hole as he tried to run through it. At least 3 of their "sacks" were him trying to run up the middle and pick up huge yards. That was the old Daboll move against heavy man coverage teams. Everyone go deep, no checkdowns, Allen takes off and gets huge chunks. Fins were ready for it, credit to them.

Thought it was telling that McD maybe realizes the good is going to come with some bad. After the game in his post game speech he said "We are who we are. We aren't going to change now."

Perhaps they have noticed tendencies in coverage that lead to them doing it? I'm not sure. I think everything is gameplan specific. Bills have also been running the ball a lot against light boxes instead of throwing so perhaps some of those checkdowns turned into runs?

My God man, do you even watch the games? He HAS thrown them a LOT this year. The first two games of the year we were complaining as to why all of the throws were checkdowns.

That was the Daboll move that used to kill the Fins because they play so much man coverage. Allen's legs was the checkdown. He would just take off running up the middle for huge yardage. It was there yesterday too but the Fins were ready for it. They let him think it was there then closed it down as soon as he took off running for it.

You know things can be gameplan specific to attack weaknesses of teams right?

At times but he still breaks free at least a few times a game. He had his highest Yards per game rushing since his rookie year at 47.6, and averaged over 6 yards a carry, so how good of a job could they realistically be doing?

That tends to bring out the best in them. People talk about Harbaugh as one of the best coaches with situational football and clock management but what I saw yesterday was dreadful. A QB Sneak with him stretching the ball out and trying to jump over the pile from the 2 yard line?? I mean who the hell does that when you didn't even give Dobbins the ball at ALL inside the 5?? Then they run themselves out of time on the final drive with two timeouts in their pocket. Just brutal. Among the worst situational football I have seen.

The difference in this game is when the Bills dialed up the old Daboll move of sending everyone deep, leaving no checkdowns and counting on Allen's legs to be the Checkdown against man coverage, the Fins were ready for it. Several times it appeared the Red Sea parted up front, Allen was staring at 20 yards of open space right up the middle and when he went to take off to exploit it, the Fins DLine converged on him and stopped him for like a yard or half yard loss. That never used to happen and is the type of adjustment ONLY divisional opponents can make when they see something twice a year every year. If the Fins didn't make the adjustment, the game would have likely gotten out of hand as Allen would have run wild on them. Kudos to the Fin for the cat and mouse game of letting Allen think he had something and then taking it away as soon as he tried to take advantage of it. A very interesting wrinkle I saw 3 or 4 times yesterday. Also why I take those 7 sacks with a grain of salt. 3 of them at least weren't real sacks, they were tackles for like a half yard loss as he tried to run through the middle.

I'd say at least 3 of those were on plays where Allen tried to take off up the middle because the Bills were doing the old Daboll move against the Fins where Allen's legs were the Checkdown option and everyone else ran deep against man coverage which left huge voids in the middle of the field Allen could run through but this time the Fins were ready for it and as soon as he went to take off up the middle they closed the running lane and he got tackled. Most of those were like half yard losses. So yeah, technically it was a sack but not really.

Saw an interesting stat. Winning teams that have given up 30+ points on Wildcard weekend haven't won a divisional round game in over 30 years. They are 0-7 in that time. Bills need to buck this trend. I take that with a grain of salt tho. I would suspect those teams had bad defenses. This was more a case of multiple turnovers giving them short fields, a long punt return giving them a short field and a defensive score giving them 7 points. Fins averaged under 3 yards a play and barely had 200 yards for the game. Hardly a case of bad defense by the Bills.

Why? The Bengals are not a good running team. Worse than the Bills. The defense did not give up 30 points, they gave up 24. Miami scored a TD on defense.

Depends. Tampa Bay destroyed KC's offense in the SB. Denver's D destroyed Carolina's O in the SB. If you have an elite front 4, defense CAN win championships. Look at Giants both times against the Pats too.