9/29/2024 Bills at Ravens 2nd half game thread

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

Just now, Meatloaf63 said:

Then add in the dumb contracts and it’s closer to 70 million wasted.

Yup

 

[Royale with Cheese]

1 minute ago, balln said:

Normally I would agree. But we’ve had this coach for 8 years? Hes always come up small against good teams / qbs. These are his coordinators

Yep.  I don’t think we have ever beaten Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes, Dak Prescott etc….

They always beat us.  We always get slaughtered as well.  We always lose by more than one score too.

[Alphadawg7]

5 minutes ago, Danger Mouse said:

we'll be fine long-term. 

 

this one just came at us like a train. didn't see it coming. never really got our feet right after the game's first two possessions. 

 

they exposed us entirely. we'll adapt to that now. hopefully never being quite as weak in those areas. 

 

that trick play though. man oh man, what the ***** was that. 

 

miles davis used to say you don't know if a note is out of tune until you play the next one. feel a bit like that with this performance. it's how we react to it that will tell us who we are. everyone gets beaten at some point. if we learn and adapt, it might even make us stronger. 

It’s one game on a short week, against a good team, on the road, down key players.  I’m not going to panic, we were never going undefeated.  
 

However, this is where Babich and Brady need to show they can learn and make the adjustments.  Tonight is what it is…now it’s about how they respond to adversity.  We got smashed in the trenches and that can’t happen.  
 

And one thing I hope Brady learned tonight is you don’t try some gimmicky high risk play when trailing on the road while you have momentum.  You play your game and keep calm and take what the D is giving you as you are again driving.  
 

Game ended on that dumb play, we never recovered.  

Edited September 30 by Alphadawg7

[balln]

3 minutes ago, nedboy7 said:

McD giving the D some rest. Always a step ahead. 

Super critical timeout on 2nd. Yes. SECOND and goal. On DEFENSE 

[Johnnycage46]

1 minute ago, Nelius said:

Collinsworth is either drunk or just incredibly strange 

Why can't it be both?

[sven233]

Look.....we all know this is a long season and we weren't going to win them all.  I think if you would have told us before the season started, we would be 4-2 out of the gate, we would have all signed up for that without thinking twice.  This is a bad loss, but it's not the end of the world.  Suck it up, learn from it, and go beat Houston next week and get back on track.  Then, find a way to get an AFC East win against the Jets and you're 5-1. 

 

Tonight was a bad night for sure, but it happens.  It will happen again.  Just can't let 1 loss turn into 2 in a row or 3 in a row.

[gomper]

Just now, The Jokeman said:

Outside the first run he's run for 107 on 21 carries. A few of those were 20 plus. Inflated numbers. 

Inflated #'s? Last time I checked, they count every yard.

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

Just hand the ball off and run some clock here. 

[Ralonzo]

15 minutes ago, SirAndrew said:

Lots of people disappointed in Hamiln and Bass. I can’t even get to the point of caring about that. Our issues tonight extend well beyond individual players. 

 

Yeah but certain individuals were absolute ass. Don't forget Torrence. You get paid millions to put yourself out there, compete, and have your efforts judges. Deal with it.

[Scott7975]

I'd give the Ravens their Flowers but they already have one so...

[Billz4ever]

I think Mike Edwards is going to be a week away every week at this rate.

[78thealltimegreat]

The reality is this is the best team the bills will play for awhile the Texans where depantsed by the Vikings and the Jets just lost to a god awful Broncos team and scored 9 points at home. This game while making very angry and they should the let everyone down tonight. 

[ALG1130]

1 minute ago, LEBills said:

Ravens are 20-3 in home primetime games under Harbaugh. This was a tough position to be in on a short week for the Bills. We were never gonna go 17-0, just chalk it up to a bad game and move on. It doesn’t happen often for us so it is more jarring, but every team has a bad game here and there.

I get you and agree with you, I think for a lot of us it's just how we lost this one. It was so ugly. I want the team to at least be in it. If we can bounce back next week it will ease a lot of this pain. I feel we either bounce back or go on a freefall. I think I am most concerned about how we looked against a "legit" team, though we had some chances here and there to make it competitive, I guess.

[HomeskillitMoorman]

We are never going to win it all with McD here. I don’t know many deer in the headlights coaching and defense moments we have to see on the big stage before people will understand it. 

[buffblue]

1 minute ago, Roundybout said:

I don’t care if we need to start the shambling corpse of Coy Wire out there.

 

Cam Lewis cannot see the field again

Come on, go easy on him. He's only missed like 30 tackles tonight

[iwishitwerecolder]

Just now, sven233 said:

Look.....we all know this is a long season and we weren't going to win them all.  I think if you would have told us before the season started, we would be 4-2 out of the gate, we would have all signed up for that without thinking twice.  This is a bad loss, but it's not the end of the world.  Suck it up, learn from it, and go beat Houston next week and get back on track.  Then, find a way to get an AFC East win against the Jets and you're 5-1. 

 

Tonight was a bad night for sure, but it happens.  It will happen again.  Just can't let 1 loss turn into 2 in a row or 3 in a row.

Easy win..? Against this jets 😂

[Ethan in Cleveland]

They tried to play 4-3 to stop them but 32 was so bad they had to go back to playing nickel. Too bad Lewis played terribly all game. Regression back to the norm.

 

[davefan66]

Just now, MikePJ76 said:

he demanded to be traded.  How can anyone not see this still.  He is a selfish prick who the bills had to dump and take the dead money hit because he would have been impossible in the locker room. 

Beane restructured him expecting him to stay.  There was obviously behind the scenes moves by diggs to move on and keeping him would have been a major locker room issue.

[balln]

1 minute ago, Meatloaf63 said:

Then add in the dumb contracts and it’s closer to 70 million wasted.

Yea let’s see. Curtis Samuel was 8 mill? Edwards safety 2.8 mill! (He doesn’t even DRESS!) 

[The Firebaugh Kid]

RIP the streak of only losing by six points for like 46 games.