Bills vs Ravens Divisional Round

[MJS]

3 minutes ago, ColoradoBills said:

 

OL couldn't extend their arms.  DL could head slap.  It was crazy.

Yeah! I forgot about that. Olinemen basically had to play with their arms tied behind their back 😆

[Desert Bills Fan]

15 minutes ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:

Interesting breakdown by Steelers’ film guy, and a very cautionary tale for us. Listen around 9 minute mark. Two takeaways: 

 

1) Ravens were basically in 11 personnel with an extra offensive lineman (plus Ricard) for a ton of the game. 
 

2) Steelers played nickel a ton out of those sets, and were gashed for over 9 yards per play. (When Steelers went heavy, they stopped them).

 

 

so what innovative defensive alignment might the Bills use against this “heavy” Ravens group?
Maybe: 5 DL, 3 LB, 2 CB, 1 safety ?

[Jauronimo]

18 minutes ago, DJB said:

Jim Rome is awful. Hells at callers or never lets them speak then just makes fun or name calls them

 

awful sports show 

Did you read a poem on the air too?

[klos63]

49 minutes ago, Mark Vader said:

The Alan Parsons Project's version of this use to scare me as a kid. Probably because of the strange sounding voices.

Still one of my all time favorite albums.

[YattaOkasan]

1 hour ago, jaybeezee said:

When in the Red Zone, yes go for it on short. We wont beat the Ravens playing like that. Our offensive scheme seemed very vanilla when we got to the Red Zone.

that 1/5 stat is misleading though (you didnt mention but heard stephen A say it).  discount the kneel downs makes it 1/4.  then add in context of holding on the third down that got missed.  That would likely be a TD.  Hollins catch would likely be a TD if not for silly taunting, but then we didnt score when backed up to the 18.  so its bit more like 3/5 (not counting 2 point conversion).  Considering how good broncos are in the RZ I can live with it but it does need to be different.  

27 minutes ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:

Interesting breakdown by Steelers’ film guy, and a very cautionary tale for us. Listen around 9 minute mark. Two takeaways: 

 

1) Ravens were basically in 11 personnel with an extra offensive lineman (plus Ricard) for a ton of the game. 
 

2) Steelers played nickel a ton out of those sets, and were gashed for over 9 yards per play. (When Steelers went heavy, they stopped them).

 

 

11 personnel with extra OL and ricard means no Henry?  that line feels off.  PFR says their WR only played 119 snaps (total 74 snaps).  That means minimal 11 personnel (max would be 40 out of 74 snaps assuming no WR on the other snaps).  I think this scout needs new eyes.  Seems like they played 21, 22, or 12 personnel a ton.

[WideNine]

23 minutes ago, Desert Bills Fan said:

 

so what innovative defensive alignment might the Bills use against this “heavy” Ravens group?
Maybe: 5 DL, 3 LB, 2 CB, 1 safety ?

 

Unless we are terribly concerned about their slot receivers or RBs catching passes out of the backfield the Bills could pull Taron out and sub in Dorian as the extra backer without too much drop off.

 

They have rolled with 3 LBs before, but everyone knows they prefer to run their base nickel.

 

We tried leaning into our base defense before and were gashed by Henry and Lamar runs so we will see if our defense tries to match up more on the size and box numbers than they did before and run a bit more man coverage and single high.

 

Rushers need to be gap sound and not get too far up field or they will set themselves up for wham blocks or lose contain. Have to win that trench war and be sound tackling/wrapping up with that first guy there.

 

Tall order for our defense regardless unless we can get the early lead and force Lamar to beat us with his arm.

 

Even then I don't see Harbough abandoning the run completely unless they really feel the squeeze of running out of clock.

 

 

Edited 14 hours ago by WideNine

[Scott7975]

1 hour ago, That's No Moon said:

This could not make me happier. Keep it going, lemmings. Get alllll that money down on the Raisins.

 

They all gonna try and make back all the money they lost betting on Denver.

[sleeby]

NT weather shows sat as high almost 40 and Sunday high as 19f.  Sounds like a lot of cold air moving in and so a lot of wind.  A ground game will not be good for us.  Let's hope that changes.

[njbuff]

It’s only Tuesday and I’m tired of the f-n Pigeons.

[Scott7975]

3 hours ago, Buryravens said:

His in the pocket numbers are 2nd best to Rodgers 2011…

 

Easier to do when you throw to the most wide open receivers in the league.

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

10 minutes ago, sleeby said:

NT weather shows sat as high almost 40 and Sunday high as 19f.  Sounds like a lot of cold air moving in and so a lot of wind.  A ground game will not be good for us.  Let's hope that changes.

Isnt ‘wind’ the excuse the anti mcd crowd uses for why we beat Baltimore last time in the playoffs  😂  
 

probably makes it a little easier to add LBers on defense without Josh being effected very much on the other side of the ball if it’s a little windy. A gale force wind pats game situation would not be good but a steady breeze hurts the ravens more imo 

Edited 14 hours ago by Generic_Bills_Fan

[Beck Water]

On 1/12/2025 at 5:06 PM, SUNTANBILLS FAN said:

Wasn’t cook, Milano, Johnson and brown out the first game against Lamar and the ravens?

 

Milano was out.  Bernard was out.  Johnson was out.  Rapp went out and Bishop played 3/4 of the game.

 

Brown and Cook both played

[BigAl2526]

5 minutes ago, sleeby said:

NT weather shows sat as high almost 40 and Sunday high as 19f.  Sounds like a lot of cold air moving in and so a lot of wind.  A ground game will not be good for us.  Let's hope that changes.

According to an article on Buffalo Rumblings, game time temperature could be 8 degrees farenheit.  Lamar Jackson's coldest game ever was 27.  Derek Henry's coldest game ever was 22.   That may be cold enough that Lamar and Derek will have a tough time adjusting.

[CaseyatBat]

Just now, BigAl2526 said:

According to an article on Buffalo Rumblings, game time temperature could be 8 degrees farenheit.  Lamar Jackson's coldest game ever was 27.  Derek Henry's coldest game ever was 22.   That may be cold enough that Lamar and Derek will have a tough time adjusting.

 

the cold helps Derrick Henry. hes a 260lb running back, he wants it to be cold so he's even harder to tackle

 

in general I think weather talk is overblown for this game

[DapperCam]

6 minutes ago, CaseyatBat said:

 

the cold helps Derrick Henry. hes a 260lb running back, he wants it to be cold so he's even harder to tackle

 

in general I think weather talk is overblown for this game

Are we sure it helps Henry? It hurts more to tackle, but it also hurts more to be tackled. Henry is from Florida, went to college in Alabama, and has never played for a pro team North of the Mason-Dixon line. In a long career he’s probably had less than 10 sub-freezing games.

[Jauronimo]

45 minutes ago, BigAl2526 said:

According to an article on Buffalo Rumblings, game time temperature could be 8 degrees farenheit.  Lamar Jackson's coldest game ever was 27.  Derek Henry's coldest game ever was 22.   That may be cold enough that Lamar and Derek will have a tough time adjusting.

Lamar does wear that ski mask even when its 70 degrees out.  I don't think he likes the cold.  

Edited 13 hours ago by Jauronimo

[CaseyatBat]

4 minutes ago, DapperCam said:

Are we sure it helps Henry? It hurts more to tackle, but it also hurts more to be tackled. Henry is from Florida, went to college in Alabama, and has never played for a pro team North of the Mason-Dixon line. In a long career he’s probably had less than 10 sub-freezing games.

 

Right and Terrell Bernard, who grew up in Texas, played at Baylor, never been in a walk-in freezer in his life, yada yada, is tasked with tackling Henry. 

 

it is a tired conversation and so overblown.

[zow2]

Henry is so impressive with his speed. To be that large, and at his age, he’s still puts distance between himself and younger smaller DBs.

[Buryravens]

2 hours ago, BananaB said:

So over the past month they have played great against ***** offences. Some might think same D, weak opponent. You believe the turned the corner though. Looked like it in the second half when the Steelers starting throwing the ball. 🙄

Baltimore ran a 4 minute the whole second half, John even joked about that in the presser. 

[Pete]

4 hours ago, Kelly to Allen said:

I need Allen to be Bradshaw 

Oliver to be Joe Greene 

Benford to be Mel Blount 

Allen > Bradshaw

 

Josh needs to be Josh!