Bills vs Ravens Divisional Round

[SoonerBillsFan]

1 hour ago, Success said:

 

The Ravens run game has already transcended into myth.

 

And yet they lost 5 games, and we were probably a trick play fumble away from coming back in the 1st game.

 

Can't wait until Sunday.

 

The only way the bs talk ends is to win.   I hate to say it, Josh has to score 4 TD's and we have to beat them by 20 for everyone to STHU.

[Blank Stare]

3 hours ago, Mark Vader said:

Better Instincts. Yes. Better vision. Debatable.

[BillsFan130]

Leslie Frazier somehow always came up with amazing blueprints against Lamar.

 

I get Lamar is a lot more refined now and they got Derrick Henry, but if I were Bobby B? I would be picking Leslie's brain a bit and/or watch film of those past games

[EmotionallyUnstable]

39 minutes ago, boyst said:

On the fence...

Access to ticket for under $100

Drive fuel $250

Hotel (if not staying with family) $160

 

Time: 19 hours driving

Suck it up buttercup. It’s go time! 
 

P.S. to clarify, I will be watching from the comfort of my couch. 

[Beck Water]

26 minutes ago, Juice_32 said:

Coached my son's basketball game tonight and the ref was a die hard Ravens fan. He is terrified to play us. Allen has him shook for sure. He sounded like a lot of Bills fans do about our chances. 

 

That must have been refreshing!

[Big Turk]

7 minutes ago, BillsFan130 said:

Leslie Frazier somehow always came up with amazing blueprints against Lamar.

 

I get Lamar is a lot more refined now and they got Derrick Henry, but if I were Bobby B? I would be picking Leslie's brain a bit and/or watch film of those past games

 

That was McDermott

[EmotionallyUnstable]

I definitely believe the Bills defense will be worlds more disciplined and prepared for the ravens offense than both last meeting and the Steelers last week. 
 

That said, I get the feeling that McDermott is going to bring out something unique that we haven’t really seen a ton of. I have no idea what it’d be but an example might be a large increase in man coverage with bringing DBs off the edge on run blitzes, more 5-2 to try and limit the doubles and keep the LBs clean, stunting DL, etc. 

 

McDermott has a chance to rise to the occasion here. We’ve seen and thought that we’ve experienced some vanilla offense over the course of the final stretch of the regular season and now I can’t help but wonder what else is left in the bag defensively. Have they also been holding back? If there is anything left in there, now would be the time. 

Edited 1 hour ago by EmotionallyUnstable

[Sierra Foothills]

9 hours ago, Bleeding Bills Blue said:

I say if they roll Andrews, Likely, Ricard then yeah - add the 3rd linebacker.  But if they have a 2nd WR instead of likely or ricard?  I'd keep Taron out there.  He's a good tackler and instincts tend to win out more than beef.  

 

Also, he's more likely to run another Lamar interception back 101 yards for a touchdown than Dorian is.

 

9 hours ago, zow2 said:

The Buffalo News had an excellent stat today.  They questioned if the Ravens pass defense was really as amazing as they've looked recently?  Then they looked at the recent opponents offensive rankings.

 

LA Chargers  ranked 19th in passing yards

Houston ranked 21st

Cleveland ranked 22nd

NY Giants ranked 28th

Philadelphia ranked 29th

Pittsburgh x 3 games ranked 27th

 

The Ravens reputation has fattened up on an average of the 25th ranked passing offenses.  

 

I'm not saying that Sunday will be great for passing, this will probably be a game where whoever dominates the trenches and runs better will win.

 

Others here have posted the equivalent of this earlier in the topic but it's nice to see it broken down by ranking.

 

It also bears mentioning that in the Giants game the QBs were Tim Boyle and Tommy DeVito, and in the Cleveland game it was Bailey Zappe, 

 

9 hours ago, RobbRiddick said:

He definitely looks like a Bill, no idea why they named him Maxx

 

Maybe because he's not a sexual predator?

 

7 hours ago, Beck Water said:

 

 

Flowers ain't playing and Harbaugh's not fooling anyone (except for those who believe that the word "gullible" is not in the dictionary).

 

7 hours ago, TrentEdwardsCheckDownOn4th said:

The weather for the game Is being overblown by the media,  just like they tend to do when any snow storm is forecasted . 

 

They are saying 5 degree temperatures sunday night.....  Well that's true at 1 am but not so much at 630. Supposed to be 15. 

 

They are saying there's going to be snow . Maybe a flurry or two .

 

They are saying it's going to be windy with gusts up to 20-25 mph! ....the wind is going t9 be negligible at 5mph. 

 

The ravens won't be cold and the conditions outside of a little cold should be ideal. 

 

Dude, it's obvious you're downplaying the severity of the weather because you're trying to unload those last two tickets. 🙃

 

6 hours ago, K-9 said:

Gonna give the Ravens the ol’ groot and smoot. Or is it the ol’ smoot and groot? I always get the order confused.

 

If I recall correctly, according to the Chicago Manual of Style when in doubt, you go alphabetically... or by draft order... can't quite remember.

 

2 hours ago, Forward Progress said:

Dude…. This is the most obvious sarcasm ever written in the internet.  
 

Duolingo needs to add sarcasm to its list of languages to learn.  The previous poster has the same opinion as you that Allen is as tough as nails. 
 

There needs to be a sarcasm font too to help avoid these misunderstandings. 

 

No. There's no reason to make every aspect of the world idiot-proof. There can't be a safety net for everything.

 

Let's not diminish the importance of Darwinism.

 

[Comebackkid]

5 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:

McDermott looks pissed off 

 

 

 

I think he meant to say...  F around and find out!

[Beck Water]

1 hour ago, HappyDays said:

 

Okay so you're obviously a Dolphins fan. I've been debating between that and Chiefs. The constant obsession with the weather is the dead giveaway.

 

Well, for what it's worth he joined the board the week before the 2nd Dolphins game

[Beck Water]

6 hours ago, Logic said:

What kinda b1tch ass name is "Zay Flowers" any way?

Ravens should lose just for rostering a guy named after pretty smelling little garden plants.

go bills

 

Rosie Greer would like a word with you, my little Buttercup!

[3rdand12]

1 hour ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:

When you start flooding the field with olinemen/fbs you make your intentions pretty clear.  Henry doesn’t really have crazy burst off the line either, if you start shooting those gaps in the run game you can definitely trip him up before he gets going it’s not impossible.  Bills really haven’t been bad in obvious running situations to my eye in fact we’ve made a bunch of short yardage stops this year it feels like.  

Gap discipline  is critical again this game

LBs need to see which way Ravens O line want to turn out D Tackles in real time.

Bills secondary better be ready pull off coverage asap and look back to Henry.

 I wish we had two immovable objects to play the  A -B gaps so our LBs were mostly responsible for outside hash runs etc, Chase vs crash i guess

But we dont

Play 3 LBs on few early down plays ??

 

 

25 minutes ago, EmotionallyUnstable said:

I definitely believe the Bills defense will be worlds more disciplined and prepared for the ravens offense than both last meeting and the Steelers last week. 
 

That said, I get the feeling that McDermott is going to bring out something unique that we haven’t really seen a ton of. I have no idea what it’d be but an example might be a large increase in man coverage with bringing DBs off the edge on run blitzes, more 5-2 to try and limit the doubles and keep the LBs clean, stunting DL, etc. 

 

McDermott has a chance to rise to the occasion here. We’ve seen and thought that we’ve experienced some vanilla offense over the course of the final stretch of the regular season and now I can’t help but wonder what else is left in the bag defensively. Have they also been holding back? If there is anything left in there, now would be the time. 

ELAM !

[Beck Water]

12 hours ago, Steptide said:

The field isn't heated is it?! 

 

No. 
The Bills field crew keep the field covered until a couple hours before gametime, and if it snows the snow insulates

But No.  Not heated.
 

Edited 1 hour ago by Beck Water

[BillsFan130]

54 minutes ago, Big Turk said:

 

That was McDermott

Based on what?

 

Mcdermott always said Leslie ran the defence and he didn't interfere .

 

His exact words were in I believe it was 2021: "This is Leslie's Defence"

Edited 1 hour ago by BillsFan130

[Richard Noggin]

15 hours ago, BADOLBILZ said:

 

It's just about being prepared for it.   Which is what I question.  It helps to be acclimated a bit but places like Buffalo and KC are regularly much colder than Baltimore in January.   KC people are really accustomed to it.   It's colder there.   But there is not a big margin for error if you are boozed up and under-dressed in those temps.  If you show up expecting there to be not much difference between a 30 degree game at M&T and 8 at Ralph you will get surprised.    I've been to many of the colder games in Bills history and I was never cold for that Raiders 0 degree -30 windchill playoff game but per Tasker one of the Raiders almost punched out on the bench under a pile or overcoats.   We'll be comfy at our tailgate I have a big heater about a size down from the one's they use now on the sidelines and we used it for that NE playoff game and it kept a large area quite nice but we also have plenty of places to take refuge during the day.  If you are rolling in hours before the game via Uber and are out in it all day and underdressed you could easily be screwed by 8-9 pm. 

 

If we're specifically isolating overconfident and underprepared Ravens fans, then sure, there could be some risk. Ideally they'd just LEAVE. Which is yet another reason to want the Bills to jump on them early and often, if possible. Gotta go right after bullies and frontrunners. They are often weak-willed once you crack through that veil of invincibility. 

 

But for modestly experienced Bills fans, this game will not be dangerous or even uncomfortable. 

[Beck Water]

1 hour ago, SoonerBillsFan said:

The only way the bs talk ends is to win.   I hate to say it, Josh has to score 4 TD's and we have to beat them by 20 for everyone to STHU.

 

Then take a page out of Josh Allen's book

Put on your FTA hoodie and Tune Out the Noise

 

I want us to beat the Ravens.  I don't care if it's by 1 point or 21 points, just so it's more points than they have when the clock goes to zero

 

So if that's not good enough to make everyone STHU, then learn to live with them yapping.

[Richard Noggin]

14 hours ago, klos63 said:

Detroit didn't have to run,  they passed for 500 yards. 

 

How'd that work out for them?

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

26 minutes ago, Richard Noggin said:

 

How'd that work out for them?

Lol truth.  Granted Detroit has well documented injury issues of their own I fully acknowledge that but if the bills weren’t way down the depth chart at a few defensive positions by the third quarter I think we blow Detroit out in that one and I don’t know how far behind Baltimore they are offensively if at all

Edited 40 minutes ago by Generic_Bills_Fan

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

1 hour ago, SoonerBillsFan said:

The only way the bs talk ends is to win.   I hate to say it, Josh has to score 4 TD's and we have to beat them by 20 for everyone to STHU.

Sad thing is the bills probably have to go back to back wins against Baltimore and KC to get any amount of credit at all lol the divisional will mean nothing once it doesn’t go all these analysts’ way 

[BADOLBILZ]

32 minutes ago, Richard Noggin said:

 

If we're specifically isolating overconfident and underprepared Ravens fans, then sure, there could be some risk. Ideally they'd just LEAVE. Which is yet another reason to want the Bills to jump on them early and often, if possible. Gotta go right after bullies and frontrunners. They are often weak-willed once you crack through that veil of invincibility. 

 

But for modestly experienced Bills fans, this game will not be dangerous or even uncomfortable. 

 

Yeah that's what I'm isolating.   There could be like 9K of them scattered about so there will likely be some.