Lopsided Ravens - Bills Box scores

[Aussie Joe]

This is the kind of win they need to get over the hump 👍

 

Embrace it 

[Big Blitz]

48 minutes ago, PoundingDog said:

If you just look at that, you would say the Ravens win handlily

 

Then you see the turnover below:

 

Turnover is critical between quality teams in the playoffs. We saw last night in Detroit as well. 

 

I am also very encouraged by the Bills rushing yards, out-pacing the passing yards. Remember Ravens has the #1 run defense. In January football, you need to be able to run the ball and we do have it now. Now they do need to pick up the passing game some heading into KC.

 

No.  86 of those yards were on the last possession of the game for them.  
 

We took the ball away from them and scored on a quick drive.  Built a 21-0 lead at half.  
 

Baltimore was fortunate we didn’t punch it in on our last drive to make it 31-19 and game over right there.

 

 

I had a feeling our O would have some issues with their D bc of matchups and yet for 3 quarters we were just fine especially running the ball.  

[billsfan89]

Turnovers are a killer in any game. If you are -3 in turnovers that's gonna put you behind the eight ball so to speak. The Bills made the margins tight and forced the Ravens to execute a tight game and they just made too many mistakes. Even had Andrews tied the game the Bills still would have had the ball with 99 seconds and 2 timeouts only needing a field goal. 

[Nelius]

Holding King Henry to only 84 yards in a playoff game is like holding a regular mortal running back to 30, so you have to consider the Henry bump.

 

Been on the wagon that we’re watching one of the best ever with him for a few years now and consider what the defense did to contain him to be a gigantic victory. But anyway, got to consider the Henry multiplier.

[billsfan89]

5 minutes ago, Aussie Joe said:

This is the kind of win they need to get over the hump 👍

 

Embrace it 

 

All week pundits were saying how the Ravens were a bad matchup for the Bills. And in the second half we saw some of that manifest, the Ravens offense scored 15 points and the Ravens defense held the Bills to just 6 points. But the Bills managed to get a win off of clutch turnovers and an offense that was able to get it going just enough. Sometimes you just gotta grind out wins in bad matchups and that's what this team did. To be the man you gotta beat the man. 

[BillsFan130]

11 minutes ago, Big Turk said:

 

The Ravens led for under 6 minutes in the first quarter and then never led again. You can't control the game when you are behind for 90% of it.

Semantics, you know what I mean. 416 yards to 273 Baltimore out gained them

If you came out of this game saying the bills were the better team and turnovers weren't the deciding factor, I don't know what to tell ya.

Im not complaining as im thrilled with the win. But let's call a spade a spade here

[Orlando Buffalo]

56 minutes ago, ganesh said:

And those plays were made possible by the players who did not play last time...Milano, Bernard and Johnson. 

Not being obnoxious, what did Johnson's do today? I did not notice him like the other two. I am ok with being informed  what I missed.

[mannc]

15 minutes ago, Big Turk said:

 

The Ravens led for under 6 minutes in the first quarter and then never led again. You can't control the game when you are behind for 90% of it.

Henry was almost a non factor and wasn’t even on the field during the 4th quarter.  It’s exactly what happened to the Ravens when they played the Chiefs in the first game of the season.  

[BillsFan130]

Just now, Orlando Buffalo said:

Not being obnoxious, what did Johnson's do today? I did not notice him like the other two. I am ok with being informed  what I missed.

Might be an unpopular take - But I think Taron has had a pretty bad season . At least for his standards 

[Orlando Buffalo]

5 minutes ago, billsfan89 said:

 

All week pundits were saying how the Ravens were a bad matchup for the Bills. And in the second half we saw some of that manifest, the Ravens offense scored 15 points and the Ravens defense held the Bills to just 6 points. But the Bills managed to get a win off of clutch turnovers and an offense that was able to get it going just enough. Sometimes you just gotta grind out wins in bad matchups and that's what this team did. To be the man you gotta beat the man. 

Ravens are a bad matchup for us- I think we should beat the other three left but today I was worried because Henry is a beast.

[LABILLBACKER]

53 minutes ago, Beast said:

Whatever.

 

The Bills coaching staff became way too conservative on both sides of the ball in the second half. I was very surprised by that. I hope they learned their lesson because the Bills should have won this game by at least 2 scores.

 

 

Those first 2 offensive series in the 3rd quarter were abominations.  Brady knew their weakness was pass coverage and he forced runs or behind the LOS throws that were terrible calls. Even the 3rd & goal from the 2 should've been at least 1 tush push.  Brady was terrible today.

[buffblue]

52 minutes ago, Beast said:

Josh Allen threw for 127 yards. Let that sink in.

 

The first half the Bills were bringing heat on Jackson and he looked uncomfortable. In the second half they laid back.

 

The Bills coaching staff almost cost them this game.

Spot on dude

[Utah John]

When the Ravens got their last TD, there was 1:33 left in the fourth quarter.  That would have been plenty of time for the Bills offense to get into FG position.  Certainly the failed 2 pt try just about ended things, but there was every chance the Bills could have won the game with a late score.

[billsfan89]

2 minutes ago, Orlando Buffalo said:

Ravens are a bad matchup for us- I think we should beat the other three left but today I was worried because Henry is a beast.

 

The Ravens are also in my opinion the most physical team in the playoffs with several dynamic offensive pieces. I looked at them as the worst matchup in the playoffs for the Bills. I know Mahomes away is hard but I think just looking at the matchups in KC from an X's and O's standpoint KC doesn't present the same issues. KC is different issues but hey there's no easy playoff games to be the man you gotta beat the man.

[SageAgainstTheMachine]

1 minute ago, LABILLBACKER said:

Those first 2 offensive series in the 3rd quarter were abominations.  Brady knew their weakness was pass coverage and he forced runs or behind the LOS throws that were terrible calls. Even the 3rd & goal from the 2 should've been at least 1 tush push.  Brady was terrible today.

That 3rd & 5 screen to Dawson Knox made me want to puke.  Whatever BS Brady was on today needs to get fixed quick.

[DabillsDaBillsDaBills]

I'm curious how many teams have won a game while allowing 400+ yards with 0 forced punts. 

 

Thank god for those turnovers

[Big Turk]

12 minutes ago, BillsFan130 said:

Semantics, you know what I mean. 416 yards to 273 Baltimore out gained them

If you came out of this game saying the bills were the better team and turnovers weren't the deciding factor, I don't know what to tell ya.

Im not complaining as im thrilled with the win. But let's call a spade a spade here

 

If you turn the ball over are you really the better team? 

[Orlando Buffalo]

5 minutes ago, billsfan89 said:

 

The Ravens are also in my opinion the most physical team in the playoffs with several dynamic offensive pieces. I looked at them as the worst matchup in the playoffs for the Bills. I know Mahomes away is hard but I think just looking at the matchups in KC from an X's and O's standpoint KC doesn't present the same issues. KC is different issues but hey there's no easy playoff games to be the man you gotta beat the man.

I agree with all of this and expect a hard game next week but a better matchup and of course the last game will be the same. 

[CincyBillsFan]

3 minutes ago, Big Turk said:

 

If you turn the ball over are you really the better team? 

Well if Allen and the Bills are the ones turning the ball over the QB sucks and is to careless with the ball but I'm sensing a reworking of that narrative after tonight's game.

 

Remember a lot of NFL media folks probably have voted Jackson the MVP over Allen and they're going to CYA big time. After all, a lot of these clowns predicted Allen would never be a starting QB in the NFL, then they said that Allen was to careless with the ball so would never win the big games and now - well like I said it will be interesting to see the old narrative twisted into a pretzel.

 

 

 

 

Edited 6 hours ago by CincyBillsFan

[Ralonzo]

27 minutes ago, billsfan89 said:

Turnovers are a killer in any game. If you are -3 in turnovers that's gonna put you behind the eight ball so to speak. The Bills made the margins tight and forced the Ravens to execute a tight game and they just made too many mistakes. Even had Andrews tied the game the Bills still would have had the ball with 99 seconds and 2 timeouts only needing a field goal. 

 

Romo particularly wouldn't shut up about how the Ravens were a much better team and had a very wide margin of error where they could step on their own schwantz all day and still win. He's going to claim this result, a two point loss after a bunch of sloppy turnovers, as a victory for his narrative.