AFC Championship Game Week Thread - Bills at Chiefs

[Warriorspikes51]

Just now, Beast said:

Not only is Rapp out but Benford won’t even be at practice according to McDermott. I didn’t catch the reason why he won’t be at practice.

 

Benford has a personal situation, remains in protocol

Milano and Taron will practice in full 

[Process]

Well CB still in protocol and missing the last practice before the afccg is concerning..... Would be a huge loss. 

[Coach Tuesday]

If Benford can’t go, that’s basically all she wrote.

[ytownblofan]

CB still being in the protocol is expected. I do not think him missing practice today for personal reasons has any impact on the protocol. Personally, I think he will go, but we will likely not know until around 5pm on Sunday. 

[Bob Chandler's Hands]

1 minute ago, Coach Tuesday said:

If Benford can’t go, that’s basically all she wrote.

No point in even playing the game, right?

[Negan]

1 minute ago, ytownblofan said:

CB still being in the protocol is expected. I do not think him missing practice today for personal reasons has any impact on the protocol. Personally, I think he will go, but we will likely not know until around 5pm on Sunday. 

He's playing, he was practicing in the end zone doing one on one cover work yesterday.

[appoo]

1 minute ago, Coach Tuesday said:

If Benford can’t go, that’s basically all she wrote.

Elam will step up and I actually kind of welcome his speed against an offense with Xavier worthy and Hollywood Brown on it.  
 

Much bigger concern is a rookie safety with Travis Kelce out there, and Andy Reid cooking 

[Simon]

3 minutes ago, Coach Tuesday said:

If Benford can’t go, that’s basically all she wrote.

 

Conspiracy theory alert:

I wonder if they're trying to hide the fact he has the flu and are trying to keep him away from the team.

[Beast]

1 minute ago, appoo said:

Elam will step up and I actually kind of welcome his speed against an offense with Xavier worthy and Hollywood Brown on it.  
 

Much bigger concern is a rookie safety with Travis Kelce out there, and Andy Reid cooking 

Put Taron Johnson on Kelce. Keep the safety’s deep like always.

[appoo]

Just now, Beast said:

Put Taron Johnson on Kelce. Keep the safety’s deep like always.

And as usual you need to play combinations of zone and man against the chiefs. Bills simply don’t have the speed to play majority man. They’ll blitz and do it but they’re gonna be particular about it just like they were against Lamar 

[gonzo1105]

1 minute ago, Simon said:

 

Conspiracy theory alert:

I wonder if they're trying to hide the fact he has the flu and are trying to keep him away from the team.

I don’t think that’s a conspiracy theory at all. This makes a lot of sense as the entire country had it. I think that’s what they did with Dawkins as well 

[Straight Hucklebuck]

Yeah this is all around concerning. 

 

Our health once again has fallen apart at critical times. 

 

Cole Bishop. 

The last time we saw Elam - he has the speed to run with WRs, the problem is he's like Bishop, they're telling him to stay ahead of the WR, so he allows room underneath and gives up catches. 

[Charles Romes]

Might be a blessing in disguise to get Bishop’s 4.4 speed out there. 

 

[YattaOkasan]

11 hours ago, DapperCam said:

I agree that we just let him set up camp back there and instructed the lineman to stay in their lanes and not lose contain. We did blitz way more than we usually do this year (I think I read > 40%), but we aren't a great blitzing team.

I kind of wonder how things would have been different if Harbaugh just decided to run the ball 40+ times with their RBs and gave Lamar 15 total pass attempts. I kind of think the Ravens might have won that game, so I'm glad he didn't.

Do you have any metrics that say were not a great blitzing team?  I went looking but couldnt find any articles (I think Cover 1 videos have mentioned our efficiency).  I was under the impression we are efficient when we blitz, but we choose not to.

[D. L. Hot-Flamethrower]

Dawkins is back and feeling well now, correct?

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

 

[Coffeesforclosers]

2 minutes ago, DaBillsFanSince1973 said:

 

 

Hmm... I wonder if he's got something that can be fixed with a minor operation.

[Straight Hucklebuck]

5 minutes ago, Charles Romes said:

Might be a blessing in disguise to get Bishop’s 4.4 speed out there. 

 

It's definitely not a blessing. 

 

His speed as not been an asset all year. 

[Royale with Cheese]

16 minutes ago, Coach Tuesday said:

If Benford can’t go, that’s basically all she wrote.

I keep checking to see if the line has changed to like -15 KC because Benford could be out…

[boyst]

Just now, Straight Hucklebuck said:

It's definitely not a blessing. 

 

His speed as not been an asset all year. 

i'd rather place with Cam Lewis as a dime and a single safety than put Bishop on long passing plays. Bishop makes mistakes.