The mighty Bills from Buffalo will take the AFC this year.
For two decades I watched people say the Patriots window was closed, that their time was dwindling, that it was all over… seemingly every time those predictions happened, the Patriots went and won another Super Bowl.
A lot of doom talk simply because we lost to the Bengals in the playoffs. Let us not forget that the Bills watched their brother DIE on the field just a few weeks prior. Their heart was simply not in it. If it had been, the Bills would have captured the AFC last year.
The Bills have won 2 of their last 3 in Arrowhead and they’re ready to make it 3 of the last 4.
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Interesting thought: if the Ravens and Bills merged to be like the Bravens and could pick the 53 best players from both rosters and combine coaching staffs, would they beat Kansas City? Don't worry about the salary cap for the sake of ease.
Would be like the Steagles during world war 2, but instead of fighting the Nazis we'd be fighting Patrick Mahomes.
It will send all these pink hat Patriots honks up here until caniption fits because the Chiefs will be hailed as better than the Patriots. The salty tears of Patriots fans are so delicious it's unlike anything else.
Originally Posted by stumppy:
Josh Allen is a broken man.
It's like watching a man have a mental epiphany. At first he's thinking that he'll come back with experience and some better players and he'll win it. By the end you can see him realizing that even after he devoted his entire offseason and season to getting better and eliminating all the little mistakes, he's still not good enough. It's like watching a man come to understand "I will never get that promotion." [Reply]
Originally Posted by BlackOp:
There lies the question...would have Mahomes recognized the defensive formation and adjusted in that moment?
I would guess yes...and that is why one of them is playing in his 5th SB.
I wonder if we'd have just 'played it straight' so to speak.
There HAS to be a way to lean one direction or another without completely selling out the other side.
Maybe not. Maybe he was doomed to fail. But if Mahomes had seen that, I think he might have left the protections pretty static and relied on his processing ability to attack wherever the blitz came from.
I don't think he would've felt the need to completely 'kill' the blitz, but rather would've thought that merely slowing it might be enough. So rather than get a coverage adjustment, maybe he just lets it ride and plays things as they come. Maybe ONE blitzer gets through that way, but the entire right side of the line wouldn't have failed like it did for Buffalo. [Reply]
Originally Posted by rfaulk34:
Stop it. This is basic QB101. Numbers vs numbers.
There's no rocket surgery going on here.
If Allen had played 'numbers vs. numbers' he wouldn't have gotten his shit pushed in.
He got too cute by half.
We showed the numbers on the right side, he slid the protection left because we'd been deking with that blitz all night.
The problem is that Allen THOUGHT it was rocket surgery. Had he just played it straight, things would've gone much better for him.
Spags got in his head. Not in as open and obvious a way as he has in the past, but this was unquestionably a mental error brought on by Spags playing head games with Allen the whole night. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BlackOp:
There lies the question...would have Mahomes recognized the defensive formation and adjusted in that moment?
I would guess yes...and that is why one of them is playing in his 5th SB.
Honestly the play may have gone differently if their rg didn’t let both players in front of him run by untouched. Dude blocked nobody, and watched in awe as Allen got drilled by FuriousGeorge [Reply]