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As shown by the first quarter, there's no way this game should have been this close. Oh, well. A win is a win.
The lack of a pass rush is concerning for the defense. The Dolphins were banged up pretty good on the O-line and Buffalo got very little pressure against a 3rd string QB. That is problematic. They really really miss Von Miller. Heck, even last year they still had a pretty decent Jerry Hughes.
Caitlin Morse:
I wonder if he would defend my honor the way he defends Josh?
For the season, Buffalo is even with 27 total takeovers and give-aways. Cincinatti is plus six. BUT, their injuries on the OL could even things out.
Sorry, man. It would drive me insane to have to miss a playoff game. Like, I would cancel all sorts of personal and work-related stuff for this.
I am 100% with you on all of this.
Assuming this is true, I think it's time to have a conversation about why this coaching staff is so invested in messing with fan expectations. This goes back to how they super-slow-walked Tre's comeback while making it sound like it was right around the corner back in July.
IMO, I think there are 2 different situations there.
fans are stupid with unrealistic expectations
Just basically said the same thing in the game thread. He made zero adjustments all season and never did a thing to make things easier for Allen and the offense. Teams started doubling Diggs about halfway through the season, or even fake doubling him, and it straight up eliminated him. Zero adjustments to scheme open their best WR. Zero answers to heavy pressure.
Strongly agree on all your points regarding the draft. That's exactly what I had in mind. A few pretty good players and a bunch of projects. That's nowhere near enough.
I'm not as 'out' on the 2022 draft as some of you. I think Elam and Shakir definitely have a place in this league, and Benford has a shot, too.
They haven’t drafted a guy who has made the Pro Bowl in 4 years.
Ack. Just looked at the regular season numbers. Cook had a better YPC on the season by a good bit. I'm probably wrong on the previous statement, but I swear I looked at many box scores and saw Motor with a better YPC in the game.
You guys are obviously closer to it, but they didn’t seem to cut back much on Allen’s rushing duties this year as planned. Granted, hard to go away from that rushing as a huge weapon, but also seems like they could use more balance on offense.
They NEED to go OL.
No way all 3 of those teams are better than Philly. Philly is the most complete team in football.
All three of those teams would be favored over Philadelphia on a neutral field, and I agree with the betting public in this case. You're free to disagree of course. The Eagles are certainly a solid team.
I disagree but curious if there is a way to determine whether the bolded is accurate. Do they make lines for hypothetical matchups? The Eagles do not really have a weakness at all. You can't say the same about the 3 AFC teams. KC would likely be favored if Mahomes was healthy but he's not. I doubt the Bills or Bengals would be favored on a neutral field.
This is all kind of an irrelevant sidebar, but I'm talking about hypothetical "full strength" matchups. Obviously KC is favored over Philadelphia if everyone is healthy. I mean, come on now.
Hurts doesn't have to be as good as those other 3 because the team around him is so good. There isn't a weakness on that team. Anyways not a big deal to me so I'll stop as to not derail this thread further.
Agreed. We're presumably going to have to make some choices about which free agents to re-sign, and Oliver is still my top priority, personally. Obviously it depends on money. If I was given the choice between "Edmunds on a cheap, team-friendly deal" vs. "Oliver on a market-setting deal" I'd probably opt for Edmunds. But assuming we're talking about normal positional salaries, DTs are had to find and Oliver is a good one. He needs other pass rushers to play his best, but that's true of pretty much everybody at that position, and he was very effective this year when Von was in the lineup.
It's hard to parse out how much of this is Allen and how much of it is Dorsey. I don't watch the all-22, but people who do tell me that Dorsey isn't giving Allen many options. Lots of plays are designed to either be dump-offs or bombs, with no short or intermediate options.
I agree.
It’s the playoffs. Teams shouldn’t need an emotional boost. If the Bengals won because they manufactured themselves an emotionalI think Buffalo should have educated CIN that all future playoff games have their tickets sold in advance and the potential Atlanta game wasn’t an outlier.
Because the Bengals clearly used that game as an emotional boost. I don’t think their talent across both lines is as dominant as the performance was yesterday.
