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Yup, the Saints are going to want to play keep away and try to wear us down. Rely on their defense keep the score down and hope to get a few big plays somehow. Lucky for us Deonte Harris #11 is still suspended.King Bootz wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 12:27 pm I'm honestly surprised yet thankful that teams aren't trying to run on us more. The last team to commit to running the ball against us beat us by 10, WFT. They only had 94 yards on 34 attempts. But the 34 attempts kept our offense on the sideline and wore our defense out. Wanna know the last team to run it 30+ times against us and win? The Saints 2 weeks prior to that WFT game.
That's the recipe to beat this team. Run it over and over. Our defense is good overall but it's old and it wears down. A lot of our success vs the run comes from the fact that teams simply do not run it against us much. But when they commit, it makes things tougher on our defense.
New Orleans will absolutely run it over and over. Hopefully we are up to the test. I think the best counter to this is running it ourselves on offense but BA has shown he cannot help him and will live or die throwing it.
I just watched it.Dread wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 12:38 pm I haven't seen the replay (other than the quick one during the telecast) of that 3rd & 6 late play in the 4th quarter when Brady completed to Godwin for the 1st down but there were offsetting penalties. I believe they had called D. Smith for holding.
It was a pretty big call in the game since it would've extended the drive for the Bucs and allowed us to kill more clock with a 3pt lead.
Instead we had to replay the down and Brady gets sacked by LB Matt Milano. Bucs punt the next play and the Bills go tie the game.
Did that look like holding to anyone else? I'll look on gamepass at some point, but it looked like a great pancake block from what I saw and the refs just saw violence so they threw the flag.
I get holding happens almost every play, but they refs really haven't called holding that much this season league wide and in that situation of the game it has to be obvious being that it was such a key play in the game.
Shhhh. We're not allowed to talk about the penalties we committed that didn't get called. Just the ones we feel went against us or didn't go in our favor.
Those weren’t lucky calls they were the right calls.
Not dirty. Instinctive.
The one where Diggs was holding, too?
The 1:44 call w/ the Post > Corner?
Also, seeing that every game was sold out, I'm willing to bet that there are season ticket holders that sold their tickets to Bills fans for 10 times their face value. Hard to pass up a month's rent for tickets to one game.Selmon Rules wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 10:05 amLike nearly any other game in South Florida there were fans from the other side there.... Too damn many of them live heremdb1958 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 6:49 am
Did I hear thousands of bay area fans cheering Buffalo's comeback? The noise sure sounded like it. Also had to laugh when the announcer started talking about how crowds were going to affect games the closer we get to the playoffs (and it was really quiet when he was talking).
The ones that were around me were fine, just one dude overreacting to stuff and getting way too emotionally invested in things
The NFL absolutely needs to stop this shit. Learn a lesson from the NBA with their change to foul calls. If the offensive player goes into a play looking to do nothing more than draw a foul, you cannot call it. All these passes where the ball is thrown short and the WR just turns around to get run into, there's no way they're reversing field and getting back to that ball, even if the defender wasn't there. Tons of these across the NFL every week and it makes games drag.Nobody wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 3:40 pm
And that DPI against Evans in OT? I mean...I don't love how 9 route/20-20 Fades are officiated anymore, but this is modern NFL quintessential DPI on a deep ball; the CB doesn't get his head around...and he's running into Evan's chest as Evans tries to get to the catch window to make a play for the ball. The number of times that isn't called DPI in 2021 NFL is vanishingly low.
100% agree. This has almost become a designed play.nybf wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 4:36 pmThe NFL absolutely needs to stop this shit. Learn a lesson from the NBA with their change to foul calls. If the offensive player goes into a play looking to do nothing more than draw a foul, you cannot call it. All these passes where the ball is thrown short and the WR just turns around to get run into, there's no way they're reversing field and getting back to that ball, even if the defender wasn't there. Tons of these across the NFL every week and it makes games drag.Nobody wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 3:40 pm
And that DPI against Evans in OT? I mean...I don't love how 9 route/20-20 Fades are officiated anymore, but this is modern NFL quintessential DPI on a deep ball; the CB doesn't get his head around...and he's running into Evan's chest as Evans tries to get to the catch window to make a play for the ball. The number of times that isn't called DPI in 2021 NFL is vanishingly low.
But, much like the onslaught of stupid "taunting" calls, it's the rule. It's been called all year.
Imagine if they'd learn this during Paul Pierce's days. He might've been JAGuscbucsfan wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 4:48 pm100% agree. This has almost become a designed play.nybf wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 4:36 pm
The NFL absolutely needs to stop this shit. Learn a lesson from the NBA with their change to foul calls. If the offensive player goes into a play looking to do nothing more than draw a foul, you cannot call it. All these passes where the ball is thrown short and the WR just turns around to get run into, there's no way they're reversing field and getting back to that ball, even if the defender wasn't there. Tons of these across the NFL every week and it makes games drag.
But, much like the onslaught of stupid "taunting" calls, it's the rule. It's been called all year.
edit: In regards to the NBA, viewership is way up from last year (not saying that's the entire reason) and people seem to be really happy that players like Harden can't just cheat the system and win on the foul line.
It's not baseball where you're often sliding into a defenseless opponent
I've said the same thing
nybf wrote: ↑Tue Nov 23, 2021 8:20 amThe slide had me dying. If this was the other football, Brady would have had a red card pulled before he came to a stop.IchabodCrane84 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 23, 2021 12:57 am
5.) Defense can’t hit a sliding quarterback, but said sliding quarterback can karate kick the defense in the ankle.