Ravens at Da Bills

[tsylvester]

These have been terrific games, thrilling, surreal, heart breaking. When the Ravens play their A game, they run down the throats of the Bills, wear them down, then dominate. The offense controls the clock, the ball, making the Bills have to be one dimensional, throw, to keep up.

It is a recipe that has worked almost to perfection, almost because they only seem employ it in the regular season, at least on a consistent basis.

Last season, well, last post season, they controlled the game by running the ball, mixed in timely passing. Then forgot one thing, protect the ball. They turned the ball over trying to do too much, they dropped key passes trying too hard to make a play. In essence, they forgot to remember who they were; the better team.

So now we run this back, a regular season game, this one to open the season. Will they remember?

So, who ya got?

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It’s when the games count the most that this team chokes.

[oldno82]

I'm on the Ravens' bandwagon this year, starting with a 'W' next Sunday. There's no reason we can't run and pass on them, control the clock, and make them one dimensional. Our offense and defense are both better than last year. 

[tsylvester]

Injury report out

Ravens Injury Report
Isaiah Likely, TE - Questionable
Jaire Alexander, CB - Questionable
Patrick Ricard, FB - Questionable
Ar'Darius Washington - PUP-R
Emery Jones Jr., OT - NFI-R

 

Bills Injury Report
DeWayne Carter, DT - Out
Tre'Davious White, CB - Questionable
Wande Owens, S - IR
Tylan Grable, OT - IR-R
Curtis Samuel, WR - Questionable

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[oldno82]

Ricard is out. I'd like to see them promote Lucas from the practice squad to take his place in this game. Scott had a super TC and pre-season.

Likely is also out, but we knew that. He's coming along nicely, though, and I'm hoping he's ready to practice next week or the following week.

[papasmurfbell]

I learned something today.  We are 1-4 against buf and kc the last 3 yrs.  

[tsylvester]

Lamar is 3-1 against Buffalo..mmm

 

Bills placed their olace kicker Tyker Bass in ir, exoect to elevate Matt Prater from the ps for the game

https://www.buffalobills.com/news/bills-place-kicker-tyler-bass-on-injured-reserve

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[oldno82]

[tsylvester]

Hate that it is at night, will have to watch a bit them record the rest. At least my daughter, who lives in Tennessee, will get to watch them..

Stillers don't look to good on defense and their offensive line is still terrible

[oldno82]

Rodgers is doing OK as is Metcalf but something does look wrong with their defense. 

[tsylvester]

Stephens is killing the Jets, blown coverage, dropped int, now a penalty.

DK, 2 drops, another one good defense I suppose now a lucky couple of bounces from another drop gets him a catch

[tsylvester]

Jets lost this game more than the Stillers won. Fields made the wrong call on a few zone reads on a couple of third downs.

Then he stops short of running for a 1st down on 4th with 30 seconds left, instead throws it to a tightly covered recover who gets pummeled and drops the ball.

Misses extra point so they chase points, cost them two pts on 2 failed 2 pt conversions. This game should have gone to over time if anything. They also dropped at least 2 picks...

[tsylvester]

Burrow only had 114 yards passing on 15 of 24. Flacco had 291 yards on 31 of 45, but has 2 picks...

Bengals had only 141 total yards

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I watched Washington play.

[tsylvester]

They didn't look much better, clearly this was week 4 of the preseason

Wilson, 17 of 37, ouch for 168

Daniels 19 of 30 for 233 1 td 68 yards rushing

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Seeing recaps ot looks like a lot of sloppy play.

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Real accurate pass to flowers in the corner.

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We were not ready to play.  This was a coaching issue.

[tsylvester]

40 points, not ready to play? 15 pt lead in the 4th quarter, not ready to play? 3 punts? The Bills once again could not stop this offense for 3 quarters.

No, they were ready to play, with just over 2 minutes left in the game, the Ravens had the ball. Yet they ran out of gas or took their foot off of the gas earlier in the quarter, maybe thinking 1 td in the 4th was enough. Even so, the offense could have iced the game, Bills had 0 timeouts left. 1 or 2 1st downs, Ravens win 40-38.

But no, maybe conditioning was the factor? Then maybe it was coaching.

The defense reversed back to last year's early defense, cant hold a lead. This after a pretty good first game of the season performance against one of the best teams in the league, holding them to 25 pts in 3 quarters. Stopping not 1, not 2, but what, 3 2 pt conversions?

But alas, when this team needed a stop, they just ran out of gas.

 

The Bills had almost 500 yards of total offense, 497, became the 1st team to overcome a 15 pt deficit in the final 4 minutes of a season opener in history, of course while wearing Pocahontas under shorts 

So yes, maybe it was coaching; conditioning for 4 quarters

[GrubberRaven]

I'm pissed.  All we heard in the offseason was that our D was revamped.  We jettisoned Stephens and swapped him out with a Alexander and what did it get us.  They didn't have all pro-receivers and they tore us up.  This D is a joke and the O's play calling at the end was laughable.

No killer instinct in the end and that's on Harbaugh.

Oh yeah and Roquan is getting worse.

[tsylvester]

Stephens was getting torched by Rogers, a pi that lead to a score, a dropped int that resulted in a score oh and giving up big plays, because he "slipped".

It's one game, the 1st game. Im gonna chalk it up to running out of gas. This was a team loss, offense could have won the game by running out the clock. They could have been more aggressive in the 4th and score another time when up by 15.

The defense could have made one stop at the end. Or how about that 4th and 2 in the redzone where the pass was tipped and bounded to a Bills receiver for a score.

No, you should not lose a game where you score 40 pts, yes, run the clock out, maybe throw on 1st down with less than 2 mins left in the game and they are expecting a run...

[oldno82]

Look...this team played solid football until very late in the game against a very good team. They fell apart I agree because their conditioning looked poor. Maybe they should have played the regulars some in pre-season though I understand the reluctance to get a good player injured.

The defense ran out of gas again, I agree. Roquan seems to have become lost and I don't know why. The secondary played well enough to win but the D-line got no pressure on Allen all game. Did Green play more than a few downs? He was not a factor but then there was no pressure from anybody. That sounds like a defensive coaching deficiency.

Meanwhile the O skill players were on fire. Henry, Lamar, Flowers, Bateman all played very well. But when they had the ball for the last series, they attempted to run out the clock and couldn't do it. Sometimes you've just got to pass to get another first down even when you're trying to run out the clock.

But in the end, the Defense lost this game big time. When your team scores 40 points, you should come away a winner. Instead the Defense caved in and the offense went too conservative too early. Most of the blame I have to put on Orr, our DC. We just didn't stop them when we had too and when we were up 15 points.

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We are the only team in league history to have 40+ pt and 235 yds rushing to lose.  The d was not ready.  
 

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Baltimore Ravens (2025 NFL Season):

Coach John Harbaugh has blown the most double-digit fourth-quarter leads in the NFL over the last decade

And that shows good coaching and preparedness?

[tsylvester]

Harbs is tied for 15th in NFL history in wins, with 1 super bowl victory.