If Rapp and Douglas can't go, I will be pleasantly surprised if they can hold the Lions offense below 30 points.
Agreed. Allen needs a monster game or Goff needs one of his terrible off games for us to win this one. If Buffalo wins, then Allen is damn near guaranteed MVP.
I need the Bills to win 35-31 with Allen having 5 total TDs and 0 turnovers. That way I can just watch all the Ravens fans melt down afterward.
One theory that makes sense is that the NFL would like to see every team play one game per year outside of the US and the Bills may work to have Toronto be that place for the Bills with half of the years being an "away" game for the Bills in Toronto.
Yeah, I think it's inevitable that all teams will play one game outside the US every year. I think it becomes a thing once the 18-game, 2-bye schedule is adopted. I think one of the byes will also somehow be incorporated into the foreign-country game (IE, the bye will either happen the week before a foreign game or the week after, depending on locale).
Yeah I know everyone hated the Toronto series, but even if it came down to losing a home game to Toronto every 2 years vs. losing a home game to London or Berlin or South America every 4-6 years, I feel like Toronto is vastly preferable. That becomes even more so if they're going to have to play one out of the country every year (and thus lose a home game every 2 years) regardless.
Yep. Or Ottawa or Montreal or Hamilton or whoever else in eastern Canada has the capability to host an NFL game.
It's pouring rain and Stafford has NOT been accurate tonight at all.
Yeah. Someone posted an article earlier stating how much the Bills D line struggles against big O lines. The Lions will likely abuse our D line and pick up our blitzes rather easily like the Rams did. It's something Beane should go all out in revamping next year. That's where I'd put most of our resources. The offense will be set, especially if they can re-sign Cooper on a team friendly deal. He seems to love it here.
Designing a very specific game plan tailored to stop each weekly opponent is something they should consider vs. rolling out the same zone based scheme.
I've always wondered why they don't do this, but I can't say I'm an expert in team preparation. Is it not normal for coaches to switch between man and zone defenses depending on the opponent? I mean, it doesn't sound like it would be easy because a lot of the players Beane and co. put in this defense are likely better in zone coverage than man. Douglas, for example, is known as a very good zone CB, but can he play man? What about Benford?
Detroit doesn't do that.
The problem last week was that they did play more man in the second half and Stafford was more efficient against man than he was zone in the game.
