Come on, man. Don't doom on us now.

Also, can we figure something out to take advantage of the massive ****ing split Dion Dawkins takes from his guard?

There has to be pressures we can scheme with guys mugging that area that cause issues. There's simply no way he and the guard could block a DB who is going to sprint through that hole. Then you have to have a plan to corral Allen when he escapes left.

But this doesn't come into play unless its long yardage situations.

They did well on most of those as well as stopping the run last time in Buffalo. The problem was missed tackles. We missed a season high 13 tackles which I think ultimately cost us the game.

First drive Allen throws it 5 yards short of the 1st on 3rd down and Conner whiffs on Shakir badly. That ended up being a TD instead of a 4th and 4 FG attempt.

Conner scares me to death. He's so high variance. He has intercepted Allen twice but the negative plays have been too frequent.

Stunt if they aren't smart enough to run it in that situation

Yep.

And none was worse than George on the last TD. He was literally a few inches from either stopping Allen or forcing a fumble. He just missed. Barely, but he missed.

Limit RAC and tackle. That's always been the key to slowing down these offenses.

He missed Hollywood on the first drive for a TD.

If we want a guy that's just gonna limit turnovers and not have explosives, Alex Smith is probably hanging around.

Not an issue anymore. He was forced to play in the slot due to Watson being injured. Verderame pointed out that McDuffie wasn’t on Shakir one time.

That will not be the case this time

Their OT's do that on purpose, watch Spencer Brown if he gets beat inside he literally just spins off the guy and immediately gets back outside. Pretty sure it's an intentional plan to get guys out of their lanes. Rushers see this and think oh damn look at all that room...you take that bait and next thing you know both your ends are out of their lanes and Josh Allen is 10 yards up the field.

You would hope. But Conner still played a bunch Saturday and he isn't gonna play boundary corner.

Alex couldn’t score a single TD against the Steelers elite defense when it mattered despite the Steelers FG driven offense in the playoffs.

Meanwhile in that same situation on 3rd down…

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I don’t think that’s dooming. I think it’s just reality. Stopping them for those four yards if they run it twice is probably a 15% success rate for us considering their line and Allen running it.

Really no different than us having big advantages against their defense on third and medium or less. The Ravens were 70% on third down if I recall. I think we can do that as well.

You're 100% right, but that's why those guys can't be the ones doing it.

It has to be 3rd-and-long, DE or some other contain player on the edge, and a DB/LB running through the gap. Then Allen doesn't have an easy escape to the edge because you have a contain player.

I will be STUNNED if Joe Cullen and Chris Jones don't have our DL playing with the kind of discipline required to succeed Sunday. They did it last year in Buffalo, and they'll care enough about this game to do it again. It isn't about sacks whatsoever.

Dude, they need to confine you to RR for a couple of days. Posts like this shouldn't be made.