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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
I still don't think we've seen this team play an A game.
A clean game where they execute well throughout. Sometimes you can do that and still have negative plays or even turnovers here and there, but that's not what happened even last week. Last week they still had the Hardman flub that was just flat-ass stupid; a completely unforced error.
Buuuuut - last week was close. It was almost as well as they can play. Take last weeks game, remove the Hardman mistake and the Mahomes miss to MVS in the endzone, then add a full four quarters of effort from Chris Jones (because I do not think we got that last week) and substract Matt ****ing Dickerson (which, sadly, I don't think we'll do) and I think you'll have a 'complete' game from this football team.
That's a 34+ point effort and that team maybe gives up 17. At least against that Buffalo squad.
Against Baltimore? 31 points for, 21 against? Buffalo's offense was largely intact last week and couldn't do much once we made some adjustments with the front (i.e. we stopped getting cute and told them to play bully ball).
This team's played 19 games and we STILL don't know what it's actually capable of. How strange is that?
I can't even hazard a guess as to how this game will go. We just don't know enough about what this team can truly do?
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Justin Watson dropped a perfect throw on 3rd down that would have gained 20 yards and a 1st down at the Buffalo 10 yard line. Butker made a very clutch FG into a tough wind from 47 yards (more like a 60 yarder). Watson’s drop made it a tough situation on the kicker. The dropped ball potentially cost them 4 points since they could have scored a TD on that drive.
Hardman obviously had the 7 point fumble mistake. But he also had an earlier fumble that completely wasted a play inside the Buffalo 10 yard line. Pretty much killed the drive. Thankfully Watson recovered this fumble to save 3 points, but maybe they score a TD on this drive if Andy simply does not give the ball to Hardman. Potentially 11 points lost on cutesy trick play BS with Hardman.
Bottom line is they could have easily scored over 40 points in that game. The other room for improvement is the rushing defense. They got pushed around for 3 quarters and it was nowhere near their best game defensively.
But Buffalo had a lot of those “what if” plays as well. So I guess it evens out. Lol