Buff does have a higher ranked offense - not by much, but they do.
From what little I've seen - secondary hasn't been great, so pass-rush is a huge key for that defenses success - missing him will be a big blow.
100% Not only with his talent, but being a SB winner on 2 different teams, that leadership experience is huge.
Their secondary in theory is pretty good when healthy. But very specifically they beat KC earlier this year because Skyy Moore ran a bad route and Mahomes had a INT in the endzone but also Von Miller blew up multiple drives. I remember Von Miller being a factor against the Rams in week 1 when the Bills were turnover prone.
We’ve seen it before — Any given Sunday, or Monday, or Thursday, or Friday or Saturday, etc…
You can’t reason with an Eagles fan…
Again, I think that’s a matchup thing. I think back to the Eagles Commanders game. The Eagles absolutely helped with 4 turnovers (3 if you don’t count the desperation turnover on last play of game that was essentially over) but they presented a great plan and exploited some matchups. Crazy but of all the elite WRs Slay fares well against, Terry McLaurin has his number. 3 yards a carry, Heineke to McLaurin on third down to move the sticks and next thing you know they possess the football for 40 minutes.
I mostly agree although football has really small sample sizes. Its difficult to say for sure what is a good and bad matchup
It’s tough to decipher for us but those things do exist.
One benefit of having rooted for an organization that sucked for the better part of a decade+: You learn to be a bit more pragmatic in these types of discussions....at least, I think so...LOL
Sure. The Chiefs (Spagnuolo) defense, for example, completely breaks down once you have 3 really good skill players just due to the lack of elite players on the Chiefs defense. If someone gets hurt in the secondary or linebacker then that number goes down to 2 skill players. But then you have someone like Davante Adams who can just catch a football in double coverage so sometimes even when the Chiefs throw numbers and have the advantage in the matchup the lack of elite players can still hurt them.
Bengals RBs last 6 games:
There's an argument to be made that the Bengals are a better passing team with Perine in the game. I haven't seen any specific stats, but at the very least I imagine Burrow's probability of being sacked is lower with Perine in the game.
Perine is just more physical. I'll feel more relaxed if he was out there protecting Burrow. But we'll see how it shakes out.
Eagles pass rush has been feast or famine. 15 of those 42 came in two games.
2nd in games allowing 17 or fewer points? Man that's really getting specific to try and find stats to impress. How are they on Sunday nights in September during a hurricane with Bob Hope singing the national anthem?
