the Buffalo Bills, my goodness, despite the high expectations.
Super Bowl favorite even though they haven't been there
in 29 years, they went back to the site of the last Super Bowl
and they stuck it to the defending Super Bowl,
champions, 31 to 10. And I will say this before, I say good
morning to Peter King,
it could have been
an arguably should have been
a lot. Lot worse. Good morning Peter
Mike, I was just thinking that before, you know, while you
were rolling, those imagine if they don't if if Isaiah
Mackenzie
doesn't hand an interception away in the first quarter
you know there's are in the first half whenever that was
that there were so much about that game. That's so
interesting but I'll settle on two quick things.
One is that you know Josh Alan
picked up precisely
where Left off at the end of last season
mean he is an absolute force and
you know he hinted to me in training camp this year
that he wasn't going to be
as as ready to take off and run.
Well
you know I'm sorry, it's just part of his game. He's just
like Laura Jackson. You just can't take that away from him.
It is. What makes him so incredibly good in the second thing is,
That pass rush
we you could say what's
what was more significant? The fact that the pass rush was
ridiculously good for Buffalo or the fact that
the Rams protected terribly
and I think it's probably a combination but I would go more with
that Buffalo pass. Rush is going to be trouble
and the thing about week one you never know how good
the team is that beat you. You never know how bad Team is that
you beat, we don't know what the flaws and strengths really
are of both teams, because you need to play several games and
see how they do against other teams and see how the other
teams do, and then you figure it all out, once you get it
October, and right at the point where you think you've figured
it all out, you realize, you don't know, a damn thing, which
is kind of how it goes, which makes it fun. It makes it fun.
As a fan, it makes it very stressful as somebody who is
expected to know, or at least have a reasonable idea of
what's going to happen because we never really do. No.
And I thought the Rams would be
better last night. I thought they would and
I I give them credit for hanging in there and taking
some punches early from the bills and tying it up at 10:00.
But I don't know what Sean McDermott
said or did at halftime
because I maybe it was the Ozzy Osbourne bump.
I don't know, but whatever it was.
The ram stayed in the Hat and the locker room, and the bills
came out and ran roughshod over them. And it was just done
once they.
And again, this may be the bills defense.
Or it may be Matthew Stafford elbow. But once the Rams, dug
a hole in the second half, it was like they couldn't do anything,
they couldn't get the ball anywhere Beyond
10 yards, past the line of scrimmage,
the chances of getting the ball down. The field in big chunks
hinged on Cooper cup, breaking a tackle, which he did, maybe
once in the second half and running for an extra 20 yards,
they were never going to come back cuz it was all
old school West Coast offense sustained Drive.
Is the bills were taking away everything deep and I don't
know, the Rams could have gotten deep, it just felt like
a Suffocation in the second half.
Mike, you know, the other thing that just was, so incredibly
obvious about the domination in this game. And the difference
between these two teams
is that it was always second and nine for the Rams and it
was always second in three for the for the bills. That's
that's what this game
really. A lot of this game came down to
the Rams were putrid in the running game
and that is going to be a big Problem
if you can't hold up, if you can't protect well
and you're running for
whatever it was to two point nine yards, a carry,
if you're running for two point nine yards, a carry, that means
your quarterback is going to have to be
is going to have to carry the load the entire way
and look Matthew Stafford, we know about Matthew Stafford.
He is a very, very good player
and he played great down the stretch of last year.
But here's the issue.
Okay, no quarterback can always have it be second in nine
with a leaky offensive line.
If it is, it's an absolute recipe for disaster.
And you're right and we expected more
between Darrell Henderson and cam Akers.
They're never really seemed to be a sustained commitment to
the run. And if you aren't getting in more manageable
situations for second or third down for that matter,
it does become easier for that pass rush of the Buffalo Bills
to get through that leaky
offensive line. And
yeah, at one point last night, Chris Collinsworth said, hey
maybe the bills are creating a blueprint for other teams to
shut down. A well, if you can borrow Von Miller every week,
then maybe that will help. We need to see how that offensive
line does
against a lesser
pass rush.
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