Reacting and overreacting to everything that happened in the playoffs of the Divisional Round …
Things that made me dizzy
Taron Johnson runs 101 yards to the end zone. . . and in our hearts: “The 101-yard return interception touch was a big play” is the kind of analysis you come here for. But honestly, for Johnson, in a game where the points were superior, meeting himself and taking off instead of just taking the touchback was the biggest play of the postseason to date.
This Packers offense: Aaron Rodgers left a couple of shots on the field (including a red zone foul that cost them four points in the first unit) and Allen Lazard had a pretty nasty fall in the third quarter. Still, it was all over, they had 32 points, almost 500 yards in one of the top three defenses in the league.
Leslie Frazier does her part to ruin the QB duel: Last week, the Colts actually had a lot of coverage in the Buffalo area and finally the Bills were lucky enough to escape. Saturday night, facing a much tougher offensive in Baltimore, no luck was needed. when Frazier surprised the Ravens with a strong dose of athletic bubbles and shuffled coverage calls at the right time, such as showing bombings and leaving seven in Taron Johnson’s 101-yard selection.
Tremaine Edmunds appears: He had a low year, but Saturday night could have been his best game of the year, and his athleticism was absolutely crucial in defending the Ravens.
Hook and side for two: Although, one may ask, if we only concede two points for it, do we even deserve something so beautiful?
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Lamentations
It ends too soon for Lamar Jackson: On a tough night due to strong winds, pressure issues and a Leslie Frazier defense with a good game plan, Jackson had to be excellent in this game; the red zone pick-six was devastating and in which you have to use your eyes to move the defenders facing the narrow red zone. But having a concussion (suffered from having to chase another bad pass and save a safety), keeping him in the locker room for the Ravens ’fourth-quarter comeback attempt seemed especially cruel.
Tyler Huntley’s Ravens: No offense to Tyler Huntley, who did what he could and again scared the Bills with coverage with that foul on Hollywood Brown. But it was a nuisance to see him try to orchestrate a fourth-quarter comeback.
A mortal Aaron Donald: Credit to the Packers ’five forwards, specifically Elgton Jenkins, but Donald seemed very uncomfortable, probably because it’s hard to breathe with injured ribs. He was invisible, except for the 15-yard personal foul he committed in the first quarter.
And a deadly Jalen Ramsey: “Torched” would be exaggerating, but he lost a couple of battles and the general war to Davante Adams, and Adams also held other DBs with Matt LaFleur dictating clashes. But the Rams won’t win a playoff game with Donald and Ramsey having days off.
Josh Allen wins a Tony Award: He also sang during this fall. It was like something outside Pippin. (It does Pippin is there a streak drop? I’ve never seen it Pippin.)
Justin Tucker continues to do the following: In the middle of the second quarter, he was about to become the first kicker to hit each of the four amounts of the field in a single game.
Snapsgun Snaps in West New York: It was really something of the wind as Michele Tafoya reported at the break?
A broken PAT: What would you do in an emergency? Couriers? towards the danger or run away from it? Or would you put the ball on your 36-year-old shooter in hopes of breaking in the end zone?
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Moments that we will tell our grandchildren
In front of Adams on the move: Adams, at full speed, is a nightmare and Jalen Ramsey is certainly not expected to chase him. But this causes a beautiful chaos in the defensive field of the Rams.
Josh Allen overcomes uncontrollable fall syndrome: Remember, of Feel Bad Rainbow by Brad Goodman?
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What are we going to talk about this week
So Help me God if we need to relive the Lamar-in-Big-Game debates: He got into a buzz saw against a very good Bills defense in very difficult conditions. He made a brutal mistake in the red zone: with seven defenders in the zone looking to the bottom of the narrow red zone, he must be able to manipulate them with his eyes. But he’s 25, he has a road playoff win and he did it while he was surrounded by a lot of supplements. You will lose some important games in the future and you will also win many.
Brandon Staley has some upcoming interviews: I suspect the 38-year-old will take one of the remaining jobs and grow Sean McVay’s training tree. So someone teaches him how to tie a Windsor knot. Because they don’t like it when you wear one of those t-shirts with the painted tie.
What about Jared Goff ?: He played Lambeau pretty well all things considered (“stuff” like in the thumb pins), but by all the neat ways they attacked horizontally he noticed the lack of explosive games in the Rams passing game this year. Goff is arguably her boyfriend next year, and perhaps deceptively fast Van Jefferson emerges as a stretcher, but it will be interesting to see what Sean McVay prepares to play these pieces again.
The new Jake from State Farm is also in a Hyundai commercial ?: Is this allowed? I think we should all have had to sign it.
Matt LaFleur has been successful: 26-6 in the regular season and now consecutive trips to the conference title match is pretty good.
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