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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
My keys to the game:
Sense of urgency on offense. It’s incredible how efficient this offense can look when it truly needs to be. Too many times does this offense stagnate and stall while it seems we’re comfortable doing just enough to keep pace with our opponent to pull out some ****ery in the 4th quarter for the win.
I’d like to see us come out with a real sense of urgency from start to finish. Act as if every down, every drive is important.
Apply pressure on Josh Allen. This is pretty broad, but he is their best player and the lifeblood of their offense. We can apply pressure by 1) harassing him in the pocket 2) winning on early downs to keep them out of 3rd and 4th and short 3) playing tight coverage with different, exotic looks.
I mentioned elsewhere that having lost to us so many times has changed their team. I think we’re going to get a version of them that goes for it on every 4th and short beyond midfield. To prevent that, we need to win on the early downs by stopping the run. Keep them in 3rd and long as often as possible then get off the field when you do.
They’ve adopted the tush push and they’re very good at it. 3rd and 2 or less will basically turn into an automatic 1st down if we’re not careful.
Win or tie the turnover battle. It’s been mentioned quite a bit but this Bills team feeds on winning the turnover battle.
During their game against the Ravens, at one point Allen got stood up on a QB sneak and looked like he was going to pitch the ball to a back behind him. He’s generally been much safer with the ball this year but he’s itching to give it up.
And obviously we don’t need any of our guys giving them the ball.
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Agreed.
We seemingly flipped the switch against the Texans and Steelers in the regular season, then suddenly turned it off against the Texans in the playoffs? It needs to be flipped, we need to be locked in and have that sense of urgency to get through this game.