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Originally Posted by Monticore
Finishing the long drives and settling for FG has been the main issue for lack of scoring. We have in TOP most of the year , redzone has been rough
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That's my point.
When you have to execute 13 times to go 90 yards, that's a hell of a lot harder than needing to do it 8 times to go 50.
When you come up 30 yards short of the end zone, it stands to reason that needing to drive 55 yards instead of 75 yards might've made a substantial difference.
We're not as good at 'long drives' as we've spent all season convincing ourselves of. We're okay at starting with a long field and getting into scoring range - but that's not the same as saying we have some secret sauce for long drives.
If we start every drive with a 75 yard field in front of us, we're going to struggle to break 30. Because those drives tend to stall out on us due to a penalty or a run stuff or a missed ball or bad block. It's exactly what 'bend but don't break' is designed to do. And that's all this fairly average Buffalo defense CAN do.
What would let this game get away from Buffalo is giving us short fields. If they just pin us deep the whole game, it'll be an absolute dogfight.