Front-office execs and a defensive coach tell AlbertBreer about the keys to tonight’s Bills-Bengals matchup, plus much more in this week’s Ten Takeaways
And I don’t think it’s overstating it to say this one might be even better. Bills at Bengals has high-end quarterbacks, high-flying skill players, a high level of balance in roster quality and, as much as anything else, stakes. If the Bills win, they’ll be one win, or one Chiefs loss, away from home field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs. If the Bengals win, they can steal the second seed from the Bills and, with a little help, could even rise to the top seed.
So as to how the Patriots drill this stuff, Dugger says, during the week, every week, they work on going “defense to offense”—“it’s always something we talk about.” “Just dropping in Cover 2 as the middle player,” he says. “Once my threat originally went away to the strong side, I was able to get my eyes back to the quarterback and saw him looking for; it looked like an in-cut [route] coming from the other side. I was able to get around, and he didn’t see me. So I was able to get in there.”
Against the Raiders, he, and the offense, got the ball on their own 24 with 2:55 left, trailing 10–6. Pickett promptly drove his group 76 yards in 10 plays, capping the march with a laser down the middle of the field for the game-winning 14-yard touchdown pass to George Pickens, a dart that split a two-high safety shell look.
• The Packers scored 41 points, despite Rodgers throwing for just 159 yards and a touchdown on 15-of-24 passing.• The Packers scored on special teams and defense . And the result, I think, is a team that’ll be dangerous in different ways than they have been in the past, if they get past the Lions and into the tournament, and maybe in the kind of way the Broncos were in John Elway’s twilight.Last four weeks: Close win at Denver, close win at Houston, convincing win vs. Seattle and, Sunday, another close win, this one at home, over the struggling Broncos. So is it a little weird to point this stuff out about a four-game winning streak? Sure. Maybe.
• The first issue, as I understand it, connects to his fit with a new culture that draws hard lines on toughness and accountability. The second and third can be drawn from there. • And fifth, and this relates back to knowing when to take risks with the ball, is how much the Raiders were able to get from Adams in his first season. Adams’s numbers, to be sure, were fantastic with Carr in there . But even still, there was a lot of meat left on the bone with Vegas’s headlining acquisition of 2022.
The venue, now in its sixth season as the Falcons’ home, had nine NFL home games on the slate this year, plus another six college games, and that’s on top of other events that it hosts. So turning over the place isn’t new—the crew did it just a few weeks ago after the SEC title game . But this one was particularly tight after the CFP committee put the Peach Bowl in prime time, and the Fiesta Bowl in the afternoon slot, squeezing the window to flip the stadium to its limit.
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