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Bills’ Miracle Comeback vs Ravens: Josh Allen Does It Again, But Shaky Defense a Super Bowl Concern
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Sep 8, 2025
The Buffalo Bills pulled off an unbelievable comeback win over the Ravens, cementing a “NO FREAKING WAY” moment for Bills Mafia. 🔵⚪️🔴 In this full breakdown on Bill Matic (D.A.’s Buffalo Bills podcast), I dive into the bigger picture impact of this win: 🌟 Why Josh Allen deserves major props for putting the team on his back 🏈 Why this game could define the Bills’ season 🚨 The harsh reality: Buffalo’s defense isn’t playing at a Super Bowl level right now Bills Mafia — the celebration is real, but so is the concern. Can Allen keep carrying this team until the defense figures it out? 📌 Bill Matic goes live after every Buffalo Bills game with instant reaction, analysis, and passion from the DA-lien family. 👉 Subscribe now for more Bills content: 🔥🔥🔥 JOIN THE CIRCLE OF TRUST! Become a Member 👉 Click Here Welcome to the official channel of Damon Amendolara (D.A.), host on SiriusXM Mad Dog Sports Radio and creator of the Bill Matic podcast. 🏈
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The biggest takeaway to me about this
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game is that this is going to be a
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nailbiting,
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sweat inducing,
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furrowing of the brow, pacing up and
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down the hallway type of season for the
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Buffalo Bills. You can never count them
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out, but in a game against an elite foe,
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they are going to make you work for it.
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I mean, what an insane ending to this
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game. When the Ravens go up by a couple
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of touchdowns and Derrick Henry is
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absolutely racing down the field with
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almost nobody that can stand in his way,
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you're like, "This thing is obviously
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over." And credit the Bills on this,
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they just refused to go away. And the Ed
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Oliver fumble forced on Derrick Henry is
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the turning point of this game because
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the Bills had to figure out a way to get
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a stop somehow when the Ravens kept
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extending the lead or answering every
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touchdown for touchdown, score for
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score. And Oliver's forced fumble did
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exactly that. Without that, they don't
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win this football game. But this Bills
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team is going to always be in games
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because of that quarterback, because of
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that man under center, because of that
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reigning MVP. Josh just makes things
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happen. Now, we can go through all the
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the nuances of this game, which we will
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do, but that one that one right there is
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a stamp that says the Bills this year,
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they they are going to have some magic.
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They just have this in them. And
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primarily it's because of their
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quarterback, but they do have something
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about them, because of him that allows
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them to believe that they are never
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actually out of a football game.
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And for it to happen against the Ravens,
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who you could zip back the time clock to
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about 20 minutes ago, 30 minutes ago,
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and I would say most people around the
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NFL would say that is now the team to
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beat in the entire football league. The
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Baltimore Ravens are unstoppable at
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quarterback, unstoppable at running
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back, have big play on offense, and just
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went to Buffalo and got an impressive
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victory after the Chiefs looked like dog
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food on Friday night. that you would and
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the Philadelphia Eagles didn't do
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themselves any favors either with a a
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lethargic win on Thursday night. Now you
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spin ahead and say, "Well, the the the
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Bills won that football game." So what
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does that make the Buffalo Bills? It
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makes them
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again
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a
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heat sweat type of team this season
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because it will always have an
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underlying.
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Is the defense good enough? But there
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will always be an underlying.
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Yeah, but we're never out of it because
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of Josh.
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That is a very important win. Forget for
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the moment just the excitement level.
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And if you're coming out of Buffalo or
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if you're coming out of the stadium
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right now, if you're in and around
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Buffalo, walking out of a sports bar,
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walking out of buddy's house, what have
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you, and you're on your phone and you're
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watching the postgame show again, this
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postgame show, we'll do this after every
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game immediately. You are going, "How
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the hell did we win that football game?"
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That's that was the reaction tonight. H
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how the hell do they win that football
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game? But if you zoom out, that's
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actually a really important win from a
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playoff standing standpoint. And I know
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it's week number one, but because
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when you look at the standings
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at the end of NFL seasons,
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usually comes down to a game or a
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tiebreaker for seating, for divisions,
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for home field advantage, for who goes
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where. The Bills just earned the
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head-to-head tiebreaker with the Ravens
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and we know Baltimore is going to be
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there in January and the Bills now have
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a 1-0 record and the Chiefs have an 0
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and1 record and so there's at least a
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little bit of a gap there. Obviously,
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there's 16 more of these to be played.
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But in terms of already maneuvering
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around the tiebreakers and and what that
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could potentially mean, it's way better
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to win this game than lose this game.
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And not just from an emotional
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standpoint, but from a real standing
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standpoint. That game isn't won, as I
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said, unless Ed Oliver sticks his big
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helmet, big shoulder pad, a big paw into
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Derrick Henry and pops that ball loose.
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It's an incredible defensive play, but
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also Oliver has the two other huge plays
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of the backfield, one for a sack on
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Lamar in the first half and the other
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for the big tackle for loss. He was
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unguardable, unstoppable at times this
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this night. and they needed all of those
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plays. And I thought
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Bosa, who got killed on the outside by
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Lamar Jackson, who then adjusted as
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Collinssworth pointed out and was able
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to contain after that, made a couple of
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important stops as well after getting
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burned early. So, Bosa learned his
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lesson. Look, he was the big he was the
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big free agent piece on the defense. He
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comes with the last name and with the
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sack totals and and all of that. He
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needed to be better than he was early in
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that game and he was that. But I just
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thought the team began to respond late
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with that belief and that belief stems
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from the quarterback. There's just no
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other way around it. I mean, it's not
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hyperbole to say that if you have Josh
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Allen, that game still feels within
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reach. If you don't, it doesn't. And the
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team began to respond. Coleman had a
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couple of big catches and the team just
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had some juice, had some life in the
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final five minutes of that game when
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they probably should have been dead and
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dog and out of it, you know, well before
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then. So that was to me the shouts on
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the night. There is plenty of negatives
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as well.
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All right, look, let let's just be very
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obvious about this. The Bills cannot win
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a Super Bowl if the defense plays like
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that. That is that is going to be a a a
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no show. That is going to be a no
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contest. There is no chance that the
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Bills can get where they want to get if
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they play defense that way. Now, to be
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fair, there's not a lot of teams that
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have a Lamar Jackson and a Derrick
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Henry. In fact, there's only one of
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them. And the Bills might end up facing
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them in the regular in the postseason as
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well. So, it's not like you could just
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say, "Okay, we got that out of the way."
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You probably will have to go through
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them again. That was unacceptable for
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massive stretches of the game. In fact,
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it is basically unacceptable for almost
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the entirety of the game. Besides the
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final drive in which Harbaugh and the
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Ravens got incredibly conservative to
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the point where it was head shaking, the
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Bills could not get off the football
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field. You're not going to win a Super
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Bowl when you allow Derek freaking Henry
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to run for 9.3 yards per carry and Lamar
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to do those types of things. Now look,
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part of this is they do this to
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everybody, Lamar and Derrick Henry. And
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both of those guys have their warts in
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the playoffs. Last year we saw this in
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the divisional round. The year before we
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saw this with Lamar and the Ravens
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offense against the Chiefs in the AFC
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Championship game. We've seen them
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stagnate when it came to January. But
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what we saw tonight for the Bills
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defense, there's a lot on film that
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they're going to have to tie up. And I
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know that those injuries in the
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secondary is going to be, you know,
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something that you you hope gets better
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and that, you know, you eventually have
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Haristston and that you get Tradavius
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White healthy and all that, but what you
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had there defensively was gashing.
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Derrick Henry running at will, Z Flowers
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getting open in the secondary, and Lamar
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Jackson breaking tackles and finding
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open space as well. Again, the Ravens
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offense is elite, but that is completely
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unacceptable. And I think if there's
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something that you don't want a great
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win like this to cover up is that the
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the defense got bailed out. The defense
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got really bailed out and there is
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obviously legit concern over whether
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this defense as presently constructed
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can get the Bills where they need to