I watched this on fast mode on GamePass between the 49ers debacle and Sunday Night Football. ‘
Watching games on condensed mode is bewildering. It feels like a dream. There’s no flow to the game, no instant replays, no commercials, its just football upon football upon football. It’s like if the RedZone channel did meth.
Anyways, I watched a game where the only scores were 5 field goals just to see how it happened. I figured it would be a Bad Josh Allen game where he was trying to do too much, overthrew receivers and missed everyone else.
Mostly, I watched because the score and the teams involved broke my brain:
What shocked me was… the Jaguars played well. Especially their DL. The entire defense hit hard and there weren’t very many missed or broken tackles. The offense still looked like shit. But the defense looked like a professional football team.
The mistakes QB Josh Allen made were mostly defensible. The defense just made plays. I have no idea where either team goes from here. Other than the Bills are still going to the playoffs and the Jaguars still aren’t. I’m more talking about “Is this a recipe for beating the Bills?” Type questions. I don’t think it is, to be honest. The Jags seem really talented up front. Or the Bills have a terrible OL. It’s hard to say which when I’ve only seen each team play on ultra fast forward meth mode.
Other thoughts from this game:
- Cole Beasley, PPR Gawd - 8 catches 33 yards
- The referee was really getting into the suspense on every call. He was bummed when it was an obvious false start or something
- I actually laughed at the first drop of the game by the Jags TE. The laugh was “I can’t believe this team won this game”
Oh and my friend Carlos Hyde did this:
