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It must nice to have a defense that can actually stop the opponent from scoring at the end of a game. Also, McManus missing the field goal at the end of the half, the fourth quarter, and the extra point was huge in retrospect.

Up 21-3 at the half and that's how you lose. Flat out choke job.

How do you get a delay of game after you call a time out? And you miss the field goal. Disaster.

What a time to get your first ever NFL touchdown.

Packers offense never left the locker room after the half.

Also a stinker: Al Michaels. I had thought it was all those really crappy Thursday Night games, but he's just lost it in general.

Missed FG after the timeout only real positive for the Bears so far.

As much as our loss stings, I'd rather be us than the Bears right now. What a massive flop in front of their home crowd.

It's fitting for the team with a black cat as its logo that we finally get into a playoff game and we lose a key player so early in the game. And we'll pay the price for that in 2026 since I doubt he'll be ready for quite a while.

I would rephrase it and say we need one more explosive playmaker on offense. Our backs can't make plays on their own consistently. XL just seems lost on the field. Horn has speed but his other skills aren't to where we can exploit that. Our tight ends simply... exist. That said, these are players we don't need to use a high draft pick on. If we basically got Coker for free, then surely we can go find another diamond in the rough.

Damn. That's crushing. But this team got me excited in a way I haven't felt in a long time. They made this game go all the way to the end when most everyone said we didn't even belong to be in the playoffs. Honestly, I'm hoping this is the best result we could've gotten because the pain of losing a playoff game by such a small margin is probably the best motivator to get better.

3rd and Evero. I'm scared.

In the playoffs, I feel you take points that are there more often. McVay didn't. Canales did. That's why we're now tied up.

Can't recall the last time we got a defense to jump like that on a hard count.

Just being in this playoffs this season is a surprise. We go anywhere beyond this point, I'll be shocked.

Anyone that will be in the game, please remember to boo the crap out of Blakeman at every opportunity.

Don't recall Renfrow even being on the active roster in any recent games, so I don’t see Moore being on the field either unless he's taking over someone else on special teams or they are making XL/Horn inactive instead.

We can go on and on about the players, but I'm more into judging Canales O based on the playcalling and general design. It's still a very mixed bag for me. There are times where I like what I see. The rolling pockets he'll call at times seem to play right into Bryce's best qualities which I like. Him using Jimmy Horn with certain plays is good - although execution by Horn has been frustrating when he missed an opportunity for a big play. if it's 4th down and a pass play, I like the odds of a good play. Giving Coker more snaps over XL recently is a potentially good sign that he's not satisfied with XL's mistakes and is adjusting accordingly. I don't follow why we don't use the tight ends more often in the pass game, but seems that those work better than average. At some point, we were really running the ball well, so that's something, I suppose. On the other hand, while he has shown to adjust, it often is too much of a swing in the other direction. Too often, we do something and it's working - like if running to the perimeter is getting us yards - only for Canales to then go back go stuffing up in the middle and wasting a down. Don't need to harp about the times when he tries to be too cute and it blows up in our faces. Canales has too many bad tendencies that our opponents are picking up on, like how we are quite likely to run on first down. Finally, I sometimes get the impression his play designs are for players that we don't actually have. We just don't really have explosive players on our teams that can make guys miss, and so these route concepts really should reflect the reality that YAC is not really expected and so it needs to be more vertical and/or have elements that help create separation by design. In other words, it still feels like the margin of error for a successful play, even a basic one, is too narrow.

Don't know why the Ravens didn't try to get more yardage. They had the timeouts and they had Derrick Henry. Then again, it's the Ravens so Henry probably would've fumbled.

You literally cannot make up that ending.

Steel Curtain is made out of gas stop toilet paper.

A linebacker against a receiver? Oof.

Ravens pushing up the choking to the regular season, now?

So wide open there.