Diante Lee

I think it's really hard, I think, to have sat for like any of like these 30 minute increments and feel like you had a grasp on the flow of the game because things were swinging so often between early turnovers for Buffalo,

Denver's offense having absolutely nothing in the third quarter.

And then you get a pretty electric finish between late in the fourth quarter and the overtime.

But I do think if you're Denver on the whole, you should feel like we're not going to see another offense that runs the ball as well as Buffalo can run the ball at their best.

And if we can just force a few turnovers, then it is within the realm of possibility that you can make a Super Bowl run.

Look, I'm sure that that is absolutely an aspiration of his, right?

I think you can take some of the games they played in the second half of the season.

I think about their game against the Raiders.

You think about their game against the Chiefs.

You think about, you know, just kind of how they played in the second half of the season when they didn't have much of a passing game going.

And they were kind of able to change gears and get into, hey, we're going to manage first and second down, get to third and two, throw the ball out in the flat.

And you were just going to be banging your head against the wall as a defensive coordinator because there's nothing you can do against our efficient ground game.

I do think, though,

So if you're trying to lay out what the pathway looks like, you have to be really worried about Denver's rushing attack in this game.

Right.

And I don't know if it was I don't know how much of this I think comes down to just their short possessions in the third quarter, because I thought in the first half they move the ball on the ground decently, maybe not as well as you would have expected, given the way the Buffaloes struggled in terms of run defense on the whole of the season.

But them not being able to really dominate the trenches up front, losing to Ed Oliver when he was in the game, losing to Deoni Walker throughout the game.

I think you have to be a little bit nervous about what game flow would look like, even if you're trying to chart out the most optimistic path.

I think I'm right there with you.

Funnily enough, I think ironically, I think my takeaway from this game is really similar to the conversation that me, you and Steven were having on this show last year after the Ravens-Bills divisional game, right?