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6 hours ago, SoonerBillsFan said:
I posted last week he needed to be under center a lot more and got blasted for it.
Who blasted you for that take? Joe Marino, Cover 1 guys, national media people were all saying the same thing and they were right.
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17 minutes ago, The Wiz said:
I just watched this video and seeing how they rotate coverage and disguise pressure is something I don't really remember from Frazier. It was always so vanilla other than just calling a LB/CB or safety blitz once every 4 drives.
Even the plays that were completed passes/rushes, the bills took away a bunch of stuff to make sure to keep Tua off his 1st (and sometimes 2nd and 3rd read) with the intent of making sure he took the checkdown or a sack.
I'm pretty sure I saw a post that the bills defense has allowed points on 21% of the other teams offensive possessions and have forced turnovers on 26% of other teams offensive possessions (I'm assuming the other 53% is punts).
The point is, Frazier didn't use half of the playbook that McD had in the playbook. Bend but don't break is not the bills defense anymore. Bend and then 'break their spirits' has what it has looked like.
Don't you remember how much people talked about how hard it was playing against poyer and hyde because they would shift coverage at the last second? That's not new...the bills used to simulate pressure all the time with Edmunds coming up into the A gap and then dropping out.
That's not new, I think what we are seeing is the defense more dictating to the offense on where to go with the ball based on the look and then having the pressure come in a planned way to disrupt that look and anticipate where the second read is and try to bait bad decisions.
They were doing a lot of that last year, but I think McD is much more shrewd in his play calling in terms of messing with an offenses head in terms of causing ghosts and mirages.
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1 hour ago, GerstAusGosheim said:
The biggest difference could be that Sean has a better Dline than Leslie ever had. I don't think enough people recognize that. Adding Leonard Floyd to the mix of DaQuon Jones, a healthy Ed Oliver and Greg Rousseau entering his breakout 3rd season was huge.
Maybe, but I am pretty sure I'm seeing a lot more choreographed rushes now, which I have to imagine are done with the intention of understanding where the first read will be and getting a rusher coming through that passing window...or using coverage to take away the first read and then having the pressure come through the passing window of the second read...like that's my guess as to what's happening now based on some free rushers I saw last week where it was obvious they were trying to choreograph a specific person to come free, I just have no idea if that was happening under Frazier.
Hearing McD talk about how they wanted to dictate a lot more and seeing that highly symbiotic anf choreographed defense across all levels and the amount of disguised and simulated pressures we're seeing now...I think that is what is happening.
Edit: adding the link
Haven't watched this yet, but saw it was up right after I posted...let's see if I was right
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6 hours ago, GunnerBill said:
The model of internal operations within the league isn't capitalism. I agree with that. But on the exemptions.... market capitalism as a system is built on loopholes for the powerful so that they never fail.
Like I said, we agree
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4 hours ago, GunnerBill said:
Again though, it is supply and demand. If the NFL charged foreigners the same price it charges you guys fewer would buy. It's the old political joke about how the Treasury sets taxes..... it doesn't work out how much it needs to pay for services and then work out the tax rate from that. It works out how much it can get away with charging and then decides what to spend it on
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In the US the NFL has worked out it can get away with charging a lot before customers pull the plug.
I don't approve of it, but that is market capitalism for you. They have a product that has a big market and there is quite a lot of price elasticity before people turn off..... and a lack of regulation to stop them exploiting it.
I don't agree that the current system in the nfl is market capitalism...first they are socializing the costs (which happens all over the place not just the nfl)...then they are getting tax exemptions and antitrust excemptions...there are all sorts of things they are doing and perks they are getting that prevent this from being market capitalism.
Not disagreeing with what you're saying either, it is definitely a supply and demand thing...I really would love to see the pricing analysis and strategy breakdown of why they decided to do that approach vs giving as many people the ability to watch the games as possible. Seems like they're capping their market share intentionally...maybe it's in a way to ensure more people watch their local team?
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3 hours ago, Simon said:
I'd think he was upset because it was a 4TD lead with 3 minutes left and the game was over.
At that point everybody is just trying to get off the field healthy and Rapp going kamikaze on a meaningless play late in a decided game was unnecessarily dangerous.
I get the reason he was upset, but he gave some very specific football scheme related criticism and how Rapp plays within the scheme...Adams has I'm sure watched at least some film of Rapp leading up to this game I would think and certainly he would have watched film on him when he was a starter with the Rams if the Packers played the Rams, which with both being in the NFC would have likely happened when both were on their former teams.
He didn't just say he's a backup and he shouldn't hit players like that...he said specific scheme related football xs and os is what was causing him to be a backup player.
What did he mean by the comment specifically related to the Xs and Os?
That is my specific question, I am not looking to speculate or discuss the reason Adams said what he said in this specific post/question, I am looking to understand what he meant by it and if the criticism is valid. People can think valid stuff about say a coworker that is screwing up and everyone has to cover for, but someone only finally says something about it if the thing they have an issue with finally causes a big problem.
52 minutes ago, WhitewalkerInPhilly said:It's because Adams is a star and is butthurt about being hit.
See above, I am not asking why he said it, I honestly don't care about the drama, I'm not watching a soap opera...was what he said coming from a legitimate football point of view?
Like the stuff Payton said about Hackett...said in poor taste and not proper, but probably not incorrect.
I'm looking for someone who has legit football knowledge and that has watched tape of Rapp explain this please.
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Can someone explain the football nuance of why Adams said that? It kind of reminded me a bit of the Hyde pick against NE in the playoffs, except Hyde got there in time to make an actual play on the ball, while Rapp was late and only had a chance to hit the receiver and ultimately did so in a way that put him in position to have it turn into a defenseless receiver type hit.
Is that the point Adams is making, that Rapp was late because he has trouble reading plays properly and then because he was late the only chance he had go make a play was creating a very high risk and unsafe situation (above and beyond the standard risk associated with playing nfl football)?
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The CBS map isn't loading for some reason, but CBS has the single game and Carolina is the late game and I live in Raleigh, so that's my answer there on if the bills will have a chance to be on regular TV!
My wife went out of town for work for the week and she left me here with two little kids that need to be driven all over the place for school and appointments... if the weather is nice I think it's only fair for her to drop me and my six year old off somewhere that has tvs on a patio and then she can deal with the kids and my tipsy self... even though she kinda already has to do that all the time when she's home!
Maybe what I should do is tell her how her being gone makes me realize how much she does and how much I appreciate her and that I was planning on going out to watch the game, but instead I'll figure out how to watch it at home and she should go and take the afternoon to focus on herself.....hahahahahahaha can you imagine! I'm looking up outdoor patio sports bars right now, and oh man I cracked myself up!
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4 hours ago, ngbills said:
Obviously 34 tackles then...My point is he played an ok game. The coaches will watch the tape and there will be some good and some bad. How the game played out because the Bills DL and Bills overall dominated the game he was not required to do much. I would not sell this performance as a we have our future all pro mlb like he was out there just destroying people and tookover the game. The team got the job done, he got an easy pick and otherwise what noticed a ton which is good.
Your MLB will lead your team in tackles 90% of the time. That should be expected not used as a see he played great stat.
Have you watched any film? Do you have any reason in terms of actually knowing anything about what you're really watching for anyone here to take this as anything more than just a blustering and likely awful hot take?
NFL football is no question the most complicated and least understood sport there is...I can understand coverage concepts and such, and I would never ever claim to know anything about the sport I am watching and frankly anyone who claims they do, without actual bonafides to back that up are walking Duning Kruger blowhards.
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Is it possible that he's actually number two on the depth chart, just not coming in off the bench during a game?
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Joe Burrow has said he basically gets a concussion every game.
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That throw to Davis with Diggs right there into triple coverage basically was wild, even though it ultimately worked..it was weird. Why were diggs and Davis so close together?
I saw an all22 snipet of I the first int...the crosser was open deep, but the safety never moved from the middle of the field...I thought maybe allen was staring down the crosser hoping the safety would bite and he would have hardy wide open deep...they showed a a second angle where you could see where Allen was looking...the reason the safety never moved from the middle of the field was because Allen was staring hardy down big time...he actually used his eyes to uncover the crossser (Kincaid?), but threw to the guy where he moved the safety...
It was really weird actually, like not something I remember seening allen do in a long time... concerning
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5 minutes ago, LabattBlue said:
How many games are on peacock throughout the season homie?
Sunday ticket has always been $$$. Do you really expect to get that for free?
They get their stadiums subsidized and largely paid for with public money...the games should be easily accessible to watch... or they could privately fund their stadiums and give back their anti trust exception.
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I mean maybe he needs a team with solid support and clear boundaries... it sounds like he has something more foundational going on with his personality, but I don't know him and have not seen near enough to have a real opinion on him as a person, but I'd be very cautious if I were Beane bringing him onto this roster.
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1 minute ago, GunnerBill said:
The problem with Wentz on your PS is he is a difficult teammate. Some of the stories about him marching around the locker room in Philly telling teammates they were with team Wentz or team Foles are frightening.
Right! Like imagine if Josh Rosen had actually had a promising year and then a great half a year and then started having a rough stretch with injuries and was just super toxic the way all the reports have him... would people want that version of Josh Rosen?
Using Rosen as an example because I think most people agree with Rosen having a crap attitude.
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19 hours ago, Shaw66 said:
Here's a paper about how people are must now beginning to study smoothness. They say sports trainers recognize it, and it correlates with performance, but they don't really understand it. It is the loose hips, fluid motion characteristics you guys described. They don't know how to measure it, but people are working on trying understand it.
https://sportsmedicine-open.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40798-019-0215-y
Thanks for getting me started.
I think it also is important to note that smoothness is not the same or even more so not the opposite of explosiveness...it's more someone is able to connect a lot of really tiny movements together, where they have control to adjust their movement at any point. Hopefully that makes sense.
It almost sounded like you were kind of thinking smooth referred to a lack or explosiveness, which is not the case with Kincaid...he's able to smoothly get his body in a variety of positions from which he can explode with suddenness...that versatility for explosion is something Von Miller has for example. It's how Josh Allen and especially Mahommes are able to adjust arm angle and still throw so effortless while having the ball just explode out of their hands.
Once more for good measure: explode
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4 minutes ago, Shaw66 said:
Looks like three views of one catch, but it does look nice.
I don't think so, the first one the tackler in the front takes out his legs at the thigh, the other two are different. Also looks like the first he is tackled on the logo, so around midfield, second starts around the 20.
Crazy how similar all three look, he's so smooth and consistent in his movements, it's pretty wild.
Edit: actually I think the second and third shot are the same catch, but the first one is different!
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Wonder if hurricane Hilary had any impact on the focus and what players had to do that live in the LA area during the week?
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3 hours ago, Goin Breakdown said:
So much for cutting the cable when you have to pay for several streaming sites and then packages on top of that to watch sports. Had to know it was never about us saving money.
Back in 2012, when I cut the cord, basically everything you really needed, minus live sports was on Netflix.
Netflix used to be so insanely incredible and you could get movies in the mail also, so even if they didn't have what you wanted online you could get it delivered in two days basically.
Hulu would let you watch basically live shows the next day and YouTube had a bunch of stuff on it top that isn't there anymore, and network tv had really decent stuff too and you could get that in hd with a $15 set of rabbit ears (still can)... not sure that a 2012 cord cutter is necessarily an early adopter, but was still way ahead of the majority of people...then everyone started doing it and all the companies tried to get into streaming and now it sucks...Netflix used to basically have all the stuff that is now segmented.
I will say though that the ESPN bundle is amazing because you get all the sabres games for like $12 a month or whatever...worth mentioning I basically cut out all live sports from my life for a while other than the bills...
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Any chance it's McD trying to get some bulletin board material?
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Just now, machine gun kelly said:
Torrence is a Guard and the spots aren’t interchangeable. Bated has played Tackle and Quess of course. The other guy from the Rams I thought had some Tackle experience.
This is concerning and most of you know I’ve been the biggest Brown apologist. He needs to be shut down for two weeks if needed as we can’t have a repeat of last year.
Agree on being shut down until it's good, not just good enough.
That's something I don't understand about the whole best ability is available ility. Look at how great Gabe Davis has looked in camp. Why wouldn't he have sat longer with the high ankle sprain to let it heal more and allow him to be more explosive at the end of the year? They did the same thing playing him against the Chiefs in 2020 I believe and it really cost them as he should have been inactive.
Allen should have been sat down for a week or two last year too...just because you can play doesn't mean you should, give the depth a chance and let players heal as much as possible so when they come back you're getting an effective player...I don't get it.
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1 hour ago, BillsShredder83 said:
Justice in this country hasn't been about rehabilitation at any point since I was born. I resent that because she's a female, suddenly there's a different standard here.
What she did ruined this man's life in a way (no matter what), and had she fully succeeded, would've COMPLETELY destroyed his life, and we never would've known any different. This "thing" (can't even call it a crime, insane) she did, is actually fairly common in our society, with no consequences. How many innocent dudes we'll never know about behind bars, and life destroyed when they get out. It really muddies the water for every sex crime.
All this for money (and/or clout)? This is probably top 5 reprehensible things a single human could do in 2023.
Yes, as a man specifically, this is infuriating. Should (and likely is in some circles) be equally infuriating to real victims
The biggest issue is how this makes women who have been actually sexually assaulted less likely to report it and be believed when they do report.
You have zero idea what her motivations were, but clout?! Clout from who exactly...the lawyer now that's a different matter.
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54 minutes ago, PatsFanNH said:
so she had an excuse MAYBE to lie. That’s just some large horse pucks there. The fact is she ruined the reputation and possibly career of someone for her own SELFISH reasons and she could have gotten a person sent to jail for a long time for something they didn’t do! There is no good excuse for what she did, she should have to face serious penalties for the entire length of time he may have had to serve in jail.
Did I say anywhere at all that she shouldn't face consequences? Or that they shouldn't be significant?
My post is simply in response to the person who said that the consequences should ruin her forever...
Like Ben Roethlisberger got to stay in the league and plenty of people were talking about him in terms of Xs and Os...it's the blue pill (or red pill or whatever) hypocrisy I'm pushing back against...she should face significant consequences for her actions, but ruined forever, come on that's hyperbolic and goes against the system of justice we have here.
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1 hour ago, uticaclub said:
She cancelled his career and without reprecussion nothing will stop another mans life from being ruined by lies
I don't know about you, but I have done way way less (like said something to someone maybe I shouldn't have when I was in high school) and that stuff wakes me up in the middle of the night sometimes...I have a feeling she is going to be facing this her whole life as it is.
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Since 2020, Bills lead NFL in point differential at +573...
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I believe that Levi Wallace blew the assignment after they baited Kelce into changing his route, and it's the reason he isn't here anymore.
If it was a coach, I think the coach would have raised their hand and been accountable...I think it was a player making a mistake on something they practiced a bunch and that's why there has been mostly silence (McD had said they practiced that a bunch, I don't think it was a coach thing, they baited Kelce imo and Wallace played the wrong coverage, again imo.