WhitewalkerInPhilly

Ok, I'm getting worried about darby

And just like that an extended drive for nothing...

I have no idea. But as this is going to likely be the only preseason game I get to watch live, I'm not complaining.

Any relation to Lou Potty?

I hear that if the reduced suspension happened it would be one game. I can hardly imagine a more Billsy outcome.

Hey, do you know how much effort it will be to get Shady back to Philly and turn him into a monstrosity that can only be killed by dragon glass and valyrian steel! I get results dammit! I could just turn him into a wight, but nooooo, I'll just hear that he has "slow eyes" and is an "undead shambling corpse". Some fans...

Wow, this got really off topic. But I have to hammer this home. From what I can tell, the scheme is a LOT like what Pettine was doing when he was here. Marcel is the 1-technique nose tackle. Kyle is the 3-technique tackle. Hughes, a little surprisingly, seems to be holding up well at the 5-technique end, and Mario just dominates whatever he does. Of course we'll adjust our LBs as necessary, but this is usually what we are doing. Nose Tackle only becomes a need if we let Dareus walk this offseason.

My favorite line from the Browns board:

It does have varying intensity. I felt ugly day one, was in agony day 2 and by day three it seemed that it had cleared up. Then the feverish hallucinations started...

I don't know about Hernias, but it seemed as if he was good Sunday. I *can* say from experience that appendicitis can come out of nowhere and make you debilitatingly ill and in pain.

OS...while I can appreciate the rhetorical argument of "appeal to authority" usually you look for someone better than Paul Hamilton when it comes to the Bills.

That was my first thought.

Crap. Can we get some more info on Karlos? He was looking so good!

Umm no. Maybe if Hogan shows a flash of something even resembling Goodwin's YAC the other night, I might reconsider. I'm just glad it's heat fatigue.

I am still shocked at the level of Tyrod dislike. I've been as much of an EJ homer as anyone, but I'm thrilled to see someone, anyone, showing consistency and solid chain moving. One of the points Cian brought up is that Tyrod not so much opened up massive passing attack. He points out where he missed an open Woods. But what he says is that Tyrod did enough to spread out the defense so that Brown could run. And that's it for me: He did just enough that we were able to run the ball effectively. That, as far as I understood, was the primary feature we were looking for at QB.

Actually, over the last two years EJ has looked numbers wise as good as or better than Cassel. And Tyrod has been backing up a SB Championship QB who is making bank.

And you think...Rex Ryan...of all people...would be overly cautious? On something he has vowed to not be a part of?

So, what you're saying is that after Rex promised an open QB competition, coming from a scenario where the lack of an open competition screwed him over, decided to settle, sight unseen, on an aging veteran whose high water mark was limping into first in a terrible division, watched the OTA's where said vet was the worst easily, and went "yep I'm staking my career on this" The only way he does that is if the plan is to tank for a higher draft pick next year.

Absolutely! Granted CK did come into camp out of shape last year. But when CK, Seantrel, Henderson...and even URBIK of all people show marked improvement, you have to assume the coaching and scheme are at least partly responsible

I absolutely detest the instant first down on holding. I don't know how many times we've seen third and insanely long, or a 4th down and long punt get simply erased because a ref is feeling too touchy that day.

Thanks OP! From what I was going on it hardly seemed as if Taylor was unable to make throws from the pocket like some people seemed to indicate. Dude...you could have faked it to make it *look* like you read the OP.

It's really too bad, but our depth is ok.

Well, in fairness, if one guy misses by a mile and the other has his receivers catching a case of the drops it does matter. I will note that this gives some leeway to EJ but I still think Tyrod had the better day.

I might be harping on this too much, bit Roman has a track record of heavy used of unbalanced/ heavy sets. I see no problem with having a close fought match with CK and Seantrel. Whoever loses out should still get quality playing time.

I know this has been answered by others, but I thought I'd get into the scheme answers based on the plays I've seen Roman draw up. Basically the easiest way to defend a scrambling QB is to spy him, usually with an extra LB or S so that even if the QB beats the D-line pressure (how we blew up Cam) they get stopped for small gains. One of my favorite formations Roman dreamed up is a 6 O-line, 1 TE, 2 back and 1 WR formations. The LT is swung over to the right side, where he's joined by THE RT aND swing tackle.(Glenn, CK and Henderson). The TE takes the LT spot (Clay), the WR goes wide left (Sammy) the backs on either side of the QB.(McCoy and Felton) At base, it's drawn up as a sweep. Shady uses FOUR, count them FOUR run blockers to get around the side. If you've spied your SS or WLB you have two tackles and a FB going against a pair of LB. If you don't spy the QB to defend the run, the QB is free to run. Are they sending the house to defend the run? You can easily turn the play in the play action fake on an audible, and suddenly Sammy is in single coverage with minimal safety support. With his speed he can turn a 5-8 yard route to a touchdown. Of course there are ways to defend it running QBs, but Roman was able to mask Kaepernick for 2 years. He might have done it for a third, but there were injuries to the O-line and with Crabtree not on his game the only real passing threat was Davis. The Bills don't have that problem right now.