jjamie12

I'm confused... are you saying that the safeties did or didn't creep up? Because it sounds like you're saying that they didn't creep up. And if they didn't creep up, then what is the point of throwing it deep to 'keep the safeties from creeping up'? If you meant that the safeties WERE creeping up, and we should be throwing the ball deep (I'm assuming you mean to take a couple of shots long downfield to keep the d honest rather than actually expecting to complete these type of passes... just based on your comments) to keep them from doing so, I think that's a valid way of looking at things. I, however, don't want to see the Bills waste TOO many plays on this type of thing, because I don't really think we have a good enough offense to have that luxury. Once or twice a game? OK, I guess...

[bold is mine] Ok, but here is the problem. From what Drew and the coaches said, the Jags were playing a two-deep most of the game, eliminating (or helping to cover up, at least) the deficiencies in their weak corners. If we were throwing downfield it wouldn't have really been against their corners, it would have been against their safeties. It's tough to have a downfield passing game against the 2-deep, except in the middle where... wait for it... the TE can get free behind the backers, splitting the 2-deep... That's why the pass was to the TE, not because of some kind of stupidity in the Bills thinking...