starrymessenger

I'm with you on this. I suspect he has a lot to say about which prospects get drafted.

He doesn't know the difference between 5 and 6.

McD had everything to do with drafting Bernard. His kind of guy.

Turned a stud into a gelding.

It might not be the playcalls. I thought I saw an angry Cook on the sidelines. Maybe he said something.

The Bills are counterpunchers on offence lol.

So now the offense craps out.

He's not happy about it either.

Just about anywhere else.

Best Bill on the field tonight.

Carolina had a great pass rush with four down lineman. They had great LBs. We have neither.

Exactly. The defensive scheme has proved it could work very well (in Carolina). Now as to whose fault that is maybe Beane, maybe McD, probably both.

Personally I don't think it's a scheme thing. He doesn't have the players to execute.

He wouldn't do better with this crew.

I thought he established control before dropping it.

Bet they say they can't reverse it.

Man vs boy.

Why am I laughing.

Yeah it ain't the steel curtain.

What was that.

About time. Deep and between the numbers.

We will clean their clocks after the bye. Trust me.

They always call it, whether material to the outcome or not.

True. Bills receivers average depth per reception since Josh has been under center is not far off that of the game’s best receivers. Probably the difference in quality/production is attributable to scheme, targets and YAC (except for Shakir). But although you dont need to run go routes and post patterns all day you do need to be able to credibly run deep routes successfully on occasion IMO so that the risk has to be accounted for by the opposing secondary. Maybe thats a large part of what a Chase, Lamb, Tyreek, Jefferson etc… actually do for you. Bills passing attack basically takes what the opposition appears to give you. But what seems to be intentionally given can sometimes more easily be taken away (see NE Patriots) so sometimes you need to be able to take what they dont want to give you. Bills dont seem to do much of that. I dont buy the argument that the problem is Josh’s long ball inaccuracy. He’s thrown many long balls laterally as deep outs and he has shown that he can do so with the necessary arc and touch- witness his game breaking toss to Palmer to beat the Ravens. He just needs to do more of that between the numbers.

Diggs apparently is still a top tier receiver when he’s motivated but despite his game against us he must so far be an expensive disappointment (69MM 26MM guaranteed, 12MM signing bonus) to the Pats. If it was only a question of stroking him I think that could be managed, though I doubt that Vrabel is the kind of guy who will do much of that. But you actually need to do more. He simply refused to play in Brady’s run heavy conservative passing offence where everybody eats. So you need also to feature him in a predominately passing offence. Don’t do that and he will respond with mediocre, uninspired play.