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  1. 1 hour ago, HoofHearted said:

    3rd and 1 - Edmunds fit great and whiffed the tackle because he stopped his feet on contact. No reason to draw that one up.

     

    Game Winning TD - Bills were playing 1 Rat coverage - a variation of Cover 1 (Man Free) and rushing 5. They stunt up front on the defensive left side pinching the 3 tech and 5 tech inside and blitzing Milano off the edge. The 3 tech and 9 tech to the defensive right rushed their lanes respectively. Everyone else is responsible for coverage. It's man so everyone except Poyer (F) has a man responsibility. Wallace (defensive right) has the furthest receiver outside, Johnson ($) has the #2 receiver to that side, Hyde (S) has the Tight End, Edmunds responsible for the back if he releases and is free otherwise, and Jackson (defensive left) has the furthest receiver outside to his side of the field. When they short motioned the outside receiver to the strong side of the field (defensive right) and he worked into a stack alignment with the receiver on the LoS Wallace and Johnson should have checked to a combo coverage here. Combo means Johnson is responsible for the first in-cutting route and Wallace is responsible for the first out-cutting route. There was zero communication and both Wallace and Johnson took #14 on the out-cutting route and no one was on the in-cutting route which was eventually thrown. Based on how i've seen the Bills play their 1 high coverage in the past Johnson should have carried the crosser since it went overtop of Edmunds (Typically in 1 Rat if a cross goes in front of the RAT player then they pick up the cross and whoever was on the receiver running the cross now becomes the RAT). Can't see Poyer in the highlight clip, but I'd assume he was "collected" by the vertical that Gronk ran and it took him out of the play entirely.

     

    Again, it comes down to players all not being on the same page which caused a failure in execution.

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    Agreed. Our tackling as a defense has taken a huge step back this year. That's one thing (as a coach) I used to be able to point to that the Bills did a really good job of. This year it's like they threw everything they'd done in the past in regards to tackling fundamentals out the window. It needs to be fixed.

     

    Thanks for breaking this down, question for you, what do you think of Dan's take.  Watching it live I felt like maybe we had to switch the crossers off?  And Dan alludes to that but then doesn't mention that Jackson never switched off.

     

     

  2. Great breakdown brother.  Question, what does playing a 50 mean?

     

    Romo even said it on the broadcast, he was talking about our safeties rotating late and keeping QBs off balance, except when you rotate yourself out of position and get slapped.  Seems like thats what happened here, because we kept the rest of the run game bottled up.

     

    Appreciate the analysis.

  3. McD is getting killed  for that Belichick remark, Fairburn got his payback with that out of context quote and everyone's running wild with it.

     

    Pathetic, McD gets hot after some of these Ls, I do too, but you have to take one from Bill's book:

     

    "we have to do a better job in all three phases.  we were beat.  we have to do a better job in all three phases. we have to play better if we want to win."

     

    Just repeat this crap over and over, don't give the vultures anything to write about.

  4. 10 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

    Uh-Oh - Bill Belichick effusively praising Josh Allen.

     

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/bill-belichick-showers-bills-quarterback-josh-allen-with-praise/ar-AARg1cF

     

    Typically when Belichick praises ya, it means he thinks he owns your soul.

    Remember last year the broadcast booth let it slip that Bill didn’t seem impressed, Allen carved them up, and Bill had to answer the narrative about why he thought Allen wasn’t all that….LOL. 

     

    Hoodie getting out in front of it this time, as usual.

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  5. Herbert's great.

     

    I'm not getting into comparisons, Herb wasn't this good in college, but he looks more natural at QB then Josh, but that's fine.  Herbert may be athletic, but you don't see him running as effectively as Josh, I mean outside of Lamar and Newton, Josh is probably one of the best dual threats of the last decade.

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  6. How does this compare to last season?  I mean short sample right now, but last year a lot of folks kept talking about how Josh was getting all sorts of time in the pocket which helped his success, this year so far he's not really getting kept clean.  Our PFF ranking on OL are woeful.

     

    Anyway, short sample, I also agree with what some other are saying, lots of teams playing 6 DBs and rushing 4 or fewer, clog up lanes for Josh.

  7. 20 minutes ago, Giuseppe Tognarelli said:

    He's not anywhere near the level of Mahomes. He's not anywhere near the level of plenty of other QBs. And when you're paid the most guaranteed money in NFL history and the expectation is Super Bowl, that's a big, big problem.

    It’s fair to say that he was upper echelon in 2020, but that was a 20 game stretch.  Was that the real Josh or the one that struggled mightily his first two seasons, and has looked subpar this season?  Going to find out soon enough. 

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  8. None of this matters, draft as many guys as you can and hope they develop.

     

    Just because you have a 1st round grade doesn't mean you develop into a starter.  I used to be obsessed with the draft, now I just sit back and shrug.  You never ***** know, I was dead wrong about a lot of guys, dead right on a lot.  Biggest Bills miss was Allen, thought he had bust written all over him.

  9. I do think first round picks may be overrated, but having more draft picks is certainly not overrated.

     

    The more selections you can make the better.  If you can move back, or out of the first round, and collect more picks in doing so all the better.

     

    Do feel that sometimes fans value 1st round selection more than the known vet, however that doesn't mean it's fine for a front office to just light draft capital on fire or give it away.  Trading up or giving away multiple draft picks can be harmful, you need as many as you can get, no perfect answer here.

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  10. It's hard to see Josh doing better in '21 than he did in '20, because that would be a historic NFL season, so his reps want to get something done now.

     

    Wouldn't be in any rush, I don't think we're going to get much of a discount anyway, going to pay market rates.  Lets see how next season goes, work from there.

  11. Going for 2 adds a marginal amount, Ben Baldwin has the numbers, it wasn’t bad but it wasn’t going to add much if they converted it.  Going for it on 4th wasn’t a bad move, I mean folks act like the kicker automatically makes it when there’s always a chance he misses.  Worst case you go for it, fail, and you pin team back where the chance of scoring a td is minuscule with that kind of starting field position.  I don’t think Reich did much wrong in that game, but morons will criticism him.

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