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I don't know about this. We play a ton of Cover 2/4/6 because I don't think McDermott are confident their off corner can handle their jobs. Getting a 2nd corner means you're able to drop one of Poyer and Micah into a shallow zone far more often than the Bills do - especially against good teams. Think about the Hill TD - that was one of the rare times the Bills were in straight cover 1 with Micah Hyde over the top. Hill utterly dusted Levi on a crosser, and with everyone manned, they didn't even realize he had the ball until he was at full speed, and that's game over. A corner who's 30% better than Levi probably means Hill doesn't have a full 2 feet of seperation - and it also means you can unleash your really talented safeties. I think someone like Rasul Douglas makes this defense A LOT better

Wait, so he didn't go over his game planning, and week specific plays, during meetings? My understanding is that in the NFL most of the meat of what happens on Sunday, happens OFF the field. That's why in the NFL you can do so much virtually. You're not spending in season working on fundamentals - you're expected to do get those down in OTAs, summer camp and players own time. You're trying to get players to understand their jobs for the week. If someone can't do that, they shouldn't be working with pros.

Humiliation will never result in a good outcome

A) Hill often plays out of the slot, so it's literally impossoble to jam him B) he's got elite quickness. Have you ever tried jamming someone who's super quick? It's like trying to jam a cat

Definitely get you! Honestly it's wild that the Bills secondary is composed of UDFA (Levi Wallace) , 7th Rounder (Dane Jackson), a 4th rounder (Taron Johnson), and a pair of FA castaways at safety and they managed to be as good as they were without Tre White. The thing is - the draft got their athletic traits right - they're all average to below average athletes for their positions. There's a good argument to be made for adding two dynamic pieces back there, one at safety the other at CB2

Nah, but you can take more risks with your safeties. Like you won't ask Tre to run across the field with Hill, but you'd trust him to take away the deep stuff - and you can ask a safety to play a zone closer to the LOS on Tre's side. Makes a big difference when you're playing a team like the Chiefs

Except the game plan worked. They got enough stops, and got Allen the ball with a shot to take the lead with under 2 minutes left. They basicaly failed the last 60 seconds of the game, and that was mostly down to A) Tyreke Hill's speed and and rookie's failing to generate the pass rush, and B) mysterious coaching decisions in the last 13 seconds.

They did a lot to protect their corners, which made it a lot harder for Poyer/Micah to get into the game. I don't know that Mahomes threw a pass beyond 25 yards? One of the spiciest takes I have is that we need to get someone like Jaquon Brisker for one of Hyde/Poyer, to get more speed, versatility and eplosiveness in the back 7.

Just some incredible football was played by the Bills last night. First up - y'all wanna see a dead body?

His scheme isn't extraordinarily far from what the Bucs do honestly, who run a base 3-4. Both teams have a fulcrum around a pair of sideline to sideline backers - though I would suggest the Bucs have a slightly better pair of backers in Devin White (super star) and Lavonte David than the Bills do with Edmunds and Milano - both use a heavy mix of zones that act to protect their corners. The real difference between the two is how they bring baseline pressure. The Bucs have slightly more versatility because they pick and choose which side to bring their rush guy, or be able to read and bring both, wheras the with 4 down you know which 4 are coming after the QB. And of course there's a bunch of gap and technique differences in a 3 man down and a 4 man down. If you can't get a game wrecker at DE, then I'd opt for a 3-4 with a pair of above average to good rushers at OLB because you can at least force the offense to guess more and you can be more varied in attack. Of course that also opens you up for more big plays and more risk. Right, Mahomes elevated to the situation at hand. The defense - mostly - did it's job Let's call that "don't fix what's going extraordinarily well". Tweak the offense, don't change it.

Think there will be some philosophical discussions that need to happen first. The 4-2-5 may not be a system that could ever hope to stop Mahomes and modern spreads. 3-4 with disguised blitzes and coverages may be better suited. You have a lot of pieces in place for that to work as well, with Milano/Edmunds as your MLBs, Oliver as a DE, Harrison Phillips as a NT, I think Boogie woudl be fine as a 3-4 DE, while Rousseau is almost a protype for a OLB... I think you need to be more dynamic in your scheme, and a 3-4 gives you a lot more versatility. It also allows you to drop 8 into coverage a lot easier. Pair a philosophical change and hire Wink Martindale

I don’t know that but I’m confident it would be a HUGE risk

You gotta add speed to the back 5. Love both Poyer and Micah but I’d want to upgrade one of them for a faster player, and I’d also add some speed at the boundary corner. Think that’s the biggest weakness here. if you can find a stud DE that’s great but I thought the DLine played well. They were pressuring. Not getting down Mahomes Is a different quest

They would have given up a TD in those 13 seconds playing man against these guys. They don’t have the horses for that. I would probably just play their base cover 4 if it were me.

I don’t mind Mcadermotts defense, but he needs more speed in the back, I think that’s a takeaway I have from tonight. At both corner and safety we need faster guys

Right. There’s also heat of the moment issues and these guys are human. Their defense JUST gave up a 60 yard TD on a Catch and run and you have to think about that to. here’s what I do know about this defense. There was about 4 times in the 2nd half where they neeed a stop to give Allen a shot to win and they did it. They failed the last 3 times (the Cheetah TD, the 13 seconds, OT when they probably had no legs), but man they gave Allen a shot for much of this game. I would have obviously liked to see the defense play differently that last 13 seconds….but man these guys had KC under 30 until that last drive they had

I’m pretty sure that was on Wallace. Think he fell for that jab step. Bills have been struggling at boundary corner for the last 3 years and it just hit real bad here

Well none of the above are true and yet I’m proud of the defensive effort. It’s called perspective. It’s not like the Bills chose to let KC have Mahomes and all those good weapons

Think they got him once, maybe ran him out of bounds another time. I’m realizing Allen and Mahomes are two of the toughest QBs to get down in this the history of this game

You people are nuts. You can’t take people out of coverage with the fastest man in the NFL there. No real good options. have some ***** perspective. Mahomes and Allen as the two most gifted QBs in the NFL, perhaps ever, and Mahomes had hall of fame talent at WR and TE. The defense did probably about as well as you could possibly hope, all things considered. They got to Mahomes. They forced them into punts and FGs. you should be proud of Frazier and this defense

EFFING MASSIVE GREAT JOB D

Not even close. It’s been playing it’s butt off. But your seeing superior play from Mahomes. They basically gave up a single bad play today

This why I really didn’t want to punt on 4th and 1.

They made a play. Mahomes decided it wasn’t

This is a tennis match and KC is up a break