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Jefferson and Oliver (who quietly had a pretty good game) are doing that, but that's not as meaningful from the DT position, unless you're Aaron Donald, Jones or the dude from the Bengals whom I'm forgetting. You generally didn't see Tannehill just standing in the pocket. He plays off play action, but the pocket got nicely moved back.

Can't do that against double high zones. Tennessee was happy to give up grinding drives. They figured Allen would make a mistake, and their offense would take care of the rest. Exactly what happened.

Addison is the one who I think has been a pleasant surprise on this D. AJ had a nice play tonight (I mean he was unblocked but hey he still made the play), but then jumped on 3rd and 7, which effectively ended the ball game. I don't understand how a kid from Iowa looks so awkward and and raw as a football player. I mean I'm a Penn State fan and he looked pretty good to me in College...but , I don't get him at all. But I think the Bills rather need him to get better/ready in a hurry

He was fine.

Ha! But in all honesty, if he has to play on this particularly built team, they're not going to win very many games. You might as well as see what Jake Fromm State Farm can do

He doesn't have an arm.

I don't know how the Bills aren't desperately trying to find a way to trade for a good DE. I'm basically done with Murphy and Hughes as anything but situational pass rushers.

Folks if you’re taking DTs and Edmunds, then you weren’t paying attention. Those guys actually played well. Titans couldn’t get much going up the middle. Losing contain destroys a defense. It clears space for lineman to get on your Backers (which happened all game), it opens up running lanes for an athletic QB...just bad. on top of that, corners couldn’t hang. I mean you notice the safeties rarely had to make a play. There’s a reason for that. Titans went right after the Bills backups with matchups

Just as a reminder. Josh Norman and Taron Johnson have no business starting in the NFL. AJ Klein and Dodson are backups for a reason. Bills D actually did a nice job on Henry. But the struggles against Brown, Jonnu and Tannehill were predictable. the only real disappointment defensively was the play of the DEs, which I thought was terrible in a mental mistakes kind of way

Top 2 corners, best linebacker out. DEs forgetting HS lesson of keeping contain, and a single bad INT by Allen, drops by the WRS, and a really physical football team and a QB who simply doesn’t make mistakes and this is what you get move on, just a blip. Last thing - I LOVED how Allen responded to his bad INT

Murphy has a cap hit of $9,775,000 with with a dead cap hit of $1.75M, do s savings of about 8M. Bills have $4.4M in Cap space, so they can save 12.4M in cap space with those moves. In a trade, to get a 1st and a 2nd round pick, the Texans would agree to convert 3-4M of his current salary into a bonus, which means they'd eat that in cap space, freeing him to come to Buffalo

That's now. He doesn't have a dead cap hit this year or next year. The final 2 years of his contract. Let me offer a rebuttal to your main point though. While I agree he's had some recent injury problems, when he's been healthy, he was elite in 2018, and elite in 2019 week 1 - 8, prior to tearing his pectoral (which is more of a freak injujry, and not at all related to his historical back injuries) https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-rankings-the-nfls-top-25-edge-defenders-ahead-of-the-2020-nfl-season And he's been really good THIS year as well

We don't really play an OLB. Base D is a 4-2-5, and the two backers are hybrids who have run support, blitz and coverage responsibilities. Hence both Milano and Edmunds both being plus athletes. The difference is that Milano is a bit more reactive than Edmunds right now, though Edmunds gets way more criticism than he deserves. If you really want to get rid of Edmunds, while keeping McDermott as coach, then you're going to have to draft Micah Parsons or something. Not a lot of backers who can play that position in this defense.

Texans badly need to clean house on their roster. and they should be looking to move everyone but Watson and Tunsil Problem is that you need to cut someone from the 54 to get him, and I'd rather keep Trent Murphy

You want a semi-realistic fantasy trade? JJ Watt. He has a 15.5M cap hit with no dead cap penalty (which makes it a lot more appealing to the Texans). The Bills would either trade (but likely cut) Trent Murphy, saving saving about 8M in Cap space, add that to the 4.5M in cap, get the Texans to convert 3M of his salary to a salary bonus, send them a 21 1st, and a 22 2nd, and the Bills would have a stud DE, who they are free to extend or cut in 21 with no dead cap penalties.

Linebacker isn't the problem. The pass rush is. Wish I had some next gen stats for the Raiders game, because I thought D was getting to Carr a lot quicker in the 2nd half, and that coincided with the Raiders offense slowing down. Exact opposite of the first when Carr had time to pick the zone apart. I mean zones aren't designed to defend 5+ seconds of Playing time. In the NFL, WRs and RBs are 50 yards from where they started in that time. This is why I wish the Bills were aggreessive in going after Clowney and ngakoue

Score early and often, and get Tannehill throwing on 1st down

Will this basically be a national game then or will blackout rules apply? Because I won't be able to catch the important parts on RZ

Oops! I thought I saw him more against LV. at least he got to spike the ball on a Josh Allen TD against the Jets.

What this also means is that while I would have liked to see the Bills use their first rounder on an EDGE, OT might be a bigger need as I assume Daryl Williams will price himself out Buffalo’s pandemic salary cap. Bates is getting some PT I noticed and I’m wondering if that’s in prep for him competing for the RG spot next season so they won’t have to pay Brian winters, who’s also entering FA at 29, and should clear $3M he’s getting paid now as a starter on a good team.

That’s fair and I don’t know enough OLine technique to actually offer a deeper analysis, but in the Rams game he seemed to have done as well as reasonably expected against Donald

Eh, they're probably going to end up getting good value for him If you look at PFF's best guards - Quenton Nelson - 1st Zach Martin - 1st David DeCastro - 1st Joel Bitonio - 2nd Brandon Scherff - 1st Roger Saffold - 2nd Joe Thuney - 3rd Ali Marpet - 2nd Shaq Mason - 4th Kevin Zeitler - 1st Graham Glascow - 3rd Larry Warford - 3rd I think getting a good starter in the 2nd is pretty good value. He wasn't a first so you wouldn't neccesarily expect him to be a top 10 kind of guy

Got beat on the break, but that was also a perfect throw. Tough to defend

Pass rush folks. How often the D ALMOST got to Goff, only for Goff to make the pass? Pass rush needs to get there a split second faster, and McDermott may need to commit to more blitzing in distance situations. An offense like the Rams with a good QB and good WRs and a good schemer in McVay, they’re going to find 15-20 yards in a heavy zone with little pressure. Bills might regret not getting in on Yannick or Clowney this off-season. I’m not too worried about the Run D. That’s more of a concern without Josh Allen, where we play from behind consistently. Also the Run might give up some plays, but for the most part they’ll make enough plays where it comes down to stoping 3rd and long. That’s pressure Our corners aren’t a huge issue. White got beat noticeably once on a play where he was asked to chase a fast WR clear across the field - an impossible task on that one. Sure Levi gives up some plays, but really this D got killed between the hashes, and that points more to the safeties, backers and again - pass rush

Lots of misdirection than the bills struggled with in the run game, but rams running isn’t why the Bulls collapsed in the 2nd half. That would be the Rams converting down and distance and the Bills struggling getting to Goff