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Good point. My prior for this OLine was that it was at best an average OLine. Nothing that's happened so far has moved me off that This chart doesn't make any sense to me

I mean they played Howell, Jimmy G, and Zach Wilson which helps quite a bit, but even then they've all looked pretty good by the eye test

Honestly the Bills OLine played better than I thought, but I thought they'd lose 55 - 65% of their battles. That;s a quality DLine they went up against. I also think the offense was dialed back because McDermott felt the Commanders offense didn't have much pop against the D, and the only way they were gonna lose is with turnovers There's some caveats to this, because they played the Jets and Commanders, who own 2 of the 5 best DLine in football.

McDermott isn't moving off White and Benford. He's got arguably the best performing corner pair in the NFL right now, even though the Bills have played crap QBs.

Orlovsky and the NFL Live on ESPN vrew had a wondeful conversation about this last year, well worth the 9 minute listen if you enjoy Ball Talk https://x.com/danorlovsky7/status/1577665506550718464?s=20 EDIT Check the comments in twitter as well. These guys hit on something here on under center vs Shotgun

How just not let this happen, because this is utterly pathetic https://x.com/ThePretendGM/status/1706347703330804171?s=20

He wins with his first read, to be more accurate. And McDaniel is incredible at giving him great first reads and Tua has elite release speed, eyes, accuracy and ball placement

Keep in mind Tua has to be extremely situational on balls over 30- 40 yards. These are shots the WR have to basically win off the ball because he doesn’t have the velocity to win after that. No easy deep shots is rule number one.

Cover 0 will be a big part of the game plan in red zone I think, perhaps even zone man combos on the bills side of the field

You need to move Tua off his first read, because that’s the only possible way to pressure him, and once that happens the advantage turns to Buffalo. How you do that is by maintaining your coverage discipline. No one in the NFL can keep up with Tyrke and Waddle in man in their crossers, posts, and post corners. Just not happening. So you have to zone them, but you also have to be varying and disguising your coverage. You have to be willing to let them grind up the field. Most importantly you can’t lose on first down to the run

A) don’t miss tackles B) discipline in your assignment C) control the gaps D) maintain the edge in the the run game

Yep. But it’s not any different- or even better - than last season’s Dolphins offense. They’ll get some yards and points but nothing the bills offense can’t keep up with

Fortunately they generally play teams with skill players faster than their secondary every week. They’ve jad among the slower secondaries around since the Poyer/Hyde/White era began. bills will pick and choose their moment to play man or zone, and their DLilne and Backers won’t get obliterated like you saw with Denver. Stopping the run is gonna be the key to stopping the Dolphins

The Premier League & Champion's League is more accesible than the NFL, and those are European soccer competitions Also, you have Billionaire's extorting taxpayers to pay for their ridiculous stadiums, or threatening to move the franchise out of the state. Sure don't steal, but lose me with any kind of empathy or sympathy for these modern day oil barons Buffalo Taxpayer Bill for new stadium that costs 1.4B - 850M Net worth of Terry Pegula: 6.8B Oh and they have the gall to charge you $60 for two hot dogs, some fries and two beers, after y'all pay for over 50% of the stadium

Running the ball against a defense that stuffed Jacobs and did way better than stats say against the Jets, going up against two really good corners and a fantastic nickel back, not being able to protect our QB against an elite DLine (that doesn't even have Von Miller good gracious), and then the other side not having the backers or really secondary to come close to containing the Bills plethora or weapons. It's almost completely going to come down to not just pressuring Allen, but then containing him and not letting him Josh Allen because we don't remotely have the back 7 to defend this offense in those situations

If there is a hole on this 9ers defense is the secondary. Very average

Its a good rule as well

Bills can shut this offense down with good backer play and forcing Purdy to hit them deep. That all begins with containing the Run game and actually making them care about scoring by being a threat on offense

It begins with them not being a heavy blitz or man defense

I’m not sure there’s a line in the NFL that can consistently win against that DLine. Thats the big issue

That was Purdy’s 3rd interceptable ball this half. This is a Godly man, and I think it’s a bit unfair he gets help from God

Whatever it takes to take you mind off addiction right? ——- Giants make a play on 3rd down challenge

No, Garappolo broke his foot, and was a free agent. Purdy didn’t even start a game till almost Christmas. Theh literally had like 6 games of Purdy to go off of. Theu stuck with him because he had an average floor, and makes less than a million a year on the cap

Jimmy got hurt

Hey giants maybe you can throw it to Waller? - all Waller FF owners