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Well they have the most talented offense by a country mile

Cinncy sent an extra or two. Singletary has to do better than that, as Pratt hit Allen as he’s throwing

Yup. Bills didn’t stay in base coverage that drive either. I’m not sure what mix of coverages of work but they tried a few there. Just too many weapons

He ran a fairly advanced passing attack at Ohio State at an elite level. Ain't no way this dude went from that to Tyler Huntley overnight. The problem is he's been harassed fairly frequently. This was an article from Oct 21 How Justin Fields is hurt by constant pressure from Bears offensive line - NBC Sports Chicago According to PFF, Lucas Patrick has allowed 11 pressures in 57 true pass set opportunities (passes excluding play action, screens, short drop backs, plays with fewer than four rushers, and plays where the time-to-throw is under two seconds). That’s ninth most among all guards, but his 19.3% pressure rate is second highest at the position (minimum 50 opps). Sam Mustipher has allowed seven pressures in 69 TPS opportunities. That’s the fifth highest total, and his 10.1% rate is second highest among centers. Braxton Jones has been the worst offender with 17 pressures allowed in 69 TPS opportunities. That total is fourth highest among all tackles, and again, his 24.6% pressure rate is second. Teven Jenkins hasn’t been perfect, surrendering five pressures in 52 TPS opportunities, but he’s well down the list at guard. Larry Borom has been the best, giving up only four pressures in 69 TPS opportunities. Unsurprisingly, Fields has been a very different quarterback when he’s pressured compared to when he’s kept clean. Pressured: 33.3% completion rate, 6.9 YPA, 2 TD, 3 INT, 22 sacks, 43.8 passer rating Clean: 65.8% completion rate, 7.9 YPA, 2 TD, 2 INT, 1 sack, 87.6 passer rating And then also add in that his best WR this year was Mooney, who went on the IR at some point mid season. Like when they played the Bills they had Claypool, Dante Pettis and Eq. St Brown which is simply not an NFL caliber set of WRs

fair enough!

This is insane to me. They always had the Bills offense on a struggle bus. Even when the Bills were moving and scoring it felt like they were using everything got to do so. Is he aggressive with his blitzing? Absolutely. But it worked IMO

Would love to see Lamar in a vertical/spread system

You saying “that wasn’t even a big pressure” tells me we’re not going to agree here. Big Gregg won the play, with an assist from DaQuon Jones who won his battle as well. That’s the kind of pressure the Bills get fairly often and it’s exactly what you want out of your defense. Sure sacks and hits are more fun to watch, but it’s the consistent pressure that’s what sets a good defense apart from an average defense.

Yea I agree with that, and that’s why they went and got Von Miller to help finish those plays. But certainly they create more than enough pressure to create bad plays fairly consistently. It’s super hard to constantly drive the field on this defense because of that consistent pressure . Beat your man and move the QB. Everything after that is bonus.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2022/opp.htm Bills have the 15th ranked pressure % in the NFL (Ravens are around 20th or so) at 7,2%, and yet have the 10th lowest blitz %. What does that tell you about the Bills front 4?

What difference does that make when you’re talking about pressure and “nastiness”? Just not true What do you see here?

Bills didn’t struggle at all to get pressure on Miami with their front 4. Why the hell do you think Thompson only completed 40% and was constantly avoiding pressure and moving around off his spot? Yea Milano got a couple blitz sacks but the primary pressure throughout the game was coming from the front 4. It was effective. It harassed Miami’s offense into a completely crap day. On the vast majority of plays Edmunds and Milano stayed in coverage . I don’t know why people aren’t wanting to give the Bills front 4 some credit here.

They did that against the chiefs. What’s funny is this the same complaint I heard about PSU’s defense for the last 2 decades last season. They were defenses that didn’t blitz a lot, got sacks from the front 4, and would play mostly zones - and consistently end up ranked pretty darn high on every defensive stat out there while coming up with good performances against good teams. I think people are arguing style > performance Theres nothing sexy about the Bills D. They don’t care chaotic pressure, and they don’t send swarms of defenders. So people take that to mean the Bills are soft on D. But that’s bull####. What the Bills are highly effective, a incredibly and really difficult to score on

They play a 3-4, and bring pressure by blitzing from various angles rather than anything conventional. They might just rush 4, but you don’t necessarily know who that 4th is, and it’s often 5-6

Than the Bengals defense? Sure. And also, Bmore has an attacking 3-4, with blitzers coming all over the place. But even with the Bills more conventional 4-3, they put a ton of pressure on the QB

How were they more nasty? Did you look at the stats from today? How many successful drives the Dolphins had during the game? Their QBs pressure rate?

So the Bills have better DTs, equivalenr DEs like Oweh and Bowser, better depth at all along the DL and pass rushers, equivalent Backer tandem, and with Tre coming back around, better corners, while the ravens have better safeties. In general the Bills run D has been quite good, and phenomenal since a bad game against the Phins in December. There’s just no evidence to support the ravens being more “physical” on D or even better

I don’t accept the premise that the Ravens have significantly better, or even better, defense than the Bills Using DVOA, Bills are 4th and Ravens 7th

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Well my early read is that the weakest unit between these two teams is the Bengals OLine. But really, I think Josh needs to be a bit more risk averse unless we’re in shootout mode. If Bengals are struggling with protection tie last thing you want to do is give them short fields. Would rather punt the ball than take big risks, and perhaps run the ball moreso than usual

Ha, mean reversion says the bengals are gonna come out on fire next week

Josh also isn’t going to try leaping 1.5 yards so there’s that to

Yea exactly. Your only judging that TO because of a play that never technically happened and was blown dead

His defense was out of position. You can’t judge a timeout ona pay that never happened

This is perhaps the most erratic game end coaching I’ve seen in a playoff game in my memory