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Think this is myopic. The bengals D isn’t this stressful, and the big problem the Bills are having is dealing with the Dolphins’ blitz packages. They have a really good front 7, and they’re making use of it. Defense has been good today. That’s two drives now where the dolphins started a drive at midfield or better and they only have 9 points this half

Give credit to Miami. Undermanned bit playing hard, and playing smart

Damn. That’s a drop

Not that easy. Allen was confused AF on 2nd down. But got them on the 3rd down

No Brown ran into the coverage rather than the open space in the middle. All NFL WRs have that option route, Josh saw and there the skinny while Brown continues the corner

It was 100% on John Brown

They’re struggling with the Phins pressure package right now - though still moving it. However Miami is relentless with heavy blitz and it forces so much stress on this offense

Tremaine actually held up on that hit. Just enough force to get the ball away. He could have utterly destroyed Wilson there

Yea that INT wasn’t on Allen. Phins play this insane blitz package, you have to WRs who complete their routes

Just no Josh. Just No

Would love to see an under center play action this drive

Don’t actually mind Skylar the QB. He’s got a reasonable arm, fairly accurate, doesn’t panic. Just needs to process what’s in front of him much quicker, and recognize some of these blitzes the Bills are sending him. That only comes with experience though. Clearly not quite ready for this, but what can you do? Basically I think the kid has a future in this league

Tre White looking like he’s got his explosiveness back is pretty huge

I sometimes enjoy thinking about how the Dolphins drafted Ryan Tannehill. I guess they only have 1-2 years until Tua was ready to be a starter for them. Bit really is bad that they couldn’t build a playoff team around Tannehill, looking at what the titans do with him

Just too intense and competitive for his own good. Hope this dude can learn to delegate, take some pressure off himself, and actually enjoy the work rather be so intense it’s killing him It’s a good time for him to find a legit OC to groom to take a lot the pressure off himself

The 49ers - when they’re on it - have one of the better defenses I’ve seen over the years. The type that could give Allen a nightmare because he’d have multiple gaps in his protection, linebackers who are gonna eat against our run game, safeties who just don’t make mistakes, and in Ward a corner who’s good enough to annoy Diggs. If they had a legit QB, I’d make them the runaway favorite to win it all. As it is they have the best coach in this business IMO. However, if the Bills get past both the Bengals and Chiefs then yea they’re beating SF

I think Oliver is an elite 3-4 DE

Among the recent hires, those that to have good EQ, seem to have the most success. McDermott falls right inline with this. I think going forward, with a more confident, self-assured, empowered generation of kids growing up, EQ is going to be among the more important traits you look for in a leader

A Letter to Bills Mafia, Part III by Dion Dawkins | The Players’ Tribune (theplayerstribune.com) Dion speaks with a lot of intimacy on what he and the team went through, and are still going through

I always try to add "if he doesn't regain his explosiveness". If he does there's 0 problem here. He's still quite obviously got his skill and instinct

No, I want a defense that has a minimum of two corners who can play man or zone on the outside. With Tre's burst where it is right now, the Bills have 1

I'm not saying he's a future hall of famer. He's not enough of a playmaker at that position to get that. What I am saying what he gives in terms of fundamental linebacker play makes him our most valuable defender on a play by play basis. Part of the equation for value is how hard is it to replace a commodity, and if you can't replace it, what are the cascading impacts of the loss? You take that into account, and he's pretty close to a must have for the Bills. Did you disagree with what I said about how football offenses are evolving? Why do you think the Bills wouldn't feel his loss all that much? EDIT Just caught the part on defending the pass. If you don't see an elite, or close to elite, pass defender in him, then you and I are just gonna have to disagree here. There's a reason Josh Allen talked so highly of his pass defending, calling area 43 a no go zone or something to that effect.

Bills D vs Vikings first half 151 yards, 10 points 2nd half 273 Yards, 20 POINTS VS Browns 324 Yards passing, 3 TDs, 80 yards rushing, 23 points vs Lions 240 yards passing, 2 TDs, 96 yards rushing, 1 TD, 25 points Perhaps the 4 worst halves of football for the Bills D this season across those 3 games, all with Edmunds on the bench (he played the first half against the Vikes)

Not even close.

I really wish people would have a better understanding of how offenses are evolving. Good teams consistently send 4 man patterns out there, and on occasion, 5. And then they run these Inside/outside zone runs from 11 and 12 personnel, where both TEs are receiving threats. The middle linebacker, especially in today's 4-2-5 schemes, is the most important position on the field for you, and so much of what they do doesn't pop in the stat sheets, which is why a good nickname for them is Eraser. You can't afford to consistently drop safeties low to cover the middle 3rd. You need to keep them back with all this speed on the outside NFL WRs bring, and the consistent threat of double deep routes from outside and in. Having someone like Edmunds is MASSIVE, because they enable average athletes like Hyde and Poyer to excel as safeties. They don't have the speed to go from middle 3rd to deep 3rd, and with Edmunds, we don't ask them to. And on top of that you STILL need a backer who's good enough in run fits, and still a threat on blitzes. Edmunds is pretty freakin good in his run fits and is actually still improving year over year as a blitzer. But he's a ***** WEAPON as an eraser in coverage. He's more important than Oliver or either safety or signing a high end WR2. IMO he's a must keep