Bleeding Bills Blue

Agreed, the knock on benford coming out was speed and level of competition. Speed isn't everything and projecting someone's ability against better competition is always a challenge. But he has the size teams covet, he's smart, good tackler, has ball skills - always funny to me when you list all that and then at the end the scouting report says something like "round 7 - priority UDFA". Helps the secondary when the d line obliterates the opposition. The biggest miscue that i saw in the game was the long play to Kupp, and from what i could tell that appeared to be on Benford. I think it was a cover 2 beater flag route type of thing, so the safety can't get over there but Benford was basically in no mans land. Still - good game all around.

LA gained 193 yards across 49 called passing plays (i included the 2 yard scramble but it barely moves the needle either way). That's like 4 yards per passing play with 3 turnovers. The panthers had the worst net yards per attempt in the league at 5.0 last season (the rams were 2nd in the nfl in this category at 7.3 net yards per attempt). The defense held the 5th best passing offense in 2021 to atrocious stats, I think we're being a bit nitpicky here.

He can catch, block, and run people over. He will never be an RB1, but he's the younger version of - Tolbert, Ivory, Gore, etc. He is a bull there to impose physicality on the opposition. He's never really had ball security issues so i look at it a bit as an isolated thing that he'll need to make sure he cleans up. When you watch his bills highlights, pretty much every one ends up with him running someone over. Be it meeting them in the hole and driving his way into the end zone, or just down field running directly at the tackler to try and hit them.

Yep to pretty much all of this. Moss is out on a bunch of snaps for blitz pickup - they didn't blitz so he is the escape valve. Allen took the check down several times to prevent a sack, or other mistake like a turnover. Singletary out snapped Moss in this game, moss just happened to get a bunch of assorted check downs for whatever reason. Fumble is annoying. Garbage time or not, don't put the ball on the turf. Especially when you're supposed to be the ball security guy of the group.

Liking boogie. Stepped up and had some 3T snaps after oliver went down. I assume if he's out at all then lawson becomes active and they do the best they can with what they have.

Just shut down their run game and the rest will fall into place. He ended at 52% but i don't think he played after we went up 31-10.

Whats wrong with Beane's drafting? Elam was brought in because sometimes you need to play man coverage, and he's a bigger faster man coverage style corner. He needs some work to fit into the total defensive scheme, but he'll get there. And if he doesn't - its pretty cool when a 2020 7th rounder and 2022 6th rounder don't look even slightly out of place.

Pretty sure after one of the timeouts they pulled poyer, hyde, edmunds, milano, and Johnson... so that to me is a good reason to use a timeout.

They were running the clock out and buffalo was content to let them hand it off. Then they switched to no huddle passing. I'd call timeout too, get the right personnel in to match.

It's one game. He played less than singletary, and if cook doesn't fumble he probably plays less than he even did. Knox leaked out in the flat and had space with only a LB in coverage. Probably not a major gain but keeps the drive rolling there.

Crowder sat on his route for some reason (probably play design?) but if he kept running and allen floated it in there it's a big gainer. In any case - DB was there and he forced.

Fair - he got the majority of snaps by a decent margin. We just pass a ton. For this reason or another, when moss was on the field for pass snaps they tended to end up as check downs to him. Motor had a called screen, and i don't believe moss did. Fumble is annoying, but people fumble. If I'm the coach I'm on his ass this week about it, and drive home focus and composure in big moments. I'm also not gonna crucify a guy for a fumble. Allen averages about 10 fumbles a year. Hell Motor has 10 recorded fumbles in his NFL career as well. I don't mind benching a back when he fumbles either, just don't bury a guy for a season when you will need them down the line.

Moss fumbled with 5 minutes left in the game. The next time we had the ball we kneeled.

Motor played 35/59 snaps to Moss 22/59 snaps. Cook played 3/59. Diggs played 38/59 snaps fwiw. Moss, Gilliam, Crowder, Mckenzie all played in that 15-25 range. Kumerow played 14 actually as well.

On the INT he had time, and no one was there... except knox in the flats.

Weak link? He fumbled sure. So did Cook. Allen also telegraphed a terrible INT, and mis-read a red zone possession resulting in a field goal. He also blocked, hit people, and caught every target (they were all check downs).

I don't know enough about how an NFL team runs - but Moss could have had a good week of practice. Maybe Motor got dinged a little. Everything everyone says is pure speculation. I do believe that buffalo doesn't want Motor cracking like 250 touches though. Too many guys missing too much time, along with general wear and tear that can sap some of that effectiveness in the playoffs.

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My guess is it was like 90 degrees in the dome and they had a plan to rotate heavily.

Yeah that phillips stunt was funny. Everyone shifted and phillips came around the edge unblocked like a maniac.

You probably play 2 games a season in sustained heat. I rotate as much as possible in that situation. Moss also was out there a lot on that 13 play drive for whatever reason, probably something they saw and wanted him in there for pass pro or something. I think him and motor are important for the MNF game. That team has pushed the bills around for a few years now, its time to get physical and push back.

I do think Stafford is rusty - the whole training camp pitch count piece. But the bills pass rush was beating him up all night. Sacked a ton, and there were a few where he got the ball off and got absolutely crushed.

He's usually pretty sure handed, and doesn't really fumble much. He had that miscue in the 49ers game his rookie year(I believe that fumble was tied to Allen but it was a Moss fumble imo). In Miami last season he had one get punched out when i think he was stretching for yards similar to this. Motor has 10 fumbles in 3 seasons fwiw.

I remember showing some out of town colleagues some photos i took on the walk to the playoff game last year. People huddled around trash can fires and fire pits. Cans and trash everywhere. My beers kept freezing too. Then we beat the piss out of the patriots so it was basically the greatest game I've ever attended.

Why would you want to go to another teams practice squad? You've been here 3 years, you know the playbook, etc. He can sign with any team at any time, but now that he's on a practice squad they have to give him 3 game checks even if you cut him or don't use him. And after that they still have to expose him to waivers etc.