Bleeding Bills Blue

They were up 2 against Miami with 8 minutes to play. They beat minnesota with 20 seconds left. Scored to lead Dallas with less than 2 minutes left. NE almost beat them as time expired. They lost to Zona in OT. And this past week they had 350 yards and were aided by a fumble on a kickoff return. They've definitely improved their pass rushing recently, but theyve given up 400+ yards every week except one. And the garbage time excuse isn't really there.

Its a tough position i think. Hand usage - explosive burst - leverage. You can be a giant and if you lose your leverage, you miss your gap and lose your assignment. Yeah, his burst is elite. He just needs to keep it up with his arms and counters.

Exactly. You know your own weaknesses 😄

They see you twice a year every year.

He had 2. One for the last 4 games of 2018, and one for the first 4 games of 2020. Wikipedia has the 2018 one as PEDs, but the NFL article says substances of abuse. They are no longer suspending players for the substance abuse ones this year so I have no idea what the 2020 one was for. Probably refused/missed a piss test if I had to guess.

Or Marlowe. Can move hyde in there as a NB and give them some new looks. I dunno. Taron's just struggling all over, tackling, coverage, everywhere.

Or Neal... I don't think he can be that much worse at coverage than Johnson. Yeah, and he was terrible when he played.

I'd prefer dodson. I know what Lee is. He's slower to diagnose plays than edmunds, softer than klein. He's not going to be in position to make plays, and he's not a particularly good tackler. He's fast though.. which helps i guess?

They were able to run a lot of screens to RBs/TEs too because brady is a statue as well. Teams don't worry about losing contain and rush depth.

They did it when they played off coverage a few times. The Brown one was a big play where we threw the ball right off the snap and had kroft/bease out in front blocking.

On Defense: I think they'll play their cover 3/cover 4 stuff they usually do where they play over coverage behind the WRs. Seattle will still take some shots, but this lowers the percentage that those are completed. The front 4 needs to pressure, and attack their weak offensive line. On offense: Seattle's secondary sucks - so they'll probably blitz a lot on 3rd downs. Need plans to account for this, or it'll be a long day for Allen. Even with a good rushing day this past week i think they still likely keep 2 deep safeties on early downs, and keep their LBs near the LOS on 3rd downs.

Yes - deep throws too 🤣

Sure - but he buys time and is able to execute with deep balls when he does. But... when teams take away the deep stuff, he'll just execute the boring old short stuff as he did against SF. What'd he complete 1 deep pass in that game?

The 21 yard brown completion was a screen. I think there was 1 to diggs as well.

They checked to a couple WR screens when NE played off coverage. RB/TE screens aren't that popular against NE since they focus on rush depth and try not to get too wide.

I think the run game is important. The jets played similar coverages against buffalo and we weren't able to get yards on the ground. Looking at the last 3 scores of that game. Moss on 1st and 10, no gain. Singletary gets 1 yard on 2nd and 5. Allen got stuffed on 3rd and 2. Thats 3 situations where a positive play on the ground could've lead to more points.

He throws the best deep ball in the NFL. And he's insanely difficult to sack. Not to mention - while he had a sick fantasy stat line. 260 on 37 attempts and maybe 1 deep completion. Soo.... they did take away the deep ball and he beat them passing short, with ball security.

Yeah - You can complete short passes in a windy game, but those deep shots are a lot trickier.

I honestly think after the bye it'll be dodson to make an impact. I think Lee may be a PS call-up for 2 weeks until dodson is back.

I think with WR's, its one of the hardest positions to evaluate in the draft. It requires a QB to throw you the ball, but also to scale and evaluate their routes. Then there's the evaluation of does he have what it takes to work extremely hard to improve. He has that bit. Workouts and tape only go so far - he has improved his route running tremendously. He has also really improved his awareness. He's better on the sidelines, hes timing jumps better, he's just a better player than he was even a year ago.

That and having his players fall over injured after completions 🤣

We also motioned our gunner in on a punt early - and i remembered NOT doing that last year and the punt being blocked. I think having some core special teamers on this team does help.

I think you're more likely to see Phillips get those snaps than Lee. Dodson might be ready by week 10. I think Lee is depth on the PS to call up should we get hit with a ton more injuries again. Someone who's played more defense in the NFL than Matakevich and Smith who are both STers. Something to note - milano played 15 snaps in this one... *note* Andre Smith played 16 snaps on defense.

Tennessee just lost to cincy... GB to Minnesota. It's almost like its hard to go 16-0. And its almost like you can't blow out every opponent.

And they definitely messed with Feliciano. They ran several plays with no down linemen to disguise things. Not sure how the younger player handles that.