Bleeding Bills Blue

I just meant it like... myself and the people that i play with - we are not good. Even the guys who played in high school etc. And most probably would've caught that. So I don't wanna hear about how it should've been over here instead - catch the friggin ball, its literally your job.

The dline just isn't working together. Hughes taking snaps on his off side has been troubling since the communication hasn't been great. Caught up field in the run game, letting clean blockers to the 2nd level, losing outside contain on run blitzes, losing outside contain on pass plays. I think some of the run fits have been bad, especially johnson.

There was one that was low but i thought he shouldve had it, i know there was a 2nd but i cant remember what happened.

Good point. Even worse. Poor offensive execution - but the defense followed with even worse execution. We force a 3 and out and we have a chance to score there before half as well.

They flipped the field down 14-7 and Tenn drove 90 yards in like 3 minutes. That to me was the breaking point. 14 or even 17-10 at half is soooo much better than the 21-10.

I wouldn't say ST cost us this game - but last season there were a few pretty poor performances. The NE game featured a blocked punt for a TD in a game buffalo lost by 6. Lots of makeable missed FGs. Bojo seems to have improved on the punting aspect of his game, but it seems like the kick/hold motion is a little wonky. I don't know if theres like - approach issues, snap issues, whatever.

Also a very catchable pass. Worst case you trap that thing in the ground. Some how he found a worse worst case.

I've played enough touch football to know - that was a very catchable ball. Same with the knox one. Same with the diggs one. The roberts one seemed to go right through his hands and into his shoulder pad.

1 - It's not always the DE on the edge, especially on passing plays. 2 - Backups that are good enough to start, tend to leave and start. 3 - There are vet's there. Hughes, Addison, Hyde, Poyer, etc. The entire defense seems like they haven't fit together yet. They're also banged up all over. I know hyde hasn't missed games yet, but he's banged up. White. Edmunds. Milano. Wallace. They brought back a lot of players, but the defensive line is massively different than a year ago. Hughes is playing snaps on his off side. The Nose tackles aren't doing their job. There just isn't any cohesion there yet and it shows. Continuity was one of the things teams had as an advantage going into a truncated offseason. Our major roster turnover was there, and along the offensive line (where they're also struggling a bit).

Well the offense was 30th in points, yards, and turnovers. In the 5 mentioned blowouts the team turned the ball over 16 times. I'm not so sure the 2018 defensive playcalling was responsible for these 2018 blowouts. Week 1 Baltimore - the offense had 10 first downs and 2 turnovers. Peterman had 2 picks, and Bojo dropped a punt that they recovered in the redzone. I don't know a defense that can help that inept of an offense. Week 4 GB - 11 First downs, 145 yards, 3 turnovers, 0 points. They literally couldn't have won this game since the offense scored no points I don't know that I need to go on tbh. The offense scored 23 total points in the 5 2018 blowouts. That's less than 5 points per game. They almost averaged the same number of turnovers as points. I'm just saying - there weren't halftime adjustments to be made in these 2018 blowouts. The team was bad - they were going to lose those games.

Well the 2018 team stunk. Peterman and Derek Anderson started in 4 of those blowouts. The packers game was an early Allen shellshock game where he just got sacked a ton. 2019 Eagles - they ran the ball all day in a windy game. This year - the dline is clearly not gelled yet. I don't know that you just start firing people at 4-1 though.

Several of Phillips sacks were lawson doing it. His loss hurts too. Addison plays the other side, and murphy's struggled this year to the point that hughes is now splitting time on his off side. He doesn't look particularly comfortable doing it either.

He's a good quarterback. 1 - Athletic 2 - Good pre-snap understanding 3 - Very accurate 4 - Throws a good deep ball 5 - Quick release His struggles 1 - Pressure, he tends to drop his eyes 2 - Post-snap reads aren't as fast as they need to be 3 - Can fade in the pocket when he needs to step up For what they're asking of him - its accurate quick throws to make sure they are in makeable 3rd's and continue to move down the field. From a pre-snap perspective he is to take shots when they are there, and has a weapon in AJ brown who's good for what they need. This is all in his wheel house.

I think the limited camp hurts - especially with the loss of star. Buffalo has 4 new dlinemen, and they are struggling from a cohesion standpoint. Sometimes its not as simple as plug and play.

He's a really tough matchup for a LB in man coverage too, and has a lot of experience split out wide. You can play 11 and basically force them into using LBs in coverage against guys like him and Knox. Since they likely shade the safety to diggs in cover 2Healthy brown gives you a sideline weapon in cover 2, you have knox for over the middle and bease/bell creating problems underneath. If they want to force buffalo to dink and dunk, they have the weapons to make it happen. If they want to try and use man, they would also have mis-matches.

Turnovers are always really deflating. They scored on the 2nd play over norman and you could tell it was just... gonna be a long night for that unit.

Yeah - they let one go and it was downed at like the 3. The others were a FC and a loss. 13.7 yard average on the year for roberts too, so he's actually been really solid returning punts. The 40 yard return was a dagger.

75% touchback percentage which is 11th in the league at the moment. Here are the non TBs and starting Field positions. Jets - All TBs but the 2 below 9 yard line - kicked to 2 14 yard line - was a TB that was run out Miami - All TBs Rams - All TBs except a squib kick with 15 seconds left Raiders - 16 yard line - kicked to the 4 38 yard line - Kicked to the 3 Titans 19 yard line - kicked to the 6 12 yard line - kicked to the 2

Brett Kern is one of the best punters in the league, the guy booms them. From a return perspective - stop taking them out unless you see something. I think the drop had roberts thinking he had to make a play to counteract it... and he fumbled too. Just a brutal game for him. BoJo had a great game punting. The 40 yard return was on the coverage team imo. He didn't out kick it, it should've been closer to a fair catch the hangtime was so good. The gunner who got there first struggled to get off his block and the other gunner was really late. He also flipped the field completely on a punt. FG holds do bother me but i also wonder if its being spun wrong by the LS. They all need to get on the same page. You don't want to have to turn the laces, you want to catch and put it down.

Yeldon's not a great pass protector. As a 3rd down back its kind of one of the things you need to do. Bell is a better pass protector, has consistently caught 80 or more % of targets ( good hands and good routes), and is comfortable splitting out wide and causing LB mismatches. Prior to his 2 jets years, he was a pretty solid back as well.

Yeah - its just tougher to define a role when CEH has been largely pretty good so far. Buffalo would probably make him primary back as well as 3rd down. Singletary moves towards a change of pace back - and moss gets time to heal up and probably loses his role when he returns.

Reestablish ur value is the goal. Only likely to get 2 year deal beyond this so... its complicated. Chase the ring this year and possibly cost urself money? Or chase stats to get one last payday?

Thats the thing - mistakes all over (drops, presnap penalties, etc) and they lost. They know they can't do that against KC and have a chance. Hell, they can play really well this week and still get beat. KC is that good.

To me the difference was the 3 and out with 4 minutes left. Gave a team that doesn't really take a lot of shots enough time to get 7. Also - they had a 90 yard drive... 14 or 17-10 is much better going into half than 21-10. Failures there by both sides of the ball.

Bojo is 4th in the league in punting average at the moment. Also refreshing - the teams only punted 12 times in 5 weeks. His 2 TBs, and the long return have hurt his net average some (41.1)- but hes also had 2 70 yarders with no returns. Even the long punt return wasn't really his fault - that thing was in the air for more than 5 seconds. Mann has a 37.4 yard net average which is near the bottom of the league.