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My issue is that Daboll's offense tends to come off really soft. They never run the ball well, get away from it, and the oline then is on their heels all game. Dorsey fell into a lot of the same traps last year, but they came out this season wanting to play a more physical brand of football. It probably won't break any records for yards, but puts them in a lot more makeable 3rd downs, gives you options in the red zone, and can help limit turnovers. Buffalo was 31st in turnovers offensively last season, which hurts some of the impact of the defenses ability to get takeaways. They want to make him Josh Allen and its just not there, he doesn't have it between the ears. When he gets out of the pocket it just seems like run is first and pass is second. He made a few plays out there but half the time he throws out of structure im just expecting it to fall incomplete or out of bounds - so you just end up wanting him to run. He's athletic and a decent runner but if that's the best attribute in his game he should be running like a 4.4 or something.

Watching last night and my observations: Still can't draw up screens and reverses, the dline just teeing off on them doesn't use motion well to create space gets away from the run game WR's either are small and quick, or big and slow Constantly stuck in 3rd and long

Wouldn't you take over calling the defense at that point? The reason they got all those yards is because of where levi wallace lined up. 15 yards off the LOS, and on the boundary... covering no one. That isn't in the playcall usually... Its sort of common sense if they have no one on your side to pinch in and line up over kelce unless they motion you out. It gives away the playcall and it leaves a massive space on the field.

Yeah but tua's precision is what makes a lot of that offense go. When he's on that RPO attack can be really tough to stop.

I thought both of his catches were that same thing, and both were first downs. Step one though... catching the ball was an improvement over Mckenzie.

He still manages to wrangle an extra yard or two that a beasley likely doesn't get. That makes 3rd down something like 3-4 yards instead of 5-7. Those quick outs are impossible to defend with his enormous catch radius, and it can force the linebacker into compromising his run fits.

I already know this story, he comes back, looks good, and tears his knee up.

I think the bigger issues you'll face are the fact that you can't kick the can for Chubb because that requires more commitment to an overpaid player. Howard you stick with for 2024 as there aren't cap savings. Armstead is already restructured, and more would commit to him even further for a 33 year old oft injured LT. You can definitely get some cap space, and they'll lock Tua up. The 2020 draft was 3 1st round picks for miami and 2 look like whiffs so they save on some 5th year options and extensions there. The problem is Hunt is a free agent from the class, as is Davis. So two good players who will get paid there by them or others. 4 of 5 starting linemen are free agents. Then in this offseason they have 2 other 5th year option decisions in waddle and phillips, plus a likely tag for wilkins. The wilkins tag will eat into a lot of the cap savings on restructures, so they'll need to extend him to have room to improve the roster for 2024. 2025 will be interesting as they likely have to then pay waddle and phillips, plus year 1 of the new deal with Tua assuming they extend him to lower the 2024 cap burden of the 5th year option.

I'm not signing him to an extension mid-season when he hasn't played well. A lot of good players here who might benefit from being a part of a better unit. Poyer came from nothing, Hyde wasn't even a fulltime starter in GB and they saw something in him. Someone like Chinn who's struggling in carolina could be a good fit in buffalo. Dugger from NE might be a fit. Could try a 1yr fill in and try chuck clark off an injury. I'm in the same boat of looking to move on from both potentially, but also being open to their return. Poyer less so - he doesn't seem to be playing as fast as he used to. But it's week 4 and there's a lot of football left to play, and when he's on he's among our best defensive players. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/free-agents/all/safety//

The goal is to make the matchup have to tackle a big 250 pound dude, hes got enough strength and wiggle to break a 1x1 tackle and turn 2.7 yards into a few extra yards. They haven't utilized him much over the middle of the field yet, and have mostly kept him to boundary checkdowns which he has pulled in.

Linebacker was stuck - honestly the TE underneath was probably open too because the backer was sort of frozen and covered no one.

Diggs is mine. I was telling my wife he looked pissed off, and he plays well pissed off. He broke 2 tackles for a long TD like 2 plays later.

How about Harty taking some poor throws and turning them into first downs??? Great game all around.

Brings something a little bit different. Seems to play with a bit more of an edge and physicality.

If teams are going to sit in 2 high looks all game long, you have to be able to do it this way. As Manning once said - run them out of cover 2.

They've been motioning hill a ton, and stacking him as well to avoid press coverage and force your defense to adjust to that. The adjustment has been messing up teams run fits. I hope we continue to play physical as i think thats a way to get to someone like miami.

They've made it hard on themselves at times... but they have the best 3rd down conversion % in the league. They seem to stall in the red zone - but the 61.5% is better than a year ago, and is currently 11th in the league. There's room for improvement here for sure. 27th in offensive penalties 4th in offensive scoring percentage. 12th in net passing yards, 7th in rushing yards. Yes- miami has the best passing and rushing offense in the NFL right now. No they won't finish the year with a yards per attempt 2.5 yards more than any NFL team this year or last. No they won't continue to average 6.1 yards per attempt. They're humming right now, but injuries happen and teams start playing you differently, bad weather... etc. Buffalo has not played their best ball on offense to start the year. They do lead the league in the average length of drive, 2nd in plays per drive, and 2nd in points per drive. Those time of possession advantages give you more plays, more plays means more yards, more yards means more points (assuming you don't turn it over). They ran 65 plays to 51 for wash - 74 to 39 for the raiders - and 68 to 53 for the jets.

I look at it like he was rolling to make sure the ball never touches the ground

Makes sense, i don't know my florida geography very well truthfully - i drove through jacksonville once omw to miami so... i figured atlantic coast? i just dont know of any schools there. The military factor definitely plays into it.

I've always heard how big college football is in Florida - FSU in Tallahassee, Florida in Gainesville, UCF in Orlando, Miami in... Miami. Etc. Jacksonville doesn't really have a college team within the city, just never seem to have a big following there for whatever reason. Might not be a good sports town.

Tua's timing and short area accuracy are on another level right now. They've also kept him well protected and ran the ball effectively when presented with soft fronts. I dunno, watching other games it seems like the same thing happens constantly. Between the Jets and the Commanders, thats two of the better front 4's we're likely to face this season.

Gimmick plays usually work because they fell for the misdirection though. So its more likely the play/playcall/timing than it is the player. 1 - Probably an audible for a specific look/blitz that washington gave us. 2 - Just run twice on 3rd and 1 and a half. Reverses absolutely work still - just not when the end blows it up and forces you backwards.

And currently 32nd in yards and 30th in points... i still don't know why they brought staley back, he's just not a good coach. My assumption is ownership.

They spend a LOT on defense, and the defense isn't good as a whole. Derwin james is the highest paid safety, they have bosa and mack as 2 of the top 3 paid edge rushers, and jc jackson who is the 9th highest paid corner. Last year they couldn't stop the run, this year they can't stop passing teams. All with a defensive head coach.

9 running plays.. 7 by backs. Daboll is so back!