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He needs work in man coverage - He struggles when his eyes arent on the QB. He was drafted as a zone corner. His man coverage skills aren't terrible, he's usually in the right place, hes just late getting his head around. Id even say his ball skills aren't terrible as he's usually trying to disrupt the catch point - but it's always been after the receiver catches it, not before. At this point I think he needs the bench for a minute for a confidence boost.

Yeah. You can't get caught as far up field or you create rushing lanes so it's harder to bait the linemen too far up field.

Wasn't this a 0 blitz? That's sort of a tough throw to ask of Goff since he probably isn't stepping up into it.

it's speculative, but definitely was more of an issue around the time it occurred. It was major enough that he missed a game, but likely minor enough that he practices.

Nice thing about the gimmicky stuff too is that instead of allen in the pocket scanning the field, its read a single guy. Hand off or pass. Pitch or hand off.

I think it impacts his route running. And even when he ran a TD for 98 yards it was still clearly bothering him.

Beasley doesn't fix our recent red zone problems. We act like we need him on 3rd downs. We are converting at a higher rate in 2022 vs. 2021 - 50% vs 46.4%. We are worse in the red zone at 51.3% vs 62.3%, but having beasley doesn't impact that as he had 0 RZ TDs in 2021.

Position-less. Run those linebackers and nickel backs ragged moving them around the formation, force them into zone adjustments that you can pick apart.

He was money on hitches in the browns game. Is that one of the 3? lol Playing through a bum ankle most of the season is always going to make jumping out of cuts etc more difficult.

I'm not seeing him targeted much at all for whatever reason. I'd buy all-22 but i dont even know what i'd be looking at. Play design has a lot to do with things, route spacing, is he primary, was the play checked... etc.

We're so strapped for WRs at the moment with Kumerow/Crowder/Stevenson all on IR. I can't imagine making him inactive, but I could see decreasing the snap count and being more selective about his usage. The goal having both Hines and Cook is a personnel grouping that is almost position-less. Add Mckenzie and Knox and you basically have 4 players who you can line up in the backfield or at WR, several of which are matchup issues. Ideally you try to run a no huddle type of offense with that grouping for a drive or something.

ARTICLE 5. FREE KICK CROSSES GOAL LINE It is a touchback, if a free kick: is not touched by the receiving team, and the ball touches the ground in the end zone.

That is an exaggeration. He hasn't been everything Buffalo needs of him, but as i understand hes a good teammate and has made plenty of plays for the team. Why don't you want Davis off the roster if we're looking at players making mental mistakes? He has 4 TDs all in the RZ as of today, and our team is struggling in the red zone... You can give some of his snaps to Shakir, but hes faster and more dynamic than him as a runner after the catch. You can give some others to hines and cook.

Usually it means angle routes. You can do a flare too where if they're in zone they're basically forced to play off of it, in which case you get 1x1s and with good blocking it can be a pretty big play with little to no complicated play design.

Mckenzie in some jet motion too. Baltimore does some pistol stuff where they will have backs on either side and the motion man jetting behind QB. It's all weird eye candy but if you aren't prepared for it, it can be difficult to defend.

I always thought if you didn't touch it it was a dead ball in the end zone. It definitely is now - but maybe that was a rule change.

I loved it - everyone called him out as trash. I loved reminding people... we did get the first down after that play when tyrod picked up 22 on 3rd and 19 🙂

I like AIyuk a lot. He honestly is a lot like Gabe. Usually a good #2 is a good blocker, either a deep threat or a big body. They aren't the best route runners (if they were, they'd probably be a #1).

I probably would have too. They still looked totally out of sorts in the first half too and allen looked a lot better once he was hitting hitches and comebacks.

Lots of teams carry fullbacks. Most of the times its a core special teamer as well- but they have packages on offense too especially in the RZ. Modern teams with extra tight ends - https://www.ourlads.com/nfldepthcharts/depthchartpos/TE. Which one of these #3 TEs is a noticeable upgrade over gilliam at anything? As for what we could use that roster spot for? I dunno, but every team has core special teamers. If its not a FB its an extra WR, or TE, or LB, or Safety. And most of them don't play offense or defense.

Yeah, Gilliam needed to get in his way. Knox also could have done something to get involved in the play.

I can't remember, it might be a re-kick? But at that point i'll take another kick lol.

And looking at free agency i think it likely has to come from the draft. Most of the available #2s arent inspiring Chark? Watkins reunion? Probably cheap but never healthy Marvin jones - Old and not particularly good Julio - Old and probably washed JuJu - Likely pricey. So you're left with guys like Parris Campbell, Mack Hollins, Allen Lazard. I do like jacobi Meyers though - id rather spend money on him than on a davis replacement.

Well we played a bit more man, blitzed some more in this one. They're definitely experimenting because of the issues. The pass rush didn't have a good game in this one either.

The running backs are safety valves, they have been fine in that role for the most part. The key is throwing to them - and throwing it faster than he has the past month. Statistically Shakir has secured fewer than 50% of his 15 targets with 2 drops.