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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.

No idea whats going on there. He's been one of our better red zone contributors, so i wouldn't eliminate him from the game plan in the area we struggle the most.

Because shakir has been worse when targeted.

Pretty much where I'm at with Mckenzie. Everyone says "allen doesn't trust him". A this point allen doesn't look like he trusts himself.

Apparently neither is shakir since he cannot catch when thrown at.

My issue is... everyone loves Shakir and he hasn't actually done anything of note. He has 2 drops on 15 targets, and only has 7 catches. We complain on Davis drops and catch% and his drop rate is actually worse. Play to the players strengths. Get mckenzie moving, create your own mis matches. He's not a sudden cole beasley route runner, so don't have him run cole beasley routes. They did it more in this one, and it functioned a bit more as eye candy than anything else, but eye candy is useful.

I don't hate mckenzie as an option, he's been one of our better red zone players even if he didn't make it on the one in this game. I just think there's been some route spacing issues lately and I don't know who it is. People are sitting when they shouldn't, balls aren't coming out fast enough, and players are just ending up on top of each other.

Play design is probably part of it. There is no man also. They are trying to use a bunch of different guys in those spots and you can add hines to the list. Mckenzie, shakir, Cook, and probably hines now all are going to get looks in different ways. It's not ideal but you can get a lot out of it if you're creative.

He seems to really miss having someone like lockett/baldwin for the scramble just get open stuff. Metcalf being a monster you can chuck it up to is also pretty helpful. Not to mention a functional run game. To me? Sutton=Overrated, and Jeudy=Bad. Offense is a complete mess - they can't run, sacks are up, and he doesn't trust anyone out there to make a play. A lot of the same as Allen if he were without Diggs.

I mean they have Cox and Hargrave at DT. They also drafted Jordan Davis who is on IR. Milton Williams is built a bit more slight as a pass rush type, so he's not really going to help them there. Josephs a big boy and a nose, but he was not very good with the Chargers the last couple of years so I'm not sure this fixes their ails - but hes a name. Better him than a 220 pound LB who doesn't have instincts or misses his fit's entirely.

Lets take Taron johnson (our only healthy starting defensive back) off the field for an extra nose tackle... that way we can put epenesa and miller in coverage more.

I can see it - defense disguised their coverage a bit and had Allen fooled. A junky 2nd down play. Just a messy 3 play sequence, Allen has to be better. Dorsey can't burn a play on a weird PA screen either. There's gotta be a balance between, allen needs the ball he's our best guy - and we need the ball out quick or run it because of how the opposition is playing us.