BillsFan130

What exactly is the defensive game plan for the Bills today? Rush 4 and make it as simple as possible for Darnold?

Only rushing 4 for the most part. I really don’t understand the defensive game plan

Makes no sense

Why no pressure? Seen minimal blitzes today

True but the harder issue will be to actually get some good offensive lineman

THis o Line is pathetic

What an absolute special teams disaster. Again...

Just a small warm up set to get the blood flowing a bit?

Classy move sir!

How was my claim that he got screwed over by special teams and defence not true? He had good defences in the regular season a FEW times, and they let him down in the playoffs every time. Sure he had playmakers for offence. But it’s not fantasy football. He never really had a good pass blocking line until this year. I will acknowledge Rivers hasn’t played his best football in the playoffs. Most QBs don’t as the competition of course is a lot tougher.

Team game I was referring too. If you’re talking strictly offence then for the most part yes he always had some playmakers. seemed to never have much of an o line though.

If that’s your takeaway from Phil Rivers career then you obviously haven’t watched him. He will probably be a hall of famer one day. Just cause he had high ranked defences in the regular season, that means absolutely nothing in the playoffs. He has always got screwed over by bad coaching or poor special teams play, or bad defence in critical times, and sure he could have been better himself at times. Like all QBs...

I don’t like to judge fans based on isolated incidents as you can literally make a bad name for all the teams fans in this league if you were to do that. But in saying that I do find steeler fans very obnoxious.

Ya I would say Phil Rivers is one. He has had a borderline hall of fame career of course, but not much success in terms of W-L/playoffs because his team around him could never take it to the next level. (Got called out a few times on this post So to make it clear, I am referring to his overall team including defence, offensive line, special teams and coaching. Not just playmakers he had as he has had great players to throw to.)

At this point, anyone who gives an effort. Can't have players like Benjamin on the team. Sets a terrible example IMO.

Fantastic news

Even that pass to foster on the last drive. (The first play) Was an absolute strike in a tight window

Ahh ok fair enough. I don’t really watch college football unfortunately so I don’t really know the players coming out yet. I’ll differ this one to you then

He better not draft a defensive player in the first 2 rounds. Trade down if you think you are reaching for an offensive player.

Team game. One player can't win a championship by himself. Marino is considered one of the best of all time and he never won. Only some people like to paint the picture that if ONE player can't win a SB, then he must not be great. Never made any sense to me as Football is a complete team game made up of offence, defence, special teams, coaching, injuries/depth, and luck also plays a huge factor as well. It is not Basketball where your best player is on the court virtually the whole game and can make a direct impact on defence and offence. And Basketball only has 5 players on at a certain time where Football has 11.

Not sure the percentages of flags, but I can surely bet there are a lot more flags on the defence. Especially illegal contacts, defensive holdings, roughing the passer, and PIs

Lol yep. He got torched all game by a rookie. Then he makes like 1 play on McCoy and he starts flexing like an idiot.

I don't know the scenarios in the game so I can't comment on the other ones. The example you gave me with the Pats yesterday though was a completely different scenario from the Bills dolphins game. What cost them 3 points was there wasn't any time remaining... If they called a timeout on Miami's drive, they would have had an extra 35-40 seconds to operate. That part I think you need to accept. Sure the burned timeout did not help. But there were much bigger issues with the clock management

Ya Foles just got hot for a few games. (The right games) Wentz is by far the better QB.

I don’t remember the titan game so can’t comment on it. NE got the ball to start the 2nd half though. It was a very quick 3 and out. And I watch football every Thursday/Sunday/Monday and I always see coaches call timeouts late in the first half to get the offence another chance. I can’t give a specific example because it’s such a common theme and nothing stood out of the ordinary by using the timeouts. Regardless it was very conservative by Mcd and it most likely cost them a crucial 3 points in a very tight ball game