jad1
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No, just more solid defensive players.
It's amazing how Chan can turn a bunch of 7th rounders and UDFAs into one of the best offenses in the NFL, but Edwards can't figure out how to do anything with a bunch of high picks and free agents.
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if you can go back and read what you just wrote, and honestly tell me you believe it, than you're completely out of your !@#$ing mind.
Actually, I'm not, and the stats and results against common opponents (Raiders and Pats) back me up. Oh and then there's the whole win/loss thing.
fine, i obviously agree the ends are weaker than the middle, of course they are. but people are in here making excuses for williams' lack of production and they're not really giving me much other than, "uhh because he's awesome" and "he's a pro-bowler". no, Kyle is not the "problem" on this defense, but doesn't mean he can't be playing much, much better.
It's been pointed out to you several times that the strength of oppoentns and their gameplans have not favored Williams racking up a whole lot of stats, but you continue to ignore those comments.
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i see the analogy you're trying to make but it's off. the jets defense is typically awesome, our defense is garbage. SOMEONE has to be sucking on our defense in order for it to be so bad (#29 against the run), whereas in New York, Revis is a part of a top 5 pass offense.
Yeah, the Jets are 2-3. Too bad the Bills have such a garbage defense, and not an awesome one like the Jets.
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It is obvious all the big running plays are away from the middle. not just williams/dareus, but barnet right behind them as well.
all the problems with the run defense are on the edges. Merriman has been servicible, but I thought the front office was crazy for thinking he was the answer to their pass rushing troubles. He has played a lot better than expected and it is nice to see him on the field, but we need to upgrade that. Kelsey has had several nice plays, but when teams run at you that often, you better has at least some good plays. carrington is nice on the edge, but he doesn't seem to be good against the run.
The edges of that defense need work. And it is hard to judge our secondary.... mkelvin is hot and cold. The guy either has a great game or a terrible game. But they seem to be tackleing better and better each week.
people who hate on williams for not tackleing on plays that are away from him are being ridiculous. that would be like a jests fan hating on revis because he isn't intercepting the ball because the ball is being thrown away from him. williams/dareus taking out the middle of the field is just has important as revis shutting down the number 1 reciever for the jests.
I agree with you, but also want to add that the Bills have had some pretty damn good players attacking the edge of their defense this season. Charles, McFadden, McCoy, Vick, and even Brady throwing those screens and short outside passes are not easy players to stop.
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The Bills beat offenses led by Tom Brady and Mike Vick their last two home games.
Honestly, what was the expectation for the Bills defense these two games? Did we really expect them to sack these guys 4 or 5 times? Did we expect them to hold them to 200 passing yards?
It's funny how the fan perception values sacks over interceptions. Sacks show you're a dominant defense. Interceptions show that you are a lucky defense. But ask any QB at any level of football if they rather take a sack or throw an interception and what do you think the overwhelming number of them would answer?
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can you stop talking down to me like i'm some simpleton? thanks for clarifying that nose tackles don't have 4.2 speed - this is completely new information to me.
a guy earlier in this thread essentially made it seem that Williams deserves a pass because he was a !@#$ing pro-bowler a season ago. and i think that sucks. i don't care if teams run away from Williams - he's still not in on enough plays and is sure as !@#$ not earning his new pay check. he's rarely causing pressure on the QB and his tackles are obviously way down. his production is a fraction of what it was last year and he needs to pick it up - that's all.
i mean, are you serious? they have 1 combined sack and are ranked 29th against the run. what part of that is "good"?
Um, judging by this response, no.
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I have seen it work about 3 times in the last 45 years or so.
Fitzy had a great hard count.
I saw the Falcons bite on this against the Bucs, as mentioned above, earlier this year. The fact that the Bills gashed the Eagles on the run all day long also might have made the DL jumpy.
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lol unbelievable. you're absolutely right - i'm completely clueless and have no idea what i'm talking about. i'm completely blown away by kyle williams' fantastic 5 game performance. i don't know what's better - the 4 tackles, the 0 sacks, the 1 tackle for loss, or the fact that he spearheads the 29th run defense. surely he's a pro-bowl favorite again this year!
Well then you realize that the Eagles had most of their success attacking the edges of the defense, rolling Vick away from Williams and Dareus most of the game. You also realize that McCoy gained most of his yards, not up the middle, but running away from Williams, again attacking the edges of the defense.
But since Williams is an All-Pro tackle, most fans "in-the-know" do expect him to have 4.2 speed, with the ability to shed tacklers in a split second to stop plays that head to the sideline.
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This is not a playoff WINNINIG D.
I thought this today after the game.
Lucky as all hell, and i get luck is often the result of preperation and oportunity, but cant count on it forever.
Best thing for us is the playoffs are 3 months away. Get better please D.
In the Super Bowl last season, the Packers gave up 387 total yards to the Steelers. Their vaunted offense was out-gained by the Steelers by 50 yards. The difference in the game was 3 Steeler turnovers vs none for the Packers.
This is a new era of offensive football. Defenses are not getting the holding calls they used to, and the officials are doing all they can to protect WRs and QBs.
Good defense is being re-defined in the NFL.
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If you think Merriman "could be" the fastest LB in the history of the league, you never saw a guy called LT play......Not even close.
That's not what I meant.
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He good enough to beat average defenses but he has always struggled against good defenses, as much as we love the guy we cannot hang our hat on him. The problem I see with it is the coaching staff doesn't adjust. we refuse to pound Freddy, get away from quick slants to CJ, do not use the wildcat, no RBs lining up behind McIntosh. We just keep spreading the field and try to pick them apart.
He put up good numbers against Pittsburgh and Baltimore last season, so I don't think that's true. He's an excellent QB when he doesn't force passes, and uses his ability to read defenses to find the open guy. The Bills were hell-bent on forcing the ball down the field today, even if it meant going deep to their 3rd string QB on 3rd and medium.
I think they learned their lesson today. Fitzpatrick will return to form next week.
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You guys know that the Eagles are 1-3, right? They lost to Alex Smith at home today. I don't doubt it's going to be a tough game, but it's not like the Bills are playing the Brady-led Patriots next week.
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This week is a nightmare. There are so many mismatches. We do not match up well with them AT ALL! My first thought is DeSean Jackson 1 on 1 with McKelvin. Jackson is a beast on the long ball. Every week we are exposed to this and now this week against the vaunted eagles passing game. Big Problem.
Another problem is Gailey's much to happy pass attack. Eagles are stacked in the secondary. They will take advantage of Fit'z mistakes.
Not to mention this is the first time facing a mobile quarterback. Does Edwards have it in him to implement a good scheme?
This week might be the Cardinals game of a few years back?
I like the matchup between the Bills offense and the Eagles defense. The Eagles are misplaying their CBs in zone coverages, and they couldn't contain Gore today, whose game is a lot like Freddies.
The Eagles are especially weak over the middle, where their LBs and safeties are sub-par. Forgetting today's game, that's where the Bills like to attack.
This game is going to be a shootout.
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The guys speed is gone, he can't rush off the edge anymore. They have to find a way for him get pressure on the QB - Does our D-line run any stunts at all? He should start calling himself "light out"...
He could be the fastest LB in the history of the NFL, if the scheme calls for him to bull-rush the LT the entire game, while being run over trying to set the edge against the run, he's not going to be effective.
Play him over the shoulder of a DE, and take his hand off the ground, and his production will increase.
I would love to see the Bills run some stunts, and some overload and zone blitzes. I understand why they didn't call them the last two weeks. I don't understand what happened today.
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Do you think that any of the game plans have been good? I mean think about it, we haven't played anything close yet to a solid 4 quarters of good football all the way around. Our D's gotten kicked all over the field in the last three games and if it hadn't been for Brady having had a bad hair day that would have been a disaster.
Cincy, with a rookie QB? Really?
Oakland's two no-name WR lit us up like a Christmas tree.
I think this team still has a lot of work to do and isn't much better than last year's despite the record at present.
I think the offensive gameplans up to the Cinci game were good. I thought the Raiders defensive gameplan wasn't that bad, seeing how they contained McFadden, but Campbell had the game of his life. I thought the Pats defensive gameplan was more of an exercise of surviving the Brady onslaught, so it was okay.
Today's gameplans on both sides of the ball were terrible. The offensive gameplan was too aggressive, while the defensive gameplan was not agressive enough.
Of the offense and defense, the offense should be all right. I'm more worried about the defense.
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Shawne Merriman - did he even play? Oh yea, he got credit for a sack when Dalton ran out of bounds behind the line...
3 tackles for Shawne today - He is NOT getting it done.......
Week 1 - he had 1 tackle
Week 2 - he had 4 tackles
Week 3 - ZERO zip zilch nothing
Week 4 - he had 3 tackles
Barnett had 10 takles TODAY.... Shawne has 8 in 4 games...nice 2 per game average buddy.
They're playing him like a 4-3 defensive end. That's not his strength. He's being misused.
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I think that Fitz was forcing the ball downfield today due to the gameplan of attacking Cinci's blitz. It was a bad gameplan, as Buffalo doesn't necessarily have wide receivers who can take advantage of 1:1 coverage on the outside (some of those passes were to Brad Smith).
If the Bills go back to what they do well, attacking the short middle, running the offense through Jackson, and then working to the outside, Fitz should be all right.
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I don't recall those Cowboys defenses being blitz crazed. Just saying.
They played a 4-3, and had the personnel to do so. The could apply pressure with their front 4. The Bills are playing a 3-4 with a 4-3 pass rush. There are no zone or overload blitzes in the Bills playbook, and those are the things that make the 3-4 effective.
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I think the Bills were too aggressive in attacking the Bengals blitz, trying to go deep against 1:1 coverage. It caused Fitz to hold the ball longer, and took the ball out of Jackson's hands much of the 1st half.
The defense, despite two turnovers and a score, managed to blow a 14 point lead to a rookie QB. I've never seen a 3-4 where the rush comes from the same place every down. They play it like a 4-3; it's almost as if they've turned Merriman into a DE. There's no blitzing scheme whatsoever.
It looks like Edwards is out of his league here. It's time to turn things over to the guy coached his defense to a couple of SB titles.
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I agree, they weren't going to let us win no matter what. Im still steaming over rhat non catch. But no excuse for that defense.
We played better defense under Perry Fewell with worse players. Its time to can George Edwards and make Dave Wannstedt defensive coordinator .
I agree that the refs sucked, but even with that, the Bills should have been able to protect a 14 point halftime lead. I get that the defense had to protect against Oakland's run game and got beat through the air, and that they had to take their lumps against Brady and the Pats, but there's no excuse for taking the gaspipe against a rookie QB.
I've seen enough of Edwards from last season and it's carrying over to this season. Give the job to Wannstedt.
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I'm aware, thanks.
But the OP was talking about Cowherd and his comments this morning, a few of which I heard.
Cowherd was dogging among other things, the ESPN fan approval ratings for coaches… mocking the fact that Gailey had a 96% approval rating.
But yes, he did pick the Bills…
Bill Cowher on the other hand didn't pick the Bills unequivocally but he did intimate that the Bills could win.
http://blogs.buffalobills.com/2011/09/23/cowher-on-bills-pats/
Bill Cowher picked the Bills as his upset special on the CBS pregame show.
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Nobody is happier with the final score of today's game than I am.
But let's recognize a valid point when one slaps us in the forehead: somehow someway we've got find a pass rush.
You'll see one next week. You might not see one against the Eagles if Vick is playing.
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hey I'm a Bill's fan with a little perspective. 1 Merriman had 0 tackles 2 The Patriots had a ton of yardage. No need to go to such extreme lengths to illustrate your fanaticism
So when is the next game they'll play a passing combination like Brady/Welker? When's the next time they'll play a running game as good as Oakland's?
Perspective is understanding that NFL matchups change from week-to-week so strategy also changes. Perspective is understanding that some players are so good that you cannot completely stop them. Perspective is also understanding that just because a team doesn't win like you think they should, doesn't mean that the team isn't good.
If Dalton and Green look as good as Brady and Welker next week, I'll share your concern.
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Not in my book. You can ride along your pink cloud as long as you want but Welker and the Patriots moved up and down the field at will. Merriman has to be called out. That was not a good defense out there today.
Whether you think it was good or not, the Bills scored 24 points off of Brady's turnovers. Let's see, 3 or 4 sacks or 24 points off of turnovers? Yeah, I know which one I'd choose. Drop 7 or 8 back into coverage all day long.
I've been so patient, but...
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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I think one of the causes of the Bills problems today is that they didn't end the Jauron reign of error earlier. Really, how much better would the team be right now if after two years, Ralph would have said, enough. Enough with the Tampa 2 undersize defense, enough with the clueless offensive schemes, enough with the tin-man leadership.
Nix has failed to impress during his time as GM. He has some successes, but the best players on the team (Jackson, Fitz, Johnson, Wilson), were aquired under Levy, which is evidence that a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then.
Through drafts and FA, Nix has had the opportunity to bring in 25 or so players over his first two seasons. That means he could have staffed two defensive rosters. And despite his aquisitons, the defense is nowhere close to being able to stop the run, and they are shakey at best against the pass. They can't set the edge; they can't rush the passer; they can't cover the middle; and they can't cover downfield.
Even worse, despite working with George Edwards for two seasons, the personnel is not aligned with the schemes they are running. When the team lines a backup DT at OLB in a 3/4 scheme, you have to wonder what the hell the GM is doing.