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Up thread paint wasn’t desirable based on slippery surface. Custom rivalry end zone and mid field logos do see viable in the new stadium

Don’t think suspended players count. Bass would though.

The end zone in met life is wholesale replaced from jets to giants.. I assume mid field too. Having those on hand makes it easier. Don’t think we would get special turf for end zones for one game in the last season of the stadium.

what does new hot metric mean? its years old, sorta why i could explain. PFR (which does it a bit different) did not have the defense with a good EPA that game. Offense and ST combined were what won the game, which tracks from my recollection.

Getting a turnover is more important than getting a third down stop cause of field position. Thats why EPA is so helpful. It will account for that huge swing in points expected. Their ability to get turnovers at a greater than average clip was more important than inability to get off the field at a lower than average clip. That is likely cause they got much better field position. Getting into EPA a bit, given the entire historical data set of all plays in the same down/distance/field position ever you can calculate the expected points the drive will get. That analysis is telling you being number 1 in TO% and number 28 in 3rd % results in 12th best expected points added for a defense. The how can that be is clearly field positioning.

EPA per play is a good metric. Bills were 12th (20th this year but still working off that ravens mess). Right in the big mess of average. Feels about right and pretty good for a first time DC. Hoping we get just above that this year. DVOA is also a pretty good holistic stat. edit: found dvoa rankings and 11th. Almost beyond the average mess and still good for first time DC

I can still not believe on 4th and 4 Vrabel rolled Carlos Santos out for a 53 yard FG down 7 from the BUF 35 with 6:35 to go when Santos missed his previous 3 kicks. Peeps wanna harp on McD as conservative but that was absolutely bonkers bad. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201910060oti.htm See above for his great in-game performance. Do you have examples were he made a "top notch" decision. Cause the coaching in that game was pretty rough. If McD tried to kick a FG like that we would not let him go home (oh yeah that game was at home). Youre right he would definitely try to get an extra last minute FG lololol

Coleman roasted that CB right off the LoS. CB got benched shortly after i believe.

As much as were teasing about Coleman dude has a career YAC/R 5.3 (being held down by his performance this year) and last game got Yiadom benched (had played poorly before but at least got the start).

Taron has his lowest % of snaps since his rookie year this year. We are using him less. Now sort by QBR. Those 13 sacks and fumble loom large. Maye is playing well but the things he does less well are not being captured by passer rating. The Bills defense is not horrible with regard to passing defense. Its actually top 10 (top 5 in many metrics) in the league. Maye as a thrower versus our pass defense will be strength on strength.

Particularly the pass defense. Air Raid Hour had Judge predicting that Shaq might see time over Dorian in the pre game. Was a good call also a good Bills focused pre-game that comes out early Sunday so you can listen at your leisure.

I think NE is closer to NO and Miami than they are to us (heck the miami game was very close with them). I dont think they have a good running game (30th in YPA) and their defense gives up a lot of passing yards (28th in YPA) and scoring drives (27th in Sc%). They are better than the last two teams and we need to play better to come away with a two score win. However, we have lots of room to improve and I think the focus will be tight this week given the gravity of the game.

Interestingly we’re third in pressure rate though. Not sure PFR is to be trusted on this one. But would explain why our pass defense has been so good. Just need to stop the third and longs from the Miami game. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2025/opp.htm#all_advanced_defense

That was granderson a DE and their sack leader that roasted him. Tough match up for Torrence as it’s an obvious passing down and they purposefully tested his speed with that match up. He over set and was dusted. Cybo is great in the run game and no one goes through him. But he does give up the edges.

@Scott7975 reminded me where to look. Blitz rate for every team here at PFR https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2025/opp.htm#all_advanced_defense