YattaOkasan
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That is soooooo untrue.
Enormous difference when it is 2nd and 7-8 versus 2nd and 4-5.
The huge difference in the bills defense last year versus 2013 was the ability to stop the run.
Agreed. Also important if you're down in the 2nd half. Brady and BB had to pass at the end of last game because the run was so ineffective. That kept us in the game; although not enough. I honestly think if they had gone to a run centric offense we would have completed the comeback.
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Very disappointed in the D line today. Actually think the secondary has been the better of the two groups. The offense has also been frustrating as well.
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The way I've seen other teams handle the interior problem is to keep an extra TE in to block on the edge, and having the OT on the strong side squeeze down immediately on the snap to try to chuck the interior rusher closest to him. The TE, in turn, will take an initial pass set a bit wider than would be typical in an attempt to force the edge rusher inside, where the OT can re-direct outward to catch him. This effectively double-teams 3 pass rushers using 5 blockers (G-C combo on one interior rusher, G-T combo on the other, and TE-T [same T as second combo] on the edge rusher), while leaving the other edge rusher 1-on-1; 6 to block 4. You're right that the blitz can totally hose this up, requiring an extra back to stay in and block, so now you've got 7 to block 5, which leaves Brady**** with 3 targets running pass patterns and 6 in coverage.
I think they're better off trying to get more players in pass routes and into space than trying to win with numbers at the LOS.
Thanks. This could work (I was trying to think of ways to free up the Tackle) but I would be happy if a TE is staying to block (or even to chip), and I really like the idea of Mario or Hughes rushing against a TE.
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remember a couple years back? was it the jets? Maybe it was the rookie/late draft?? RT who had graded poorly. Playing against Mario ?
I'm a bit senile with details.
But Mario did not dominate as expected. Bill makes the low level players look good enough. As a whole group. If we focus on the center now, he will counter.
These are two major coaching minds about to tee off.
I told a fellow today. We are going against the SB champs. repeat SB champs. these guys have owned us for over a decade.
This is the biggest game in Bills History about to be played. it is well beyond the superbowl.
I was there for the run years ago. and the losses when the Big Game was played. so i have perspective .
This is IT. do not under estimate the effort that both teams are going to put forth.
i have no idea why anyone even knows we are playing Miami the following week. I dont.
But geebus. This is the game of the decade for the Bills and Bills fans.
i could write a chapter as to why.
Lets all expect the win and cheer as loud as we can. whether at home , like me, or the stadium and make enough noise to do what you guys did to A. Luck.
But never discount whatever Bill fields. he has that deal signed in blood dont forget
Black and Blue.
oh wait that will be the patriots colors after the game
Agree this is a huge game. I can't wait.
As for the middle I am not sure what they will do to help besides keep the running back in. I expect heavy pressure up the middle similar to what Luck saw (I think Bradham blitzed like 15 times). If Bradham is blitzing I am not really sure if you can double team Dareus or Williams. That would leave Bradham 1 on 1 against Blount or Lewis. I'll take either of those matchups over the course of a game.
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I agree with most that's been said (Boring I know) and I think we can get the job done with 11
Heavy pressure up the middle with Dareus Bradham and K Williams
Bumping Edelman/Amendola and Gronk at the line with Darby/Gilmore and Lawson respectively
Over the top coverage on Gronk with Williams
Brown on Blount out the backfield (probably bring Robey in for Lawson if Lewis is in and have Jerry or Mario bump Gronk)
Leaving a safety on their 3rd WR/2nd TE; Mario and Jerry setting the edge and stopping screens.
It puts a lot of guys on islands (4) but the only matchup I worry about is Edelman. These matchup are also in our base package on an offensively favorable down. I like our matchups a lot in nickel, obvious passing downs, or anytime they keep skill players to pass protect.
Still a very tough match up. However, the disguise at the LOS will be crucial to make sure the run game is halted and Brady feels. pressure up the middle.
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They will run this stuff on almost every pass play. There will be times where Edelman has no one within 5 yards of him and we will be like wtf. His man was taken out by another WR or Gronk.
If they are running this stuff out of a twins set we could commit 3 to the coverage and just shell them. One inside, one outside, and one deep. Once the pick happens should be easy to see who takes who. If they don't go towards a pick then you keep your assignments with the safety and LB sorta double covering the inside player.
Even if they go twins both sides we have 5 to commit to the run/blitz plus the inside guys would also be in run support. Thoughts?
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**Patriots are expected to crowd the LOS in an effort to stop the run. Now we'll see what we have in TT. He is going to need to drop some deep passes in there to back them off. We know we have the skill players. Now we just need to get the ball to them. Last week was run to set up the pass. This week it should be pass to set up the run.
I actually expect the same game plan from the Pats as Indy. Stop McCoy with Run Blitz and Double Sammy. Maybe they'll disguise their coverage more but I don't know how the Pats can do anything more than that. Their defense looked really bad against Pitt.
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Remember 2012 at home and Wanny's nickel D with Bryan Scott and "43 is the mike!?" A heavy nickel would be preferable, but who do we have to execute that ideally?
The more I think about it, the more I take my chances with Bradham and Lawson. I like Brown, but he struggled in coverage last year a lot of the time. I would rather have Brady have to dink and dunk us than have then run for a million yards against us. Brady with a running game, and they have been a consistently good running team over the Brady years. I think that gets overlooked by some.
GO BILLS!!!
Agreed I would like to see heavy nickel; I just wasn't sure who the safety would be. Then I thought more about it and realized I really like Robey as the hard hitter. That's why I thought just straight nickel. Let's be honest both our nickel and base defenses are very legit.
As I mentioned though I have the same concern as a poster up thread. My general concern on defense this game is Brady getting us in an unfavorable personnel grouping, and they are able to run no huddle to the red zone. At which point they just throw it up to Gronk.
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Bottom line is can the Bills rush get to Brady within two seconds or disguise coverage's enough so Brady can't figure out who to throw it to. The Patriots can't go five wide because they don't have 5 WR's on their roster- Edelman-Amendola-Dobson, and someone by the name of Matthew Slater. Brandon LeFell is on the PUP until Nov.
The Patriots offense is evolving into more of a TE system because of the lack of the star WR's the team has usually had. Gronk when healthy is pretty much unstoppable, and Edelman is another Wes Welker who always finds a way to get open, and the first down marker. Jam Edelman, and find a way to double up on Gronk.
I think their no back formations will almost exclusively be 11 personnel. Why would you take Gronk off for even your #2 WR let alone your #4? I would also take the Pats RBs aligned wide over their #5 WR (especially because 11 personnel would likely mean a LB in coverage)
It's a pick your poison formation that has worked well for them. Use nickel or dime personnel to stop pass and they run very well against smaller personnel; keep your bigger LBs in and they exploit the lack of coverage ability and pass on you. They really hurt you by going hurry-up once they get you in a favorable matchup and prevent the insertion of your sub packages. Very well designed and well executed by Brady.
GO BILLS!!!
I expect a heavy nickel or nickel against this line up. I am a little worried about Robey in run support versus this line up but I think our base defense would get picked apart in a no huddle situation.
Does anyone know how Rex defends the pats? Does he send blitzes does he stay home? He has made a reputation for himself that says that he knows how to play the pats
He does blitz. Basically he likes to press cover and disguise his blitzes. Sound familiar. I am hoping that he sends Bradham, K WIlliams, and Dareus up the middle every time.
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Gilmore is a stud. But don't we have a 5th year option to keep him through next season? If so, we lock up Bradham now, negotiate with Cordy and Gilmore. And worst case scenerio we franchise Gilmore for 2017 and continue to try and lock him up long term
We do have a 5th year option and we exercised it already. My order of importance ATM is Gilmore>Bradham>Glenn. This could change if Glenn reverts back to pre2014 mode, but so far I haven't seen it. I think we'll find a way to retain all three.
Gilmore is skyrocketing. good for him good for us , bad for our Bills wallet.
Nigel has the friendly agent. ?
But this is going to get money tight and some of us are going to get butthurt here.
I think Glenn earned his stripes. Gilmore will deserve top money. Bradham ?
if they can get a deal. I love him but.Whaley knows LBs. This might be where the Bills rotate em in and then out ,through the draft.
You're right Whaley does know LBs but I sorta hope we lock it down with the current two. Then we can have good depth rather than needing a young LB to prove Whaley right again. Plus you can always trade you're young LBs for studs at other positions (see Shady deal).
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Cassel under center backwards pass to TT who wants to throw to Sammy but has to keep it instead for a loss or small gain.
24 first downs.
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I'm an enormous fan of the Stanford A-Gap blitz. If we could get a LB to time it up as well as Skayne Skov does, that could put incredible stress on their interior. I really believe that Tre Jackson is there for the taking, I abhor him.
Yeah a combination of (in ascending order of scariness) K Williams, Bradham, and Dareus should be able to own any G-C-G combination in the league. I like the idea of this stunt: Kyle smashes across the Guards face into the Center. Bradham comes in and blows up the Guard that Williams was over. Finally Dareus loops around the pile and goes through the huge created gap between the center and the guard.
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I would be more Schwartz than Rex with the DL on Sunday. Brady gets the ball out so fast, I'd just concentrate on getting physical with the receivers and letting the front 4 pin their ears back. You don't have to play contain with Mario & Jerry against Brady. Focus on taking away all the little quick throws and force him to deal with a collapsing pocket.
Obviously, Rex doesn't do predictable but I don't think we can be anywhere near as exotic as we were against Luck.
I would disguise everything. All the time. I think they use exotic blitzes if they disguise them well (I think Rex's success doing this is well documented).
On top of that I would drive the middle of the line into Brady's lap. I agree the DE and outside blitzes will not be as important because he gets the ball out so quickly. However pushing a half ton of lineman (O & D) into him should throw off his timing.
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This above everything else makes the McCoy - Alonso trade look worse in my eyes.
Who would you rather have, McCoy or Kiko and Karlos?
The trade happened before the draft. I still make that trade.
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Merge the threads???
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The legend taketh and the legend giveth. Ouch. Rough call to get. Also Julio is killing it in FF.
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I didn't see it. Can someone explain what happened, or, like the image of God, is it indescribable?
He OBJ'ed a ball in the endzone. It was nice. Watch sportscenter it will be in top 10 for sure.
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Yeah and I thought there was going to be an emphasis on face mask by the offense? Another example of what I was talking about. Hughes mask was grabbed and yanked, which lead to Hughes reaching up and apparently into the RB's face mask on that fumble play. Hughes is going to get his share of dumb penalties too, unfortunately.
I thought the OL played poorly as well. I also thought the Colts defense was well prepared and did a good job of shooting gaps and disrupting the Bills power O but they are just not very talented up front and the Bills playmakers just beat them in spite of it. People think the Colts have the 32nd ranked defense like back in some of those Manning years but they are a well coached, middle-of-league quality unit.
Agreed on the colts d. While they gave up yards last year they were really good on 3rd down (I think top 5). They are certainly not incompetent.
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They should play him a tight end.
Really, with plays like that he would be better then what their offense has now. Plus he played against the offense when he was at Oregon so he should be familiar with the concepts.
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Wasn't impressed with our red zone work either..
Were you unimpressed we didn't make it to the red zone enough???
Because we were 1/1 yesterday.
https://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/stat/red-zone-scoring-pct/?date=2015-09-14
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Gonna need at least 3-0 (with all being convincing wins) before I am sold. I've been tricked too much.
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First, I'm sorry to say as a long time Bills fan who has been punched in the nuts repeated for basically my whole life, those false starts are the first thing I think of as well. I'm so tentatively excited it almost hurts.
I've read a couple of articles now that have mentioned how Rex was disguising blitzes/sending people from all over the place/delaying, etc.... It wasn't just pressure, it was the scheme. That is something you study on tape to try and prevent. He doesn't say the Bills won't be able to continue to get pressure, but I disagree that the scheme used yesterday had nothing to do with winning that game.
There is tape on Rex and there is tape of our players in a similar defense. I don't think Rex is pulling too many new things out of the hat. I agree that our pass rush will remain good this year, and I don't think it blind sided Luck at all. He only took 2 sacks for -3 yards. If anything I think he was as prepared as he could be.
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A comfortable win against a SB contender, and we're complaining? Here's what I saw.
-- The Colts were not going to let Watkins and McCoy beat them, and congrats Pagano, Watkins and McCoy didn't beat you. But everyone else did. So three cheers for a lot of options at the skill positions.
-- All Ryan cares about is winning. When the Bills got up 24-0 after a 5 minute drive to open the 3rd quarter, the Colts answered with a TD drive of their own. Were they getting back in the game? NO. The Colts were killing themselves by that slow methodical clock-killing approach. That drive took almost 9 minutes. After their TD they were down 24-8 and there were only 20 minutes left in the game. Sure they scored, but that's what they mean by a Pyrrhic victory, one that costs the victors so much that they lose the battle.
-- The offense was quite effective in the second half. Not trying to score a lot of points, just trying to keep the clock moving and WIN THE GAME.
-- The defense also shifted gears in the second half, with a lot more bend but don't break thinking. That let the Colts control the ball and get two TDs, but at the expense of running out the clock. This was a very professional, cutthroat approach on the part of the Bills.
Agree with most of what you wrote. Particularly point #1. Side note: Colts TD drive finished with <16 minutes left in the game.
i didn't see one read option yesterday. Not sure why that was. I don't think Indy has a D that is good at shutting that down. I bet we see the read option against NE. Teams put things away all the time. Smart coaches save plays for certain situations or opponents. That is my thought. Might be wrong.
This also stood out to me. With the way NE couldn't keep the edge against Jennings this might be the strategy. I was talking to a NE fan (as best I could cause they don't use reason), and he was saying that they'll contain TT because Roethlisberger is a running QB. I laughed and walked away.
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I'm sorry but they built a 24 point lead against Indy and you are going to complain? Is this going to go on all year? Tyrod WON the QB competition and it's time to move on. After a great first start you choose to talk negatively about a 51 yard TD pass and like 120 QB rating? You are just hurting you own credibility at this point.
I know the Wiz was being sarcastic, as is his nature. I don't think anyone has a problem at all with Tyrod.
RD 2, Pick 50: DB Ronald Darby, Florida State
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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I'm going to assume that Whaley new before the Watkins pick that 2015 was a down year. So he knew he would move up for the most potential in the draft using his 2014 first round choice if it became available. I like the choice. I don't think we missed much in the 2014 first round.