Nihilarian

At what point? OTOH, oh I dunno, lets go with once Tyrod Taylor has more then five games of NFL experience, and actually has a decent pocket to stand in and deliver every pass in the playbook. Aside from the injuries it can't be easy to be great in a power run offense that isn't working

So, basically what you are saying is that the Bills don't really have a viable #1 WR that can help pull all the coverage their way if Sammy isn't on the field. Not the #2 pick at WR In Robert Woods nor the 6 million dollar WR in Percy Harvin. Lets not even discuss how often Watkins has been battling injuries over the last two seasons. While he was almost never 100% last season, and now has missed games this year. The real issue in my view is Sammy the type of WR who can take over a game and put up huge numbers like a superstar WR should? The answer is, so far, not really. Or is his real use as a decoy to draw double coverage while not really earning that double coverage? Three draft picks used for this one player, and its not out of the world of reality to question his actual worth at this time. Sammy Watkins will always be compared to Odell Beckham Jr, and look at tonight while being double covered with a lot of the coverage's attempting to take Beckham out of the game, and yet so far tonight 7 rec for 121 yards, 1 TD. Just saying.

The rushing stats look good because the QB was the leading rusher with 8 for 76, one TD Without the QB rushing 127 - 76= 51 yards on 20 rushes, and that equals 2.55 ypc avg instead of the 4.5 avg per rush. Then take away that Taylor running TD, and its a loss. The OP is right, "and our run blocking is non existent" The O line was the biggest area of need this last off season, and they didn't do enough to build a good enough unit for the power run blocking scheme this OC wants to run. The Bills are exceedingly lucky to have Tyrod Taylor!

Lets hope the Bills learn something from this game

It is a huge deal IMO. The Bills gave the Giants 7 first downs last game, and gave back two TD's. Lets hope they can keep this up!!

In reference to #1 7-for 62 was a far cry from the 7 first downs the defense gave the Giants last game The push ups worked!!

Perhaps overlooked, but those push ups worked !! This game 7 for 62 yards, and two less then Tenn had= they didn't give the game away with stupid mistakes!

Field position can win a game

Considering this is a new offense to the Bills players, and Taylor was playing in his fifth start. Then the limited talent on the line, and all the injuries... i'm just happy with the win!

The Bills won a game on the road that they really needed to win to stay legit in the division. A win is a win!! I'm watching the Dallas-Patriot game, and the Cowboys are really giving Tom Brady fits while hitting him a bunch. Makes me wonder why the Bills played the scheme they played against Brady

K-9, on 08 Oct 2015 - 10:02 PM, said: 11 hurries might be damned good for an average team, but not for one that has 28% of its payroll tied up in its front four. Like I said this game was against the Colts where it looked like they blitzed a ton, and it was more the better coverage that caused Luck to look so bad. To put those pressures in better context currently the Buffalo Bills are 19th in sacks with seven, and Denver is leading the NFL with 18. The Bills sack percentage is currently 27th out of 32. Last season they ended the year at #1 out of 32 with 54 sacks against 559 pass attempts with a sack percentage of 8.8. This is a huge difference between last years defense and this years so far! Now lets discuss the NE game. This isn't the very first time ever the Bills have faced Brady, or a QB that can get the ball out quickly. ooohh under 2 seconds, whatever will we do??? Rex Ryan played a soft cover defense that game, and was roasted for it! "Rex Ryan, Dennis Thurman and defensive coaching staff: Ryan told his team that this loss was on his shoulders, and so he's a natural place to start in the "down" column. Ryan's defensive game plan couldn't put pressure on Tom Brady-- the Bills disrupted (a sack, batted ball, passed defense or interception) only 9.8 percent of Brady's dropbacks, a lower rate than in any of the Bills' 2014 games -- and he never seemed to have an effective plan for stopping either Rob Gronkowski or Julian Edelman." http://espn.go.com/b...defensive-staff Allow me to reiterate, Nihilarian, on 08 Oct 2015 - 12:38 PM, said:

Man, Hopkins a monster WR wow, blown coverage by the Colts...TD!

Better for Houston as Hoyer looks to have the hot hand. Mallett looking grumpy on the sidelines.

I'm just happy Ryan is attempting to fix this penalty problem. Take away those 7 first downs, and give back those two TD's, and Eli isn't happy.

Awesome first half ending with that Hoyer hail Mary TD! Foster in concussion protocol

Those 11 hurries were for the entire team, and not one player. Just FYI, in four games played. Jerry Hughes 5 hurries-Mario Williams 4 hurries-Marcell Dareus 3 hurries- Kyle Williams 2. That's 14 hurries for arguably the leagues best D line. To put that in context KC LBer Justin Houston has fourteen by himself after four games so far this year. The bigger point is, and that I've been attempting to covey is that the Bills have some of the very best defensive line players in the NFL, and they themselves are saying that they are not happy with the current scheme! They say they would prefer to just rush the passer. I happen to agree with them as I would like to see the Bills just blitz that front four more often, and have Ryan run his overload blitz more often too. Dunno why this continues to elude you. I can see the animosity growing with the quibbling over minor things, and I doubt that anything I post will ever get through. So... Go Bills!

I wonder if BB still wants the Bills to trade for Mallett?

Only 11 pressures out of the 30 blitzes was the larger point that was overlooked. Perhaps this was also missed, " As far as Dareus is concerned, simpler is better. He has felt that since training camp, when he complained publicly about not seeing eye-to-eye with how he was being coached. “We play better up front when they just let us go,” Dareus said Wednesday. “... Now we have more responsibilities and more things going here and there. It’s just playing inside the defense and playing under control, so that the blitzing schemes and everything fit perfectly." Yea, I agree. It makes little sense to keep discussing this...

What I think most fans are missing is Ryan is not using his overload blitzing as much as he has in the past. Against the Colts where it looked like the Bills blitzed a lot. In fact they only blitzed 30 of 53 drop backs, and managed only 11 QB pressures. It was the strong coverage by the Bills secondary that Luck had the most trouble with. Vic Carucci in his article talks about the players saying there is a disconnect with Ryan's current scheme, and even they are saying that they would prefer to just pass rush more.

I think you are missing my point! I'd rather see Rex Ryan return to his mainstay defense with the overload blitzing scheme like he had with the Jets, and the Bills had with Pettine. When the Bills drop a D linemen into coverage they are sometimes only rushing with three players which is something I really dislike, and takes away from what those defensive line players do best.

I didn't say that at all. If the Bills are going to zone blitz, and drop a DE into pass coverage I know I'd prefer it to be Jerry Hughes who has the size of a LBer at 252lb, and he can run a sub 5.0 40. Williams ran a 5.25 at the combine 10 years ago

In my view its sort of a ridiculous miss-match for that huge linemen in Kyle Williams to be asked to cover a receiver crossing that zone, as those men are being to cover an area larger then they normally would as a pass rusher. Then being asked to possibly chase around a receiver across the field could easily wear them out during a game. With the team dropping a linemen into coverage at times then they only rushed with three! It doesn't matter how many times they were asked to drop into pass coverage (and I'm far to lazy to go back and look) since that is not what those players are being paid the big bucks to do. This also isn't the sole reason as to why the defense isn't playing as well as it could. Like I asked previously, what would you rather see Kyle Williams, Jerry Hughes do in a game? I know I'd rather see Ryan do what he does best, and that is bring one more rusher then the offense has blocking while finding a way to get to the QB to ruin his day. That, and fixing the penalties!! They gave the Giants 7 first downs

Looks like the Titans got behind two TD's early in that game and had great difficulty on offense in the first half. That first TD by Johnny Football was a 60 yd TD bomb on their second play, and I suspect they didn't have a whole lot of film on what the Browns would do with Manziel at QB. The Titans had three fumbles in that game, and Mariota was sacked seven times.

"Rex'sOffense" was saying its the players that need to be changed, and all I did was point out that even being used in pass coverage they still graded well. So, its not the players fault that the 300lb D linemen are being asked to be put in pass coverage instead of rushing the passer. You have a 300lb DT Kyle Williams that excels in a six yard area in getting to the QB, and instead of having him do what he does best in rushing the passer. You ask him to drop straight back to cover a RB, TE, or a WR. He can do that job to a degree, but which would you rather see him do?