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I've Always believed that as a player if you aren't progressing, you are regressing... Especially in the NFL Between Levi, Norman , and Gaines they should atleast be able to hold it down adequately by committee based on game plan and opposing WRs Levi should still be progressing in the system tho he will always have some physical limitations. He has a good feel for the game and good instincts. He just has to play off the ball a lot because he doesn't have the speed to press Norman should have 1 year left. What made Norman so good in his prime was his closing burst and instincts just like Tre.. unfortunately he has started to lose some of that closing Burst BUT a reunion with McDermott should give him the thing he's been missing. Scheme fit McDermott and Frazier are so good at scheming they can draw a trap. Basically a play were they will dictate where the ball will go. So on 3rd and 9 they can draw a trap play to basically make the quarterback go where they want him to go, short of the sticks And all Levi or Norman has to do is make the tackle 6 yards downfield. Norman and Tre have both been all pros in Sean's system so I wouldn't be surprised to see Norman play well for a season. Maybe 3-4 picks

The problem with that is Dugger isn't some covering specialist right now, actually a long way to go He will be an in the box safety or a sub package LBr for a few years at least . He is nothing like a Hyde He is an enforcer at this point with great speed but his coverage skills are lacking McDermott wanted him to play the box role in his big nickel, not cover half the field in coverage

As I said earlier football is a chess match.. throughout all four quarters in 60 minutes This isn't the only defensive play call that they use. It just became one of their most effective passing play calls Versus Tennessee there was a lot more crashing the line of scrimmage to take away the run

As I've been saying in my thread Jim Johnson has his fingerprints all over this defense through McDermott

Yeah I may know the game of football inside and out forward and backward But computers not super savvy. So I couldn't find a pic of the bills in that formation but I could McDermott's Panthers squad lol And as I said the premise of the Dual A Gap look is the same and McDermott been doing it as long as anyone around today. He learned from the legend Jim Johnson who was a genius The combination between Frazier and McDermott is honestly bread and butter. McDermott's a little bit more aggressive , Frazier's a little bit more toned back And the scheme turns out to be a super complex yet fluid organism that swarms the football like a hive of bees

That's what I'm here for

Ansalem has dropped Kentucky from his final 6 and SU looks to be the favorite!

And yes that's exactly how I would put it. McDermott has been building his defensive philosophy for 20 plus years Frazier took his own knowledge and what Sean likes to do and is getting up to speed on Sean's full philosophy. It's a lot more than one year job as I just said McDermott's been building it for 20 years Frazier no doubt has a better grasp on it today than he did 2 years ago and it's evident by his playcalling which is way more advanced I would expect Frazier to be getting another HC chance soon because he is gonna tear it up

This is not my video but I was looking for certain looks to explain some other McDermott tendencies NOTICE- McDermott not afraid to run 8 man box. Basically 9 on 1 play... Bodies everywhere on run downs This is where Poyer excells as a run stuffer / Blitzer.. in the box off the edge. He is great at timing the snap and blowing up the backfield Where he struggles is in downhill run support. This year Sean had him all over the LoS early on downs to wreak havoc and play to his strengths I wish the video showed Sean's overload package and how he uses Poyer/ Taron so effectively because he only brings it out 2-5 times a game but boy is it effective

The threat is the diversion... that's the real secret ?

Yes Sean is no stranger to combo coverages. All things he learned from Jim Johnson It's also not strange to see the Bills play a cover 6 which is a zone combination coverage of cover 4 and 2

Those are all good questions and as a former corner and defensive backs coach I can tell you that's why you need smart football players Leodis mckelvin , great cover corner, not a fit for a palms system Ideally in zone coverage your first steps are always backwards. In quarters you're trying to get depth.. so tre is naturally playing his quarters and getting depth while peaking on the slot corner to see if he runs an out breaking route. And you're right a great play call can confuse palms coverage.. but football is a chess match and they need to have that perfect call at the right time Sorry gobills meant to quote Colorado @ColoradoBills

Palms coverage is a name given to a modified quarters coverage which can turn into man coverage depending on the offenseive looks McDermott really favored this style of coverage last year McDermott comes from the football school of timing is everything. He's not opposed to overload blitzing and stunting defensive lineman But you're also not going to see a lot of that on first and second Downs . On run downs he's focused about Gap integrity and maintaining it. Stunting d-lineman causes the opposite of that So he's a lot more situational with regards to that kind of stuff

Very true and Johnson could dial up masterpieces They both learned from a legend Every play caller has positive and negative tendencies, and sure Fraser can be a little conservative at times but is usually right on the money and knows how to call a game within the flow

Frasier is a huge part of what we do no doubt He started a little slow but his playcalling is very very good and he knows situational football and what McDermott wants out of his defense. I think he needed that wake up call 2 years ago Though I doubt he's the one that implemented palms coverage or the Dual a gap looks. He is more of a teacher and developer than white board play designer

There are a lot of cover 2 variations but typically the squatting cornerback in cloud coverage will play the vertical from underneath leverage if all are running verts And yes McDermott Fraser's system is as much about brains as it is talent

Well Sean used quarters coverage more than anything last year and both our safeties can take infinite ground away playing that technique You could also disguise it in 50 different ways. There's a reason we weren't beat over the top last year

If you have the personnel to run palms coverage. Which 95% of the NFL doesn't... You are at a strict X's and O's advantage. As I said in the OP, the modern NFL offense stretches you vertically and horizontally Cover 4 has long been used to counteract teams vertically. But it's horizontally challenged The palms coverage gives the bills the best possible way of counteracting teams vertically and horizontally on the same play This is a reason why the bills did not give up any bombs really. The base quarters of palms is amazing against verticals, and when it shifts to its man elements, Tres reaction speed allows him to get to out breaking routes at will

Diagram 1 is the Carolina Panthers while McDermott was there

Diagram 2 shows Sean's favorite coverage from last year. Palms coverage out of a cover 4 look Palms coverage is a very advanced coverage that most NFL teams don't even run its so complex. It all comes down to the awareness and the communication between corner and safety tandems It's a quarters look with man elements depending on the offensive look.. where out routes are cover 4 killers , Palms counteracts that Outside corners in quarters coverage CONVERT to MAN on slot out routes. Changing from quarters coverage to man. The safeties in quarters coverage THEN became man up on the outside receivers This is a very complex design but smart corners like Tre and Levi and Safeties like Hyde and Poyer allow us to execute this advance coverage almost flawlessly Tres reaction and closing speed is Elite and this plays right into his hands Now defenses don't know how to attack Buffalo's cover 4 because the green areas ARE NO LONGER GREEN The slot wide receivers dictate what technique our corners and safeties will play

Diagram 1 shows Sean's lauded dual a gap look. The diagram is from when he is in Carolina but the principal the same This is designed to confuse offensive lines and quarterbacks pre-snap. This is a third-down staple of McDermott's defense He doesn't even need to bring both linebackers in the A gap. It's about preplay confusion and making the quarterback hold on to the ball a split-second longer From here he can run any number of coverage from cover one to cover 3.. this also forces the quarterback to make a decision about Max protecting.. because the bills show six... Max protecting plays into the bills defenses hand because they only want three receivers going on a route And after Sean bluffs 4 third Downs in a row. He will bring the dual A gap pressure and they're not ready for it QBs tend to check down instantly or get eaten up because the look confuses them

Football players in the NFL are the best of the best as are the coaches. Offenses today are more complex and evolved than ever before. Offenses attack defenses with speed , vertically and horizontally to stretch defenses 3-4 WR sets to attack weaknesses at CB or LBr There are lots of advantages to the offense Sean has combatted this by creating a scheme based on gap integrity , complex coverages in the secondary and timely blitzes I have 2 diagrams that show how Sean will confuse offenses pre and post snap and get QBs to hold the ball longer or panic and get rid of it too soon

Again I don't think race is an issue in the NFL anymore the coaches and GM's in charge have their careers on the line and they truly do pick who they think is best for their organization, whether it works out or not The sport and the world has came a long way since the 70s and 80s. If you're a talented black quarterback nothing is stopping You from playing in the league, like the stigma against moon that he had

But gabbert was a top-10 pick so he's going to get more chances than say a seventh-round guy The NFL is a tough sport. I get it and unfortunately some players just get more chances than others And my only point about the white cornerbacks was like the pool to choose from. You don't see many so they don't get chosen.. it's not like Alabama trots out 5 White corners and they're not getting drafted. Most physically can't play it at a high level I think race means nothing in the sport and Donovan McNabb and Warren Moon and tons of guys show they had world class talent And I'll have you know I ran a 4.44 40 with a 36-inch vertical!

I've been a player scout coach my whole life . I still scout. Heck I was that white cornerback I personally don't go by that reasoning.but I still know plenty of coaches that do that don't want a backup who's threatening Unless it's college football Most players who have tasted the starting job don't like to be backups. Players who have always been backups in the NFL are more content I'm sure cam wants to start