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How so? What did I say that was incorrect? Did you expect Anderson to be running the entire playbook in a weeks time? Of course they will put more on the o line, that’s been together since training camp.

Our QB hasn’t played in 2 years and has only been practicing for barely over a week (he didn’t practice his first week here). It’s expected.

Murphy!

Nice pass by Anderson there.

Oh yay, all of the completely ridiculous overreactions have started again...

Huh? Why do you say that? I see blown assignments, or possible the wrong play calls (hard to know, obviously).

Defense is just falling apart here.

Secondary is struggling so far today. Defrnse started out hot, but they’re falling off pretty quickly now.

How the hell was that pass interference on us?!?

Offense was just starting to look good, too.

Son of a B word.

Eyy, there we go offense!

Luck looked pretty good there.

Damn it, come on defense.

Yeah for sure. But I’m not holding my breath on that... lol.

Come on defense. Lets get them off the field!

Agree. This o line needs to run block better IMO.

People complain aboutMcDermott’s game management... Indy has already burned 2 timeouts in the first 1/4.

Everyone needs to remember that Daboll has probably only been able to install a small number of plays for Anderson. Anderson said himself that any play he isn’t yet comfortable with, he won’t run.

Bills D playing well so far. Man I hope Anderson can at least just be a game manager for us and give us a chance to win with this defense.

Well, for Anderson’s first drive in 2 years, I’ll take it...

Damn, they blew that run play up immediately.

Nice pass to Holmes.

I don’t know what happened in that specific practice - if housley stopped it and laid into them or if he actually thought they practiced well. I believe Okposo that they didn’t practice well. But, in general, I take what Housley says to the media with a grain of salt. I don’t really expect him to say “yeah we practiced terribly”. I remember seeing a lot of People who got mad about that last year. He would say they did some things well after a bad loss. He would be generally positive with the media, etc. and it pissed people off. But the players appreciated him not throwing them under the bus to the media. But he is MUCH different behind closed doors. He doesn’t hesitate to lay into the players. He can be heard yelling right through the concrete walls of the locker room after a bad game. As far as what Okposo said, it was one practice. I am not going to read too much into comments on one practice. I’ve heard the players say multiple times that they had great, crisp, up-tempo practices too. Even Okposo said in his quote that they’ve usually been much better in practice this season. Here’s the quote - https://www.nhl.com/sabres/news/sabres-colorado-avalanche-recap-highlights/c-300873908 I would be a be a lot quicker to blame Housley if we didn’t have so many of the same problems under Bylsma. I truly worry about some of the core players we have being uncoachable. Like Ristolainen, Reinhart. I used to worry about Eichel too, but I am truly seeing progress from him. I think its telling that our 4th line has been our best in numerous games this year. They actually do what the coaches tell them to do, and it works. Personally, I think the problems with this team run a LOT deeper than coaching. I think It’s a culture that has been established through the tank years. I think there hasn’t been any accountability from the players for years (up until this season). I think young guys were handed roles without having to earn them. They fired Bylsma when the players decided they didn’t want to listen to him. They haven’t had the depth to be able to sit some of these guys to make a point, or to make them actually compete to earn their roster spots. And The list goes on...

Agree. It’s very clear that the Sabres are lacking talent, and the talent we do have isn’t playing up to par. Our best players aren’t playing like our best players... And when their effort/battle/compete level is also lacking in any given period it’s a recipe for disaster. I know everyone likes to blame housley, but the thing is we had most of these same problems under Bylsma and I heard all the same stuff about how it was Bylsma’s fault. When does the blame get put on the players for refusing to accept the coaching? And for lack of executing on stuff the coach goes over constantly? I know for a fact Housley drills this stuff in practice all the time. He’s a lot tougher on them than people realize. He is constantly working on the stuff they do wrong in games, and (from what I hear) they will execute it well in practice, then come game time you will see them play the right way for brief periods of time and revert right back to doing whatever they feel like. All I head with Bylsma is how we HAD to get rid of him to fix our problems. They couldn’t make tape to tape passes. They weren’t battling hard enough. They weren’t prepared to start games. They were playing too safe. He wasn’t preparing them well enough. He had lost the room. His system didn’t work. I heard how how they needed a coach who would let them play a fast north south game and open up the offense. The safe defensive game was killing them. Let the players make mistakes..... Now it’s “they need to play safer and make less mistakes”. I am not saying housley is the answer. I don’t know yet. But you don’t hire a rookie head coach and franchise legend, then run him out of town a year later. The Sabres aren’t going to have any alumni left st this rate... lol. (j/k) I will say that I have been consistently impressed with Housley’s knowledge for the game. It is second to none. He knows exactly what they did wrong after every game. We don’t hear any of that “I need to review the tape” stuff we heard from Bylsma. He can tell you exactly what they need to do better the minute the game is over (which tells me he is also telling the players that stuff during the game). And again, I know he drills that stuff hard in practice. He will stop the whole practice if guys aren’t executing or doing what they’re told. But he can’t do that in games. It’s on the players...