HoofHearted

What is “shallow coverage”?

The days of the bell cow back are over. You just have to run enough to keep the defense honest. Allen’s threat as a runner also lends a huge hand in our success in the pass game as well so you can’t abandon that either.

The thread was “how do you stop this offense?”… I’m not suggesting we do any of this lol. As I’ve said 2 Man is the best chance to shut down what we want to do, but makes you extremely susceptible to the run game. There’s no good option to “stop” this offense which is what the OP really wants to hear.

Is that the tone you got from my response? I love our defense. Keep it simple. The less thinking the faster we can play.

Having Josh Allen is even more reason to run - QB run game you got 6 blockers for their 5 defenders.

If you don't run against 2 man then you're a terrible OC - you have a 5 man box!

He 100% isn't an eligible receiver on that play - he was covered. Ball started on the 10 - he was close enough within that 1 yard downfield range they allow on screens when not engaged for it to not be a flag.

2 man - force us to run the football.

Nah, that play to Gabe was designed to either go to Gabe or have Allen keep it on the Naked Boot. This 4th and 1 was true Zone Read.

100% he missed the block, but Byard is Allen's read. That read is telling him to give not keep.

Josh trying to do too much on that 4th and 1 - Byard attacking the mesh point just give it and let Moss fall forward for a yard.

Right, they were playing a ton of Cover 3 - still only rushing 4 though.

Denver did. Seattle did not. We run the same Tampa 2 defense that Seattle was running at that time.

Trying to hold the disguise as long as possible. Epenesa did him no favors either allowing that B gap to widen. Margin for error is next to nothing down there.

That's exactly right - he had no responsibility for that receiver. They were disguising their front - showing a 4-2 box when really they were playing 4-3 principles.

Ok

The blitz thing isn't by design. Every defensive coordinator wants to be able to just rush 4 an drop everyone else. The reason we didn't blitz was because we didn't have to. That's why you saw us blitzing more vs the Titans because we weren't hitting home just rushing 4.

Duo is designed to hit strongside A gap. If Edmunds vacated his gap responsibility to fit backside B gap where it hit everyone would be pissed he vacated his gap. The stunt from Phillips and the initial fit from Edmunds is what forced the ball to cutback backside B. That play was on Taron, not Edmunds.

Yeah, nothing ground breaking here. We are one of the more simplistic teams defensively. We just execute at a very high level.

Nah. Base 4-2-5 principles is a 1 gap scheme. Tennessee was running Duo against our 4-2 box. Looks like we were running man coverage to the two receiver side and Cloud coverage to the Tight End/Wing. Duo uses the same blocking rules as Zone - covered to uncovered to backside backer. Basically if you're covered block the guy covering you, if you are uncovered combo the guy to your play side, if the combo overtakes then the initial covered will work up to second level defender (backers). The only movement on the defensive line was from Phillips who slanted from a 3 to a 1 post snap which had both defensive tackles clog A Gaps. It looks like they are back fitting the backers in order to allow Poyer to be a coverage player and not have a run fit responsibility to the Tight End/Wing side while also allowing for Taron Johnson to be an unblocked B gap fitter he was just late to fold. Here is the blocking scheme: Here's how we fit it:

Having an understanding of how pass rush lanes work would help you understand what and why you are seeing what you're seeing. Go read up on box rules and being a low box vs. high box player.

There were only 3 or 4 designed runs all game. I'm not sure what all the fuss is about.

It’s interesting to me the Bills are using the Rookies as the field corners and keeping Dane to the boundary.

This kid is super impressive. Wait til you hear him speak about the game!

Can you explain further?