HoofHearted
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1 hour ago, Yantha said:
Look... The Bills ranked 20th in run defense, their worst team stat....
The fact that we have not seemed to be even putting much stock into drafting a linebacker early (I know.... cornerback.....) to me was something I was curious about. There have been some suggestions to draft linebacker, but considering that run defense was arguably one of the bigger weaknesses last season (not just my opinion, just going by team stats), should we not be putting more of an emphasis on stopping the run?
Von Miller will help, and we added some DL FA's.
Yes, there have been lots of Tremaine discussions... but at the CORE of my post was a draft question.
The struggles vs the run stemmed from the defensive line more so than the linebackers. I did some breakdowns during the season which highlighted a lot of this. The change of guard on the defensive line this offseason did not happen by accident.
18 minutes ago, ONEandDONE said:I expect this revamped D-Line to prevent guards from getting to the second level, allowing Edmunds some more clean looks at his gaps in the run game. He is already an amazing coverage LB in this system. Buffalo has lacked a true 1 tech at DT and with the failed experiment of Star, Edmunds has under performed against the run. We also run a ton of nickel, meaning Edmunds is asked to cover multiple gaps in the run game. But to sum it up, I say we let Edmunds play out this season and if all goes according to plan he should be in for a big year. We'll decide on next year after we win the SUPER BOWL this year.
Just wanting to clarify - us running nickel does not make Edmunds a two gapper.
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15 minutes ago, DrDawkinstein said:
Does Bradely run a 4-3 Tampa 2? Or whatever you want to call McD's Jauron-esque defense?
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On 1/24/2022 at 3:52 AM, SACTOBILLSFAN said:
McDermott's defense is fine, but I think it can be too vanilla and without Tre it simply wasn't good enough at the corners to hold down the first passing offense they faced with a pulse since his injury. It's one thing to sit in a 2 deep shell when you have a top 3 DB locking down half of the field, but when that's the only trick you have, it gets exposed if that DB depth is tested.
With Josh's cap hit about to jump you can't go out and spend a ridiculous amount on defense because you have to make sure you surround your franchise player with talent and protection. However, if they go make Fangio the highest paid coordinator in football and let him re-imagine this defense I think it can actually be elite. This is clearly a Super Bowl roster but they need to give themselves more of a shot against Mahomes because he's not going anywhere either.
It would also be nice if McDermott pulled his head out and stopped surrendering with punts on 4th and 2 from the 45 when the opponent hasn't stopped Josh Allen all night, but that's another topic.
Not going to happen. If Frazier leaves we're getting a Tampa 2 guy.
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53 minutes ago, theRalph said:
Harrison Phillips is a very intelligent, well-spoken man. His presser is great...he is so real.
Which makes it all the more remarkable that, when questioned by John Wawrow (AP), Harrison was not aware the Bills were 0-6 in one score games. Are you shiiiiting me??? I'm sure many fans—me included— have spent a lot of the season worried about this very thing....starting with the week one loss. It was a trend early on, with a L-W-L-W-L-W pattern in the middle of the season that saw the Bills unable to win close games. Hell, they even let the shhiiiitty teams stay close at the end of the season...but ended up blowing them out.
That this team has an intelligent player such as Horrible Harry that is unaware of a blatantly obvious and telling stat makes me wonder about the level of "5000 foot view" awareness that's lost when a player or coach is nose-to-the-ground grinding all season.
What a silly question....they didn't even know enough to keep 17 off the phuuucking ManningCast.
Why would it matter? A loss is a loss. Doesn't matter to them how close the game was. This doesn't make you play any differently in close games than in blowouts.
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8 minutes ago, Einstein said:
No they didn’t.
Here is before and after the timout. They never showed 0 blitz.
They showed the exact same alignment on both plays, and on both plays Poyer moved back into Cover 2 post snap.
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After Timeout
Must have been the one earlier that they called the timeout on then. It's still not the same alignments though. Addison is flipped and I'm curious as to why.
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10 minutes ago, Hebert19 said:
The way that McDermott said it was an execution thing (and that starts with me) and seeing the way bass kicked it...I'm guessing he meant to do his normal pop up that lands by the 5...
Pure speculation but that was definitely the play and feels like thay was the intention.
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@Einsteinalignment and coverage are two totally different things. Before the timeout the Bills showed a 0 Blitz - came out of the timeout playing Cover 2.
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6 minutes ago, Einstein said:
I need to do some homework to determine whether my gut matches actual statistical output (reality), but it certainly feels that McDermott’s defensive timeouts often precede a successful play by the opposing offense.
To that point, Mahomes’ admitted that the Bills defensive timeout gave the Chiefs time to talk about changing Kelce’s route to take advantage of the defense:
“The play to Travis, he wasn’t necessarily supposed to do that, but after the timeout we got a look at what the defense was doing, and he said it to me, ‘If they do it again, I’m going to take it up the middle between both the guys guarding me,'” - Patrick Mahomes
1) My hypothesis is that defensive timeouts in key situations are not helping the team.
2) Why would you take a defensive timeout only to roll out in the same coverage?
But they didn't roll out in the same coverage.
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1 hour ago, BringBackFergy said:
I wouldn’t mind hearing @GoBills808 or @HoofHearted’s thoughts on Belichick’s analysis. Especially the run play by Devin.
Sure. Nothing ground breaking there from Belechick. They ran power on that long run from Singletary - the cut was impressive but that was the path he should have taken on the play regardless so it ran as designed. The inside backer should not have been unblocked on that play, but since Daryl Williams got hung up he was. Good on Singletary for setting him up outside before cutting it back inside. Also as already mentioned Josh flipped it to Knox so that he could get out of bounds and stop the clock, not pick up extra yardage, which is kind of disappointing that Belechick didn't have the wherewithal to think about the situation in the game when breaking that down. Other than that nothing really special was said.
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9 minutes ago, BrooklynBills said:
The problem is that these gap runs don't match up with our preferred passing concepts so there is typically a discontinuity of the run game with the pass game. This was discussed alot by someone in the national blogging sphere but I forget who at the moment. If they want to run the offense that Daboll really wants to run and the passing concepts that Allen seems to do well with then they'll need to make changes to the types of players that they've targeted for the interior OL.
How so? Can you explain the discontinuity?
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9 minutes ago, Einstein said:
I answered his question. Why did we change from gap to zone? I think it was because Daboll wanted to feature more RPO's in the offense.
At the pro level, it is typically easier to run RPO's with zone blocking than gap. Which is why most teams do so.
It's not though - you can run RPO's to any blocking scheme. Whoever wrote that article is misguided.
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1 minute ago, WotAGuy said:
I just want to jump in here and say I have no idea what the hell y’all are talking about.
What can I clarify? I'd like for these to be informative, but written in a way anyone can understand and discuss.
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3 minutes ago, First Round Bust said:
good analysis and hopeful that the schemes and play-calling are improving, as in no more Jax games !
As mentioned our opponent has a vote in our success or failure, and the Falcons front four is below average, so have to wonder why we did not commit to more runs in the first half esp when Josh was struggling...i know he made a lot of alert calls at the line not sure if he was checking into or out of run calls..there also was a 4Q RPO where he gave to 19 and then pulled ii out almost as if 19 handed it back to Josh..almost a red zone fumble...
Not an RPO - that was Q Counter Read
2 minutes ago, Einstein said:RPO's.
That doesn't make sense. You can RPO off any run scheme.
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6 minutes ago, Robert Paulson said:
the thing is -our strength (as much as you can say it is our strength) is pulling the 3 interior o line.
if you mean not strong when you say not athletic I would agree with you- we get zero push so when we zone block at least one of the GCG gets blown back into the RB and then they fight to get back to the LOS. it's beating your head against the wall to keep doing this the majority of the time.
they all are better at moving quickly in space than they are at pushing guys back 5 yards like the Colts(who do everything good) or the old Cowboys lines. This way they get a head of steam. 26 can follow into a hole and the backside defenders play catch up.
No, I meant athletic. Outside of Morse, Dawkins, and Bates we have a bunch of big lumbering guys who don't have great feet and don't move particularly well in the open field and on the second level. The issue you are seeing is that when we run any of our zone scheme stuff it's a zone overtake scheme. The entire OL is on tracks and then have to move in unison in order for the zone overtake to work. Their rules are simple - are you covered or uncovered. If you're covered you block your guy back to the uncovered OL - he'll eventually pick him up - and then you work to second level. You can see if they aren't moving in unison how this is an issue. Our problem is we have a few athletic guys and a few non-athletic guys on the OL - it's a hodge podge of personnel. What they can ALL do however is block down! This sets them on their path right now and allows them to get immediate push. This is exactly what teams like the Colts and Titans do. Tons of gap scheme runs.
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40 minutes ago, BuffaloBill said:
I am still worried that the Bills are far too dependent on JA as a runner. As a part of this, too much RPO. You can’t keep putting your Franchise QB out where one hit can take him out for a season. Sorry, but the time has come to say “no.”
I am ok with the “extend the play” and scrambling. Let’s just not use the guy like he is a RB.
If Josh is running on an RPO we're not doing something right.
2 hours ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:Cover1 did a run analysis after last season where they pointed out one change from 2019 to 2020 was a change from gap to zone runs
It never made sense to me why did they make that change in the first place?
Zone is what Daboll wants to be. We're not athletic enough across the board up front in order to do it efficiently though.
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There has been a noticeable shift in the Bills philosophy when it comes to their run game over the past several weeks and it has been paying off in big ways. Daboll has increasingly leaned on more gap scheme concepts (think pulling offensive linemen), relying on heavy doses of Counter, Power, and C Lead at various times. What has really helped the improvement though is the incorporation of the Quarterback threat (whether that be run or pass).
---Q Counter Read---
This past week against the Falcons the Bills ran Q Counter Read a number of times - each time going for big gains. In this concept Josh is responsible for reading the backside ILB (or scrape player). If that read player doesn't scrape with the pulling offensive linemen in front of him Josh will keep it and run Counter behind his blockers. If the read player does scrape then he will give it to the back and we'll run outside zone off of it. Reading a defensive player forces that player to be "wrong" no matter what they do and allows our offense to essentially play 11 on 10 football. What Q Counter Read allows for is to not only read the backside inside linebacker, but also leaves the backside defensive end unblocked forcing him to make a decision whether to squeeze hard or play the outside zone path by the back. The concept behind this is that whoever ends up keeping the ball is a far superior athlete to this defensive end and will make him wrong regardless of what he does - the Bills are now playing 11 on 9 football and getting numbers to either side of the play based on the read.
---Counter RPO---
Another variation of Counter the Bills ran this week for much success was Counter with a backside RPO tagged to it. For Josh it's the same read as the Q Counter Read play we previously discussed. Josh will read the backside ILB and make a decision based on what he does. If the read player scrapes Josh will pull it and throw the slant to the slot receiver right in the area that the backer vacated. If the read player sits then Josh will give the ball to the back and we'll run Counter. Again, reading this player allowed the Bills to guarantee a numbers advantage to where they ran the football and we saw big runs from both Singletary and Moss running this concept.
These concepts aren't anything new for the Bills - they've been running them since Daboll and Josh got here - but the increased volume of these concepts has certainly lead to a resurgence of our run game. Go Bills!
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Yes please! More Q Counter Read, Daboll!
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Why does Stevenson run so high? Just setting himself up for the kill shot.
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Jesus, we aren't commanding double teams up front - and backers aren't getting downhill quick enough in the run game or getting off blocks.
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Gap Scheme!!! Keep calling it!
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Milano getting worked in the run game early on.
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Boy that was telegraphed with Moss out there in the bunch set. Love the play call though!
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On 12/29/2021 at 1:09 AM, Da webster guy said:
Its so weird how he sent Hightower flying like he was a little cornerback or something but he's a 260lb thumper.
Unbelievable strength by Singletary.
Low man always wins!
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Beasley - with all the zone we'll see he should eat.
Can we talk about Tremaine Edmunds?
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No idea. I don't know the players they brought in well enough to give an opinion of them nor do I have any insight into how the coaching staff plans on using any of them. All I can tell you is a lot of the issues we had last year was from guys on the defensive line getting reached or being doubled and overtaken allowing offensive linemen to work up to the second level faster than they should be able to.