SoCal Deek

The photo was taken at exactly 4:15pm, August 8th.

How’s this for proof? I took this in the upper deck looking straight down the sideline on my tour….mostly because I knew I’d be asked.

The ENTIRE UPPER DECK IS UNDER THE ROOF!!!!

All of the upper deck is under the roof. All of it!

Say what? The overhang covers the entire upper level. We’ve been over this!

So in summary, the Bills defense is a schematic mess. The three levels of the defense are utterly disconnected from each other in what they’re trying to do. And I’d even toss in the fourth level if you consider that our two safeties are playing so far back they’re close to being in the first row of the end zone. (Maybe they’ll catch a football back there and run up the stands on their way out of the stadium.)

The NFL (No Fun League) started down this misery spiral when they put those pesky nets up behind the goal posts. Back at the Rockpile, the kids would all stand behind the end zone and try to catch the field goals and extra points. Inevitably a feeding frenzy ensued after each kick…like watching piranha when chum is dumped into the tank. Good times, I tell ya! 😉

No worries…..just messing with you. It’s what we do here. 👍

Grunts? There are probably hundreds of people on TBD alone that would literally love doing that job.

The challenge becomes protecting the natural grass on the football sidelines since the players and coaches stand within the wider soccer boundary…so they’ll typically put down a tarp there. It’s a standard cross section. The sand helps with drainage.

I’m not sure it’s the case at the new Bills Stadium but when we design them it has to extend far enough to accommodate a soccer field, which is wider than a football field.

Say what now? Haylee’s been in Hollywood since before Josh was in high school!

Do not be talking trash about Mark Sanchez! We all know how that turns out. Just saying

And that’s the irony.

Haven’t you heard? Our defense is REALLY REALLY complicated.

Well at least he got an all expense paid vacation in London. 👍

it looked to me like his wife was telling him to make a run for it. Or could it be that wasn’t his wife? 😂

Is our defense really that complicated? Really?

This debate rages on, year after year. It always seems to boil down to speed at WR. I’m not so convinced. The question should be whether the offense has a variety of routes on every play, not a variety of throws. Put another way, no matter how fast your WRs are it doesn’t mean the defense is just going to let them run deep behind the opposing safeties because they don’t believe we’ll throw it deep. What you really want are route trees that cause mismatches and overloads in the opposing secondary.

The other night the Seinfeld episode was on in which Elaine was dating a “bad breaker upper” dude. He was said to have been stab worthy….which according to Elaine made him MORE attractive.

Hard to believe there are six AFC teams with either 1 or less wins after five weeks. Anyone know whether that’s typical?

Quite a few times this season Josh has changed the play at the line into something that simply hasn’t worked. Now…there’s no telling what the original call was.

The final series was horrible play calling after Shakir dropped the WR screen. At that point you need to eat clock on second and third down. Either the Patriots waste their time outs or you take the clock way down. You call two simple, short yardage plays and see if you can get it to a first down or fourth and one or two. The Bills will simply never learn how to manage the clock under this coaching leadership.

Yeah, yeah, yeah….look at the stat line. Maye and Allen had the EXACT SAME stat line for virtually the exact same yardage 22-30 completions. But…Josh’s 31st attempt was a pick in the red zone and Maye didn’t throw one. That one bad throw cost the Bills the game or everyone would be looking at the lone remaining team at 5-0 this morning.

The game came down to turnovers…period. It’s been so long since Bills fans have experienced losing the turnover battle that we’ve all forgotten what a HUGE difference it makes in the outcome of a game. If you look at the Team Stats, we actually won across the board in virtually every stat. Just looking at the stat line you’d swear the Bills must’ve won that game. Even penalties came out pretty darn close in the end. But, you cannot turn the ball over three times and expect to win many games in the NFL….period.