It's a long regular season. That's exactly what championship caliber teams do.
If you don't think championship caliber teams ever loss to poor teams, or play sluggish first halves of regular season games, then you're living in a fantasy world.
No one else is going to like to hear this, but I actually like what I'm seeing from Josh. He's taking what the D is giving and not trying to force this.
Even crap teams like Jax can play really well for part of a game. Can they do it the whole game? Probably not.
Hey hey hey, I was still having my morning coffee. They actually blitzed 7 on the play. The 8th man in the box was covering Motor, so he was the 4th man in coverage was also at the line of scrimmage.
No, he ran a middle screen to be the hot route. The Dolphins blitzed 8.
The Bills had 6 blockers. Therefore there was 2 unblocked men.
But this leaves only 4 defenders to cover the Bills wr's.
It looks like it was an RPO with the RG pulling to block for the run. Josh decided to pull it and hit the post.
Morse wasn't on time to shift right to block the first man rushing through the RG's evaded hole.
In any event, this play is a good example of why you don't zero blitz Josh Allen (any more.) They left Diggs one on one and Josh hits him for an easy TD even though the Dolphins rushed 2 more men than the Bills had blockers.
Belichick covered this at length recently in a press conference. Position players have to spend time in practice with their position groups. So they wouldn't get enough practice holding.
And then there's injuries... Could you imagine not being able to attempt a game tying fg bc the #6 wr got knocked out of the game on a kick return?
Diggs snap count is also down 15% over the first 7 games this year compared to last year.
This is not a problem. Rotation is how you keep players healthy.
You're a problem.
We also really need to look at the total amount of time the QB holds onto the ball before throwing. I'm going to guess that Allen is near the top in the league of total amount of time to throw. But it would help to see those numbers.
You do realize that Allen's 2.4 second Pocket Time is tied for 3rd best in the league according to these stats?
So rather than being given the 9th least of amount of time in the pocket by his OL, he's being given the 3rd most (along with several other qb's).