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Excellent analysis. Over the past several games the RB consistently gets to the 2d level before being hit. This suggests that the OL is opening holes for the RB, something that the OL hasn't been able to do consistently in the past. Do you have any insight as to why the OL is able to open holes? Is it scheme? OL jelling? Something else?

The resurgence of the Bills' running attack has been an unexpected delight over the past few games. The backs seem to be making it past the DL before they are hit. This seems to indicate that our OL is actually opening holes for the backs. Is this correct? If so, why the inprovement in our OL? Scheme? OL jelling?

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Interesting firing given last night's O performance. The O's play was more lack of execution rather than poor playcalling. maybe what got Dorsey fired was the fact that he didn't go with the run game until the last drive; that and the cumulative poor performances of the O in previous games. Brady will run the same system -- you can't change systems mid-season. Hopefully he will learn from what happened to Dorsey and call better plays. It will be interesting to see if we continue to go shotgun under Brady. Shotgun helps Josh make quicker reads. We'll see if they stay with it or go under center on passing plays. Our running game was surprisingly very effective last night. I don't know how proficient the Broncos are against teh run. I do know that our O line is not good enough to run consistently against the better DL teams.

This was another frustrating loss and I get that people want to fire McD because of that. What is needed here is a clear-eyed analysis of the team's on field failures and maybe that leads to McD being fired.

Maybe so but no coach can micromanage the D when the bullets are flying. The O screwed the pooch tonight. Is that on McD because he's the HC?

The fault is Taron Johnson. It's man coverage with no help over the top because of the max blitz.You simply cannot get beaten long in that situation yet Jeudy did precisely that.

I get this reasoning. The HC is responsible for everything but as such the HC must delegate duties to the asst coaches. The reasonong that screwups are on the HC makes McD responsible for the 4 turnovers (team not physically and mentally prepared) but that's absurd. BTW I realize that you aren't making this argument but it is the logical conclusion that the HC is responsible for everything.

The HC is responsible for everything. But the HC must delegate many of his duties to the asst coaches. But if you fire the HC everytime someone on staff screws up you'll have no continuity. It is troublesome that there are so many screwups late that cost us games and that needs to be fixed.

I agree completely

I agree. My point is that the blunder is likely on the asst coaches. To some extent that's on McD as HC. In any event, the staff needs to work out why these late game blunders happen and take corrective action. BTW I'm not a McD homie. I'm just pointing out that it's not the HC's responsibility to make sure that the FG team does not have too many players.

The FG team is determined pre-game. You send the FG team out. Who thinks to count your men? That's why I think the late injury messed up the FG team.

You do understand that fron the sideline it is difficult (if not impossible) to count all your down linemen. At the very least someone upstairs should have alerted McD to the 12 men.

Maybe. But Taron Johnson screwed up. How do you get beaten long in man coverage when the other team is on the edge of field goal range & will likely looking to throw long

Ok; I get that. But if what I said is true, it's not McD that screwed up.

You do understand that the responsibility for the field goal team is likely on the special teams coach? It is likely that the late DB injurie messup up the field goal team D. The D played well enough to win tonight. Who coaches the D?

Belichick was the one who designed the D that stopped the K-Gun passing game. I read that he did two things: 1. Changed the D after every Buffalo possession so that when Kelly & Marchibroda worked out what the Giants were doing in the previous Bills' possession, Kelly faced a different D on the next possession. 2. The Giants' D was designed to keep everything in front of them. The Bills were a great YAC team and this aspect of the D was designed to limit YAC. Belichick was a very good coach. The combo of bel & Brady made them both GOAT's at their respective positions. As someone on this forum has said, great coaches are great, in part, because they have great players.

Good point but a bit of monday Morning QB'ing. Had the Bills run more the Giants D would have adjusted. How that would have changed the score is an interesting "what-if."

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