Old Coot

There was a Bengals' leg whip (not called) but it was on Cook, I think.

Interesting question. My guess is that if it's done it's done by someone in the front office (think "Moneyball") not the coaching staff. The coaches need to focus on getting the players ready to play not deal with esoteric "what ifs."

McD's answer was very Belichikish

I do not necessarily disagree with you but changing OCs in the middle of the year is not an easy task. The replacement needs to be familiar with the Bills' offense and the playcalling terminology. Is there someone on staff who could take over the OC duties?

This loss was on the offense. It scored only 2 TDs. The defense allowed only 3 points in the 2d hald despite the injuries on D. My initial take is that the O doesn't execute well enough to dink & dunk down the field and Josh can't seem to hit the long ball. It would be useful if, when the all-22 is available, someone knowledgeable about such things would comment on why the O isn't more effective. Some of it is execution. For example, on two plays our WRs tripped over one another.

"People are strange when you're a stranger" said Jim Morrison

The "Z" is implied (and silent, of course).

These things are clearly McD's fault. Don't ask me how; I just know they are ecause McD is not a good head coach. Engage sarcasm detector

I agree with you in theory. But remember that the D is playing with a bunch of 2d stringers. If you try to cover deep and aggressively on the sidelines you may allow a deep completion. In that situation I'd prefer to let the CBs cover deep and leave the sidelines for the LBs. Problem is, most LBs don't have the speed to cover a WR to the sideline. Use CBs to cover the sideline and Boom, they hit a deep pass. I remember I think the Pats game when they had Hyde on a WR one on one and the WR burned him for a TD

Your write up is a good one. I was referring to the Os performance in the 2d half. After the 3d quarter's opening drive it did not look sharp. They had some 3 & outs between then & the Bucs ' time consuming drive to score their td.

Agreed. Except for the opening drive of the 3d quarter.

Godwin wasn't looking for the ball 'cause he was shoving the Bill in front of him to the ground. If Godwin makes the catch maybe the refs call that penalty; maybe not.

This was a good but not great win. The D played very well but I'm unsure how good the Bucs' O is. The O played well in the first half and the opening drive of the 2d half. They played with passion. But after the score they didn't do much after that. They could hev put the game away but did not. Yet a win's a win. On to the next game.

Elam seemed to be a legit 1st rounder. He played for a couple of years for the Gators and played well. His dad and uncle played in the NFL so he had that pedigree. He's played well on occasion and seems to be a fit for a zone D. What is the problem? He's a bit young. Is he resistant to coaching? Is he a head case? Those who blame coaching may be right but I find it hard to believe you would tank a 1st rounder over coaching problems especially when the staff has been so successful in developing cbs.

What if the goalposts had been 3 feet to the right.

In theory you are correct but consider that the OC devises his gameplan based on what the opponent has shown previously. There is only limited time to prepare & coach the gameplan each week. You can't prepare for everything. When the opp is doing something you don't expect its very difficult to adjust during the game. Even halftime adjustments are difficult (P Manning says it is an illusion that you can do halftime adjustments). During the K-Gun years, Kent Hull the center made the line protection calls. Maybe something like this would help Josh by taking that aspect of the game off his plate.

Two points: 1. You can't just decide to go up tempo for the whole game unless you game planned it and your O players are conditioned to do it. If you try quickly to sub in personnel packages the D gets to sub also. 2. When you go uptempo the D tends to play a base D because it cannot sub in personnel. That probably simplifies Josh's reads.

What is EPA? I'm guessing that its not the Environmental Protection Agency.

For the life of me I can't figure out why Pegula doesn't take the advice of some random guys on this board (including me)!

The K-Gun O line was orders of magnitude better than the Josh-Gun O line.

The D is playing with one hand behind its back because of injuries. Belichick was bound to find holes all over. What you saw today was Jones carve up a D riddled with second string players. The O performance was far more concerning particularly given that the Pats two top pass rushers did not play. As for those calling for Dorsey's head (and the rest of this sentence is not a defense of Dorsey) how many of you can tell on most plays whether it was the scheme or the execution that failed? I certainly cannot without the tome to study the all-22 view.

I agree with much of this post BUT Josh does not walk on water. There are times when he doesn't see open receivers or bails out too soon (though he's been better lately at staying put). Perhaps its because the opponent's D is good at disguising coverages or because it doe not present the same Ds that Josh has been schooled to expect earlier that week. I hope after that Jet's clunker Josh spends more time studying defenses. One thing is sure, a successful O is not everyone runs around, then Josh scrambles and make a superhuman throw to Diggs for the crucial score. I'm not Josh-bashing. I think he's special but there is room for improvement. Things happen pretty fast in the an NFL game so its easy to miss-fire if you are facing the unexpected. or as Ferris Bueller put it, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

I have a solution: go to two hand touch or flag football. That will cut down on injuries. Note: engage sarcasm detector when reading this post.

This pop was really popular in the 1930s. I'll never understand it; it tastes terrible.

Interesting. When I watched the game it seemed to me that Josh was under pressure a good bit of the time. Several times (in the 2d half I think) there were free rushers up the middle.