Old Coot

OBJ is indeed a "game changer" but not in the usual meaning of that phrase. His drama tears a team apart.

How about QB run-pass option. Josh reads the LB as he fakes a run. If the LB comes up he throws the slant behind the LB. If the LB plays pass Josh runs it

What is a slant route? signed, Brian Daboll

The next season we went 9-4-1 and lost to the Chiefs in the AFL Championship game. Had we won that game we would have played against Lombardi's Packers in the inaugural AFL-NFL Championship game (later renamed the Superbowl).

This is consistent with my view expressed in other threads that the called play was for Josh to take it off left tackle but on seeing the crashing outside LB decided to sneak it instead.

Question for someone more knowledgeable than me. How do you defense play action passes when the offense has a devastating runner like Henry? It seemed that after Henry's 75 yard TD run and particularly in the second half the play action passes were effective. Our 3 LBs either took a step forward or hesitated and that enabled the Titan receivers to get behind them for significant gains.

The D did not play well enough to win. After Henry ripped off that 75 yard TD run & especially in the 2d half the D had trouble against the play action pass. Our three LBs took a step forward or hesitated & that allowed the Titan receivers to get open behind them for good gains. We needed some D calls designed to defense the play action.

Those overhead shots and the discussion of blocking are helpful. I don't think the play was a QB sneak. The left side of the OL blocking down doesn't make sense for a sneak. It's just jamming up the gaps, especially when its 3 defenders against two OL. Plus you are asking Dawkins to do an inside seal off of the DE when the DE is already lined up inside Dawkins. Here's what I speculate happened. The play is designed for Josh to go off tackle. At the snap Josh is moving and looking left at the outside LB 58. The LB is crashing into the off tackle hole. At that point Josh concludes he can't go off tackle and just pushes ahead into the line. If a QB sneak had been the design the OL fires out & Josh imediately plunges into the left A gap. Josh wouldn't have hesitated nor been looking at 58 at the snap. Anyway, it's onto the Bye week.

Lookie, Lookie here comes Derrick?

I don't think the play was a designed QB sneak. I think it may have been a designed off Lt tackle run. Here's why I think that: First, on a QB sneak the QB lunges ahead immediately. Josh doesn't do that; he seems to dance to his left & then lunge. Second, the left side of the line all block down. That's bound to plug up the left A gap. Third, at the snap Josh is looking at the outside LB 58. On a QB sneak the QB immediately lunges into the line so that guy doesn't matter. Lastly, Sweeney's block on 58 is much too late and as a result there's no running lane off the tackle. It's true that Dawkins gets pushed back but if the play is designed to go outside of him he's done his job

I think that Dawkins did what he was supposed to do. The entire left side of the line is blocking down and Josh looks at the oncoming outside LB before deciding to go off guard left guard. I'll bet Sweeney is supposed to prevent the outside LB from crashing down, thus giving Josh a lane off left tackle.

If you look at the replay the first contact starts about the 5 yd line.

If you look at the overhead replay of the play I think it was designed for Josh to go off left tackle but Sweeney's block on the outside LB was late. That;\'s the crucial block and Sweeney's a sub so I'll bet he did not get any reps in practice on this play.

QB should go straight ahead as soon as the ball is hiked. Josh danced to his left and then tried to go in. hard to say what this play was designed to do; maybe Josh off left tackle but Sweeney's block is late.

On 4th & goal why not try a hard count?

I should clarify. His first season with the Bills he was injured at the start of his first practice and played not a down for the Bills that season. I believe that he subsequently signed another contract and played the 15 games under the new contract.

Highest priced free agent has to be Shawn Merriman. The Bills paid him $1 million for 15 mintues. He injured his achilles tendon during his first practice with the Bills.

Jack Kemp (if he counts as a free agent) we claimed him off waivers How about Carlton Chester "Cookie" Gilchrist

Good analysis. I'd add that in McDermott's 2 deep base defense there can be a hole in the middle of the field between the safeties. It's Edmunds primary job to fill that hole and, as the analysis shows, he does a good job at that.

Well done, son. Excellent analysis.

I expect that the Chiefs' D will try to confuse Josh so he hangs onto the ball giving the pass rush more time to get to him. The DL may even try stunting or twisting to confuse the blocking on our O line. On our D we almost are required to double Hill. Our pass rush is better than last years so Mahomes hopefully will have less time to throw. How to cover Kelce? I'd start by chucking him at the line and having cover over the top of him maybe by Edwards who has the height and wingspan to defense Kelce when the ball gets there. My 2 cents (make that 4 cents to account for inflation)

Reminds me of the Hells Angel om acid in the Stones' Gimmie Shelter documentary. See here at the mark 1:21:44

"Robert Kraft calls Bill Belichick the 'biggest f***ing a**hole in my life" Yes, but he's Kraft's arsehole. How many of you would put up with an arsehole coach/ GM in return for one Superbowl win, much less 6?

The Jets are so bad they couldn't even beat themselves

No John Mackey?