Simon

Can I move? I'm better when I move...

I think you only have to do two things: 1) Make it legal for a DB to cut off a guys route again. 2) Make the arm bar legal again

He's always been a giant kitty-kat. I was gob-smacked when an NFL team declared him their starter.

Not everything can be quantified; at least in a manner which we're capable of understanding. As for Edmunds, he's just sort of OK at everything. Aside from the occasional play where he looks sort of silly, he does an adequate job with most of his responsibilities. I don't think he's near as good an athlete as everybody wants to give him credit for, nor do I think he's a glaring hole in the Bills D. I just don't want to see us lose a really good player (Poyer, Oliver, Dawkins, etc) because we decided to tie up a bunch of cap space on a guy who can be replaced by a cheaper player who is just.....OK.

Thank you........ I think? - )

It's not something you calculate, I think it's just something you see.

It may be 50/50 by teams, but there are individuals who excel in that area because of how they see the game. Some guys just recognize before others when the ball is going to come out, or what angle at which it's going to hit the turf and bounce or when they can handle it with a scoop or need to get down on it because somebody else is closing behind them, etc.

Some guys are just ball magnets and that's the way it is. Like a great rebounder who just instinctually senses where to set up and box out, some guys have a natural tendency to take the ball away because they know where it is and sense where it's about to be.. Maybe it's because they're so anticipatory or they're seeing the game at a different speed than everybody else, whatever the case it's real and no mathematical rationalization is going to account for it. Watch Tre White or Milano making tackles; they've always got one fist punching in the process of wrapping up. Or Poyer's instinctive timing to be able to coil and then attack at the vulnerable moment. That's a perfect example. Poyer could have absolutely walloped Pascal as he was stupidly trying to get back up, but he didn't. He instinctively held himself up to avoid contact until Pascal was off the ground and then hammered the ball the split second that Pascal's knee came off the turf. You can't teach guys to see the game at that kind of a different speed than everybody else, you either have that or you don't. And Edmunds just doesn't.

The problem with that is if you try to ride him, you're going to lose him. He's one of those guys that runs so galdanged hard that it's only a matter of time before he gets hurt. Protect him from himself by making him part of a tandem and you'll have a great back you can rely on all year; try to turn him into a lead back and you're going to be watching the Bills wasting downs with Matt Breida behind an OLine that can't make space for him.

You realize that FG attempt would have been from nearly 15 yards closer than an XP attempt? I don't think wind should be a decisive factor when you're snapping from the 1 yrd line.

They had him bracketed from what I could see, but if you start chasing individuals you're going to destroy the integrity of your zones. I definitely don't fault them on that first completion, but I'd have to see the last completion again before I could offer an opinion worth more than a nickel. There's just only so much you can do when one of the greatest QB's of all time is executing with that kind of anticipation and precision. Not to mention that Adams was on the other side of the far hash when he let that ball go. 😮

They did take deeper drops but that's probably the right call in that situation with GB out of TO's. You've got to keep everything in front of you so one play doesn't beat you. Rodgers just executed as perfectly as you possibly could.

I didn't think he was open at all on that first play; that was just a disgusting throw.

The Master at work.

Yeah, it was sort of Bledsoenian.

Yeah, Payne was wearing a #94 and Washington doesn't seem interested in moving their front around much. I thnik he went after Allen low on the first or second possession. My only evidence is that a) both Ford and DWilliams wanted to fight him at one point and b) Josh missed the deep throw to Diggs after that because he pulled both his feet off the turf when he saw Payne in the neighborhood again. I remember having one of those moments early where you say "I really hate this ***hole; I wish he was wearing a Bills jersey"

That guy was a nightmare in the first half; Ford was fighting like hell but he couldn't keep him out of the backfield. He was way more dangerous than Chase Young or Montez Sweat. I wonder if he has some conditioning issues or something because he really looked gassed and seemed much less effective as the game went on.

I thought Star had another nice outing today. I know he's fodder for good jokes right now, but he's looked very, very good in his first two games so far.

You know he led the team in tackles today right? I'm not saying he is great or even that he had a good game, but some of this criticism is badly misplaced. I don't think he's a good enough ballplayer to sink a bunch of cap space into, but that doesn't mean he's terrible.

I thought they got better as the game went along for sure, and by the second half that pressure was indeed consistent. But I also remember thinking to myself at one point during the first half that I thought the Wash OLine was holding up surprisingly well.

I thought they played well for the most part; interior pressure was a problem for Washington for much of the day. They also did so without a lot of help from scheming or extra rushers. And Heinecke took some serious bruises in the process. But they weren't so dominant that I'd call people clueless that happened to not see it that way.

I don't think that's really fair. I thought the D-front played pretty well, but they weren't soooo dominating (especially at the Ends) that there is no room for disagreement. I will say that for the second week in a row, the Bills D administered a physical beating to an opposing QB. That dude is getting some tub time this week.

Yeah, that was big. Props to McDermott for trusting his offense to operate from its own end with only :26 to play with. Also interesting that the very next time they touched the ball after that, they ripped off a 90+ yard, 17 play TD drive.

He had one today that was slightly behind him and he couldn't reel it in. Almost turned into a pick 'n' go off the deflection.

I thought he spent a significant portion of the day off his spot because of interior pressure