PaoloBillsFanFromItaly

Everybody played very well except Edmunds

Plus Milano made a grat play on 4th down

No, Milano was out in space.

Edmunds giving up the first

I hope he will play that bad throughout the game

The debate is dominated by extremes because Tremaine is a former first round pick and a big investiment by the organization. If Tremaine was a third round pick nobody would complain.

The point with Edmunds is its "averageness" in the running game. Most of the time is doing is job, ok, but he very rarely makes a great play. For example, he may shoot his gap and meet the pulling guard closing the gap of his responsibility, but he won't BEAT the pulling guard and make the tackle in the backfield. When the OL reaches the LB level he never make a great play, most of the times he is carried downfield by olinemen thus giving the RB a good amount of yardage. In the passing game is very good, but pedestrian, and he has not good hands to make plays on the ball.

Props to the Steelers defense, they were tough to the challenge against our modern passing attack. Nevertheless without 2 big phantom calls, the INT by Tre and the PI against Levi, the Bills (defense) wins the game easily. That's my take.

Tampa played 2 deep high safeties nearly the whole game giving them the opportunity to double Hill on every single play. They did not payed the price vs the running game because, guess what, unlike us, they have a great MLB. That's my take on the game.

Edmunds bad Oliver good

As correctly pointed out by Romo, our receivers got zero separation, this leaded to Josh losing its confidence and throwing ints. I think KC won on the defensive side of the field while we got no answers fot Tyrek and Travis.

I am Italian, and I am not a fan. Mafia is a sicilian criminal organization that spread all over the world, the original name is "Cosa Nostra" ("Our Thing"). It is a very old organization, a branch arrived in the States in the middle of XIX century and I think it is still operating. Time ago it used to replace the state in the command of vast regions of South Italy but even now, in a lot of cities and small villages it is hard to open and manage a commercial/industrial activity without the Mafia "protection", that is, you have to pay a regular fee to them (the famous "pizzo"). It deals with the illegal trafficking of arms, drugs and prostitution. It has, or it used to have, a very strict "code of honor", focused on loyalty, respect, brotherhood. For these reasons it is often "mythologized" in books, fictions, especially outside of Italy, in a similar way as the japanese Yakuza. But while I don't know much about japanese mafia, I know a lot about sicilian mafia, and I know that it handles its affairs with guns. So, I get the term Bills Mafia in the "good" way, but I still don't like it.

It will be very vintage, I will be sad at first but then I think I will be ok with it

Oliver played well as I could see. Edmunds had some good moments, but also very bad ones

A lot of times our defense stopped Indi offense for no gain or minimum gain on first and second down only to get torched on 3rd and long. Discuss.

Never seen Edumnds tackle like that.

Edumnds beaten

I think yesterday everybody played great except for Edmunds.

Goodnight from Italy folks, now I can sleep 2 hours then I'll wake up again for a hiking day in the snow. But I couldn't miss this game,

I don't know, my focus is only on the Bills. But I noticed that Edmunds is more confortable to work in space than in traffic, with the guard blocking him. Another thing that I noticed is that in a good amount of plays he aligns in the C or D gap on the LOS in stand up stance, similar to a 3-4 OLB, or a a 4-3 "Under" OLB, while the Mike position is assigned to AJ Klein. It seems strange to me that a "true" Mike does not play the Mike position.

Probably, in my opinion a true mike must be feared by the RB. Tremain Edmunds is charged by wide receivers.

Edmunds is not a true Mike. He can be a perfect fit for our system, even if I am not a fan of him, but he's not a true Mike.

" For this game, if you weren't lulled asleep by the punt-fest yet as the thoughts of depression creeped in about another poor Prime Time showing" I don't agree on this one, for the first time this season I was confident in Bills defense, even if a couple of third down stops were due to receivers dropping the football. When Taron Johnson picked the ball I screamed in excitment and I was sure that momentum was in our side because the offense lighting up is only a matter of time.

Milano and Edmunds are very good in pass coverage. AJ is very good defending the run inside the tackle and blitzing the QB. I think there is the possibility to see all three in a lot of defensive packages. Also because our slot corner sucks.

Defense seemed to shine with a lot of 5 and 6 men pressures. But I don't think this can be sustainable in the long run, the chargers beated the blitz badly with the swing pass to the HB, other teams will figure it out this and other counters. We have to make our base zone cover2/quarters defense working, this is the McDermott defense identity and OCCASIONALY mix up with man pressure (or zone blitz), this is the recipe of a dominant defense.