Chaos

The Bills are under real pressure in this game. Losing at home and falling two games back is a decent size hole to recover from. This game is going to tell us more about the Bills than the Dolphins. Are the 2023 Bills a team that can look prepared, execute well and win important games they are favored to win. Or are they like the recent Bills teams that can generate impressive statistics against poor teams, but struggle with good teams.

There are three separate complaints in the original post Brown's play Beane's "failure to do anything about it". Dorsey's scheme to deal with the problem Brown's play - Objectively his play is mediocre compared to NFL peers, not awful. Beane's failure to do anything about it. I think this is not a reasonable complaint. There are only so many options. And all options require speculation. For example, I was very high on Broderick Jones in the draft. He went 15th overall to the Steelers. So far he has played four snaps this season. Beane chose to improve the line in general, to alleviate some pressure on the Browns spot. The McGovern and Torrence picks did this. He brought in veteran RBs skilled at blocking. Dorsey's scheme to deal with the weakness at right tackle. - I am not sure what the alternative's are to the current scheme of using Kincaid, Knox, Murray and Harris to help. Almost every NFL team has weaknesses on the offensive line. What other schemes do teams use that are better than what Dorsey is doing? No statistical analysis is perfect. Those that understand how to use and interpret the statistics understand that basic point. It does not mean the statistics are not useful. But they are only useful to people that understand them. What problems do you see in the PFF analysis of the top four AFCs tackles I posted in the thread? That would be the main relevent point here.

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Follow the money. This has the top 3 in the right order. Chiefs. Bills. Dolphins. This is more or less in the right order.

I agree Spencer Brown is a problem. But I think the biggest problem on offense remains red zone play calling.

wow

There are limited number of variables in the last couple of minutes: ball location on defence or offense down clock is running, not running yards to first down time remaining timeouts remaining opponent timeouts remaining Example: Bills have the ball on their own 38 with 1:43 remaining in the first half, it is second and 9, the clock is running, they have 3 time outs remaining , the opponent has 2 time outs remaining. There is a correct descision to call a time out or not call a time out here. It can all be worked out ahead of time, not a heat of the moment decision. Seems like it would worthwhile to higher some MIT math genius to put together the algorithm to identify exactly when to call a time out, signal to spike the ball, or run the play on based on the relevent variables. Then let the math genius call the time outs. Rather than have someone with 50 other things on their mind decide by "their gut"

durant tried to hold him, not sure he succeeded

do not understand why teams put QBs in shotgun on first down at the 3 yard line.

Rams !!!!!!!

Hurts too too much risk there. Should have thrown it away.

he is active nice catch

He is in the hall of fame because everyone who knows what the NFL is knows who Joe Namath is. Probably the most "famous" guy the NFL every produced. Hall of Fame is exactly where he belongs. If they create a hall of TD:INT ratio leaders, they can leave him out of that.

It is situational to me. I don't think we should be in the shotgun on third and 1 ever for example.

So you think the defense reached its full potential?

While Edmunds may not have been a liabilty in general, I have no memories of him stepping up in a clutch situation. General Patton is credited with the quote "Lead, follow, or get out of the way". I think it is possible Edmunds was "in the way" of the defense reaching its potential. It may have been Leslie Frazier's play calling.

First four trips to the red zone yielded 16 points. Against explosive offensive teams, this is probably not quite good enough. The red zone play calls and play designs don’t seem much different than last year. This level of red zone success is fine again average or below average teams. It is certainly eligible to improve as the new players have more games together. But I think to go deep in the playoffs it must improve.

The really remarkable thing is that the bears traded away Roquan Smith

Hope you’re right. This is not the same dolphins as last year though

Bills' Allen unleashed, Dolphins can't withstand the beast, Victory is ours.

Silly game. Pretending only the Bills have injuries.

Bills will shock the world when they release the well rested fresh Elam Kracken next week, and watch him completely shut Tyreek Hill down.

Really. Last year we split in the regular season and struggled against Skylar Thompson led offense in the playoffs.

One of the most ridiculous posts i have ever seen