Generic_Bills_Fan

Second half adjustments were pretty good imo which is why I haven’t lost full hope…probably should’ve started the game that way and maybe next time we will. Should be interesting to see the Detroit game the rams still made plays but they went from routine to incredible/low percentage plays in the second half

Honestly it’s probably good it happened in the regular season…i would argue the problem was we didn’t sell out to stop anything in the first half so the rams could do whatever they wanted pretty successfully the second half felt like guys were at least in position to make plays but Stafford was just playing out of his mind and his receivers were making ridiculous plays.

Milano needs a ton of reps in a hurry….if it ends up being something more than rust I think Dorian will get a bulk of the snaps again

Still don’t get the chiefs loss…if anything I think maybe we focused on beating the chiefs personnel wise a little too much which leaves us susceptible to teams that actually can pound the run. chiefs can’t even run that effectively on light boxes ravens would get our second half adjustments for 60 minutes in the playoffs I think…lots of run blitzes, challenging WRs and so on and given Lamar’s playoff history maybe it would work i do think some of the issue is Milano knocking off the rust and he’s only getting a ton of snaps now so he’s ready to go in the playoffs

Felt like another decriminalized oline holding type game haha I’m sure we got away with some too but the rams got away with a bunch highlighted by von miller getting WWE finishing moved on a huge third down conversion 🤣 This is more searching for a silver lining than anything lol but the defense seemed like it 9 times out of 10 would’ve tightened up in the second half there but Stafford was just on fire. I think the adjustments were good they just made every play

Yea I think you’re discounting the second half more than I am which seems like a personal taste type thing lol

Im talking about how much cushion the corners were giving throughout the game. This mcd soft zone criticism makes sense to me when the safeties are super deep and corners are giving a ton of cushion all game essentially gifting underneath stuff but that did not look like how it went to down to me at all I’m not trying to say we blitzed a ton lol I’m sure we would’ve if it was more effective though. And got desperate for a whole half of football? Isn’t that just a negative way of saying adjusted at halftime 🤣 I think the disagreement makes sense to me now at least haha if we’re gonna discount the whole second half then maybe my opinion would change a bit. I wouldn’t say we stubbornly stuck to the same thing all game long though

Missed this comment but it kind of ties into what we’re talking about now haha. The lions were hitting big plays because Douglas was giving less cushion than your typical mcd game the way I saw it.. this didn’t feel like what you’re describing as a typical mcd game to me at all. They didn’t run the ball particularly well either which forced them into a lot of 3rd and mediums or longer but they hit them all

I guess my gripe is with this ‘soft zone’ term that gets thrown around…even when it wasn’t a man blitz the corners were playing pretty tight it seemed like. I think we didn’t want to make things easy for their supposedly bad oline so we were trying to make Stafford hold the ball longer and hit deeper throws consistently and he did. To me it was pretty different than your typical mcd game and seemed pretty inspired by how Miami beat them almost to a fault lol

I don’t even mean the blitz plays…seemed like our corners were really challenging their receivers and Douglas had a bad game…pretty sure nacua at least was manned up for a lot of the game it wasn’t like they were hitting drag routes and quick outs all the way down the field because our corners were playing soft lol that’s why I don’t get the label. Everything was coming in chunks. I noticed an extra safety in the box a few of the times I was looking for it too in the second half

Did they sit in soft zone all game? Lol I really didn’t get that vibe at all. I guess I have to watch again but it seemed like we tried to play a lot of man to me and staffords ball placement was insane even when the coverage was good I feel like our corners were overly aggressive almost to a fault…didn’t seem ‘soft’ to me at all. Or when people throw ‘soft zone’ out around here are they specifically talking about safeties?

What have been? Seemed like we tried a lot of different things on the defensive side throughout that one but Stafford played so well that nothing worked. This didn’t feel like your classic let them run the ball/get dinked and dunked all the way down to the red zone type game to me at all personally belichick is one of the best defensive coaches of all time and threw everything he could think of at us and Allen still had a perfect offensive performance against him in the playoffs…sometimes you’ve just gotta tip your cap and move on

If you slowly work him in I don’t think he’s at 100% for the playoffs which id argue is more important than the somewhat slim chance we chase kc down for the 1 seed Stafford was possessed that was like Angels in the outfield if you’ve ever seen that movie 😂 they weren’t losing to anybody yesterday

I’m sure this is a minority opinion haha but I’m actually a little more confident in the lions game after this one. Even if our defense plays exactly the same I don’t think Goff makes some of those throws Stafford made without turning the ball over once or twice People are hung up on the ‘the rams had the 20th ranked offense’ thing for some reason. All their impact offensive players missed a bunch of time The lions would not have beaten that rams team yesterday Stafford was absolutely on fire. They met week 1 and went to OT but Stafford was not as on in that one

I hate giving the defense credit for anything after that one haha but I have to say the coverage was pretty tight at times and forced Stafford to hit ridiculous throw/catches despite absolutely 0 pass rush. He hit them all anyway but still 🤣 if we can force Goff into those kind of situations I don’t think he’ll be close to as successful as Stafford was.. I just assumed everything would look super easy with a game that bad from our dline

Lions remind me of a better 2023 dolphins…they throttle bad teams but are consistently locked into super tight games against good ones. I’d be pretty shocked if it’s not a close game

This rams game was pretty different than those imo. We’ve watched those chiefs playoff games where guys were running around wide open all night long but this one was mostly Stafford making incredible throws and guys making incredible catches for 60 straight minutes

Rams were missing basically their whole offense for most of the season so I don’t think their season ranks are super relevant. Lions got a full strength rams week 1 of the season and the game went to overtime for comparisons sake

The rush defense was actually pretty decent yesterday surprisingly the rams just had so many rushing attempts that it seems worse than it was lol

Hard to tell when we fell that far behind lol That was a dream game for a team that can’t stop the run 🤣

Some of the late ones like that were really smart plays where he didn’t want to chance getting tackled inbounds. Early ones I think were your classic ‘why take hits with the playoffs locked up’. If he knew the way the bills defense would play the rest of the game I’m sure he would’ve run more I still don’t think Detroit is capable of what LA did yesterday on offense…a lot of it was Stafford being laser accurate and wrs making ridiculous plays. That’s not really goff’s game. The talk after this game has been weird to me..every time we lose it’s ’the Bills played vanilla soft zone, x team will run all over us next week’ but that didn’t seem like the case to me at all in this one. LA really didn’t run the ball as well as it seemed

Assuming he doesn’t melt down and plays at least average the rest of the way and we lose the Detroit game and win the rest to go 13-4 I don’t think there’s a chance Josh doesn’t win mvp There’s just too many narratives going in his favor this year

You don’t think the OC is involved in that decision at all when he’s calling the plays? Lol. And to take it a step further, you were just talking about how great they were because they go for every 4th down when the time that it really mattered it completely blew up in their face so that seemed extremely relevant but no that wasn’t my main point, my main point is the lions are 1/1 in epic playoff failures maybe wait to see it play out a little longer before you fire a good head coach and replace him with someone with no head coaching experience just because the playoff bracket worked out so he saw the peak team of the NFC a round later than the bills did in the AFC I mean it takes time to turn that many players over though is what I’m getting at…there’s a legitimate chance belichick would not live long enough to do it. Not because it takes THAT long, just because he’s that old haha

He wouldn’t…there’d be a lot of roster turnover I’d imagine. And even if he eventually did, how many years is he coaching for? I think he’s gonna take a college job to try to get his son back into coaching tbh. With the way his pats career ended nfl teams aren’t gonna give him free rein to do whatever he wants so that won’t fly

First sentence is my favorite because they literally blew the nfc championship getting stuffed on multiple 4th downs that they absolutely should not have gone for haha if we had the lions coaching staff we’d still be hammering them for that big blown lead in the playoffs and trying to run them out of town to hire some other hot OC prospect 😂