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Spot on. We have the lowest blitz rate in the entire NFL. Frazier blitzed on 19.4% of plays last season. McDermott is blitzing on only 6.7% of plays this season. We are not only being less aggressive, we are being significantly less aggressive. 65% less aggressive.

They are. Every d-line in the league is getting held but the league is choosing not to call it, unless it is a clear and obvious impact on the play. Too many good d-linemen as compared to o-linemen. The Broncos were leading most of the game and only lost by 2 points. There was nothing blowout about it.

I believe the Dolphins game plan will be to negate our DL by throwing passes within a second or two of snapping the ball. We need to tackle well.

You have clearly never been stuck on a plane in the tarmac. When the engines aren't spooling at a high rate, the APU is lagging (can't feed enough power for the AC) and the airplanes gets hot...FAST. This is part of the reason why the plane cools down once it is in the air. Another reason is airflow over the surface of the fuselage and the temperature differences at 30,000 feet.

Don’t let the incredible play of the defense distract you from the fact that this was not the best game for the offense. The starting offense scored 24 points, which feels low considering the defense forced 5 turnovers and continuously gave the offense the ball. The starting offense's last three series were Interception, Turnover on Downs, Touchdown. They ended the day with 322 yards and 5.9 yards per play. To put this into perspective, the Broncos put up 399 yards and 6.4 yards per play against Washington. The offense will have to be better against Miami. On first down, we ran 7 plays that resulted in 1 yard or less, 9 plays that resulted in 2 yards or less, and 2 plays that resulted in negative yards. I feel confident writing that Bernard is a good Middle Linebacker. No qualifiers needed. No comments such as "he is good enough" or "better than expected". He is a good player. Period. He is good defending the pass and he is good at defending the run. He FLIES through gaps on run downs and is very physical for a player of his size. And we have seen his athleticism on back-to-back game interceptions. He is just plain good. Torrence had the highest pass blocking grade against the Commanders. Brown had the worst. Dawkins had the highest run blocking grade. Torrence had the worst (PFF graded him abysmally in run blocking). The Bills have the lowest blitz % in the NFL. As I mentioned in the offseason, I do not think this defense will be called much different than Frazier did. I'm sure we have all seen some differences, but it is remarkably similar to Frazier's defense. People hate calling an early season game a “must win” and I understand why. But this Miami game is, without a doubt, a very important early season game. If Miami wins, they go to 4-0 and we fall to 2-2. Miami’s next two opponents are 1-5 combined: the Giants (1-2) and Panthers (0-3). Any given Sunday, but in all likelihood, they would be 6-0. We need to hand them a loss. Kaiir Elam has done well against the Dolphins. He had an 88 coverage grade against them in the playoffs, and a season average of 75 against the Dolphins. That is the highest grade of all our cornerbacks against the Dolphins last season. By a lot. It’s a long season, but as of now, Harty seems like a miss. Beane signed him to a 2 year, $9.5M contract, which I thought indicated that we planned to use him heavily. We did draft Kincaid too, but even when Kincaid is not on the field, Harty has no real role. NextGenStats records player speed in every game. The 5 fastest times this season are ALL Miami Dolphins. Every. Single. Spot is taken by a Dolphin. Hill, Mostert and Achane have all reached speeds of 21MPH with Hill reaching 22MPH. Miami trading for Hill was such a great move. You can’t teach speed. I was hoping the trade would blow up in their face but it was honestly worth every pick they gave up and every dollar spent. As Robert Griffin III said yesterday, Hill has something that no other player in the sport has - INSTANT SPEED. This is so incredibly dangerous because he can be open within 1 second, which completely negates the defenses pass rush. Then they team him up with Waddle and turns into “pick your poison”. Fans can denigrate Tua all they want, but he is an incredibly accurate and quick thrower of the football. He will always have limitations due to size, arm strength, and height, but his incredible accuracy and quick delivery makes him lethal. YardsPerPass noted on film that he will rarely (if ever) throw to the far side boundary - likely due to arm weakness - so smart teams (such as the Patriots) are playing a lot of Cover 3 while clogging the middle of the field and forcing short side throws. The Broncos didn’t get the memo. 70 points is impressive, but make no mistake, the Broncos gave up in that game. They were also incredibly inept. Look at the carnage in this photo.

Are you speaking of the Bears game? Edmunds did look quite bad yesterday. I am talking about his time with the Bills.

I don't think Allen is any better under center than in Shotgun. The key to Allen playing well is play-action. But play-action and under center often coincide, and that is where I believe people see the correlation.

You think we routinely had a top 5 defense with a MLB that sucks? Come on...

Imagine 53 sore, sweating, massive football players sitting on a plane since 11pm last night. Plus coaches, equipment personnel, etc. Must be rough.

Yes, but there is a pretty remarkable difference in the level of “good” between the two. On play-action, he’s Tom Brady. On non play-action, he’s Brett Favre.

No he didn’t. He is not worth $18M and the Bills wisely let him walk and i’m very happy with Bernard, but Edmunds didn’t suck.

That was really disheartening. I thought he had finally turned the corner on those drops. Kaye he still has. But definitely had a bit of Gabe-PTSD after that.

Josh Allen with NO play-action: 61.7%, 99 TD, 51 INT, 86.9 QB rating. 6.7 YPA. Josh Allen w/ play action: 68.6%, 53 TD, 13 INT, 117.5 QB rating. 9.1 YPA.

He probably will be. He is a liability on the edge.

That is what makes me nervous. The real test is next Sunday against Miami.

Mike White came in and threw for 70 yards and a TD too. Hill is always open.

Offense will have to be better in order to beat the Dolphins next week. But they will be. And the Bills will be back in their rightful place as King of the East.

What an absolute b-word move by Rivera.

Why is Rivera taking a timeout down 37!?!?

Under 5 minutes and down 3 scores … reviews should just be turned off. I have eating to do.

Nah. This may be the case if Elam was backing Benford up. But he can’t even get a jersey.

Goodness gracious, we may be the Jets only win this year 😂

Bernard now has an INT and a fumble recovery.