JazzyNBlue

Unfortunately I don’t believe that this will ever happen with Beane and McDermott, they place too high of a value on a players leadership/personality traits than football abilities. They feel that they are such great coaches that they can make them a better football player than they are if that player is coachable. So they need the individual interview.

Plus, a large part of McD’s defense is based on being deceptive. Poyer has that experience.

I agree 110 percent with this. McDermott is too conservative to have cutting edge game plans. Cutting edge plays, are an unknown result, he wants to stay with the higher probability known results, thus why most of the NFL teams never talk about not being surprised by the scheme of the Bills. Unlike the example of our last offensive play vs the Chiefs last year in the playoffs, where we were completely caught off guard. We need a mix of high probability, sprinkle in a dose of cutting edge to help keep other teams honest. Hopefully we are saving this for the playoffs.

I would never apologize for who we play, but is it not easier, or more likely to get better stats vs a 0-3 team than a 3-0 team? To me the line in the NFL between good and really good is slim. It just seems like defensively we struggle to get to really good on a consistent basis. I hope getting big Ed back and Heoct(sp?) back helps us get more consistent to hopefully the really good level.

Yet the Patriots can get 3 sacks against this same fast read offense and we get zero? I understand that there is more to it than that, but so far regardless, we are struggling at getting pressure, how many 3rd and longs did Miami complete? 3rd and long is usually when your D can get pressure and sacks, we didn’t do well on either the pressure or sacks or stopping the 3rd downs. I really hope that big Ed and Hoect(sp?) gives us a big boost.

PFF rankings are for both run defense and pass defense. To be really good, don’t we need to be good at both? Plus we have played two 0-3 teams to get those rankings. I hope I am wrong, I want to believe that we will improve and get really good on defense, that’s why I want to hear some good things about the team D.

Why? Right now we have the second worst pressure rate in the NFL on base defense. Hard not to get better, but really good?