Coach Tuesday

He did not “blanket” anything. They were coached yesterday to take away Heineken Light’s first read. Edmunds on that play is shading to the inside bracket of the first read. He literally takes like three steps to his left. Tre White clone? It’s hardly an example of a game-changing play, it’s just good well-coached team defense. Meanwhile Milano recovered another fumble yesterday…

They used Young’s speed against him and he seemed unable to counter.

The Bills had a good plan for him - they realized Williams couldn’t match up with him athletically but also realized he rushes the same way every time, so they seemed to scheme for Williams to let him rush deep and push him past Josh, who would simply step up and to the right past Young, over and over again. Washington never countered this.

I agree, you can watch it here: Not sure what else he’s supposed to do, he locks onto his first read too often but he’s mostly delivering catchable balls from a very muddy pocket. His right tackle is basically a pylon and his receivers have two left hands. Can’t judge the guy from what they’ve surrounded him with.

I could watch today’s game on repeat.

When you hire good people it makes the bad employees stick out like sore thumbs. Frazier and Daboll illuminate the below-average nature of Heath Farwell. I wouldn’t be surprised to see that position upgraded in the offseason.

Edmunds is EXACTLY the kind of player the Patriots would have traded away for premium picks during the Brady years - high potential but too expensive and too easy to replace. I don't know that Beane will have the stones to trade Edmunds to some desperate franchise like the Giants or Cardinals for a 1st but that would be highly preferable to paying a big money extension for a player who too rarely makes a difference.

As in beat poetry?

It’s weird then that the Bills’ coaches have been saying the same things - that Edmunds needs to start making more big plays. They must not understand their own defense. 🧐

What I took from this? Darryl Williams had one of the worst games I’ve ever seen by an offensive lineman - just an absolute disgrace of a performance and he deserves to be benched if he does that again. Josh is better at handling pressure from his left than his right, it seems, and Williams was so bad - atrociously bad - Allen never got comfortable enough to set his feet in the pocket. Again: Darryl Williams has been a disgrace this season and I suspect they’re already regretting that signing. I’m furious after watching those replays.

We have a linebacker who regularly makes “splash plays” and it’s not #49.

Only if the theme is cheese. I’ve got no issue with a raclette wheel and a full Phil playlist. If you’re into that sort of thing…

Obviously a better record collection. Phil Collins? The Eagles!!!?

He gave Tampa a scare in the playoffs (for a few quarters at least).

Update was today I linked to it above.

But the situation you cited - where a defense has to defend a short field - should be captured in their measurements. I guess I’m not sure what you think their analytics doesn’t cover but should.

Eagles have to put him on the active roster so perhaps he'll get snaps this season.

But there is! Football Outsiders' DVOA takes all of this into account. Their rankings for offense, defense and STs should be updated tomorrow. EDIT: it's updated! https://www.footballoutsiders.com/dvoa-ratings/2021/dvoa-week-2-panthers-no-1-first-time-ever Bills are ranked 2nd overall in defensive DVOA through 2 weeks.

There’s definitely something to that. Allen has played poorly but the receivers aren’t getting much separation to my untrained eye.

Shhhhhhhhhhhh

Physically?

If you want confirmation of this, here is what John Mara had to say. You can almost picture Ralph and Mortimer Duke saying these things…

Is this a variant Edmunds thread? They are mutating!

This is a bizarre thread. Is anyone actually arguing that Allen is playing well? If so I must've missed it. It seems like everyone agrees that he's off - but there are folks who would like to start panicking now, and then the rest of us.