Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

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I sometimes wonder if the Bills sort of use a Bill Walsh approach on defense as almost seems like they have scripted plays. We're going to do this and see what you do, then we will adjust as usually the team seems to play worst in Q1 on defense and gets better as game goes on. Yes I believe that was McD's complaint, they didn't give the Bills time to properly substitute. I do think the one time they were called for Too many men was on Bosa and the issue there was Bosa didn't show any urgency in getting of the field, he trotted off and slowed down as he neared the sideline. I'm guessing he will get a talking to on that one.

I had put this in another post: I saw posts on some thread questioning why draft him if he's not going to play. That answer is simple, at the end of this year both Bosa and Epenesa are free agents and even at DT Jones is likely gone along with Phillips and IMO unless Oliver either has a massive year or agrees to a pay cut he could also be gone as he has a very high cap number. And while he had a great game 1, it's hard to have a massive year when not playing so that could work against him too. Jackson very likely was drafted to replace Epenesa next season, maybe they will re-sign Bosa depending how his year goes and how much he wants, but next years D-line could look much different. PS Who the hell is McNugget?

Just depends which end you want to be on!

I don't know if the issue was crowd noise as much as the Saints coaches saw on film, the Bills are maybe slow to line up after plays. It also seemed like the Bills pass rush pushed forward well, but repeatedly left the middle wide open for Rattler to escape. Could again be their coaches saw this on film and knew they'd often be facing two rookie DT's so took advantage of it. Supposedly Moore was this offensive genius, maybe he is and figured all this out. Saw a stats today too that the Bills went from giving up 8.9 yards per pay in Q1 to 3.9 the last 3 quarters, so maybe they did figure things out. But do agree the coaches need to figure this out if that is what's going on.

Yes lets cut a 3rd round pick. Great idea! And yet going into this weekend the Bills were in the top 5 in pressure rate. So the Bills are affecting the QB and making him move off his spot, just not getting the sacks. I would be very hard to put Bishop in the trash can as it would be well overflowing by all the other players the fans wanted in there, starting with Spenser Brown, Coleman as you mention, Knox, Bass, and many others I can't even recall. Who should we sit instead of Jackson? The team is only going to make 4 DE's active, the only one you could possibly argue to sit would be Solomon and to me it's not at all surprising the a 5th rounder with a full year of experience under his belt can beat out a 3rd round rookie. They've also talked about how playing DE is much harder to learn everything you need to know that DT. I saw posts on some thread questioning why draft him if he's not going to play. That answer is simple, at the end of this year both Bosa and Epenesa are free agents and even at DT Jones is likely gone along with Phillips and IMO unless Oliver either has a massive year or agrees to a pay cut he could also be gone as he has a very high cap number. And while he had a great game 1, it's hard to have a massive year when not playing so that could work against him too. Jackson very likely was drafted to replace Epenesa next season, maybe they will re-sign Bosa depending how his year goes and how much he wants, but next years D-line could look much different.

The reason he may have been falling down was trying to cut around White and cut too hard so White's being there caused him to slip. On NFL radio today they were talking about the same thing, that with limited pre-season, the first few weeks are like pre- season use to be and that causes the out of timing issues, penalties, etc. I also think a team like Buffalo with all the established vets likely plays the starters even less than some other team would that is turning over the roster like the Saints.

Was listening to NFL radio earlier and they were talking about how the 3-0 Chargers had 14 penalties called on them

I posted this in another thread I wonder if opponents are seeing something on film that shows the Bills are slow to line up as this is the 2nd week now the other team ran plays fast before the defense was set.

The second one was easy to explain, the Bills only had 10 men on the field on NO 2 point conversion attempt. The first one, seemed McD was arguing that NO made substitutions and the refs didn't give the Bills time to make subs after that so they couldn't get the player off the field in time. How legit Mcd's point was, hard to tell? I will say it seems opponents must be seeing something on film that shows the Bills are slow to line up as this is the 2nd week now the other team ran plays fast before the defense was set.

Everyone said the same thing last year before the KC game and Vandermark was fine in place of Brown.

I'm out of town, have ST, clicked on the link to watch the Bills, Saints, but instead is showing the Houston/Tenn game. Anyone else seeing the same thing?

Here's a good place, but you have to create an account and log in.

I'd put it 2nd behind: Losing non conference games helps you in playoff seedings!

This tells me nothing! I specifically said 40 + yard passes, this is for 20+ . I even said he's very good at the 20 to 25 yarders

If the passes were consistent in all over thrown or all under, I could see it being on the WR, but they are all over the place so hard to fault them.

That to me is a more likely long term solution here. Have to believe the popularity of the NFL has taken the CFL down a lot so may be easier to work with than compete against.

So this week PFF is good?? I do wonder if they will resign both McGovern and Edwards or not. They have also drafted their potential replacements so will be interesting to see as can't afford everyone.

Looking at the context of it, makes it sound like he understood the role of Jones and Walker and somehow either through editing or someplace else it was mistakenly written as 3-tech instead on 1 And where is the split end and flanker. At least we still have quarterbacks! Think Abbott and Costello could do a good bit on football players position/names.

I don't know how often other QB's complete long passes but as few as I've seen Allen complete, I have to think others are higher based purely on observation. Could it be due to Allen's receivers, it's possible, but I've seen Allen over throw, under throw, miss to the side and by a fair amount. So makes me more think it's on Allen. That's the one part of his game he still may have issues with, but that's OK. Even when he had Diggs best years or a speedster like Brown, he still struggled some. I'm sure there's been a couple since, but the last long pass I recall Allen completing was around 96 yarder to Gabe Davis, against Steelers. Recall the quote from Hyde afterwards, he said he was getting ready to put his helmet on to go play defense. That was exactly what he ended up doing except it was after a kick off, not a punt. But I'm fine with the 20 to 25 yarder which he is is very good with. Agee too with you @SoTier, unless multiple long term injuries, Bills are fine with their WR/TE group and definitely are not trading a high draft pick. The only thing bringing in a top WR will do is give less attempts to others. Allen isn't going to complete 50 more passes, maybe he has 10 more and the rest of the team has 40 less as there's only one ball to go around.

Agree, but just seems I've rarely seen Allen complete a pass over 40 yards. Seems like less than others.

I heard it was a wrenched knee

Maybe something was lost in the translation?? At best it's maybe the first week Burrow is back based on the 3 month recovery time. Looking at Calendar it's under 3 months.

what do they define as deep? Many of these sites consider over 20 yards a deep pass or the throw is 12 yards and the player runs another 25 for a 40 yard gain. Allen is very good at the 20 maybe 30 yards, but when he just heaves it 40+ yards, the last time I remember him completing one was the around 96 yards to Gabe Davis against Steelers on opening drive. I'm sure there's been some others since, but would be surprised to hear there were many.

They are taking what the defense gives them and avoiding turnovers. Add to that as good as Allen is, he has struggled with accuracy of deep balls. He's under thrown, over thrown and everything in between in the past.