dave mcbride

Sideline watching from afar for displays of emotion is not a good way to judge people ... just sayin'. Oliver played decently yesterday anyway. He wasn't the problem.

Enh ... he's not very good, and a player like Butler isn't important enough to bring a team down. The bigger issue is being figured out schematically and the QB not adjusting. This has been posted elsewhere, but I'll post it again: https://www.wsj.com/articles/josh-allen-patrick-mahomes-two-high-cover-two-data-11637552010?st=eszmchtgi8gx64h&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

I strongly recommend reading this: https://www.wsj.com/articles/josh-allen-patrick-mahomes-two-high-cover-two-data-11637552010?st=eszmchtgi8gx64h&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink It's less about "heart" or anything like that than being figured out and QBs like Allen and Mahomes not adjusting.

Excellent find. Best analysis I've read yet. This comment on the Jets is hilarious: Allen hasn’t struggled quite as much as Mahomes in these situations, with 0.187 EPA against two-high going into Sunday. But it has also been deployed against him effectively, with the past few weeks showing how. The team that used it most against him, the Jaguars, limited what had been the NFL’s best offense to its worst output of the season. Allen, afterward, said Jacksonville used “two-high shells forcing us to throw underneath” and that he didn’t do a good enough job against it. “We’re going to learn from this,” he added. Fortunately for Allen, the next week he played the New York Jets, who apparently didn’t know much about this. They used two-high just three times against him—and Allen torched them in a 45-17 win. That changed again Sunday. The Colts showered him with those looks. Allen struggled, again. He threw two interceptions and ended the game on the bench after getting blown out 41-15.

Maybe he snapped at himself because the cause of that false start was yet another failed attempt at a hard count. I don’t want to see another hard count from him this season.

I don’t think the emotions are the issue. Rather I think the “culture” he has created tends to prioritize these types of people. I am not condemning those people, but their views on this issue are decidedly unhelpful when it comes to maximizing the potential for team success.

That’s not happening at this point. The question is, what would you do now to adjust?

Convince Allen that he needs to take what is given to him when facing good defensive fronts and to not lose patience and force deeper throws.

Teams weren’t prepared for how good Allen actually was last season as a passer and didnn’t run the appropriate coverages. This year they are and are defending solely against his passing game. Basically, they’ve figured out the Bills strengths and their weaknesses (poor run game, scheme that de-emphasizes the run, and a QB intent on pushing it down the field and who loses patience easily). It’s amazing how many passes he forces into coverage with medium deep throws once he gets on the other side of the field (which seems like most drives). They stall a lot on the other side of the field because he doesn’t take what defenses give him and instead does long-developing pass plays that result in pressure, sacks, and incompletions due to shell coverage with seven DBs. The Bills offensive problems against teams that are half decent seem to be in that range between the opponents’ 25 and 45 yard lines.

McDermott is hardly liberal, so I don’t think it’s politically charged at all. I think it’s more akin to being pissed at employees not doing what they need to do to show up for work.

Exactly. He made the plays he needed to. They were never going to throw it much after getting such a big lead early.

Well, I thought he clearly had it without losing control (Bert Emmanuel rule). Look, I ‘m happy it wasn’t a pick, but it was a flat out terrible throw and decision—he was forcing it. He has to play better, and asap. 5 picks in the last three games and he could have had 8 (CJ Moseley let a pick go right through his hands last week, and there was another drop by a Colts DB in the third quarter). Not recognizing that problem is the equivalent of whistling past the graveyard.

The second interception was bizarrely overturned by the refs, and on the first one it’s the QB’s job not to make overly risky throws and simply get into makeable FG position. And my god, he’s gotta stop with the hard counts. The only people he’s ever fooled this season are his own teammates. I think they’ll win that game. The Saints have a ton of problems. The Colts were very healthy coming into this game.

Yup, and Josh should have had a a second INT on their second possession. I was happy it was overturned, but I don’t know why. Regardless, it was a clearly interceptable pass. He had a bad game.

I hate Brady less than the Pats organization, the Boston media, and a solid portion of their fans.

The thing I dread is lining up - pats getting the bye. The ravens miraculously pulled it out, but they will lose more games because they’re not that good.

Good call, I gotta say. I expected the Bills to lose this one, but not this badly.

3 drops in a row byknox. Jeez

Imagine if they had the colts starting guards and center.

Get allen out of there at this point. Save him for thursday.

100 percent agree. Should be the third pick.

Disagree because of the velocity and rain. The earlier catch wasn’t as high either. Josh just isn’t having a good game. He should have 2 picks but the refs gifted him an incomplete (not that i’m complaining).

That was a legit bad throw and high velocity too. Knox should have caught the previous duck though.

Yeah, that was a really dodgy call.

Yeah, could be. I was wondering about that.