colin

astute observation. brady hates to do the same thing that has already worked, he loves to try new stuff, and keep at it until it works. he's a young/new oc and is learning the job, which is a sin with the tight ends, rbs, qb and oline he has.

i see brady drooling into his go go juice forcing outside passes with our sisters of the poor wr group with the tight ends on the bench and cook not getting targets vs the pats cumbersome LBs

we have the best tight end room in the nfl. we have a top 5 or 8 rb room. top dual threat qb, and a top 5 OL. kinkaid really was hurt last season, he was great for a rook, and is just about the best te in football right now. but, we chose to only run when the pats were in base, and then trot out our trash heap dirty cheeks wr corps to suck out loud vs their (top 5 or 10) strong outside corners. i'm worried brady is a stupid idiot.

this is buffalo/mcd arrogance. not that we don't pass the ball deep, but that we just pick and choose what we feel like with not much consideration to what the other team has in terms of weaknesses or what is or isnt working. we FINALY have gotten exceptional production out of our TE position this season, and our run game is our greatest strength, but we still line up w this dumbazz trips left 4/5 wide outs formations (i know a te will be one of the wide outs, but you don't get the match up of him vs an lb like that). we don't get faster w the wide outs, we do get worse match ups, and it puts us in a worse position to run, and thus play action isn't effective. it's just the fact that brady is a child of an OC learning on the job, because that's how mcd likes his coordinators.

it's a bit crazy to me that this never happens (not just us, very few nickel backs move outside). like, if he could be an ok outside corner, his back up would be better at his slot position than tre has been at outside corner. also, as you mention, presuming dorian or milano come back, we can go 3 lb's too, so we'd limit the exposure to the back up 3rd cb.

Everytime someone brings up using tech to eliminate bad ref work, we are told "it will eliminate the human element". As if these flag tossing goofs are some how something anyone cares about. We don't use "a human element" to keep time, we have replay because of bad calls, we need to go all the way tech and have all calls reviewed, or at least in high leverage situations

No disguise on O, rookie coordinators only, d is so flipping fancy that only delicate geniuses can execute it. My conclusion: it's the players fault, not the guy who runs every football aspect of this organization !!

I love the accusations of tin foil hat stuff, as if there are no good and bad or biased refs. And didn't new england get caught red handed cheating multiple times? Like, you have to a punk moron to think the only time they ever cheated were the times they got caught. Didn't an NBA ref get popped, and then called games telling exactly what the ref was about to do prior to the play showing the bias and corruption? I don't quite think the NFL is rigged, but you'd have to have both hands up your own butt to think there aren't any biases or thumbs I the scale.

Sounds like mcd arrogance. Same way they said they never have a back up d plan

we simply don't contest catches, mcd seems to like his dbs to be clever mcd guys who sell out hard to get tackles in the run game, have seven reads and 3 communication calls pre snap, and stop passes with positioning. the problem with all that is it is very fragile, and just one safety or corner getting hurt means it all falls apart. we've seen this show too many times.

we've spent 3 picks and traded picks (hines) for replacement level (or worse) running backs. we hit a home run with a higher pick w cook, but singletary, morris, hines, and now davis are all top 100 picks who just are not meaningful players for us. we got TY as a free agent for cheap and resigned him for pretty cheap too. we've got to stop spending quality picks on players who's impact on the game is at best like 30% of snaps and not being used much.

well, if i compare him to another coach who has made playoff splashes but never gotten to a chip game, let alone won one, i think of vrable. vrable turned the culture around in tenn, like mcd did in buffalo. tenn was a no where's ville small market team at that time just like we are. vrable couldn't get over the hump, just like mcd. vrable is now turning around a team again. now a chunk of this is gonna be gm, but mcd picked our gm so i hold him accountable as the top man in our FO. but vrable came into NE last year when it was a disaster, made some signings, made some picks, installed his system, and has them one game back of us after a big time road win. if he can get the 1 seed with fricking tannyhill as qb, and come into town and beat us with a sorry azz ne team, why can't our coach/fo figure out how to get over the 13 second hump, or the constantly getting run out of the building in the playoffs hump? i remember saying last year i'd take mcarthy over mcd. people hate mcarthy (frankly, i can understand why) but he won a chip, we've been too two afc chip games. if someone hasn't done something in the nfl i think it's reasonable to assume they cannot, and while i'm open to maybe mcarthy being washed and lucky in his chip win, mcd hasn't even done that so i don't see why i'd think he can.

There might have been some, but in high leverage situations we either tried fast screens which suck, passes for rear shoulder or jump balls to the outside, or stuff broke down and Allen ran around and found no one. We have top 5 or top 3 groups at QB, RB, OL, and TE. It really shouldn't be hard to figure out a way to feature that until the d wises up. I remember Miami had like 3-4 Dts and a bear front vs our heavy jumbo stuff and shut it, and instead of doing something different out of those looks we sort of put it in the back burner for the last two and a half games, but it still works when we run it.

Their interior do a d outside corners out played our interior ok and outside wrs, but other than that we were physical and flew around on d, rushing the QB well until he leaked out to his right. We were not out matched, we were out coached and our executed. I still don't know who sings that song, don't know any words, could not recognize it unless I see it being sung at the stadium, and feel like it's a Fitzpatrick era (no idea when they started playing it tho) lovable loser type buffalo bills fan thing.

The combination of the wrs and our scheme basically blows. The resources put into keon, Samuels, planer and shakir have given us a group that is a plus matchup vs not one team we have faced, and we've faced some bad defenses. On the contrary, our backs are almost never covered well, and our tight ends have been super productive with not so many targets for the year, are blocking like they never have, have produced in high leverage situations, and we are three deep at the position. In addition (last night not withstanding) our run game has been a monster, our pass blocking gives Allen a tin of time in a regular basis, and we have the MVP and most talented QB alive. My conclusion is that we should not have as our of a barely any experience guy at OC, who's only resume bullet prior to here was being near the worst in the NFL on a garbage team that got blow up, and maybe have a guy who can form a cohesive identity and actually stick with what works. New England smoked us late because they figured out what was working and stuck with it, while we kept playing everyone eats and trotting out new formations and personnel groupings leading to penalties and inconsistency, did very little play action, and threw multiple passes to small slow wrs in the middle and to covered guys on the outside into the strength of the NE defense. For all the mistakes we made, taking away 3 stupid screen or iso passes to wrs in the second half and targeting our tight ends would have produced another 7-10 points and we walk away the same way we walked away from the Miami and saints games. We are just too dumb

Philly fires Reid and the the guy who won them their first chip and ended up getting another It's not about knowing who will be available and that he is certain to work out as much as it is about knowing what we got isn't good

Lots of blame to go around, but how in the hell does this team not line up in 2+ tight end sets like 75% of the time? Our run and te play is absolutely the best in the NFL, and it lets us do all kinds of things on o. Instead we have Allen forcing balls to tiny shakir, holding the ball forever with no one open and trash head was taking snaps. Like, it just shocks me how no one at one bills drive notices this. They just don't make adjustments or have a cogent concept of what our team is. It's all just mcd having his sippy scheme on d, bad special teams, and on o constant re shuffling of who lines up over and over, and I think the unfamiliarity of the players week to week leads to penalties.

Brady is just dialing up plays on Madden. We had a million penalties because we have all different formations and personnel with his dumb everybody eats thing. Our tight ends have absolutely murdered everyone they have played. Cook is playing RB as well as anyone. So we are going empty, Samuel and Palmer and freaking that guy 14 who barely made the team are out there vs look down corners. Having no offensive identity lead to 3 points at home in the first half Just a stupid team man

Penalties, turnovers, and forcing the ball is what lost us the game. D is azz, but the o lost this one. I will say, how many times have we seen a vrable coached team out shine and our coach a mcd team in prime time? MCD is soft as baby poop. It always boggles my mind when I see our former hc as the OL coach for the visiting team, how both of our coordinators got basically their first shot (don't care about some Carolina abortion someone had once, first real shot) at that level on our team. MCD is such an obviously self important and insecure little man. He would never let someone into the building who was ever any kind of threat.

Vrable was a dirty player and coaches dirty teams. I think the idea is to cheat on every play and the refs only call the flagrant ones That out of bounds tackle on 10 that got the roughness was also a hip drop, and they e tried a few of those

Way too much forcing the ball today. Penalties and mistakes, I can't believe I took these clowns to cover!

I feel like maybe we should use our tight ends and best running back on offense, let's see if we do

Well, our bad mistakes have put us in a bind, we need a stop and another TD in this game.

This is a soft team, they play like trash at home. We got lucky vs Baltimore, and they suck, and played down to suck butt Miami and the saints. They play right and weak and make a million mistakes at home

We are minus two on turnovers and way way behind on penalties. It's so hard to win playing this badly