colin

we have some pure athletes in the back end, williams, bishop, and elam, but mcd's scheme is too complicated for them, or he's too much of a picky peter for them to get burn. he's gotta go to war with the army he's got. milano is not back, williams was a monster (he slowed down a bit when he hurt his knee, but i think he's fine now), bishop was trash with a couple huge mistakes but he can learn to fix that, hamlin can't learn to be an athlete like bishop is, and elam is our fastest and most athletic corner with good man skills. they have to take their lumps rotating in williams and milano and playing bishop and elam (on rotation is fine) to get them up to speed vs all these crummy offenses we blow out so that we have some kind of answer vs a team like the rams. if you want results you haven't gotten you need to do things you haven't done, and the anti mcd brigade (I'm a member) just think he's too stubborn to realize this.

I'm meh on black licorice, i am a fan of Hawaiian pizza tho. lil ham bacon and pineapple, maybe hot peppers if it's a spicy night.

The reality is our d was trash, d line was woat, and rams had a day. the bills just don't like to get out of their base shell nickel d. the reason why almost 80% of rams passing was to those two guys, mostly out of the slot, was because the saw they could exploit what we were doing on d with them, and we didn't make a change. that's the mcd way, he doesn't like to make changes to impact specific players on the other team, and that's why we get torched when we can't get pressure and the other team can find open guys underneath the deeper coverage, be it cover 2, 1, or 3. its like mcd has sold his soul to stop the deep pass. it makes scoring against the bills hard, but when someone can square the circle and exploit the d front with power running or accurate passing (honestly, misdirection is the real culprit) then we get boat raced like we did sunday and in playoff losses.

i know people don't like it, but i love the all red's

kick those knees up pennstate10, let's work!

the solution for our DL is the same as it is for offensive playmaker -- we need a great DL player. A great player makes players around him better because of his impact. Oliver is the picture of a guy who can never do that. Von was a guy like that many years and two knees ago. I'm ambivalent between DT or DE, we just need someone on the DL who is so disruptive and skilled that it changes how the whole unit is blocked. Maybe Crosby is available for a 1st and one of our seconds in the off season? We need a stud in the stable.

you know, that's a great point. we lost the turnover battle if you consider a blocked punt a TO (i do) and especially since they just got it back for a TD. if we only allowed a FG after they got the ball back, we might have won the game with a lead the whole 4th quarter. If the bills d gets zero TOs, they are trash. sadly, that's the reality of it. the good part is russ, lamar, and mahomes love to turn it over. the bad part is a well oiled on time O like the rams or detroit just exposes everything we lack on D. I kinda feel like the d and mcd and babbich know the pooped the bed and need to show out next sunday

mcdermot is all about hard working and smart guys, he loves that. he loves milano and bernard and aj klien and high motor DL who run stuff down, and corners and safeties who diagnose and communicate. the problem is, he loves them to a fault. bishop was hot trash his couple games when he played for injured starters, but he's an athletic marvel, as is elam, and similarly williams. having guys line up far back and run so much means we need guys who can run all day, which generally means guys who are less big and less explosive, and the rams knew that and figured out how to get the second level to go the wrong way for a step and bait our hard charging DL over and over, somewhat similar to what baltimore did, except baltimore did it with power and the rams did it timing and stafford dropping dimes. i really hope mcd and babbich figure something out, because their scheme was great vs kc. i think we are too heavy game script dependent. with the greatest qb of all time on the team, you should not plan to get a lead and grind and hope the other team makes mistakes, that is what the colts did and their d was similar and only won a chip when that one safety caught fire between injuries and just super charged their d. mcd's scheme can work but he needs a chaos machine on the DL like "the kraken" was, who can single handedly just beat people in front of him and disrupt runs and passes. ultimately our guys are a bit over fit to his overly specific scheme, and thus elam, bishop, and williams just can't be worked in to the d to do what they do well, because everyone on our d has to do so many different things and with the line just bolting up the pitch all day, a step or two at LB or db spells disaster vs a high quality qb. im still on my if he wins it all he's here as long as he wants, and if he gets his pants taken down and spanked on d in the playoffs again he's gotta go. with ja17 and especially with him and that line we have on o, we need a d that has a chance to get stops vs top flight opponents.

I hope you are right, douglas has really been struggling lately. I think McD is like most coaches where he simply has no time for mental mistakes, and Elam (along w Williams) tend to make those kinds of mistakes rather than just being slow or unathletic. part of that is his complicated scheme in the back end. every time we see elam play we see him make some kind of mistake, either being grabby, or gambling and losing. we've also seen him make just crazy clutch athletic plays getting breakups and interceptions. our d had a total lack of juice all game yesterday. let's hope elam gives us some vs detroit.

McClap honestly has his guys, and his guys get burn over people who are not his guys. we saw this with aj klien over williams vs kc in the playoffs, and we saw this last week and this week w Milano playing. Milano doesn't look ready to my eyes.

you are right, but this particular game was a bit special. the rams have the best pressure rate in the nfl. they've not been good vs the run. on running downs their coaches smoked our coaches with the rock paper scissors game. they knew what we were trying to do and just consistently mashed it up. on passing downs, they barely ever got to allen, and let him buy tons of time over and over. some of that was them doing a containment rush and playing coverage deep, but an other big part of that is the refs let offensive holding go a whole lot more than they called it. we tend to notice it more when it doesn't get called vs our guys, but even on the replay on the long RB pass TD, hollis just grabbed the hell out of the guys collar he was "blocking". when our d is not creative, does not play stunts and games upfront, does not disguise coverage, and does not threaten some kind of effective blitz or dog, we get less turnovers and we kind of fall apart. To me when our team isn't playing d with confidence we see what we saw. clutching and grabbing in teh secondary, biting on play action, etc. also, our d tries to cover every blade of grass on the field from multiple formations, so they need to communicate. milano being super rusty doesn't help that. babich (presuming mcd gives him enough rope) got caught out vs baltimore and just never recovered. same thing happened yesterday. my silver lining is that we got the super man josh game but d and coaching collapse game out of the way before the playoffs. we really seem to have these more often on the road than at home, so if we fluke into the 1 seed by kc finally losing these tough games and us running the table from here on out that should help.

no, we have seen the bills D just choke, put in what are the statistical worst games, or bottom 10, of the year in the playoffs. not of our team for the year, but of all teams in all games for the year, that's like 270ish games and in the playoffs we have had bottom 10 and lower of 270 total games in the year, just like we did vs the rams. it's not that the d is consistently bad, it's that they are shockingly bad vs good teams in high importance games. if our d was bad but not terrible vs the rams, if our special teams were bad but not terrible vs the rams, if our coaches had the same awful game plans there but didn't make such goofy choices, we win or at least have a much better chance too. that's our criticism, not that we lose to good teams, but that the d lays a game just so so out of type, so far below what they've done before, in these high profile games that even allen LITERALLY MAKING HISTORY with spectacular performances is not enough to overcome awful D, awful special teams, and awful coaching. our last two losses in the playoffs to KC were exactly that. we did the stupid kick off vs kc w 13 seconds left, taking no time off the clock while we were kicking it 3 yards short and stuffing guys before the 25 (old kick off rules) all year. our d collapsed hard and played sidelines vs a team w 3 time outs. that's sub 13 year old playing madden coching. last year, our d made one single stop when mcdermott was forced to take human corpse aj klien off the field and allow our 3rd round rookie to actually play, and we had a really nifty fake punt w damar hamlin which gave the ball away, similar trash to the 12 men denver fg, the 13 second kick, and the punt block last night. mcd has never once had an efficient stable defensive performance in a big game vs a non bottom seeded team in the playoffs. not one time. he is not usually efficient when it counts, he is consistently terrible -- and terrible beyond the frame of our injuries or how our d tends to play, terrible at a statistically bottom performance for the entire year of all teams.

I'm super mad at McD for what I consider to be clear and obvious errors last night: 1. Time out after the sneak. Just spike the ball if you have to, and have it ready to go before the first sneak was called. if we had 3 time outs we can kick it deep and stop then on an obvious run 3 times and have the ball back w about 40ish seconds, maybe near mid field. At that time of the game that was about a 40%+ chance of winning given that allen was unstoppable. 9 men on the punt and the punt block deserve mention as some shocking fundamental issues on special teams. The poor kick coverage and kick return stats were also problems. 2. The D gameplan/coverage. We did go to some man and got flagged for horrible holding and pass intro, so he did kinda do something there. What really happened is he went from making it super easy to run to easy for them to pass. The whole scheme on D was weak and set us up to fail vs Stafford who is statistically the best qb in the nfl vs zone. The blitzing seemed like a tacked on after thoughts -- always obvious, always back 7 guys coming up the middle. No disguise which he has a rep for. 3. Playing Milano. He might be able to come back, but it's clear he is not ready yet. Williams is at least fast and physical. He likely would have made a couple of plays vs the run or just ran someone down in the pass game and made a tackle short of the sticks. He woulda made mistakes mentally, but we forced this team to punt one single time as it was. Now, it has been historically true that mcd has been able to make chicken salad out of chicken poop on D a few times. Poy and hyde came in as no ones and balled out. that tyrod lead team that went to the playoffs had a lot of luck w turnovers and such, but he really did get a squad of zeroes to play beyond their means. He's made Hamlin almost look like a starting NFL safety, and has gotten really good games out of Rapp, and made 6th round pick benford and old vet douglas too. this is largely because of preparation and scheme. He's certainly had success w the players we have had on D. Now, we have a ton of dead cap, and have just giant contracts on players (von, knox, milano, dquan, to a certain extent chris samuel and ed oliver) who simply do not make meaningful contributions to the team. The upside, and it sucks because we are wasting yet another all world season by the qb, is that once we can clear these contracts we have room to upgrade lots of positions. The downside, aside from the putrid performances we've had in the playoffs on D and this year vs baltimore and the rams, is that mcclapper has too much influence on who gets drafted and signed and we over draft or over pay Scheme fit guys instead of talent because of McDs stubborn nature. his D needs a top flight run and pass beating off ball MLB and some really talented D linemen who can disrupt vs the run and pass. talent at corner is important too. The entire NFL, particularly our own O, has adjusted from seeking constant deep passing to constructing teams that beat deep shell zone coverage because that's the recipe that has caused the 2017-2022 mega offenses to falter. McD between the low quality roster and his scheme, not to mention having a rookie DC with a small veteran D, has not shown enough ability to come of of type and adjust to that. Real talent would hep us there, but given McD is a pure D coach who stays up at night scared of deep passes, I wonder if he can make the adjustments even with the necessary added talent. Another playoff exit with a lay down like we had last night on D and I will put the long term D shortcomings on him squarely.

I'm mad at McStupid for being a clown today, and I've been vocal about his stubborn crap (like playing a Milano who is not ready) that loses us games, but I'm in the same place as before :win it And you're close to a forever coach. Another playoff bounce on the back of trash d, and you have to go

He shouldn't be starting right now, another MCD patented roster decision going with his guy rather than who gives the team the best shot to win

We are too or near the top in turnovers and turnover differential. If we don't get turnovers, we basically don't win on D. The degree of difficulty we for e the opponents to operate at is just too low for well coached teams w good QB play.

The chargers have this killer o line and just the most gutless offensive philosophy possible

The problem is how terrible the blitzes are. Obvious, you always know who is coming, no stunts or games, no disguise And they are all up the middle

I hope Milano I comes back to form, but he looks like he won't so far, Oliver is not even jag level, he was off the field for the last drive on d. Knox and Miller are also huge trash contracts. Dequan is beyond washed too. The upside is once we be out of these trash contracts we have money for real guys and still have 17

They are so flipping proud of being diligent on illegal man down field when RPOs take two seconds too long, but just let aggregious holding and pass interference go, and evidently 4th down false starts too

The fact that they called Dawkins on our last drive before the o was set makes it even more horrible. Clear false start, getting back to block giving him an advantage, and cupp commiting offensive pass interference and holding all on the one play for the game sealing TD. I know they let a lot of crap go, and both ways, but every single one of those fouls on that game winning TD decidedly impacted the play. D was horrible, MCD couldn't figure out to play man with a bear type front until too late, a couple play calls on O maybe could a been better but otherwise an all time game Question to the smart: was the play on the punt block illegal? Also, they shifted everyone on that block, they saw something on film to exploit. More coaching blunders. Sucks to lose that game, but it was a barn burner

I really thought we had that stop. Odds just got longer for an epic comeback

This reminds me of the game when I ran meyer had his jags beat us by out coaching MCD. The passes all come out at the same time to one of these soft spots and they run up and empty alley in the gut. The d is designed to dominate teams with bad QBs by taking the least big play risk possible. MCD out his coaching pants mom vs KC and called lot of man and disguises. He's returned to form this week and might as well be showing his calls to Stafford. It's just so obvious

Rapp took out 31

That was magical. We need two more just like it and some turnovers