colin

this guy was picked ahead of jefferson?!?

could be, i am just speculating

this makes me think bass has some kind of injury or something. his play has been poor enough to have done this last year, but im guessing something more immediate/material is afoot. sucks that dude isn't bassomatic anymore

just crazy efficiency there. now, we've had a real passing offense for like 4.5 quarters. 2 attempts in the first half vs zona, and after like 5 mins into the 3rd vs miami it was clock killing time. we'll see games where it is more back and forth and that will increase the production, but it does feel like allen will not break like 4500 yards passing, but might break 45 total TDs.

i think we are short on data to know how much this is trending, but i agree that it is for sure trending. bill parcels was asked years ago why the O's were beating the D's, and he said what is coming out of college at QB at WR is better than what is coming out at DE and corner. what we are seeing is coaching and preparation technology along w the talent on D stepping up a lot. the two deep shells, disguising coverage, and lots of schematic smarts in the front 7/6 just make things harder today than they were 4 years ago. we have a vet we traded for, and a late round pick at cb right now, and between coverage scheme, being well prepared, and just hard nosed tough smart play they are doing things. the old idea of a super man CB just being an island and erasing people is less relevant. D seems to be a much headier thing now than 10 or ever 5 years back. also, there was a lot of talk for years about how tackling was getting poorer. I think we are seeing guys coming out and tackling much better than say 6 or 7 years ago. the current meta of the d being agile hostile and mobile and keeping the play in front of them gives them such better chances for true angles and being square on square and wrapping up.

i think the bills d remembers the jags game last year as when they lost their mojo, and will be looking to get it back with a vengance. I expect shock and awe.

i honestly do think we have put too much money into like coverage tackling guys who can't do much else, but to me the biggest things for special teams are: don't make bad mistakes and convert kicks and i think we paid big cash to bass in hopes he could get us 2, but he's just not done it lately. no matter what, good kickers on good teams win big games.

This is basically it. NE when they dominated won most if not all their chips by like 3 points. they had a kicker who just never wilted to the pressure. butger is about as clutch as possible, and he also drills the long ones. special teams does not have the upside that d and o has, but shortcomings on special teams cost you dearly. we lost the jets game to start last year on a punt return. we lost by 3 to kc in the playoffs and missed a kick. we let the kick go back for a td vs zona, and it went to the last drive instead of a walk away. i think its pretty clear clutch play on special teams, particularly being able to hit the long late fg, is one of the biggest separation points between chips and also rans.

obv its too soon to be a trend, but what i'm seeing more than anything that contributes to this success so far is quite simply TE and RB productivity. the TEs haven't been catching a ton of balls, but they have been on the field a lot, blocking and forcing the D to be where our O wants them. the old dabol model of 4 or 5 wrs just lining up and running around and allen finding them is too easy for the modern two deep safety ds to take away. i do think we miss diggs in that we don't have a go to wr really. i'd be happy if we traded for a top flight wr to put the o over the top this season, but i think we might need to get a LB more.

brady for sure, the nfl will see mcd as the real mind behind the D

coach mcd claps constantly and it creates microtrauma that leads to injuries. ok, seriously this is mostly bad luck. It is true tho, that smaller more quick twitch and faster players are more prone to losing time to injury. part of it is the size they have vs the force they generate/take from contact w bigger players. a sort of under stated part of it tho is a bigger stronger guy can be more effective w some injuries than a smaller faster guy, not to mention position by position. so, an OL can have a back that needs heavy surgery (spencer brown the other year) play on it all year, and still be a solid contributor. big part of that is brown is a titan of a man, he's 320 lean strong and 6'8 no matter how is back is feeling. he doesn't sprint and change direction and catch balls, or cover guys, so him being a bit more sluggish won't hurt him as much. a bigger linebacker than milano is less likely to get muscle injuries simply because in order to have the physical impact that milano does he needs to have bigger stronger muscles relative to his frame and size than a larger edumds type backer (who missed very little time in spite of playing nearly all snaps). now the upside is, when a player like milano can hit and tackle like a bigger guy, he's a human missile and wrecks shop when healthy. another example to sort of support my point is josh allen. messed up his UCL, all but just broke his left hand, but since he's such a savage truck of a human he can still go out there and ball out. chad pennington of much slighter stature would just not be able to go with injuries like that. so anyhow, size and such does play a part, and we have a smaller d, but luck is a giant part of it, and every team gets guys hurt.

Bass cheeks just loses it on too many kicks.

Not a fan of this drive, d has been out there all night, looking a bit tired

That was so Ill

I'm not happy about those last two downs, we have no rapport on the outside guys, and a slip on the trash fish field

Great first half, but we are a mash unit on d and Miami has limit level speed. This is a great drive to score a TD on. Brady has to keep up the scheme from the last two drives and mix up run and pass, because as good as we have been on o, Allen has a banged up hand and our wrs are not making anything outside of shakir on the slot

3 Tubs in a half is pretty much anyone's peak brah! He makes plays on fewer touches, for us to win this year, we need TV and the production, so far so good

Ok, James cook is sick, and I'm gonna have to stop bay hatching about first down runs!

Be nice to me!

That was flipping sick! No gap control at all, and bang, two up the gut smashes!!!!

Great drive, but it feels like Allen is just not trusting his outside wrs at all Backs and passes to the slot only. I think Miami has their corners locking our outside guys down

Looool, I'll count that as the second good first down run!!! Lfg

One single good first down run, and lots of lame ones

Tua kinda rushing every pass has hurt them tonight. We need allen to deliver here, and Brady to stop giving away our first down plays

Josh needs to calm down, but our first down running is getting stuffed two weeks now. They gotta change something