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    I call it the rock paper scissors element of football.  We were scissors going deep all the time, so teams played rock w two high shells, now we went paper last year (and we really went paper with ten slots and no x wrs) and now teams are going scissors on us (press, crowd box, blitz) and we don't have an answer.

     

    Part of it is the talent we have (no Palmer or better to break the crowd) and even more of it is philosophy and preparation.

     

    Vs KC and even Baltimore we went in the bag and pulled out different plays and looks on o and d.  We had change ups but on o vs KC we were mainly establishing the run and playing match up games off of that.  Vs Baltimore once they cracked us open on d we went way more aggressive on o and hit some deep stuff outside, it stressed them and lead to a win.  Even in d vs bmore we changed it up late and got stops and a turnover.

     

    Both teams on the field yesterday had a bunch of injuries to their better players.  The difference is one team just fired the gm, had a bit of extra rest, and the coach was coaching for his life vs a team that always pants him.  The other team spent their energy vs their Boogeyman team in an emotional win, and figured this was a game to feature different players, didn't have an answer to Miami's run d, and just sort of played random Madden offensive formations to try out their new material.

     

    We are mentally the opposite of Baltimore.  They out size speed and talent other teams and front run with the best of them.  They fade when the other team can take the shots and their QB falters when the light gets brighter, but piles up stats when he's given room to run.  We play more smoke and mirrors and crumble with just weak plays and bad execution.  We tend to play better vs better opponents and Allen gets inspired when things are scarier on the bigger stage.

     

    I think it's a bit of humble arrogance.  Bean showed it when he attacked a radio guy over his total failure at the wr position.  Our coaches show it by simply not bothering with a plan b, or the ability to make adjustments on the fly. 

     

    Yesterday was the first opening drive we punted on this season, we had 6 TDS and a turnover going into this game, and stick azz Miami got us to punt.  We went down the field in the second half opening drive in a sclerotic force of will by Allen who pressed the issue too much and threw a horrible int to end it.  We can show out on scripted stuff, but we fade when the other team has an answer and we just don't seem to be able to change it up, it's like we show up with a limited play book every week.

     

    I've seen this movie way too many times.  MCD and his teams have an absolute get trucked stinker one or two times every year.  It's always us in desperation forcing the issue on o, and the d letting the other team truck us with explosive run after explosive run.  Same script every time.

     

    We lack some talent but this team wins or loses with the coaching.  It's just that simple.

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    This staff doesn’t take every game seriously

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    4 hours ago, Poleshifter said:

    Hey Colin, I enjoyed your post.  Are these typos (spellcheck etc) or some new urban expressions?

     

    Is a "tub" like a haphazard pass?

     

    Is "cheeks" like saying they played like "ass" (a popular expression these days)?

     

    Thanks @colin for a chuckle amidst the gloom.

     

    Lol, I have lots and lots of spell check Easter eggs but those two were actually on purpose.  Tub is a touchdown, I think I first heard it from Shannon Sharpe, checks is butt is ass.  

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    Linebackers

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    8, 58, 7, and rapp have all been absolute trash this season.  benford, daquan, and oliver too, if we factor in injuries.  six of those 7 are our highest paid guys on D.

     

    the linebacker unit, now that bishop seems to have arrived, is our worst unit on D, and that includes when we have our 4th and 5th cb in.  3 lbs (sadly one was hurt today) have played way way better than 8.  he's awful this season.

    This staff doesn’t take every game seriously

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    the flaws in our game plans are pretty obvious.

     

    we come in with our plan, and we stick to our plan, maybe with the odd wrinkle.  on D today i give a mulligan because the o was so putrid and we had so many players hurt.  the announcers were talking about how brady was saying he wanted to get keon more involved.  every single drive where we "feature" keon early is a punt or a turnover.  he caught the one nice tub, but whenever it was a clearly drawn up play for him it was cheeks.  we also had screens to the wr very short, and a couple trash screens to the rbs.  oh, and a jet sweep!  like, they don't want to put the best players on the field and push that, not today, they wanted to assert themselves as this drop back passing team with what looked like extremely telegraphed runs, and it showed.

     

    it's simply arrogance.  any time we actually play with some balance and unpredictability we get great results.  our coaches were all the way in their bags vs kc, and this one was half azzed and kinda mailed in.

     

    i think what we are seeing, especially on offense, are players and a qb who just don't believe in what they are doing.

    Game week thread - Chiefs at Bills (Video preview on pg. 19)

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    1 hour ago, Goin Breakdown said:

    Just like when Von miller said he was fine and could still play. 

    The radio today was talking about what if the chiefs take away Buffalos one dimensional game (the run). Yuk. You have Josh Allen and your offense is being questioned if they're good enough when needing to pass. 🤯

     

    I'm happy about that if KC does it.  load up vs the run when we have 1 wr, 3 TEs and cook out there and their horrible play action pass d, and bad covering LBs will be 1 on 1 with knox and kinkaid who will catch balls over their heads all day.  also, cook has faced an average of 7.65 guys in the box this season (4th highest in the nfl) and is the per game leader in yards.  if end up running on 7s and play action passing over 8s, he'll be running against a light box (for him on average) and we'll have the TEs 1 on 1 vs kc's far and away biggest weakness (worst in the nfl in fact).

     

    at some point all of my opinions will just be whatever joe marino said on his last podcast, but i've honestly been saying this for a while (not like im the only one).  an EP offense looks its best with a sick run and tight ends, adn we have those, no more 1 on blanketed quick passes to WRs on the edge.

    Are McBeane secretly creating an elite offense?

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    14 hours ago, BillsFanForever19 said:

    Being 5th in YPA really doesn't matter when you're 15th (which is actually a little higher than I expected) in Passing.  

     

    When you're 5th in Yards Per Attempt and 15th in Yards Passed, it's really hard to believe we're secretly an Elite Offense.

     

    It's really simple. Teams know we want to run. When we're able to run even when they're prepared for it, we're in good shape. When they're well prepared to stop the run - we're nowhere.

     

    that makes sense, but the data on the field doesn't bare it out in the bills case.  our O faltered vs atlanta and ne because we got caught having to drop back in obvious passing downs, and we were over 80% run from under center and over 80% pass from shotgun.  going back to the playoff game vs kc last season (where we had a lot of offensive production running, but a lot of it was josh taking it himself) we score quite easily in drives where we feature cook, and struggle to do so in drives where we don't.

     

    i'd love to have an actual good wr on this team on the outside, but given we go to war with the army we have, not the army we'd like, i think we should put our best players out there and use misdirection and play action fakes out of an advantage run set to get our best results.

     

    if we use our best guys and make the d guess, we can score a lot.  we did last year with basically the same set of sorry wrs

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