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Off to the 'ignore" bin for you...

Well, at least one thing was right with your post....

It took 13 pages to get to the crux of the matter...

Revisit the San Diego game from Week 3 last year. It was very similar to the Giant's loss. Also, the Pats loss in Week 6. It was almost identical to the Week 2 loss this year--meaning the only difference was the calendar...

Two sacks for -6 yards contributed to the secondary's inneffectiveness. Rivers did the same thing as Eli last week. Short, quick, move-the-chains passes (only one pass deep). Get ahead early and then hang on (four of SDs last five drives were 3-and-outs).

I guess Vic forgot about Week Three last year... http://bills.buffalonews.com/2014/09/23/xs-os-breakdown-bills-defense-overwhelmed-chargers-passing-game/

Everybody in the media biz worries about clicks. To paraphrase Marv, if they're not they'll soon be sitting with the fans...

"It’s too early and would be way too presumptuous to conclude that his scheme, which has a sterling record for success from his days as a defensive coordinator in Baltimore and the previous six years he spent coaching the New York Jets, won’t work here." Full stop. Everything else in that article is in fact click bait. Yolo's posting the defensive stats from the first four games in 2014 and 2015 was way more interesting / informative. Vic could have easily done that...or talkied about how the DL was just as inneffective against Rivers and Brady last year and yet the season turned out alright. Instead, he rips a page from Sully and the Buckster's playbook and phones it in...

My complaints about Vic have nothing to do with 'homerism'...the easy, simplistic thinking of guys like yourself who throw that slur out there when they think all someone wants to read is rainbows and fairy dust from the media and disagree with their POV. Vic's inside access, deep/knowledgeable contacts and overall experience at NFL.com, Sirius and yes, the Snooze, should provide his readers with insight everytime he sits down and bangs on the keyboard. Right now, Tyler Dunne is eating his lunch and Vic reads like a wet-behind-the-ears rookie stringer way too often...

I'd look in the mirror before calling anyone a homer. And I'd disagree that 134 more yards over four games is 'a lot.' Vic's job is to cut through the 'drunk on a barstool' analysis that we get from Sully and so many TSW'ers. Since coming back to the Snooze he writes more like the drink is in his hand than his readership. Very simplistic, no sense of context and downright lazy, IMO I guess he's just given up and cashing the checks now like so many of the other old guys on the Sports Desk. Oh well, it's probably a winning strategy for a guy his age...

Nope. He got you to look at his article. He did his job correctly...

Given the 2015 QBs they've faced through week four are stronger than the 2014 set, those stats are pretty encouraging. They only had one sack against Cutler and two against Rivers (neither guy being that mobile) last year, but expectations were not as over-inflated at that point...

Working for the Browns seems to have 'busted' Vic. He's just not the same guy who excelled during his first stint at the Snooze...

IMO its premature. Luck and Tannehill certainly would agree. The sample size is too limited to make definitive judgements when the poor showings were against a lock first ballot HOFer and a 34-year old guy who could get there someday if he can get ring number three. IIRC, the DL looked similarly bad against Brady in the 2014 home game under Schwartz's scheme (2 sacks for 15 yards, 346 net passing yards and 4 TDs allowed). They shut down Arron Rodgers and Old Man Payton last year but those were the only other quality QBs they faced. With Mariota, Dalton, Bortles, Tannehill, Fitzpatrick, Smith, Mallett, Bradford, Cousins, Romo and Fitz coming up, the DL should eat just fine...

It's tough to write a daily column in the NFL. Vic should (and does) know better. He can whip that analysis out if a non-top 10 QB does what Brady and Eli did. Seeing that the only games left with one of those QBs is the Pats rematch, it's really phoning it in to declare the DL a bust, IMO...

INexplicable...

We only face one (possibly two) top 10 QBs in the remaining games. I can't see those guys pulling a Brady/Eli (1.7 to 2 second throws) on us with the effectiveness to negate our defense. We should win more than we lose if we don't have any more major injuries...

Good luck with that...

INdeed...

I stopped reading after that...

Agreed. The way they lost was more disappointing than anything. Mental mistakes, lack of discipline, poor execution, questionable game planning. Those are self-inflicted wounds in a league where there is little margin for error from week to week...

That's my biggest beef as well. Too many times yesterday the flag came from long distance by a guy who had a poor look at the play due his positioning. If the officials aren't going to get in position to call the game correctly then they should keep the flags in their pocket and not try to guess what happened...

Actually, I think it's been a priority. The FA's they targeted in 2014 re-signed with their current teams for less money than the Bills were offering. They have to hope there are some guys out there who will look for the highest bidder rather than take a home town discount...

He also needs a lamb to slaughter...

Agreed. It seemed like it was "Karlos" focused rather than multidimensional. Harvin didn't factor into this gameplan nearly as much as I thought he would...