BobbyC81

As someone else mentioned, this is today’s NFL. Many games are won by big offensive plays late. The Cincy/Bears game took it to an extreme but it’s been happening frequently.

Cook has really mastered waiting for and finding the holes. He looks so smooth, like vintage Marcus Allen or LeVeon Bell. Ray Davis comes in running the same plays and gets stuffed.

Yeah, the Bills’ DT group has been so weeded out, they played a guy named Phidarian today.

How about QB sneaks by Josh always going to the left? KC was ready for it in last year’s playoff game, so they ran it again, and again unsuccessfully. Duh!

Chiefs 31. Bills 13

You can’t run play action when on 3rd and short they frequently have an empty backfield. How about on the 1st offensive play of the game, since video of their games would show they usually run, they have Josh under center, do play action and throw deep? It seems like the last three OCs have done the same things where they too often make it easy for the opposing defenses by taking away the element of surprise. Three TEs, they’re going to run. Spread out wide with empty backfield and they’re going to pass. Lack of imagination. They used to run that jet sweep with McKenzie where they timed it perfectly where Josh took the snap just as McKenzie approached him, the O-linemen stood up and the defense couldn’t see that he was handed the ball until he was coming around the end. Haven’t seen that in awhile. You’d think they could do the same thing with Samuel or Moore.

Yeah, it should’ve been planned as a mini series. Having to create ways to break out of prisons got old. Started to rewatch but got sidetracked.

Exactly. You watch teams like the Niners and they scheme their receivers open.

Ah, yes! Back to Breakfast with the Bills!

Yeah, I really hope I’m wrong, but I think McD’s streak of post-bye week wins ends. There are too many deficiencies with this Bills team. Playing a team playing well on the road, that also has a productive running game, will be difficult to overcome.

That’s another problem with this coaching staff. They make their offensive and defensive schemes so difficult that an acquired player can’t just come in and play. Case in point was Amari Cooper last season. Now, Rasual Douglas did come in and immediately play well but he may be an outlier.

I don’t trust that McD will start Hairston that soon.

Of course, the positive with Poyer is that he knows this defense and should help with positioning, etc.

So, do they purposely go for these castoffs because they may be more willing to play this rotational scheme?

Unfortunately it’s compounded by the fact that most of our LBs are small and light, better suited for a 3-4. Maybe the worst part of not being able to stop the run is that the opponents go on long time-eating drives. The Bills then have less possessions so each one becomes more important to do something with.

I would like to see an aggressive defense that forces the offense to have to adjust, instead of us adjusting the defense based on what the opposing offense is being successful with. Likely won’t see that with our head coach. Most of you probably remember the Jim Schwartz defense of 2014. It was not only very successful but was fun to watch. Led the league in sacks.

56th season for me.

As has been pointed out numerous times, McD and Beane are at the same level, both reporting directly to Pegula. Odds are that this wouldn’t change after any future changes at those positions.

I’ve seen worse, where a batter’s sleeve is hanging down and the ball just grazes the bottom of the sleeve. That’s BS.

You mean like “Coach Ryan, why didn’t you challenge that crucial play” Ryan: “Because they didn’t show the replay up on the board”

Living in the SF Bay Area, I tried to go to every game when the Bills came out to play the Niners. I also tried to attend other games on the West coast. Having experienced nothing but losses, I turned down an offer from a fellow Bills fan to attend the infamous no punt game of 1992. Doh!

I don’t even know why they have all these nitpicking rules like: the receiver has to cover up the offensive tackle, the offensive linemen have to be set for a second and can’t move, only one guy allowed in motion. Watching games of the CFL, Arena League, etc., having offensive players running around prior to the snap is more fun. There was a time when if there were penalties on both teams and one was a 15 yard penalty and the other was 5 yards, they applied the larger one. Now they cancel them out? A simple Offside penalty is the same as pass interference?

But, the new rules resulted in having to declare that you’re trying an onside kick. That’s a joke. A big part of it was the element of surprise. Remember the Saints/Colts Super Bowl when the Saints converted an onside kick to start the 2nd half?

He’s been in for blocking on a lot of plays so far.

Yeah, at least you can still get that opening kickoff experience with college games. The crowd noise builds in anticipation. It’s awesome. Even before these latest kickoff changes, the crowd noise would build and the ball would be kicked thru the end zone.