Defend Greece Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Now kelsay to ir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albany,n.y. Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 We're losing too many players to injury because Ralph is too cheap to buy good bandages, braces and tape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
San-O Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Now kelsay to ir Confirmation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defend Greece Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Confirmation? No hoping sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdand12 Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 oww my eye! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantankerous Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 except Levitre I think his recent "demotion" was only a wake up call. Yeah, a wake up call for Bell, not Levitre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Big Cat Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 If the O line was a bigger problem than our LBs were last year then I'd like to think the Bills would have addressed that first. But our LBs were our worst unit as a whole. Makes sense that they wanted to fix that and the D first. It's not like we're one or two players away and Buddy/Chan aren't fooling themselves. Fix and stabilize the D first then go about the other facets of the rebuild. Makes sense. GO BILLS!!! THIS Also, I re-watched the Denver game the other night. The O-line: not nearly as bad as everyone here is making it out to be. Spiller's blitz pick ups on the other hand? OOOOOOOOOH boy... Bell had a dickens of a time with Miller/Dumervil, but Gailey left him on an island against both of them, sometimes taking them on 1 v 2. Not only was Bell bound to fail (as would about 25 other starting LT's in the NFL), but regular season game planning and preparation and in-game adjustments (elements that were completely missing from the offense last Saturday) would have accounted for the jail break we witnessed. Fitz had guys open all over the field, just a chip in a few of the instances and any D-coordinator would have HAD to have called off the dogs because Fitz would have picked them a part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miyagi-Do Karate Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Bell had a dickens of a time with Miller/Dumervil, but Gailey left him on an island against both of them, sometimes taking them on 1 v 2. Not only was Bell bound to fail (as would about 25 other starting LT's in the NFL), but regular season game planning and preparation and in-game adjustments (elements that were completely missing from the offense last Saturday) would have accounted for the jail break we witnessed. Fitz had guys open all over the field, just a chip in a few of the instances and any D-coordinator would have HAD to have called off the dogs because Fitz would have picked them a part. Agreed. The overreaction after the Denver game was silly. Miller and Dumervil are going to be a lethal combo for Denver this year. Bell is good and will be fine, but he's not elite and he's not going to be able to handle an elite pass rusher one on one for an entire game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Big Cat Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Agreed. The overreaction after the Denver game was silly. Miller and Dumervil are going to be a lethal combo for Denver this year. Bell is good and will be fine, but he's not elite and he's not going to be able to handle an elite pass rusher one on one for an entire game. One issue that I squatted on during the Edwards--Fitz transition was the sudden lack of blitzes our offense saw when Fitz made defenses respect OUR play calling. IMO, that change alone settled many a "chicken v egg" argument that circled TSW about Edwards for quite some time. There simply wasn't anything built into Saturday's scheming/play calling to counter what the defense was doing. It's preseason and Denver's aggressive play calling was unorthodox, to say the least. On a bright side, in spite of how bad it LOOKED, Fitz really didn't get hit all that often. I'm confident that--barring widespread injury--this OLine will suffice given the myriad factors which can make an OLine look good/bad once everyone's playing with a full deck in a regular season game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yungmack Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Meh, torbor was mediocre depth anyway. Yeah, but he was experienced-in-the-system depth, no small thing two weeks before your opener. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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