Mike Waufle talks Bills' DL issues with Buffalo News

[JoshBarnett]

We have heard a lot about the quarterback this week, of course, but we wanted to take a look at the issues on the defensive line after 492 yards rushing in two games and Vic Carucci spent some time with D-line coach Mike Waufle.

 

Here is what he said about the last two weeks: 

 

"In the National Football League, there's a lot of moving parts," Waufle said. "Offensively, you have different personnel groups. They have a lot of motions and shifts, and they're trying to create gaps. They're trying to confuse your eyes and you miss a gap.

 

"We have to have gap integrity at all times. When you pressure and you're bringing blitzes, you have to have gap integrity there, also. So in the Jets' game, the gap integrity wasn't there with our pressures. When it came bone-on-one, flesh-on-flesh, we were fine. We had eight tackles for loss in that game.

 

"In the last game, it was different because everybody took a turn (not filling his gap). So the gap integrity was there for 10 guys, but somebody broke down. If it was one person, you can say, 'Boom, yank him!' We play eight guys up there and it was spread throughout. So you go back to the basic fundamentals, basic techniques and sharpen the saw."

 

Plus, the Bills reorganized their practice time to help focus on this issue and other good stuff from Waufle contained in the full story on BNblitz.com. 

 

http://buffalonews.com/2017/11/17/waufle-does-more-teaching-than-chiding-in-trying-to-fix-bills-run-woes/

[BillsFanMike]

Bone-on-one, flesh-to-flesh. Waufle is a dirty old man. 

[Foreigner]

Coaches spin it like they want to save their own jobs. Instead of all that nonsense about gaps

just tell it like it is and say we were terrible. The HOF QB did not need to throw it.

Go in the locker room after the game and scream at the defense, and name names to embarress

the guys that did not give it all. How many games in Bills history did the DL give up 300 on the

ground and 500 the last two games.

[MarkAF43]

1 minute ago, Foreigner said:

Coaches spin it like they want to save their own jobs. Instead of all that nonsense about gaps

just tell it like it is and say we were terrible. The HOF QB did not need to throw it.

Go in the locker room after the game and scream at the defense, and name names to embarress

the guys that did not give it all. How many games in Bills history did the DL give up 300 on the

ground and 500 the last two games.

 

Spin? Football on the D line is about gaps. If that's not being done it doesn't matter how much effort is there. This isn't spin. This is what the tape shows. 

[KDIGGZ]

Thorton was getting absolutely blown up every play. At one point he turned around and looked to the sidelines like what am I supposed to do?

[DC Tom]

6 minutes ago, Foreigner said:

Coaches spin it like they want to save their own jobs. Instead of all that nonsense about gaps

just tell it like it is and say we were terrible. The HOF QB did not need to throw it.

Go in the locker room after the game and scream at the defense, and name names to embarress

the guys that did not give it all. How many games in Bills history did the DL give up 300 on the

ground and 500 the last two games.

 

So basically you're saying he's wauffling?

[Kelly the Dog]

Interesting. Wauffle seems like a madman from what we had heard previous. I really thought the front four (eight with reserves) was going to excel going back to the 4-3 but they just haven't at all. They have had four different DL coaches in the last four years, which may have something to do with it, but all around a disappointment.

[CommonCents]

2 minutes ago, Kelly the Dog said:

Interesting. Wauffle seems like a madman from what we had heard previous. I really thought the front four (eight with reserves) was going to excel going back to the 4-3 but they just haven't at all. They have had four different DL coaches in the last four years, which may have something to do with it, but all around a disappointment.

 

They have about 2 guys out of the front 7 that are talented enough to start on an NFL team.

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

11 minutes ago, Kelly the Dog said:

Interesting. Wauffle seems like a madman from what we had heard previous. I really thought the front four (eight with reserves) was going to excel going back to the 4-3 but they just haven't at all. They have had four different DL coaches in the last four years, which may have something to do with it, but all around a disappointment.

 

where is the real talent? I know it's one man, with off field issues who some claimed gave up on the process but in the end he was the only real talent. this team has many holes to fill and although their making the best of it with what they have, this isn't the front of 2014 where they had 54 sacks!.

 

hopefully they manage to contend some in the next two seasons and hope we don't see what was the last two games again anytime soon but they have their work cut out in rebuilding both sides of the ball with some real talent? 

 

 

Edited November 17, 2017 by DaBillsFanSince1973

[TigerJ]

If it's a spin job, then it's unlikely anything will change.  Wauffle will be on borrowed time regardless of what he says.  If he giving it to us straight, then we should see improvement going forward.  It may not happen all at once, but hopefully enough that the defense can contribute to some wins instead of doing their best to mimic a turnstile.

[Kelly the Dog]

15 minutes ago, DaBillsFanSince1973 said:

 

where is the real talent? I know it's one man, with off field issues who some claimed gave up on the process but in the end he was the only real talent. this team has many holes to fill and although their making the best of it with what they have, this isn't the front of 2014 where they had 54 sacks!.

 

hopefully they manage to contend some in the next two seasons and hope we don't see what was the last two games again anytime soon but they have their work cut out in rebuilding both sides of the ball with some real talent? 

 

 

Hughes has a ton of talent. Dareus had more. Kyle is Kyle. Lawson may or may not be worthy of his draft selection but he has talent. Part of the coach's job is getting players to buy in. Dareus bought in before. He's apparently buying in with the Jags.

[26CornerBlitz]

1 minute ago, Kelly the Dog said:

Hughes has a ton of talent. Dareus had more. Kyle is Kyle. Lawson may or may not be worthy of his draft selection but he has talent. Part of the coach's job is getting players to buy in. Dareus bought in before. He's apparently buying in with the Jags.

 

Kyle was Kyle is more like the truth these days from what I've been watching. 

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

6 minutes ago, Kelly the Dog said:

Hughes has a ton of talent. Dareus had more. Kyle is Kyle. Lawson may or may not be worthy of his draft selection but he has talent. Part of the coach's job is getting players to buy in. Dareus bought in before. He's apparently buying in with the Jags.

 

just my opinion mind you. but I don't see more than two maybe three with good potential? I do agree coaching plays a large (did I say LARGE sp) part in it. Waufle had a good resume and I wouldn't give up on him just yet, hell his first year working with what he's got. couple seasons before they have the right players placed on both sides of the ball.

Edited November 18, 2017 by DaBillsFanSince1973

[Kelly the Dog]

Just now, DaBillsFanSince1973 said:

 

just my opinion mind you. but I don't see more than two maybe three but do agree coaching plays a large (did I say LARGE sp) part in it. Waufle had a good resume and I wouldn't give up on him just yet, hell his first year working with what he's got. couple seasons before they have the right players placed on both sides of the ball.

Yeah, agree with that. Funny that all three of the last three years had good resumes, between Karl Dunbar and John Blake and now Wauffle. I think it was Pepper Johnson that had the most success with them, in 2014.

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

5 minutes ago, Kelly the Dog said:

Yeah, agree with that. Funny that all three of the last three years had good resumes, between Karl Dunbar and John Blake and now Wauffle. I think it was Pepper Johnson that had the most success with them, in 2014.

 

can not deny that.

[NoSaint]

So he’s saying they need to fit it up?

10 minutes ago, DaBillsFanSince1973 said:

 

just my opinion mind you. but I don't see more than two maybe three with good potential? I do agree coaching plays a large (did I say LARGE sp) part in it. Waufle had a good resume and I wouldn't give up on him just yet, hell his first year working with what he's got. couple seasons before they have the right players placed on both sides of the ball.

He can be a good coach and they good players and simply be a bad match in personality or philosophy 

 

at this point we have our coaches and are getting a new roster for them. We will see if it works. All we can do is wait.

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

2 minutes ago, NoSaint said:

So he’s saying they need to fit it up?

He can be a good coach and they good players and simply be a bad match in personality or philosophy 

 

at this point we have our coaches and are getting a new roster for them. We will see if it works. All we can do is wait.

 

 

yep, I'm prepared to give them a couple seasons. just hope they can get back to worth watching. the last two games were brutal.

[Best Player Available]

"fit em up" 

[NoSaint]

2 minutes ago, DaBillsFanSince1973 said:

 

 

yep, I'm prepared to give them a couple seasons. just hope they can get back to worth watching. the last two games were brutal.

Yup... could be Sean Payton-esque or end up josh mcdaniels. Wide range of possibilities. I’m not super confident but we are here and anything is possible so I’m rolling with it 

[Happy]

We can stand to upgrade the DT and DE positions, so that could be as many as 2-3 draft picks.  Waufle doesn't have a whole lot of talent to work with.