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9-20: Bills Beat Podcast - Does the Defense Have Potential to Improve?


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Now 0-2 on the season, the Buffalo Bills have seen both sides of the ball underperform in their two losses. Might the Bills have the talent and potential to improve on the defensive side of the ball -- as we saw in the second half against the Chargers? What is the key to doing all that? Joe Buscaglia and Matthew Fairburn discuss that at length in the mid-week episode, along with how the Bills stack up against the Minnesota Vikings.

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Any improvements we see this season will be a result of scheme changes, and approaching teams differently each week - so mostly coaches decisions. There's very little player development that could actually occur given our current cap space, and roster.

 

Next year or so? We'll hopefully see improvement from the young guys - outside of our safety tandem, we do have solid young talent that we can see take the next step (Edmunds, Phillips, but also White and Milano for sophomores). Unfortunately, the rest of the defense is aging closer to the vet side of things and unless we make some more young additions, our defense could be seeing a few too many holes to fill at once, very soon.

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Interesting thoughts from Joe and Matt.  They said that performances on offense and defense have largely been around average.

 

The weakspot on defense was Edmunds and Gaines.  

 

The weakspot on offense is Allen.  The OL protection hasn’t been great but it’s far from the disaster we’d think it is.  

 

 

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3 hours ago, ctk232 said:

Any improvements we see this season will be a result of scheme changes, and approaching teams differently each week - so mostly coaches decisions. There's very little player development that could actually occur given our current cap space, and roster.

 

Next year or so? We'll hopefully see improvement from the young guys - outside of our safety tandem, we do have solid young talent that we can see take the next step (Edmunds, Phillips, but also White and Milano for sophomores). Unfortunately, the rest of the defense is aging closer to the vet side of things and unless we make some more young additions, our defense could be seeing a few too many holes to fill at once, very soon.

The most important player on this defense should be markedly better in a few weeks, making everyone around him better.  

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No brainer yes. Edmunds is being targeted right now in the passing game but as the season goes on he should improve every week. Once he gets comfortable with getting the defense in the right situation and gets used to the NFL game the D should improve quite a bit. 

 

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1 hour ago, ShadyBillsFan said:

Why do you read this trash by clueless click bait “reporters”

 

Isn't every reporter a click bait reporter?  It's the point of internet publishing.

 

Did people used to say "why do you read this trash by a clueless "reporter" who is trying to help his company sell newspapers?"?  (other than Sully, I mean...)/

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1 hour ago, OldTimeAFLGuy said:

...ABSOLUTELY no faith whatsoever in Farzier's ability as a DC.....has shown zero ability to craft a formidable game plan or ability/willingness to adjust or counter punch going right back to pre-season.....

Agree. I believe they canned the best coach they had on that side of the ball during the off-season. 

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4 hours ago, BuffaloRush said:

Interesting thoughts from Joe and Matt.  They said that performances on offense and defense have largely been around average.

 

The weakspot on defense was Edmunds and Gaines.  

 

The weakspot on offense is Allen.  The OL protection hasn’t been great but it’s far from the disaster we’d think it is.  

 

 

 

I read what Daboll said but I'm still negative on this line.  Sure, Allen hangs on to the ball too long.  That's not debatable.  And sometimes he does get a nice pocket.  But there have been too many pass-pro breakdowns on the line as well.  And they're not opening holes for runners.  

 

Overall, I think "disaster" isn't a terribly inaccurate work for the performance of our OL.  

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17 hours ago, NewEra said:

The most important player on this defense should be markedly better in a few weeks, making everyone around him better.  

I hope so - he's been given A LOT for any rookie, no matter how league ready he is. I wish we had more efficacious data here, but we certainly will in a few games. Here's to hoping, but I think you're right he'll be markedly better than where he is at now. Just don't think it will translate to considerable effect on this season is all.

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On 9/20/2018 at 1:45 PM, BobChalmers said:

Given the importance of a 20-year-old rookie MLB to the defense - not to mention Horrible Harry on the line, there's really not much question they can (and probably will) improve with experience is there??

 

When the light goes on for those 2 alone there will be a notable difference in how the D performs & then with who ever they can get in next years draft to fortify what they have not to mention with the amount of cap space they will have to incise some FA's i think it can go no where but up from here !! 

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