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The Bills' D is Starting to Take Form - Now Number Three in DVOA


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48 minutes ago, dave mcbride said:

Also, Jerry Hughes' 90.5 rating as a pass rusher makes him the third best pass rusher in the league according to their metric (behind Aaron Donald and Fletcher Cox).

 

Jerry has been back to his best this year after a couple of so-so seasons. 

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42 minutes ago, dave mcbride said:

Au contraire. I thought Hughes was lights out last season. He had a ridiculous number of pressures.

 

He was constantly in position to make plays last year. I just don't think he made them. He got pressure but didn't finish plays.

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1 minute ago, GunnerBill said:

 

He was constantly in position to make plays last year. I just don't think he made them. He got pressure but didn't finish plays.

Because there was no push in the middle and QBs always stepped up just out of his grasp. It was infuriating but not his fault.. That's why the brought in Star, who has been doing the job this season. 

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30 minutes ago, dave mcbride said:

Because there was no push in the middle and QBs always stepped up just out of his grasp. It was infuriating but not his fault.. That's why the brought in Star, who has been doing the job this season. 

 

In general they're doing more stunting with Murphy/Shaq, and rushing 4 in more creative ways.  Murphy and Hughes aren't dropping into coverage a lot, but when they are it's actually disrupting passing lanes, and milano/edmunds have been creating pressure.

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5 hours ago, 26CornerBlitz said:

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The amazing thing is the Bills' D hasn't had the luxury of playing their offense like the top 3 teams on that list. Playing the Bills' O skews those numbers.

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On 10/7/2018 at 3:42 PM, Johnnycage46 said:

 

A win...today.  So there's that.

Yes but it's so frustrating when the pieces in offense stink. Only legit playmaker is McCoy and they don't give him the ball enough. Also Harper Valley middle school has a better playbook so that may be a slight issue.

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On 10/7/2018 at 6:18 PM, 26CornerBlitz said:

They are congealing into a unit that can keep the team in games on a weekly basis.  It's nice to see after the slow start to begin the season. 

Speaking of DVOA:

 

'In particular, Arizona plummeted on offense, from -31.3% to -39.9%. That puts the Cardinals into rare territory as one of the ten worst offenses we've ever tracked through seven games. But the Cardinals still can't even come close to the impotence of the Buffalo Bills. Buffalo's offensive DVOA stayed relatively constant after the Indianapolis blowout, going from -53.4% to -53.2%. But most of the worst offenses we've ever tracked weren't staying constant around Week 7 -- they were starting to come back from their horrendous starts, slowly improving their ratings. Which means that the 2018 Buffalo Bills are now the worst offense in DVOA history, at least through seven games.'

 

https://www.footballoutsiders.com/dvoa-ratings/2018/week-7-dvoa-ratings

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