HappyDays Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 https://theathletic.com/3660688/2022/10/05/bills-all-22-film-review-ravens?source=user-shared-article Quote 1. Milano took over the game on defense He was a dominant force, especially in the second half, and was one of the most significant reasons the Bills could keep the Ravens in check to mount their comeback. Against the run, Milano’s speed and instincts consistently filled the run lane, sometimes firing in to make the stop. He was constantly in a position to make a tackle by beating the blocker to the spot or shedding the block to get free. His stop on second-and-goal from the 1-yard-line to help force a 3-yard loss was the perfect example of his speed, instincts and striking power to make a big play at a big moment. And if it wasn’t Milano making the tackle, he angled his body to force an opposing runner into his teammates. All of this is without mentioning how well he took away receivers in his zone area and feeling when a receiver relocated to his area. Quote 3. A better, but not a standout day for the offensive line The majority of their difficulties, which isn’t a complete surprise given the other three games, was as run blockers. While they weren’t running the wide zone concepts that generated minimal yards, they still had trouble getting a proper push up front. The guard play was again the biggest issue for the Bills. Left guard Rodger Saffold had his best total game of the season but still had some problems sustaining his blocks in the run game. It wound up being a passable day, which is far better than the rest of the season. For the third time in four games, right guard Ryan Bates struggled significantly and was at the bottom of our player grades this week. Bates is having difficulty keeping defenders from using their length against him, and it’s allowing the opponent to get wide and force the run another way. The longer this keeps up with Bates, the more you have to wonder if they’ll look to make a change at some point. He definitely flashes potential as a pass blocker, but he hasn’t had an all-around game to this point in the year. On the positive side, right tackle Spencer Brown had a nice game and one of his best of the early season, a performance the Bills hope he can build on after a treacherous Week 3 in Miami. Quote 4. Davis didn’t look like himself near the end of the game When watching him on film, specifically in the second half, he seemed to be laboring a bit and wasn’t nearly the effective route runner he has worked so hard to become over his first two seasons. Something just didn’t look right, and likely because of it, his ability to separate waned. At least to me, the film showed the Gabe Davis in Week 4 was a bit removed from the same dynamic Gabe Davis from Week 1. Quote 5. Ravens looked content to contain quite a bit Instead of selling out to get into the backfield and possibly leaving themselves vulnerable to Allen breaking the pocket, the Ravens deployed their edge rushers in more of a contain role to confine the quarterback in the pocket as best they could. The Ravens knew the blitz-heavy schemes they threw at Allen in the past weren’t effective any longer. So, playing to some of their injury weaknesses, they took the pressure off those pass rushers to get to Allen, which helped limit some early-game momentum for the Bills. Top 5 grades: 1) Matt Milano (A-) 2) Von Miller (A-) 3) Jordan Poyer (A-) 4) DaQuan Jones (B+) 5) Josh Allen (B+) Bottom 5 grades: 1) Ryan Bates (C-) 2) Prince Emili (C) 3) Gave Davis (C) 4) Damar Hamlin (C+) 5) AJ Epenesa (C+) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17islongenough Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 Did he say anything about Hamlin. I thought he played decent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyDays Posted October 6, 2022 Author Share Posted October 6, 2022 1 minute ago, 17islongenough said: Did he say anything about Hamlin. I thought he played decent Gave him a C+ with the 4th worst ranking on the team. Hamlin has been passable, that's about as much as you can reasonably expect. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPS Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 He also said Spencer Brown had a good game, so hopefully we are at least decent at the key OL positions (OTs and C) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Noggin Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 That's funny: you omit point #2, "2. The unsung hero on 2nd-and-goal," which is in fact my favorite analysis in this piece. It's about Brandin Bryant being the real reason Milano was able to make that 2nd-and-goal from the 1 yard line. Bryant logs a heck of a rep in beating/occupying an eventual triple team. 7 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Otreply Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 6 minutes ago, Richard Noggin said: That's funny: you omit point #2, "2. The unsung hero on 2nd-and-goal," which is in fact my favorite analysis in this piece. It's about Brandin Bryant being the real reason Milano was able to make that 2nd-and-goal from the 1 yard line. Bryant logs a heck of a rep in beating/occupying an eventual triple team. This right here is the type of thing that a lot of folk can miss noting when only being focused on the end result, if Bryant doesn’t make the play he does, we may very well have seen a different outcome in the game, just shows how important doing ones 1/11th is to a games outcome. 5 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Einstein Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 57 minutes ago, 17islongenough said: Did he say anything about Hamlin. I thought he played decent These are rankings per Joe Buscaglia. They care very little weight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach Tuesday Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 If Milano can stay healthy all season (big if, given his history), he may be named to the All Pro team. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Turk Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 30 minutes ago, Einstein said: These are rankings per Joe Buscaglia. They care very little weight. I only really noticed Hamlin twice...the first time was him coming up to make a tackle on the RB as the outside contain guy but he lost contain and the RB bounced outside for like 15 yards and a first down. The other was the play where he came up on 3rd and goal on Jackson to make the tackle 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen2D̶i̶g̶g̶s̶TBD Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 We need to sign a receiver so we can let Gabe Davis' ankle heal properly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaBu Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, Allen2Diggs said: We need to sign a receiver so we can let Gabe Davis' ankle heal properly. However he was listed as FP, Full Participant, on WED. injury report. So he must be near healed up. I'm wondering if those 88 snaps he took in Miami really drained him and had a lasting effect. Diggs constantly took himself out of that game and afterwards had 2 IV's, yet Gabe played virtually every offense snap. Edited October 6, 2022 by JaBu 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Noggin Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 1 hour ago, Allen2Diggs said: We need to sign a receiver so we can let Gabe Davis' ankle heal properly. What about Davis being listed as a Full Participant in Wednesday's injury/practice report, which is in contrast to his DNP or LP statuses the past couple weeks, especially on Wednesday? Also, did you hear Bulldog on WGR today stress how much better Davis looked at practice compared to the last couple weeks? It is possible that Gabe Davis has avoided another setback and is in fact feeling better this week. Sure would be nice. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billsfan89 Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 3 hours ago, 17islongenough said: Did he say anything about Hamlin. I thought he played decent I thought Hamlin was solid but it is hard to tell how good a player plays in coverage on many plays because of camera angles. That being said a C+ in all 22 is a fairly average game so that grade being in the bottom 5 mainly speaks to how very few players had subpar games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBear Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 Signed up for the NFL+ service and I love the all-22 film. One thing I noticed with this game is how often there were fairly clear cutback lanes that were missed by our backs. Devin had a few that would have gone for nice gains if he'd read them correctly. A guy like Shady would have turned them into 10-20 yard runs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewEra Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 3 hours ago, Richard Noggin said: That's funny: you omit point #2, "2. The unsung hero on 2nd-and-goal," which is in fact my favorite analysis in this piece. It's about Brandin Bryant being the real reason Milano was able to make that 2nd-and-goal from the 1 yard line. Bryant logs a heck of a rep in beating/occupying an eventual triple team. All the props to Bryant for making that play…. But props to Milano for being a heating seeking missile. Dude is noticeably more explosive than ever. Let’s hope he holds up after delivering all these smacks. All Pro 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott7975 Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 (edited) 47 minutes ago, NewEra said: All the props to Bryant for making that play…. But props to Milano for being a heating seeking missile. Dude is noticeably more explosive than ever. Let’s hope he holds up after delivering all these smacks. All Pro True. I think its no coincidence though that all of our LBers look better since dumping Star L. though. We have much better line play so our backers are also playing to potential. Edited October 6, 2022 by Scott7975 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunnerBill Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 I wasn't as high as Joe on Spencer Brown. I thoughy he struggled some again. I agree with him that the LT-LG-C part of the line played well. Thought the right side (both of them) struggled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jletha Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 I think our guards are a big reason we havent been able to push downfield lately. I know theres chatter that we need to run the ball to get defenses our of Cover 2 but Im skeptical that would even work. I think we will need to be able to generate explosive plays schematically with defenses in cover 2 and that involves longer developing plays. Getting healthy at WR will help but the O-line needs to hold up better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warriorspikes51 Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 6 minutes ago, jletha said: I think our guards are a big reason we havent been able to push downfield lately. I know theres chatter that we need to run the ball to get defenses our of Cover 2 but Im skeptical that would even work. I think we will need to be able to generate explosive plays schematically with defenses in cover 2 and that involves longer developing plays. Getting healthy at WR will help but the O-line needs to hold up better. Wasn't Bates playing LG last year when he was good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jletha Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 5 minutes ago, Warriorspikes51 said: Wasn't Bates playing LG last year when he was good? YEs but then we signed Saffold who is better at LG so we slid Bates to RG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timekills17 Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 12 hours ago, Don Otreply said: This right here is the type of thing that a lot of folk can miss noting when only being focused on the end result, if Bryant doesn’t make the play he does, we may very well have seen a different outcome in the game, just shows how important doing ones 1/11th is to a games outcome. Especially when they do their 3/11th. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airseven Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 I haven't noticed Epenesa in a couple games now. It appears his disappearing act continues this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Frankish Reich Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 1 hour ago, jletha said: YEs but then we signed Saffold who is better at LG so we slid Bates to RG. Rather than being somehow better suited to the left side in the abstract, I’d guess that Bates benefitted from playing next to a really good LT (Dawkins) rather than a still-developing RT (Brown) 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColoradoBills Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 1 hour ago, Airseven said: I haven't noticed Epenesa in a couple games now. It appears his disappearing act continues this year. He took 57 snaps the first 2 games. He had only 28 the last 2 games. I don't know why but once the DL gets back to normal maybe it will go back up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleeding Bills Blue Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 3 minutes ago, ColoradoBills said: He took 57 snaps the first 2 games. He had only 28 the last 2 games. I don't know why but once the DL gets back to normal maybe it will go back up. Seems like Lawson has been seeing the field a bit more in some of those run fits situations. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Generic_Bills_Fan Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 5 minutes ago, ColoradoBills said: He took 57 snaps the first 2 games. He had only 28 the last 2 games. I don't know why but once the DL gets back to normal maybe it will go back up. Lawson has been great against Lamar for us…probably got him some extra snaps that would’ve gone to aj 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleeding Bills Blue Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 1 hour ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said: Lawson has been great against Lamar for us…probably got him some extra snaps that would’ve gone to aj Like rushing Allen - discipline in your rush lane and depth is important. We hadn't gone around the edge much on that tackle all day, and LJ hit the pocket super deep on that 4th down. Definitely a gamble since if LJ shakes you there they probably score, but the vet saw blood in the water and made a play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LABILLBACKER Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 5 hours ago, Airseven said: I haven't noticed Epenesa in a couple games now. It appears his disappearing act continues this year. I getting to feel his days are numbered with this organization. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punching Bag Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 On 10/5/2022 at 9:25 PM, HappyDays said: https://theathletic.com/3660688/2022/10/05/bills-all-22-film-review-ravens?source=user-shared-article Bottom 5 grades: 1) Ryan Bates (C-) 2) Prince Emili (C) 3) Gave Davis (C) 4) Damar Hamlin (C+) 5) AJ Epenesa (C+) Clearly he gave offense a lot of issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBBills Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 What about Edmunds? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Noggin Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 12 hours ago, Airseven said: I haven't noticed Epenesa in a couple games now. It appears his disappearing act continues this year. You are relentless. Some consider that a quality... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thurman#1 Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 On 10/6/2022 at 11:26 AM, Einstein said: These are rankings per Joe Buscaglia. They care very little weight. Well, yeah, they're not official or anything, but there's nothing that's official. Having said that, Joe watches every snap for every guy and he's smart. His stuff is generally on target. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 13 hours ago, LABILLBACKER said: I getting to feel his days are numbered with this organization. there was link for pass rush success posted yesterday. Espeneza had an 18% pass rush rate, Groot had 9. 2022 Espenza is not 2020 AJ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Einstein Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 6 hours ago, Thurman#1 said: Well, yeah, they're not official or anything, but there's nothing that's official. Having said that, Joe watches every snap for every guy and he's smart. His stuff is generally on target. PFF is official. Every team in the NFL is contracted with them (whether people like it or not). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott7975 Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 1 hour ago, Einstein said: PFF is official. Every team in the NFL is contracted with them (whether people like it or not). They didnt contract with them for their personal opinion grades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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