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Interesting Diggs Split Stat from The Athletic


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1 hour ago, SCBills said:

 

I feel like Gabe and Knox are starting to show signs...

 

Davis had a very good game against Miami.  6 targets, 4 receptions, 56 yds.  Josh did not try to force the ball in to him or throw it away in his direction because he remained too well covered.  Josh threw it to someone else who was not so well covered, and the passing game worked better.

 

1 hour ago, SCBills said:

 But Davis is starting to show he can do more than just go routes, and Knox showed why he's so dangerous when we can get him vertical in the passing game.  

 

Davis has been running more than just "go" routes all season.  His best route is probably the

The problem has been that he either hasn't hung on to the ball, or that he's well covered with a high probability of a PD, or an INT if the throw is a bit off.

 

1 hour ago, SCBills said:

Get those two going heading into the playoffs, and this Offense will take off.  

 

The way to get the offense to take off, is to target whoever is open.

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, SCBills said:

 

I feel like Gabe and Knox are starting to show signs... There's sign of life from them in the passing game.  It's not popping just yet.. Gabe still isn't putting up numbers a WR2 should in this Offense and Knox still has the drops here and there.   But Davis is starting to show he can do more than just go routes, and Knox showed why he's so dangerous when we can get him vertical in the passing game.  

 

Get those two going heading into the playoffs, and this Offense will take off.  

 

Things should open up more for us when the Bills take the restraints off Allen and he just starts gashing teams on the ground whenever they give him a lane. 

You have a point there. And i hope you're right. We need guys to step up from here on out. I also think there is something to the hypothesis of Allen suffering a concussion in the packers game. Against the fish, he looked more like early season Josh. Using his other guys more like the game had slowed down again.

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Yeah, I saw this. Kinda interesting.

 

Diggs has 99 receptions this season. The receptions among the rest of the main skill players are really consistent. Knox has 43, Davis has 42, McKenzie has an even 40, and Singletary has 35. Next player with the most receptions is Cook with 18. It's like, obviously Diggs is the clear number one, but the number two on this team is a mix of four different players lol. 

 

Before the season, I felt like they were pretty well set at WR. Davis had kind of a slow start but I think he's been picking it up these last few weeks. I want to be a McKenzie fan, but the dude is just so inconsistent. One week he'll go off for 10 catches, 135 yards and a TD, then follow it up with four drops, a fumble and a jet sweep that goes for -8 yards. Knox has had to play a lot more in-line than he usually does but they are getting him more involved late in the season here.

 

Not gonna hold my breath for Beasley or Brown to pop up with a huge game anytime soon. Hopefully with Beasley back in the mix they can run more plays as Josh was saying they've been limited with some stuff because nobody could execute it like Beasley. 

 

Diggs is the guy, though. Wonder if they're limiting him a bit just to keep him fresh for the post-season.

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3 hours ago, Dan Darragh said:

11 plays is a miniscule sample size, this is meaningless drivel.

Not true. 
this is really a simple and well known statistical question. 
You simply need to do a students t test comparing the yards gained for each of the 11 plays he was out vs the 72 he was in. 
My guess is that you would have a significant result. 

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I remember one play he went off and that was after that ridiculous lateral for -3 yards.  

 

That pass/lateral was an ill-advised play that appeared to be run just to get him the ball and it appeared Diggs was upset at the call and a play that had no opportunity of success.

 

Could see frustration that has was not getting the ball thrown his way and this does come up every once in a while.

 

Fine balance between getting him involved and forcing his the ball.

 

  

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5 hours ago, inthebuff said:

"When Diggs was on the field, the Bills gained 432 yards and averaged an outstanding 7.2 yards per play. Diggs played on all but 11 snaps for the Bills. On those 11 plays, the Bills gained only 11 yards — a horrible average of one yard per play."

 

Whoa.

 

There could be some factors - which Joe Buscaglia really didn't delve into in the article - he just pointed out the average yards per play when Diggs is not on the field.  The article points out that there aren't other skill players who "strikes fear into the opponent. "


They typically take Diggs out during running plays.  The Bills OL isn’t the best at run blocking.  It’s not surprise those numbers with him out are so low, but Diggs is the best weapon and probably the only player every defense is watching 

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5 hours ago, SCBills said:

Not shocking.. I'd have to imagine the Chiefs splits are similar with Kelce on/off the field.  

 

Both teams now have one elite playmaker and some guys.  

 

Comparing the Bills/Chiefs skill guys to the Bengals, Dolphins, Chargers is pretty eye-opening. 

 

Chargers have on receiver (barely) over 700 yards.  They spread it around.  No standouts.  Ekeler is the playmaker on that team.

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2 hours ago, pennstate10 said:

Not true. 
this is really a simple and well known statistical question. 
You simply need to do a students t test comparing the yards gained for each of the 11 plays he was out vs the 72 he was in. 
My guess is that you would have a significant result. 

Try normalizing for down and distance and you'll find that you're down to 2 or 3 plays per case.   Useless from a statistical point of view.

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4 hours ago, LABILLBACKER said:

That's why it's critical we draft 2 wrs next year. Diggs is quickly approaching 30. Cole & John are playoff rentals.  Who knows what happens to Gabe or Isaiah based on inconsistent play? We have a ton of question marks for next season.

Oline is where it is at. If Josh has time, any five Jags at WR will be just fine. 

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8 hours ago, SCBills said:

Not shocking.. I'd have to imagine the Chiefs splits are similar with Kelce on/off the field.  

 

Both teams now have one elite playmaker and some guys.  

 

Comparing the Bills/Chiefs skill guys to the Bengals, Dolphins, Chargers is pretty eye-opening. 

It also tells what Mahomes and Allen are compared to the QBs of those other teams.

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39 minutes ago, Chaos said:

Oline is where it is at. If Josh has time, any five Jags at WR will be just fine. 

 

   Could you imagine the damage Josh would do if they had a solid ol?  He'd be able to direct his wrs and could then easily pick and choose who's turn it is to catch. 

 

 

 

 

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8 hours ago, TOboy said:

Diggs is our #1 weapon and one of the elite guys in the NFL so this should come as no surprise. 
 

That said, I suspect the plays Diggs has sat out may be skewed by short yardage or obvious run plays. Also, the sample size is pretty small. 


Yea, without context it’s near meaningless as a stat.

 

that said, he’s definitely leaps and bounds ahead of everyone not named Josh 

1 hour ago, Mr. WEO said:


some have missed games.  None elite anyway


keenan Allen and Mike Williams have each missed significant games. To say some have missed games is underselling.

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11 minutes ago, NoSaint said:


Yea, without context it’s near meaningless as a stat.

 

that said, he’s definitely leaps and bounds ahead of everyone not named Josh 


keenan Allen and Mike Williams have each missed significant games. To say some have missed games is underselling.

 

Fair point with Allen.  Williams missed 3.  Neither is in Diggs's stratum now.   Diggs/Davis is a solid combo.  The latter may crest 1000 yards this season---750 now on only 42 catches.

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Diggs has not gone crazy in five games and the team has won all five with only one interception during the streak. I like the way they are trying to build up a non-Diggs offense for defenses to have to game plan around. Yards went to Gabe and the running backs v the Browns, McKenzie v Detroit, backs for patriots, Knox v the dolphins.  I think they made a concerted effort to use Diggs as a decoy starting with the browns and it mainly worked.  

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