Difference in O-Line Year over Year

[Thurman#1]

On 1/17/2023 at 3:00 PM, John from Riverside said:

Good correction on the amount of total points
 

I think you’re missing the point the other thing you can do whenever a team is running cover zero 90% of the time is go deep because it’s open and Josh Allen was putting that ball right on the money. If you wanna blame somebody blame the wide receivers for dropping wide-open balls

 

 

Allen had a great game, put a lot on the money but not nearly all of them.

 

You look at that time when they ran Davis deep two times in a row. He was open both times. Bad throws (on lower percentage plays, as long passes are, of course) torpedoed both plays.

 

On the first, Davis was ahead by a step and a half with zero safety help and Allen threw behind him, forcing Davis back into the coverage behind him and allowing the CB to make a play. The second time he again had a step with again zero safety help and Allen overthrew him by a couple of steps.

 

You're certainly right that there were a few bad receiver plays as well, though.

[Thurman#1]

On 1/17/2023 at 7:26 PM, Straight Hucklebuck said:

48% ?

 

Seems normal.

 

Josh, you make better throws, what’s wrong with you? 
 

That’s it, we’re making Singletary the focus of our gameplan. 

 

 

As noted before by others, it kinda is normal when the defense gives up on safety help and decides instead to spend a lot of the game blitzing enough guys that they outnumbered the blockers. And simultaneously clogging up the short routes.

 

Miami played a somewhat similar plan the first game this year and totally opposite in game two.

 

They arranged it so that the best strategy for the Bills was often holding the ball long enough to see whether the guy running a long route managed to beat his CB and throwing it to him if he had.

 

The Bills still scored 34. But the Miami D did an excellent job this week.

Edited January 19, 2023 by Thurman#1

[ddaryl]

On 1/16/2023 at 9:46 AM, BuffalOhio said:

For '23, as it currently stands, the Bills are $6.4M OVER the salary cap.  https://www.spotrac.com/redirect/team/62/cap/

 

There are a few important players on the list of UFAs, and those will be very difficult decisions:  https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/contracts/sort-value/buffalo-bills/free-agent-2023/limit-100/

 

While I'm thrilled that Josh is our QB and we have him long-term, his contract is going to seriously hamper our roster building over the next several years.  The same goes for every team with a high-dollar QB. 

 

Upgrading the O-Line through FA will be impossible.  They must draft properly.

 

Go Bills!

I agree, we are not doing much of anything in FA, so we better draft really well.

We don't even have a full roster signed for next year yet we are over the projected cap....  Difficult decisions loom

[BearNorth]

Interestingly Spotrac has Saffold, despite what most Bills fans consider to be having a mediocre or worse year, as having a predicted 2023 contract value of 5.4MM.

My head was spinning when I read that.

[LABILLBACKER]

On 1/16/2023 at 3:55 PM, ScottLaw said:

Remember when people suggested the line and WRs were a problem before the season started and were mocked??

This has been an ongoing problem throughout McD's tenure. He's a defensive coach. He's going to emphasize defensive players every year. Is it to some degree stubborn and reckless?.... yes. This is an offensive league.  Most rules favor the offense. The best qb to ever show up on our doorstep is being told...." you and Diggs do it all".....who knows if Rousseau, Basham or Epenesa ever pan out.  Meanwhile Saffold, Brown and Quessenberry are giving Josh little support.  If this organization doesn't figure this out, I can't help them.