Screen: what’s wrong with us ?

[Thrivefourfive]

4 minutes ago, Big Turk said:

 

The timing is off, the line doesn't do a good job "selling it" meaning defenders are typically all over the RB/TE and the ball ends up in the dirt usually. Even watching yesterday there were a lot of "dirted" screens. Sure Houston scored on one, but if you aren't good at them to begin with, why would you call a play that is likely to not work or get called for an illegal man downfield penalty?  

 

Bills throw WR screens at times and they have had some success with them, and used to have great success with tunnel screens especially to John Brown for a few years on the "Gold Rip/Whip" audible. Have also seen a few TE screens work, but usually they are RPO plays it seems like even tho they are near the LOS.

 

Let' stop being silly, the Bills ran quite a few of these throughout the season and had some good success with them at times.  If your definition of "working" means they are going to gain 10 yards every time they run the play or more that's just not realistic. Sure they have had some ones recently that haven't been great, but I can recall plenty of ones that picked up good yards or first downs earlier this year. 

 

Also used to be very good running tunnel screeens with John Brown when Allen would audible to "Gold Rip/Whip". Don't seem to run those too often anymore although I have seen a few times this year with varying results.

We evaluate teams based on what they’ve done the last month, basically. Agreed? The Bills are awful at screens. 

[Big Turk]

30 minutes ago, Thrivefourfive said:

We evaluate teams based on what they’ve done the last month, basically. Agreed? The Bills are awful at screens. 

 

Not really. Most things are matchup dependant so some things will work great against teams no matter when you play them and some things won't.