Game strategy continues to elude McD

[LabattBlue]

4 hours ago, boater said:

This place is dreck after a loss.

The defense has been criticized(rightfully) through all 5 games.  It just gets magnified after a loss. 

[The Firebaugh Kid]

4 hours ago, boater said:

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[NoSaint]

9 hours ago, billsfan89 said:

This seems like a reach to me. The Bills defense did force a longer field goal and the Bills defense shouldn't have been in that situation had the offense not turned the ball over 3 times. 

Hell I’d like to be up 14 at the end but sometimes it’s a close game 

[billvernsays]

9 hours ago, ngbills said:

McD has never been able to "stop" people. They rely on either the O makes a mistake and you get a turnover. They will give up a few first downs but at some point there will be penalty and will stall a drive. There will be a drop or other mistake that kills a drive. Very rarely have we seen them be aggressive and just own the offense. That is not McD style. Its the they can dop whatever they want but at some point are gonna mess up. 

I live in Eagles county, this is what they’ve been telling me since we got him. There’s no teeth to his defense. 

[Jalan81]

9 hours ago, billsfan89 said:

This seems like a reach to me. The Bills defense did force a longer field goal and the Bills defense shouldn't have been in that situation had the offense not turned the ball over 3 times. 

It didn’t matter at that point what the offense did previously, stopping the field goal attempt was job one, and they failed. 

8 hours ago, MJS said:

Stop with the "soft zone" complaints. You're just showing that you aren't actually watching what the defense is doing.

The offense turned the ball over three times. The best QB in the NFL directly contributed to throwing this game away. Yes, the defense wasn't good in the 2nd half, but Allen shares in the blame and is at least an equal party to it.

That doesn’t address the play and strategy on the game winning drive and that’s what’s being discussed. 

[billvernsays]

We have a smaller defense, that’s fine.
 

What we are asking for is for McDermott to use their athletic ability when we need them and for them to play aggressive. 
 

It would surprise them, that’s for sure. 

[Thurman#1]

12 hours ago, boater said:

This place is dreck after a loss.

 

 

Not the whole place, but certainly large swathes of it. Certainly including this dumb thread.

[LABILLBACKER]

I stopped believing in McDermott's ability to out-coach / out-scheme his opponent a long time ago.  And nothing over the last 5 years has changed that. We win because of Josh Allen....period!

[reddogblitz]

13 hours ago, BananaB said:

Gave up points right before half and gave up points at the end that resulted in an L.

 

I always want to strangle Coach McDermott when he starts calling defensive time outs with less than a minute left in the 1st half. It gives the QB time to talk to the coach.  Guys get a blow and a drink of water.  And what happens is they score with 10 seconds left and we don't have time to do anything anyway.  This is not the 1st time this has happened.

 

I'd prefer for the other team to feel the pressure of the clock. Have to run up and spike it. Make them call their own timeouts. Especially with a young QB.  Seems like we're helping them by calling timeouts.

[Since1981]

I’ve asked for a couple yrs and nobody has come up with anything. 
 

Snow angels aside…Has McD put any uniqueness or any positive fingerprint on any part of this team? Serious ask. 

Edited 4 hours ago by Since1981

[Not at the table Karlos]

17 hours ago, billsfan89 said:

This seems like a reach to me. The Bills defense did force a longer field goal and the Bills defense shouldn't have been in that situation had the offense not turned the ball over 3 times. 

A 52 yard FG isn’t really that long anymore. That kick would have been good from 70. 
 

You can say the situation would have been different if things happened differently earlier in the game all you want. You still have to make the correct decisions in the moment and evaluate the current situation and react accordingly. Crying about earlier mistakes isn’t going to force a 3 and out now. 

[Not at the table Karlos]

16 hours ago, Brand J said:

I’d really like to dumb down the defense, have the CBs play “man up,” physical and close to the line of scrimmage, challenge the receivers. If they get beat physically, so be it, but force the QB to make a good throw and the receiver to make a contested catch. They’re getting beat anyway right now by giving up too much space, receivers are constantly running free in zone without a defender to immediately pop them or break up the pass. 

They get beat in man as well. They’ve been running a decent amount of it.