Game week thread - Buccaneers at Bills

[Low Positive]

6 minutes ago, colin said:

the odds makers have us as 5.5 favs, and they are generally much much more right than wrong.

 

if you look at our EPA per game in each phase, our special teams always suck a little bit (to medium) our D and our O have massive variance.  like 10+ swings on each side of the ball from week to week.

 

as bad as the o was vs the fish (worst since atlanta) the d was much worse in terms of epa.  now, a lot of that is late in the game it was over and they were selling out to stop a run dead and it got past them and scored (twice).  the reality is even with all of our injuries, we are a better team that tampa, which is baffling for me to type because we look so ass and they have looked better so much of the time, but that's what it is.

 

i really think it comes down to coaching and injury luck for us this season.  if we can get a couple guys back and playing a bit, and brady can figure it out some, we should be able to still challenge for the division.  i honestly don't feel that way and mentally kinda gave up on the division, but the numbers are the numbers.

As a related point, I wish Prater could learn to kick a squib that hits in the landing zone like the Miami kicker was doing to us all game. It's the only way to pin a team inside the 30 on kickoffs. 

[Goin Breakdown]

I have a feeling I'm going to get injured just watching the game this week. I think it's spread that far. 

[colin]

7 minutes ago, Low Positive said:

As a related point, I wish Prater could learn to kick a squib that hits in the landing zone like the Miami kicker was doing to us all game. It's the only way to pin a team inside the 30 on kickoffs. 

 

check out pro football reference dude, our special teams is a disaster.  punting was strong last game, but frankly when our O is humming our punt game is very unimportant.  

 

i wonder what the EPA impact of our penalties are as well, I think it might be the worst in the NFL, or close too.  the impact of the plays we get a penalty on vs what happens the next play are game breakers.

[entropyrules]

3 hours ago, ChronicAndKnuckles said:

 The alcoholics have a good saying “Accept the things i cannot change.” 

Of course almost all of them are Bills and/or Sabres fans

[MiltonWaddams]

11 minutes ago, entropyrules said:

Of course almost all of them are Bills and/or Sabres fans

Are you saying that only alcoholics would be Bills or Sabres fans or that being a Bills or Sabres fan will make you an alcoholic? Truthfully, either way you’re not wrong 

[NewEra]

It’s not worthy of a thread but we worked out Morgan Fox today.  He’s nothing special but he could give us some pass rush from the DT position and (situationally) at end.  Would like to see him added to the practice squad

 

https://nfltraderumors.co/bills-worked-out-five-including-dl-morgan-fox/

Edited 48 minutes ago by NewEra

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

14 minutes ago, NewEra said:

It’s not worthy of a thread but we worked out Morgan Fox today.  He’s nothing special but he could give us some pass rush from the DT position and (situationally) at end.  Would like to see him added to the practice squad

 

https://nfltraderumors.co/bills-worked-out-five-including-dl-morgan-fox/

Former Panther!! 

[BigAl2526]

I think the loss to Miami was maybe 10-20% injury related, and 80-90% mental state.  As Steve Tasker said today on OBL, it is incredibly difficult to maintain a laser focus week after week in an NFL season, mostly due to the fact that everybody is dealing to some extent with pain.  The focus needs to be maintained throughout the week of practice, not just on game day.  I think the Bills let down their guard, and when it became evident that Miami was going to be tougher than expected, the Bills could not recover from their lack of focus last week.  If they can't get up this week given their embarrassment last Sunday, they don't deserve to make the playoffs.