Coaching is the key!

[Ayjent]

15 hours ago, zow2 said:

 

Yep,  in 1st place after 11 games, and ahead of Detroit & Green Bay.  It may not stay that way but that's a heck of an accomplishment thus far.

 

Plus the Bears were missing 6 starters on defense yesterday.

When the fans are making excuses for every year that the D had injuries as the reason they didn’t win, there is the truth that the D scheme might be more to blame than the missing personnel.  Let’s just buy the premise that injuries have sunk their chances at a Super Bowl several years.  Okay so why is the Defense so reliant on the health of its starters because injuries happen in the NFL?  it’s not like these starters are all world at any position.  Coaching is so important because injuries are reality, but the Bills coaching during the McD era doesn’t really coach to its players strengths.  It coaches a scheme and it limits the scheme based on how the player fits the scheme and doesn’t do anything unique to morph into a different style.  The book is out on McD’s style of D, run at them and when passing exploit the zone schemes daring them to get home with pressure.  They will eventually give up a big run because they are predictably unable to maintain gap integrity all game especially with light LBs and nickel CBs playing those gaps.  Then you compress them and exploit the zone they will certainly play. Teams have used that formula and the Bills don’t have any answers even against porous, injured OLs and backup QBs. I know in years past the Bills have put together runs, but I don’t see it this year.  Things are unraveling in too many areas and there just isn’t enough talent and good, adaptive coaching to right the ship. 

Edited 1 hour ago by Ayjent