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I hate to agree with you, but when You're Right, You're Right.

I looked it up. He was given one additional run play after the fumble, two series later. In the box score, he has 1 pass and 1 run. The pass was before the fumble. Now that makes no sense to me, if they were going to use Breida, why not use the outside runs he's good at. That fumble really needs to be re-scored, it was not an "aborted snap" and had nothing to do with Josh.

Looked like a routine handoff to Peyton Manning and Eli Manning too Breida was kept in for KR that were expected to go into the EZ. He actually wasn't used on offense after that fumble, which took away a whole chunk of run plays we needed.

I agree with you, but when opposing defenses can stunt and overwhelm our OL on one side, "this sort of game" wasn't working either.

Haven't we done this exchange before? The problem with "shorter quicker passing plays" when teams don't respect our run game is that they've been either blowing up our OL with 4, or stunting to do it and leaving half the field open for a run while flooding the middle with 7 to take away that shorter quicker stuff. I have "slow eyes" and need all-22 to really comb apart what a D is doing, but to my eyes, what I see is both. Daboll and McDermott thought adding Sanders to pair with Beasley was the answer to always have everyone open, but it's not working out. They thought our OL was "good enough" and that 1 decent TE sufficed. They were wrong.

Dude, you might want to visita gastroenterologist for your vomitus reflex. Singletary is far from the worst problem on this offense. Thank you so very much for your kind and generous contribution to improving the quality and readability of this board! I have never seen such an erudite and intelligent post! And such insight and football acumen!

Dude, the weather was a problem for the passing game. I'm not sure you can look at the placement Allen had on some of those places on the R side of the field and not see that. Likewise the deep TD pass to Diggs that he missed, it was short of where Diggs expected it. Do you still expect a top WR in the league to haul that in, Yes, Yes you do. But I digress - the point was, the wind was, in fact, an issue for the passing game. The root problem is that we can't run well enough. We need to be able to run enough that teams have to respect our run threat.

I think you're taking McDermott's comments too far. Those were extraordinary conditions last night, and McKenzie has shown struggles tracking the ball when it does unusual things (that kickoff!) and Stevenson just muffed last game. Micah Hyde is way better than either of them at tracking a difficult ball and has sure hands. On the other hand - McKenzie nailed it with his response, and yes, those comments were poorly judged and inappropriate. Coach McD: Isaiah's response to the bolded: McDermott could have made it into a positive thing, and said something like "Micah Hyde is one of the best safeties in the league and has some of the best ball tracking skills I've ever seen and sure hands - on a horrible day I trust him the most. He didn't.

This is a good point. I need to wait for the snap counts, but to my eyes we were playing Base D more often last night, using Tyrel Dodson instead of Klein Several times when I saw a big hole open for the run, it was Dodson being swung aside like a Saloon door.

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It was partly rough because I believe it got Breida's ass benched, and he's the player on which a varied run vocabulary pretty much depends. But if we drive a little further even if they get the ball back, maybe they get it deeper. Or maybe we're not overly aggressive on D as we were, and we don't lose contain on that long run.

Let's hope the team doesn't go in for this kind of "I did enough, it's on you" finger-pointing. All 3 phases of the game came up short Let's hear it

Sullivan asked Poyer and Hyde if they were embarrassed by the team's run defense. I think it's a douche question myself. He could ask a couple dozen better questions about the run defense that would get better and more meaningful answers but I guess he can puff and pad the response he got into a story now.

https://ftw.usatoday.com/lists/patriots-bills-jordan-poyer-micah-hyde-upset-over-embarrassing-question-by-reporter

Indeed. And Diggs not being able to adjust a bit and haul in a TD pass that hit him in the arms 😬 That long run the Bills gave up for the TD But the Breida fumble and the missed FG struck me as the biggest game-changers

I thought the false start penalty was pretty ticky-tack. Yeah, that 3rd and 14 right on the numbers that he couldn't haul in was killer. He had more than a couple "decent short grabs", he made a couple clutch catches. But he got beat pretty bad as a blocker to blow up a couple run plays and a screen, and he dropped a couple catches he should have had. But I thought everybody's effort was not what it could have been.

Yes, and that seems to be a hallmark of a McDermott/Frazier D : play tough most of the game, but give up one freakin long play for a score.

I thought it was reasonably fair on the officiating. I can't argue with your assessment, but we had it in our power to win and it was our own mistakes or failures of execution that cost us.

I mean, you're not wrong or alone in the opinion that the Bills D is soft at times. When I added it up before the end of the game, we'd given up >200 yds rushing. But when you come right down to it, we allowed 11 points against a top offense in a close game. The game came down to a couple of key plays: a missed 33 yd FG that took away the chance for a 2nd FG to win on the final drive; a stupid fumble charged to Josh Allen but 100% on Breida IMO (and Peyton Manning's opinion) are the biggest IMHO.

They have to have someone inactive. They have 9 DL, 9 DB, and all 4 RB.

He does have a return for a TD in 2019, but I'm not sure about the other two.

Hyde has returned 37 kickoffs in his career. 34 in GB and 3 here.

Hyde returned 1 punt and 1 kick in 2020. He returned 3 punts and 2 kicks in 2019. Most recent year where he returned a number of them was in 2018. But, he is probably the guy on the team with the best vision for tracking the ball.

He is active per Buffalo Bills twitter.

That "last game as a Bill" seems like an extrapolation. McDermott and Farwell both praised both of them this week. But clearly we want the "hands team" with the best judgement on tracking the ball out there on punts and kickoffs, we think speed is not of much use, and we want to have 4 RBs and 9 DL.