Hapless Bills Fan

I haven't played on either side of the line but I know some physics. It's all about timing and positioning to obtain that leverage. The defense can know the snap count too, if the offense hasn't been changing it up. Then if they engage the OLman before the OLman gets in position to sustain leverage, it's advantage to the DL. It's the old F = m*A thing, if there's acceleration from the DL, the higher m is overcome. In this case, it looks as though the OL was blocking to the R, as though opening a space between the C and the G, as a form of misdirection while the QB heads for the LG-LT gap. But the defender knew what was coming and attacked to (our) L, closing the gap Allen needed.

I was concerned about whether the Bills felt they just had to "show up" when I saw the "party mood", but if a team is really ready to "go for the jugular" and win it all, there should be nothing "inevitable" about drop off.

Tipped passes are something that bother me. Eric Wood once expressed the attitude that no one was going to tip a pass on his QB and if they jumped up to try he would drive into their gut and pancake them and they'd wish they hadn't. Is this no longer allowed or something? Sometimes the defender is several steps back or unblocked when they jump, but we had one guy tip a ball who was in contact or almost in contact with Feliciano when he went up for it. Nit, couldn't this have gone in the "what are our problems?" thread, since that's what it seems to be - an analysis of our problems?

Shift of philosophy. We're trying more of the "leave reasonable threads that are nominally different alone, let the Mob sort 'em out" philosophy.

He said he didn't have good footing. But any hole he should have driven into wasn't there.

Dude, it all starts up front. If a QB has time to stand in, he has time to scan the field and see receivers. If he's running full tilt his vision is limited. Can you reasonably think Josh Allen had time to scan the field and see receivers last night? Also, 31 points IS a TON. The problem wasn't that we didn't put up a ton of points, the problem is that our defense allowed the Titans to put up a ton-plus. If we allow the opponent 34 points every week, we won't win many games.

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I think I would have preferred that they try something that had a chance to score, myself. We had failed two previous "and 1" conversions (3rd and 2nd I think), one due to a Dawkins false start and one where Allen was stuffed. To me, how you're performing in a game should outweigh overall general statistics. I don't know if it's true, but someone said that Allen always runs the sneak to the L of center. If true, IMO that's a coaching failure to either not change how he sneaks, or run a different play because with Barkley on the team the Titans D most certainly had the inside gouge on every detail of Allen's persistent tendencies Dawkins is either still struggling to get back into shape post-Covid or still struggling with the work-life balance between football and "The Glamorous Life"

Yeah, I muted them partway into the 2nd Q

Geez, Josh Allen called it last week. Said something like "you win and you're on top of the world; you lose and you need to fire people and blow everything up"

https://www.newyorkupstate.com/buffalo-bills/2021/10/buffalo-bills-ol-struggles-dl-disappoints-against-titans-4-reasons-to-be-encouraged-7-reasons-to-worry.html The way this is worded puts the emphasis on the O, but notice it could be re-worded "the Bills defense allowed Tenn. into the endzone more times than the Tenn. defense allowed the Bills O". He gives 4 reasons to be encouraged and 7 reasons to worry. The former are the Bills WR and Josh Allen. The reasons to worry start out with defense: Pass Rush, Run Defense, Coverage. I think McDermott would say "it all starts up front". On that note two of his points: Losing 2 TDs on penalties was huge.

Unless you have information, we really probably shouldn't speculate on their causes of death.

I heard it from someone who has some connections. But I don't know if it's true, or whether it affected him for this game.

Yes, a player is down when he contacts the ground with any part of his body other than his hands and feet.

But he doesn't have control of the ball in this shot. Where was he when he had control of the ball?

They did, but they also had something to do with 3 FG instead of TD and the failure to convert several "and 1" situations, including the final play of the game. Frankly, if Josh wasn't as good at extending plays and escaping pressure as he is, it would be a lot clearer that the OL needs help. But just to be clear, I've repeatedly made the point that the offense (including the OL) were far from our biggest problem with the L. That would be the unit that couldn't get one single stop in the 2nd half of the game. Rumor has it that Dawkins had Covid and it affected him, sure, but that he's been leading "the Glamorous Life" and that's been a distraction at times.

We don't have anything wrapped up. But in terms of analytics it was the correct call

All QB miss open receivers. He hit open receivers too, which is why we scored 31 points. Which is usually enough to win, if your defense doesn't give up 34 points and fail to get even one stop in the 2nd half.

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Hi. I'm the NFL stat sheet. Do you realize this was the first game of the season the Bills didn't run for more than the league average # of rushing yards? Before this game we were #12 for rush yards and YPC. "hair away" doesn't get the job done. The OL and the offense in general wasn't the worst problem, but they were disappointing tonight, for sure.

That could be a point FWIW I was with you

I acknowledge the "other than THAT Mrs Lincoln, how did you like the play?" factor in what I'm about to say, but aside from that long TD run where Poyer got wrapped up in a bundle, Henry ran for 67 yds on 19 carries. That's 3.5 ypc, which for Henry constitutes containment.

No QB who completes 74.4% of his passes for 353 yds missed "a bunch" of wide open WR

Eh, that's one play. But this is now two games where the D did not manage a single stop in the 2nd half of a game. It concerns me.

Um, No. There were a couple of times when a defender got a hand on it causing it to wobble.