Hapless Bills Fan

"Somehow became its own thread"? With a post and a message at the header of both the original and the new thread, I didn't think there was a mystery. Agree, it was an overreaction, and it was making a distracting amount of noise in the weekly game thread. That's why it got its own thread. What do you mean by "regardless of W/L" and "accept this"? Now you're just making stuff up.

The Steelers didn't blitz. At all. OK, maybe once or twice? Instead they overloaded one or another side to successfully bring pressure with 3 or 4, then blanketed the field with 6 or 7 DB. Maybe I just don't like Warner as an analyst.

How about a quick summary of his main points, so it's not just "Oh look, a Former Player now Talking Head with a Take!"

I mean, I Get It that you feel this way. But how does it hurt YOU or anyone else who stays home, if other fans want to go? Planespotting is done at airports. Trainspotting is done at train stations or rail yards. Planespotting is a Thing. I think they're both silly things, but how does it hurt me if other people enjoy them?

But according to what you wrote in your OP, one more game will give you that big enough sample, AmIRite? This did not go where I expected it to go

Yes. But he didn't play like baby Incognito

What if our hobby is Planespotting?

SNAP! If it's lost its uniqueness and specialness for you, there seems to be a simple and a practical solution... .....don't you go

I can't find it at the moment, but I saw an analysis where someone compared their motion and concluded Haack (not Hauck) takes an extra step. Either way, my point stands that that still shot doesn't show a thing about how the punt got blocked. The punter still has several steps to take, and the question is still unresolved as to whether the blockers and personal protector will pick everyone up. I want a pony. Neither of us is getting what we want.

So far, So good! Keep 'em coming 'lil Dirty!

He looks like Big Brother sitting in his little sister's play chairs next to Maddy Glab. That chair is 100% too small for a guy that size. GROOOOOOOOOOT!

Yeah, this is where IMO the people who are all "Allen is regressing" "Allen is just like 2019 (or 2018)" either don't know what the hell they're watching, or are just chasing stats. Is Allen missing a couple of throws where he's not under pressure and he should hit them? Yes he is, but he did that last year too. Is Allen under a very high rate of pressure? Yes he is. But in the Miami game he took the short, quick hits OR threw the ball away, and he didn't do that enough in 2019. In 2018 he would have just pulled it and run, or fought to make a play and taken a sack or thrown a pick. Throwing the ball away and taking the quick hit will drop his completion % and his YPA, but that decision making is part of his progression towards becoming a complete NFL QB. Daboll said something in his Monday presser very similar to Kubiak's conclusion, that he told Allen "I don't care how many times you throw it away, just make good decisions".

It was posted in the Dolphins Postgame thread with some excerpts, but easily deserves its own thread. And I'll say again, this guy knows his stuff. He is detailed and backs up his opinion with charts and film and uses a "do your job" coaches play-by-play grading system Kubiak IMO is worth the $1/month intro special to check it out for a few months. Then either cancel, or decide it's worth it and subcribe. Here for my excerpts:

This has already been discussed with far more than a single still shot as Bojo is starting his steps, before the guy breaks through (note that he is still 13 yards behind the LOS here and has not started his steps yet). Go here for schematic and text description of what the "fail" in the blocking scheme was. Steve Tasker said that Haack should have been 15 yards back, but I've been stopping film and looking at the yards and I think it's SOP across the league to shorten the distance down near the endzone - seemed to be 13 when kicking from inside the teams own 25.

He is slower. Bojo is a "2 step punter" and Haack is a "3 step punter".

When 4 guys only block 3, that untouched blocker will usually block the punt no matter who ya got back there punting. Ironic given the username. "Someone off the street" is just not a guaranteed improvement, or why do you think we wouldn't have, already.

I actually did too. That said, there seem to be bodies all over the place perilously close when he kicks.

I think we're keeping Boogie inactive because he's still learning his expected role and he needs more time. That's not a knock on him, I think the Bills are asking him to master the "inside/outside" switch role they intended Q Jefferson to fill, so more different roles/needs more time to master. Special Teams. 63% of the snaps last two season, and he was a hard-hitting flyer: "BAM!" A lot of these successful STers seem to pick up that theme as a nickname. Siran Neal is apparently "Bambam" for the same reason. I am unfamiliar with the scope and quality of their ST contributions.

It's a valid question. Obviously the guy has something, or he wouldn't be sticking around on the fringes of the NFL for 6 years while new fringe talent continually comes out every season. OTOH, it also seems like we regularly get "fringe talents" like Gardner Minshew who understand the game and have heart and guts and "ball out" until the league gets a bit of film on them, then they fade off a bit and the team decides "he's not gonna take us over the top" and moves on. Or to put it another way, he IS a scrub QB, but that doesn't mean he sucks. He obviously understands the game and can play, and we take him lightly at our peril. Both are true. He made a couple of Very Bad Decisions.

I agree that Haack is slow. But on the record, he only has 2 blocked punts: one in 2018 vs the Patriots, and one vs. the Steelers. Is that "a lot of them" or, is there a difference source for info on blocked punts that aren't scored as blocked punts for some reason? I'm willing to believe there are more - someone posted a link where he actually had 2 blocked in the Patriots game but one traveled forward so it didn't score as blocked.

We didn't let Bojo go. He was a free agent, and we didn't apparently meet his terms for re-signing him. Rumor had it his GF hated Buffalo and he wanted to be on the West Coast, so he only wanted a 1 year contract at premium $$, and the Bills wouldn't do it (wanted long-term, didn't want the premium $$) It's notable that he sat on the FA market for a long time and was finally brought into the Rams camp on a minimum, 1 year contract to compete with an established punter (he lost), which may indicate that his terms were unreasonable or, that he was really only considering West Coast teams. He was then traded to Green Bay for a late-round pick swap (6th for 7th), which may indicate he didn't want to go to someplace like GB and they knew they had to trade for him so he had no choice.

He talks about the Allen INT and has a different perspective on the play, that it may have been "crossed wires": To my eyes, Allen completed a very similar throw to a well-covered Sanders in the 2nd half, so I tend to believe Kubiak that something was off with that play (one could see two of our OL past the pass rushers and out of position and not acting as though they were beaten. It was wierd) I will say that this is a superb write up by Kubiak complete with diagrams and his "do your job" grading on every play, and IMHO Kubiak's articles alone are worth the very modest trial subscription to The Buffalo News. For those of you who are "I never pay for coverage" try it, and cancel if you don't like it. You Suck, Limey 😘😘. Let us know what you see!

I would love to know how he had access to them. @GunnerBill has said NFL international customers have it, it's just we stooges in the US that are getting stiffed. IMHO it has not been uncommon, including in 2020, for Josh to miss a couple of his initial throws high. I think we're just noticing it way more this season because overall, completions are hard to come by, but I'm not a QB guru to diagnose his mechanics.

IMO this is exactly correct. I can not break down the Pitts. game. Jim Kubiak of TBN did a good job. I hope he has a better tool because the current Gamepass interface is unuseable not to mention the lack of all 22 (have I mentioned I'm salty about the lack of coach's film anywhere else?). I do think Pitts. didn't run 2 high safeties all the time. They recognized that we didn't have time to allow deep routes to develop so they flooded the short routes and trusted their pressure of 3 or 4 to hold up. But yes, that's exactly it: "really the defensive coaching staff of the other team doesnt believe you are disciplined enough to stay patient. They feel you will get impatient or bored and push the ball down field into coverage". I've only gotten through half of the Miami game, but so far IMHO the Miami game was actually a bit of a watershed for Josh because, while he did make a couple of bad decisions and miss a couple of throws, all but one of the completions he made in the first half were short or swing passes. Disciplined, boring, patient passes. And some of them didn't gain much, but most of them worked really well. Allen also threw the ball away 3 times in the first half and arguably 2 more passes were "semi-throwaways": passes to the sideline where either our WR gets it or no one does. I'm honestly puzzled by people who see 2019 or 2018 Allen. All I can figure is they're people who drink a lot and see a miss and start talking about Allen sucks now and don't really watch the game, because 2018 Allen NEVER threw the ball away, and 2019 Allen threw the ball away sometimes, but NEVER took those short passes

I think they'll give it a hot minute because Sanders "boo boo foot" and lack of practice reps with Josh during the pre-season obviously hindered timing, and I see a bunch of throws where it seems to me that timing is off. But it needs to get fixed, and fast.