Sisyphean Bills

Is "drop your coverage" really a play?

I agree that it often happens here. But, I just gave 2 examples up thread of teams that were very aggressive in terms of new coaches restocking their rosters. Teams that didn't just settle for the best 53 out of the guys they brought to camp. PS: The Rams had 60% turnover in 2012, though they did get younger and Fisher isn't a rookie. PPS: The Eagles, Browns, and Bears were in the top 10 spenders in free agency with rookie head coaches this year. http://www.nfl.com/n...ongterm-success (BTW, Marrone got the nod for 1st to go in this article.)

Not that he would of taken it. Besides, the Bills were too busy going after Mario Williams.

It's hard to stay $20 million under the cap in the NFL.

With respect to screens, perhaps it has something to do with losing one of the best pulling guards in the game and replacing him with a guy that can only work in a narrow phone booth ... with someone else helping him out.

Other than QB (assuming someone would call Kevin Kolb a QB), they don't invest in veteran depth before August either. By my count, there are only 2 players on the roster that are not listed as starters with more than 5 years of experience -- and both of them get plenty of playing time.

The Jaguars picked up something like 11 players between the final cuts and the start of the season. The Seahawks hit the ground running 4 years ago and made more transactions than any other team by far and away. This year something like 10 of their cuts were picked up by other teams. Sometimes, it makes sense to simply go with who you brought to camp; other times, not so much.

The much advertised theory that one can just hand him the ball 30+ times a game isn't holding much water at this point. Sad is a good adjective for it.

Nice call with this post, btw. The Bills are looking like a lock to reshuffle their OL some day soon.

Well, then I guess we agree. All I was saying is that if your best "cornerback" happens to be your starting SS and your options to backfill SS are better, then you need to move the SS to CB to give your team the best chance to compete. Yes, I agree that's not rocket science, but you'd be surprised. Bingo.

Yeah, well, this is a professional team, isn't it? They may have to move Williams back to CB simply because they don't have anyone better.

You could "run" the plays faster.

It may be hard to get open if the defender knows what route you are going to run pre-snap even if you are faster than a speeding bullet.

If he "won" the job, as you say, doesn't that imply that the backups are, well, worse? Which, I agree, is surreal to consider, at best.

Makes one wonder just how bad Johnny Adams is. On a more serious note, we haven't quite reached the Rams of a couple years ago level of decimation. They went through something like 10 or 11 starting cornerbacks, IIRC.

There really is no question that CJ's best game is playing in space. Yeah, maybe Chan knew a thing or two about offense after all.

Yeah, he was right back in there. Besides, Urbik being out really doesn't excuse Brown's lack of talent, skills, and abilities.

He is really brutal.

Gailey was very good at seeing the strengths and weaknesses on offense. He put together a unit that was below average in talent in many positions, coached them up as a unit, and was able to move the ball, even against good defenses. Gailey's problem was, and this was true in previous gigs for him, that he stuck with limited players for too long. He got stuck in a rut with a spread offense, that could only play a short, horizontal passing game; because, not only was it the strength of his key and limited players but it had worked fairly well early on. He just didn't have any other cards to play -- they didn't have the players to go multiple TEs and smash a defense on the ground, for example. Not all NFL DCs are as complacent and indolent as Wannstedt and thus they worked to take away what worked for Gailey's offense and he had to fall back to a position of trying to pay the bill with pocket lint.

Not since Doug Flutie.

But, isn't it better to lose the inter-conference games? (I kid.)

Now there is the truth.

You think?

Well, they did only take 1 guy from the SEC ... in the 7th round.

Sure, Geno started the game making a few plays. He made a good throw to Hill as well that Hill then carried like a loaf of bread and knocked out of his own hand. But, it went sharply downhill from there. Like Wile E. Coyote walking off the edge of a cliff.