Livinginthepast

I agree, its both the scheme and the talent. Soft zone is fine with a dominant consistent pass rush, but we havent had any of that recently. So we just get picked apart with receivers running wide open with no DB within 5-10 yards. Even an elite group of Dbs could not close on a receiver that wide open fast enough. To make matters worse the current db group seem to lack ball awareness and game intelligence. They rarely turn around on coverage and never anticipate or jump a route. This is what losing Poyer, Hyde and Milano in their primes has done to us. Elam to me looks like a Db that has all the tools but cannot seem to read the play fast enough. Bishop shows promise but then looks lost at times. What especially bugs me is Mcd's penchant for staying the course on a scheme that isnt working (like his soft zone) instead of switching to man . Is this current Db group just not capable of switching on the fly? Or would they be even worse in man? As for the defensive line, they need to be better, the pressure has sometimes been non existent and the tackling when Qbs like Goff and Stafford were bottled up has been hit and literally miss.

The Bills D had no answers for the 30th ranked offense in the first half. They got the win only because of the offense and the Pats gifting them turnovers. We cannot do that against any quality team in the playoffs or it will look exactly like the Bengals playoff game from 2 years ago. I get they are walking wounded on the defense but McD and Babbich have to scheme these players into situations where they can succeed and soft zone with no pass rush is not it.

Morris with the butter fingers on the hands team! Almost Billsy!

Wow the dbs left that guy open by 5 yards! What a scheme by Babich.

First sack of the game??

OMG these refs !!

Every play is PI with this defense and no sacks??

Cam Lewis just made a play!!

Thats another one Shakir should have had!

Finally a turnover!!

Ah the McD give them extra time to perfect their play on offense Time out.

Put your hand up if you are worried about a hail mary completion right now!

OMG that was catchable !

The Pats are getting pretty decent pressure so far.

Wow what a concept! The Pats Dbs look for the ball when they are defending a pass.

Why doesnt Babich call a pass defense that confuses this QB? He is a rookie after all. He looks like Brady back there.

Wow STs are garbage again!

I would prefer throwing to an open reciever.

WTF why would he throw that pass?? Double coverage with the receiver blanketed.

how is that not grounding?

Wow we have been a steaming turd on D so far.

What pisses me off more than anything is the molasses pace of adjustments on D when things are not working. Also I hate that they look like the Pats !

Wow pathetic defense and once again nobody turns around on the coverage.

It would be so nice if just for once, the Bills Dbs just turned around on a pass.

I thought the same thing. He seemed to be incredibly upset, like Dell was dead and of course the directors of these broadcasts seem to just love to overly focus on the drama of it all. One thing is for sure the whole Texans team seemed to lose interest in winning after that. Which is understandable. As a selfish Bills fan I was more focused on the fact that the Chiefs once again saw the stars align and walk out of there with a victory when bad luck befalls an opponent.