Bleeding Bills Blue

They have updated rosters in previous maddens - you can download peoples custom ones online. It's a pain in the ass, but i can get madden 18 or whatever for probably like 4 bucks. I heard the gameplay in this one was tremendously mediocre and glitchy too.

History was against him. Prospects with his skills went much later and did much less. Even against 2nd rate competition his numbers weren't great. If he had a Wentz or McNair final year people might have bought in more. Basically he was favre like 30 years later, when spread system guys are putting up 50 TDs. Hard to project.

After that week all i can think is we need a real investment in the big nickel player. And we'll probably need another corner. TEs in the draft never do much in year 1 it seems.

You can do that like - now in hindsight. But to throw Dodson out there as a nickel corner with no practice probably wouldve had a similar result. You can make it a sub package sure - But now you're likely limited in coverages you can run as well. Man is basically out unless you think one of those LBs can run with Kupp. They were making adjustments based on where our guys were lining up on the LOS etc. We really needed a 12th man to screw with them a bit.

A greg roman offense is really built around running. Its a ton of formations, ton of looks, ton of plays. But the things i always noticed: 1 run to get in makeable down and distance. Athletic QBs work in that they can add a read to rushing plays. 2 condensed formations - easier to block for runs, plays work from either hash, outside man can still head to the boundaries 3 don't turn it over, sacks are better 4 vertical routes are run constantly to force teams to keep safeties back - thus opening up the run game again. You have to take the vertical shots at times since an 8 man box is almost asking to get attacked downfield. 5 A lot of the passing game is timing - out routes, hitches, comebacks - the ball is out before the receiver has even turned. So for those saying - he needs weapons... They drafted speed in duvernay and have brown, they have 3 backs so they can gash you with fresh legs. They have a boundary weapon in Andrews. A top level offensive line with stanley and brown. Only thing i think they could use is a better WR who can run more precise routes - but again, they have to have speed to be a good fit there.

For sure - but the twitter trolls who constantly criticize allen for ball placement didn't have anything to say there. The blame went to andrews only.

Ford got his ass kicked in the passing game. Morse helped him here and there and sometimes that still wasn't enough. Allen is pretty good at shaking that free rusher. This worked quite a few times as allen was able to maneuver around and buy time.

Vicks best year was with Reid oddly enough. Built a structure around him - improv will happen, but scheme to the players strengths. Note - buffalo brought in dennison to run a west coast zone rushing offense... with a QB who holds the ball and a power offensive line. People were like andrews dropped that 2nd TD and all i was thinknig was... thats a TOUGH catch.

Yeah - if the chiefs defenders could catch he may have a couple picks too. I also think the chiefs not passing on 3rd or 4th and 1 was a big miss. The ravens cannot stop your pass game, get the first.

my wife came downstairs after the rams scored and said "what happened?!" and I had a strange calm and confidence and replied "It's fine - Josh has got this" That to me was my vote of confidence.

Yep. Allen got 2 15 yard penalties... took a terrible sack. Hell the team gave up 29 unanswered points. But the guy didn't waver or let the team around him know.

He definitely got caught in the wash too much, and caught up field too much. But the zone scheme was moving our guys and creating holes. all over the place.

Makes sense, they play 11 personnel like the entire game - they also mix in no huddle quite a bit to force buffalo into similar looks. Not everyone's going to be able to do that, but they're one of the best at PA for a reason.

I probably would - the touch passes have been on so far this year, but I'm not trying to give time to guys like diggs and brown to uncover.

The ravens just blitzed the crap out of allen, and he failed the test.

Tend to agree. There were a few drops that were drive killers, and his overall pocket presence at the end of the game was just... panic. The big thing that I noticed was after those drops? He's hanging his head, his body language is poor. I understand being on the field expecting greatness, but you have to exude confidence as a QB - a true field general. Cam Newton to me is a good example of this - he had his MVP campaign and honestly became a bit of a diva.

Cupcake schedule. They'll be in the playoffs this year and hell put up numbers. He had a few drops too. Biggest thing was... down 14 or whatever. He couldn't keep emotions in check. I feel like that's something you have to learn to be successful.

70 if u take out the sacks...

Missed tackles, missed gap assignments, and just generally the dline seemed gassed and couldnt rotate when they went no huddle.

Rams scheme their guys open really well with play action too. That creates space. Their run game keeps them ahead of the sticks. And for whatever reason they never get called for holding. A lot of the jets/dolphins game guys were where they needed to be - honestly fitz just played a good fitz game and his timing and throws were absolutely on-point. Good throws beat good coverage. But you will see guys making plays on the ball and focusing on pass breakups. Once you have a team in 3rd and 8 - those throws become a bit tougher.

The Miami gameplan was definitely built around hiding LB deficiencies. The Rams game was just getting gashed with misdirections all day long. While the team hasn't been getting a ton of sacks, there's been pressure a fair amount. LAR did a nice job moving the pocket, creating bootlegs and half-boots to find soft spots in zone. If you take away the high low read of say woods, higbee, kupp - you've likely over played the one side of the field and an easy throw to an open receiver is available in the middle of the field.

At one point a guy flew at him like a missile and just bounced right off him. BRO! you have arms! you have hands! USE THEM!!

I'll be interested to see the lowlights of the interior dline. I feel like oliver/jefferson were out of position up field a lot and in turn this caused phillips and butler to get beat up and pushed around. This also leads to linemen getting to the 2nd level and getting to LBs. Something tells me we were out-schemed in the 2nd half - and too much was going on too fast for the team to rally.

That Kamara TD cost me a fantasy week. They just like... cannot tackle at all.

I feel like every 4th round pick WR just flames out - hell half the first round ones do. I think bringing someone along in a position of strength instead of throwing them to the fire seems to work. He may also just have the "IT" factor needed to be successful at this level. Who knows?