Bleeding Bills Blue

Trademark of a team that is getting no pass rush.

I mean - i don't usually go on the message board during the game if thats what you mean. Is it always this doom and gloom?

Its not as if KC is bad offensively...

It's more about disciplined rush lanes. If you pressure him and he escapes he will hurt you every time either with legs or arm.

He's playing at 1T so between center and guard. He's not creating any kind of havoc, getting moved, and free blockers are getting to the 2nd level regularly.

I like the idea - its like line changes in hockey. You have a group for 3rd and long, or 3rd and short etc.

Thats also a lot of your rotation. Plugging 1 player into a rotation is one thing - now you have all these changes Addison and Hughes play the same side - 1 will play out of position no matter what on passing downs. Oliver is still the primary 3T still - but the 1T is phillips or jefferson. Jefferson would be out of position there on rushing downs. Jefferson may also rotate at DE with addison and hughes. Lot on that guys plate. Epenesa stepping up could give Hughes and addison some breathers, while also giving hughes some snaps on his natural side. Butler should be a rotational 3T but they are likely to have to play him at 1T since Phillips has struggled so badly. So even with new faces, its just a lot of turnover. No preseason, fewer practices.

Yeah - I'm starting to think he's just not very good.

Well there's the sense of urgency.

Both are big losses. Lewans a really good OT. Saffold is good at LG too but cohesion will be lost, and Lewan is a really good run blocker.

4 picks in the first 2 rounds next season too. With a young QB likely taking over, probably 2 of those go to o-line. With the extra picks you could also pull a luxury and try and get an Etienne too.

I mean - Miami truly isn't a bad team. As we saw when buffalo played them, fitz can still sling it. He had a great game against SF. But they also have blowout wins against Jax and NYJ. Outside of week 1 against NE they have scored like 30 points per game though.

He didn't outkick the coverage. The coverage just sucked. I feel like he had a couple touchbacks which are the big no no. But he's been better than in previous years.

And he was getting blasted in the run game against LA too.

I'd say taron johnson was the worst player on the field. 3rd and 20 in man coverage with kalif raymond. D-line play is hard to diagnose to me. If a player loses the edge it may be by design, you never really know.

On both of these it looks like he made a decent play no?

I just meant it like... myself and the people that i play with - we are not good. Even the guys who played in high school etc. And most probably would've caught that. So I don't wanna hear about how it should've been over here instead - catch the friggin ball, its literally your job.

The dline just isn't working together. Hughes taking snaps on his off side has been troubling since the communication hasn't been great. Caught up field in the run game, letting clean blockers to the 2nd level, losing outside contain on run blitzes, losing outside contain on pass plays. I think some of the run fits have been bad, especially johnson.

There was one that was low but i thought he shouldve had it, i know there was a 2nd but i cant remember what happened.

Good point. Even worse. Poor offensive execution - but the defense followed with even worse execution. We force a 3 and out and we have a chance to score there before half as well.

They flipped the field down 14-7 and Tenn drove 90 yards in like 3 minutes. That to me was the breaking point. 14 or even 17-10 at half is soooo much better than the 21-10.

I wouldn't say ST cost us this game - but last season there were a few pretty poor performances. The NE game featured a blocked punt for a TD in a game buffalo lost by 6. Lots of makeable missed FGs. Bojo seems to have improved on the punting aspect of his game, but it seems like the kick/hold motion is a little wonky. I don't know if theres like - approach issues, snap issues, whatever.

Also a very catchable pass. Worst case you trap that thing in the ground. Some how he found a worse worst case.

I've played enough touch football to know - that was a very catchable ball. Same with the knox one. Same with the diggs one. The roberts one seemed to go right through his hands and into his shoulder pad.

1 - It's not always the DE on the edge, especially on passing plays. 2 - Backups that are good enough to start, tend to leave and start. 3 - There are vet's there. Hughes, Addison, Hyde, Poyer, etc. The entire defense seems like they haven't fit together yet. They're also banged up all over. I know hyde hasn't missed games yet, but he's banged up. White. Edmunds. Milano. Wallace. They brought back a lot of players, but the defensive line is massively different than a year ago. Hughes is playing snaps on his off side. The Nose tackles aren't doing their job. There just isn't any cohesion there yet and it shows. Continuity was one of the things teams had as an advantage going into a truncated offseason. Our major roster turnover was there, and along the offensive line (where they're also struggling a bit).