Bleeding Bills Blue

Well the offense was 30th in points, yards, and turnovers. In the 5 mentioned blowouts the team turned the ball over 16 times. I'm not so sure the 2018 defensive playcalling was responsible for these 2018 blowouts. Week 1 Baltimore - the offense had 10 first downs and 2 turnovers. Peterman had 2 picks, and Bojo dropped a punt that they recovered in the redzone. I don't know a defense that can help that inept of an offense. Week 4 GB - 11 First downs, 145 yards, 3 turnovers, 0 points. They literally couldn't have won this game since the offense scored no points I don't know that I need to go on tbh. The offense scored 23 total points in the 5 2018 blowouts. That's less than 5 points per game. They almost averaged the same number of turnovers as points. I'm just saying - there weren't halftime adjustments to be made in these 2018 blowouts. The team was bad - they were going to lose those games.

Well the 2018 team stunk. Peterman and Derek Anderson started in 4 of those blowouts. The packers game was an early Allen shellshock game where he just got sacked a ton. 2019 Eagles - they ran the ball all day in a windy game. This year - the dline is clearly not gelled yet. I don't know that you just start firing people at 4-1 though.

Several of Phillips sacks were lawson doing it. His loss hurts too. Addison plays the other side, and murphy's struggled this year to the point that hughes is now splitting time on his off side. He doesn't look particularly comfortable doing it either.

He's a good quarterback. 1 - Athletic 2 - Good pre-snap understanding 3 - Very accurate 4 - Throws a good deep ball 5 - Quick release His struggles 1 - Pressure, he tends to drop his eyes 2 - Post-snap reads aren't as fast as they need to be 3 - Can fade in the pocket when he needs to step up For what they're asking of him - its accurate quick throws to make sure they are in makeable 3rd's and continue to move down the field. From a pre-snap perspective he is to take shots when they are there, and has a weapon in AJ brown who's good for what they need. This is all in his wheel house.

I think the limited camp hurts - especially with the loss of star. Buffalo has 4 new dlinemen, and they are struggling from a cohesion standpoint. Sometimes its not as simple as plug and play.

He's a really tough matchup for a LB in man coverage too, and has a lot of experience split out wide. You can play 11 and basically force them into using LBs in coverage against guys like him and Knox. Since they likely shade the safety to diggs in cover 2Healthy brown gives you a sideline weapon in cover 2, you have knox for over the middle and bease/bell creating problems underneath. If they want to force buffalo to dink and dunk, they have the weapons to make it happen. If they want to try and use man, they would also have mis-matches.

Turnovers are always really deflating. They scored on the 2nd play over norman and you could tell it was just... gonna be a long night for that unit.

Yeah - they let one go and it was downed at like the 3. The others were a FC and a loss. 13.7 yard average on the year for roberts too, so he's actually been really solid returning punts. The 40 yard return was a dagger.

75% touchback percentage which is 11th in the league at the moment. Here are the non TBs and starting Field positions. Jets - All TBs but the 2 below 9 yard line - kicked to 2 14 yard line - was a TB that was run out Miami - All TBs Rams - All TBs except a squib kick with 15 seconds left Raiders - 16 yard line - kicked to the 4 38 yard line - Kicked to the 3 Titans 19 yard line - kicked to the 6 12 yard line - kicked to the 2

Brett Kern is one of the best punters in the league, the guy booms them. From a return perspective - stop taking them out unless you see something. I think the drop had roberts thinking he had to make a play to counteract it... and he fumbled too. Just a brutal game for him. BoJo had a great game punting. The 40 yard return was on the coverage team imo. He didn't out kick it, it should've been closer to a fair catch the hangtime was so good. The gunner who got there first struggled to get off his block and the other gunner was really late. He also flipped the field completely on a punt. FG holds do bother me but i also wonder if its being spun wrong by the LS. They all need to get on the same page. You don't want to have to turn the laces, you want to catch and put it down.

Yeldon's not a great pass protector. As a 3rd down back its kind of one of the things you need to do. Bell is a better pass protector, has consistently caught 80 or more % of targets ( good hands and good routes), and is comfortable splitting out wide and causing LB mismatches. Prior to his 2 jets years, he was a pretty solid back as well.

Yeah - its just tougher to define a role when CEH has been largely pretty good so far. Buffalo would probably make him primary back as well as 3rd down. Singletary moves towards a change of pace back - and moss gets time to heal up and probably loses his role when he returns.

Reestablish ur value is the goal. Only likely to get 2 year deal beyond this so... its complicated. Chase the ring this year and possibly cost urself money? Or chase stats to get one last payday?

Thats the thing - mistakes all over (drops, presnap penalties, etc) and they lost. They know they can't do that against KC and have a chance. Hell, they can play really well this week and still get beat. KC is that good.

To me the difference was the 3 and out with 4 minutes left. Gave a team that doesn't really take a lot of shots enough time to get 7. Also - they had a 90 yard drive... 14 or 17-10 is much better going into half than 21-10. Failures there by both sides of the ball.

Bojo is 4th in the league in punting average at the moment. Also refreshing - the teams only punted 12 times in 5 weeks. His 2 TBs, and the long return have hurt his net average some (41.1)- but hes also had 2 70 yarders with no returns. Even the long punt return wasn't really his fault - that thing was in the air for more than 5 seconds. Mann has a 37.4 yard net average which is near the bottom of the league.

Practices are a lot more limited now which may have something to do with it. College is also limiting practice time so punters already have experience holding when they make it to the NFL.

I love that he continued to play with a sprained AC joint in his shoulder. Oh and they cut their best weapon on offense (that they had no idea how to use). What a dumpster fire of a team. Ravens game was a lot like this game. Turnovers (they had a few turnovers on downs as well) that lead to shorter fields. Tenn had 1 long drive against them that was pretty much the game.

Special teams has basically their own practice during practice. The long snapper goes off with kicker and punter to do drills. To have Barkley do this would impact his ability to function effectively as the #2 QB.

The line is that guys legs - he's the line judge. he was past the center point of that guy - so he should have been over the LOS. My big issue was Lewan (if he's the left tackle). It felt like he would sit back on every passing play right before the snap - his feet would set back a bit and his hips would rock a bit back. Like every time.

Thats man coverage though. Damned if you do damned if you don't. If i chase tanehill he can just lob it to the guy i just stopped covering. The key is to not let him break contain like that.

Drive 1 - Norman got beat after the INT. Drive 2 - 3rd and 20 and Johnson somehow loses kalif raymond for the conversion. They attack him again with brown. Then they score. Drive 3 - They dinked and dunked - but that DPI call was kinda bad on 3rd and 4. Other than that they pretty much attacked norman and johnson on the boundaries again. Drive 4 - started at the 12 and they got a roughing the passer call so... thats a TD. I guess i just dont get the edmunds hate. Seems like we should give more to norman and johnson. They stunk yesterday.

At least he's punting well. The long return had nothing to do with his punt either, that thing was sky high and our guys couldn't get there.

I suppose that's fair. He has made plays in his college career. I don't think anyone would've made plays yesterday tho

Qhats he have like 15 career carries?