Bleeding Bills Blue

Yeah - if teams want to roll straight man coverage and don't have the corners to do it that can get you in trouble too. Play action, bunch formations, pick plays, pump fakes etc. There's ways to scheme open in man coverage.

Yeah they made that Mack trade to like - be elite. And it sort of worked year 1 with all those takeaways. Trubiskey is a miss tho, so back to the drawing board. I'd expect them to draft a QB but they may also be in the market for a vet.

I'll agree to an extent. Last year's bears had a ton of turnovers and short fields. We haven't been doing much of that so we're asking the offense to take care of the ball. Pittsburgh or SF would be the ones expected to regress in that category YoY.

Ypa is very completion percentage dependant. He had a high air yards per attempt

I know the bengals are bad - but man the steelers are banged up... JuJu has 2 injuries, their #2 receiver johnson is also hurt, they couldnt run the ball before and they're out pouncey for a few weeks with a suspension. They played a few weeks back and pittsburgh beat them down (8 sacks, 2 takeaways, 175 total yards) - So they probably take this one... but i wouldn't be counting W's on their schedule outside of maybe this one. Especially with how much Rudolph has regressed recently. They're going to need turnovers and short fields to even win this game comfortably, but I'm not sure they're going to do enough to finish above like 8 wins this year.

What about Kenyan Drake? Or Jordan Howard?

Right? Newhouse is starting for the best team in the league! True, but it gives you another tackle on the 53 to replace nsekhe. And a guy who's started 40 games in the league vs. a rookie UDFA. Especially when the current starter has struggled at times this year.

I think part of this "play fearless" thing had something to do with him. He's been one of the offenders in the tentative game the past few weeks. It's not just about fitting your gap, he wasn't attacking his gap, disrupting play, or finishing downs. He did all 3 of those things this week.

They have had 17 different players catch a pass this year. Their leading non-edelman WR is dorsett. Gordon didn't do much, and sanu is new. They need Harry to step up, and they need to find a LT who doesn't flat out stink.

I feel like we got one popped up in the air INT in every one of those games including the loss. That'll happen but to catch all of them is absurd. That and all the defensive TD's... which are also really hard to replicate.

Yep - either kicker didn't kick it where it was supposed to go, players over pursue, or get caught out of their lanes. Same for the onside kick - coach isn't going to be in your ear before every one going "look out for the fake" - you're supposed to pay attention to the kicker, the ball etc.

he was late a few times in coverage this week - but maybe he didnt break it up... he was laying lumber all day tho.

He was getting swallowed up a lot, and not covering his gaps in the zone scheme. I get that our d-line needs to prevent clean guys getting through but if he doesn't attack the gap then he's not even muddying it up and letting the guy get to the 2nd level really easily.

Regarding the eagles - most of the damage was done with screens and obviously the 200+ on the ground. Eagles also didn't have Jeffery, and Matthews is a huge downgrade there especially 1x1. Some of those 0 blitzes don't happen with a guy like Jeffery available in a 1x1 situation. The patriots rush discipline basically took away the screen game and their man cov. helped them get 5 sacks as Wentz is getting forced to hold the ball. Agholor dropped a chance to tie the game, but it felt like they deserved to lose the game. They couldn't get the run game going, and couldn't give Wentz the extra time he needed. Eagles defense played pretty well though - they gave their team a shot and held the patriots under 300 yards of total O, and under 100 on the ground.

Are we looking for mahomes and wilson? Or are wentz/goff close comparisons to what we want?

He's doing a better job getting the ball out and committing to underneath passes. He's still got improvements to be made on a lot of aspects of his game 1 - the short running back plays to the outside, those are extended running plays that don't work if the ball isn't thrown to the right shoulder etc. 2 - 3rd down blitzing - he's gotta do a better job identifying, not taking sacks, delivering accurate balls 3 - Deep passing - obvious 4 - Pocket prescense - still bails from clean pockets. 5 - Eye discipline - did a lot better against miami, but its probably what cost us the cleveland game. 6 - Playing a complete game - even against miami he had drives where he just missed 2 throws and it was an immediate punt.

Yeah - i know he got hurt last year but come on. He didn't even have to cut! Legit grab any part of him... you can even justifiably grab his facemask or horse collar and ur preventing a free TD.

Beating lamar is going to be about confusing him - not blitzing. That confusion needs to be through coverages not necessarily who's rushing whom. You also just HAVE to contain their run game and tackle well. Buffalo has a lot of speed at LB which helps. It's also a home game - maybe we'll get some windy conditions to limit their down field attack.

I wrote it on another thread - but man... a lot of QBs i watched yesterday looked absolutely lost. Watsons holding the ball and probably spiked 10-15 passes into the ground, trubiskey just flat out sucks, wentz can't hit a WR clean from 10-20 yards out, Goff can't hit a single pass that requires any type of velocity (but he can hit a deep ball!). I think trubiskey is going to get dumped, but Wentz and Goff got paid. Goff's boundary throws look like peterman - and teams are taking away the deep overs. Wentz has new receivers every week so part of it might be chemistry - and agholor sucks. Watson was shocking to watch - had it on my tablet and it was just like... he couldn't deliver the ball on time and was constantly low on throws or getting sacked. Yeah - that team can make the playoffs but good luck scoring the amount of points necessary to beat a playoff brees, brady, mahomes, wilson.

I'd like him to get the accolade as i think he's likely going to transition into a #2 in the next couple of years. When they signed him i thought he'd be here 2 years as a speed WR, now it looks like tremendous value for 4 years as a serious #1 into #2 WR.

I think he should just hire a GM. He's already president of football ops. He can eventually become team president or something. And it creates some natural promotional path for the GM - if he's qualified. But he needs to take a step back. If they play like they did against miami - they'll win. They played with a sense of urgency on both sides of the ball. Front 7 played with a chip on their shoulder and made plays along the LOS and tackled really well. They pressured the QB with a variety of different blitzes and stunts and fakes. Offense came out and attacked - and didn't play scared in blitz situations.

After watching - Patriots-Eagles, Niners-Cardinals, and Rams-Bears? Even a bit of Watson against baltimore. I feel a lot better about Allen. People complain about the misses, but Trubiskey is a year further along and seems more lost than 2018 Allen. He barely throws the ball more than like 5 yards and most of them are boundary throws. Goff has a nice deep ball but he is very scattershot on throws that require even a little zip, and his pocket management is poor to say the least. Brady was missing on pretty much everything over 10 yards. Wentz misses a lot... They beat us with run game and screens.

Yeah - he's alright as a backshoulder option 1x1 because you have to respect his speed. But it's nicer when you have size there. A lot of it's just chemistry though.

They doubled him on that Josh Allen TD run. corner played under and safety was helping over/middle. No one was on that side of the field when allen took off.

Any given sunday. I don't look at KC/Indy/Houston as unbeatable juggernauts.