Bleeding Bills Blue

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.

Lot of the playoff teams cannibalize each other quite a bit. Colts play - Texans, Jags, Titans - as well as saints and panthers. and already have 4 losses Texans play - Colts, NE, Denver, Titansx2 and have 4 losses Steelers play - Browns, bills, jets, ravens (week 17, but they hate each other) and have 5 losses Raiders play - 6 AFC games, 4 on the road- Jets, Chiefs, Titans, Jags, Chargers, Broncos - not an easy game really on that slate Titans - Jags, Colts, Raiders, Texansx2, saints - and have 5 losses. I think 9 wins might be enough to get the 6 seed. Colts or texans get the division and 5 seed maybe? Steelers have the easiest schedule... but they kind of suck when you watch them. Rudolph looks worse than trubiskey, and they can't run the ball. Defense can only do so much, and teams will be smart and play not to turn it over. They could lose to anyone left on their schedule, or beat them. They also play 4/6 on the road where they currently have won 1 game this year.

Their offensive line is really the issue. Killing their screen game, their run game, and pass game. They have no weapons outside of edelman and running backs - and they have no time to try and get the ball to the sanu's and harry's down the field. I think they'll continue doing what they do - stockpiling picks from free agent losses and buying low on veterans- but adding a young QB has to be somewhat of a priority at this point. Maybe Dalton or Mariota? Bridgewater?

Charks having a really nice year. I think Tyreke hill could also blow up and get like 6-700 yards in the last 6 games easy and be in the conversation.

You also have to look at it like - pulling a goalie almost. Can't let it snowball into something worse psychologically.

Would it be better if coach had him take a lap?

The better player doesn't put the ball on the turf in a 2 score game.

I mean - everything Garrett did was dumb on that play. Everything Mason did... was also dumb imo. You're seriously going to kick at the groin of a defensive end and try and rip his helmet off? I'd expect 90% of QBs to get up looking for the ref to complain. But i guess since the game was over they were just saying lets fight.

I mean, richie used to chuck them. And he'd get tossed/suspended for that kinda stuff.

6 games feels a bit light to me. I'd say indefinite so he misses regular season, and playoffs, and then decide the rest of his suspension in the offseason.

Haven't even brought up how you are more likely to get a holding penalty on a running play than a passing play - which i believe is also true. Especially when you employ Lee Smith ?. So you're more likely to gain fewer yards than on a pass play, and more likely to get a penalty (and the defense is less likely to get a penalty like PI, Illegal contact, or defensive holding). To me Play action is like a pump fake - its not going to get them every time... but if you keep doing it and run out of similar formations - its not even that they have to respect it, it just creates some space.

Can't blame them... each team only plays 16 games which is by far the lowest. Yankee stadium seats 47,000 - if they make the playoffs, they'll play a max of 11 home games. The patriots finish with the best record and they get 2.

Yeah 1 bye, 3 wildcard games and then everything else is roughly the same. The #2 seed no longer gets a bye, and the #1 is even more incentive than just home field.

I'd do division leaders tbh - gives a division title some sort of meaning - you get a home playoff game. Wonder how they'll do tv schedule wildcard weekend with 6 games. I assume you have 2 1 PM and 430 PM games - then do you have sat and sun night? Sun and monday?