Bleeding Bills Blue

We had some stinkers the last 2 years too :-D We're consistently inconsistent

Franchise tag will be around 16 million for a WR. We will have around 35 million if we cut TT.... The following starters are UFAs: R.Humber J.Matthews K.Williams L.Johnson P.Brown E.Gaines Almost 20% (22% of projected 2018 cap) of our salary cap is tied up in 2 players - who won't even be playing tomorrow. Most people would look at our roster next year and see --- No QB, need to draft one this year Old RB, need to get younger there 1 WR, bunch of scrubs LBs, we don't have any really next year except lorax We need every pick we got, and we need to keep costs down while we ride out the terrible glenn/dareus/clay contracts.

So what... they spent a ton of picks on their QB already. Their roster has some top end talent, and they want to try and maximize it and get into the playoffs. I don't blame them, they're new to LA and have been bad for so long that nobody cares to go watch them. We on the other hand don't have our QB, we have a lot of overpaid guys, and are clearly rebuilding. A talented WR isn't putting us over a hump, and we probably don't franchise him because it hamstrings your cap while you work on a negotiation. So he probably walks, and in order to get the comp pick you have to be a little less active in Free agency. We got a better pick and a player for it. I don't know that the rams franchise him either... their best CB, WR, and MLB are all UFAs....

At the same time... i do think that we could beat them? Like they'll have a better record this year - but i think we beat them H2H. Pressure on a young QB, and stopping gurley would hold their O back.

Bring em all back - do we make the playoffs...? No. Do the rams make it this year? Probably not. Donald want's an extension, sammy's a FA, Trumaine Johnson's a FA, Ogletree's a FA. They'll have cap space... but not if they re-sign those guys, and if they don't their roster is paper thin. The jury is out on Goff being the man as well. If he's good - they'll have a shot at playoffs.

We don't know what the extension negotiations were like (if they occurred at all), and we decided not to exercise the 5th year likely because of issues with injuries. If you don't think that our training staff and doctors looked him over before they made that decision you are wrong. Truth be told - they very likely weren't going to franchise him because it ties up a lot of the cap and he was going to hit the open market. He seems like the type of player who wants his money now, In exchange for 1 year of his service we would POSSIBLY get a 3rd round comp pick in 2019. Instead we got a 2018 2nd round pick, and Gaines who is currently starting at CB. I look at it like this - we weren't a WR away from a super bowl this year. If you don't see him with the organization in 2018 and beyond... it makes sense to maximize value in your rebuild. They didn't pick up the option because they had injury concerns. The team dr's probably looked it over and were unsure if he'd have ongoing issues. The trade came later when we received an offer to build the team quicker for hopefully long term success.

How does this dude have any money left to sue the patriots?

True - forgot about him. His goal is the boundary, with maybe a man to beat.

You don't need to be a running back to be the pitch back on an option. High schoolers can do it. It's not about cutbacks or vision, its about speed - so tate or clay would be my choices.

And you can use that aggressiveness against him if you screen o'leary behind him with dawkins/cogs in front of him blocking.

Zone read - maybe use clay in motion as the pitch back behind taylor on an option. Or have McCoy follow for the pitch while Tolbert is the handoff back. You can do it from pistol too with Tolbert behind and McCoy to the left or right of taylor. Taylor reads the LB on the pitch, and the end for the hand off...

They are a bit of a mess as a team in LA. No one will go to their games until they're good, their best player skipped camp and wants a dareus deal, their qb isn't very good yet, they pay their receivers a ton, and will pay them more if they extend Sammy. They're going to be cap strapped soon.

Sometimes it's the threat, have the guy in motion going the opposite direction... if nobody moves with him u don't hand it off. He can be the pitch on an option too if you add zone read. Can add a shovel pass too... gets the defense moving horizontally away from your run play.

It's not all qb... you have to make sure that everyone else knows what they're supposed to be doing.

This past game really wasn't a chance to use any of those plays. They weren't blitzing, their stunts wouldve blown up draws, they were playing a decent amount of press or at least close to the line... so none of those plays really work. You need to get the defense moving side to side. A reverse at the right time would have been pretty good, or more waggle type plays designed to get 1x1 matchups with tyrod on the go. They have to respect tyrod in that situation so it can help create some space in the run game.

The NCAA does it with zone read and package plays. I don't need to audible - i just either hand off or keep it, the blocking scheme is the same. If its a package play i either hand it off, or roll right and have a 2 player read. If nothings there I run. I think KC definitely does some stuff with package plays. You use presnap motion to create additional action like a fake reverse, etc. It only takes doing that tyreke hill reverse one time for like 60 yards for you to have to respect it. Then you have to do something else to give the guy a chance. This aint the 90s... and we don't have the WRs built to consistently win 1x1 matchups.

Or so they can adjust while i bark out gibberish. The patriots are so formation independent that motion doesn't affect the route combinations, so they move people around just to move them. Identify the good match-ups, and if you don't like it, its really easy to change the play.

There is such a thing as intelligent play design, and the QB trusting what he sees. It's all a game out there too, yelling out gibberish half the time to see what the defense does.

Roman. He took forever to call plays so we were always just getting lined up as the play clock winded down.

I would use motion on almost every play... it helps with press coverage too. Occaisionally lining up your receivers tight helps create more space on the sidelines... where our QB is more comfortable throwing the ball I don't mind i formation in the running game, if you can pass out of it too. We haven't done a good job of it yet. Line up 2 WR on the left and TE on the right... force the action to the right with a run, and WR slants to the right. Roll left and have clay cut across. They were in Man coverage most of the day so taht leaves probably the WLB covering clay, and covering TT's legs

Feels like we're absent motion sometimes too, and we always line up our receivers wide.

There doesn't need to be that many audibles... switching out of an I formation would be one i would stress. You can zone run out a pistol or shotgun, and with a short QB he can see better with deeper drops. I also felt like the snap count this past game was getting jumped all over as well. Need to mix it up more.

We should train our guys at love canal... maybe the chemicals will give them super powers!

i know that he missed oleary on that one... but he did throw it to dimarco passed the sticks for what should have been a first. Felt like he saw oleary but knew with pressure in his face he was going to have to loft that thing up there.

His motor is awesome. I think its a really good coach/player pairing. I didn't know much about him, but when we signed him I was definitely curious as to why we gave him what seemed like a lot of money.