Bleeding Bills Blue

Hunt on the other side too. Huge field flip. Holland forced Etienne to fumble at like the 2 yard line through the end zone. Hill had the long TD shortly after.

Hill took himself out on both of those INT plays too.

I don't judge a player on what they did 2 seasons ago when pressed into the lineup as a depth player. Bishop and Edwards missed camp, and didn't show enough to prove they should be starting. Hamlin is playing more underneath in the single high looks than Rapp fwiw as a "strong safety" but in the 2 high shell game they're basically the same position on either side. So far they've done a good job disguising who's doing what, but I'd be hard pressed to find a ton of film this season that shows Hamlin is a liability. He isn't missing tackles, getting beat deep, or looking confused.

Worthy's going to have to stay on the field and there will be some wrinkles along the way. Rice and kelce seem to be their primary cover 2 beaters, and they're content to run the ball. It'll come down to worthy making the most of the targets he gets down the field.

They've been doing it for a season now, so i assume his zone chops and ball skills aren't things that he excels in currently.

They had some effective stretch plays horizontally in the run game, they used motion to pin defenders out of the play, and tua took a number of checkdowns. But outside runs resulted in a number of no-gains and losses. Once you're behind the chains, you're less likely to toss that checkdown and thats where mistakes were made.

Yeah, seems like he chunked it on some squishy grass. I'm not sure thats going to be some major mental hurdle that he can't overcome. His XPs and other FG were all fine.

I'd have to rewatch it, did his plant foot slip a little? Did he chunk it in the grass? Something had to have gone pretty wrong for him to miss it that bad. Field conditions were pretty poor on the night.

Thats a seriously ugly chart. 3/15 for like 60 yards with 2 INTs on throws 10 yards beyond the LOS is... bad.

And for people asking about Elam - its a different animal. No sideline boundaries, lots of zone looks, and you have to tackle as much as attack the catch point. They know Williams would be a player they would target on 3rd downs. Put more speed and ball skills out there and teams are more likely to go underneath and force you to tackle. The first pick i thought for sure they were throwing short of the sticks with that defensive alignment, and tua threw a deeper throw before his guy turned his head. It's a timing issue, but turnovers are created when you play into the defenses hands like that.

Supposedly smoot was someone they were using in that sub package as well, so should be interesting to see him when he returns.

Ingram's playing the poyer role from last year. Sub-package where they take williams off, and previously would rotate him with Rapp and have poyer fill in underneath. Basically a dime look on 3rd downs. The team is in a roster transition - and they're giving guys who have been here in camp, on the PS, etc. a chance to play. Honestly, outside of a few jitters here and there they've settled in and played some good ball.

One team showed up on the road with a run game, a mean offensive line, and a physical defense. The other team showed up.

It's a pick play (not necessarily illegal) - which is the perfect call in a 0 blitz scenario. You left your linebacker in man coverage with cook, no safety help, and he was caught in the wash. Nobody ran him over, and the WRs looked at the QB. You basically left it to the refs to bail you out of a poor call coming out of a timeout. Allen said after the game, we called timeout and i said "they're going 0 blitz". It looked to me like it was thrown to the outside shoulder and MVS looked inside after ball was in the air. Right read since it looked like he was behind the defender in a cover 3, but inside shoulder invites another player to the party.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/202409120mia.htm#all_vis_snap_counts

We only ran 45 plays and gained about 5.5 Yards per play. Thats just outside the top 10 for the league last year in a per play average. The thing i liked is how much of what they did was just taking what they gave. Play 2 high off coverage? Ball is out to kincaid immediately for what felt like 8 yards per clip. They had no pass rush without a blitz, and they don't have the players capable of locking buffalo up in man. Buffalo's physicality just overwhelmed their defense. Consider this - 59 yards in the 2nd half for the bills offense, they passed 6x for 31 yards and just ran right into 8/9 man boxes. Miami ran 73 plays and gained 4.8 yards per play, which would've ranked 28th. Factor in losing turnover battle by 3, 1/5 on 4th down, and penalties - they were just... an absolute mess on offense. They usually play far better at home because they can use jet motion to manipulate the defense more effectively, and they definitely stressed buffalo horizontally, but they couldn't keep the edge in the 2nd half. You also invite more offensive penalties due to formation issues and just generally your offensive line has to get outside and its a lot easier to get caught. After the pick 6 i knew it was going to be the same few plays in different formations. The ability to open it up is there, but they needed to make it two scores before I consider changing much of what I'm doing.

I don't know that its more or less likely to occur. From my understanding it has to be a hard hit, at a specific time of a heartbeat that causes the heart to stop beating.

Just a lack of physical mean dudes on both sides of the ball.

He's a streaky type of player, he definitely can wreck a game. I just think Wilkins was more of the heartbeat along that defensive line and they kept chubb and phillips.

The dolphins are a soft team. And they played soft.

Literally all their physical players who have buffalo problems. Howard was probably washed but he also made plays against buffalo. Jackson's an athletic lineman but he ain't physical. They extended him.

I think its the sheer volume of players that makes it challenging to do it that way.

Even if its a... start someone else while you uhh deal with that?

I don't know about proved the doubters wrong, but he played like 30 snaps and made a few plays. He pressured at times in both half's, didn't have an amazing game where he looked unblockable though either.

I'll take some Hines Ward type of player.