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Bleeding Bills Blue replied to Lafromboise's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
If we struggle to run the ball out of the gate under center, i think they'll be forced to add some pistol concepts just to get that part of the game going. Also - pistol/option was MONEY in the red zone last year and we'd be stupid to ignore that. -
He got him at a discount, and is transitioning away from Malcolm butler. He can play any style of defense, and doesn't have any glaring weaknesses. Having said that. At least several of the guys named above would be considered better players than Gilmore. Also not many of them were available without giving up compensation, so its hard to say what Belichick would have done. \ Bouye was, but he's largely limited to playing in zone so i don't think thats a good fit for Bill, who prefers a player who can play in any style. I don't either, but he's pretty good. Bumps well, plays over and under style, can do zone, has pretty good hands. His tackling is pretty lousy/lazy, he doesn't seem to wrap up very often. He also seems to have poor mental games where he's routinely beat. In those games he'll tend to get flags, and look for flags when he gets beat. He also had games where he played like a shutdown corner. Better tackling, and a little more mental toughness and I think he could get there. I look at it like this - he has a better chance to become a great corner in NE than in BUF. Talib was good-not-great in TB, then went to NE and Denver and became a shutdown guy. Some guys come right out of college and dominate, other ones take a bit more time and coaching.
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sammy watkins subject on gmfb
Bleeding Bills Blue replied to Lafromboise's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Definitely a big question mark. I think Lynn showed that a new play-caller isn't necessarily a bad playcaller. Game-day playcalling isn't as complicated as game-planning based on film study and defensive trends. Hopefully he learned a thing or two in his many years under Kubiak. -
sammy watkins subject on gmfb
Bleeding Bills Blue replied to Lafromboise's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Both had 1000+ yards and 5 TDs. Yes a decline, but they also had Siemien and Lynch at QB. Sub 60% passers. Year before they had noodle-arm manning, and Brock O. I don't know that his scheme was the result or just the massive decline in QBs from 2014-2015/2016. But he's also never had like... a premier unit at any stage. I like the fact that he's had both good passing and good running units though. That makes me think he'll adjust to player strengths. -
yeesh! didn't have a lot of mustard on it either.
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sammy watkins subject on gmfb
Bleeding Bills Blue replied to Lafromboise's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/RomaGr0.htm He had a concept of running the ball and not turning it over. If that's the goal, you first off need to have a good defense. The 2nd thing you have to do is simplify passing concepts to avoid high traffic areas, and "throwing people open". He probably had a lower 3 and out % in SF because Gore is more of a hard nosed running back, and McCoy has a tendency to get negative plays. -
They still don't. They have Abdullah if he can stay healthy this year. I never was that impressed with him though, he needs to use his speed better. I hate matt stafford, but for an unjustified reason. He's a fine QB, he just looks like a guy who skipped out on like 4 months rent and cost me a couple hundred bucks.
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sammy watkins subject on gmfb
Bleeding Bills Blue replied to Lafromboise's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
The Greg Roman passing offense doesn't get YAC really. Its a lot of out routes, dig routes, go routes, occasional posts. No RB screens, no slants, no bubble screens. Watching guys like landry and antonio brown rack up catches and yards by essentially running the ball with screens, quick slants, and drags must drive sammy crazy. Considering that is what he excelled at in college. -
Glad Mike Williams Was Off The Board When We Picked
Bleeding Bills Blue replied to H2o's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
but but but adam schefter!? -
sammy watkins subject on gmfb
Bleeding Bills Blue replied to Lafromboise's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
we were really good in the red zone last year fwiw I dunno - when he wasn't healthy it was like beating a dead horse trying to get him involved. But when he's healthy i think he opens things up quite a bit. -
Glad Mike Williams Was Off The Board When We Picked
Bleeding Bills Blue replied to H2o's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Hopkins has been pretty good hasn't he? Between this, watkins, and bryants suspensions though... not a good look. -
Both KC and OAK did a good job taking care of the football last year. A nice outlier and regression example would be carolina with 39 takeaways in 2015, and 27 in 2016. Both very good numbers, so that suggests that their defense was good at taking the ball away. They had 19 turnovers in 2015 and 29 in 2016. They went from +20 to -2, and 15-1 to 7-9. They had some terrible luck last year with turnovers and losing close games. They were in Miami territory and rivers threw a pick 6 and they lost. The 2 raiders games were there for the taking, and their defense is underrated. They added Mike Williams, and get Keenan Allen back. Added Okung on the line. Still have Rivers and Gordon. New HC in Anthony Lynn. Bringing back Whisenhunt who was really successful in his 1 year in SD. They could win that division and I wouldn't be surprised.
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Their defense is legit, and they were rolling along until Anderson got hurt. Lost a couple tight ones too. I look at Oakland as the team with a decent chance of regression. Lots of takeaways, not a lot of turnovers so they had a massive TO diff. Really good record in super tight games - the NO conversion at the end baltimore was at midfield with a minute left down 1 on 1st down chargers fumbled on in the red zone in the 4th quarter of a 3 point loss, and then fumbled with a 3 point lead in the 4th quarter the 2nd time) win over TB in OT tight win against Carolina. If anything that shows me that San Diego could be decent with a little luck on their side.