Bleeding Bills Blue

The lulls get sort of amplified when the defense struggles to get off the field.

Love the optimism! Not even being sarcastic. This place gets so doom & gloom at times. Everyone has the answers and its fire everyone and focus on the draft or something. Going into this week I never felt particularly good about this game. Their defensive line is a bad matchup for our offense, and I knew we would struggle to run the ball and with pressure up the middle. So my opinion on a loss shouldn't change, even if the way they lost wasn't good. Defense mash unit didn't get the job done either. They made quite a few plays, but they just followed them with mistakes. 2-0 on turnovers, and some ref fairy dust sprinkled on top and boom - you lose. The team knows what is in front of them now and that mindset needs to change from "not wanting to make mistakes", to "doing what it takes to win".

They just have no interior push to create problems for the quick release. We tried pressure packages up the middle to force errant throws and even they couldn't get home. LBs being total 0's in coverage and tackling meant they would carve us up in zone.

A - I dunno how you put that on dorsey. If you don't send anyone deep you end up with spacing issues. Plus occaisionally you do want to take a shot. B - Perhaps they showed a different coverage look on that play C - It was a bad throw D - It was first down, its not like 3rd and 1.

Maybe i'm think of a different one. I remember a 1x1 where the throw was to the wrong hash and he had to try and turn around for it.

I have a hard time seeing all the 10-7 teams though. Baltimore Cincy Cleveland Miami KC Jaguars 7th spot between Houston (great win but they lost to carolina the week before), Pittsburgh (ahead of us at 5-3, but a lot of games left in division and they aren't very good), NYJ (great defense but missing a QB), Chargers, and buffalo. This is all assuming Buffalo couldn't catch Miami, which i've seen nothing from them to indicate that buffalo can't.

I mean... a good throw to Harty and we might have a completion. A great throw and you might get a TD. That was neither.

That's more of an indictment on the offensive line though. We always have problems with Cincy's size and strength on the line.

They're nice at the tailgate though. Woo! My wife gave some friends them for a gift for some hardcore season ticket holder friends so I'm glad they can use them!

Yeah that is so utterly trash and disrespectful to the players.

I'm hoping he can be buffalo's version of Tom Coughlin. 4-6 in the playoffs before the first super bowl. Seemed like... kind of an a**hole, no nonsense type of dude.

Rational football discussion (mostly). Twitter is full of hot heads and young people. I'm only 36, but I don't understand half the slang and people on twitter are insane. Bet? Bet what? So stupid.

Both times hit in the pocket for the UCL injury too. Shoulder looks like he landed on it funny. He's still playing so i assume the AC joint and rotator cuff are probably fine.

It's week 18, i'm saying we might be 1 game back going into that game. Win would get us the division.

My guess is 11-5 miami and buffalo 10-6 for the division. Miami has NYJx2 (I guessed 1 loss of the two), KC, Dallas or Baltimore. That would put them at 11-5 going into week 18. Buffalo has @Cincy, @Philly, @KC, Dallas Home. I don't expect they lose all 4 of these games, but the above scenario would have buffalo winning 1 of these 4. I think they beat denver home, NY home, LA on the road, NE home. Looks to me like the playoff teams look like this in some order AFCE - Miami and Buffalo - Jets could be sneaky 9-8 or something but i see them fading like last year. AFCN - Baltimore seems to be the best team here so far. Pittsburgh will fade with limited offense, Cleveland likely will as well. Hard to string W's together without scoring points. Cincy seems to be the hot choice but their schedule is a load - Bills, @ ravens, @jaguars, @chiefs - plus another game against the browns, 2 vs. pittsburgh. There's like no way they're running through that schedule without a couple L's. Between the in-division stuff, I'd say 1 team comes out of this division. AFCS - Jaguars and likely no wildcards because these teams are all flawed in some way. AFCW - KC is the best team here. Chargers are my last-in wildcard pick. Schedule has broncosx2, LVR, NE, the jets, the packers. Just winning the games they should win there would get them to 9 wins. Sneak in a W over detroit, baltimore, buffalo or KC would get them to 10 too.

I do feel like when we were winning big - we were playing with attitude on both sides of the ball. It's a tough way to play sustained all year, but that's what you want to be as a wildcard team going into the playoffs. If we want to play physical on offense we have guys for it both passing and running the ball- Allen, Knox, Kincaid, Fournette, Murray, Davis. We also have speed and quickness with Diggs, Cook, Shakir, Harty. Defensively - 8 man rotation of guys who have ability to create havoc - hopefully Joseph can let the LBs make some plays. Back end we have smaller LBs but bigger corners and adding douglas is just another player who will hit you. We will miss tackles, and we will give up some chunks - but make them earn it. If you don't think a team like that is dangerous come playoff time... I'd say you are wrong.

I think he's hurt all the time too.

Defensive line isn't too bad. Most of what you have to know is gap integrity, and a 1T has a pretty clear gap. Other than that its "see the ball, get the ball". Stunts/twists are possible? But i doubt he'd be too heavily involved in those types of plays as they really brought him in to be stout at the interior point of attack.

I feel like its really hard to get a ton of non-clean up sacks as a 1T. Not only do you have to likely split a double team, but you're right in the QBs face and he's likely to try and escape since its the first thing they'll see.

I thought he had a nice game when we played miami a few years ago. I know it was 28-6 at half, but it was nice when he dropped that deep ball in a bucket to gabe just to stick it to the fins.

Why would you have a practice squad QB that you don't trust to play though? If they're bad.... get someone else?

1 - Confidence definitely looks shattered at the moment. Shutting him down for an ankle also gives him a chance to get his head on right. 2 - Rounds 3-5 I'd like to see a nose tackle. I'd also like DQ brought back as he has been really solid here. 3 - Dress him - first off the bench, let him get his feet under him here before we inevitably throw him to the lions den

Yeah he stinks. Phillips isn't much better at gap control, but at least he has quickness to split the double team from time to time. I'll take a negative play once in a while over nothing. Poona seems to just get moved.

If you're healthy enough to practice, you're healthy enough to play.

I don't think any of our corners have supreme ball skills, and all get hammered on back shoulder looks. But Benford and Jackson do a better job on shorter stuff keeping it in front of you, wrapping up, and timing catch point disruption. Elam's not getting his head around at all, he needs to play tighter, but i don't think McD trusts him to do so without getting penalties. Akers tore his Achilles 7/20/2021 and was active again on 12/25/2021. That's considerably shorter than any ACL injuries I've seen for a skill position player. Closest i can think of is Peterson who tore his ACL/MCL on 12/26/2011 and returned to start 9/9/2012. Only reason I'd like to see tre back is the likelihood of losing hyde. Having 2 new faces in the secondary isn't ideal.