Bleeding Bills Blue

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They detest one another too - healthy amount of trash talking and im sure it kills wilkins to basically always be on the losing end of it.

They 0 blitz because it takes away the run threat on 3rd down and the red zone. Other teams will do this if he continues to make reckless decisions in those situations. The routes need to be shorter and quicker, they need to continue to use those WR screens to punish the opponent, and the ball needs to be out quicker in those situations. I don't think it was a good playcall for the situation either fwiw.

3rd and 1 - lets try a double reverse...

You do have the option to say - they 0 blitzed and my first read wasn't there.. and i didn't get to the other side of the field... so i threw it away... and took the points.

Which one? The one where Allen threw it directly to the other team? Or the one where he threw it up to no one in particular? Also the only guy looking at allen at the time of the throw was the DB. So... don't throw the ball there. Throw it 15 feet over his head, take the points.

I think the whole "If we run the ball and allen turns it over" strategy fails to link to the likelihood of them turning the ball over. They fumbled 6 times against the ravens last week and lost 2. Rudolph was 18/20 for 152 yards, and 71 came on a catch and run (17/19 for 81 yards is less than 4 yards per pass) - he also had a likely pick 6 dropped. So even with their conservative approach, they still almost turned it over a ton. They also punted 6 times. I see them coming into a bad weather game and trying to run it to avoid exposing rudolph, but there will be 3rd and longs. And in those 3rd and longs you need to make plays, and i don't think he will. Either turnovers, sacks, poor punts, whatever - i expect rudolph to lose this game for the steelers. Get up early and they will really struggle to get back into the game.

You can just use kincaid as the slot WR in situations too. Having two tight ends who can make plays isnt an either/or type of thing - one is the superior blocker and seems to be more of a load to take down. The other is the better route runner with hands. The goal is to use both.

Eh it kind of favor's ours too though. This is why you get Josh allen - big arms, hands, running ability. This is why you have 2 solid TE's. Why you grabbed fournette and murray. That we only ran allen 6 times in that game is sort of criminal.

I don't think we made good enough adjustments on cover 0. Don't love the condensed 3x1 there in the red zone as its just going to clog the middle of the field. Also kind of kills the chances of a fade, which while its a lower percentage play is less likely to be a turnover and is really just a catch it and throw it type of play that beats cover 0. Iso Diggs on ramsey and let it rip. Even if he does that - josh is late with the throw.

wouldn't outside be... more towards the logo and not directly where apple was standing though?

#5 Josh should probably look at who he is throwing to - he might have seen that the only guy over there was in all white. Thats fine - but the throw didn't go outside either.

We add a running QB and Fournette and Murray for some additional oomph though.

Too many games and too much time overlap in the first 2 rounds. If you stagger it too much you'll have games well into November. The regional sports model of baseball/hockey/basketball is truly terrible though. A lot of those channels going belly-up as they really don't have the content to sustain eyes during non-game situations.

The playoff game is being shown on ABC as well as ESPN. But normally your only recourse is to sign up for ESPN+.

I mean... you can watch peacock on a phone. More households have internet than have cable. Like everyone has a smart phone or tablet or laptop. NBA playoffs are on TNT, same with NHL and TNT/ESPN, MLB is on several channels people don't have.

They've had TNF on prime for a couple of years - why is it different for peacock to buy a game? ESPN and NFL network are in far fewer houses - so people needed to buy a streaming service to watch those too.

It's 5 dollars, plus you get the royal rumble at the end of the month 🙂

Didn't hate the jump Offside attempt - but if im going back to the sneak after the timeout i just... run the sneak and save the timeout.

I was a little pissed on that 3rd and long completion to tyreek as i felt both he and taron johnson played it wrong. But he had a big pass breakup and INT in crunch time, so the man made plays when it counted.

His double block on that shakir catch and run was a thing of beauty. I can't put anything on gabe on that interception. Allen wasn't even looking at him. He just threw up a duck to no one in particular.

I'd mix harty in too - a little shiftier on some of the short stuff and he's lined up a bit more on the outside in the past. Healthy knox and kincaid means you can roll with 2 TEs a fair amount as well.

To me i think there's some kind of injury going on. On that just overthrown deep post - he literally trotted right off the field. That isn't the coaching staff taking him out, thats him taking himself off.

The shanahan tree likes to attack the middle of the field in those 2 high looks. Baltimore's been switching the over/under between the corner and safety taking away the throw at the time the QBs want to make it. Safety rolls under like a robber, and the corner plays behind like the cover 2 safety. The rest of it comes down to tackling on the underneath stuff, and stifling their run game. It's not always "knowing what they're doing", and comes down to putting them into passing situations.

The tells are in the RPOs. If the LB does this - the QB will do this. Its why we throw to the boundary so much, the defense wants us to do it. Miami runs a fair amount of these so they're likely doing the same thing - defense would rather the ball go to a short throw in the boundary than hill or diggs over the middle or something. There's usually a run element there too but that linebacker can still hit their run fit if they do it right.