Miyagi-Do Karate

When I re-watched the Week 6 highlights, I couldn’t even recognize the Bills. The offensive Sets looked dramatically different. The playcalling was very different, on both sides of the ball, but especially on O. And the personnel looked different too. I am not sure who all was injured, but Josh Norman seemed to get a ton of snaps (maybe Levi was out), and the D-line rotation was different. I think this game will look nothing like the first time around. I think both teams will figure out ways to throw the ball a lot more. And there is no chance the chiefs run the ball as much or as effectively. The Bills scheme and personnel is a lot better. Not saying they will shut CEH down— but he is not going to have gaping holes every play.

The media chatter re Mahomes, including the stuff from the chiefs, is horribly speculative. There is a reason there is a process. No one will know anything concrete until like Friday or even Saturday.

that is what is shocking when you go back and look at that game. The offense during that game looks nothing like the offense now. A lot of the game josh was under center too.

is this for real? Apparently, teams just nominate their worst guys now.

You are really playing with some major jinx fire here.

Anyone see any good write-ups re KC’s defensive schemes and tendencies? I know spags likes to mix it up— but curious to see what coverages he favors.

the recency bias is getting comical. Literally 4 days ago they talked about how bad the Bills defense is because of what the colts did to them.

Having two Kumerow threads going on at the same time just feels so right.

This is why I have gone on record advocating that we play all games in Arizona. Terry— git r Done!

one day we can all hope and dream for a game when Kumerow, Duke, and Antonio Williams will all be active and on the field at the same time.

Great thoughts!

ironically, the weather is looking pretty perfect in Buffalo next week— 20’s and no wind. Apparently, can’t win with the weather!

its amazing how highly leveraged the Saints have been for years. I remember when they signed Jairus Byrd way back when, and they were way over the cap even then and folks were scratching their heads. They always seem to find a way to restructure everyone.

From what I read, ravens do this as a courtesy to these guys— Cut them right away so it frees them up. Did the same to RG3 Today too, I guess.

Kind of interested in how KC defends the Bills. In the first game, they blitzed Josh a lot. He was pretty so-so against it, making them pay with his legs a few times, but otherwise didn’t do much damage finding open guys in the passing game. Will they blitz him, or rush 4 and try to play coverage, similar to what Baltimore mostly did?

Dumb question— but could one of the remaining playoff teams sign him, similar to Kenny Stills or Freeman?

I really hope that the issue was personnel then, and that we are much stouter up front. The gaping holes last time we played was not pretty!!

I just watched the game highlights from last game, and am kind of shocked at how we played those guys and the success we had. Outside of Kelce juking out Edmunds on an option route for a TD, we kept both Hill and Kelce in check. The guy that hurt us in the passing game was their 2nd or 3rd receiver (DeMarcus Robinson). i am also surprised that our rush did pretty good in Mahomes and we even blitzed him with some success. in terms of the Run d, the d-line just got gashed, and our Lb’s and safeties were just missing lots of tackles. Maybe they run the same scheme and hope they cleaned up the execution errors. I will say that we were pretty close to making that last one a game. They scored a a TD on a 4th and 1, and we missed a long FG before the end of the half. Pretty good, for getting totally gouged in the run game.

One thing that KC does great, which I wish we replicated more, is their jet sweeps. They constantly run them, and always seem to bust one for a longish gain. They also almost always motion the jet sweep. We have occasional success with it, but not the weekly success KC has.

I actually think Antonio Williams is the MVP. We are undefeated in games where he scores at least 2 TD’s.

The “team friendly” deal talk only comes down the line after you make a boatload of money. They’re going to pay him a lot of money. Maybe in 3-4 years, if the Bills need cap relief, he will help them out and restructure. But he wouldn’t be smart to take less now, and I doubt the Bills would ever even consider asking him to do that now. It’s almost disrespectful.

This is where I am at. I think we can win in a shoot out. i do think there will be some timely runs for us, including on draws out of shotgun. What’s interesting too is that we quietly went away from a number of very effective runs we used earlier in the year (inside traps; that delayed sort of stretch draw out of shotgun). I am wondering if we have been saving some of those and might dust them off.

Re the running game, I had been thinking that Daboll has a lot up his sleeve re getting Singletary involved a lot this week. I think we will commit to running a bit more and you can tell the oline is champing at the bit to run the ball. Those linemen were going nuts when we got a few good runs last week. They want to pound the rock.

Child please.

The “first kiss” analogy doesn’t work here. I think the more apt analogy is this— hiring a new coach or GM is like filing for bankruptcy and having to start over. Your Credit is terrible, you still owe a bunch of money, you have a lot of problems, and your future prospects are risky and unknown. No thanks.