Bocephuz

In the past i used to do lengthy in depth posts with gifs.. don't have time for that nowadays I watched every passing snap to evaluate pass blocking performance as well as Josh Allen unforced errors committed (PASS BLOCKING ONLY EVALUATED.. did not evaluate running plays). UNFORCED ERROR = Allen has time to throw, wr is open and he misses throw.. or.. Allen makes poor unforced decision OLINEMAN BEATEN = O lineman clearly loses his one on one matchup... or.. clearly misreads stunt/combo block ____ OLINEMAN BEATEN STATS DAWKINS - 2 MCGOVERN - 0 MORSE - 2 TORRENCE - 3 BROWN - 1 -DAWKINS - Not a great game by Dawkins. Gave up 2 pressures and had a false start - MCGOVERN - #66 rallied from a poor game last week to have a clean sheet against NE. - MORSE - 2nd week in a row where Morse has struggled a bit. He was cleanly beaten twice giving up pressures. - TORRENCE - Rough day for the rook.. he looked flat footed all day. #90 way too quick for him. - BROWN - Hats of to #79. He was one of the best linemen today in pass pro. Only beaten once by my eye - DORSEY - Dorsey had TEs and RBs in on a regular basis to chip in against the rush with mixed results. Cook had another rough day in picking up biltzers.. but Murray was solid. He even had Shakir stay in for a few pass block reps. OL SUMMARY : Belichick employed much the same methods as the Giants in attacking the Bills pass pro. Lots of delayed blitzes from corners , lbs and safeties. Not a whole lot the O line can do in these situations where they don't have numbers. For the most part Josh escaped these free man blitzes but he had mixed results improvising on these escapes. Where the oline really suffered was up the middle. Morse and Torrence did not do well with their matchups and Allen suffered for it. In particular.. if Torrence holds his block for a half beat I have no doubt Josh hits Diggs on the go route in q3. Instead Torrence barely gets a hand on #92 and his rush up the middle disrupts Allens throw just enough for incompletion. QB UNFORCED ERRORS: Josh had 6 unforced errors by my count. Based on my history of doing this kind of analysis when a qb has 5 or more unforced errors the chances of his team winning decrease materially. SIGNIFICANT PLAYS - q1 - UE1 - INT - good protection.. bad choice by Allen q1 - Brown beaten to the outside by speed rush.. Allen flushed .. nice throw to Cook on scramble drill q1 -Shakir stays in to pass pro.. does nice job q1 -Good blitz beater quick throw to Cook in flat q1 -UE2 - Delayed blitz.. Allen has Shakir for quick hitter blitz beater but unnecessarily bails out of the pocket resulting in incompletion q2 -UE3 - Allen has time.. has open Knox but decides to bail from clean pocket ( instead of climbing the pocket) and incomplete pass to Davis in end zone. Knox clearly pissed after the play q2 -Torrence beaten outside by #90 flushes Josh.. inc to Diggs q2 - Cook poor blitz pickup .. Morse beaten by #92. Josh throws away q2 - SACK - Torrence whiffs on #90 ..blitz gets home as well. q2: UE4 - Josh has time.. stays on 1st read too long .. never works through progressions .. and then throws it away q3 - Morse does nice job picking up twist stunt q3 - Dawkins whiffs on LB delayed blitz... flushes Allen .. incomplete q3 - Miss on Diggs deep - Torrence loses his block on #92 and #92 alters Allen deep throw at last minute causing off target throw. q3 -False start Dawkins q4 - UE5 - Josh has time.. takes unnecessary extra hitch in clean pocket and throws behind Diggs incomplete q4- Cook falls down trying to get to delayed blitz pickup.. Allen flushed incomplete to Diggs q4 - UE6- Allen throws behind open Diggs in the seam SUMMARY - The O line was not great.. however..this one falls mostly on the QB unforced errors by #17. Allen has been showing several disturbing tendencies the last few games. #1- Bailing out of the pocket instead of climbing the pocket. There were several instances where Allen had room to climb the pocket to avoid pressure. .instead he bailed out wide. Mac Jones actually hung tougher and made a few throws climbing the pocket. Allen needs to get back to climbing the pocket and delivering.. even if he needs to take a hit to get the job done #2 - Staying on 1st read too long. Allen has not been consistently going through his progressions quick enough. There were several instances where he had open targets that were secondary reads.. which he either didn't see.. or decided not to check down to. Cook is struggling in picking up blocks.. which is a shame.. because he did so well earlier in the year. There were also a couple of plays where Dorsey didn't really give Josh a good outlet.. all deep developing routes where Josh hits his drop and noone coming out of their breaks yet. All in all it wasn't as bad as it looked live on TV. I'm really hoping Spencer Brown can build off this performance. I'm also hoping Torrence can rally after a few poor games. I don't like Ocyrus having to give the hand signal for snaps on the road. I think it distracts him from his technique. Hopefully being at home with a quiet crowd on offense will help him get back to form. If #17 can start climbing the pocket and do a better job of going through his progressions things should get better against the Bucs. I sure hope so because I'm driving up to Maryland to watch the game Thursday.

The O Line is markedly improved this year ( the exception being RT) . Unfortunately a unit can really be brought down by the weakest link. Dawkins has his ups and downs.. but he is still capable and generally reliable McGovern has been rock solid ( except for Giants game) Morse is playing at All Pro level Torrence looks like a 5 year Vet Brown is a glaring liability who consistently sabotages the good work of the other 4

sure thing.. your suspicion was well founded. Hopefully just a one game aberation as he was excellent in all previous games sloppy would be good term

In the past i used to do lengthy in depth posts with gifs.. don't have time for that nowadays I watched every passing snap to evaluate pass blocking performance as well as Josh Allen unforced errors committed (PASS BLOCKING ONLY EVALUATED.. did not evaluate running plays). UNFORCED ERROR = Allen has time to throw, wr is open and he misses throw.. or.. Allen makes poor unforced decision OLINEMAN BEATEN = O lineman clearly loses his one on one matchup... or.. clearly misreads stunt/combo block ____ OLINEMAN BEATEN STATS DAWKINS - 2 MCGOVERN - 3 MORSE - 1 TORRENCE - 1 BROWN - 4 -DAWKINS - Dion mainly held up in pass pro.. however one of the pressures he surrendered indirectly led to Allen getting hit and hurting his shoulder - MCGOVERN - This is the first week McGovern clearly struggled. He misread a stunt and was beaten cleanly by #93 several times. - MORSE - Not a clean sheet.. he misread a late developing stunt in q4.. but other than that another fine day for Mitch. - TORRENCE - Yet another solid performance. Only surrendered 1 pressure to my eye. - BROWN - Brown showed a glimmer of hope last week.. but that glimmer was snuffed out against the Giants. He regressed back to the mean .. surrendering 4 pressures against the G Men and commiting a bad false start penalty - DORSEY - To my eye Dorseyused TEs to chip twice and actually used Gabe Davis on a wham block once. It appeared the strategy this week was to get the TEs out in patterns for quick blitz beater throws rather than keep them in to chip. OL SUMMARY : The Giants were able to beat the Bills O line in multiple ways. Both #93 and #5 were able to win one on one against their Bills O LIne counterparts. DC Martindale blitzed frequently.. and was particularly successful sending delayed stunt blitzes. Dawkins, McGovern and Morse were all caught off guard by delayed twist stunts where the DE or OLB hid out and then snuck in to pressure qb up the gap in the middle. #58 for Giants was a spy on Allen and was very effective .. had a pass tip and also a hit on Allen. Not the best day for the OLine but Martindale really did throw the kitchen sink at them. QB UNFORCED ERRORS: Josh had 4 unforced errors by my count. Based on my history of doing this kind of analysis when a qb has 5 or more unforced errors the chances of his team winning decrease materially. SIGNIFICANT PLAYS - q1 - UE1 - Josh throws out route too early before Diggs starts his break..Diggs turns around but ball is already on him and its incomplete q1 - UE2 - Josh overthrows Davis on a deep crosser. q1 -UE 3 - Josh has time .. has Shakir open to his right but locks on Diggs too long (who isn't open). Pocket collapses and 17 throws dirt ball to Diggs general direction. q1 - Brown beaten by speed rush of #99 q1 - McGovern and Dawkins do not recognize twist stunt .. pocket collapses resulting in incompletion q1 - UE4- Allen bails clean pocket early and drifts to the right.. incomplete q2 -Brown beaten by speed rush of #5.. forcing incompletion q2 - McGovern beaten by 97.. flushes Allen and Allen takes a hit q2 - Brown false start q2: Dawkins beat to the inside by #5 flushing Allen to his right.. end result Allen is hit hard and hurts his shoulder q2: Gabe Davis stays in to wham block q2 - INT - 97 beats Torrence cleanly altering Allen's throw .. which is intercepted. q3 - Brown beaten again speed rush #5... flushes Allen but Allen gets small gain scrambling. q3 - Morse misses delayed twist stunt giving up pressure on Allen q3 - Cook whiffs on pass block against LB 41.. Allen miracuously escapes and makes completion to Diggs q4- McGovern beaten by #93 SUMMARY - Allen had a poor first half.. in particular .. a poor first few series. In my opinion he was a little to anxious to show he could get the ball out on time knowing Daboll was on the other sideline ..causing a few poor uncharacteristic unforced errors on his part. The first UE to Diggs was Allen being impatient and getting ball out to early before Diggs was in his break. He also overthrew an open Davis onthe next throw ( even though Davis tripped.. ball was still too high). Allen settled down in the second half and succeeded in spite of his O Line. In general.. Allen had a few reps where he bailed out of clean pockets early.. but for the most part he got the ball out quickly to counter the blitzing. . Brown regressed back to his old self.. being consistently beat on speed outside rushes and throwing in a false start for good measure. McGovern had a tough game as well. Cook had a very strong start to the year with good blitz pickups.. but he has now had several weeks in a row where he's whiffed on pass protect blocks. I expect to see more of Murray on pass downs if the trend continues. At the end of the day #17 successfully improvised on a few big plays ( TD to Morris.. first down to Diggs after miracle escape) to pull it out.

The London games are such an outlier..such a strange setting. Im chalking most of this to the "London Effect".. flush and forget.

thank you for catching that.. it was the INT. i edited the post to include it q4: UE 4 - INT Josh has Diggs open on deep ball but waits a beat too long and tries to throw bomb ..but he would have needed it to go 75 yds to outthrow the CB. He had Murray wide open for dump down

In the past i used to do lengthy in depth posts with gifs.. don't have time for that nowadays I watched every passing snap to evaluate pass blocking performance as well as Josh Allen unforced errors committed (PASS BLOCKING ONLY EVALUATED.. did not evaluate running plays). UNFORCED ERROR = Allen has time to throw, WR is open and he misses throw.. or.. Allen makes poor unforced decision OLINEMAN BEATEN = O lineman clearly loses his one on one matchup... or.. clearly misreads stunt/combo block ____ OLINEMAN BEATEN STATS DAWKINS - 3 MCGOVERN - 0 MORSE - 1 TORRENCE - 3 BROWN - 1 -DAWKINS - Dion drew a tough matchup against Josh Allen #41. He was beaten several times and generally had a rough day overall. - MCGOVERN - Yet again... another clean sheet for McGovern. Guy is a stud. - MORSE - Morse finally gave up a pressure after 3 weeks of giving up nothing - TORRENCE - First rough day for the rook. Several holding calls and a missed stunt among the errors - BROWN - First solid game of the season for #79. He did a good job with stunt pickup and only surrendered one pressure. - DORSEY - Not much chipping or help from TEs in this one.. for the most part the O Line held its own without extra assistance. I counted 2 chips from Knox on DEs. No chips from RBs that I saw. OL SUMMARY : The line had a few rough patches but generally played well enough to give #17 a chance on most reps. The Jags blitzed heavily.. and Josh Allen #41 was a force to be reckoned with all day. The Jags also threw in several stunts and the Bills O Line had mixed results picking them up. For the most part the O Linemen were on their own without chips or RB help. QB UNFORCED ERRORS: Josh had 4 unforced errors by my count. Based on my history of doing this kind of analysis when a qb has 5 or more unforced errors the chances of his team winning decrease materially. SIGNIFICANT PLAYS - q1: UE 1 - First series of game Josh throw in flat to Cook on 3rd down too hard too far outside.. incompletion and punt q2: Dawkins beaten to the inside by #41 flushing Allen from the pocket forcing a throwaway q3: UE 2 - Allen rushes blitz beater throw on hook route to Davis.. high throw .. incompletion q3: Torrence misreads twist stunt and gives up pressure q3: Cook whiffs on pass pro rep q3: UE 3- Josh steps up to avoid the blitz..has Murray wide open in the flat but chooses to go downfield to Knox who is covered and overthrows him q4- Brown beaten to the inside by 44 flushes Allen to incomplete pass q4: Brown and Torrence do good job of picking up twist stunt q4: UE 4 - INT Josh has Diggs open on deep ball but waits a beat too long and tries to throw bomb ..but he would have needed it to go 75 yds to outthrow the CB. He had Murray wide open for dump down q4: Torrence holding q4: #41 does twist stunt.. Morse recognizes it but is still beaten .. #41 absolutely destroys the other #17 Josh Allen on a sack ( called back questionable helmet to helmet) OVERALL SUMMARY: What a strange game. From what I could see in the ALL 22 the O Line generally gave Allen time.. and Allen did a good job navigating muddy pockets. The problem I kept seeing was the receivers had very little separation and Allen was forced to throw into tight windows all day. Allen had a few unforced errors where he went for it all instead of taking the dump down to move the chains.. however.. for the most part #17 was getting the ball out quickly and taking what the D gave him. Dawkins had his first rough day as did Torrence. Hats off to Spencer Brown who had a solid day. He did a good job picking up stunts and did not surrender a single speed rush to the outside.. which has been his Achillies Heel.

Good catch.. they were indeed several real quick chip and releases from the TEs to help Spencer out. In previous weeks the TEs sustained their blocks a little longer but these were quick little chips. I didn't catch them because on most of those plays Josh got the ball out so quick I didn't notice Only focused on the pass plays.. not able to comment too much on the run blocking. Watching O Line play is dull at first.. but now when I watch the game live .. I focus on one lineman pre snap ( usually Spencer Brown.. but sometimes Torrence or others) and don't even really look at Josh once ball is snapped. 9 times out of 10 .. if the lineman I'm watching holds his block.. the result of the play is a completion or positive.

Brown has given up at least 3 pressures in each game.. where the most his fellow linemen have given up is 2.. i would respectfully say that makes him a liability Ascending may also be a bit of a stretch. His improvement against fins more due to lesser competition ( Van Ginkel is no Maxx Crosby) Cybo has much sand in the pants

Hah.. nowhere to hide!

Good question.. Usually when a team targets a weak link .. they try to exploit the weakness by throwing stunts and delayed blitzes at the O Lineman who they are targeting to throw them off. Interestingly enough.. Brown and Torrence have been targeted by other teams with stunts and they have done an excellent job of identifying and coping with those stunts for the most part. Where Brown seems to have been targeted is teams lining up their stud DEs on his side ( Bryce Huff, Crosby.. Sweat..). These stud DEs had much success attacking Spencer Brown on his outside shoulder with the speed rush.. the dip and dive move. Nothing fancy.. nothing exotic.. just putting their best rushers one on one with Brown has generally worked for other teams.

my pleasure.. thanks

In the past i used to do lengthy in depth posts with gifs.. don't have time for that nowadays I watched every passing snap to evaluate pass blocking performance as well as Josh Allen unforced errors committed (PASS BLOCKING ONLY EVALUATED.. did not evaluate running plays). UNFORCED ERROR = Allen has time to throw, WR is open and he misses throw.. or.. Allen makes poor unforced decision OLINEMAN BEATEN = O lineman clearly loses his one on one matchup... or.. clearly misreads stunt/combo block ____ OLINEMAN BEATEN STATS DAWKINS - 0 MCGOVERN - 0 MORSE - 0 TORRENCE - 1 BROWN - 3 -DAWKINS - Dion dominated all day. He was almost beaten once but rallied and pancaked the guy before he got to Josh - MCGOVERN - Yet again... another clean sheet for McGovern. Rock solid HUGE upgrade over Saffold. - MORSE - 3 weeks in a row with a clean sheet in pass pro for the reliable vet - TORRENCE - Surrendered one pressure to Wilkins .... but held up very well. - BROWN - There were several reps where Brown dominated 43 Van Ginkel .Every time Van Ginkel tried the bull rush Brown got his hands inside, anchored and neutralized him. It was not a clean day for Brown however. He misread a stunt in q1 causing a pressure on Josh. Van Ginkel beat him on a nice reverse spin move causing 17 to scramble Van Ginkel also beat Brown via speed rush in q3 - DORSEY - Not much chipping or help from TEs in this one.. for the most part the O Line held its own without extra assistance. OL SUMMARY : The left side of the line absolutely dominated the Fins all day. McGovern and Morse are playing at a Pro Bowl level right now. Torrence continues to be steady with only the occasional misstep. This was Brown's best game .. he flashed dominance on some reps for the first time this year. The stat sheet shows Van Ginkel getting 2 sacks.. however ( as you will see below in SIGNIFICANT PLAYS) neither of those sacks were on Brown. QB UNFORCED ERRORS: Josh had 0 unforced errors by my count. Based on my history of doing this kind of analysis when a qb has 5 or more unforced errors the chances of his team winning decrease materially. SIGNIFICANT PLAYS - q1 - Cook whiffs on a blitz pickup.. Allen avoids and makes completion to Diggs q1 -Brown misreads stunt but JA gets ball out quick to avoid pressure q2 - 85 for Bills has nice wham block on DE .. Allen throws slant to Diggs. q2- Brown beaten on spin move by 43.. Allen scrambles throws TD to Diggs. q2 - Torrence beaten by 94 on outside shoulder.. Allen Sacked q3 - Van Ginkel SACK ( coverage sack.. not on Brown) q3 - Van Ginkel beats Brown on speed rush .. flushes Allen from pocket SUMMARY - The O Line consistently gave 17 time to throw today and Allen made the most of those opportunities. In the few times where the line gave up pressures or misread stunts.. Josh more often than not was nimble in the pocket .. hung in.. and still made excellent decisions and throws despite those pressures. Zero unforced errors by Josh to my eye.. a real gem of a game from him. If Allen can maintain his pocket poise like he's done the last few weeks then the sky is the limit for this offense. I think Dorsey realized that Miami's DEs were subpar and he made the right call by not using TEs and RBs to chip like he did the previous few weeks. Spencer Brown will likely never have a clean game .. however.. if he can play this type of game vs the average DEs of the league he may have a shot at sticking at RT for a while.

It will not be. Hopefully Josh can stay disciplined and pick his spots

Brown’s performance this year is near identical to last year. If he was injured last year .. and thus healthy this year.. his 2023 performance so far clearly indicates health was not the problem good catch. i miss a few occasionally. always happy to learn from others observations

I give Dawkins the benefit of the doubt because he has a fairly consistent track record of good performances against elite DEs At this stage Brown no longer gets the benefit of the doubt from me. If you go back and read my posts from last year.. you will see I gave Dawkins plenty of criticism for his play the first half of the year. Fortunately he rallied and got himself back on track.

Regarding the chipping - That is a good question regarding league wide averages.. I really couldn't tell you what the league wide percentage is. Perhaps PFF has a stat for that? - I can tell you that in my review of Dorsey's games last year ..and in the Jets Game 1 this year.. there were very few instances of RBs or TEs chipping or doubling the DE on pass rush plays - There has clearly been a material difference in amount of called for "chips" and "doubles" by Dorsey the last 2 games.

McGovern has been a huge upgrade at LG over Saffold Torrence has done a good job filling Bates' shoes so far at RG.

Happy to do it. To your point.. as far as interceptions go that one is somewhat forgiveable. Nevertheless.. it was unforced.. it was his choice.

In the past i used to do lengthy in depth posts with gifs.. don't have time for that nowadays I watched every passing snap to evaluate pass blocking performance as well as Josh Allen unforced errors committed (PASS BLOCKING ONLY EVALUATED.. did not evaluate running plays). UNFORCED ERROR = Allen has time to throw, wr is open and he misses throw.. or.. Allen makes poor unforced decision OLINEMAN BEATEN = O lineman clearly loses his one on one matchup... or.. clearly misreads stunt/combo block ____ OLINEMAN BEATEN STATS DAWKINS - 2 MCGOVERN - 0 MORSE - 0 TORRENCE - 0 BROWN - 3 -DAWKINS - Dion drew a tough matchup with Chase Young across from him most of the day. Young beat him a few times ..collapsing the pocket. In general Dawkins was solid - MCGOVERN - Again.. another clean sheet for McGovern. To my eye he did not misread any stunts or give up any pressures. - MORSE - 2 weeks in a row with a clean sheet in pass pro for the reliable vet - TORRENCE - Yet another solid performance. He and Brown successfully identified and picked up a stunt in q1 - BROWN - Brown's best game this year.. but still not good enough. He had a few decent reps where he stood his ground in one on one situations.. particularly against the bull rush. As mentioned above he and Torrence did an excellent job of picking up a stunt in q1. He also again had a lot of help from RBs and TEs chipping in. As always he was cleanly beaten several times on speed rushes.. forcing Allen to scramble prematurely several times. - DORSEY - Same as last week.. I counted 7 times where RBs or TEs chipped on opposing DEs (mostly to help Brown.. but a few to help Dion Dawkins as well). These chips have really helped out and generally have generated positive yardage. Good for Dorsey for recognizing his tackles need help now and then. OL SUMMARY : The interior of the O-LIne was nothing short of spectacular today in pass protect. Cannot say the same for the Tackles.. as both 73 and 79 had their share of issues against the Commanders. It is obvious that Dorsey now realizes Brown's failings.. and is actively trying to mitigate those failings by sending a RB or TE to help chip on Brown's assignment on about 1/3 of the pass plays. Chipping has been effective.. but the downside is less receivers out on the route.. and the result is usually short yardage dump offs after the chip is executed. Mind you.. I'd rather have the chip blocks than not.. however...these chip blocks really do limit the route depth for Knox and Kincaid. QB UNFORCED ERRORS: Josh had 2 unforced errors by my count. Based on my history of doing this kind of analysis when a qb has 5 or more unforced errors the chances of his team winning decrease materially. SIGNIFICANT PLAYS - q1 - TE Chips DE to help Brown.. even so.. Brown is still beaten by a speed rush..forcing 17 to scramble prematurely. q1 - Brown and Torrence do nice job of identifying and successfully picking up a stunt q1 - Brown beaten by speed rush..forces rushed throw from JA q1 - UNFORCED ERROR 1 - Josh makes a dangerous thrown over the middle into triple coverage that is mercifully knocked down q2 - Allen has several plays in a row where he gets the quick game going.. ball out on time to Diggs and Sherfield q2 - Cook has excellent blitz pickup on LB q2 - Both Brown and Dawkins bull-rushed into Allen forcing an incomplete q3- UNFORCED ERROR 2 - Josh has time.. throws ball deep down sideline to Davis for jump ball.. intercepted. q3- Josh evades free blitzer and runs into end zone for TD SUMMARY - Hats off again to Dorsey for having the RBs and TEs chip on pass rushers on a regular basis. Allen generally made good decisions and generally did not bail out of the pocket unnecessarily. In particular.. he was very good at beating the blitz with his legs (see q3 TD). He also had a few series where the quick game got going and the ball was out as soon as he hit his drop.. negating any potential pass rush issues. McGovern and Torrence have been outstanding additions and continue to impress. I'll give Dawkins a bit of a pass on this one as giving up 2 pressures to a stud like Chase Young is to be expected. Brown.. Brown.. Brown.... he continues to be the weak link and the need for Dorsey to hold in Knox and Kincaid to chip on a regular basis is stunting the downfield/ seam route potential for both of these TEs. Hopefully we will see a change at RT before mid season.

It is true that rest of Raiders line is average at best It is also true that 2020 was the last year the Bills had a RT who could actually hang with elite DE’s and not get embarrassed and that was iDarryl Williams No coincidence that 2020 was #17 best year.. maybe one of best years in NFL history

great point about Dion finally having a legit pro like McGovern next to him. makes big difference Allen got rid of the ball or escaped 4 or 5 times and bailed Brown out. A normal pocket qb like Tua would have gotten crushed good question. from what i’ve seen it’s only happened once per game .. so i don’t think it’s a strength thing. more likely temporary technique or leverage breakdown

Happy to do it.. really helps me get a better understanding of what really happened in the game. Cook probably had 3 or 4 excellent blitz pickups during the game.. Love the 12 personel. Now I ust need to see a little more of JA under center in future games ( he was UC a fair amount this game.. would like to see 4 or 5 addl plays of him under center a game though

In the past i used to do lengthy in depth posts with gifs.. don't have time for that nowadays I watched every passing snap to evaluate pass blocking performance as well as Josh Allen unforced errors committed (PASS BLOCKING ONLY EVALUATED.. did not evaluate running plays). UNFORCED ERROR = Allen has time to throw, wr is open and he misses throw.. or.. Allen makes poor unforced decision OLINEMAN BEATEN = O lineman clearly loses his one on one matchup... or.. clearly misreads stunt/combo block ____ OLINEMAN BEATEN STATS DAWKINS - 0 MCGOVERN - 1 MORSE - 0 TORRENCE - 1 BROWN - 6 -DAWKINS - Dion had near a perfect game in pass pro to my eye - MCGOVERN - Was not beaten one on one at all by my eye.. however.. like last game he misread a stunt - MORSE - Morse had much easier competition this week.. and came away with a strong game and a clean sheet. - TORRENCE - Another fine game for the rook.. he's a gem. He was beaten by bull rush once and got holding call on that play I believe. But other than that excellent. - BROWN - Don't let anyone tell you Brown had a good game. He was his usual turnstile self. Despite 7 plays where the RB or TE helped to chip Crosby (which was a successful strategy).. on the plays where he didn't have help he gave up 6 pressures. He is incapable of handling speed rush to the outside. - DORSEY - 7 chip assists from RB / TE OL SUMMARY : The line was much better in pass pro this week... (save for Brown of course). Dorsey made a conscious effort to get some chips on Maxx Crosby and that certainly helped. However.. you can't really chip on every play.. and those plays where 79 was one on one with 98 were generally big wins for 98. QB UNFORCED ERRORS: Josh had 1unforced error by my count. Based on my history of doing this kind of analysis when a qb has 5 or more unforced errors the chances of his team winning decrease materially. SIGNIFICANT PLAYS - q1 - McGovern misreads stunt and gives up pressure q2 - Cook does excellent job picking up rb blitz q3- Torrence beaten by bull rush.. holds q3- Brown beaten by speed rush from 98 results in incompletion q3 - Brown beaten on very next play by 98 on a Madden-Like spin move from Crosby.. Allen hangs in pocket and makes incredible cross body throw to Shakir for TD. That right there is as good as it gets from #17 or any QB.. on of the best throws I've ever seen. q3- Brown beaten again by 98 speed rush q3- UE 1 - Josh has unforced error.. throw to Kincaid in the flat is too low.. gets blocked by DE. q3- SACK - really can't blame anyone for this one here. Great blitz called by Raider DC .. Allen had no choice but to eat it and take the sack SUMMARY - Dorsey's use of the TE and RBs to chip and slow down Crosby was necessary and overdue. That gives me hope that in the future we'll see more of that against the elite DE's coming up. The rest of the o line was generally outstanding in pass pro.. but Spencer Brown is really not an NFL level tackle. I hate being a broken record.. and I keep hoping to see 79 make adjustments to beat the speed rush.. but it just never happens and at this point likely never will. Hopefully Germain Ifedi can get up to speed.. or maybe they can sign L'Ael Collins and hope he'll be healthy by the end of the season. Hats of to Josh Allen though. He corrected last week's issue of bailing out of the pocket unnecessarily. He got the ball out on time and in rhythm.. and when he did occasionally need to go off schedule he was a magician. Edited September 13 by Bocephuz

PFF Grades 2021 - PB: 75.2 / RB 89.4 2022- PB 44.2 / RB 73.5 He graded out really highly before last year.. and is 30 yrs old.. worth a flier if his rehab is on track