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Not launch himself at the receiver helmet first

That's a ridiculous throw hahaha

Miami has open receivers all over and are gashing us in the run game. Mistakes from Tua are killing them. McDaniel's creativity is a real problem, it is on a different level from Brady.

We're lucky Tua is throwing this game

Difference in offensive coaching is clear in this game, unfortunately

I gave Bass a lot of crap during the offseason. He picked a great time to suddenly start kicking perfect drives up the middle.

I don't think that should be PI, as long as it's consistent both ways I'm good with it

Good pass protection there!

Why don't we use Samuel on plays like that? He has been non existent in this offense.

Hahaha Tua worth every penny

DL is responsible for that entire drive. Zero push in the run or pass rush. The Dolphins OL is supposed to be a weakness to. Where's Ed Oliver been through two weeks?

This DL never shows up in big moments. Never has in McDermott's entire tenure

We're getting zero push, even on a mishandled snap they manage to gain a yard because nobody can get in the backfield

They are killing us on the edges right now

For all the crap I've given McDermott I've never had an issue with his 4th down decision making. He has a good feel for when you take the points or go for it. Against this offense after stealing a possession you go for it.

Too easy!!

Brady took the momentum away. Conservative play calling again. Make them pay for the INT

What a play!!

Rasul's tackling skills are very underrated

Here's an interesting nugget: A lot of the offseason discussion around Keon centered on whether he would primarily be an outside or slot WR (paging @GunnerBill). The Bills at least to start off are using him exclusively as an outside WR. He is indeed our starting X. Although I think they will move him around the formation more as the season goes along, to take advantage of his natural YAC skills by scheming him into free releases.

I blame McDermott for that return more than Smiley. It's a game management issue, not a special teams coaching issue. The only thing we can't do there is give up a quick TD. Literally kicking it sideways out of bounds on purpose would have been better. We did the right strategy on the final kickoff - concede some return yards while ensuring they don't score a TD.

You think that was harsh? I complimented them for making no mistakes. If you're going to have a group of role players with no dominant individual player, that's what needs to happen. Everyone needs to play their role and make very few or no mistakes. If you have AJ Brown, Davonta Smith, and Saquon Barkley, you can afford some mistakes. In our offense there is very little margin for error. The skill players to their credit walked that line and passed their first test. Shakir and Coleman even went above and beyond a couple times. If we can do that every week combined with Allen playing as well as he did, I think we can put up 30 on just about anybody.

Kelvin Beachum was TERRIBLE in this game. My god look at those feet. Also I wonder if the RB is supposed to chip to give Beachum an extra tick to get into his stance? Either way Beachum never really gets there so Von is given a free stab while he's still getting his feet under him and that's the end of the rep. I'll acknowledge it is nice to see Von make a play, any play, but this is not really that impressive IMO. He catches an OT before he is in his stance and still doesn't ever look like he is going to break free and collect a sack, until one of Beachum's flailing legs catches Murray's foot and he falls over. From this angle especially you can how close Murray is to escaping to the left and nobody is catching him short of the sticks. Murray needed to recognize what was happening and step up sooner, the lane was there.

Haha skimming through this thread I can't believe how much passionate discussion has come from that one play. In real time and watching it back now it looks like Kyler tripped himself more than anything. We got a little lucky because he has a path out of there to the left if he steps up in the pocket sooner, and if he gets out that is a backbreaking scramble for a 1st down. I'll give some credit to Von for pushing his guy back far enough that Kyler tripped over his leg, but let's be honest that is not a totally clean win that is a solid bull rush with a little bit of luck leading to a sack. Von was what I expected on Sunday. He is now a decent edge rusher who looks better than he did most of last year. He is also not the man that we gave that contract too. Not even close, unfortunately. There is a reason they have Epenesa over him on the depth chart. Even the coaching staff knows he is only good for rotational duties at this point, which is still better than what he was last year at least.