oldmanfan

Brady needs to diversify the offense the way it ran last year. As for Coleman, just throwing back shoulder sideline routes isn’t working. Run him in somecslants, crossing patterns and such.

Don’t think he’d add to the room

It’s always sad to see vets slow down. For PFF fans, Lewis was the highest rated guy on the D last week. Perhaps Cam goes in there and Hancock to safety.

McD has a perfect record in post-bye weeks.

I feel good about it. McD has a perfect record the week post-bye and we get the two guys back from suspension

Got it. I’m not particularly worried either way

Yeah. Let’s just give up. The Bills record right now parallels recent seasons. They had the bye week to analyze the first 6 games and to figure out where things need to be fixed. From the comments in this thread it seems most think the coaches just sat with their thumbs up their behinds all week. Are there problems? Yes. Brady needs to look critically at what his calls have been and get back to what was so successful last season, and McD and Babich need to look critically at personnel and maybe make moves there as well as address the run D in particular. But it is factually true that McD is undefeated in the week after the bye, which suggests he is good at using the bye week to recalibrate. There are no super teams in the league this year. The Bills win Sunday they’re still one of the best in the league.

Negative Nancies will be out in full force all week. McD has a perfect record after bye weeks. I suspect this last week was used by Brady to recalibrate his play calling, and by McD and Babich to have a come to Jesus conversation about the defense. I foresee Brady getting back to things that worked last year like the 4 + 1 formation, and to make sure Cook is used more especially in the fourth quarter. I think we’ll see a more aggressive defense with more blitzing and stunts, and perhaps some personnel changes. So I’m not particularly worried about this week. The one thing that could cost us is injuries; if we’re missing both Palmer and Kincaid that will really hamstring the offense. But I don’t think our D will put up another poor effort.

Played really good the last two. Keep working hard every shift and keep it going

Is the Colts offense that good or is the Chargers defense that bad?

I am not saying anything of the kind. What is wrong with all of you? He should have made different calls last week and didn’t. A bye week allows the coaching staff to look critically at what they have done over the season thus far and make appropriate adjustments for the rest of the season, be it personnel groupings, seeing what plays have consistently worked and vice versa. For example, I would be stunned if we see the jet sweep thing on short yardage situations again.

So now we switch to Brady. OK. Brady needs to scheme better to get Coleman open and leave Cook in the game in the 4th quarter. This is simple logic. Any coach I have ever had, and for any team I’ve coached, you look at what you did poorly and take steps to fix it. You’re just looking for something to argue about.

When it is an issue in a particular game like it was against the Falcons you emphasize it going into the next game. That is what coaches do.

They will review and emphasize blitz pickups. Is that too complicated?

I say 12-5. We lose to the Bengals, Bucs (sadly because I’ll be in town for that one), and the Eagles. They’ll get stuff straightened out over bye week.