HoofHearted

You'd be starting completely over defensively with that hire. Everyone complaining about wasting Josh's window - you're talking a 2-3 year transition from a personnel standpoint with a move like that.

Please explain in detail what the counter punch is to getting out-physicalled on the defensive line all game? What are you doing schematically to overcome that?

The Philadelphia Eagles run the exact same defensive system that we run, and everyone is drooling over what they are doing. Offensively, outside of a couple teams (see Baltimore and their triple option stuff), everyone does essentially the same things. So all of you screaming "the scheme, the scheme, the scheme" simply just don't know or understand what you're talking about. At the end of the day it comes down to the Jimmy's and the Joe's. We lost because we got bullied in the trenches all game long. There isn't a scheme in the world that can do anything productive when that happens. It is what it is. We aren't good enough in the trenches.

What coverage is that exactly?

It is 0 - and most of the time you do play off when running 0. The whole concept is to bring pressure, force a quick throw, and have the DBs sitting on it. Everyone and their mother does this. The call isn't the issue - they just made a play and we didn't. If we'd made these plays routinely throughout the game these same arm chair coaches on here would be praising our players and coaching staff as geniuses lol. Most people on here see success or failure without any understanding of why there was success or failure but are quick to praise/bash.

Good news for you then - they didn't play soft zone here.

That's scary. The majority of them are ridiculously unrealistic.

I think the way teams are pass rushing us definitely plays into why our HB Middle Screen game hasn't looked very good. Teams are selling out to their low box/high box rules which makes playing screens a lot easier. Let me clear some things up that I said earlier. Most defenses have one back vs. two back rules when it comes to linebacker play/reads. In general, in one back situations most teams will key offensive linemen. In two back this changes to reading backfield since more often than not that second back will take you to the ball. So the Bills are creating misdirection in the play design by attacking how our opponent is going to read the play. #27 sees Cook and Hines working that stretch path so based on his rules he'd step that direction. When Josh sees him step towards the sweep he know's he is suppose to then pull it and run the Q Counter. If #27 had play the line action (GT Counter - Guard and Tackle both pull opposite the backfield flow) then Josh would give to Hines on the sweep. That two steps in the wrong direction by #27 and #91 is all the space Josh needs to pick up good yardage.

Think you may have looked at the wrong concept (It talks about three different ones in the article all off of the same action up front). The third one is the one you should be looking at.

Depends on who they are reading. In that it's pretty clear Josh was reading the 50 backer (#27) which means they are counting on Hines to beat the defensive end to the edge and Cook's job is to pick up the next most dangerous threat coming inside/out to the ball carrier. If #27 flows with backfield flow then Josh will pull it, but if #27 flows with the pulling OL Josh will give it. It's a really nice misdirection play and you put at least one defensive player in conflict. I didn't understand your second question. What is it exactly you think we have trouble with?

Two possible options. They are either reading him for the give/pull read OR they think they can just out-run him on the sweep. As the read option game has evolved more and more teams are going to the later in that situation to eliminate a second defender from being able to make a play. Essentially playing 11 on 9 football. The last section in this article (Q Counter Sweep Read) is talking about the exact concept we ran (we just did it out of two back instead of using a jet motion to get to it). There it talks about reading the end, but more and more teams are going to what I talked about earlier and reading that Mike in that diagram, blocking the concept the same, and assuming they're back will outrun the end on the sweep. You see it a ton at the college and high school level.

You're welcome.

Sorry, it gets old correcting people who don't understand what they are looking at, but want to make outlandish statements.

Sure. It was Q Counter Read. The read on this can change based on how they are teaching the concept, but the end to the sweep side is going to be unblocked either way. I don't have a replay of that exact play, but they ran the same concept at 2:14 in this highlight clip.

Again, understand the concept and then it'll help you understand what you are seeing.

Maybe look into the concept the Bills were running before making statements like this?

It'd be him on a secondary player - just get in the way.

I really liked that Q Counter Read out of the Split backfield. Defense just made a play on it. Would have to see the replay to see if Josh made the right read, but the scheme is solid. Gets you numbers if you make the right read.

Not stupid at all tbh. It's a really good scheme. Just didn't work.

Q Counter Read there.

Been a whole lot of Inside Zone so far.

Because Lil' Dirty refused to go north and south. The blocking was there.

It was almost embarrassing. We had no edge twice in the game. That should not be able to happen. Like ever. I’ll have to go back and watch the film, but live it looked like Elam might have buried himself on one, but the other looked like we got formationed into a horrific defensive alignment.

Shakir is sure handed and like I said, body control. Not only is that important on 50/50 balls but he understands positioning and leverage and, despite his size, is one of our most physical receivers. He’s not gonna create separation from twitch - he’s a one break and go receiver which plays well with what we do outside.

Condensed formations/stacked/bunched receivers motioning guys in and out of it gave our young DBs trouble all day. There were guys wide open numerous times because we didn’t sort out the combo or play our bunch rules correctly in man coverage. We played out of phase in man quite a bit because we were slow on all these. EDIT: We also were horrific tacklers again…