Motorin'

He could have been cleared, and then had concussion symptoms pop up after the game.

Yeah, but he may not have slept in 4 or 5 days. Perhaps it's a delirium signing?

Stop it. What's Nate Odoms up to these days?

Latavious Murray is going to play Right Right Tackle. He might still be in London, eh?

I like Cook running off tackle and on stretch plays. And if he's going to run up the gut I still prefer it to be from under center. But all of that aside, the passing game works so much better with play action from under center than any other formation. We didn't need to run the ball 25 times with our backs, but 25 plays from under center with 10 runs and 15 passes would have completely altered the game.

It's not that we couldn't run the ball. It's that we didn't try to run the ball, expect for shotgun draws. Not one run from under center with Cook. Maybe one or two all game?

And first play under center he went play action to Diggs for a huge gain. Then went right back to shotgun spread and the drive fizzled.

No thanks.

James Cook didn't get to take 2 steps, let alone three steps to get to full speed when he caught the shotgun pitch on 2nd and 2 and lost five yards. You're full of it by calling offensive lineman elite athletes. They're all over 300 pounds, and definitely lose leverage in the run game when not in their 3 point stance. As for the multiple shotgun draws, I would have loved to see Cook get 5-7 off tackle runs from under center. Whether I form, single back ace, 12, 13... all the stuff that helped us dominate time of possession the last three weeks. We reverted to the game plan against the Jets, and it killed us. In any event, Josh Allen was nearly perfect out of play action today. Good thing we didn't do more of that!

Good for Taron speaking up.

Yeah, it certainly has for the Bills. So has the passing game from under center. When you're running from under center the lineman have their hands in the dirt and fire out on the snap. The running back gets a head of steam at the snap of the ball. Running out of shotgun, your lineman are crouched as if to pass block. They are at more of a disadvantage as far as establishing leverage and speed off the ball. You can also attack the edge with the running back at speed from under center. Which is Cook's strength. Instead our #1 back only got 5 total carries, all out of shotgun. Only one run attacking the edge on a slow developing pitch where was was basically standing still when he got the ball. And the line let two unblocked defenders blow past to make a momentum shifting tfl... And don't get me started on how much better the Bills throw the ball out of play action from under center... and how effect the RPO roll outs are from under center... The play calling and play designed sucked.

I don't think Dorsey adjusted to what the Jags were doing late in the game. I think their defense went into a softer bend don't break mode. As bad as the drops were, the bigger problem was the predicable paly design and refusal to run from under center. Most of the first half was the same spread offense that just let them bracket the wide receivers and force Josh to dump down. The very few plays they went under center were wildly successful. Not sure if they ran two consecutive plays from under center all game. The entirely of the run game consistent of flat footed delayed hand offs up the gut out of shotgun. Cook's strength is his speed, yet the Bills offense refused to run off tackle and stretch their defense horizontally with Cook's speed.

Did James Cook get a single carry from under center? A single rush off tackle from under center?

Cook is very good at running off tackle and stretch plays. I don't think they tried to run outside once, and I don't think Cook got a single hand off from under center. It was all shotgun runs handing the ball to the RB flat footed.

I rewatched it. Diggs was being tackled and Cook was too close and sprinted past him by the time he was able to pitch the ball.

It was setup for Cook to have a ton of yards down the sideline and get out of bounds. But the timing was bad and Cook just sprinted past Diggs before he had time to pitch the ball.

You just can't pitch the ball on the ground

No way. Dorsey has been playing into the strength of the cover 2 shell all game long. The same play calling that lost the Jets game.

Good thing we didn't run an offense from under center and control the line of scrimmage in order to keep our decimated defense off the field for more than a minute or two at a time... Because now we have to go spread out shotgun and run the same offense that hasn't worked all game long. I'd leave Ken Dorsey in London.

Or his OC.

Not one back to back play under center. Not one off tackle or stretch run from under center. Dorsey must be huffing the paint they used to mark the field.

They have not attempted more than 1 run from under center.

Ken Dorsey reviews the game plan from the last Bills / Jags game and decided it should work this time.

Roger Goddell said some ***** like "we're going to learn a lot from this." Yeah Roger, games in London are usually dull and boring because you have two low energy, jet lagged teams playing. When you have one team acclimated to the time change and able to bring the usual intensity of an NFL game you are going to have the jet lagged team decimated with horrible injuries.

Going back to shotgun after the big play was so ***** stupid.