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Just now, IronMaidenBills said:
I’m not expecting him to divulge team secrets, but his canned responses are like nails on a chalk board. It’s best to not even interview him at this point. He could of said Allen needs to find his open receivers, or O line needs to block better, but nothing. Even if he presents what he perceives as an issue, what is he going to do to correct it? Get better talent? Yell? More drills? I hate coach speak, it does nothing to instill confidence. I have high standards, I want super bowls, if we aren’t getting them, then we need better talent evaluators or play callers or coaches.
That's kind of true with post-game pressers in general...its kind of a silly process. Teams go to great lengths to not give away a single thing...its like a political debate 🤣
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1 minute ago, Buffalo03 said:
That's what I'm saying. He locked onto the shorter routes constantly. I was actually very surprised that Sanders who's 34 was actually getting open like he was. But it was odd that Allen did throw to double and triple coverage more often than the open man. The 4th and 9 play, he threw about a 25 yard pass down the field to Gabe Davis in triple coverage. My friend was like "he's been throwing short yardage this whole game and now he wants to go down field in triple coverage instead of just getting the first down?" It was very weird what he was doing today
He thought he had a free play on that one...steelers were Offside and got away with it
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10 minutes ago, IronMaidenBills said:
I do NOT like McDermott’s canned responses. He always says it starts with me and I need to get better. No **** , the only way to get better is to get better talent, or utilize the talent that you have to better strategies. Obviously they don’t think Allen is the main problem, because they just backed up the binks truck. So is it the play calling McD or is it not good enough WRs/TE? I’m tired of him beating around the bush and hopefully he has a deep conversation with Daboll because quite frankly it’s unacceptable to get out played with the amount of talent we have on this team. Other teams are doing more with less, imagine if they had our roster. Constantly watching coaches like McVay and Shanahan get maximum production out of average talent, same with Belichick to some regards. If he thinks this fan base is going to just be happy with playoff runs and no Super Bowls, he has another thing coming.
I think if he was being honest he wouldve said 'the steelers late shifts on defense completely caught us by surprise and destroyed our presnap reads completely and we will do our best to be better prepared' but we don't want to advertise that to every team in the league 🤣
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Just now, Hapless Bills Fan said:
I think you’re correct on both counts (about the information by spreading the D, and about the lack of time for progressions)
That said
If there isn’t enough time to go through progressions, adjustments have to be made and take the quick check down.
Yep he could have done a better job at that no question
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4 minutes ago, par73 said:
In the playoffs, Allen and the offense struggled.
On D, pass rush was an issue all year-- as it was in the 2nd half today.
This was another one of those things I've commented in 40 threads so I might have said this here before lol but our receivers were all seriously injured for the playoffs so I'm not sure what the steelers did and what was happening to our offense in the playoffs is the same
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6 minutes ago, NoHuddleKelly12 said:
Belichick scribbling notes as we speak. In a copycat league this is the kind of stuff that needs to be cleaned up no doubt. But during the Bills TD drive in particular it seemed like we had the Steelers on their heels with the pace of play call and forcing them to play out of their rhythm—included the 12 man penalty on that drive IIRC?
Yea I think we get a lot of information presnap by spreading out the d with 4 wr sets and Josh just wasn't getting enough time to go through progressions...the optimist in me wants to say the steelers unveiled something that caught us by surprise that we will be ready for in the future and we still couldve had the win despite that
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13 minutes ago, Cheektowaga Chad said:
Wasn't just sanders open often. Allen seemed to throw to the only guy that was covered on many downs. On one side of the field a few times singletary and knox were constantly open but the ball would go to diggs or Beasley
One time diggs was being guarded one on one by a linebacker and he was never even looked at
Gotta think the late shifts the steelers were doing were messing with his presnap reads...which is the brilliant plan the steelers defenders were tweeting about leading up to this game lol
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9 minutes ago, Reader said:
On the bright side if we can improve off of this significantly then it can really help us for KC, TB, etc...
Yea having a defense that can actually get a stop once in awhile will make a huge difference compared to last year lol I do understand people thinking the bad offensive is a trend when looking at some of the playoff games last year though
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3 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
LIked:
1. Knox deserves a little shout-out. It’s not all-pro level, but 4 receptions on 4 targets for 41 yards is his best combination of catch % and yardage as a pro
If he can perform like this every week we could have something.
2. Taron Johnson. I thought he had a hell of a game. Led the team with 7 tackles and seemed as though he was always around the ball
3. Lil’ Dirty. That little bugger is tough, man - “questionable to return” next thing I know he’s out there
4. Levi Wallace. Yeah, that OPI (in his post-game, could tell McD was pissed about that) but I thought he made some good plays. And if you can like Devin Singletary despite his miscues, I can call out that Wallace did some good things
DIslike
1. Devin Singletary. Yes, he ran well, and he caught 3 passes one of which was a tough catch ink traffic, but he also had 2 fumbles. No Bueno. Unacceptable
2. That blocked punt. We can not have that. It looks to me as though someone missed a guy who got through. But whatever the root cause, that simply can’t happen. We keep a lot of players on the roster for their special teams contributions. When much is given, much is expected.
3. The OL. McD in his presser said “adjustments have to be made”. We’ll see what that means.
4. Brian Daboll. McD was asked in his presser about the playcall on 4th and 1 and about the need to get the running backs more involved in the game, and said “I have to do better”. Well, someone has to do better
The fumble when Josh ran was poor ball handling combined with lack of awareness of the tackler catching him. He had similar runs where he didn’t fumble but was waving the ball around like a loaf of bread. Those are bad and need to be addressed - NOW.
The fumble where he was hit from behind by Watt, most QB lose that. The difference is I think the best veterans throw the ball away there, as Josh did later in the game.
I think there could be some truth to this
Yep it's the common denominator in all the losses. He doesn't typically force the ball into tight coverages anymore except on those few times he thought he had free plays but he will pass up some 4-5 yard gains looking for more and teams rely on him doing that to win. Cowboys had a similar strategy of completely foregoing the run against the bucs to not play to the strengths of their front 7 but dak did a better job of taking what he was given
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5 minutes ago, Utah John said:
This is how the Bills are built, pretty much across the board. One guy who's outstanding or even elite, and the rest that are all very good to excellent. Teams can afford this under the cap. When teams start getting two or more really topnotch guys at a position, they end up with holes in other places in the roster.
Exactly and 4 wide and 5 wide sets created tons of mismatches today we just couldn't execute on the field. You still have a threat to run with allen which is why you see the qb designed runs. Just a bad game I don't think the team is broken. If the pit dbs were stacked and the front 7 was shaky I think you would've seen more balance. Reminded me of the cowboys gameplan against the bucs but dak took more of the underneath stuff and didn't push as hard for the deep ball. They were a BS pushoff away from winning that game I dont think 20 more Elliot carries for 3 ypc or less wouldve helped their chances
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2 minutes ago, newcam2012 said:
True but watching Allen today made me feel the same way. Tua won't have to do much to win if a similar Bills team shows up next Sunday.
Honestly allen shouldve been more check downy and we win that game...guy is trying to hit a home run every play. He's so used to having to put the team on his shoulders and play out of his mind to win but the defense had his back today
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1 hour ago, BigDingus said:
He has more than enough weapons... a lot more than most QB's in this league. Even if he had another one, it wouldn't matter if he plays like he did today. Far too inaccurate, and even a lot of the caught passes were thrown to bad spots which didn't allow the receiver any room to move or run after the catch.
This is a joke but I think he has too many weapons 🤣 seems like he diagnoses oh man I'm gonna have diggs or Davis or sanders etc open on this deep cross if I just buy myself another split second and passes up a lot of the underneath stuff that would move the chains in a couple games every year
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Just now, PatsFanNH said:
How much strain is a QB who is Mobile if his accuracy is below 60%? I think QB mobility is being overly expressed because any true winner QB is a passer first and Mobile second like say Mahomes and unlike Jackson (so far) if I had choose between mobility and accuracy I’ll take accuracy.
FYI Brady at 44 still seems out a lot of pressure on D’s and he can’t run a lick.
Haha you could be right it's too early to tell anything about any team. Seems like there's a lot more good defensive linemen are coming into the league than offensive linemen so more and more teams with pocket passers are struggling. Brady is an absolute freak of nature at diagnosing the plays so he totally can't be used as evidence 🤣
1 minute ago, DBilz2500 said:Got a feeling the AFC East is gonna be a lot tighter race than most of us thought...
Idk where everyone was getting these super lofty expectations from as far as regular season record goes...the division is def gonna be tighter and that was reflected in our season wins over/under total.
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2 minutes ago, DCofNC said:
Oh I take full responsibility for calling Daboll a loser, his history shows as much, the only time he has ever done anything is with top 5 QBs and generally he excels vs weaker competition. Against D’s that don’t suck, even with great QBs, he’s always struggled, but his QB play has managed to cover him. The playoffs and as well as every game against top flight D’s, like today, exposed him.
How do you separate what the qb should get credit for from what the OC should get credit for though especially in a game like today. Really everyone excels against bad competition and struggles against better defenses lol that's what makes them statistically good defenses.
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3 minutes ago, Bruffalo said:
Agreed that Allen didn't have a good game, but the O-Line had a worse game and that confuses things a bit.
Not apologizing for Allen at all, he needs to be better, but adding some context to his poor performance.
Oh yea I agree I dont really care who anybody blames for the loss 🤣 I just think the evidence shows this game is more likely to be an outlier than anything. This whole 'the other team knows we're running 4 wr sets' thing is going overboard though because there are tons of options out of even an empty set with a mobile qb
1 minute ago, WideNine said:Allen's lack of patience and trying to do too much is definitely a thing he just has to correct as most teams have decided to play him this way with 2 and 3 deep coverage shells.
Some pretty spotty pass-pro today against mostly 4-man rushes, but we really did not do much to shore up our oline in the offseason.
I do have hope for Spencer Brown's development at tackle over time, but the interior could use upgrades.
Playing in front of a big home crowd and the Steelers rush creating a dirty pocket - forcing Josh off his spot and messing with his timing, amped up his frustration level.
I thought for the most part our defense played pretty well and just had a few costly miscues. They should trend even better this year.
This is def true...at least it looked like he only forced balls into double coverage when we shouldve had free plays but he goes for the home run when there's receivers open for modest gains pretty often
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6 minutes ago, That's No Moon said:
When you spend off-season money on Emmanuel Sanders, don't address the running game, and don't address your interior line it sort of tips people off as to what you want to do. Their best 5 players on offense are WRs. That's not a good thing but it's reality. When they take a WR off they are downgrading the talent on the field. None of their TEs is remotely as good as the WR who would come on. None of their RBs are remotely as good as the WR they could try to throw to instead. Again, this is not a positive thing. They would be better off with less assets invested in WR and a little more in interior OL and be a better football team.
The scheme worked josh just had a bad game...idk if that makes people feel better or worse 🤣 there were open receivers all game that either dropped the ball or were overthrown or he just straight up didn't see
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4 minutes ago, That's No Moon said:
D at best. Too many stupid decisions. Too many wildly inaccurate passes. Two years ago that was a C performance. Now? No way.
A couple of those stupid decisions were blown calls to be fair... that 4th and 8 bomb should have been a free play the later play where he thought he had too many men on the field on a first down play was a little closer
41 minutes ago, Niagara Dude said:Fans on this site just got carried away, we have a top QB which is very important in this league. Beyond Diggs & White this team does not have any elite difference makers. I think the huge missing piece is having an explosive 3 down back because Singletary is not starter material for a Super bowl contending team. The fact is the Bills wanted to replace him before the trade deadline and tried to sign Le’Veon Bell.
Yes he made a few good runs but I still don't think he commands any respect
No respect for Cole beasley huh lol those guys that can settle in the gaps of zone defense are the unsung heroes of an offense and we struggled a bit when he was playing on one leg in the playoffs
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Just now, LABILLBACKER said:
Daboll's brain was stuck in traffic.
Trying to catch them off guard... also you figure you need the stop anyway so they were probably trying to make sure they ended up with the last possession too where a score wins the game. 6 minutes or so with 3 timeouts is plenty of time
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9 minutes ago, That's No Moon said:
I'm so glad we spent so much time talking about that in the pre-season too.
Which eliminates the possibility of pass interference also. slightly underthrown is better than slightly over thrown and Josh either doesn't get that or can't do it.
An underthrow could be an absolute disaster though too depending on how the DB has it played...an overthrow is much safer usually on a deep ball. I think most of that was not having the game reps with sanders yet...Josh probably got the ball where he wanted it
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1 minute ago, Big Blitz said:
It's not rocket science.
Look up the numbers.
Allen vs the Blitz is awesome....I think he was at 70% in 2020
Vs zone not as good but he doesn't see zone as much. Teams can't often bring consistent pressure with just 4. So they blitz and Allen made teams pay last year.
But if you can get home quick with 4 or even 3 like Pittsburgh did or the Chiefs before them, Josh and most every single QB is going to struggle - and the Steelers secondary is excellent.
The only front 4 (especially the interior) we'll see like that is Washington and Tampa. And both those secondaries are not as good or even close to as good as Pittsburgh.
I think daboll is the punching bag because of the horrible 4th down call. Offense was sloppy all game...the plays were there...the scheme was working fine. I've probably said this 14 times in this thread because I've lost track of what threads I'm respond to 🤣 but the chiefs defensive 'performance' in the afc championship anz the game earlier in the year was nonsense. No idea why the refs were fine with it that week and not having it in the super bowl but reverse those two officiating crews and maybe we win a shootout. Probably not cuz our defense was dreadful but you never know
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1 minute ago, SCBills said:
Omg… the wind again. I honestly can’t handle home game wind talk again this year. Not yet at least.Haha I mean I'm sure it effects their analytics on a 50+ yard fg...going for a fg and missing is just as bad as throwing it into double coverage on 4th and 8 because you think you have a free play 🤣 it's just so easy for us to criticize with the power of hindsight...If they kicked the fg and missed we'd all be saying they should've gone for it lol
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45 minutes ago, SCBills said:
I feel like 4th down where Allen launched into double coverage to Davis summed up the offense today.
McDermott, with no rhyme or reason decides to go for this one.
Allen thinks he draws Pit Offside. No flag. Play looks completely disjointed. Allen launches a 30 yard pass when we only need a few yards. Davis gets lit up. No chance. Turnover on downs.
They were clearly Offside...do qbs usually wait to see the flag come out before they throw it deep in situations like that? I'm not sure
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46 minutes ago, IronMaidenBills said:
I honestly for the life of me can’t understand why Daboll forgets like slants exist. It’s like he purposely tries to avoid them.
Slants are manbeaters and teams do not play man against us except for the dolphins who we have roasted every time haha chiefs did too but they played suspiciously good man coverage 🤣
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Just now, Bangarang said:
I can’t believe McD’s justification for going for it on 4th and 9 is that he didn’t want to punt the ball given their field position when the alternative was a 53 yard FG attempt.
How bad was the wind...that was into the wind I think
McDermott, Josh/Beasley and Poyer/Hyde postgame pressers
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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It's unreasonable for us to find out about it in a press conference haha