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I don’t know how he didn’t see it. It’s like he plays with horse blinders on, not allowing him to see anything but straight in front of him.

I would love that. There was a play during the Miami game where Singletary could have cut outside for a HUGE gain (like 40+ yards). Instead he ran into the tackles butt. Barkley scores on that play.

Was there even an injury? Or just precaution?

I think you misunderstood my post. In reality, the play call was poor regardless of what the Dolphins called. You should never have a defensive play call on 3rd and 20+ that is a guaranteed huge gain if a deep route is called. The defensive play they dialed up only works if the opponent doesn’t send a deep route or if you have an elite safety that can recognize and get into good leverage very quickly. Considering that Hyde and Poyer were out, that play never should have been run in that situation.

Sometimes I think Cover1 just overthinks things. The 3rd and 22 was just a really bad play call for what the Dolphins dialed up. Look at the photo below. The bottom half of the field has 0 Dolphins in it, yet 3 Bills defenders (red circles). They’re literally covering empty field. The middle of the field has 2 Bills defenders on 1 Dolphin (yellow circle). Then you have a safety and CB in conflict between Hill running a post and the Dolphin in the flat. And that leaves 1 on 1 against a backup safety for Waddle on the post. Every Bills defender except for the safety played (much) in front of the 1st down marker. On 3rd and 22, there should never be a situation where numerous defenders are doing literally nothing.

To be fair, some of Marv’s own coaches want him fired lol. To not get at least 1 Super Bowl victory with the talent on those rosters is a shame.

I think it was definitely his fault. He has to know that it takes far longer to run 25 yards than 5 yards.

Yeah Mckenzie could have just ran forward for a few yards and went down. He never should have tried for the boundary. If he could make it to this red circle (dive if you have to), then that’s a 60 yard field goal.

Watch just the refs in the clip. They dont even look to see if he holds the ball after 2 feet down. They don’t look to see him fall. They see 2 feet down and immediately signal TD. Try not to let it bother you. A lot of posters do not want to have a conversation - they simply want to see their opinion come out of your mouth. And when it doesnt… insults.

1972. Best way to remember is 36x2 = 72.

I typically wouldn’t wish Gout on anyone, but this man may be an exception.

I don’t agree that it was a backhanded slap at Edmunds. But even if it were, why does it matter? Why does someone having a difference of opinion from your own a problem? It seems that you are lumping all posters that you find “negative” together. That’s not fair. As for me, here are the topics of every thread I have ever started - Weather forecast thread for Patriots game - Tweet from Josh Allen - Schedule makers gave us an advantage - AFC East Power Rankings - Josh Allen hitting a home run - Funny Josh Allen video - Internet rumor about Bills being concerned about Elam - Poll about who will win 1st game of season - Allen was amazing despite what coverage Rams showed him - Coin tosses contributed to KC loss - Cool Bills/Beatles photo - Study on ACL injuries and whether players are the same after (Tre White) - Could Aaron Donald miss Week 1 due to helmet swinging? - What Daboll did in the final seconds of Giants game - Titans player says PFF raises grades if players pay them - Video of Dolphins fans saying they want to face the Bills - The short yardage conundrum - Are the Bills too conservative about injuries? - Cole Beasleys Buffalo home is for sale - Poor coaching by McDermott is becoming a theme - Thread talking about how I was sad we lost to the Chiefs and the season being over - Does part of you miss losing (poorly worded… do you miss the excitement of close games, checking the playoff calculator, draft stuff, etc) - Game theory and situational game awareness and how it is our achilles heal - McDermotts defensive timeouts are not working How many of those are actually “negative”? 20%? 30% at most? I think you pay attention to the negative threads more-so than the positive or neutral threads and assign far too much weight to them. I think if you look at the list above you can see that i’m a fairly balanced poster. I have threads where critique the team. Threads where I celebrate the team. Threads where I mourn the team. What you see as negativity is just another posters opinion. I’m not insulting anyone or being rude or doing anything other than talking about football. But because sometimes my thoughts on the game are different than yours, for some reason that makes you and others very upset. Im not sure i’ll ever understand that. You too. And I do care. Or else I wouldn’t have responded.

I didn’t realize you viewed my posting as spewing. If the staff doesn’t want me on this forum I will go quietly into the night.

Ok. But the Dolphins offense had the same ypp as the Bills offense. So if the Dolphins defense wasn’t impressive, then the Bills wasn’t other.

For someone on rock solid ground, he seems pretty tense. Remember when he cursed out that reporter at practice? He told the reporter that his livelihood was on the line (or something along those lines). That kind of stress makes me feel like he doesn’t feel that he is on such strong footing. Although that was a couple of years ago, so perhaps it was just a different time.

Was the Dolphins defense impressive to you on Sunday?

I guess I don’t see that as a backhanded insult. Does anyone disagree that Milano’s instincts are elite? If you put elite instincts on an elite body, good things happen.

The Dolphins averaged the same yards per play we did (5.4 vs 5.5). There is no getting around that. It’s a fact. They also scored more points than our offense. I would say the biggest difference in drives is that the Bills went for 3 fourth downs. Dolphins elected to punt in those situations instead.

Milano is fantastic. If we could put Milano’s instincts in Edmunds body, he would be a HOF’er.

I don’t agree with this. How many TD’s (in the endzone) do you see a football move happen? How many jukes, etc happen after catching in the endzone? People will say “it’s the time that matters”. Except it’s often not. Watch this clip below. Lamb catches the ball and refs signal TD nearly immediately. THEY ARENT EVEN LOOKING AT HIM ON THE GROUND to see if he dropped it. Just 2 feet were in, TD.

Its 5 years of McD. I had to ignore Royale With Cheese. He is not interested in critical thinking or rational debate. He only wants to mock posters for not agreeing with him. .

Why? That was during a 15+ play drive near the endzone. The offense was so overheated that there were injury stoppages due to players needing to take a knee on the field. I argue that it would have been the PERFECT time to challenge a call. Worst case scenario you lose the challenge but get an extra long timeout for your tired and overheated offense to rest and get ready for a push into the endzone. Challenging that call would have been strategic and smart. Instead our offense that was having trouble standing up floundered and couldn’t get into the endzone. You should be more upset that he called timeout on a PUNT and another timeout on a random first down closer to midfield the very next drive.

This is an excellent point. The Dolphins had less total yards but that’s because our offense wouldn’t let them get on the field. The Dolphins averaged the same yards per play we did (5.4 vs 5.5).

Except I didn’t list or mention any of your examples. I listed examples that ARE coaching. It is intellectually dishonest to change the original post to suit your needs. I see your point but I don’t necessarily have a problem with him not blitzing in that situation. My problem was him playing shallow coverage with 10 out of 11 defensive players playing in front of the first down marker. It made it easy for the Dolphins to have not 1, but 2 wide open receivers past the marker.