mbowman14

Yesterday should have mirrored the Seattle gameplan in my opinion. Against Seattle, we bucked the normal trend of 1st down runs with play-action out of the gate and it was extremely effective. We then mixed the run game in later on early downs and worked in reverse of our normal pattern. With KC's aggressiveness at the LOS, I think a similar approach of working in reverse (play-action early in the game on early downs) would have been better that banging our heads against the proverbial wall. That presents the threat early and opens up the run game later.

I think there has to be some way to mix it up and take #3 off the field and play one high safety with Rapp, leaving Taron as the extra box defender. This wouldn't drastically change Taron's current responsibilities. Shifting into 2-High probably would, as I can't recall Taron ever being a deep-hash defender. Not every play, but it could be incorporated against run-heavy teams. They were creative last year when Milano went down, bringing Rapp in deep and moving Poyer to more of a LB role on obvious passing downs. Cam Lewis is doing the same thing this season.

Specifically, Tua's 4th down run that McDermott challenged. After seeing the holding call on Torrence to negate Josh's rushing TD in the 1st half, the no call on Oliver that 4th down-play was ridiculously bad.

I think the difference is Allen has achieved a level of fandom with the Bills that few others have. Diggs' issues and treatment of #17 for his last year plus here (notably back to the Cincinatti debacle, the last straw tweet "You sure" etc) have soured his image here beyond repair with most. It doesn't take much of a leap to read between the lines as to what Allen thinks of him. The "Everybody Eats" speech and repeated mention was absolutely his way of bashing Diggs without saying his name. Fans aren't forgiving Diggs for forcing his way out of what most would say is a great situation (qb and winning-wise) for less money guaranteed (biting him in the ass now). Sorry he is hurt, but thrilled he is no longer a Bill.

I think it is very likely, given the divisions they play in, that Houston is the 2/3 and Balt/Pit are the 4. Out of Bal, Hou, KC I would definitely prefer to play Hou. We owe them big time.

Anyone that has ever been on a team knows that McDermott is not going to openly celebrate. It sends the wrong message to the existing WR group. You don't think they know that Cooper is coming because they aren't enough?? I am pretty sure that is not a well-kept secret. He is doing his best to deflect the attention from Cooper and not slam the current group of WRs. You can criticize McD for many other things related to late-game strategy and player usage, but this Press Conference is not one of them. If Cooper is here after 6 weeks and not being utilized, that is a different story, but I highly doubt that will be the case.

Agree, that is the one thing he generally gets right. My main issue with end of half/game situations is the ridiculously passive looks that give away 15-20 yard chunks when there is still enough time for those to matter. That is why 13 seconds happened with no resistance, why the easy completion happened to setup Houston's game-winning fg (our safeties were both inexplicably at the 10-yard line that play when it was obvious Houston wanted an extra 10ish yards to kick), and how the Jets got to midfield for the hail mary. Stop playing like it is the last play of the game when two 15-yard completions with no resistance give up a fg.

It was 3rd down and no, you are taught in junior high football to knock it down on 4th.

Are there reasonable private lots on Big Tree Rd between California Rd and Regional Dr (players entrance)? Heading east on 20A through East Aurora after the game and thought that location may give us a little jump on traffic as opposed to stadium lots and don't mind the walk. We are planning to arrive by 9am Sunday. Go Bills!

He is dusted though before Hollins runs by him...the Safety is sitting and starting to jump the dig while Hollins is in full sprint up-field. If you are correct and the throw should go outside, then Hollins route really sucks because he stays on the numbers for the first 10-15 yards after his break up-field and only fades to the sideline very late in his route which makes it a much more difficult catch. One thing everyone can agree on, Mack Hollins is not the answer for this type of target share.

There is no way that throw is supposed to take him back out to the sideline. Double move is going to the inside and he beats the Safety by 5 yards. A throw to the outside is to fade away from the CB on a straight vertical route and keep the ball away from Safety help. On this throw, there is no Safety help to worry about because the Safety is 5 yards behind Hollins after his Dig fake. Throw it to the middle to allow Hollins to continue on the path he was on after the Dig fake. Poor throw, it happens.

Except himself. See KC drop reaction. That is the rub.

Yep he beat the safety on the double move which means the middle of the field was wide open. Fade to the sideline is necessary with tight coverage from a CB. In this case the play was lead him to the middle of the field which is a much easier catch and was completely wide open.

This. Running with all of their timeouts still would have given Houston a very good shot at a fg. We’d have punted with 16-18 seconds left with 3 runs assuming no 1st down. High percentage passes to get a 1st down and guarantee OT was the correct move. What is indefensible is the decision to play the 2 safeties at the 10 yard line with 7 seconds left when they were clearly going to try for a quick pass to get in better fg range. That soft, prevent defense without knowing what the offense actually needed and wanted to accomplish was 13 seconds all over again.

Thanks goodness we aren’t in the AFC North. That division plays a different brand of football and we don’t match up well at all.