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DaQuil is the anchor against the run Star wasn't. Settle and J Phillips are upfield disruptors. Von actually grades out incredibly well against the run. Lawson is known as a solid contain defender on the edge. The key loss is Harry, an excellent run defender. If DaQuil replaces him/Star for a wash, that's terrific and so far he looks good. But the rest of last years replacements - Addison to Lawson, Hughes to Von, Obada/Star/Zimmer to Settle/Phillips, I think you can call an upgrade vs run and pass.

Looked like Harry filling the hole on 4th-and-goal for the ToD by the Packers?

Here we go again. Mercifully, no TOs left for icing the kicker.

Ball cant be advanced in last 2 minutes! Except by player fumbling it!

Is 3 feet down the new standard? First Kupp, then Hurst, then Deonte Johnson.

Duck hook! Laces out!

Holy crap, I wasnt even paying attention. Got him in like round 12 and started him in the flex on a hunch. And because the Falcons are just bad. He might just just win the week for me.

Is that implying that the Mike McDaniel offense consists mainly of Long Distance, Runaround?

Wentz having a flashback to 2021, jeez.

Have they started planning the Division Title parade over on you-know-where.com?

There is so much God-awful QB play going on everywhere in the league right this moment. What a luxury to not have to worry about it.

I do have a soft spot for Blaze Bayley though. Of the listed options, I agree most with Charles Haley.

Well there's the rub. He can pass it. He can run it. He can look like he's running it and then pass it. He can look like he's passing it and then run it. Or he can hand it off and go run a route and catch it.

The run at 9:20 of the Cover-1 video was something I was laughing at on watching the replay, as basically every blocker and then the ball carrier ran right past Donald who apparently had no idea what was going on. It was like an line of army ants rolling by the equivalent of the guards of Swamp Castle...

The metaphorical cherry on top was Ramsey literally falling on his face.

If you haven't left Jackson behind by now, I was a fan of The Bird. Really good wings & burgers, Bills gear welcome, our server was originally from Rochester last time out.

I really want to say a lot of that had to do with Kromer. Coming from the Rams, he has intimate knowledge of what Aaron Donald does to wreck plays. It seemed on a lot of snaps, Donald didn't quite realize what was going on, or bit on a false key that made him take himself out of the play (like the Davis TD, Donald following the pulling lineman to the offensive left). The way to prevent Donald from wrecking your play, is by making it so he doesn't know what to do to wreck your play, because if he knows, he's doing it. The one attribute Donald doesn't really have, is height. He's a squatty body, a ball of butcher knives, but the Bills have been stacking skyscrapers on the offensive line. I think Kromer used that in combination with some unconventional scheming to make Donald pause just a beat to try to decipher what was happening. Some plays went right past Donald without him even realizing - that second run play Orlovsky dissected above, Brown I think just engages Donald and doesn't really even especially block him hard, he just doesn't let him see what's happening while Gilliam and Singletary rumble right by him, almost within arms reach. I saw that on the replay and was like, what the hell happened there, how does Donald let that go right by him? Edit: Keying in on Donald it looks like he's playing 5T and Brown blocks him from an inside leverage which denies his vision as the motion TE Sweeney, then Gilliam, then the RB all just scoot right past and it's like Aaron has no idea the play is happening on his gap, he's completely eliminated on a 1-on-1 block from Brown. Now I like Brown, don't get me wrong, but I've got to credit the blocking scheme there for some of that.

The Bills successfully game planned for Henry, what killed them was that guy on the Eagles now with the deep overs when they stacked the box.

I don't blame Seattle for walking away when the Browns GM asked for David Putney too.

How about a nice relaxing game of golf?

I was looking for this, it looked like Ramsey recognized the route combo from film study and dropped to where Diggs route was supposed to go, but Diggs just went 9 on his own, or Josh told him to try that. Josh makes a little hand motion “go” like he did with Knox vs Chiefs last year in the regular season. Next level, to use your own tendencies as a weapon against the opponent. I’ll give Ramsey credit on his closing speed, he almost made up the 10 yards he got roasted by.

Gilliam was beating Bobby Wagner to a fruit juicy pulp. In response, Wagner saw Gilliam crossing the formation left to right on a pass that went to the left on a drag behind Gilliam, and he just decided to level Reggie who was neither looking nor expecting to be hit. In other words, a cheap-shot. I was surprised it got absolutely zero mentions, it was a dirty, frustration-motivated play. You saw McD lay into the ref standing there when he came to check on Reggie; that was why. Gilliam was stunned but did return.

I really thought McVay would have an answer, but when the opposing front four is that dominant it's just damn tough to scheme anything. Like Mike Tyson said, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.