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Jackson is just really really good. I’m not going to be one of those people that claims it’s because Baltimore’s receivers are great. They are pretty solid, but the man delivers the football
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It's better for any AFC team chasing a playoff spot to have the Steelers pick up their 6th loss. every AFC fanbase other than Pittsburgh and New England are rooting for the Bills in this one.
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I've already said my peace on this issue.. but I will point out the last 3-4 home games have been especially impacted by winds. Last season we got lucky on Sunday's with mostly calm winds.
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1 hour ago, Antonio said:
Good morning to the best fan base in the NFL!!
I just want to give my opinion on why I think there have been so many missed opportunities when taking deep shots, or maybe my take as how they can get it fix.
This is just my opinion, not bashing Josh or the WOs, they all need to do better.
Just as the Bills, I have the privilege of coaching a strong arm QB but is also a little off sometimes, so I always teach my WOs to help their QB with a small but simple solution. When running deep patterns I want them to always push downfield as much as they can instead of crossing (post) or going to the sideline (corner), so after the break when you gain that step on the DB instead of going 45° to either side, I teach them to keep pushing forward and slightly going to their patter. This helps the QB so that he doesn’t have to make the perfect throw and if it is a little off it is easier for the WO to adjust towards the ball. This helps especially with fast WOs like Brown and Foster. Even when you are crossing form the back side of the play to the front, it is better to go up so you can always keep the ball in front of you.
If you watch some of the misses this last game, you can see that when the ball is thrown it seems like the WOs have a hard time adjusting to get to the ball. The first one to Brown the ball ended in his wrong shoulder (maybe Josh thought he was going to keep going straight, maybe the wind moved it, maybe just a bad throw) but if Brown pushed downfield he would have been able to adjust to that pass easily. I saw the same thing with the one to Foster in the 2nd series and one more to Knox in the 3rd one.
I know, there is no excuse, Josh needs to do a better job with ball placement (better arch and touch), but this is a way they can help him succeed in the meantime.
I wish I could post some video, but I don´t know how I can draw on it, but I will try latter on.
Good analysis. To me,, and I've been saying this every week, Josh Allen tries too hard to hit these guys in stride with passes that are too flat. He tries to be too perfect. What are the odds of hitting a guy 45-50 yards downfield on a flat rope with a vapor trail?!? 5% -10% maybe? .and even if the timing is perfect and NFL DB will be able to get a hand on it to deflect it because there's no arc. The only time it worked all season was that deep throw to Brown at Miami. In that case Brown was like 10-12 yards past the DB already so a flat pass was fine. Josh's best pass of the season was that high arcing throw into a stiff wind against Denver, deep into the end zone. Gave John Brown a chance to adjust, track it, and run under it... and the DB had no chance of defensing it. It was "dropped in the bucket" as they say.
Josh needs to work on his trajectory and arc. That way he doesn't have to be perfect. Let his guys run under it. He should roll tape of Russell Wilson's deep completions. He does it right.
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Le’Veon and OBJ seem like exemplary teammates.
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1 hour ago, Pokebball said:
In my humble opinion, the times when the pocket didn't break down was the exception yesterday. The edges were runways straight to our QB. The offense as a whole just didn't execute. I'm so frustrated with the blocking on our screens and flat routes. These are badly needed against blitzes and our WRs and even TEs are constantly missing their blocking assignments. There was one yesterday where Beas was behind Singletary instead of out in front of him. The entire scheme on these is missing and missing badly. If I was an opposing DC, I'd blitz all the time until we get these fixed.
I do think it's odd that when our opponents set up a nice screen pass, I immediately see a wall of blockers out in front picking off our LB's and DB's. I don't see the same wall of blockers when the Bills try to execute it. maybe one out of five tries they do it right.
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6 minutes ago, CommonCents said:
Run some draws, screens and slow down that rush. This week will be much more of the same and the Steelers can bring the pain.
Let’s go Daboll, skip that third breakfast plate and script 10-15 plays that will keep Allen upright.
That's a good point. The scripted, out of the gate stuff has been woeful. That's when you receive the kickoff, march 8-10 plays downfield, get a FG attempt or even a TD. At least hold the ball. No one gives up possessions so easily as the Buffalo Bills. McDermott even mentioned in his presser, that HAVE to get better early in the game. Sounds like that's a priority of his going forward. The obvious stuff we talk about here, like inaccuracy downfield or poor field position due to special teams...he sees too.
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1 minute ago, Phil The Thrill said:
Did he really get outplayed by Lamar though? Maybe if you consider that Lamar found the endzone 3 times whereas Allen could only lead the offense to FG’s for most of the game.
Other than that, it appeared that both struggled versus good defenses
Yeah, I thought Lamar outplayed him. not by a ton, but he did. Jackson dropped one right in the bucket to his TE in stride while a Bills players was diving at him. That's a long TD. He also executed two nearly unstoppable plays by the goal line for passing TD's. I can't just dismiss those plays.
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22 minutes ago, Billl said:
So many posters are excusing Josh's performance because he was under heavy pressure most of the game. The problem is that they're ignoring the reason for the pressure. Baltimore was able to pick their ears back and blitz because they weren't afraid of Allen beating them over the top. The Ravens basically decided that they didn't need their safeties to defend passes, and it's not because their corners weren't getting beat. It's because JA was missing his receivers by 5 yards. If he's even close on those throws, Wink would have had to be more judicious with his blitzes.
It's the old saying, Baltimore decided to make Josh exclusively a pocket passer and he failed. Failed miserably. And his receivers failed him too on about 4 or 5 occasions. And the O-line broke down as well a few times. So it's on all of them but the QB has the most control to elevate guys up and mask some of the deficiencies. The Patriots also tried to make him a pocket passer in the game in September and Josh wasn't good.
McDermott keeps saying over and over "we have to learn from it".. OK, start learning to beat that system!!
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I saw an interview with some players (NCAA and pro) earlier this year and they were asked about playing home/road games. Many of them said they loved the "us against the world" feeling they got from playing on the road and how great it felt to silence the stadium. I think it also has to do with camaraderie on the road and just being locked in because it's a business trip for these guys.
Clearly this version of the Bills are road warriors and they spin their wheels at home, especially the offense.
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When people are grading Josh, are they looking around at other NFL games and QB performances? A guy like Drew Lock, who looks 12 years old and scared to death threw for 309 yds, 81%, 3 TDs AT Houston.
I want Josh to succeed, but he can't be shut down so easily by every good defense he plays against. That was maybe a D performance at best yesterday.
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I'm concerned we got this guy for his cannon and playing in the wind/elements... and he got outplayed on our home field by Brady, Wentz and now Lamar. I don't even know if Josh understands how to complete a deep pass or if he's just chucking it up there and hoping? There's no purpose on his deep passes....zero chance for the WR to adjust and run underneath them like a good QB provides. So I'm not encouraged at all. At this point in his career he should be taking off. Baltimore made him a pocket QB yesterday and he failed miserably. Hopefully Pittsburgh defense is not nearly as productive as Baltimore's.
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Solid D. And I’m getting tired of nobody’s like Drew Lock throwing for 300 yds five minutes into their careers and our guy isn’t close.
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1 hour ago, BuffaloBillies said:
Agree with your positives.
The drops are a major problem. Knox drops were terrible (again).
Josh's deep shots are too much of line drives. I've said it before on these boards. He needs to add 3-5 degrees more on his trajectory. To me it's so obvious.
ive been harping on the same thing regarding Allen. He rarely give his WRs a chance to run under the deep pass. They are too flat. Therefore his line drive frozen ropes have to be perfect and that’s a very low %. He needs to watch a lot of Russell Wilson and Drew Brees film. I don’t get why our QB coach is not showing him the benefits of passing trajectory-
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Bills need 1 more win to qualify. And seriously, if they lose the final 4 games they don’t deserve playoffs.
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Nice road wins by KC and Balt today. Not surprising if those two clubs play in the AFC championship game. That would be a good one
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Wow ended exactly like the Bills last pass. Nice play KC
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1 minute ago, YoloinOhio said:
True. The Bills have never beaten Ryan tannehill
means nothing. He’s in a different situation with a different team and threw for nearly 400 yds today. Let’s see our guy do that one time. -
1 minute ago, Binghamton Beast said:
Things did not go our way at all today.
Your math sucks.
not true. The Texans and Colts both losing to the nothing Broncos and Bucs was pretty huge. Houston and Tenn still play twice so they will offset each other. Right now the AFC wannabes are chasing the Steelers. But Billsmust take care of business next weekend
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We’re just fortunate we got to play Tenn w Mariota. Because Tannehill is definitely an upgrade
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Steelers, big punt return Td, stiff D, a turnover or two, a big PI in their favor, broken tackle runs... they just know how to win low scoring games
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Wow the fans are booing the crap out of NE leaving for halftime
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Our offense is an enigma. I don’t know stats, but by the eye test they seem like one of the bottom 10 offenses in the league
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Pittsburgh Long punt return TD. Wow. And 95% of that stadium sounds like Steelers fans. Crazy
Just now, JayBaller10 said:Haven’t read this thread, has anyone mentioned Drew Lock rolled out of bed and threw for more than 300? And a bunch of TDs?
amazing they didn’t see him “ready” enough to start 8 games ago. Maybe he was injured or something, I dunno.
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That ball glanced off the Ravens player. Shoulda been a turnover. Oh well. Game is not competitive anyway but I don’t get what NYC is looking at?!