nonprophet

No, but you'd get MTrinity and MNeo instead. Deal?

Wouldn't "Odin" be more appropriate?

Well he did: they're all younger than him!

If Kevin Everett recovers from his injury, he may be able to fill the H-Back role himself as he's a similar player to Davis.

Perhaps it would help to see it used in a sentence. "A biological child of Michael Jackson is inconceivable."

Feed them what...caviar-encrusted lobster tails in a truffle sauce?

They'd probably trade down and, failing that, take Bush with an eye towards trading either him or Willis McGahee.

If you're playing Cover 2 and your safeties are routinely tackling the RB, you're losing the game.

The Bills should acquire a QB with a really low center of gravity, a "big bubble" type. Then when he gets hit, he'll just kind of sway a bit but remain standing. Isn't there a QB named Weeble?

If that were true, the Bills could have kept Mike Williams, taken him off his diet, switched him to NT and told him to lay down in the general direction that the play seemed to be moving in.

Of course you're right; it was a syllogism. What I should have wrote is that they didn't score enough points early enough in the game. This allowed the Giants to play ball control because they were never far enough behind in scoring to abandon it. The Bills defense would have been helped enormously if the Bills offense had played a little ball control themselves, thereby affording them some rest, but that wasn't its character. The Bills defensive unit typically spent a lot of time on the field as the offense tended to score too fast. Rusty Jones was, indeed, the Bills secret weapon: without supreme conditioning they wouldn't have been able to finish games.

I think the Davis signing, uncertainty w/respect to Moulds, and letting Reed go is telling us something: the Bills WRs are going to go deep most of the time (they're not big enough for much else), the TEs, FB and RB are going to pick up the short stuff and there'll be overlap in the intermediate routes. If the QB and WRs can establish a legitimate deep threat, the opposing secondary is going to get drawn down the field on nearly every play. This will open up the short and intermediate routes and give the RB some room to move if the OL can give him a hole to run through. Royals and Euhus will be the blocking/possession tight ends, Everett and (Davis?) will be the deep threat tight ends.

Buffalo needs a SS who plays more like a FS an Huff could be a perfect fit. He's from UT, though (shudder).

Well that's what the Cover 2 is all about: stopping the pass, not the run. The Bills will get run on, but if they can keep the RB from ripping off long runs on a regular basis, they'll eventually stop a drive with a sack, interception, fumble-recovery or knock-down. The Bills are back to having a bend-but-don't-break defense. They're tooling up the offense to be a high-scoring, fast-paced affair—just like the old days—so that a team trying to play ball control will have to abandon it in order to play catch-up. Forget Norwood's missed kick; the Bills lost to the Giants because the offense didn't score enough.

Well we've picked up most of their old coaching staff, we may as well take their draft picks, too.

I agree. As the tastefully-named Gregg Williams said, "We will stop the run with numbers [of draft picks]."

We should have tried that strategy with Mike Williams as he had a tendency to snooze on the job anyway.

He also wasn't half good.

If D'Brick is there at 8, the Bills should take him. If he's not, who would have the greatest impact outside of him? I'd say Davis, especially since Ngata is not the type of DT the Bills are looking for.

Most clubs don't have one TE who can run fast, I don't know of any who have two. Davis and Everett, if he recovers, can. Each TE could either stay and block, release like a slot receiver or motion out into a 3 or 4 WR set. If one is any good as an H-back, he could go in motion prior to the snap and serve as a FB as well. Instead of a double TE set always stating "run", it could instead state "run or pass". This is what makes it multi-dimensional. If you run this in a hurry up, it gives the offense great flexibility whilst freezing the defense in a single personnel configuration.

Everett didn't play a down last season and he may not even fully recover from his knee injury. He's a question mark at best. If he does turn into a good player, great: we'll have someone to back up Davis or, better yet, someone we can play opposite Davis in a multi-dimensional double TE set.

Don't forget our undersized, speedy WRs in Evans and Parrish.

Thank goodness we already have Lauvale Sape on the roster whom our erstwhile DL coordinator called "a penetrator".

You're right, he's not. The SS in a Cover-2 has to play more like a FS than a LB. The Titans employ the modified 46 scheme and drafted Williams as a SS who plays a lot of run support. Lawyer Milloy is that type of SS too, which is probably one of the reasons why the Patriots and then Bills released him. Coy Wire was drafted by the Bills as a SS because he played LB in college. I don't see how Wire fits into the Bills defense either, especially since he's failed to distinguish himself on D so far.

I think you'd see the defense's ranking improve with the change in scheme and an improved offense. The success of the modified 46, which the Bills ran under Gray, is predicated on the defense being aggressive and making big plays. The inability of the Bills front 4 to mount a consistently threatening pass rush in addition to the recent rule changes with regards to contact between the DBs and WRs put extraordinary pressure on the secondary. I think this is why teams were so successful in 3rd and long plays against the Bills. The Bills 46 was a big-play defense alright, but the big plays were happening on the other side of the ball. The Cover-2, on the other hand, is an anti-big-play defense. Lighter, faster DTs improve the pass rush, at the expense of run-clogging ability, so that long pass plays have less time to develop. The LBs and DBs are trained to turn the ball carrier in towards the center of the field when they themselves cannot make the tackle so that others will have opportunities to do so. A Cover-2 can be run on but, as Dick Jauron stated in his interview with Ed Kilgore, an effective offense isn't going to win many games gaining only short snatches of yardage. By taking away the big pass play, the Cover-2 forces an offense to win with short passes and runs. An offense can score in this way, but not quickly, so it keeps their tempo slow and it forces them to execute almost perfectly. As the Bills have amply demonstrated over the years, especially with Blesoe at QB, running pass plays in a short field (red zone offense) is considerably more difficult. The risk of the Cover-2 is that the defense will be ground down by a possession offense, its reward is that they'll get more sacks and interceptions. If the Bills new offense can either win time of possession or score big, the defense will benefit either because the other team's offense will have less time in which to work or will be playing catch-up, both of which play into the hands of a Cover-2 defense.