The Big Cat
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The 9-2 Raiders, at home, with an MVP
candidate @ QB and our offense runs 10 plays on four consecutive drives and scores 0 points.
Blame the D.
You're fooling yourselves
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12 plays on five second half drives
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Nah the offense is good
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This collapse is all on the defense.
Three straight three and outs had no impact. Nome
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Keep telling me how stringing three and outs together isn't a problem
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So that's 11 plays on four drives.
Who could have seen this coming?
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This is what happens when you don't pressure all game. You give them confidence. 3 man rushes allow them to go down field all day.
Sure. Couldn't possibly be their players are better than ours. Eliminate that obvious possibility and there's much more to B word about.
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If the Bills Organization does NOT fire Rex IF they lose, then The Bills Organ. can expect another couple years of losing.
No explanation for losing a 15 point lead with the momentum, you can only blame the HC for weak play calling.
You don't know much about Oakland in 2016, huh?
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Yea
Which is why the five man rush resulted in their longest score of the day
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Broken record time-- the Bills cannot really cover outside of Gilmore and occasionally Graham, and it kills them. Playing coverage, which is what the bills mostly do, doesn't work.
Come again?
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Rushing 3 is the problem
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Actually it was working. Sacks aren't the end all be all, when he was pressured they punted. When Rex rushes 3 or less they have scored.
May be you should start a thread about it
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Did they make Rex rush 2-3 guys?
Yes. Because 4-5 wasn't working either.
Carr is the least sacked QB in the league. Set your expectations accordingly
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Keep telling me how the offense isn't killing this team.
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This is on Rex Ryan. 100%. Why is he not pressuring Carr?
Same reason the 11 opponents before us couldn't.
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Carr is one of the hardest QBs to pressure/sack. Our safeties need all the guys in coverage they can get.
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As funny as this is, I will say that the WR complaint is one that was brought up several times before the season began. It seemed thin in the offseason, in training camp, at the start of the season and especially when everyone decided to go get injured. I relented a bit when he brought in Hunter, though I still think the Harvin move (while not really being a risk) wasn't necessarily a step forward (see: migraines).
Can you predict these injuries? No, of course not. Can you be more prepared for Watkins and Goodwin to miss significant time? Absolutely. It doesn't mean you have to wheel and deal, it just means maybe pick up an Anquain Bolden to get a stable veteran presence at the position. I certainly would have preferred that to the Reggie Bush pick up.
Response was the same when this was griped about six months ago:
Run first offense.
Before injuries ravaged the corps:
Watkins legit no.1
Woods statistically sound for no. 2
Clay should be a weapon in the passing game
Shady should be a weapon in the passing game
The need to bring in another body to compete for touches with all the factors above didn't make sense then and it still doesn't.
Is that no thank you to me? or yeezy? or both?
My apologies. Yes his day's are numbered, I just though you were referring to this year...
That other guy
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How about instead of "No Thank You" we post: "#FARTNOISE" in response to Yeezy threads? For the millenials.
No Thank You
#FARTNOISE
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We should be suiting up seven Pro Bowl wide receivers for an offense that ranks third in rushing attempts and dead last in passing attempts.
The fact that we don't means Whaley is having himself a Nix nap.
What a Mickey Mouse organization.
Russ Brandon has to go.
Rob Ryan's nutritionist needs to be held accountable.
Everyone sucks but me.
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Glad you are just simply a fan and not an important decision maker.
What?!?! You don't see all the ways that would help? Well, me neither.....
His sarcastotron needs re-calibrated.
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Great example here of why 99 is so important. Takes on the C + G and keeps both Browns free. BTW Dareus was fantastic all game
If we can't trade him I'd have no problem just cutting him.
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I 100% respect your opinion but I dont think its as easy as plug in Andy Dalton on here and we average 35pts a game. Andy Dalton with a good RB and AJ Green doesnt even come close to that now in cincy. The highest scoring offense in Atlanta only scores 32pts a game.
You plug in another QB in here the offense may still produce the same in terms of points, it just may be done differently. That, i dont know. Maybe shady gets less touches and we have more passing TDs. And then thay can also come at the risk of turning the ball over since Andy Dalton turns the ball over at a much higher clip.
I just dont think its as simple as you propose.
Theres a reason andy dalton's winning % is worse than TT's since 2015.
That's fair. But Dalton has never had anything resembling Shady to work with. Imagine an offense that complements Shady, instead of having to depend him, that's all. The fact that we score the way we do now absent a respectable passing game is borderline miraculous.
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I feel our defense has been decent.
I would probably like our offense to eventually evolve a bit more into on that takes a few more risks in the passing game. I think there's a definite tipping point in the ratio between TD's and turnovers that you shouldn't dip below in order to consistently win. There are also so many factors to consider (i.e., how good is the running game or how good is the defense - the better the defense, the more risk you can take and still succeed for example).
From the numbers above, though it's just from 2015 - present, I think you ideally don't want your QB having a Total TD/Total Turnover ratio hovering around 1.75 or below, or else they're approaching territory where they turnover the ball almost as much as they produce a score. Then you add in other turnovers by other players at RB and WR, and your team more likely than not loses the turnover battle week in/week out.
I'll add to the list of 22 QB's later, but the only reason I went down to 22 is b/c there was such a mish mash of QB's towards the bottom like Kaep, Gabbert, Osweiler, Keenum, Hoyer, Cutler, etc.
The offense has been "good." Read: the run game has been good.
If we had all our guys healthy and a quarterback of the caliber of Andy Dalton on our team, in this system, with Shady out of the backfield and defenses having to account for Sammy, (the unused) Clay, Woods, now-Harvin and a speedster like Goodwin...this offense would be GREAT.
We're happy scoring 28 a game and hovering around 10th. That's because our offense has been so unwatchable for so long.
If we had a quarterback that forced teams to cover every inch of the field, had any semblance of pocket presence and timing and did the one thing which has been unspeakable in Buffalo since Fitz left town--letting your receivers make a play on a contested ball--we could be putting up 35+ a game. I truly believe that.
We're playing football on a razors-edge. It should be no shock that, with the exception of MNF in the Clink (shocking), as one unit goes, so does the rest of the team.
I happen to believe that we're competent quarterback (actual quarterback play, not this unconventional **** TT revels in) away from being a force that doesn't have to rely on its a defense in a league where all advantage goes to the offense.
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They were up 17-6 midway through the 3rd before the defense gave up 22 points to close out the game.
The offense certainly could've helped the defense out with TOP but to say the defense gave up those points because the offense couldn't stay on the field is ludicrous.
It's not even remotely ludicrous. You can describe the notion with many words. Many would be accurate. Ludicrous is not one of them.
Also, they were up 17-6 with :19 to go in the third quarter. As in three full quarters.
What the Raider Game should have shown everyone
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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the offense ran 10 plays in four consecutive drives against a 9-2 team who was at home and whose QB is in talks for MVP.
wtf did you guys think was going to happen?
29 unanswered points. emphasis on the unanswered.
when your opponent has a quick strike offense and your offense disappears for a quarter and a half...in the second half...you can't expect to win.
and if you still think it's the defense's fault, i have nothing for you anymore. jesus.