IMzeke Posted June 19, 2010 Author Posted June 19, 2010 The second choice thank you...I give up. Were you trying to spell abortion or aberration?
IMzeke Posted June 19, 2010 Author Posted June 19, 2010 Good post and I agree. Teams are going to stack the box and force us to beat them with intermediate and long passes. I am not too confident our QB (whoever it is), our OL, and WR can be productive. Skeptical but hopeful. Hey if you are a true Bills Fan, which everyone here is, then skeptical but hopeful is good. I know that it is very easy to see and point out the downside, but I prefer to go into the season optimistic. The fun thing about the off-season is the brief opportunity to fantasize about the possibilities before the harsh reality of the season takes it's course. I go into every new year anticipating the best, anguish or relish in the reality, and come back every year for more because I am a Bills fan. Go Bills!!!
mpl6876 Posted June 19, 2010 Posted June 19, 2010 Hey if you are a true Bills Fan, which everyone here is, then skeptical but hopeful is good. I know that it is very easy to see and point out the downside, but I prefer to go into the season optimistic. The fun thing about the off-season is the brief opportunity to fantasize about the possibilities before the harsh reality of the season takes it's course. I go into every new year anticipating the best, anguish or relish in the reality, and come back every year for more because I am a Bills fan. Go Bills!!! I am a devote Bills fan too. I respect your viewpoints and your positive outlook for this season. I am hopeful as well. I would love nothing more than a playoff appearance and more. However, I am more of a analytical fan who looks at the "whole picture." Bottom line, I just don't think we have good enough players to win against good teams. Time will tell...Hope I am wrong.
Adam Posted June 19, 2010 Posted June 19, 2010 Roscoe Parrish should be on the same field with them too. I would prefer to have him on the field opposite one of our safties or linebackers. As far as the discussion, run heavy teams don't do much anymore. Spiller will be more of a threat to catch the ball than Lynchever dreamed of being and he comes into the league knowing more about picking up the blitz than Lynch ever will
Mickey Posted June 20, 2010 Posted June 20, 2010 I don't post often so have at it... I see Jackson, Spiller, and Lynch as the key to driving any hopes we have of eeeking into the playoffs this year. In my humble opinion our Coach is basically creating an extremely diverse set of options out of our backfield that will keep any defense on their heels from the first to the last snap of the game. All three can catch and each is uniquely different in style. Short passes to any of them can turn into huge gains on any given play. The possibilites are endless and the rotation should go long on keeping legs fresh and the potential for damage on high. Everyone keeps calling for, or predicting a trade for Lynch. He is a beast. Make no mistake about it! Even on his worst day he is a beast and no one can argue that he loves what he does. Last year was an aboration and the fact that he fell off in productivity can be attributed to anyone of a number of reasons. Some his fault, like the suspension, but overall I believe in him as a true beast and expect him to be back in full beast mode. The Coach just needs some time to get Lynch to see the value in the three pronged attack and if Lynch has half a brain he has to know a good season being a team player will drive his stock back up. I am very optimistic and really see keeping Lynch and his style of play as a critical component in our rebuilding process. All our line has to do is give anyone of these guys a crack, or Trent that extra second he needs to get the ball into anyone of these guy's hands on a check down and there will be holy havoc to pay on the other side of the ball. I like our odds with this rotation and I see this as the foundation to at least having a remote chance of getting back into the post season. Comments??? Very few offenses are good enough to be predictable in this league and still be successful. Given our offensive line, that isn't going to happen. An off tackle counter and a swing pass out of the backfield are not all that different. You have to make the defense defend the whole field, not just the first 10 yards off the line. If we can't do that, I don't care how many running backs we have, how different their styles or how cool their nicknames, it won't make a difference. So, if we run, run and run some more, we will do a whole crap load of punting.
Mickey Posted June 20, 2010 Posted June 20, 2010 Run, Run, and Run some more..., The commitment seems obvious to me. What other choice is there? We have two RBs with at least one 1,000 year season and the projected top RB from the 2010 draft. Our OL is projected to be the worst in the NFL and our QB corp isn't far behind that. So running may be the only option if we want to stay competitive. Spread offense. Spiller is ideal for the spread, so is Freddy. Beasley thrived in a spread at Uconn. The last offense Gailey coached in the NFL was a spread offense. Levi Brown ran a spread at Troy. A spread is a good choice for a team with a weak but smart line and for a QB who is smart but has a medicore arm. Gailey was brought in to make the team exciting again by scoring some points. I am pretty sure they aren't going to game plan to eek out 13-10 wins a-la Jauron. I expect to see the ball in the air.
Las Vegas Calling... Posted June 20, 2010 Posted June 20, 2010 The Ravens do an excellent job with their three headed attack. For the run, run, and run some more to work, the OL needs to drastically improve from last year. When I was a kid, the Bills used a run based attack with OJ Simpson, Jim , and some other guy (forget the name). Joe Ferguson had Bob Chandler and JD Hill to throw to if needed. The Bills have Lee Evans and ???
Meathead Posted June 20, 2010 Posted June 20, 2010 just getting the passing game to average would be a major improvement, and i think we will get that but the reason having a run centric approach goes beyond just having great backs. they will also need to try to keep the defense off the field to avoid getting the ball ran down their throats themselves. for at least half the season i believe the run defense will be very close to worst in the league so their best chance to win will be long sustained drives and some big defensive plays in the defensive backfield
billsfan_34 Posted June 20, 2010 Posted June 20, 2010 We still have no passing attack anyone is afraid of...more so this year without T.O......it's gonna be tough to run or have successful swing passes against 8 in the box. How do you really know? Not bashin you just an observation that its a whole new offense and I for one am gonna be optimistic.
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