NaPolian8693 Posted November 22, 2010 Posted November 22, 2010 Disclaimer: I'm not saying Fitzpatrick played bad or got lucky. I just didn't see any threads about this, and thought I'd go ahead and start one. Yesterday the Bengals secondary was perhaps the most injury depleted secondary that's ever taken an NFL field. Their best corner Jonathan Joseph, who was intercepting Fitzpatrick left and right, was lost to injury. Then they lost their starting safety. And then their other starting safety. And then another corner. The Bills did a good job exploiting this by rolling out lots of five-wide formations. It's hard for a third string safety to match up at corner. Injuries happen to every team and that's life in the NFL, but they undoubtedly played an integral part in the game.
clearwater cadet Posted November 22, 2010 Posted November 22, 2010 Disclaimer: I'm not saying Fitzpatrick played bad or got lucky. I just didn't see any threads about this, and thought I'd go ahead and start one. Yesterday the Bengals secondary was perhaps the most injury depleted secondary that's ever taken an NFL field. Their best corner Jonathan Joseph, who was intercepting Fitzpatrick left and right, was lost to injury. Then they lost their starting safety. And then their other starting safety. And then another corner. The Bills did a good job exploiting this by rolling out lots of five-wide formations. It's hard for a third string safety to match up at corner. Injuries happen to every team and that's life in the NFL, but they undoubtedly played an integral part in the game. Point well made, I'm just happy we finally have a coach who was able to see that and made the proper adjustment to put the team in a position to win. How many times in the Jauron era with all the players we had on IR, did teams do that to us. I don't remember a Bills coach ever making any game winning adjustments since Chuck Knox. I know all the Marv fans will bash me, but Marv had a great team, and kept the ego's in check. When it came to the x's and o's Marv wasn't that good.
RealityCheck Posted November 22, 2010 Posted November 22, 2010 Point well made, I'm just happy we finally have a coach who was able to see that and made the proper adjustment to put the team in a position to win. How many times in the Jauron era with all the players we had on IR, did teams do that to us. I don't remember a Bills coach ever making any game winning adjustments since Chuck Knox. I know all the Marv fans will bash me, but Marv had a great team, and kept the ego's in check. When it came to the x's and o's Marv wasn't that good. Well I won't bash you brother, and I totally agree. Marv never even added wrinkles to his own clothes.
BuffaloBill Posted November 22, 2010 Posted November 22, 2010 Point well made, I'm just happy we finally have a coach who was able to see that and made the proper adjustment to put the team in a position to win. How many times in the Jauron era with all the players we had on IR, did teams do that to us. I don't remember a Bills coach ever making any game winning adjustments since Chuck Knox. I know all the Marv fans will bash me, but Marv had a great team, and kept the ego's in check. When it came to the x's and o's Marv wasn't that good. until you got to Marv thereafter ... Marv was a terrible GM but his ability to hold together a cast of players that left to themselves would have melted down is his legacy.
clearwater cadet Posted November 22, 2010 Posted November 22, 2010 until you got to Marv thereafter ... Marv was a terrible GM but his ability to hold together a cast of players that left to themselves would have melted down is his legacy. Forget Marv as GM, I wasn't talking about that. He was so terrible as a GM I don't have to comment, but that what I said as a coach, great at keeping the team together, sh#ty at the coaching part. The 90's Bills either rolled you from the start or not. Maybe you don't know who Chuck Knox was?
bizell Posted November 22, 2010 Posted November 22, 2010 thank god for reggie nelson. man, does he suck. immediately once he came into the game we completed that 54 yard bomb to lee evans :haha:
HansLanda Posted November 22, 2010 Posted November 22, 2010 I dunno. the Bengals won their division last year and if you get the injury bug you still shouldn't get blanked 35-0 in the second half. In my view this has less to do with their defense and more to do with Carson Palmer, Batman and Robin coasting/sucking.
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