HumbleAndHungry Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 A football team is like a machine with many moving parts, each part with a specific job. When the part succcessfully carries out its job, the machine runs well; when it fails or breaks, the whole machine underperforms. For this reason I would not take a corner back in the first three rounds. Our defensive front seven is atrocious and have severly underperformed this season (with exceptions to Williams). Consequently, our secondary has had to make many more tackles and have not been able to record nearly as many turnovers because we are getting no pressure on the quarterback. Plus, our run defense is dead last so the opposing team never needs to throw. Secondly, this year our O line was a patch work job again. It was no where near as bad as our D line but it still underperformed. Luckily we had a somewhat mobil qb in fitzpatrick. Not so mobil qbs such as edwards and brohm were devoured by the opponents defense. Imagine what Fitz could do with a great offensive line. This is where the ripple effect comes into play. Like Newton said, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. With a good O line Our running game would improve (Spiller would have more space to run), Fitz would have even more time to make decisions and receivers would in result make more catches for more yards. If we had a better defensive front, we would have more interceptions, bc there would be more ill advised and hurried passes. Also if our defensive front seven proved they could stop the run our opponents would take more chances in the air and statistics show that the more pass attempts by the opponent, the more chances for interceptions. In conclusion, don't get down on Byrd or even whitner. Without a great pass rush, interceptions are extremely difficult to come by. If we choose Bowers, Fairley, Dareus, or Quinn in this years draft and take a OLB in the second round it could improve our pass rush and run defense which would instantly improve our secondary. Also if we can avoid injury on the O line and develop bettter run blocking, perhaps spiller and jackson could combine for a 1800+ yard season. Just dont forget, upgrading one part of your offense and defense also upgrades the rest of the offense or defense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiderweb Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 A football team is like a machine with many moving parts, each part with a specific job. When the part succcessfully carries out its job, the machine runs well; when it fails or breaks, the whole machine underperforms. For this reason I would not take a corner back in the first three rounds. Our defensive front seven is atrocious and have severly underperformed this season (with exceptions to Williams). Consequently, our secondary has had to make many more tackles and have not been able to record nearly as many turnovers because we are getting no pressure on the quarterback. Plus, our run defense is dead last so the opposing team never needs to throw. Secondly, this year our O line was a patch work job again. It was no where near as bad as our D line but it still underperformed. Luckily we had a somewhat mobil qb in fitzpatrick. Not so mobil qbs such as edwards and brohm were devoured by the opponents defense. Imagine what Fitz could do with a great offensive line. This is where the ripple effect comes into play. Like Newton said, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. With a good O line Our running game would improve (Spiller would have more space to run), Fitz would have even more time to make decisions and receivers would in result make more catches for more yards. If we had a better defensive front, we would have more interceptions, bc there would be more ill advised and hurried passes. Also if our defensive front seven proved they could stop the run our opponents would take more chances in the air and statistics show that the more pass attempts by the opponent, the more chances for interceptions. In conclusion, don't get down on Byrd or even whitner. Without a great pass rush, interceptions are extremely difficult to come by. If we choose Bowers, Fairley, Dareus, or Quinn in this years draft and take a OLB in the second round it could improve our pass rush and run defense which would instantly improve our secondary. Also if we can avoid injury on the O line and develop bettter run blocking, perhaps spiller and jackson could combine for a 1800+ yard season. Just dont forget, upgrading one part of your offense and defense also upgrades the rest of the offense or defense. As for the O-line this year, Rinehart looks like a depth guy at this point. Pears, could be gone if anything else shows up or Wrotto/Howard improve. The one O-line addition I liked was Urbik and of course, he got hurt. Healthy, he will add to the inside of the Bills line. Bell had a number of poor decisions today as to who to pick up and was beaten 3-4 times badly on outside blitzes. He showed that despite his progress, he still has work to do. Some of his poor decisions may have been avoided with Fitz making the line calls however. We still need a RT badly. I'm beginning to like the Dareus option (if available) to help the pass rush and D-line. Carrington will need to step his game up big time as he was stoned a number of times today. Troup, same as Carrington, and Troup was a bit disappointing in his rookie year. A solid if not great LB (Upshaw) would be nice addition as well. Yet, the QB position still needs major upgrade. The draft won't cure all the needs and with Nix's philosophy well stated before, it's not likely the Bills will make a splash in FA, except we may lose a few of ours, creating more holes in a team that simply can't afford any more. I don't believe Brohm had the best opportunity for his first start, but he did underwhelm today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts