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Glad we won and all, but Roman neutered our offense most of the afternoon. Got the impression he didn't have confidence in Taylor nor was I impressed with his schematic designs. Got way too conservative way too early. No excuse for not targeting Sammy more than one or two times as well. Glad our defense rose to the occasion because, based on one game, I'm not sure Roman can go out and win a game with the mentality he showed today.

 

GO BILLS!!!

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Glad we won and all, but Roman neutered our offense most of the afternoon. Got the impression he didn't have confidence in Taylor nor was I impressed with his schematic designs. Got way too conservative way too early. No excuse for not targeting Sammy more than one or two times as well. Glad our defense rose to the occasion because, based on one game, I'm not sure Roman can go out and win a game with the mentality he showed today.

 

GO BILLS!!!

He was up 17-0..wasn't going to take chances with defense playing well. No turnovers by the offense

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Glad we won and all, but Roman neutered our offense most of the afternoon. Got the impression he didn't have confidence in Taylor nor was I impressed with his schematic designs. Got way too conservative way too early. No excuse for not targeting Sammy more than one or two times as well. Glad our defense rose to the occasion because, based on one game, I'm not sure Roman can go out and win a game with the mentality he showed today.

 

GO BILLS!!!

 

Get a grip. He got a no-name QB ready to play. The Bills won the game in part because the offense played efficiently. Good win.

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I think it is too early to blame the playcalling, especially since it was TT's first game. But a few responses:

 

1) After we went up 24-0, it seemed like the rest of our drives started with a holding penalty. It was really hard to get momentum on those second half drives when we were in 2nd and 20 so often, and then trying to run clock.

 

2) I thought the Colts d-line was better than advertised, and they obviously tried to key in to stop the run-- which explains some of the issues with McCoy and the holds our line took. That said, seemed like Karlos Williams was really hitting the holes well.

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it was taylor's first nfl start. we won. enuf said…except that mccoy looked pretty ordinary.

Rub blocking wasn't great and McCoy had a nice TD run called back

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Wow. I really disagree. Sammy becomes a problem only if the offense is being stymied, which they weren't. I never knew of we were going to run or pass. We had no turnovers. He didn't ask Taylor to do too much and yet wasn't overly conservative. He spread the ball around. He used three RB and six receivers. We averaged 6.2 yards a play.

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They got up by 17 and Rex and Roman know who is next on the schedule.

I don't think that had anything to do with the playcalling.

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He was up 17-0..wasn't going to take chances with defense playing well. No turnovers by the offense

Agreed, I'll take the conservative W. Beats hoping the defense or ST could score to give us a chance like the last couple years!

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I don't think that had anything to do with the playcalling.

I'm not so sure about that. The offense definitely got very conservative after we went up 24-0. Its quite possible, they figured lets just count on the D and hang on playing a pretty basic offense, so they don't give any more away than they had to, to our next opponent. At least, that's what I'm hoping, because it got real conservative, real quick.

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Geez, Louise. They scored 27, outplayed the Colts offense and the first half was beautiful. I thought the coaches gave TT a great deal of latitude.

 

Watkins: You don't "target" a receiver (See: Flacco lock on Steve Smith) if he's not open. From what I saw, Sammy didn't get much separation and certainly not running around wide-open. I also chalk some of it up to Watkins simply not playing much in pre-season and little work with TT in particular. In other words, I'm excited that this offense can be much better, especially if they OLine can figure out how to open a running lane or two.

 

Find something else to complain about.

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I'm not so sure about that. The offense definitely got very conservative after we went up 24-0. Its quite possible, they figured lets just count on the D and hang on playing a pretty basic offense, so they don't give any more away than they had to, to our next opponent. At least, that's what I'm hoping, because it got real conservative, real quick.

It's natural to get conservative when up 24-0.....what would you have thought if they started throwing every down after getting a big lead?

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I'm not so sure about that. The offense definitely got very conservative after we went up 24-0. Its quite possible, they figured lets just count on the D and hang on playing a pretty basic offense, so they don't give any more away than they had to, to our next opponent. At least, that's what I'm hoping, because it got real conservative, real quick.

I'm not a big fan of changing what is doing well. But there is a definite advantage to being conservative when a team is more than three scores down. Even if the Colts scored 14 points late, you're betting that they don't score quick. And the way they do that is only turnovers.

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my biggest problem was snapping the ball with 7-15 seconds left on the play clock in the fourth qtr. When milking the clock, you need to really milk it out....

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