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Falcons safety Ricardo Allen still hadn't cleared concussion protocol as of Thursday. If he can't play, that's an important loss for them


We'll get both team's official report later but its looking more and more likely both LB Vic Beasley and DE Courtney Upshaw could be out.

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Alexander can fill in at DE as well. Would like to have Shaq but won't worry if he's out.

Yarbrough has looked decent so far in his limited time.

 

Plus you would think the $100 million dollar man in and Shaq out would still be a net positive for a defense. At least you would hope.

 

Not even close to reality as we know. Shady literally should have had zero or negative rushing yards in the last game. He made chicken salad out of chicken you know what against Denver. Bills line has been allowing the least amount of yards gained before contact. Good news is Atlanta defense is giving up the third most yards per rush in the league at 4.8 I think the run game gets going this week. It will at least be a whole lot better than it was the last two weeks.

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Not even close to reality as we know. Shady literally should have had zero or negative rushing yards in the last game. He made chicken salad out of chicken you know what against Denver. Bills line has been allowing the least amount of yards gained before contact. Good news is Atlanta defense is giving up the third most yards per rush in the league at 4.8 I think the run game gets going this week. It will at least be a whole lot better than it was the last two weeks.

 

I'd like to preface what I'm about to say that I think Shady is an amazing RB and even though he was stuffed in the running game his receptions were invaluable to our win.

 

Having said that, there were plenty of plays where lost yardage that he could have made minimal gains or have gotten to the LOS, but rather attempted to bounce it out and as a result lost more yardage. Do you believe that Tolbert was able to get 3.7 yards a carry that game on 11 carries because the Broncos didn't anticipate him running the ball? The reason why Tolbert was more effective running the ball was because he was more north south with his approach.

 

Basically I disagree with the underlined part up above. But I do agree with your larger point that the offensive line has been porous in the ground game over the past 2 games.

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Shaq Lawson is a question mark for Sunday. Dion Dawkins likely to make his second straight start and Marcell Dareus expected to return to the lineup.

Bills Head Coach Sean McDermott addressed the media prior to practice topics include; the challenge facing the Atlanta receivers, the different skill set of the defensive backfield, and an injury update.

 

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I'd like to preface what I'm about to say that I think Shady is an amazing RB and even though he was stuffed in the running game his receptions were invaluable to our win.

 

Having said that, there were plenty of plays where lost yardage that he could have made minimal gains or have gotten to the LOS, but rather attempted to bounce it out and as a result lost more yardage. Do you believe that Tolbert was able to get 3.7 yards a carry that game on 11 carries because the Broncos didn't anticipate him running the ball? The reason why Tolbert was more effective running the ball was because he was more north south with his approach.

 

Basically I disagree with the underlined part up above. But I do agree with your larger point that the offensive line has been porous in the ground game over the past 2 games.

You need to factor in that we don't call the same run plays with Tolbert. And why would we? Tolbert is strictly a north to south runner. If we only called north to south running plays with McCoy I'm sure he would likely have a much better average in the last game.

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Plus you would think the $100 million dollar man in and Shaq out would still be a net positive for a defense. At least you would hope.

 

I hope that, but I need more evidence to think that. I think Lawson shows more effort and has the urgency lacking from Capt. Big Puff.

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Yarbrough has looked decent so far in his limited time.

Ryan Davis has also played good when he's been in there too.

 

I would prefer to have Lawson out there, but I think that Davis & Yarbrough are up to the task.

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Ryan Schraeder is out as well. So that's a starting DE, OLB, FS, and RT out for them. If we're going to beat them this is the best chance we're gonna get.

 

That is confirmed?

 

 

Also, any word on Ricardo Allen?

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