BillsVet Posted October 22, 2018 Posted October 22, 2018 1 hour ago, Dopey said: Tell your friend, this team, yes. Next question?! Rebuilding successfully is another matter however. At best this one is stuck in neutral and there's a lot of heavy lifting necessary this off-season.
GoBills808 Posted October 22, 2018 Posted October 22, 2018 To be fair, a ‘blowout’ has two components in points for and points against. Defense had been middling in allowing points and the offense is dead last in scoring. Offensive personnel considered, that’s not entirely unexpected. To me the margin is more indicative of a bad offense than any systemic problem.
saundena Posted October 25, 2018 Author Posted October 25, 2018 On 10/22/2018 at 1:02 PM, Shaw66 said: I read somewhere that Bill Belichick's single greatest skill is film study. He's a master at reviewing film, figuring out what a team is doing and figuring out his team has to do to counter it. I think if you're Jekyl and Hyde like the Bills - competitive some days and not others, it says you're bad at film study. By the seventh game of the season, teams have begun to show their tendencies. The films will show which plays they run regularly and why those plays work for them. By this time in the season, your team should be identifying those tendencies and adjusting offensive and defensive schemes to neutralize what the opponent does well and to take advantage of what the opponent does poorly. Getting blown out by a mediocre team like the Bills did Sunday means, I think, that either the coaches (1) aren't learning what they should from film study or (2) aren't designing effective counter measures to attack the opponent or (3) aren't effectively teaching the players those counter measures. So maybe the Bills were surprised by what the Ravens did, and maybe even what the Chargers did, but I doubt it. In any case, they shouldn't have been surprised by what the Colts did. And they shouldn't have been surprised in mid-season last year, when they were blown out three games in a row. One reason the Patriots don't do so well in September is that Belichick doesn't have enough film on the teams to understand and attack their strengths. And film study is why the Patriots, more so than most teams, look different from week to week. If the film says a defense is weak against the run, the Patriots become a running team for the week. If the study says passing is the way to go, that's what the Patriots do. You can have all the character you want; if your aren't teaching your players what they need to do, you aren't going to win. Excellent post!
NoHuddleKelly12 Posted October 25, 2018 Posted October 25, 2018 On 10/21/2018 at 4:54 PM, saundena said: I was against getting rid of Whaley! Because he executed a clear plan and competent vision to make the Bills great again? My short term memory is a bit fuzzy I’ll admit, but I seem to recall a bunch of go nowhere middle of the road mediocrity as every regime before him too since Butler left. Pretty sad if we are at the point of wanting that guy back. No thanks have seen how that movie ends and I don’t need an encore. This team needed to be rebuilt from the studs up, and yeah it’s sucked a lot this year but there is light at the end of the tunnel given all of the resources about to come our way to allow us to get better fast.
BillsFan692 Posted October 25, 2018 Posted October 25, 2018 (edited) On 10/22/2018 at 2:11 PM, BananaB said: If Rex got us to the playoffs he wouldn’t of been fired. It’s that simple Rex did get the same record as mcdermott, though, and offensively and defensively we were far better rated. I didn't really get why Rex was so short lived and so many firings considering basically we were ranked top 15 in both categories both years he was here? I mean, I didn't like Rex as much as the next guy... I'm just not sure WHY we hated him so much. We only got in last year by sheer luck. Edited October 25, 2018 by BillsFan692
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