HOUSE Posted May 17, 2019 Posted May 17, 2019 By: Justin DiLoro | 5 hours ago Usually, teams who have the best secondaries often limit the number of passing yards allowed. Apparently, Fox Sports didn’t get that memo. The outlet sent out a Twitter poll asking “Which NFL team has the best secondary?” The poll, which featured the options of the Baltimore Ravens, Los Angeles Chargers, Chicago Bears, and Cleveland Browns, curiously left off the team who allowed the fewest passing yards in the league last season. The Buffalo Bills. The Bills led the league by allowing only 179.8 passing yards per game, a 15-yard cushion over the second-place Jacksonville Jaguars. Bills safety Micah Hyde noticed this omission. https://billswire.usatoday.com/2019/05/17/buffalo-bills-secondary-left-out-mention-micah-hyde/ 4 2
HOUSE Posted May 17, 2019 Author Posted May 17, 2019 There are 31 teams in the league, some teams are forgotten 5 1
DieHardBillsFan Posted May 17, 2019 Posted May 17, 2019 4 minutes ago, HOUSE said: By: Justin DiLoro | 5 hours ago Usually, teams who have the best secondaries often limit the number of passing yards allowed. Apparently, Fox Sports didn’t get that memo. The outlet sent out a Twitter poll asking “Which NFL team has the best secondary?” The poll, which featured the options of the Baltimore Ravens, Los Angeles Chargers, Chicago Bears, and Cleveland Browns, curiously left off the team who allowed the fewest passing yards in the league last season. The Buffalo Bills. The Bills led the league by allowing only 179.8 passing yards per game, a 15-yard cushion over the second-place Jacksonville Jaguars. Bills safety Micah Hyde noticed this omission. https://billswire.usatoday.com/2019/05/17/buffalo-bills-secondary-left-out-mention-micah-hyde/ Technically, the question wasn't, Which team has the best secondary in the NFL? They knew the Bills are number 1! 1
John from Riverside Posted May 17, 2019 Posted May 17, 2019 Fox everything is starting to become unwatchable 8 4
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted May 17, 2019 Posted May 17, 2019 (edited) Just watch the pundits take notice when we start stunting Eddie O back there... * Didn’t Wrecks have some hare brained schemes about defensive players dropping back in passing situations to non traditional coverage from their normal positions? Edited May 17, 2019 by Ridgewaycynic2013 1
badassgixxer05 Posted May 17, 2019 Posted May 17, 2019 11 minutes ago, HOUSE said: I'll take another one of those Gronk Bombs to go please! 1
HOUSE Posted May 17, 2019 Author Posted May 17, 2019 1 hour ago, Bangarang said: Let’s boycott until everyone respects us! 4
Florida Bills Fanatic Posted May 17, 2019 Posted May 17, 2019 Just a typical national media slant. They're just trying to draw the most readers/watchers. Fox Sports writers and pundits are generally a joke. Practically unwatchable as someone already observed. The Bills just need to let their play define the national narrative. 1 1
TroutDog Posted May 17, 2019 Posted May 17, 2019 I agree our secondary is good but teams did run all over us last year so no need for huge passing numbers. 5
K-9 Posted May 17, 2019 Posted May 17, 2019 34 minutes ago, HOUSE said: By: Justin DiLoro | 5 hours ago Usually, teams who have the best secondaries often limit the number of passing yards allowed. Apparently, Fox Sports didn’t get that memo. The outlet sent out a Twitter poll asking “Which NFL team has the best secondary?” The poll, which featured the options of the Baltimore Ravens, Los Angeles Chargers, Chicago Bears, and Cleveland Browns, curiously left off the team who allowed the fewest passing yards in the league last season. The Buffalo Bills. The Bills led the league by allowing only 179.8 passing yards per game, a 15-yard cushion over the second-place Jacksonville Jaguars. Bills safety Micah Hyde noticed this omission. https://billswire.usatoday.com/2019/05/17/buffalo-bills-secondary-left-out-mention-micah-hyde/ Yards per game isn’t the most telling pass defense stat but, that said, the Bills were more than respectable in the two most key pass defense stats: yards per attempt and passer rating allowed. Tied for first in the league in the former and place third overall in the latter. It is journalistic dereliction of duty not to include the Bills in the top three over all, let alone top five. Just lazy work by FOX Sports. 2 1
quinnearlysghost88 Posted May 17, 2019 Posted May 17, 2019 I'm more concerned with performing during the season. We don't need this preseason adulation. It means absolutely nothing. A sports writer has to hit his or her word count before deadline. Nailed it: https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/08/21/nfl-preseason-predictions-team-records-playoffs-super-bowl-liii-champion 2 1
Doc Posted May 17, 2019 Posted May 17, 2019 8 minutes ago, TroutDog said: I agree our secondary is good but teams did run all over us last year so no need for huge passing numbers. Wrong. The Bills were 9th best in yards per rush allowed. And to leave the Bills off, when they were 1st in YPP and total yardage despite having uncertainty at the 2nd starting spot until Wallace (who some considered a 1st round talent when the season was over) became a starter, added Gaines (who when healthy is a top CB and who will see less wear-and-tear as a 4th CB) and Kevin Johnson (a former 1st rounder who will be fine covering teams' 5th receiving option), and drafted Ed Oliver... But again, opinions...
TroutDog Posted May 17, 2019 Posted May 17, 2019 3 minutes ago, Doc said: Wrong. The Bills were 9th best in yards per rush allowed. And to leave the Bills off, when they were 1st in YPP and total yardage despite having uncertainty at the 2nd starting spot until Wallace (who some considered a 1st round talent when the season was over) became a starter, added Gaines (who when healthy is a top CB and who will see less wear-and-tear as a 4th CB) and Kevin Johnson (a former 1st rounder who will be fine covering teams' 5th receiving option), and drafted Ed Oliver... But again, opinions... We gave up 114 yards per game at 4.2 ypc and there were multiple games with over 200 yards. Overall, yes, the numbers were good but that’s because we were always playing from behind and other teams were simply running to burn the clock. 1
Logic Posted May 17, 2019 Posted May 17, 2019 It's Fox Sports. They're the ones who allowed the rigged "best fanbase vote" to go on without any mention of all the cheating on behalf of Titans fans. So, I guess what I'm saying is....Fox Sports Twitter polls are worth about as much as AOL stock at this point. 3
K-9 Posted May 17, 2019 Posted May 17, 2019 20 minutes ago, TroutDog said: I agree our secondary is good but teams did run all over us last year so no need for huge passing numbers. That would explain the low yards per game, but as I said above, they are elite in the ypa and passer rating allowed stats, too. We get any kind of pass rush to complement them, our secondary could be dominant. 1
Ol Dirty B Posted May 17, 2019 Posted May 17, 2019 24 minutes ago, K-9 said: Yards per game isn’t the most telling pass defense stat but, that said, the Bills were more than respectable in the two most key pass defense stats: yards per attempt and passer rating allowed. Tied for first in the league in the former and place third overall in the latter. It is journalistic dereliction of duty not to include the Bills in the top three over all, let alone top five. Just lazy work by FOX Sports. This has nothing to do with journalism, it's commenting/ editorial. I don't know how you guys don't get exhausted of being upset of an article. Who cares. 3
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