Unsung hero : Leslie Frazier

[Best Williams Available]

1 hour ago, BuffaloBill said:

There has been an assumption that the Bills will lose Dabol this year to a HC’ing job.  If I was an owner, I would look much harder at Frazier. I certainly hope he is in Buffalo to stay. At the same time the guy has been brilliant.

Hopefully execs think this D is McDs and they overlook Frazier. He’s like having 2 head coaches on the side line. Steady presence so Sean can focus on in-game stuff rather than worrying about the D. Huge for this team.

[Fan in Chicago]

Yesterday, as with the playoff game against the Ravens, were two masterpieces by Frazier. For yesterday's game, the narrative was that the Chiefs' D was bad and O was elite. But the Chiefs O never looked comfortable. The big thing I noticed was that our D played a very physical game. Frazier learned from last year when the Chiefs did that to us. Now its our turn. We have the horses and the willingness to slap their players around. We were hitting hard and it showed in the overall disorientation on the Chiefs side. Reid did not expect us to play this way. 

 

Finally, there was a time last year when I too was down on Frazier but am glad I was wrong. 

[YoloinOhio]

 

[Charles Romes]

 Brilliant v the ravens in the playoffs. Did not have the personnel to do much v the chiefs in ‘20. This year he does. 

[Fan in Chicago]

1 hour ago, BuffaloBill said:

There has been an assumption that the Bills will lose Dabol this year to a HC’ing job.  If I was an owner, I would look much harder at Frazier. I certainly hope he is in Buffalo to stay. At the same time the guy has been brilliant.

Frazier had his chance and didnt succeed as HC. I am not particularly worried about losing him. I hope that he becomes a Dick LeBeau and stays with us as long term elite DC. 

[BuffaloBill]

14 minutes ago, Fan in Chicago said:

Frazier had his chance and didnt succeed as HC. I am not particularly worried about losing him. I hope that he becomes a Dick LeBeau and stays with us as long term elite DC. 

 

Understood but the feeling was he would have taken the Texans job last year if they had offered it to him.

[Hebert19]

Man.  Having Tre somewhat follow kelce was genius.  It was like when we did that with gronk and tre frustrated him to the point of gronk snapping....

 

And Micah and poyer were unbelievably disciplined. 

[Chandler#81]

5 hours ago, ganesh said:

Leslie is like the father figure to many of these young Bills on defense.   He has called a master plan to outwit the best players in the business.  Can he do it one more time next week in Nashville.  

One more time??😲 There’s possibly SIXTEEN games remaining we’ll need expert coaching to overcome! 15 at least!

3 hours ago, bmur66 said:

Awesome. I was just trying to recall if they blitzed at all and could not 

Yet they may Bring The House every play next week if that’s the best way to outlast Tennessee.

1 hour ago, BuffaloBill said:

There has been an assumption that the Bills will lose Dabol this year to a HC’ing job.  If I was an owner, I would look much harder at Frazier. I certainly hope he is in Buffalo to stay. At the same time the guy has been brilliant.

Imo, the best way to stave off poachers is to play in the Super Bowl. ‘Black Monday’ is a real thing in the NFL and likely everyone here already has a list of immediate openings following the Regular Season. Few -if any- teams in search of a new HC want to wait 5 weeks to interview a candidate.

[DJB]

30 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

 

We used this plan 2 months before the played the Buccs. Or at least the bones of this plan. We just failed to execute it in week 6 last year for a multitude of reasons.

 We weren't the first team to go with a two deep safety look only rushing 4 up front vs KC. Its a pretty common scheme. 

[GunnerBill]

6 minutes ago, DJB said:

 We weren't the first team to go with a two deep safety look only rushing 4 up front vs KC. Its a pretty common scheme. 

 

We were the first team to really make a point of forcing them to try and be patient and making them run the ball when they wanted to throw it deep. Other teams have played cover 2 shells against them but not with the commitment to making them nickel and dime the way Leslie and Sean did last season. It didn't work last year for a number of reasons but with the defense playing with this confidence it worked perfectly yesterday.

[WhoTom]

Every DC with KC on their schedule will be watching film of this game. Leslie put on a clinic on how to slow down the Chiefs' offense.

 

 

[Max Fischer]

3 hours ago, Conlan58 said:

I read somewhere this was the first ever NFL game (next gen stats i believe?) that a team did not blitz even a single time. Was an amazing game to watch - he had a plan, stuck to it, and his players obviously bought into it and executed it!

At the very least, it ties a record that can’t be broken. 

[Ralonzo]

42 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

 

We used this plan 2 months before the played the Buccs. Or at least the bones of this plan. We just failed to execute it in week 6 last year for a multitude of reasons.

Bills didn’t have the horses to do in the AFCG what they did yesterday. Like complementary football between O, D, ST, Bills have a complementary front office and coaching staff.

[26TrapDraw]

Tell you what, having a game plan and then having the defensive talent to do it are two different things. This defense couldn’t impose their will last year like they are doing right now. It’s awesome to watch. I have complete confidence in them now and know they have the pieces in place to shut down anyone they have to. Probably best defense I have seen in my 32 years of fandom.

[GunnerBill]

9 minutes ago, Ralonzo said:

Bills didn’t have the horses to do in the AFCG what they did yesterday. Like complementary football between O, D, ST, Bills have a complementary front office and coaching staff.

 

In the AFCCG they didn't try the same plan. I think they let the criticism about them being too passive in week 6 get into their heads too much and They went in saying we are just going to play our defense and try and out execute them. Which failed. This was more a slightly modified version of the 2020 week 6 plan. What do I think made the difference? A number of things:

 

1. Confidence. Week 6 last year the D was coming off some early season struggles and wasn't feeling itself the way it is now after 2 shut outs in 3 weeks. 

 

2. The horses up front. Rousseau had a great game last night but also just the ability to use wave after wave of different dlinemen with the energy of the 3 young guys which in turn keeps Jerry and Mario fresher and of course have Star back and playing his best football as a Bill. 

 

3. Health. Okay we were down Milano (same as week 6 last year) but remember week 6 last year Edmunds was still playing with the shoulder and Tre was struggling and had missed the game at Tennessee the previous week hurt.

 

4. Slight adjustments in our coverage packages and a bit more use of dime (which the Bills generally use very little) with Siran on the field a lot on passing downs.

 

I think that combination of factors allowed us to run what was fundamentally the week 6 of 2020 plan but execute it much better to the point where it didn't look "passive" in the way it was criticised for looking last year. 

[DJB]

29 minutes ago, WhoTom said:

Every DC with KC on their schedule will be watching film of this game. Leslie put on a clinic on how to slow down the Chiefs' offense.

 

 

 

And if the Chefs figure out a way to beat it Leslie will have watched that and found a counter move to that. 

[Beast]

Leslie Frazier seems like a human being that would be very easy to play football for. Someone you'd want to lay it on the line for.

[BuffaloBillyG]

Wonder if Houston wants a do over for their HC position.

[WhoTom]

34 minutes ago, No Place To Hyde said:

Wonder if Houston wants a do over for their HC position.

 

Do we know for sure that they didn't make him an offer? I think it's possible that Leslie turned them down, or would have turned them down if they had made an offer. Sometimes, and I think we can all agree that Houston is one of those cases, it's better to pass on the first available opportunity and wait for the right opportunity.

 

[BillsFan4]

Houston should have hired him instead of David Culley. But I’m sure glad they didn’t! (I’m also glad for Frazier. I think Culley’s being set up to fail)

 

I can’t believe he hasn’t had more head coaching interviews. Iirc he’s had a top 10 defense every year in Buffalo but one (2020, under very unusual circumstances (esp. no fans in the stands)).

 

Selfishly I hope we get to keep him but I know he really wants another shot at being a head coach and I think he deserves it + would do a very good job.