What was the Defensive Strategy?

[freddyjj]

1 hour ago, Motorin' said:

Still too soon, but just saw this on Twitter and it's pretty hilarious:

 

 

That's a ROC kid and McQuaid HS grad Isiah Stewart!  Sign him to play TE Beane!

[JerseyBills]

2 hours ago, dave mcbride said:

To stop the run with the Bills' bigger D-linemen. They just didn't get the job done. Harrison Phillips played 78 percent of the snaps and Butler 67 percent. Hughes played 30 percent, which is very low for him. Basham played 45 and Oliver 46 percent; Epenesa, Addison, and Obada all played under 30 percent. Hughes actually had a couple of nice pressures, but the interior of the d-line couldn't hold up. Missing Lotuleilei really hurt them.

Ya missing Star killed us.

 

We're still missing a true difference maker up front. 

Did yall see KC with Chris Jones compared to without him? 

Holy Smokes. He dominates but also makes everyone around him better

[dave mcbride]

1 minute ago, JerseyBills said:

Ya missing Star killed us.

 

We're still missing a true difference maker up front. 

Did yall see KC with Chris Jones compared to without him? 

Holy Smokes. He dominates but also makes everyone around him better

Yeah, he is really good. Unblockable yesterday.

[JerseyBills]

4 minutes ago, dave mcbride said:

Yeah, he is really good. Unblockable yesterday.

Hope Oliver would be similar.  He's playing good ball , but not dominant at all. Hope to see him continue to improve but draft "gurus" were calling him Aaron Donald Jr. 

Star greatly helps him though by eating up multiple blockers. 

Hope He's ready by Thurs

[Freddie's Dead]

Your question presupposes that there was a stragety (as Bugs would say).  Bills should have run 7 or 8 in the box and made Wentz beat them, but no, Frazier was too smart for that...

[Hebert19]

1 hour ago, Bruffalo said:

If that's true then I have a lot more issue with McD this season. If he isn't digging in with the defense, what is he doing?  He's said multiple times that he lets Daboll run the offense without a whole lot of input.

Agree.  But I recall last year 1 game and the year before a couple games where he started calling plays and we were a ton more aggressive.  

28 minutes ago, JerseyBills said:

Hope Oliver would be similar.  He's playing good ball , but not dominant at all. Hope to see him continue to improve but draft "gurus" were calling him Aaron Donald Jr. 

Star greatly helps him though by eating up multiple blockers. 

Hope He's ready by Thurs

Ed played well.  He was only one disruptive at all on that line.   He also needs someone not named butler or Phillips out there with him. 

 

He blew thru the line a couple times on runs and RB just made him miss.  He will get those at some point. 

[JaCrispy]

1 hour ago, John from Riverside said:

Harrison Phillips was literally getting stood up and either stalemated or driven back all game long.

 

We missed Star in this game....and we need to look into a true NT in the offseason

If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard this the last 5 years...honestly, it’s getting to a point where I don’t think McD really uses a true NT in his defenses...seems to like smaller guys for some reason...

[Matt_In_NH]

I heard it was called “let’s get trucked”

[Jerboski]

They continue to struggle against physical football teams 

 

Pitt, jags, colts and Titans all have physical OL/running attacks and absolutely destroy us 

[D. L. Hot-Flamethrower]

What was the defensive strategy? To not get hurt before our Super Bowl appearance!

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

2 hours ago, Jauronimo said:

Our strategy was not to let Wentz beat us with his arm and limit Taylor to less than 6 TDs and we executed it flawlessly.  Not sure why we lost so badly.

 

Pretty dumb strategy.  All week I was saying that we need to limit Taylor to only 4 TD’s. 6 was just a tad too much. Time to fire McBeane.