No more Tre, so what’s up now ? Nothing, some Team has bigger problems.

[Italian Bills]

Ok, all of us agree that losing Tre for the season is devastating for our “possible” chances to get the job done this year… well, i don’t see it. 
 

I’m still sure that, even if Tre is an outstanding player, we could afford his absence. It wouldn’t be like this if it was Josh and not Tre to be out for the season. We will find a way to replace Tre or we’ll find a way to make some little change at our defensive game plan… maybe using more double team against the best opposite WRs… or maybe switching more often from man to man to a zone coverage… 

 

Losing Josh would have been unfixable. So be calm, everything will be ok, if we find a way to play a better football both side, offense and defense, because lately we weren’t so good. 
 

Some team suffered worse injuries or general losses, ask the Titans with Henry, ask the Texans with Watson.. or what it could be if Indy would lose Taylor, or Baltimore with Jackson, or Green Bay losing Rodgers. 
 

Of course losing Tre for the season is a bad bad thing, but we can survive it if starting playing better over all. 
 

[Bferra13]

Agreed, as a poster said on here a couple days ago, we won't go from the best pass d in the league to the worst from this. There will be some regression sure. I'm more worried about the oline. 

[SCBills]

Baltimore and Tennessee certainly don’t, and shouldn’t, feel any sympathy for us losing Tre.  
 

Both have lost cornerstone players and still have aspirations of going to the Super Bowl… as do we.  

[klos63]

I know everyone is trying to paint an optimistic picture here and that's fine. But this is a devastating loss.  We have a very good defense overall, but Tre was special and you can't replace that. This is hugely significant.

[mniz56]

The thing that makes this injury sting is with Tre, you knew one side of the field was off limits to the opposition.  The rest of our defense will have to really step up.

[oldmanfan]

2 minutes ago, klos63 said:

I know everyone is trying to paint an optimistic picture here and that's fine. But this is a devastating loss.  We have a very good defense overall, but Tre was special and you can't replace that. This is hugely significant.

It’s a big loss but devastating?  We’ll see.

[thronethinker]

Tampa lost all of their starting DBs like week 1, so this is something good teams get over.

 

[SCBills]

3 minutes ago, thronethinker said:

Tampa lost all of their starting DBs like week 1, so this is something good teams get over.

 

Ravens lost Marcus Peters before the season even started, yet here they are. 

[D. L. Hot-Flamethrower]

Packers lost Jaire Alexander, who IMO is the best in football.

[Nextmanup]

15 minutes ago, klos63 said:

I know everyone is trying to paint an optimistic picture here and that's fine. But this is a devastating loss.  We have a very good defense overall, but Tre was special and you can't replace that. This is hugely significant.

Of course it is!  And there is NOTHING good about it.

 

These rationalization threads are foolish.

 

 

[Mr. WEO]

I keep reading this thread title with an Italian accent.

 

 

[HOUSE]

Aaron Rogers has a sore toe, its very sad

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

Agreed generally. But I think losing a CB1 usually is harder to replace than a RB.

[Italian Bills]

19 minutes ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:

Agreed generally. But I think losing a CB1 usually is harder to replace than a RB.

Not losing a RB caliber like Henry.

[NewEra]

46 minutes ago, SCBills said:

Ravens lost Marcus Peters before the season even started, yet here they are. 

Marcus peters isn’t nearly as good as tre.  Two different levels of play.  Peter’s gets beat on the reg.  

[Success]

The biggest thing w/ losing Tre - how many more points will opposing teams score?  How many more passes will they complete?

 

Tre wasn't the top player on a middlin' defense.  Tre was the top player on a D of great and good players, and the secondary in particular has one of the best safety tandems in the league.

 

Like the OP said, it's just not going to be night & day back there without him, as good as he is. We'll still have a top pass defense.

 

 

[JoshAllin]

Yeah, even though losing Josh is season over. I still don't feel that way with Trey out even though he is the equivalent of Allen on the defensive side.

[klos63]

1 hour ago, oldmanfan said:

It’s a big loss but devastating?  We’ll see.

If we were able to sack the QB regularly, I think we could make this less devastating, but these new guys will be expected to do some heavy duty coverage because we can't sack the QB.

[Success]

Who was around for our 1st SB?

 

The Giants lost PHIL SIMMS late in the season.

 

Bad memory, but happens all of the time in sports.  If anyone listens to Bill Simmons (not recommended), he calls it the "Ewing Theory," based on a season where the Knicks lost Ewing and actually seemed to play better.

 

[stosh64]

My hope and prayer is that the rest of the team as a whole uses this terrible news to dig a little deeper,  take it just that much more serious, have each player have that extra sense of urgency, especially every player on offence, play a little beyond what they think their best is.

As bad as this news is (Prayers for your healing Tre, the team could use this as a catalyst for greatness.

Win it FOR TRE!!  lol