Week 16: Bills at Pats - DISCUSSION

[NewEra]

2 minutes ago, Dr. Who said:

When Bobby Hart at LT is your best option in the most important game of the year . . . 

Agreed.  Scary.  But we have Tommy Doyle….. rejoice

[Locomark]

They have no choice but to line up with Williams and Brown again at the tackles. This just leaves us to hope on Feliciano clearing or we have to play Bates or Doyle inside. I don’t think they play Hart unless another starter goes down. He’s that bad. They may even line up with an H back on 1 side or another just to chip often. Moss will be dressed this week because he is the best protector they have at RB. 

[Brianmoorman4jesus]

Can’t Bates play LT?

[HalftimeAdjustment]

So Stevenson is out for NE. Last game he ran 24 times for 78 yds (3.2 ypc). A big part of their offense but maybe replaceable. How is Harris doing, he had 10 carries for 111yds (11.1 ypc)?

[Success]

10 minutes ago, HalftimeAdjustment said:

So Stevenson is out for NE. Last game he ran 24 times for 78 yds (3.2 ypc). A big part of their offense but maybe replaceable. How is Harris doing, he had 10 carries for 111yds (11.1 ypc)?

 

He was back at practice this week, but limited. He'll definitely play - but it's a hammy, so who knows if he can handle the full load.

 

If they didn't have Harris, they'd be in bad shape. They rely on the running game, and those are their best RB's.

 

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

50 minutes ago, Brianmoorman4jesus said:

Can’t Bates play LT?

Bates can’t play anything apparently. 

2 hours ago, Golden said:

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@MattParrino

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What I think o-line could look like on Sunday: LT- Bobby Hart LG- Ike Boettger C- Mitch Morse RG- Daryl Williams RT- Spencer Brown

 

just nuts if they think Hart is a better option than Doyle or Bates, but I guess I trust the coaches. But I agree generally that we should only swap out LT, not LT/RG/RT.

[CSBill]

Hard to imagine Hart at LT, but I guess we’ll go with it. …. And if so, what does that say about what the Coaches think about Bates or Doyle? Yikes.

[finn]

34 minutes ago, CSBill said:

Hard to imagine Hart at LT, but I guess we’ll go with it. …. And if so, what does that say about what the Coaches think about Bates or Doyle? Yikes.

I wonder if Williams is the best choice for left tackle. That leaves Brown at right tackle and Boettger and Bates at guard. Yes, Brown had no time to prepare for left tackle, but he played about as badly as anyone can play over there. 

 

What a mess. 

[HalftimeAdjustment]

Based on the last 10-20 posts in the NEWS thread, the separate threads experiment is not going well. Most of those posts contain "discussion" aka opinion, rather than NEWS.

 

I decided to post this comment here because it is also not news.

[Steptide]

I'm excited/interested to see some of our wide receiver depth step up, but I fear alot of dropped passes and mis communication. These depth guys haven't had alot of playing time and I fear that it'll show. Really need to feed Diggs, Sanders, mckenzie and Knox. Anyone else I say feed them easy passes. Maybe take a deep shot to Stevenson 

[Since1981]

Let’s get rid of the table broke mafia. Let’s go BEER chaser after score…every NFL fan can get behind that !! I think players are ready. I am. 
 

I have $10 and will help pay fine. 

[DapperCam]

We screwed up bad letting Lee Smith go. He was like an extra lineman.

 

Never thought I’d say that…

[Brianmoorman4jesus]

How about:

Bates Boettger Morse Williams Brown

[Coffeesforclosers]

8 hours ago, Brianmoorman4jesus said:

How about:

Bates Boettger Morse Williams Brown

 

I don't see Bobby Hart or Cody Ford playing, so it looks good to me.

[Rockinon]

We could go with 6 OL men occasionally. Think I read somewhere that we've done that in previous games.

[aristocrat]

Is Dawkins not playing?

[Ray Stonada]

8 hours ago, Brianmoorman4jesus said:

How about:

Bates Boettger Morse Williams Brown

Strength of this is that Josh loves rolling to the right so we could run designed roll outs to the better side and then mix it up with Singletary running counters to the left where Brown and Williams would pull…

[HalftimeAdjustment]

29 minutes ago, Rockinon said:

We could go with 6 OL men occasionally. Think I read somewhere that we've done that in previous games.

 

If we have 6 OL men who can play, and not get a false start penalty because they never did this before.

[Maynard]

24 minutes ago, aristocrat said:

Is Dawkins not playing?

All we know is he’s on the COVID-19 list and it’s hush hush from there.  I’d like to believe Dawkins can’t be that sick, after already having it once and being fully vaccinated. 🤔 

[CSBill]

9 hours ago, Brianmoorman4jesus said:

How about:

Bates Boettger Morse Williams Brown

 
That is what I wanted last week, but apparently Bates is not a good option there. Really? Can he be any worse than Brown was? At least with this, everything else is relatively normal.