Milano appreciation thread

[Einstein]

Phill Simms mentioned on the pregame show that Matt Milano is the heart of the Bills defense and is highly respected. I agree. His instincts are incredible and his tackling is superb. We miss him greatly when he is gone.

 

Milano and Edmunds have each missed 1 game. I feel that Milano’s absence was felt far more significantly than Edmunds. Do you agree or disagree? Thank you.

 

Ps, Im trying to create less threads so i’m hoping this one is okay.

 

[bmur66]

No heat seeking missile today 

[Einstein]

1 minute ago, bmur66 said:

No heat seeking missile today 

 

Yes and very much missed.

There were several longer developing run plays the Jets ram where I was expecting Milano to come missiling into the backfield and blow it up. Unfortunately it never happened of course.

[Shortchaz]

Seems to be the only linebacker we have that plays with a classic linebacker mentality.

[Andy1]

His presence was sorely missed. We have no replacement for him.

[Old Coot]

Milan was missed on the Jets final drive when they ran seven straight run plays for significant yardage.

[LABILLBACKER]

1 minute ago, Shortchaz said:

Seems to be the only linebacker we have that plays with a classic linebacker mentality.

Because we have only 1 true LB.  Tremaine is a glorified SS.

[Einstein]

2 minutes ago, Andy1 said:

His presence was sorely missed. We have no replacement for him.

 

I agree. Outside of Allen and Diggs, Milano is the only irreplaceable player on this team.

[Dopey]

Disagree. Edmunds had a decent game, especially with missing Milano, Poyer, Hyde, Groot hurt his ankle AND the turnovers by the offense. Both are missed when not in the lineup. Milano wasn’t going to help Josh play better. Neither would Edmunds. 
We lost because of Josh and the offense and a missed FG didn’t help either. 

[LeGOATski]

I feel like we missed Poyer's presence in run support A LOT more.

[Nextmanup]

Of course Milano is great, and of course we miss him when he's out.

 

It's not why we lost today though; that's on Josh.

 

 

[LeGOATski]

 

They still got gashes by GB in the run game when Milano was in last week. The difference again was poor initial tackling and now poor backup safety play in support.

[Einstein]

8 minutes ago, LeGOATski said:

 

They still got gashes by GB in the run game when Milano was in last week. The difference again was poor initial tackling and now poor backup safety play in support.

 

Wasnt Milano playing hurt last week?

[LeGOATski]

Just now, Einstein said:

 

Wasnt Milano playing hurt last week?

He was not on the injury report, unless I'm missing something. He suffered an oblique injury at some point, but played every snap.

[Einstein]

2 hours ago, LeGOATski said:

He was not on the injury report, unless I'm missing something. He suffered an oblique injury at some point, but played every snap.

 

I was probably thinking of his in game injury.

[Over 29 years of fanhood]

3 hours ago, Einstein said:

Phill Simms mentioned on the pregame show that Matt Milano is the heart of the Bills defense and is highly respected. I agree. His instincts are incredible and his tackling is superb. We miss him greatly when he is gone.

 

Milano and Edmunds have each missed 1 game. I feel that Milano’s absence was felt far more significantly than Edmunds. Do you agree or disagree? Thank you.

 

Ps, Im trying to create less threads so i’m hoping this one is okay.

 

Right before boomer said he’s the Mike and calls the defense.. take it for what you will

[mrags]

Wouldn’t it just be easier to have a mash J. Johnson thread? Because he was terrible today 

[MasterStrategist]

2 minutes ago, mrags said:

Wouldn’t it just be easier to have a mash J. Johnson thread? Because he was terrible today 

Agree.  It's a shame that we had BOTH Poyer and Hyde out for our divisional games, just happened to be 2 Ls.

 

Way too many missed tackles last week 2nd half, and this week as well.  Need to fix this asap, before playing 2 run heavy teams in coming weeks

[Reed83HOF]

8 minutes ago, mrags said:

Wouldn’t it just be easier to have a mash J. Johnson thread? Because he was terrible today 

 

Holy hell he was awful, like leave EJ in London awful

[DQW87]

We can miss Edmunds and hardly notice it.  If Milano is out we are in big trouble.  Simple as that and you saw it today.