Like to see more of Harris and Murray early

[BillsFan130]

Maybe an unpopular opinion but I’m not a big cook fan.

He has his flashes and he’s explosive for sure.

But I think he’s more of a back you find a way to get him the ball in space, rather than be your primary ball carrier 

Edited October 9, 2023 by BillsFan130

[Best Williams Available]

This is the formula. They get positive yards on 1st down. Cook doesn’t consistently. This team stinks after getting no or negative yards on first down. Basically kills the drive. Once these 2 soften the D bring Cook in to toast them.

[PBF81]

2 hours ago, BananaB said:

Like to see more of Harris and Murray early

 

I'd like to see more of 'em in general.  

 

Cook had 5 carries, 3 in the 1st half. 

Harris had 3 carries, 2 in the 1st half. 

Murray had 2 carries, both in the 1st half.  

 

Only 3 carries in the second half, two by Cook, one by Harris.  

 

It would be nice to see us run more, but also nice to see some non-boneheaded running plays called.  

 

 

[Solomon Grundy]

2 hours ago, Straight Hucklebuck said:

Agree in this game.

 

I don’t have a problem with Cook being the lead back in general, but he was ineffective right away today going sideways, and this game required more straight ahead North-South running. 
 

 

Cook simply doesn't have the frame to take the constant pounding. 

[Solomon Grundy]

1 hour ago, JohnNord said:

I don’t think it’s as much Cook as it s the OL struggling badly today.  There were plenty of plays where Cook had nowhere to go.  Maybe the simply should have tried to throw some of those delay runs out of the playbook today

Cook, IMO, doesn't have the vision, strength or wiggle to make defenders miss. Just speed

[DabillsDaBillsDaBills]

Cook killed 2 of our first 4 drives all by himself. 

 

Even in the games that he's finished strong I thought he got off to some pretty slow starts. 

 

 

[BillMafia716ix]

I hate how we are completely misusing Damian Harris. He can run between the tackles and he’s good in pass pro. I’m not in love with James Cook at all. 

[Dr.Sack]

We definitely needed more power running early. 

[LABILLBACKER]

4 hours ago, John from Riverside said:

This is one of the things that I didn’t agree about with Dorsey’s playcalling today
 

Cook didn’t have it. I still think he’s a good player but whenever you come out of a game with negative yards and you had hammers that you didn’t use enough, you should get question.

 

There was a point in this game where we needed first downs, much less touchdowns to keep our defense fresh

 

Our defense didn’t give up they were exhausted

With 7 minutes left in the game our depleted D had only given up 11 pts to Spicoli.  Not being able to establish any semblance of a run game destroyed this team. Our remaining defensive players did fine but were simply exhausted.  As what happened 2 years ago (9-6), our offense just can't match up with the jagoffs. Scrub the stupid shotgun draw and snap the fricken ball behind center like you did last week. Give Cook a running start Dorsey.

[Big Blitz]

4 minutes ago, LABILLBACKER said:

With 7 minutes left in the game our depleted D had only given up 11 pts to Spicoli.  Not being able to establish any semblance of a run game destroyed this team. Our remaining defensive players did fine but were simply exhausted.  As what happened 2 years ago (9-6), our offense just can't match up with the jagoffs. Scrub the stupid shotgun draw and snap the fricken ball behind center like you did last week. Give Cook a running start Dorsey.

 

This is what has to change going forward.  
 

Time for under center PA to be the feature and start focusing on being a power run team that will throw it all over you if we want instead of being the throw it all over you team and then pretend to be a power run team when we absolutely have to have it.  
 

Too much is about to be put on Josh again bc this defense is going to be a disaster come the 2nd half of the season when we play the elite offenses.  
 

Need to shift (adjust) the philosophy.  

[TheBrownBear]

I'd like to see us try out Harris as the lead back.  Line up under center and get him running downhill.  I trust Josh to convert 3rd and 3s. I'm tired of getting behind the sticks with slow developing draw plays.  Give it to the guy that runs downhill and gets tackled moving forward.  That guy is Harris (or Murray).

[Straight Hucklebuck]

3 hours ago, LABILLBACKER said:

With 7 minutes left in the game our depleted D had only given up 11 pts to Spicoli.  Not being able to establish any semblance of a run game destroyed this team. Our remaining defensive players did fine but were simply exhausted.  As what happened 2 years ago (9-6), our offense just can't match up with the jagoffs. Scrub the stupid shotgun draw and snap the fricken ball behind center like you did last week. Give Cook a running start Dorsey.

Yeah the time of possession at points was 29 minutes Jags, 15 minutes Bills, then later it was 31 minutes Jags, 17 minutes Bills.

 

Too many punts in this game with no TOP.

 

100% on the offense and Dorsey.

 

 

[All_Pro_Bills]

5 hours ago, BillMafia716ix said:

I hate how we are completely misusing Damian Harris. He can run between the tackles and he’s good in pass pro. I’m not in love with James Cook at all. 

This and using Kincaid for two yard check downs are the most disappointing parts of the offensive plan and personnel use.