Dane Jackson should be benched

[Mango]

I actually thought the soft zone paired with the constant 5-6 man rush really hung out secondary out to dry. 
 

They were better the second half. 
 

I’ll have to rewatch before I marry myself to anything, but the eye test says Dane was not born one of my top 3-5 issues with that game. 
 

Dane has been streaky. He has been white hot for stretches of games and awful too. In general I think he’s a decent piece and plays lights out when he has a very good secondary around him. He isn’t good enough to stand alone on the outside.
 

It is what it is.

[Freddie's Dead]

Dane Jackson was the best defensive player for the Bills yesterday, and it wasn't close for second place. 3 PDs that I counted. 

[TheyCallMeAndy]

42 minutes ago, Einstein said:

Personally I think of all games this season, Elam should have been playing last night. Man is his jam.

Out injured 

[HurlyBurly51]

I sometimes wonder what game people are watching🤦‍♂️

[BADOLBILZ]

36 minutes ago, transplantbillsfan said:

What an untimely and stupid thread.  Jackson was actually one of the best players on the field yesterday.

 

 

72 grade per PFF

 

5th highest on the defense..........which is notable for him he's been a tick late all season.

 

 

[Ya Digg?]

 

Watch him on the Sample TD.  No it's not his guy - he is initially covering Chase, then peals off once he sees the pass go to Sample.  He puts in such little effort to get to Sample (and Rapp makes a terrible attempt at a tackle) then gives up completely.  

[BillsFanForever19]

Jackson played with his hair on fire last night. Probably the best game I've seen him play. I think it was an anomaly, but still, a really odd time to have this take. 

[JimBob2232]

Dane had a great game overall...but man - that play...I saw it too.  no effort on that play.  

[jkeerie]

Dane Jackson was fine.  Taylor Rapp not so much.  He's the one that whiffed on the third TD.

[Ya Digg?]

If I'm off the clue me on to plays he made last night

[Alphadawg7]

1 hour ago, Ya Digg? said:

While much of the criticism of last night is on the offense (and rightfully so), as I’m watching that game last night I just kept thinking how I’m done watching Jackson play. The one semi-decent okay he made all night he ended up inadvertently injuring Hyde. He got incredibly lucky on 2 throws against him-one that Boyd dropped going into the endzone and the deep ball where he was BADLY burned by Chase and Burrow under threw him.
 

The last straw for me was the touchdown by the bengals tight end. The tight end leaked out and Jackson was the closest defender (though not very close. Jackson put in little to no effort to actually try to catch him, he just kind of jogged after him. I’m tired of watching him play 10 yards off, watch his guy catch it what seems like 90% of the time, and never make an impactful play.

 

Thank God for Douglas who will hopefully take his place on the field!!

 

Odd choice today IMHO, as he was mentioned all night for making positive plays against the Bengals.  I mean he was probably our best DB yesterday and led the team in PBU's too.

 

No disrespect to you or anyone else...but I can't understand how anyone can complain about our injury depleted defense right now because they have done enough for us to legitimately be undefeated had our offense been playing up to its capabilities.  But our offense has failed to get it done in all 4 losses, and the inconsistent no identity offense almost cost us 2 more losses to Giants and Bucs.  

 

Not to mention, the defense was arguably the best defense in the NFL the first 4 weeks before the injuries happened and was first in sacks, INTs, Turnovers, point differential and 2nd in PPG allowed.  And despite all the injuries, its held well enough for us to win every game, but the offense is not doing its part at all and its why we are 2-3 in our last 5 and honestly were 1 play away from losing each of those 2 wins too because the offense was anemic in the Giants game and the 2nd half of the Bucs game.  

7 minutes ago, Ya Digg? said:

If I'm off the clue me on to plays he made last night

 

He led the team in PBU's and was praised all night by the commentators for being all over the field.  So I have to agree with others, this is an odd take today as it was one of his best games IMHO.  

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

1 hour ago, transplantbillsfan said:

What an untimely and stupid thread.  Jackson was actually one of the best players on the field yesterday.

I actually thought it was the best game I had ever seen him play. 
 

So, sort of surprised by what the OP saw out there. 

[BearNorth]

1 hour ago, GoBills808 said:

Pretty sure all22 will confirm he was best player on defense yesterday

Actually PFF says it was Settle who was a microsecond from destroying Burrow.  That was the most egregious ref error this season.

[27yankees]

 Seems folks are just playing for the money. No heart> 

 

[Roundybout]

What? He single-handedly saved a touchdown to Chase. Might have done it twice, actually.

[PauleeeWalnuts]

Didn’t DJ have the game of his life last night? Am I missing something? 

[Starr Almighty]

2 hours ago, Ya Digg? said:

While much of the criticism of last night is on the offense (and rightfully so), as I’m watching that game last night I just kept thinking how I’m done watching Jackson play. The one semi-decent okay he made all night he ended up inadvertently injuring Hyde. He got incredibly lucky on 2 throws against him-one that Boyd dropped going into the endzone and the deep ball where he was BADLY burned by Chase and Burrow under threw him.
 

The last straw for me was the touchdown by the bengals tight end. The tight end leaked out and Jackson was the closest defender (though not very close. Jackson put in little to no effort to actually try to catch him, he just kind of jogged after him. I’m tired of watching him play 10 yards off, watch his guy catch it what seems like 90% of the time, and never make an impactful play.

 

Thank God for Douglas who will hopefully take his place on the field!!

The TE TD you are speaking of was on Hyde. He thought the TE was staying in to block so he blitzed and the TE leaked out 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Simon]

Just now, PauleeeWalnuts said:

Didn’t DJ have the game of his life last night? Am I missing something? 

 

He was attacking anything that moved last night and playing with a total lack of fear.

He clearly knew he was playing for his job from the moment he walked onto the field.

[reddogblitz]

2 hours ago, Mr. WEO said:

 

 

Best part was him celebrating these 2 straight up drops.

 

Everybody celebrates everything these days. I find it extremely silly and often laugh at them. 

[Ya Digg?]

16 minutes ago, Starr Almighty said:

The TE TD you are speaking of was on Hyde. He thought the TE was staying in to block so he blitzed and the TE leaked out 🤦🏻‍♂️

I said in a later post I know he wasn’t initially guarding the TE, but his effort to try and tackle him was really poor 

 

I get it, Jackson has his fans…I’m just not one of them any more. At least not a fan of him being a starter and getting most of the snaps. He’s fine as a backup, but in my mind he’s been exposed as a starter