Best coaching move of the game yesterday

[nedboy7]

Am I the only one who thinks Josh is going to get hurt during a tush push?  Seems like he usually ends up with a DT and LB trying to bend him in half. 

[Buffalo_Stampede]

1 minute ago, nedboy7 said:

Am I the only one who thinks Josh is going to get hurt during a tush push?  Seems like he usually ends up with a DT and LB trying to bend him in half. 

Sometimes he gets too high with sneaks. I do worry he’ll get bent wrong.

[henry jones]

The coin toss

[Nextmanup]

1 hour ago, dave mcbride said:

McDermott wisely calling time out when on the Bills’ final drive Brady had them lined up in shotgun in third and less than one at the NE 26 yard line with 2:41 left. I remember earlier in the season McDermott losing it when Dorsey did the same inside the one, which predictably resulted in a failure. The call there is ALWAYS to sneak it when you have Josh Allen and the tush push remains legal. My strong assumption is that McDermott saw them line up in shotgun and thought “what the actual f**k??” and called the TO. The Bills then reverted to the smart play, which of course worked. It’s those calls that be the difference in a game.

And think how rarely they work in our favor with McDermott as the HC.

 

Truly unusual and surprising.

 

We usually have to play our way around McD's many coaching mistakes, every game.

 

 

 

 

[Bookie Man]

The Shno-plow

Edited January 1 by Alpo Chino

[WhoTom]

1 hour ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

They’re getting really good at the tush push. 

 

Yeah, but I wish they'd use a fullback or a blocking TE behind him instead of putting a RB there.

[Buffalo_Stampede]

8 minutes ago, WhoTom said:

 

Yeah, but I wish they'd use a fullback or a blocking TE behind him instead of putting a RB there.

Why?

[WhoTom]

1 hour ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

Why?

Newtonian physics. F=ma

 

Heavier body = stronger force.

 

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

3 hours ago, dave mcbride said:

McDermott wisely calling time out when on the Bills’ final drive Brady had them lined up in shotgun in third and less than one at the NE 26 yard line with 2:41 left. I remember earlier in the season McDermott losing it when Dorsey did the same inside the one, which predictably resulted in a failure. The call there is ALWAYS to sneak it when you have Josh Allen and the tush push remains legal. My strong assumption is that McDermott saw them line up in shotgun and thought “what the actual f**k??” and called the TO. The Bills then reverted to the smart play, which of course worked. It’s those calls that be the difference in a game.

Dr. McDermott stepping in for the disease that every OC is inflicted with: shotgun 3rd and 1 runs. 

[jaab1028]

Sitting Von Miller.

[stevewin]

I had dropped out of the GDT by them - I assume there were anumber of McD haters going insane at the time that he called a TO

[Eastport bills]

4 hours ago, dave mcbride said:

McDermott wisely calling time out when on the Bills’ final drive Brady had them lined up in shotgun in third and less than one at the NE 26 yard line with 2:41 left. I remember earlier in the season McDermott losing it when Dorsey did the same inside the one, which predictably resulted in a failure. The call there is ALWAYS to sneak it when you have Josh Allen and the tush push remains legal. My strong assumption is that McDermott saw them line up in shotgun and thought “what the actual f**k??” and called the TO. The Bills then reverted to the smart play, which of course worked. It’s those calls that be the difference in a game.

That’s a great point, in fact in short yardage I believe we can be more effective than Philly with Josh on the shove play. With a yard or less he sees a small crack and that’s a big athletic battering ram moving the pile.

[4th&long]

Punting. The punter played great!

[stevestojan]

4 hours ago, dave mcbride said:

McDermott wisely calling time out when on the Bills’ final drive Brady had them lined up in shotgun in third and less than one at the NE 26 yard line with 2:41 left. I remember earlier in the season McDermott losing it when Dorsey did the same inside the one, which predictably resulted in a failure. The call there is ALWAYS to sneak it when you have Josh Allen and the tush push remains legal. My strong assumption is that McDermott saw them line up in shotgun and thought “what the actual f**k??” and called the TO. The Bills then reverted to the smart play, which of course worked. It’s those calls that can be the difference in a game.

I asked this in the other current McD thread, but if this is really how it went down during that timeout, why didn’t he veto Dorsey the 48 times he called it? 

[BillsVet]

4 hours ago, BADOLBILZ said:

And they are going to need it if they are only going to pass for 150-200 yards per game and lean on the defense.

 

And if the defense struggles, I doubt they'll be able to adjust the offense in-game to make up for the passing game decline.  

[Mikie2times]

4 hours ago, Buffalo03 said:

I feel overall, his game management has been a lot better in this 4 game win streak. It hasn't been perfect but it's been better

Let me call time out and think about that

[bmur66]

5 hours ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

They’re getting really good at the tush push. 

It’s the Shnow Plow!

[ControllerOfPlanetX]

4 hours ago, Aussie Joe said:

Hitler might have won the game against Poland … but the lack of the air game was a factor at the away games against England and Russia … Cost them the Championship that season …

snow was a bigger factor vs. Russia 

[The Red King]

I'll critique McD, so it's only fair to credit him here.  When I saw that shotgun I wondered if Dorsey snuck in, kidnapped Brady and was disguised as him on the sideline.

[sven233]

Fact is, on the play sheet, the only play under the 3rd or 4th and 1 or less section should be the tush push.  That's it.  One play.  No need to overthink anything.  It is a dominant play that will probably work AT LEAST 90% of the time. 

 

If a team stops you on 4th down doing it, you tip your cap, say nice play, and then do it again the next time you get in that situation because it is going to work, especially with a horse like Allen running it.  If it's 3rd and 1, then you run it and if they stop you, you run it again.  There is no way any team is stopping Josh Allen twice in a row on that play back to back times.  Not happening.

 

I don't care where you are on the field, just run the play.  I promise you we will extend drives and it will look easy instead of watching Murray run directly into the backs of our lineman who get no push on traditional running plays in short yardage.