Offensive and Defensive Philosophical Alignment - Finally!

[MJS]

What makes the offense good is the ability to adjust. If the defense is taking away deep passes, they can nickel and dime you, and they actually have running backs who can be dangerous checking the ball down to. If the defense drops into zone to defend passing lanes, the Bills have the offensive line and running backs to gash them in the run game.

 

And then Josh Allen can still make things happen when everything breaks down.

 

The one question is if the Bills have the receivers who can get deep and stretch the defense vertically effectively and consistently. We haven't really needed to do that much, yet. But, if there is one thing to sacrifice, this is probably it because chucking it deep is lower percentage anyway. Hopefully Keon Coleman and MVS can be effective at that, though.

[stuvian]

This is the best we've looked in the Clappy/Beane/Pegula era. The Amber alert for our pass rush and run game has been called off. It finally looks like the organization is operating as one.

[elroy16]

One thing Cover 1 mentioned was that there appears to be fewer option routes and it's more scheming guys open and going through reads to find the open guy. The best example was probably Shakir's TD, Allen's first two reads are to the right and then Shakir flashed to the middle of the field into Allen's field of view.

 

It obviously helps that guys are getting open and Allen is dropping dimes all over the place, but I thought it was an interesting shift. I imagine it allows the receivers to run their routes faster because they aren't trying to digest what the defense is doing all the time and it probably allows Allen to go though his reads a little easier/quicker because he's not trying to read the defense and the body language of his receivers.

 

[Freddie's Dead]

Complimentary football:

 

Nice throw, Josh!

Nice catch, Dawson!

[HappyDays]

3 hours ago, elroy16 said:

One thing Cover 1 mentioned was that there appears to be fewer option routes and it's more scheming guys open and going through reads to find the open guy. The best example was probably Shakir's TD, Allen's first two reads are to the right and then Shakir flashed to the middle of the field into Allen's field of view.

 

It obviously helps that guys are getting open and Allen is dropping dimes all over the place, but I thought it was an interesting shift. I imagine it allows the receivers to run their routes faster because they aren't trying to digest what the defense is doing all the time and it probably allows Allen to go though his reads a little easier/quicker because he's not trying to read the defense and the body language of his receivers.

 

 

Yes I've been saying this for years! I've hated those option routes since Daboll. I get the concept behind them - if Josh and his WR read the leverage the same way, the throw is always right. The problem has been when they don't read it the same way it becomes a dangerous throw that's likely to be intercepted. Last year in particular there were a number of these passes intended for Gabe Davis and seemingly they ALWAYS read the play differently. Arguably it lost us the Eagles game and it resulted in several turnovers. I never cared who was at fault, ultimately it was just not a smart play concept and Dorsey stubbornly continuted to call them.

 

The best thing Brady has done since taking over is removing mistake-prone tendencies from our offense. Josh is clearly responding well to the new concepts and as a result he is having the cleanest stretch of play that he's ever had.

[wakingfane]

Complimentary football - yes! Finally, this year,  tickets are free.