Where was the defensive adjustment on Puka Nakua?

[26TrapDraw]

I sat at SOFI with 30k of our Bills brethren and watched this guy Torch our defense and Babich never made any adjustment to account for him. never slid help and I watched him find soft spots in our zone because there was no pass rush whatsoever.

Nakua is not that good and he looked like a hall of famer. The worst part is our zone is now exposed and teams have a blueprint.

 

[Simon]

4 minutes ago, 26TrapDraw said:

The worst part is our zone is now exposed and teams have a blueprint.

 

If your blueprint relies on a first ballot HOF QB playing one of the very best games of his entire career, then there might not be a whole lot of teams that can use it.

[mannc]

1 hour ago, 26TrapDraw said:

I sat at SOFI with 30k of our Bills brethren and watched this guy Torch our defense and Babich never made any adjustment to account for him. never slid help and I watched him find soft spots in our zone because there was no pass rush whatsoever.

Nakua is not that good and he looked like a hall of famer. The worst part is our zone is now exposed and teams have a blueprint.

 

I think Nacua might actually be that good…and Stafford was near-perfect (albeit with no pass rush to worry about)…

Edited December 9 by mannc

[boyst]

3 minutes ago, Simon said:

 

If your blueprint relies on a first ballot HOF QB playing one of the very best games of his entire career, then there might not be a whole lot of teams that can use it.

and few teams can have two all pro WR's on their roster at the same time with one of the top and most underrated RB's being a factor. the OL played especially strong, too.

[oldmanfan]

9 minutes ago, 26TrapDraw said:

I sat at SOFI with 30k of our Bills brethren and watched this guy Torch our defense and Babich never made any adjustment to account for him. never slid help and I watched him find soft spots in our zone because there was no pass rush whatsoever.

Nakua is not that good and he looked like a hall of famer. The worst part is our zone is now exposed and teams have a blueprint.

 

McD talked about how they tried man for a bit but got hit with PI.  Nakua is a stud who had a phenomenal game.  What we needed was a pass rush.

[Sweats]

9 minutes ago, 26TrapDraw said:

I sat at SOFI with 30k of our Bills brethren and watched this guy Torch our defense and Babich never made any adjustment to account for him. never slid help and I watched him find soft spots in our zone because there was no pass rush whatsoever.

Nakua is not that good and he looked like a hall of famer. The worst part is our zone is now exposed and teams have a blueprint.

 

 

 

 

I think 31 other teams might disagree with you on this..........i don't know if you knew this or not, but Nacua is pretty good.

[BADOLBILZ]

7 minutes ago, 26TrapDraw said:

I sat at SOFI with 30k of our Bills brethren and watched this guy Torch our defense and Babich never made any adjustment to account for him. never slid help and I watched him find soft spots in our zone because there was no pass rush whatsoever.

Nakua is not that good and he looked like a hall of famer. The worst part is our zone is now exposed and teams have a blueprint.

 

 

 

Puka is a HOF talent.   But he plays with such abandon that he will end up washing out due to injury.   But when he is on he is maybe the most unstoppable WR in the NFL.   Bills ran into a Rams offense that was mostly healthy,  which almost never happens.   McVay and Shanahan beat the hell out of their players and we saw both ends of that spectrum the past 2 weeks.      

[ShakAttack]

1 minute ago, mannc said:

I think Nacua might actually be that good…and Stanford was near-perfect (albeit with no pass rush to worry about)…

I agree. He made at least 2 ridiculous catches and it is not a coincidence that the one time we forced a Rams punt was after making a stop on the only 3rd down in which Nacua was not in the game. I was praying that he’d stay sidelined.

[Jauronimo]

2 minutes ago, boyst said:

and few teams can have two all pro WR's on their roster at the same time with one of the top and most underrated RB's being a factor. the OL played especially strong, too.

The Rams offense has scored 30 points once all season.  They typically struggle to get over 20 points.  They are not a good offense.  

[North Buffalo]

Reminds me of how the Bills didnt adjust to Kelsey in the playoffs even though they knew it was coming... gotta take away their best reciever(s)

[boyst]

Just now, Jauronimo said:

The Rams offense has scored 30 points once all season.  They typically struggle to get over 20 points.  They are not a good offense.  

They hadn't had their full assortment of weapons healthy nor had the intensity and skill to shine like yesterday. 

[DapperCam]

5 minutes ago, Simon said:

 

If your blueprint relies on a first ballot HOF QB playing one of the very best games of his entire career, then there might not be a whole lot of teams that can use it.

Additionally, not every team has WRs like Nacua and Cupp. Maybe the Dolphins and the Bengals. We aren’t likely to encounter either in the playoffs.

 

 

[LABILLBACKER]

Our zone is incredibly vulnerable. Factor in zero pass rush from our litany of Jags and Nacua was guaranteed to sit down in our zone  and be wide open. Stafford wasn't pressured at all.

[Jauronimo]

1 minute ago, boyst said:

They hadn't had their full assortment of weapons healthy nor had the intensity and skill to shine like yesterday. 

They will be right back to being a mediocre offense on Thursday.  

[SCBills]

Silver Lining is nobody in the AFC has the equivalent of Stafford/Kupp/Nacua and a strong running game.   

 

Maybe the Bengals, but they likely aren't making the Playoffs.

 

Only tactical decision I might make moving forward is making Elam gameday active..  At the very least we could give him a shot in press man coverage if this situation arises again. 

[Sharky7337]

You can't adjust for poor defense line talent year after year in a game

[eSJayDee]

For the most part, we had good coverage on their WRs.  But a combination of Stafford  (I think we could've beaten Stanford; even the whole team ) throwing perfectly placed balls & their WRs just being better than our DBs, I don't know what you could do coverage wise.  Several times, our DBs were right there, making a swipe at the ball/player & they still made the catch.  An effective pass rush would've helped, but I think that's more execution than scheme - you send more than 4 or 5 it's more difficult to cover.

[Sojourner]

5 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:

McD talked about how they tried man for a bit but got hit with PI.  Nakua is a stud who had a phenomenal game.  What we needed was a pass rush.

To some extent I get the logic behind that thinking but sitting in zone literally requires you to be doing one of 2 things, either getting to the quarter back by your default 4 or 5 or sending a blitz that’s usually disguised. 
 

That zone was getting eaten alive. As was the man coverage. 
 

Exactly like you said, the pass rush was what we needed. 
 

Credit to McVay and Stafford, it was a borderline clinic of taking advantage what they were given. I hate to say the word because a lot of factors go into failures but legitimately our defense got abused. Straight taken out to the wood shed or train tracks. 
 

Usually can find some respectability in the press conferences Sean does but yesterdays post game left pretty much everything in a questionable state. 

[Simon]

8 minutes ago, boyst said:

and few teams can have two all pro WR's on their roster at the same time with one of the top and most underrated RB's being a factor. the OL played especially strong, too.

 

All true and you have to give some credit to McVay too.

Watching the Bills secondary trying to deal with the route combinations he was throwing at them was sort of embarrassing.

He had them spinning on circles all day while his players were executing with serious precision.

[Einstein]

14 minutes ago, Simon said:

 

If your blueprint relies on a first ballot HOF QB playing one of the very best games of his entire career, then there might not be a whole lot of teams that can use it.

 

Yeah I think I didnt give this enough credit during the game.

Stafford and Puka both played their absolute A game.

If we played them 10 times, I think we beat them 9 of those... but 1 of those 10 happened Sunday.