You sure? chronicles: "Bills explosive pass plays have taken steep rise – despite absence of Stefon"

[Sweats]

3 hours ago, RangerDave said:

It seems like most of our passes the last few years have been to receivers who ran a route, stopped, and waited for the pass.  Hard to get YAC that way.  Now, Josh is hitting receivers in stride.  Much better, unless you need just a few yards for a first down.

 

 

 

Same system Brady incorporated at LSU.........hit the WR's in stride and bank on YAC, but at the end of the day, you need receivers that you can rely on for that YAC if you want to hang your hat on this as your bread and butter.

 

Diggs was not a YAC guy; he was a set and dump.......not the best WR type or style to utilize in Bradys system.

 

[Sojourner]

3 hours ago, ddaryl said:

addition by subtraction here.

Also Mr. Barely greater than 50% target to catch percentage is also no longer here

Absolutely. I’ll always love Stefon for what he put on the field here but when it came down to crunch time we more often than not forced the ball his way to suffice the team morale it seems. 
 

That’s fine in the regular season but you can’t skate by on that in the post season. He’s not big or fast enough to dominate in anything other than the technical finesse of route running, bracketing him with coverage essentially removed him. Similar to basketball, if a player is predominantly dominant and successful with only one side  then you force the drive/dribble the opposite. 
 

This group of players exude joy when a teammate is making any sort of play. No matter how big or small and thankfully makes the team less inclined to funnel production towards one specific player. 
 

 

Make no bone about it though, Stef was an animal for us. Sadly the post season rarely saw the same production. 

[Búfalo Blanco]

25 minutes ago, US Egg said:

He "Shoeless Joe'd" us? Say it ain't so, Blanco. 

I wouldn't call it that exactly. I think he just wanted out...