Spector playing over Williams?

[DrDawkinstein]

1 minute ago, GunnerBill said:

 

Correlation not causation. In coverage he struggled too.

 

 

Sometimes. But he played much better at the line and blitzing.

[JohnNord]

1 hour ago, notpolian said:

Maybe I missed this in other threads, but I have an honest question from yesterdays game.  Has the coaching staff or anyone else indicated why Spector was starting instead of Williams?  Does Williams still have a lingering injury?  

 

I know opinions vary on a lot of topics on this site and elsewhere (it's ok, kinda fun with all the highly engaged fans), but I don't think I'm stepping out too far on a limb to say that Williams is better than Spector.  My not so hot take might be Spector is in the running for least effective player on a not too effective defense lately...

Whoever said “load management” is likely correct.  I think they wanted to split the load between two players that are coming off injuries.  The logic is that Spector is better against the run and Williams against the pass.

 

Of course, NE saw Spector on the field on 1sr and 2nd down and immediately started throwing at him.  It was brutal and they can’t afford to have Spector playing on defense 

39 minutes ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:

Williams is not much better in coverage but Spector is useless in every area and Williams is pretty good at everything else.  Feels like there’s a massive difference between those two guys talent wise to me  

 

that’s the big problem with Spector for me there’s just nothing he’s even halfway decent at so he’s exploited by literally anything the opponent wants to do.  If he was terrible in coverage but pretty solid in run support things would not be anywhere near as bad with him in there.  

Williams can cover.  His problem is that he’s easily fooled by misdirection and play action.  He bites easily on fakes which outs him out of position.  He does have good closing speed but that extra step leads to a completion and moves the chains.  

[GunnerBill]

12 minutes ago, DrDawkinstein said:

 

Sometimes. But he played much better at the line and blitzing.

 

He did blitz well. At the moment he is arguably our best blitzer.

[msw2112]

As stated above, Williams was banged up, so they wanted to reduce his snaps and turned to Spector.  If they were playing the Chiefs and not the Pats, we may have seen more of Williams.

[transient]

2 hours ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:

If Spector is forced into a meaningful playoff role I think it’s over for us anyway…he’s just free yards in coverage 

He kinda reminds me of someone... like a distant memory from a playoff game not too long ago...