A "Tush Push" to the right just once would have been nice....

[Special K]

Even though the Tush Push worked all season long, I thought to myself during the regular season "Maybe the Bills should run it to the right once in a while just to keep Defenses honest.", but since it always worked, I didn't give that concept much thought after a while.

 

When it was blatantly obvious the Chiefs were ready for the push to the left, it should've been obvious to have a call to change it up and run it to the right. Its not like running it towards Torrence and Brown would be a bad idea anyway. This is something the Bills coaching staff should've been prepared for weeks ago, but they continued to run the same play over and over again despite the fact it was not working like it usually does.

 

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, while expecting a different result......that was some insane play calling right there.

[Ray Stonada]

Or, knowing KC like Belichick likes to see tendencies and shut them down:

 

Practice a tush push to the right, and practice a play where you fake it left and Josh rolls right with Gilliam on the RPO.   

[LABILLBACKER]

17 minutes ago, Special K said:

Even though the Tush Push worked all season long, I thought to myself during the regular season "Maybe the Bills should run it to the right once in a while just to keep Defenses honest.", but since it always worked, I didn't give that concept much thought after a while.

 

When it was blatantly obvious the Chiefs were ready for the push to the left, it should've been obvious to have a call to change it up and run it to the right. Its not like running it towards Torrence and Brown would be a bad idea anyway. This is something the Bills coaching staff should've been prepared for weeks ago, but they continued to run the same play over and over again despite the fact it was not working like it usually does.

 

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, while expecting a different result......that was some insane play calling right there.

The definition of stupid coaching is:

see Bills

[Kelly to Allen]

It was the weirdest part of this game and a synopsis in the coaching difference between KC and buffalo....

 

We are good chess players

 

KC is Bobby Fischer 

[Ray Stonada]

Doesn't even take Bobby Fischer to think of trying a tush push to the right. 

 

But with limited practice time they probably never worked on it.

[Danger Mouse]

It might have something to do with the fact that if he goes left the ball is protected on the inside in his right arm. And if he goes right, it's massively exposed to being knocked out.

 

OR

 

it might just be that Josh and the entire Bills coaching team didn't think of ever going the other way. Because that would such as an obscure and expert concept reserved only for the TBD brains trust and  chess grandmasters. 

Edited yesterday at 09:44 AM by Danger Mouse

[Freak-O]

I’m not an expert by any means but when they lined up I thought “this looks like it’s gonna be tough”. There was just so much meat in the way. 

[Buffalo_Stampede]

A lot of these were on Josh Allen guys. I would say all of them are but the coaches could probably tell him to do something different. 
 

I’m just tipping my hat to KC. No one stops that play like that and they did. Once again it’s their players on the DL being the difference. Last year it was Chris Jones pressure forcing Allen to miss an open WR.

Edited yesterday at 09:53 AM by Buffalo_Stampede

[Bill from NYC]

Our current OL is very good, but I might have overrated them just a bit because of how bad they were for decades.

 

I know all about Jalen Hurts. He is a very strong player and squats huge amounts of weight. He has been doing so since his early college days. The thing is, Josh is bigger and stronger than Hurts, yet when the Eagles untilze the tush push they are virtually unstoppable. I was expecting the same results from the Bills. It will be quite interesting to see how the Eagles fare with the tush push against KC. I have a feeling that it will work but we will see.

 

I think that McDermott should continue to draft receivers. He should also draft more blockers to add talent and depth to the (already good) OL. I didn't like the trade away from Worthy and posted as much at the time. My position was if they thought Coleman was going to be great, they wouldn't have traded back. As it stands we gave the Chiefs Mahomes and Worthy, and I remind folks that Beane wasn't there for the Mahomes trade.

 

In any event, the Bills played hard. They gave it all they had and they are ours. We will never be out of contention with a healthy Josh Allen. I for one am going to keep the faith and not freak out like I used to. It didn't do me any good. 

 

GO BILLS FANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!GO BILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nucci]

or maybe give to Cook....Chiefs didn't stop him all game.

[tigerthelion]

I am just glad we got to see all the offensive plays that the team was hiding and saving for the playoffs.  All the talk by fans was about how Brady was calling a vanilla gameplan late in the year and the team was saving Cooper to unleash him against KC hahahaha.   What a masterclass in offensive wizardry.  

[Royale with Cheese]

After the second one, should have pitched it out.  Cook one on one in space is getting a foot.  Probably more since everyone on KC was inside.

[Danger Mouse]

3 minutes ago, tigerthelion said:

I am just glad we got to see all the offensive plays that the team was hiding and saving for the playoffs.  All the talk by fans was about how Brady was calling a vanilla gameplan late in the year and the team was saving Cooper to unleash him against KC hahahaha.   What a masterclass in offensive wizardry.  

 

Yeah, that was disspointing. I really thought he'd have schemed for cooper post season.

 

Nope. The gameplan is the gamplan.

[Einstein]

How about just a normal RB run that was working all game?

[4th&long]

I have been saying for awhile the should have some variation off the tush push. Last night would have been the perfect time. 

[Yobogoya!]

9 minutes ago, tigerthelion said:

I am just glad we got to see all the offensive plays that the team was hiding and saving for the playoffs.  All the talk by fans was about how Brady was calling a vanilla gameplan late in the year and the team was saving Cooper to unleash him against KC hahahaha.   What a masterclass in offensive wizardry.  

 

It's funny how people deluded themselves that the Bills were "saving" something for the postseason.

 

3 hours ago, Ray Stonada said:

Or, knowing KC like Belichick likes to see tendencies and shut them down:

 

Practice a tush push to the right, and practice a play where you fake it left and Josh rolls right with Gilliam on the RPO.   

 

I was screaming for this, but for whatever reason we never used their over-commitment against them. When people say our coaches are letting us down, this is what they're talking about. There was a big play waiting to be made against the stacked, sell-out defense KC was using against the QB sneak to the left and our staff just either doesn't see it, doesn't know what to do, or simply doesn't care.

[Livinginthepast]

Not coming up with misdirection or disguised plays, trickery or gadgets has been the Bills MO this season. Brady ran a competent (superior to Dorsey) but vanilla offense most weeks . On the few plays that the game hinged on, he wasnt creative enough or didnt have the cojones to do something different and it killed us.

[stevewin]

I wasn't mad at the calls, but the execution.  Half of them didn't even have someone pushing - one Josh like tried to fake the dive and run outside, one there was no one pushing, one it was a RB from behind and barely pushing, one going over the top etc.  It should be unstoppable 99/100 if your big body QB gets low, hits a gap, and has a a BIG body (or bodies) pushing from behind.  They just didn't do that each time for some reason.  I do agree maybe picking another gap to the right, say, but the basic execution should be the same.  So frustrating

[Niagara Dude]

4 hours ago, Special K said:

Even though the Tush Push worked all season long, I thought to myself during the regular season "Maybe the Bills should run it to the right once in a while just to keep Defenses honest.", but since it always worked, I didn't give that concept much thought after a while.

 

When it was blatantly obvious the Chiefs were ready for the push to the left, it should've been obvious to have a call to change it up and run it to the right. Its not like running it towards Torrence and Brown would be a bad idea anyway. This is something the Bills coaching staff should've been prepared for weeks ago, but they continued to run the same play over and over again despite the fact it was not working like it usually does.

 

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, while expecting a different result......that was some insane play calling right there.

Chris Jones was on the right side

[SUNTANBILLS FAN]

4 hours ago, Special K said:

Even though the Tush Push worked all season long, I thought to myself during the regular season "Maybe the Bills should run it to the right once in a while just to keep Defenses honest.", but since it always worked, I didn't give that concept much thought after a while.

 

When it was blatantly obvious the Chiefs were ready for the push to the left, it should've been obvious to have a call to change it up and run it to the right. Its not like running it towards Torrence and Brown would be a bad idea anyway. This is something the Bills coaching staff should've been prepared for weeks ago, but they continued to run the same play over and over again despite the fact it was not working like it usually does.

 

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, while expecting a different result......that was some insane play calling right there.

Or a fake and someone release. There are a lot of times we do the obvious.