Overhauling the defense

[SoCal Deek]

I wouldn’t be either shocked or disappointed if the Bills went Defense with EVERY draft pick this Spring. Unfortunately I’m also of the camp that believes McD will then proceed to neuter every single one of them. Sigh 

[LABILLBACKER]

5 hours ago, Dr.Mantis_Toboggan said:

This is a load of bull####.  McDermott’s defenses ALWAYS get shredded in the post season. The regular season numbers look good bc he stat pads essentially against the mediocre and young QBs the league is filled with, but any time his defense faces a legitimate QB it almost always crumbles.  

I could care less about regular season stats. The only stat that matters is 34.75 which is the average points given up to KC in the playoffs. He has absolutely failed to build a defense smart & tough enough to stop Andy.  Sean will go to his grave knowing he was Andy's biotch.

[appoo]

38 minutes ago, Malazan said:

It's amazing how good pass rushers who can also competently play the run make everyone else on the defense look better.

And how rare they are

[Solomon Grundy]

McDermott relies on his front 4 to get pressure on the QB. Go get Trey Hendrickson in FA.

 

 

[reddogblitz]

If it were me I'd work out a trade with Cleveland for Schwartz.

[GETTOTHE50]

I want the biggest, ugliest, fattest, mother*****ing 1T like a Vince Wilfork type. Someone that obstructs the middle so bad he can’t even get off the field. I want to see their gut hanging out of their jersey because they just got done eating 4 20oz steaks before the game. 
 

Is that so much to ask for? 

[ChronicAndKnuckles]

8 hours ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

Need some physical freaks on defense.

We have one in Rousseau. Why does he continue to fold in big games? The most overrated player on this defense. He’s elite against the run, I will give him that. People knock Oliver, but he stepped it up in the post season 

Edited Tuesday at 03:38 AM by ChronicAndKnuckles

[Brianmoorman4jesus]

6 hours ago, appoo said:

You want to play Ras Douglas, Benford, Hamlin, Rapp, the rookie safety, and Taron Johnson in an aggressive man scheme similar to the Chiefs? None of whom run unnder a 4.6? Well I guess Johnson might be a 4.5 guy. 

More importnalty we played a lot of matchup zone, where we aligned zone, but once a player went into that zone, the DB then played him in a way that looked like man. 

 

You can do that when you had a healthy Tre White and Christian Benford as the team did heading into last season. 

 

Quite simply Damar Hamlin does not have the range to play deep safety in this league, and he was forced into that spot because of Rapp's injury. Hamlin can play box safety in this league. But not deep. 

I want to do something other than what we did. It didn’t work. All year KC did nothing downfield and was all underneath. Why the ***** would you give them  7 or 8 yards of cushion at the snap to do what they already wanted to do? All day I’d have dared them to beat me deep. Giving teams with good QBs, free releases will never work. It makes zero sense. Idw what decade this guy is in. He thinks Darrel Lamonica is going to just start slinging 60 yard bombs over the top. It’s not the way the league is played. This coach is such a *****. Get up on the line and make the QB hold the ball for a half second extra. Don’t just let them kill you with free releases. Why would anyone even have to be told that? They want to try and hit you over the top? Let them try. We had 2 goddamn safety’s back there 40 yards deep for some reason 

[Sandhill Mike]

1 hour ago, reddogblitz said:

If it were me I'd work out a trade with Cleveland for Schwartz.

Man, I miss Jim Schwartz.  Worse thing about the McDermott hire was losing him.

[gobills404]

This is the 5th year in a row we’re having this conversation. At this point I just say screw it and invest every single dollar and every single draft pick into the offense. If we’re gonna choke in the playoffs anyways just help build Josh’s HOF resume and see if we can break the single season scoring record.