Rousseau on Cover1

[babulator]

Erik Turner over @ Cover1 really does excellent work. Id suggest everyone should be watching their breakdowns.

 

 

[babulator]

 

 

[GunnerBill]

Ahhhhh now Erik's video last week defending Groot's dreadful performance in the AFCCG makes a lot more sense...... 

 

Shills gotta shill. 

[FireChans]

1 minute ago, GunnerBill said:

Ahhhhh now Erik's video last week defending Groot's dreadful performance in the AFCCG makes a lot more sense...... 

 

Shills gotta shill. 

It’s the game dude. 
 

I don’t hate Cover1 for playing it, but I do hate that they are held up as some pillar of objective football analysis. 

they are a bunch of bills fans first with a modicum of football knowledge. That’s all. 
 

if you ever want a laugh, go watch their videos last year where they get so exasperated about how moving on from Diggs would make no sense and was impossible. 

[GunnerBill]

2 minutes ago, FireChans said:

It’s the game dude. 
 

I don’t hate Cover1 for playing it, but I do hate that they are held up as some pillar of objective football analysis. 

they are a bunch of bills fans first with a modicum of football knowledge. That’s all. 
 

if you ever want a laugh, go watch their videos last year where they get so exasperated about how moving on from Diggs would make no sense and was impossible. 

 

My biggest problem with them.... well let me be more specific, with Erik, is that he is incredibly thin skinned to legitimate disagreement. It's like their narrative is the only narrative. 

[Cash]

2 hours ago, babulator said:

 

 

 

Interesting, thanks for posting.  I watched the first clip and found it interesting.  I'd love to hear a similar accounting from the D-line coach, Babich, and McD, but obviously that's never going to happen publicly.  My question is, what's to be done about it?  It's a bit of a bummer that Groot ends the clip basically saying that he's not happy with how he played but he'd probably do it the same way next time.  (Anyone feel free to correct me if I misinterpreted.)  Like, I'm seeing a really good diagnosis of the problem, which is a great start, but not much in the way of solving the problem.

[Low Positive]

1 hour ago, FireChans said:

It’s the game dude. 
 

I don’t hate Cover1 for playing it, but I do hate that they are held up as some pillar of objective football analysis. 

they are a bunch of bills fans first with a modicum of football knowledge. That’s all. 
 

if you ever want a laugh, go watch their videos last year where they get so exasperated about how moving on from Diggs would make no sense and was impossible. 

Because it made no sense and it should have been impossible. It was a very risky move that sort of worked out. I wouldn't have made it.

[MJS]

1 hour ago, FireChans said:

It’s the game dude. 
 

I don’t hate Cover1 for playing it, but I do hate that they are held up as some pillar of objective football analysis. 

they are a bunch of bills fans first with a modicum of football knowledge. That’s all. 
 

if you ever want a laugh, go watch their videos last year where they get so exasperated about how moving on from Diggs would make no sense and was impossible. 

Come on. They certainly know a lot more than you do.

 

And on Diggs, it didn't make sense from a cap perspective at all. The move hurt the team. That's why it seemed impossible.

[Lost]

4 minutes ago, MJS said:

Come on. They certainly know a lot more than you do.

 

And on Diggs, it didn't make sense from a cap perspective at all. The move hurt the team. That's why it seemed impossible.

 

At the very least we coulda kept our 3rd rd pick this year and got the same amount of production from Diggs that we got from Amari Cooper.

[Westside]

9 minutes ago, Lost said:

 

At the very least we coulda kept our 3rd rd pick this year and got the same amount of production from Diggs that we got from Amari Cooper.

Diggs was a cancer in the locker room. Good riddance.

[billieve420]

Comes down to coaching and the Chiefs putting their players in position to succeed compared to our staff more often than not.

[Virgil]

All this tells me is the Chiefs are playing chess while we are playing checkers.  
 

We should be showing the Chiefs nothing of value in the regular season, or at the very least, plan B.  Use the regular season to setup the offseason.  
 

Even the 4th down play was the Chiefs sending a different pressure than we’d seen all game.  Meanwhile, we ran the same stuff repeatedly.   
 

This is the difference in the games.  They are one step ahead of us. 

[julian]

If I want biased, self serving Bills opinions put forth by over inflated ego maniac Bills fans then I just come here.

 

 All joking aside, I enjoy Cover1 content for the entertainment value it provides, much of which I agree.

[FireChans]

21 minutes ago, Low Positive said:

Because it made no sense and it should have been impossible. It was a very risky move that sort of worked out. I wouldn't have made it.

 

17 minutes ago, MJS said:

Come on. They certainly know a lot more than you do.

 

And on Diggs, it didn't make sense from a cap perspective at all. The move hurt the team. That's why it seemed impossible.

Clearly it made some sense and wasn’t impossible because it happened.

 

Listen, they were wrong. They wanted everything to be good with the Bills and that meant keeping Diggs over trading him and eating his money. It’s okay to be wrong. But it was never impossible and they got on their high horses about it being impossible because that’s what they wanted. 
 

arguing the bills shouldn’t trade Diggs - acceptable opinion with room for disagreement 

 

arguing it’s impossible for the Bills to move on from Diggs - just stone cold flat out wrong.

 

Sorry C1 boys. Between that and the Dorsey puff pieces, they are closer to OBL than the Athletic. That’s okay too.

[Coach Tuesday]

10 minutes ago, Virgil said:

All this tells me is the Chiefs are playing chess while we are playing checkers.  
 

We should be showing the Chiefs nothing of value in the regular season, or at the very least, plan B.  Use the regular season to setup the offseason.  
 

Even the 4th down play was the Chiefs sending a different pressure than we’d seen all game.  Meanwhile, we ran the same stuff repeatedly.   
 

This is the difference in the games.  They are one step ahead of us. 

One key to elite coaching is knowing the opposing team’s “rules” on offense and defense.  If you know the rules - “if we show Y they do X” - you can use that knowledge to beat them.  Elite coaches change up their rules in high leverage situations or make them too hard to discern.  Our coaches are just not elite in this regard - McD seems to fall back on “what got us here” in high leverage situations.  It may never be good enough.

[BullBuchanan]

Cover 1 is decent content, but Erik and his friends often come off as homers. I don't consider it to be on the same level as many of the nfl-wide pundits. Brett Kollmann is my favorite guy out there right now.

[Coach Tuesday]

2 hours ago, GunnerBill said:

Ahhhhh now Erik's video last week defending Groot's dreadful performance in the AFCCG makes a lot more sense...... 

 

Shills gotta shill. 

Groot says he ran the plays as called and was supposed to not guess and crash inside.  So that begs the question - who was responsible for outside contain for the bootleg keeper if not him?

[BullBuchanan]

14 minutes ago, Virgil said:

All this tells me is the Chiefs are playing chess while we are playing checkers.  
 

We should be showing the Chiefs nothing of value in the regular season, or at the very least, plan B.  Use the regular season to setup the offseason.  
 

Even the 4th down play was the Chiefs sending a different pressure than we’d seen all game.  Meanwhile, we ran the same stuff repeatedly.   
 

This is the difference in the games.  They are one step ahead of us. 

100%

This is why I laugh off anybody that makes an argument that we were "just a play away" from winning any of these games against the Chiefs. When you're at the levels that the Bills and the Chiefs are, you've already fully optimized your roster, your gameplan, playcalling, and your gametime decision making as far as you can. From the opening snap, you're already managing the clock and you have an idea of how many scoring opportunities you're going to have and what percentage are likely to succeed.

Getting that "one play" to swing your way at that level is like asking for a whole quarter to shift your way, because the margins are razor thin. In the case of the Chiefs, there hasn't been a time that they haven't had us completely outclassed in every phase of the game since Mahomes came into the league. Until that changes, I don't see us beating them in games that matter unless an insane amount of luck drops into our lap, or the Chiefs self-destruct. If they keep building their team like they have been, and keep planning and executing the way they have been, they are effectively unbeatable with McD and Beane at the helm - as good as they otherwise are.

[Don Otreply]

13 minutes ago, Virgil said:

All this tells me is the Chiefs are playing chess while we are playing checkers.  
 

We should be showing the Chiefs nothing of value in the regular season, or at the very least, plan B.  Use the regular season to setup the offseason.  
 

Even the 4th down play was the Chiefs sending a different pressure than we’d seen all game.  Meanwhile, we ran the same stuff repeatedly.   
 

This is the difference in the games.  They are one step ahead of us. 

Our defense is pretty darn predictable, we play well off the los with great regularity, allowing gaps for easy yards, there is never ever a a functional plan “B” for the defense when we are getting our azses handed to us, they just run the same old same old, and lo and behold the chiefs win against us in the postseason…., 

 

I like McDermott a lot, but he is not one to change his strategy even when it doesn’t work, 

[Don Otreply]

Cover 1’s biggest flaw is that the take a hour and a half to convey 30 to 40 minutes worth of information, they babble on endlessly at times, and it becomes boring as can be, when they do that,  some of their content is very good, but a lot of it is just word salad,