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For the 4th time!!!

I admit I've been on here talking about a game I didn't get to watch very much of. I had to work yesterday and although the game was on TV, and I have field pass, I was so busy I really couldn't pay attention to it. I will only miss 3 games this year and this was one of them. Anyway, I've noticed much debate about who was at fault for the 7 sacks. Some folks have said the O-LINE sticks while others felt DC had plenty of time but layed an egg. I watched the game via TIVO and played extra attention to the 7 sacks. Her is my opinion of each one.

1st sack - All DC's fault. He fumbled his pass attempt and fell on the ball. No excuses at the NFL level.
2nd sack - James and Carey were beaten. James chipped his guy and he was the first one to get to DC but Carey's man was right behind him. Blocking breakdown.
3rd sack - Denney goes unblocked. Carey was helping Anderson double team the tackle and Denney got a free rush. DC stumbled as he was rolling back which probably allowed Denney to catch him. Still he was unblocked.
4th sack - Beautiful blitz by Buffalo. They sent the safety and there was nobody to block him. Probably should have been picked up by the back except Chambers was the back and it looked like Miami was trying to setup some kind of a swing pass to him. Perfect defensive call vs our offesnive call. It happens.
5th sack - Denney schools Shelton. DC has 3 seconds to throw but has a man draped on him in 2 seconds. Is that sufficient time??
6th sack - All DC, 4 seconds to throw. Maybe nobody's open, well throw it away Daunte. Don't take the loss.
7th sack - McMichael gets beaten by Crowell. The more I watch RM the more I fell we need a true big time TE. It seems like we have been waiting for RM to play consistantly since he came into the NFL. Maybe it will never happen.

The way I scroe it
DC's fault 2 (arguably 3)
O-LINE's fault - 4 (arguably 3)
Bills defense - 1

The Bills did nothing special to beat us. They basically played JJ ball, good defense conservative offense and mistake free which will always give you a chance to win regardless of talent. The Bills sat back and waited for Miami to make mistakes then beat them with those mistakes.

We lost because of an inept offense. The defense played fine, with the exception of Will Allens penalty (I like him though, I think he's played well despite that mistake). Anyone who doesn't think holding your opponent to 172 yards of total offense and 16 points (10 of which coming from our miscues, penalty and blocked punt) isn't good enough to win is kidding themselves. We also averaged 4.6 yards per rush to their 3.6 and outgained them by 110 yards. Willis had 12 carries for 68 yards at the half and 13 carries for 23 yards for the rest of the game.

Captain obvious, but we need better QB and o-line play to win. What else is new. The offense looked worse than the secondary, which many say is our biggest weakness, this past Sunday.

Malarkey is and idiot. How can you abandon the run down 10-0??? If Saban is as good a caoch as we all think he is MM better get a stern talking to after that showing.
 
"Denney schools Shelton"
-- ok... Kelsay gets a sack, Denney gets 3 sacks. Both are Left DE's... and so Carey should be blocking them. How does Denney school Shelton? Aaron Schobel should be the right DE (vs Shelton).
 
Rich said:
"Denney schools Shelton"
-- ok... Kelsay gets a sack, Denney gets 3 sacks. Both are Left DE's... and so Carey should be blocking them. How does Denney school Shelton? Aaron Schobel should be the right DE (vs Shelton).


OK watched it again to make sure I wasn't seeing things. Denney did beat Shelton for the 5th sack. The Bills were being creative, tough concept for a Dolphins fan, and moving Denney around. I have it paused on TIVO right now because I was sure I was right. After watching the first 4 again I do have a different persepctive on 2 of them.

2nd sack - Not Jeno's fault. The Dolphins were setting up a screen pass and Jeno chipped his man and pulled out in front to lead the screen pass. Maybe Brown should have chipped him as well. Carey was beaten but I think if the left side could have given Culpepper a little more time he could have gotten the pass off.

3rd sack - The more I watch that play the more I think the play was designed for the QB to beat the DE to the edge. Culpepper, even with the gimpy knee, could have beaten Denney to the corner if he didn't stumble. He almost beat him even though he did stumble but Denney made a nice shoe string tackle.
 
good analysis especially with the Murlakey comment. Our o-line looked atrocious, but you never abandon the run especially when you're only down 10-0!!
 
I re-watched it myself. Denney lines up more on the right-side than the left. They do move him around.

Buffalo ran a bunch of stunts, or crossing plays where the DT goes outside and is blocked by the Tackle(Shelton) and the DE runs behind him to the inside(James) and runs through him.

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Lot's of mistakes by lots of guys... Culpepper seemed to have better pocket presence than I remembered. On one play, Culpepper is waiting for chambers to turn around and look, so he can toss a screen pass... so by the time chambers turns around, Culpepper is sacked. Culpepper is a big guy, and has waited too long in the past in Minnesota, consistantly through his carrer.

Right Side:

It seemed like 2 sacks occurred when Carey tried to help Jacox... and they double teamed a DT... forcing McMichael to block the DE. He did for 3 or 4 seconds, but a sack occured.

Nobody got past Anderson/Jacox, because they consistantly had help (double team).

Hadnot whiffed on a play, but there was not a sack on this play.
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Left Side:
The left side of the line (Shelton / James) played noticeably worse than the right side (Hadnot/Jacox/Carey). Before re-watching the game, I thought Shelton was the problem. Although he had a bad game... and sometimes stands around, and lets guys run around him.... It appears James was worse.

I think Jeno James is injured. He appeared to have less arm strength than Olindo Mare. He is lean and mean and in great shape, but when he tried to push people it seemed as futile as Dan Marino trying to block Dan Wilkinson. If James positioned his body exactly right, he was able to block effectively, while getting pushed back.

Anybody on the roster (McIntosh / Alabi) needs to replace Jeno James. He is clearly injured, and not the same player he was the last 2 years.
 
I re-watched it myself. Denney lines up more on the right-side than the left. They do move him around.

Yeah and it's a good idea to be creative!!

Lot's of mistakes by lots of guys... Culpepper seemed to have better pocket presence than I remembered. On one play, Culpepper is waiting for chambers to turn around and look, so he can toss a screen pass... so by the time chambers turns around, Culpepper is sacked. Culpepper is a big guy, and has waited too long in the past in Minnesota, consistantly through his carrer.

That was the play where Ko Simpson blitzed from his safety position and the Fins were trying to setup a swing pass to Chambers. Simpson got there before Chambers turned around, or finished his route. I give the Bills credit for calling the perfect defense to stop the offensive play we called more than I blame our guys for that one. I'd need to watch it again but I think there was a Bills defender out there with Chambers anyway.

Right Side:

It seemed like 2 sacks occurred when Carey tried to help Jacox... and they double teamed a DT... forcing McMichael to block the DE. He did for 3 or 4 seconds, but a sack occured.

Nobody got past Anderson/Jacox, because they consistantly had help (double team).
Hadnot whiffed on a play, but there was not a sack on this play.

That was Crowell McMichael was trying to block on one of those plays and I do agree with you, Daunte had plenty of time to get off a pass. I think that was the one were Welker was wide open in the middle of the field but by the time Culpepper noticed that, he was sacked.

Left Side:
The left side of the line (Shelton / James) played noticeably worse than the right side (Hadnot/Jacox/Carey). Before re-watching the game, I thought Shelton was the problem. Although he had a bad game... and sometimes stands around, and lets guys run around him.... It appears James was worse.

I think Jeno James is injured. He appeared to have less arm strength than Olindo Mare. He is lean and mean and in great shape, but when he tried to push people it seemed as futile as Dan Marino trying to block Dan Wilkinson. If James positioned his body exactly right, he was able to block effectively, while getting pushed back.
Anybody on the roster (McIntosh / Alabi) needs to replace Jeno James. He is clearly injured, and not the same player he was the last 2 years.

I admit I never really noticed Jacox, Anderson or Hadnot in my analysis but that doesn't necessarily mean they were good. I initially balmed the 2nd sack on James but after watching it again it looked like he did what he was supposed to do. The fins were setting up a screen and he was supposed to lead it. His chip was futile, I agree, as that was the guy who ultimately got to Culpepper but I'm not sure if Ronnie was supposed to chip him again on the way by or if Shelton was supposed to come off his guy and pick up Jeno's. Either way I think the Bills had the screen snuffed out becuase I think there was a defender in Ronnie's hip pocket.

I also will say I'm no expert when it come to O-LINE play. It's actually been interesting watching it and discussing it. I realize without knowing the Dolphins playbook it's tough to know the blocking assignments. It's obviously not as cut and dry as it looks on TV.
 
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