DolfanISS
Perennial All-Pro
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.
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.
