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On 9/11/2017 at 10:21 AM, Maxman said:

Yes, there is. But the Bills should have scored 28. A tipped ball was intercepted. So your theory goes out the window. Read what KRL wrote about Darron Lee. Then rethink the "nice game" you think he had. I don't mean to be harsh, but he was bad. 

That tipped ball was tipped by none other than Darron Lee so you can't really take that away from him. 

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2 hours ago, slats said:

I remember reading an article that said the math worked similarly for going for it on fourth down all the time. Not gonna see any head coaches embracing that anytime soon for the same reasons. 

 

Yes I suppose you could look at your own 3rd down conversion rates for down and distance. If they are over 30% you should go for it.

Of course there are circumstances when you shouldn't. if you're down by 3 then you kick the field goal, and you may not want to do it inside your own 35 for instance.

Then again if he did not have an 8 yard play in his play book then maybe Bowles was right to punt. 

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On 9/11/2017 at 8:46 AM, KRL said:

As any reasonable Jet fan knows wins are going to be hard to come by this season.  So progress
has to be measured in other ways and in the first game of the season there were failures all 
over the place:

- Todd Bowles failed on multiple levels, his game management and defense to name a few.  If
you're going to be aggressive and go for the TD on 4th down and go for 2 pts in the third
quarter, you can't punt down two scores with time running out in the game!!!  In addition
after three years of getting the personnel you want on defense, you can't have the amount
of mistakes in execution which allowed simple plays to become "chunk" plays.  Also, what happened
to the secure tackling we saw in the pre-season???  There were whiffs all over the field

- The offense was a continuation of what was seen in camp and the pre-season.  There's no
OLine push in the run game which allows the defense to crowd the box and sit on every WR 
route.  With a compressed offense the only thing available is quick "dinks & dunks" which 
don't stretch the field.  This won't change until the OLine generates push in the run game.
As ineffective as they were the team was only down 14-12 in the 4th quarter.  The big culprits
in this loss was the defense

- An example of how stats don't tell the story, Demario Davis & Darron Lee both had
big games in the stat sheet.  But they may have played the worst interior LB game I've ever
seen!!!  In run defense, zone pass defense and man to man pass defense all they did all game
was guess wrong, leave their lanes and allow simple plays to turn into disasters.  Don't
let anyone fool you they were the main culprits in giving up 200 yards on the ground

- Unfortunate bad luck on the Juston Burris INT, he trips over his teammate (Marcus Maye?)
at midfield which sends him to the ground.  If he doesn't trip it's probably a 105 yard
pick 6 because there were no BUF players in front of him

- Good games by Kony Ealy & Josh Martin at the OLB spots.  Both brought pressure and set
good edges in the run game

- On offense Jermaine Kearse & Will Tye made an impact after only a week.  Kearse with 
tough catches over the middle and Tye with physical running after the catch

- Kalif Raymond needs to secure the ball better, but he did show a glimmer of hope that he
can help in the return game with that 20+ yard punt return

- Excellent leg strength by Chris Catanzaro on his FG's and kickoffs.  And Lachlan Edwards
except for that one shank was excellent in changing field position with his punts

- Awful game by Matt Forte, I know there were no running lanes but you can't drop two screen
passes

   

Todd Blowes had to go.  But he didn't.  He still has to go. Yu cannot come out and do the same things every week and then say yo.u are fine with yourself.  You cannot keep mentioning that there were a lot of missed assignments out there. How are you practising during the week?  How about a little McGuire in the game to perk things up?  How about you take the deep shots you said were in the game plan? You don't have to make those to loosen up a run D.

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