The Deep Pass

by howedyhowe on Dec 4, 2009 12:13 PM EST

Before last nights game, T.O. had looked like his former self. (14 catches for 293 yards and 2 TD's) Yet last night T.O. faced arguably the best corner in the game in Darrelle Revis, and got shutdown by him for the second time this season. I love the fact that PF and AVP are focusing on getting T.O. the ball, and it is important we get him the ball. The problem I have with it is that when Owens is being covered by a guy like Revis (who has shutdown basically everyone he has faced) why force him the ball deep, when we have another extremely talented WR on the opposite side of the field? One of the first plays of the game was a deep pass to Evans that if not for a diving effort on the CB's part goes for 6. Yet for what I saw we never tried to go deep to Evans again. Evans is a great deep threat, he has proven it if given the opportunity.

I love T.O., and I would love to have him back for another season. The only thing that worries me is that if we only focus on T.O., when its time for him to go, Evans could walk as well.

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With a better QB i think the Evens T.O match up still has alot of potential for next year

provided we have a better line

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by billsoferie on Dec 4, 2009 12:28 PM EST reply actions

Fitzpatrick threw at least four passes at Evans in what I’ll loosely describe as the middle of the field. They were slants and posts, from what I could see, and in each case, Evans had big gains thwarted by terrible throws and/or bad throws due to pressure.

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by Brian Galliford on Dec 4, 2009 12:37 PM EST reply actions

Has anyone noticed how awkward Fitz looks when he throws the bomb?

I don’t know what it is but he looks like a 6 year old throwing his whole body. There’s a little hitch or jump or something there.

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by twoeightnine on Dec 4, 2009 12:45 PM EST reply actions

The guy is 6’2", 225 lbs., but he seems like a dwarf out there. It looks like he’s heaving his whole body into it. I think part of it is not stepping fully into his throws. It definitely seems like he has unconventional mechanics.

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by WhyBillsWhy on Dec 4, 2009 4:59 PM EST up reply actions

Exactly

I said the same thing. Lee evans was thrown to I think twice. He is actually starting to suffer from us having T.O because he demands so much attention. I love T.O too, but if winning is what we are trying to do, it doesnt involve T.O on every offensive play.

by csc06258 on Dec 4, 2009 1:02 PM EST reply actions

This is an assumption on my part, but I’ll guess that since Revis can be left alone on an island, Sheppard always has safety help over the top. QBs get conditioned to not throw deep into double coverage. Evans is a huge threat that opponents take very seriously and I doubt that the Bills had many opportunities to get Evans one on one down the field, espcially since they had a big play that way early in the game and since the Jets had the lead for most of the game.

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by kaisertown on Dec 4, 2009 1:07 PM EST reply actions

I said after the draft in 2007 – I wish I could find the damned comment, I might have put it on our old, now-defunct Jets blog – that a day might come where the Bills regretted passing on Revis in favor of Lynch. I was gonna make myself look all smart and stuff, but that comment eludes me, so if a single person believes me, I’ll be satisfied. :)

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by Brian Galliford on Dec 4, 2009 1:24 PM EST up reply actions

Why would you lie?

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by billsoferie on Dec 4, 2009 2:34 PM EST up reply actions

I wouldn’t, but you don’t know me personally. Never assume. :)

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by Brian Galliford on Dec 4, 2009 2:59 PM EST up reply actions

i think someone told me that once

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by billsoferie on Dec 4, 2009 4:35 PM EST up reply actions

Wonder if they had taken Revis instead if they still woulda taken Leodis the next year?

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by norcaliangelsfan on Dec 4, 2009 6:03 PM EST up reply actions

Nope

Too bad. Could have had a star instead of a potential (using that loosely) star. Ah well.

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by Kurupt on Dec 8, 2009 8:03 PM EST up reply actions

I think that your forgetting the fact that Evans just signed a long extention, he’s not going anywhere anytime soon.

by CanadianBillsFan on Dec 4, 2009 2:24 PM EST reply actions

Jason Peters was still under contract…not long term, but under contract none the less. If he decides he doesn’t want to be in Buffalo anymore, he won’t be.

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by howedyhowe on Dec 4, 2009 5:20 PM EST up reply actions

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isn’t thrown very well by The Buffalo Bills’ QBs.

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by TheAfghanTwilight on Dec 4, 2009 3:47 PM EST reply actions

Is it just because we don’t have a real NFL offense that we target TO so much more than Evans or are they just afraid he’ll unleash hell via the media?

by louiethegent on Dec 4, 2009 9:13 PM EST reply actions

QB the problem not Evans

Evans will always have a CB on him with a S over the top due to his speed.

So the only routes Evans gets open on, flags, post, and slants (short to intermediate range). I haven’t seen any of our QB’s hit since Bledsoe. JP was horrible at them, Trent never threw them, Fitz couldn’t hit the broadside of the barn 7/10 times. I’m sure this will show in the statistics when you see the # of completions our QBs have thrown in that range.

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by Rudy916 on Dec 5, 2009 9:07 AM EST reply actions