Offense Efficient, Defense Lacking As Bills Topple Bengals

No need to pass out. Any stiff could have turned that gift into 6!

anything note worthy or just good play

I set my alarm, got up to watch the game, and saw that. What a weak move. Booooo NFL Network. Boooooooo!

to the local blackout?

I’ve been there since the change was announced. It’s a MAJOR shift in philosophy for most of these guys. The bulk of talent they have is best suited for a 4-3 cover-2, it’s going to take a good chunk of time to make these guys stout. This is still Jauron’s team in many ways, and it will be a painful reminder to us at points during the season.

But that doesn’t mean they can’t play it well. Remember they are not showing much. They are playing very basic coverages. It will get more complicated for opposing offenses come Sep. 12th.

Good Offense…..lousy defense…….lots of points scored by both teams.

I could live with that for a year or two………I’d rather watch exciting offense any day over a stauch D.

McKelvin looked OK. He got tripped up on the 85 TD, but otherwise looked solid. Florence lacks recovery speed, which is why he gets flagged all the time. McGee can’t press to save his life, but is rarely out of position. The pass D problems have to do with our incredibly mediocre LB play.

And yes re: McCargo. They’re going to have a real hard time letting him go.

If you take away Byrd’s INTS last year, the defense didn’t look so great. Nobody threw for tons of yards on them because there was no need to test it.

and I am not sure I qualify as a hater. But, nothing would make me happier than Buffalo finally finding an answer at QB. I am not quite ready to anoint Edwards as that answer yet. Let’s not get to excited about Edwards until he shows some consistency and wins some games that matter.

its hard to know what to think any more.

I was/am one of the biggest Trent homers walking the earth and even I am not sure whether its okay to reinvest faith in the guy.

Glad he’s playing well though.

after one decent game in a preseason contest against the Bengals.

Talk to me after we play the Patriots or Jets in the regular season and we’ll see where he’s at.

I want him to succeed as much as anybody, but I’m not buying back in after three quarters of pretty-good-not-great QB play.

Edwards showed outstanding awareness, pocket presence, accuracy, and leadership tonight. He absolutely played like a starting NFL QB tonight as he did against Indy. He was close to hitting Evans on a homerun ball just like he did Johnson before too. Of course Carson Palmer looked like a brain surgeon out there slicing and dicing the Bills defense.

Chan’s forte is offense, Dick’s was defense. We parted ways with ST coach. New defensive coach and old ST coach. Figures they’d be weaker, heres hoping they improve.

coaching changes everything

I’m curious where all the people are that said up and down that coaching doesn’t really make a difference.

Hopefully lol

hopin the same.

that nickle set has been getting flogged on the ground and in the air.

love it

I think the kicker return game suffered a major blow losing the wedge.

nfl.com

The Bills, defensively, are still a team trying to figure out what they want to do. While that might work against the Bills’ offense in practice, that’s not going to fly against a potent offense like the Bengals that knows Exactly what it’s going to do to you.

The DB’s seemed a step slow and were trailing their man badly most of the first half. I’m hoping they will begin recognizing things a half second faster and start to play more instinctively.

They were 24th in total yards last year, 22nd in points, 26th in passing, and 9th in rushing. So yeah, they can run it pretty effectively, and the additions of Gresham, Shipley and TO will certainly improve that poor passing game, but overall it’s not a special offense. The Bills getting steamrolled by their O isn’t a good sign.

Bills defense needs to improve, Special Teams coverage is dreadfully bad. I don’t know what Bruce Dehaven is doing but if it doesn’t improve then he will need to be fired sooner than later. There are new players but no excuse for the dropoff of being one of the best coverage teams to the worst. Maybe a specialist needs to be brought in as much as I don’t want to lose the roster spot

One of them is making plays and one of them isn’t. Works for me.

I was at the game too, and saw Maybin take himself out of running plays and lose contain on the edge because he cant take on a blocker. He picks a side, and the back goes the other way. He may develop into a pass rusher, but I don’t believe he will ever be an effective run defender.

i was able to watch the game on nfl.com with the preseason package and I thought he wasn’t all that bad. he still looked overpowered against the first team o-line, but you could see him trying some different moves against the backups. his second sack was actually a pretty nice dip move (albeit against a rookie tackle). i think the celebrating is as obnoxious as hell, but tonight he showed a good motor and at least showed some glimmers of longer-term promise.

there were still some breakdowns, but for the first time in a while, I noticed that a pocket was forming that Trent could step up into. On the same note, kudos to Trent for trusting his line. There was at least 4-5 times when it looked like he was going to take a hit, but he stepped up a few paces and his o-line did a great job sealing him off so he could deliver the throw.