Scouting Carolina by Bills fan

[Zod]

Just a note that Seattle was missing 3 defensive starters, 2 DEs and a CB, and the Panthers still only scored 7 pts

 

 

 

but but but...

[rayzor]

Because we're both downtrodden organizations and they have their own problems to deal with.

 

but aside from monday we haven't exactly made it difficult for people to register and start posting. they've gone into full "batten down the hatches" mode.

 

[Jakob]

I'm not sure the bills fans even know we have infiltrated their camps, yet to see any bills register here.

[CRA]

I hate to say, Patriots laying an egg last night did not serve Bills football team justice. Every team has bad games and I think the Bills are going to be a handful. Panthers have a good chance of taking the game. At the end of the day, no one really looks at team stats but at the W-L record. We will get our gameday stats, I just want a win to get back to .500. It's time to win: pretty or ugly, hurt players on opposing team or our team, small market teams or big market teams, just win.

Patriots aren't very good right now.

 

That said, Buffalo is a bad matchup.  I'd rather face a team like the Ravens over the Bills.  Ravens are a better team but they also are a better matchup for everything we do.

 

We are great at defending teams who want to come at us with a punishing ground attack and go vertical.  Both play into our D's strengths.  Teams that want to go up tempo...throws slants and screens and poo all day?  That is a problem.

[rayzor]

Patriots aren't very good right now.

 

That said, Buffalo is a bad matchup.  I'd rather face a team like the Ravens over the Bills.  Ravens are a better team but they also are a better matchup for everything we do.

 

We are great at defending teams who want to come at us with a punishing ground attack and go vertical.  Both play into our D's strengths.  Teams that want to go up tempo...throws slants and screens and poo all day?  That is a problem.

 

except for the up-tempo part (which i think is barely accuurate when describing what the bills are doing), isn't that the same thing we had to deal with against rg3?

[rayzor]

I'm not sure the bills fans even know we have infiltrated their camps, yet to see any bills register here.

 

we've got one who seemed pretty decent, but then he started trying to post smack in a thread about the bucs.

#he'sdoingitwrong

[CRA]

except for the up-tempo part (which i think is barely accuurate when describing what the bills are doing), isn't that the same thing we had to deal with against rg3?

I personally don't think so....Skins have a quirky O but at heart they are built off of pounding the rock with a converted FB. RGIII makes his plays off that.

Buffalo is basically going to try to take the front 4 out and play against our back 7 IMO. That is why we looked so lost against Philly in the preseason.

[teeray]

I personally don't think so....Skins have a quirky O but at heart they are built off of pounding the rock with a converted FB. RGIII makes his plays off that.

Buffalo is basically going to try to take the front 4 out and play against our back 7 IMO. That is why we looked so lost against Philly in the preseason.

If Marrone's (sp?) is any indication he is going to pound the rock. He is a run first guy. I think I read somewhere that at Syracuse he ran the ball 2/1 over passing it

[CRA]

If Marrone's (sp?) is any indication he is going to pound the rock. He is a run first guy. I think I read somewhere that at Syracuse he ran the ball 2/1 over passing it

Up tempo offense's aren't ground and pound...

He is trying to be a quick hitter O IMO.

[teeray]

Up tempo offense's aren't ground and pound...

He is trying to be a quick hitter O IMO.

They aren't mutually exclusive

[Peppers90 NC]

if anyone is in doubt about the plays or playcalling, this is pretty nice.  cam still has a ways to go to get to that elite level as a passer:

 

http://www.buffalorumblings.com/2013/9/12/4722650/bills-vs-panthers-2013-cam-newton-film-breakdown

 

[CRA]

They aren't mutually exclusive

No but it was clear how they were playing week 1.....up tempo, limit what the DL does and focus on the quick routes.

Hard to be up tempo if your entire OL and most of your O is having to dig themselves out of huge piles of bodies routinely power running. That makes it easier on a D to slow it all down

[rayzor]

Up tempo offense's aren't ground and pound...

He is trying to be a quick hitter O IMO.

 

kelly's offense sure is. they ran the ball 40 times compared to 25 passing attempts. shady had 31 carries.

 

the bills had a lot of rushing as well. 30 rushes to 25 passing attempts. first and second down they ran most of the time. to start off the 3rd quarter, out of 11 plays they only threw twice. on their next possession they threw 4 times and ran 3. 4rd possession, 2 carries to one pass. 4th possession it was pretty evenly split 3 and 3.  the next two possessions had two of each.

 

just from the look of it, though, there is a lot of grounding and pounding, or at least trying to. and then considering that 12 of manuel's 25 attempts went to RBs...i don't know. seems like it depends on the RBs a lot.

 

[rayzor]

No but it was clear how they were playing week 1.....up tempo, limit what the DL does and focus on the quick routes.

Hard to be up tempo if your entire OL and most of your O is having to dig themselves out of huge piles of bodies routinely power running. That makes it easier on a D to slow it all down

they had 17 carries right up the middle (for 76 yards) and 27 total between the tackles. spiller had 7 of those runs up the middle (which i thought was a wierd usage of him).