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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.What he said put undue pressure on the Bills players. Observations around the NFL appear high for the Bills given their defensive acquisitions.
You don't sell tickets by bull****ting, which effectively is what Nix is doing. You sell tickets because your team plays well not the crap that's sprouted out in the papers than can be used against you.
The Bills defense, should they remain healthy, is set up perfectly to slow us down. Especially if Koppen has trouble handling Dareus. But their offense isn't set up to match points with us.
I'll believe it when I see it. For all the talk about Mario & Mark Anderson - those two bookended the worst pass defense in the league just a couple years ago. Anderson was an afterthought when we signed him, and wasn't much until Carter went down. Can Dareus and Kyle Williams stay on the field in our no huddle?
Again, this defense got destroyed from November on last year. It gave up 32 PPG after Halloween. Needless to say, that's the worst in the league.
They are paper giants at the moment. They, and their GM, should shut their mouths and perform.
I've always wondered why anyone would want to draw more attn to themselves with insanely bold statements like that
insanely bold statements like that
You've got to be kidding me.
It's not insanely bold to say you aren't afraid of another team. Especially when the reporter probably baited with the question 'Are you afraid of the Patriots?'
If anyone ever said anything other than 'I am not afraid' they should probably be fired or cut.
If anyone ever said anything other than 'I am not afraid' they should probably be fired or cut.
Injuries ravaged them. When they were healthy, they were at least decent. Add on one of the better pass rushers of this past decade and another decent pass rusher at the other end with Dareus and Williams playing the 3-technique, and they should be a pretty formidable defensive line, IF healthy (which I noted in my last post, you'll see). Their secondary is still suspect, though, which is why I think we'll still be able to put up enough points to win. But, as the Giants have shown time and again, it doesn't take a great secondary to slow us down. It just takes a strong pass rushing presence with your front four with the ability to generate pressure up the A-Gaps without blitzing. The Bills, on paper at least, look to have the ability to do that.
How decent were they when healthy? Forgive my cherry-picking, but if we throw out some outliers, we see in week 2 through 6, that defense gave up 28 PPG. That's all before Williams went down, and he was their biggest loss.
Again, they added some real talent in Mario. I think people are overestimating what Mark Anderson brings. And I think people are severely overrating where this team is to start. Time will tell. But I am getting annoyed by all the prognostication that the Bills are somehow a huge threat.
They were decent enough to lead the league in turnovers during that time. It was something that the defense that we had in 2010, though flawed like last year's Bills defense was, did to help the team get to 14-2. They were decent enough to snag as many INT's in one game as Brady had thrown in the entire regular season the year before. Nobody is saying that they were a shut down defense. What I'm saying is that they were decent. When the injuries hit and they stopped getting their hands on turnovers, that's when they took the nosedive. Similar to what happened with us once we couldn't force a turnover in the 2010 Divisional Round. With that said, would you say our 2010 defense was terrible or decent?
Kontra said:EDIT: Oh and I'm not saying that the Bills are a huge threat. You're completely twisting my words there. I'm just saying that they're our biggest threat in the division right now and, if healthy, should give us a few issues on the defensive side of the ball.
This is as comical as **** MacPherson saying, "We're not afraid of ANY other team!"