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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.Maybe it's too early, but I don't know what Hill is saying Buffalo did here.
Brady had success when the Bills sent more pass rushers. He was 5 of 6 for 97 yards with just one throwaway when the Bills rushed more than four players. He was just 3 of 10 for 18 yards with four throwaways when they dropped eight players into coverage. Without pass-catchers like Julian Edelman and Dion Lewis, who can get open in tight coverage, this could be the blueprint for stopping the Patriots — not through their leaky offensive line but by exploiting their depleted offensive weapons.
I have been unable to find independent or further corroboration of this. Anyone care to weigh in on this?
It sounds like he's implying the Bills deciphered what Brady's protection calls are, and would adjust who blitzed based on who he called out? It's possible, especially since it wouldn't surprise me if the calls had to be simplified due to all the flux on the O-Line.
Hah -- true. No wonder Rex was so apoplectic. I also read where one of their DBs said (paraphrase) "we knew all their routes," blah blah blah. I agree that it's all part of normal football; just irksome to think what a national, innuendo-laden crap storm it would be if it was the Patriots.If the Bills somehow managed to decipher the Patriots protection calls and still conceded 20 points with a missed FG and an idiotic turnover, then shame on them.
Before the half I mentioned that the Bills likely had the Pat's protection calls translated before the game. It sounded to me like the Pats started changing up the protection call labels before the end of the first half. Even after the Pats adjusted their calls, Pat's OLinement were frequently losing 1 on 1 battles.This came up briefly somewhere else here, maybe in the post game thread. The Bills were right much too often and were getting free shots at Brady all game long.
Before the half I mentioned that the Bills likely had the Pat's protection calls translated before the game. It sounded to me like the Pats started changing up the protection call labels before the end of the first half. Even after the Pats adjusted their calls, Pat's OLinement were frequently losing 1 on 1 battles.
Unless the Pats didn't change their protection calls between games, deciphering calls before the start of a game isn't homework, it's espionage.Sounds like the Bills did their homework on the Pats' line calls. That explains why the protection seemed so awful. Time to step up the level of disguise on those calls I guess.
That's how I interpreted it.Wonder if that's where the Rex Ryan tag came from, from being relabeled on the fly.
Sounds like the Bills did their homework on the Pats' line calls. That explains why the protection seemed so awful. Time to step up the level of disguise on those calls I guess.
By decipher, he likely means the specific words used to call the protections that game. I'm fairly certain these are changed between every game.Seeing that Ryan has squared off vs BB 15 times or whatever the fact that it took him this long to decipher the protection schemes makes him look like a bigger idiot than I thought he was.
This is the kind of think Ernie would have had nailed over a cup of coffee.
Wonder if that's where the Rex Ryan tag came from, from having to rename their plays on the fly.