I was not surprised about yesterdays loss as most.I felt we were going to beat new England and then lose to the bills.As a matter of fact I think if we played the pats 10 times and the bills 10 times we would win more games against the pats based on the matchups. We all know the dolphins are a passing team with the worst pass blocking offensive line in the nfL and no to mention the worst group of pass blocking rbs I have ever seen.The bills have the best pass rushing front 7 in the nfl this year plus have 5th best pass def and are playing at home where the dolphins have won 3 times in December in 48 years (of course they don't play them every year at home in December). Then the other side of the ball we all know how bad are run defence is(Ireland thanks for wheeler and Ellerbe)the bills are #4 in the nfl in rushing offence.My question is based on these facts how the hell did everybody pick us to win this game?".Plain and simple we don't matchup with this team. On the flip side the jets have a decent but not great pass rush and are 23rd against the pass.The run defence is really good and I know we ran well against them last time but I feel they will make adjustments and shut down the run game.I feel we will have success throwing the ball against this team and the defence will cause geno smith into mistakes and we win 24-14.
It was about the offensive coaching staff getting their asses beat in a way that is totally inappropriate for professionals.
Though I agree to a point about the coaching staff(why the hell don't you roll tanny out or run the pistol,hell I don't even remember a draw play to slow down the pass rush)but this offensive line was completely overmatched.
Ya but if everybody in the country that knows what a football is also knew this going in to the game, it's on the coaches for not creating ways to minimize it. They did absolutely NOTHING to mitigate Buffalo's D.
I totally understood the match ups and did not see us winning this game in Buffalo. Was hoping to make some plays and maybe sneak out of there with a win. Buffalo is strong on both lines and very physical. Yet with that said...no way we should have been dominated the way we were. That was not even close
D we dont always agree, but you are 100% spot on here......I will not make excuses for this team to play the way they did; yesterday was an embarrassment on every level, ALL 3 phases as Philbin likes to say. Out of all the potential 6 seeds, Miami has about the "cakeyist" of cake walks to get in and they vomit that bull**** on the TV. Don't blame the weather, the road, the Bills, match-ups, the fire alarm or any other stuff.... Yesterday was about coaching, plan and simple and if Ross can't see the only thing holding this team back is better shot callers on all levels from the GM to coaching then I hope he sells the team as well....
You can't play the "over-matched" card until you've done all you can to compensate for an issue. If you've done everything you can to fix the situation and it's still a situation, OK. Where I'm standing, they've done very little.
They were over-matched, but they also did nothing to mitigate the effects of the mismatch. The Miami Heat have a clear disadvantage at the center spot, and every time they face a tall team with a good starting center they suffer. However, they take steps to minimize the mismatch. They try to make him less effective by drawing him away from the paint. They attack him to get him in foul trouble. They play small lineups and force him to defend perimeter players. They have guards in the paint fighting for rebounds. Etc etc. You must make preparations and adjustments to mitigate you clear disadvantage facing a mismatch. If after that, you still get beat, then you can say you tried everything, just the disadvantage was to great to overcome, and then focus on talent and personnel to reduce or erase the disadvantage. This coaching staff did NOTHING to adjust. They kept trying the same thing over and over and over, hoping for different results. INSANITY!
Coaching staff did nothing to adjust from the first loss. It is really strange actually to not make ANY adjustments after you lose to the opponent you are facing the second time around. It's as if... they lost on purpose. I swear that sounds just as credible as us not making any changes to the offensive game plan. Bizarro world.
It would be really nice if we had a coaching staff who could assess the strengths and weaknesses of the team we are playing, and develop a gameplan that might take advantage of some of those weaknesses while avoiding some of their strengths. For example, when you're a bad run-blocking team playing a great defensive line, it's probably not a great idea to run straight up the gut every single time. Maybe attack the edge once a year. Or maybe throw a screen pass or two against a hyper aggressive defense. Or maybe roll Tannehill out. Obviously this is super advanced stuff so its not fair to expect our OC to actually figure it out, but it would certainly be nice.
It wasn't a good matchup for Miami, but that still does not excuse some of the things that happened. I don't care who your RB is, if he is pass blocking Marcel Dareus by himself, he's going to fail more often than not.
Taking a MATCH and lite UP the pile of garbage we saw....yup Match Ups for sure. It makes the stink go away.....on to NYJ...lets sweep them!
A bad schematic matchup should never result in a total shutout to a 5-win team playing its 3rd-string QB who was missing his best WR and lost his best deep threat in-game. This team and its staff need to find SOME way to score SOME points regardless of how poorly one unit is playing. We are one of two teams to get shout out this season (Giants shut out by good teams with great defenses in Carolina and Seattle). Teams are faced with bad matchups every week. But shutouts should not happen in today's NFL. Just inexcusable.
Kylie Williams dominated the interior line in this game schooling brenner.I watched mckinne get blown by a lbs on a blitz that he outweighed probally by 70lbs.I saw tannehill point out a corner blitz and still nobody picked it up.The coaches deserve a lot of blame but we got are asses handed to us in the trenches on both sides of the ball.This line doesn't get fixed we will get swept next year also by this team.I don't care who the coaches are.
I'm with the OP. Yes, the offensive gameplan was weak. At the same time, no amount of coaching or game planing can overcome the fact that we don't have the guys that can win their assignments against buffalo's front 7. There's a reason we lost to the bills twice this year while being able to beat the colts, bengals, pats, steelers and chargers, it's a bad match up. Ireland made our defense weaker by bringing in wheeler and ellerbe. He also failed to address our OL. Not only did he not address our OL, he stockpiled our rb position with guys who aren't good runners, receivers and of course can't pick up a blitz or block to save their life.
I expect to win sunday and but even making the playoffs is no excuse to keep Ireland he needs to go.We need to upgrade this line and he has proven since he has been here he has no clue how to do this.
The Panthers were a mismatch also although Dareus/Williams>>Star/Short, yet we put up 16 points and Tannehill threw for 300+ yards. We simply got out-coached imo and the game plan sucked.
It was the best defensive line in the NFL vs. the worst offensive line in the NFL. It clearly showed. Perfect storm of sorts.
To some degree it was about match ups. But there is something hidden under that. That is, the Dolphins are a very mediocre team in talent. You can't contend for the SB if you can't be competitive against anyone, let alone a team that is 4-9 (other than when facing you). You are a team mired in mediocrity if you can't overcome a bad match up against such teams and beat them when they have a starting QB they got off the street during the season because their other QBs are so bad and/or are injured. Sorry, the match up may have been bad, but that is no excuse. The talent is simply not there to be a SB winning team, particularly on the OL. Interestingly enough, evidently the Bills have not only a Pro Bowl Calibre DL, they must have a Pro Bowl Calibre OL - as Wake, Ellerbe, Vernon, and company all had some of their worst games of the year.
You can blame coaching for not overcoming one bad Olman, but when you have to overcome 4 OLman, against one of the best DL's in the league...........that goes on the GM.....Ireland. Coaching can only do so much.
Exactly!!!How many teams have to replace the RT,RG,LT,LG.We have the worst offensive line in the history of this franchise.
Not sure how much it would have helped but I'd have tried using a 6th OL on a regular basis yesterday to slow down their pass rush, and maybe improve the run game.
That would mean we tried to make an adjustment..tried something to fix the problem. We just kept lining up 3 wide 1te and one back. did not work?..try it again...did not work...try it again. We had 60 total yards at the half..no problem...keep running it..WE HAD 6 TOTAL YARDS IN THE 3RD QTR!!! No problem..sooner or later it will work. What about Double TE or lining up Egnew at FB.....An Extra lineman...no problem..keep running it..it is going to work But Sherm, we are on the plane going home, just got shut out..the game is over! Wait, what about empty back field and 5 wide...we can save that for the Jets
You'd think we would have tried that after halftime. The fact we made no adjustments at all is what pisses me off.
Petitine,the Def coord for Buffalo said he watched the Patriot game film and saw we had problems with the DB blitz. So he kept on doing it and kept on doing it. Nothing changed. What do you think the odds are the Jets will do the same exact??? What do you think the odds will be that the Jets will take the ball out of Geno Smiths hands and just run the ball at our defense?? Time to come up with a solution....an adjustment.. I believe it's called COACHING. The blue print is out...can you do something about it?
