http://www.buffalonews.com/sports/article186134.ece Decent enough article on Sparano's conference call with the Buffalo media and the Bills problems decoding the Dolphins Defense based on having no film to go on.
I'm excited, but I get the feeling Nolan is going to hold back some in the first half unless Buffalo starts to make progress. While this is a division rival, I'd hate to see us let all the cats out of the bag
Coordinator Day featuring Mike Nolan: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt8RohDtjvs"]YouTube - Miami Dolphins defensive coordinator Mike Nolan[/ame]
Agreed! I was there last year (like I will be Sunday) and that crowd was dead until Ricky threw that pick. It awakened them, and the Bills fed off that energy. I say, if you can crush them, crush them right from the beginning. Force Edwards to make mistakes right away, kill their spirits. Don't wait till they've put up 10-14 points and have the crowd behind them. Cause when that crowd gets going ....
Buffalo's offensive gameplan going in is probably finding CB #24 presnap and throwing that way. Our secondary better be ready because if I was an OC I wouldn't even be worrying about the run based on what we've seen. I agree though that not tipping your hand at all on Defense with schemes is the way to go in preseason.
I think its ridiculous to suggest that Buffalo's game plan will center on attacking a CB who is not slated to start. My guess is that their game plan will focus on stretching the D horizontally with quick passes and trying to run on the edges. This is based on the fact that we've been susceptible to quick slants and suspect at setting the edge during the preseason while Buffalo has run well on the edges and Gailey has always used an offense that stretches you horizontally and attacks with short passes.
IMO Buffalo knows that we will bring heat in different ways and they will try to counter an aggressive defense with moving the ball laterally. Quick passes, screens, anything that gets us going laterally instead of downhill.
Agreed but I think we should be ok defending it. Our cornerbacks can tackle, they can block destruct well enough, our ILB's can actually move laterally this year IMO and our defensive line has shown they can make plays on their feet.
We should be better at that this year. Like Alen said, our DB's tackle pretty well, and I think Dansby helps us in this area as well.
True, and draws seem to kill us as well. However this yr the Speed on Defense is totally different, I'd wager this D is as fast as Jimmie Johnson or Wanny's was back in the day, in fact it may be faster as there are no slow Lb's this year. What stuffs those plays in recognition and speed to the edge, and of course good tackling..
