Are The Bills As Good As We Think They Are?
On The Opposite End Of The Offensive is The Defense. Lead By Micah Hyde and Jordan Poyer(All-Pro), The Unit Allowed The Fewest Points and Passing Yards last Season Whiles Sharing One The Highest Percentage Of Interceptions In The League And Lowest Completion Percentage. The Bills Ranked Second Heading Into The Season, and Despite Some Issues, They Played Expectations Posting The Best Passing and A TOP five Coverage Grade. They’ll Have Two Things Going For Them, Getting Younger With First Round Draft Pick Kair Elam and Getting Healthier With The Return Of Tre White, Pro, Bowl Starting Corner Who Tore His ACL Mid- Season. Cohesive Could Proved A DOUBLE edge Sword For This Unit. They're Returning Most Its Starters Ranked As A Top two Groups ButAlso One Of The Most Penalized Groups In Football. It’s A Crux-ing Issue For Any Secondary, The Alternative To An Aggressive Approach To Coverage Means Being Lead To The Slaughter By The Eviscerating Passing Attacks Of Today's NFL. And They Pummeled Everybody. Texans, Zero Points. Saints, Six. Miami, Zero. In Other Instances, The Bills Got Stomped By Any NFL Offense With A competent Pass Attack. The Chiefs, 42. Colts, 41(Plenty Of Those Points Rushing). The Buccaneers, 33( Plenty Of Those Point Passing). This Bills Coverage Unit Could Just Be Another Overrated Opportunistic Group.
The Bills Also Supplement Their Coverage With LineBackers, Matt Milano and Tremaine Edmonds. They Are One Of Only Two Teammate Linebackers With More Than 500 Snaps At The Position This Past Season. Of Course, At Best, it Went As Expected. Edmonds Gave Up The Most Yards On The Team as The Closest Defender In Coverage. Frames of Images Of Matt Milano Losing His Angle On Tyreek Hill As The Cheetah Rounded The Corner To The End Zone In That Division Game. The Dicey Practice Of Playing Line In Drop Coverage In This Stage of The Passing Revolution. Each Step Of Tyreeeks Stride And The Peace Sign are Burned Into My Retina and Certainly His A Greater Part Of Western New York. A Queasy Reminder Of The Unforgiving Nature Of The Laws Of Speed and Physics. Of Course, Tyreek Would Have Burned Anybody; The Defensive Play Just looked worse. He Got Caught In Position and Out Classed On That One.
The Bills’ Pass Rush Took A Step Back From Last Year. A Testament To How Quickly The Coin Flips In The NFL. Season To Season Shift Like Night And Day.
Two Years ago, The Bills Had One Of The Best Unquestioned Defensive Lines In The Game. They’re Still Top Ten In Grade But Certainly Weren't Elite By Any Standard. Zero Pro Bowlers Or All-pros Across The Line. They Finished The Season Sixth In Pass Rush WIN rate. According To Espn. Win Rate That Totaled Forty-Two Sacks As A Unit But Not A Single Edge Rusher In Double Digit Sacks. According to Pro Football Reference, the bills Didn’t get Blitz Much Either, Only 26 percent On Passing Downs. They Didn’t Need Extra Rushers To Generate Pressure On the Quarterback To Win the Game. Until January Came Along. In the Playoffs and Against Tougher opponents.
Against The Patriots, again, A Game They Didn’t Need Pressure To Win, The Pass Rush Had Negligible Impact. Between The Two Playoff Games, The Bills Registered Just Five sacks, Just Two To Mahomes, and None When The Game Demanded A Difference Making Force. The Solution, Signing The Best Postseason Pass Rusher This Generation has Ever Witness, Von Miller. Considered the Greatest Free Agent Signing In Buffalo Bills Football History, Von Miller Enters The bill Under Unprecedented Circumstances. Few Teams Can Boast Of A 33 Year Old As Their Greatest Free Agency. Maybe The Bucs Or Broncos Have Sign Greater Players Order Than 33, But Those We’re Quarterbacks. Super Bowl NFL Landscape Reforming Quarterbacks.
The Bills, In One Of The Surprise Moves Of The Offseason, Signed Former Broncos And Ram Edge Rusher Von Miller. After Suffused Courting Period, Which Included Both Of His Former Employers, Teams Got The Message The Bills Got Their Difference Maker. After Failing To Pressure Patrick Mahomes At All Really, the Bills Acted as Any Team With A Window To Win Would, Made A Pitch.
The Their Propose By The Parties Involved; the Bill Had Everything Need To Win And Win Out, Except For Elite Pass Rush. That’s Not Entirely True Or Entirely False.
I Don’t Care How The Language Of The Contract breakdown. Whether He Eats Half Of The Six Year's $120 Million And Secedes The Rest, The Condition Under Which Miller Can Justify That Price Tag Isn’t Relay-able In Northern New York. He’s A Situational Push Rusher At This Stage In His Career. After A mid-Season Trade sent a long-time Bronco To The Rams, The Former number Two Overall Pick Took Off And Help Complete The Rams Playoff Run With A playoff-high 92.6 pass-rushing grade(PFF). I’m Interested To See What The Bills Intend To Achieve With Miller And The Other Defensive line Acquisitions. In Addition, They’ll Need Both Greg Rousseau and A.J. Epenesa, To Step Up. The Two Ranked Fourth and Fifth On The Team, But That’s A Huge Ask Based On The Track record Of The Former First and Second Picks Of 2020 And 2021.
