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Originally Posted by RunKC
He’s too stubborn and that’s what separates him and Belichick.
When Bill dominated teams with a 3-4 defense, teams tried copying it. Bill saw this and pivoted to a 4-3. Teams were drafting all of the 3-4 DL early which meant the traditional 4-3 DE’s would fall to him. Same in FA. That’s what made him outsmart everybody.
Andy has got to put his pride away and take advantage. Perfect example is the Broncos. They had the best pass rushing unit in football leading the league in sacks and pressures. Their one flaw was undersized DL. Bonitto and Cooper were 250 lbs and Zack Allen/John-Franklin Myers were 280 lbs.
The Bills recognized that huge disparity in size and just bullied the **** out of them running the ball down their throat and moving their smaller DL at will at will all day.
We are too one dimensional. That’s a major part of our asswhooping. These teams do not respect our run game at all. They know Andy doesn’t want to do it and they know we aren’t good at it, so they pin their ears back and rush the same as if they have a lead.
Andy watching our QB and OL struggle badly immediately and not even bothering to run the ball until the 12th offensive play of the game is full proof of this.
Not saying we should convert to a run first offense by any means, but we need to be 2 dimensional. We need to be able to run the ball well when needed which will open up play action.
We also need to help our QB. We can’t keep putting everything on him with little help.
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Well for one, you don’t have to run the ball to be successful with play action.
But second and more importantly, we have Patrick Mahomes. We need to throw the ball…..a lot.
So figure out what he needs to get comfortable in the pocket and not freak out.
We’re all tap dancing around the fact that we seemingly need all this help for our elite qb to play at an elite level being an issue