I know this post is a bit late, so I apologize. But I'm going to just throw out there exactly what I said on my live postgame show right after the game for those who didn't come by and see/hear it.
My biggest frustration with what happened Sunday was what looked like the lack of a clear game plan (offensively) and how that then turned into playing "grab bag" football.
"Grab bag" football is what some coaches call it when they or other coaches just seem to reach into a bag and pull out a play to run. No rhyme or reason. No intent behind it - other than to "see if it works."
Teams like Indy, Green Bay, New England, they can actually get away with playing "grab bag" football once in a while because their offesnes are so good that if something goes wrong they can often recover fairly well on the next couple plays. Obviously the Bills can't do that.
But even they know it's not smart. Almost everything Manning, Rodgers, Brady, and their coaches do is FOR A REASON. No one can tell me for what reason the Bills did anything on offense Sunday.
They ran a lot of different formations. That's fine to keep a defense off-balance and thinking, but it's not fine if you want to see how they react to what you're doing and design something to adjust to that and counter it.
It just seemed to me that Chan was more concerned with throwing different stuff out there than he was with setting something up, going back to it, and then using it to his advantage.
You don't just stay away from something because it didn't work the first time. You can go back to it, but make a change to something about it to give it to better chance to succeed.
That's called a game plan. At the very least, it's called a "plan." It's not what they did, which was "grab bag" football.
I hope things change Sunday.
My biggest frustration with what happened Sunday was what looked like the lack of a clear game plan (offensively) and how that then turned into playing "grab bag" football.
"Grab bag" football is what some coaches call it when they or other coaches just seem to reach into a bag and pull out a play to run. No rhyme or reason. No intent behind it - other than to "see if it works."
Teams like Indy, Green Bay, New England, they can actually get away with playing "grab bag" football once in a while because their offesnes are so good that if something goes wrong they can often recover fairly well on the next couple plays. Obviously the Bills can't do that.
But even they know it's not smart. Almost everything Manning, Rodgers, Brady, and their coaches do is FOR A REASON. No one can tell me for what reason the Bills did anything on offense Sunday.
They ran a lot of different formations. That's fine to keep a defense off-balance and thinking, but it's not fine if you want to see how they react to what you're doing and design something to adjust to that and counter it.
It just seemed to me that Chan was more concerned with throwing different stuff out there than he was with setting something up, going back to it, and then using it to his advantage.
You don't just stay away from something because it didn't work the first time. You can go back to it, but make a change to something about it to give it to better chance to succeed.
That's called a game plan. At the very least, it's called a "plan." It's not what they did, which was "grab bag" football.
I hope things change Sunday.
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