psubills62
10-02-2011, 10:28 PM
Yes, that means I spent 10 hours in the car today. So if I re-hash anything that's been hashed already, please forgive me. I feel like I deserve my own thread at this point. The seats that my brother-in-law and I got were not the best for seeing all the plays, so my comments may not be very insightful.
I'll just put my comments out there and you guys who had better views at home can tell me if I was wrong or right.
1. Beautiful weather, great day for football. Of course, I earned the nickname "Two-face" because I got sunburned just on the left side of my face. Oh well.
2. Been to four games in person in my life (3 in Buffalo, 1 in Cincy), Bills haven't won any of them. Does anyone want to...convince me (:$:) to not attend any further games?
3. Poor effort by all units:
3a. Offense just had a difficult time moving the ball. Couldn't remember any particular reason why they had trouble except that we struggled mightily to run the ball, especially in the 2nd half.
3b. Defense did decently in the first half, horribly in the second. Didn't have any confidence in them by the end. Credit the Bengals offense for making adjustments and executing. Run defense is a big concern, much more so than I was hoping this year.
3c. Special teams also wasn't good. Couldn't tell if Moorman was outkicking the coverage or the coverage was just that bad. Either way, Cincy seemed to do great on punt returns. We lost the field position battle consistently, which didn't hurt us as much last week as it did today.
4. Let's hope Buffalo can watch Cincy's defense on tape this week and LEARN HOW TO DEFEND THE SCREEN PLAY. Teams have had success every time they run it against us, and they're just going to run it more and more until we stop it. Frustrating.
5. My brother-in-law and I sat in the 3rd row in the corner of the end zone where Fred Jackson scored. There was a heavy contingent of Bills fans in the area and Fred ended up tossing the ball to the guy just two rows in front of us. Pretty awesome.
6. Loved the screen play to Brad Smith. Wish they would have either used that play a couple more times or faked that play and gone a different way.
7. Was that sack/fumble/fumble recovery/TD really overturned because of the tuck rule? If so, I REALLY hate that rule.
8. It was hard to tell how bad the refs might have been today except for two things: 1) from what I could tell, Cincy had one penalty called on them (I'm going to look that up in a second to make sure), and 2) the Steve Johnson catch. The Bengals fan next to me tried to convince me it had hit the ground. I didn't see it. Thought that was a bull crap call. As far as blaming the refs...I feel like addressing that in another thread.
9. The offense seemed to struggle in the passing game more so than the 20/34 stat line showed for Fitzy. It seemed that on all of the significant 3rd downs, either Fitzpatrick was inaccurate or our WR's couldn't catch. It was a poor mix of faults, and we just couldn't execute today like we're used to...I don't see that happening every week, but we'll see.
10. 7 hours in the car will allow some good thinking time. It has helped me keep things in perspective. Obviously Cincy was better than I thought they were. Obviously the Bills will struggle at times. However, we're still 3-1. Nobody's taking those 3 wins away from us. Every team struggles at times - New England went 14-2 last year with one of those losses to a 5-11 team. It happens. We've got 12 more games to work with.
Let's see what this team is made of. They obviously couldn't pull out the W after an emotional win against the Pats...so now we get to see how they react to losing. Let's hope they can get back to winning ways quickly before the bye week.
Go Bills!
I'll just put my comments out there and you guys who had better views at home can tell me if I was wrong or right.
1. Beautiful weather, great day for football. Of course, I earned the nickname "Two-face" because I got sunburned just on the left side of my face. Oh well.
2. Been to four games in person in my life (3 in Buffalo, 1 in Cincy), Bills haven't won any of them. Does anyone want to...convince me (:$:) to not attend any further games?
3. Poor effort by all units:
3a. Offense just had a difficult time moving the ball. Couldn't remember any particular reason why they had trouble except that we struggled mightily to run the ball, especially in the 2nd half.
3b. Defense did decently in the first half, horribly in the second. Didn't have any confidence in them by the end. Credit the Bengals offense for making adjustments and executing. Run defense is a big concern, much more so than I was hoping this year.
3c. Special teams also wasn't good. Couldn't tell if Moorman was outkicking the coverage or the coverage was just that bad. Either way, Cincy seemed to do great on punt returns. We lost the field position battle consistently, which didn't hurt us as much last week as it did today.
4. Let's hope Buffalo can watch Cincy's defense on tape this week and LEARN HOW TO DEFEND THE SCREEN PLAY. Teams have had success every time they run it against us, and they're just going to run it more and more until we stop it. Frustrating.
5. My brother-in-law and I sat in the 3rd row in the corner of the end zone where Fred Jackson scored. There was a heavy contingent of Bills fans in the area and Fred ended up tossing the ball to the guy just two rows in front of us. Pretty awesome.
6. Loved the screen play to Brad Smith. Wish they would have either used that play a couple more times or faked that play and gone a different way.
7. Was that sack/fumble/fumble recovery/TD really overturned because of the tuck rule? If so, I REALLY hate that rule.
8. It was hard to tell how bad the refs might have been today except for two things: 1) from what I could tell, Cincy had one penalty called on them (I'm going to look that up in a second to make sure), and 2) the Steve Johnson catch. The Bengals fan next to me tried to convince me it had hit the ground. I didn't see it. Thought that was a bull crap call. As far as blaming the refs...I feel like addressing that in another thread.
9. The offense seemed to struggle in the passing game more so than the 20/34 stat line showed for Fitzy. It seemed that on all of the significant 3rd downs, either Fitzpatrick was inaccurate or our WR's couldn't catch. It was a poor mix of faults, and we just couldn't execute today like we're used to...I don't see that happening every week, but we'll see.
10. 7 hours in the car will allow some good thinking time. It has helped me keep things in perspective. Obviously Cincy was better than I thought they were. Obviously the Bills will struggle at times. However, we're still 3-1. Nobody's taking those 3 wins away from us. Every team struggles at times - New England went 14-2 last year with one of those losses to a 5-11 team. It happens. We've got 12 more games to work with.
Let's see what this team is made of. They obviously couldn't pull out the W after an emotional win against the Pats...so now we get to see how they react to losing. Let's hope they can get back to winning ways quickly before the bye week.
Go Bills!