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I think Allen led Bills offense is entering the 2nd chapter. In his 1st 5 years, it is pretty much Brian Daboll's version of Ernhard-Perkins which features wide open aerial attack married with Allen's unique physical ability to escape breakdowns and bad protections In Dorsey's first year as OC, it continued with minimal changes but we lost some of the ingenuity that Daboll showed from time to time.
After teams failing to defend our various crossing/flying patterns, they focused more on pressuring, especially in the playoffs where teams usually have a pretty good defense. The kind of wide open aerial attack does not seem to work very well.
This year, I can see a concerted effort in OBD to take some load off Allen. Too many games in the past the offense rely on Allen making unscripted plays (aka Mahomes style). They wanted more structured offense (aka Burrow style). Thus the upgrade of guards and running attack. The Play-action. It was successful in the 1st quarter of the season, for the most part. But teams have adapted. Yesterday, I see time again, even with a depleted Giants defense, they were mostly in position - they don't bite often on play-actions --- at a later stage, they seem to play the pass regardless to get a guy in Allen's face in those play-actions. And they cover up Diggs pretty well because it seems like those play-action passes going to Diggs exclusively. Yesterday, the Bills were able to run on them pretty good in the 2nd half (I do applaud that because they ran on Giants big dudes in middle, unlike Miami the week before that went outside exclusively), but I imagine when facing a more stout defense, it could be very ugly.
They need to add some variety. You can't just live on run, play-action, and 5 wide. The sweeps, the screens, moving pocket, etc. are absent in our offense, and we have a fairy mobile O-Line and guys who can do this.
After teams failing to defend our various crossing/flying patterns, they focused more on pressuring, especially in the playoffs where teams usually have a pretty good defense. The kind of wide open aerial attack does not seem to work very well.
This year, I can see a concerted effort in OBD to take some load off Allen. Too many games in the past the offense rely on Allen making unscripted plays (aka Mahomes style). They wanted more structured offense (aka Burrow style). Thus the upgrade of guards and running attack. The Play-action. It was successful in the 1st quarter of the season, for the most part. But teams have adapted. Yesterday, I see time again, even with a depleted Giants defense, they were mostly in position - they don't bite often on play-actions --- at a later stage, they seem to play the pass regardless to get a guy in Allen's face in those play-actions. And they cover up Diggs pretty well because it seems like those play-action passes going to Diggs exclusively. Yesterday, the Bills were able to run on them pretty good in the 2nd half (I do applaud that because they ran on Giants big dudes in middle, unlike Miami the week before that went outside exclusively), but I imagine when facing a more stout defense, it could be very ugly.
They need to add some variety. You can't just live on run, play-action, and 5 wide. The sweeps, the screens, moving pocket, etc. are absent in our offense, and we have a fairy mobile O-Line and guys who can do this.
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