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There are various analysis on that play. For the most part, it focused on Spiller, as in why the Raiders put two on him.
First of all, Jackson was not in on that play. And the Bills do run out of that formation - 3 WR, TE, RB - a lot. There was a common complaint about our offense when Spiller is on the filed - being that they run most of the time in that case; this is one of those common formations. The Raiders thought so obviously as they have 5 down linemen on that play, and they did not blitz or even pass rushing that hard. They splitted the 6 cover guys 3 and 3 on each side.
I never thought Spiller at this point of his career warrant a double coverage. But Nelson on WRG gave a valid explanation. He said the Raiders may actually worry about Spiller using his speed to get that one yard going out of bounds. To be honest with you, I never thought about that during the moment yesterday; I just assumed that we go for the TD.
There was 18 seconds on the clock. If Spiller did get the handoff or a toss and go for a yard and out of bounds, the Bills would have 4 shots at the endzone from 5 yard or less range for 13 seconds. If I were on defense I'd want to end it right then instead of facing that possibility. The reasoning is sound and I guess it must have been communicated to the players around Spiller clearly. But I think they did not communicated to the defense as a whole clearly, resulting an obvious blown coverage to Nelson.
First of all, Jackson was not in on that play. And the Bills do run out of that formation - 3 WR, TE, RB - a lot. There was a common complaint about our offense when Spiller is on the filed - being that they run most of the time in that case; this is one of those common formations. The Raiders thought so obviously as they have 5 down linemen on that play, and they did not blitz or even pass rushing that hard. They splitted the 6 cover guys 3 and 3 on each side.
I never thought Spiller at this point of his career warrant a double coverage. But Nelson on WRG gave a valid explanation. He said the Raiders may actually worry about Spiller using his speed to get that one yard going out of bounds. To be honest with you, I never thought about that during the moment yesterday; I just assumed that we go for the TD.
There was 18 seconds on the clock. If Spiller did get the handoff or a toss and go for a yard and out of bounds, the Bills would have 4 shots at the endzone from 5 yard or less range for 13 seconds. If I were on defense I'd want to end it right then instead of facing that possibility. The reasoning is sound and I guess it must have been communicated to the players around Spiller clearly. But I think they did not communicated to the defense as a whole clearly, resulting an obvious blown coverage to Nelson.
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