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Libby on the Label

@drainbead.bsky.social

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Attorney, wife, synchro mom, pragmatic progressive, lowercase-p patriot, RPG lover, amateur chef. Proud member of #BillsMafia, 2x tOSU grad. I post almost exclusively about football, year-round. My opinions are my own and I have a lot of them.

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Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · Feb 13

My favorites:

ARPG: Witcher 3, Skyrim, Fable series
CRPG: Divinity: Original Sin (either one), BG3, Wasteland 3
JRPG: Yakuza: Like a Dragon and its sequel
Story-driven: Detroit: Become Human, Disco Elysium

Wasn't sure how to categorize Dragon Age: Origins but it deserves a mention.

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Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 6h

LMAO, I'm a defense attorney. I'm very skilled at weaving together some bullshit and making it sound plausible.

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Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 7h

Check out the pictures I posted. Guys are getting open.

Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 16h

For those of you who want to fire Brady mid-season, who would you hire? Do you think we have someone internal who could take the role on an interim basis? Is there someone sitting on their couch who might work? How long would it take someone new to install their system and playbook mid-season?

Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 16h

Next question, how do we fix it? Do you think Brady is capable of designing and implementing something new in a short period of time?

Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 16h

Josh is taking way more sacks than he was last year and is getting hit a lot. The threat of his legs is always important, but maybe two designed runs a game seems right because of how many hits he's taking.

Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 18h

Didn't Joey Bosa say after the game that there weren't really any halftime adjustments and it was just better execution?

Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 18h

What do you think is causing this?

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Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 18h

Like this?

Keon Coleman doing something and getting ignored.

Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 18h

Hopefully nobody signs him and he can land back on the practice squad.

Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 18h

This guy is pretty open too. Didn't throw it to him.

See the red arrow pointed to the guy who is blanketed? Allen threw it at him on first read when he could have gone through his progressions and maybe caught the open guys.

These guys are getting separation. What they are not getting is the ball thrown to them.

Josh took off when he had time to find this open receiver. If he could have broken a tackle he had some daylight...but he didn't.

Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 18h

Another open WR who Josh Allen didn't see.

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Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 18h

I'm not blaming all of this on Josh by any stretch. There are play calls that haven't done him any favors, he's had his rhythm killed by offensive penalties (and some missed DPI), but his decision-making is so much worse than it was last year.

Anyway, the pics. Note one of the open guys was Keon.

An open receiver that Josh Allen missed.

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Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 18h

These are plays from the game where our receivers separated and Josh took sacks, threw to the one guy who was actually covered, held on to the ball too long and scrambled for short yardage that ultimately resulted in a punt after the next play, and chose to take off before his guy got open.

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Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 20h

The coaching staff should have stuck with the plan. For whatever reason, other than in the Baltimore game, when we have abandoned the run and put it all on Josh's arm, it's failed miserably. We need to go back to that balanced offense that was actually scoring points. Josh needs a running game.

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Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 20h

Maybe our receivers aren't getting open...but the passing on the successful drives where we ran was actually good! Hardly any incompletions or sacks, and a lot of chunk yardage. When we don't run as much, the passing doesn't work.

The fanbase was calling to fix something that wasn't broken.

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Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 20h

Everyone jumped on Joe Brady for being "boring", "conservative", and not throwing it downfield enough after the first three games.

When he was boring and conservative, it worked. When we became pass-heavy, it didn't. When we got cute and tried to run silly plays, it really didn't.

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Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 20h

...The ones that ended in TDs almost always had equal or more runs than passes, and the failures (which should probably include that NE "success" of a FG that lost us the game) were pass-heavy.

I can't know what happened for sure without watching the all-22, but there's one thing I do know.

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Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 20h

...before kicking the FG.

After the Saints game, we've had the one "successful" drive in 11 chances after forcing a stop, when we threw three straight incompletions prior to the FG and gave NE the ball back.

The pattern: The drives that ended in FGs almost always failed because of passing...

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Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 20h

Against the Saints, we had a TD after forcing a punt in the 3rd. 9 plays, 6 runs, 3 passes. We scored a FG after they turned it over on downs, on a drive that would have been a 3 and out (with run, pass, sack) but for a roughing the punter penalty on NO. We threw an incomplete pass on 3rd and 3...

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Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 20h

...an incompletion and a sack. I'm technically counting that as a successful drive since it could have resulted in points, but it stalled on passing. The last FG drive which resulted after the Cole Bishop pick had a run and a long pass before we ran 3 times to set up the FG with 22 seconds left.

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Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 20h

They punted, we went on a 12 play, 79 yard TD drive, consisting of 9 runs and 3 passes. That's it for that game. The more we ran, the more we scored.

Against Miami, the first time they punted, we scored a TD. 10 plays, 5 runs, 5 passes.

Our missed FG drive had 8 plays. 6 passes, including...

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Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 20h

Next one, they punted and we got another FG. Again, the drive would have ended on run, incompletion, incompletion, but on 3rd down they were holding. Next series? Run, incompletion, incompletion, FG.

They punted, we scored a TD. 5 plays, 73 yards, 2 passes, 3 runs ending in a long TD from Cook.

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Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 20h

1 with intentional grounding. Another incompletion overturned by a RTP penalty on the Jets. That was on 3rd and 19 so the drive would have ended but for that. First drive after their fumble, we got 1 first down with a run followed by a pass, then incompletion, run, incompletion, field goal.

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Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 20h

Obviously in the Baltimore game, it was all passing or scrambles because we had to score quickly, so that was understandable based on circumstances.

It's hard to count the Jets game because they suck, but the first drive after they punted: 12 plays, 8 runs, 4 passes, all incomplete...

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Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 20h

...on 3rd and 7. There were 31 plays on those drives. Of them, 8 were runs (not counting the two that didn't count because of penalties). A bit more balanced than the Atlanta game, but that's still way more passing than rushing.

But that's just focusing on the failures. What about the successes?

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