Buffalo Bills vs. Houston Texans Review | PFF Grade Release Show

Buffalo Bills vs. Houston Texans Review | PFF Grade Release Show

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We’ve got some edge rushers having some sick years. I mean, he is even even his teammate, man. Even Denil Hunter who’s I think just barely off of this list because of his run defense. I mean just freak just freaks at this Houston defense. 91.3 overall grade for Will Anderson. Uh offensive guard Ed Ingram with an 843. Offensive tackle Trent Brown an 824. Quarterback Kamari Lasser with an 80.3. And then Davis Mills a 66.8 overall grade. On the Buffalo Bills side of things, their safety Jordan Pyer at the top of their list with a 785. Edge rusher Greg Rouso is 744. Offensive guard David Edwards is 719. Edge rusher Joey Bosa 690 and then defensive tackle Jones a 689. Josh Allen in this one a 55.6 overall grade stats told the story. I’ve got some wild splits for you that really to me puts a cap on how much time Josh Allen had to work. Okay. And two and a half seconds is always that magic number for us, right? When things start to get a little unstable. Here we go. Josh Allen in 2 and 1/2 seconds or less. When he gets to release the ball in 2 and 1/2 or less. All right. 21 for 24, 205 yards, two big time throws, and a 90 passing grade. All right, you can That’ll do it. If you can If you can get rid of the ball before the pass rush gets there, then we’re looking pretty darn good. Josh Allen, when you get past that two and a half second mark in this game, three for 10, 48 yards, two interceptions, eight sacks, all eight sacks. Yeah. And a 25 passing grade. Now, that might sound like, okay, it’s a protection problem or it’s a Josh Allen problem or something. When I went back and watched this Friday, the day after, I’m watching this and I’m watching Allen have to hold the ball and he’s getting hit and it’s beyond the two and a half second. He’s writhing on the p on the ground in pain and I’m watching this the outside and it’s not it’s not easy to get open against this Texans secondary. Maybe the best defense in football, right? The Bills have a wide receiver problem. Dalton Concincaid was not in in this game. Um, nobody’s open and the Texans once again, maybe not through full tilt man coverage across the board, but on the outside, some match things, run some three seam, they got a good amount of that going, a little bit of cover one in some big spots. Just like last year, the Texans were not afraid in two areas. One, outside the numbers. If you saw a Bills receiver line up outside the numbers, he’s getting pressed man from Stingler last. Don’t care. We’re winning that battle. Two, if the Bills were going three by one and you had the X on the backside, whoever that may be, Josh Palmer or whoever else might be on that backside, we might go zone the rest of the way. That one guy’s getting locked down. You’re not You’re not getting a one-on-one. You’re not winning that one. The Bills and the lack first Kade not playing was huge. Yep. Because he’s been their best receiver this year. Yeah, Coleman didn’t either. Healthy stretch second week in a the lack of development and who knows what’s going on with Keon Coleman in future years, right? This team missing a number one receiver, a real number one receiver that just about every contender has. Some of them have two of them. Get matchups like this, it kills their offense. I think even when you play in a secondary like Kansas City, it’s going to kill your offense. You’re going to have a problem. The Colts are covering better lately with S. You got to have guys who can get open, right? No question. Here’s the problem. without concade there and without the scheming that comes with concade on the field and the personnel matching and all that. Straight up, as simple as it sounds to say, they don’t have guys who can get themselves open. Yeah. And when the Texans at at any point, again, it wasn’t just, oh, we’re going to switch to be at a whole cover one defense across the board. But anytime those last two guys on the outside, if they’re outside the numbers and especially the X on the back side of certain formations, nah, they’re getting Stingley and Lasser and they’re getting them right in their grill and they’re not getting open. That was a huge problem for me. So then when they’re not open, Allen’s got to hold the ball. You get eight sacks beyond that two and a half second mark. We’re a train wreck. It’s not It’s the Bills have multiple problems when it comes to trying to contend for a championship. One is one is their defense. They gave up 23 points here to Davis Mills. Not great. But also the lack of a number one receiver against you’re talking about Denver. You’re talking about maybe the Chargers. You’re talking about Kansas City, Houston. Indy’s got Sauce Gardner now. This is a problem. And if Concaid I mean obviously Concincaid’s going to be healthy most weeks for sure and he’s back in there and that helps but they don’t have anyone at wide receiver anybody’s afraid of. Yeah. And this is the game where they would have really needed him. Right. And Shawn McDermott his quote about this um indicated earlier in the week that earning the team’s trust back won’t be an automatic process for him. So that’s why, you know, it’s two weeks in a row now that he’s been inactive after um reportedly um missing that team meeting. That makes it sound like it’s not going to be any process for him. Well, I I that’s why it’s like, okay, well, you probably needed him in this game, so having him miss one whole game, you would have thought that would have been punishment enough. And now that he misses two in a contest that you really needed coming into a short week in which a guy who didn’t play a game and was well rested probably really would have helped you. That makes me wonder how long we’re going into this and just how little faith they have in Keon Coleman and how much they might be sick of him. So I I know I’m not like trying to manufacture something, but they needed Keon Coleman in this game. And again, he didn’t play last week. He was fresh. That’s not a good sign. Uh to me, the pressure percentages on both sides of the ball are are why the Bills didn’t win this week. In week 12, they had a 41.3 pressure percentage allowed. So, how often Josh Allen was pressured. If you went to all of the teams that were in week 11, that would have been the uh second worst in the NFL. So, just to give you guys a perspective of what 40 41.3 of a pressure percentage means, that was second worst in the NFL in week 11. Uh, and then pressure against Houston 20.3. That would have just been that that would have made Houston’s offensive line look like a top eight unit in the league if we look at week 11 stats. And obviously, I’m looking at week 11 stats because I was filling out the notes for week 11 because we we had this game on Thursday. So, that’s not going to get it done on either side of the ball. You fail to protect your quarterback against pressure and you fail to generate pressure against the Houston Texans yourself. To me, the Bills lost this game because they lost in the trenches on both sides of the ball. They were the worst team in the t of the two, they were the worst team in the trenches on both sides of the ball. You’re never going to win like that. Houston defense continues to be so impressive to me. They are number one in the NFL, which is 16.5 points allowed. They have an 80.9 overall defensive grade. That is fourth in the league. Uh, and they will get CJ Strad back at some point. We think they’re going to be they’re going to be healthier. Their offensive line’s playing a lot better right now than it was in the beginning part of the season. They are two games out of the division. Watch out for Houston, man. They’re very much alive in this race. Absolutely. The only And and let’s get into Will Anderson Jr. for a second because you mentioned if Miles Garrett didn’t exist. He might be the defensive player of the year right now. The only two ed because I said that at the beginning of the year. You did. I had him as my defensive player of the year. I think Didn’t I Did I take Stingley? I think I took I think I think we both picked. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So, we got the right team. We think we almost got the right team. Right. Right. Look at the edge rushers right now. Technically, we’re both wrong. Highest graded edge rushers. Miles Garrett, Micah Parsons, Will Anderson. Yeah, if you don’t already have Anderson in that category in your head of one of the elite edge rushers in the league, put him there. Yeah, because it’s not just good young player anymore. He is one of the most dominant players in football. And then you have Denil Hunter on the other side, eighth in those rankings. Also, just a freaking nature. And when you look at pass rush grade, I mean, two of the top six guys in the NFL right now. It’s just ridiculous what they can do with just a four-man rush. They don’t have to blitz you at all. They can get in man on the back end. They can get in zone. got a talented secondary that turns the ball over. The linebackers look really good, too, and run defense. So, I think you look at this Texans defense and you just go, man, offensively, just give them a chance. They’ve only given up 20 points, 20 three times this year, Trevor, that’s that’s silly to me. Anderson in this game, nine pressures, three sacks, a 28% pass rush win rate. It they just need a shot. And for them to have gone also I credit to him 3-0 in three games started by Davis Mills. I mean how valuable has he been to their success just doing just enough to get wins for this defense including in their highest scoring game of the year against Jacksonville that big comeback they had a couple weeks ago. That’s going to loom large as well. And then you look at look the next two game. This is another team the next two games you can come out with one of them especially the first one. You got the Colts and the Chiefs. Yep. But with their defense, kind of like their chances after that though, here we go. Cardinals, Raiders, Chargers, and then Colts, which that might be the flex game the last week of the year. But yeah, it might they mess around. Might be for the division. They mess around and go into Indie and win this week with their defense the way they’re playing. The division’s wide open. You got a decent backend stretch. Even Even though they have to go to LA and play the Chargers, Chargers can’t block anybody. Yeah, I I might take the Texans to win that game if they were playing right now. So that this AFC South, I think that’s one of the big developments this week. It was, you know, the talk was always, you know, it was going to be about the Chiefs getting a big win over the Colts and all that, but these two teams winning Houston and Jacksonville and staying in this thing this late with the Colts off to their hot their hot start, you got a wide openen race right now and there’s some huge games coming in. The Colts, they got a difficult schedule, man. It’s not going to be easy. I love this league. is so much fun.

PFF’s Trevor Sikkema and Dalton Wasserman review the matchup between The Buffalo Bills and The Houston Texans.

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