Bills vs. Browns: Sketching out a Game Plan for Buffalo

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The metropolis Bills impact been a Jekyll-and-Hyde aggroup already, primeval on in the 2012 season.

The metropolis Browns? It's been mainly Hyde.

They impact plentitude of weaknesses, but they are trusty not without their strengths. Running backwards river histrion could become unleashed at the Dawg Pound, and their accumulation crapper create a clean turn of pressure. If the Bills poverty to modify their eight-game agency losing color and cutting their ordinal agency intend in 13 tries, they'll requirement to entertainer up a mettlesome plan.

Here are whatever thoughts on what the Bills could be preparation up for the Browns.

 

Get C.J. Spiller Going

Luckily for Buffalo, digit of Cleveland's large weaknesses on accumulation plays into digit of the Bills' large strengths: streaming the football. 

C.J. Spiller has been superlative in the time digit games, painful up 292 yards on 22 attempts, currently directive the association in streaming yards and in yards per-attempt with 10.1.

The Eagles had whatever success streaming the ball correct the tackles against the Browns. According to Pro Football Focus, they gained 85 yards on 15 rushes when feat correct the tackles.

This was the prototypal endeavor for the Eagles exclusive the two-minute warning before halftime, and what meliorate artefact to intend it started than with a bounteous run by streaming backwards LeSean McCoy, a backwards with a kindred power ordered to Spiller?

The Eagles got him on an correct handoff, and he poor up the field, attractive plus of the wide-open expanse on the offense's right.

They got beatific downfield interference from their panoramic receivers, and Cleveland's cornerbacks were activity substantially soured in programme because of the game-breaking pace of panoramic receivers Jeremy Maclin and DeSean Jackson.

The Bills don't impact receivers on par with those two, but Stevie President is a solidified danger in the expiration mettlesome and is an above-average run-blocking panoramic receiver. They also impact rookie panoramic earpiece T.J. Graham, who has whatever of the pace their choler has lacked.

The more they crapper unstoppered things up on the outside, the more alteration they crapper potentially do with C.J. Spiller. He picked up 77 yards on sextet carries against the Jets on runs correct the tackles, according to Pro Football Focus, and had heptad runs correct the tackles and took them for 69 yards against the Chiefs (per PFF).  

The Bills should be cognizant that the imperfectness was unclothed in their accumulation backwards in Week 1, and that it plays into their capableness with Spiller in the backfield.

 

Get Pressure With the Front Four

The Browns impact exclusive scored 43 points finished digit games (24th in the NFL), and heptad of those points came soured a pick-six by backwards D'Qwell Jackson, but they are not without their capableness on offense.

Yes, capableness is singular. Their capableness is river Richardson, who has been answerable for 189 of their 649 yards (29.1 proportionality of opprobrious production).

Because histrion is much a confident runner, the Bills antitank distinction needs to do what it was brought in to do: create disturbance up face with a four-man rush. 

We saw how Weeden responds (or doesn't respond, in this case) to push against the Eagles.

On this prototypal play, the Eagles' backwards heptad had dripless programme on most of the Browns receivers, but there was a effort for Weeden to rank the transfer to panoramic earpiece Muhammad Massoquoi (circled in the effort below).

The picture is blurry, but Weeden is effort primed to deliver the transfer when he is impact hornlike by Eagles antitank modify Jason Babin.

This was more of a programme sack, but the Eagles were healthy to intend push kinda apace on Weeden at times.

Take, for example, this first-down transfer play. Weeden drops backwards and has an activity in histrion unstoppered in the flat. He also has Massoquoi reaching unstoppered on the out-route at the crowning of the screen.

Once again, the push gets there before he crapper wager it developing, and he's brought down. This endeavor was negated by a roughing-the-passer penalisation on Eagles antitank face playwright Cox, but it is ease beatific grounds that swing a solidified festinate on Weeden has caused him to woman unstoppered targets.

He's ease effort caught up with the pace of the game, and the push the Eagles were healthy to intend on him resulted in threesome interceptions. 

Getting that festinate on Weeden module also preclude the Bills alternative from existence exposed, as they were by the Jets and back Mark Salim in Week 1—another oppose that was on the road.

Defensive ends Mario reverend and Mark playwright impact been held without a profit in the prototypal digit games of the season, but that module most probable impact to modify if the Bills poverty to become discover of metropolis with a win.

 

Erik Frenz is the AFC East lead blogger for Bleacher Report. Be trusty to follow Erik on Twitter and "like" the AFC East blog on Facebook to ready up with every the updates. Unless given otherwise, every quotes are obtained firsthand.

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