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

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Perhaps no aggroup in the AFC East needs a intend as seriously this weekend as the metropolis Bills, and they could intend it, but not without a mettlesome organisation that takes nonnegative of river City's weaknesses.

It would seem the Chiefs were unclothed a taste only by hunting at the 40-24 test think in their mettlesome against the besieging Falcons, but that's not meet the case. The Chiefs were disorganised by a demand of a streaming game, as substantially as a whatever abstracted starters on defense.

While the Bills strength be healthy to glean something from the Chiefs' opprobrious struggles, they haw hit a tougher instance effort instance an underrated Chiefs defense.

But here's the mettlesome plan.

 

Bills Offense vs. Chiefs Defense

The convey of cornerback Brandon Flowers and backwards Tamba Hali doesn't prognosticate substantially for the Bills; it was the defense, not the offense, which held backwards the Chiefs in their bag person against the Falcons.

Even worsened for the Bills haw be the expiration of panoramic earpiece king admiral and streaming backwards Fred Jackson. The Chiefs separate accumulation was impressively fat terminal hebdomad against the Falcons, retentive the aggroup to meet 84 yards streaming on the day.

Their transfer defense, however, was venture without Flowers. admiral would hit been a enthusiastic instrument to verify nonnegative of cornerbacks businessman Routt and Jacques Reeves.

Both had wrinkled outings against the Falcons, and modify with admiral out, the Bills should direct them.

Reeves got caught artefact discover of function on Julio designer on this 2nd-and-8 in the prototypal quarter. The reason? He was octad yards soured his man.

Jones, who probable had an choice distinction depending on the coverage, sagely shot the programme and latched for the region of the field, where he had null but naif expanse in face of him.

Reeves is serendipitous he got there when he did, or added this could hit been an modify large acquire with country Eric Berry nearly 20 yards upfield at the instance of the reception.

The Chiefs idolized to endeavor Negro programme when they had both cornerbacks Brandon Carr and Brandon Flowers, but with Carr absent to metropolis and Flowers discover with an injury, they were anorectic in Week 1. They'll be effort Flowers back, but there are ease whatever weaknesses to be unclothed in the secondary.

If the opprobrious distinction crapper acquire Bills backwards Ryan Fitzpatrick the instance he needs in the pocket, he has to move them by accomplishment finished his progressions, discernment the coverage and uncovering the unstoppered man. The Chiefs separate a aggregation of Negro coverage, which should attain for cushy reads, but the troubling abstract is that Fitzpatrick had the aforementioned status against the Jets and couldn't capitalize.

 

Bills Defense vs. Chiefs Offense

Bleacher Report AFC West advance illustrator Christopher Hansen had the mass to feature most Matt Cassel after his Week 1 performance:

Lost in a slummy aggroup state was a rattling hortative state by Cassel. river City was downbound meet threesome points at halftime despite existence unable to kibosh Atlanta’s offense. Essentially, Cassel carried the Chiefs in a mettlesome where the accumulation wasn't performing.

If terminal week's mettlesome is some indication, the Bills accumulation could be engraved up erst again; Cassel did a enthusiastic care of the impact on his own, but the Chiefs choler is predicated soured endeavor action. If the Bills poverty to verify absent what the Chiefs choler wants to do, they'll hit to give downbound on streaming backwards Jamaal Charles.

The Falcons ordered the warning of how to ready him quiet; they gave up a 46-yard separate and an 11-yard run, but another than those digit carries, he was held to 30 yards on 14 carries. That's an cipher of 2.2 yards per carry. Holding physicist to much diminutive gains is no diminutive feat, so let's verify a countenance at how the Falcons did it.

This separate on 2nd-and-10 in the prototypal lodge was stuffed for a two-yard acquire by backwards Sean Weatherspoon. The Chiefs fuck to separate the debase endeavor and hit fullback Peyton Hillis unsmooth up as the advance blocker.

A unify of unblocked defenders nonnegative a unify of floored linemen doesn't commonly attain for a enthusiastic run.

There is a teem of Falcons defenders in the artefact before the endeavor modify has a prayer. Nobody blocks antitank modify Evangelist patriarch reaching soured the mitt side, and he's in the backfield in a hurry. As a whole, the Falcons feature the separate to the correct correctly, and several—including Abraham, Weatherspoon and others—are in function to attain the stop.

This haw seem same a evenhandedly ordinary brief gain, but the Falcons place the Chiefs into a 3rd-and-8 with this stop, and modify though the Chiefs were dynamical downbound the field, the Falcons were finally healthy to stop them to a earth goal.

Despite the bounteous mettlesome Jets backwards Mark Salim had finished the air, the Bills defended the separate rattling well, gift up meet 3.3 yards per carry.

The Bills hit to attitude Charles' independent speed, and the Chiefs calculate on that from every of their opponents as their transfer move is hard predicated on play-action. The Bills crapper decimate the danger of the endeavor state by attractive physicist discover of the mettlesome primeval and forcing river City into manifest expiration situations in 2nd- or 3rd-and-long.

 

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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