Week 5--Juany to the rescue: Eagles vs. Bills

[SunMo]

you know it buddy

[BigEd76]

I laughed more than I yelled.  It's a f'ing joke at this point

FWIW they have the #6 pick in the draft right now.  Suck for Luck!

[Eagaholic]

I've kept quiet on this for a while now, but I think you all are too hard on Castillo. Things seem worse than they really are because Juan came into this position standing in McDermott's shadow.   

[ice grillin you]

i think my favorite awful defensive play from yesterday was ryan fitzpatrick qb sneaking for 7 yards on 3rd down.  nobody in the middle of the field, lol.

when all is said and done to me this season will ultimately be summed up by that fitzpatrick audible run at the end of the half

the fact that it took less than two quarters for this team to come up with a worse play says it all

[reese125]

I've kept quiet on this for a while now, but I think you all are too hard on Castillo. Things seem worse than they really are because Juan came into this position standing in McDermott's shadow.

is this sarcasm?

[Zanshin]

Everybody can chill out now. Juan says that he has the answers, so we're cool.

[reese125]

Please tell me he didnt say that.

[hbionic]

He actually had the answers in the wrong suitcase. He had left it at his mother-in-law's.

He has them now, so it's cool.

[Zanshin]

"It's my responsibility," Castillo said. "We have the answers."

From This: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/10/10/juan-castillo-takes-the-blame-for-eagles-d-wont-be-fired/

[Eagaholic]

I've kept quiet on this for a while now, but I think you all are too hard on Castillo. Things seem worse than they really are because Juan came into this position standing in McDermott's shadow.

is this sarcasm?

Yes (referencing Reid's excuse that it was almost unfair for McDermott to come in as DC under JJ's shadow).

[Eagles_Legendz]

[phillymic2000]

I laughed more than I yelled.  It's a f'ing joke at this point

FWIW they have the #6 pick in the draft right now.  Suck for Luck!

They'll trade down.

[reese125]

taterskins take note.

Boastful Bills knew exactly how to beat the Birds
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. – The Bills were ready for the Eagles. And they had no problem telling everyone just how ready they were.

In fact, they bragged about it.

The Bills had prepared for the Eagles' wide nine scheme.

They didn't bother testing the Eagles' highly-touted secondary. Using shovel passes and screen passes, Ryan Fitzpatrick completed 21 of 27 passes for a whopping 193 yards.

That's barely a half of work for Michael Vick.

"It was something we wanted to take advantage of with them being in that wide nine," running back Fred Jackson said of the shovel pass. "Hats off to our coaches' scouting. They see things like that."

They saw it so much that they tried something new.

"We hadn't run the shovel pass all year, and we put it in there, so we really worked on it," Jackson said. "It was something we thought we could take advantage of."

Jackson led the Bills with six catches for 85 yards – 49 coming on one screen pass. Teams throw screens to exploit a pumped-up pass rush.

"Again, wide nines," Jackson said. "They like to get upfield, and we knew as long as we could get that nine upfield, we could get under him and be able to spring off it."

Naturally, the Bills also capitalized on the Eagles' ragged run defense, which entered Sunday ranked 30th in the league. Jackson rushed 26 times for 111 yards (4.3 per attempt) and a touchdown.

"I mean, who didn't know we were going to run the ball?" receiver Stevie Johnson said. "They've been exposed in the run game the entire season."

Wow.

What's more, the Bills believed they were the tougher team.

"I think we thought we'd be able to out[play them] physically," Fitzpatrick said.

"We felt our offensive line could move them off the ball," Jackson said, "and they took that challenge to heart, and they were able to go out and move them off he ball and get beyond the safety every time."

The Bills also were ready to take the ball from the Eagles, who entered the game tied for 30th in the league with a minus-6 takeaway-giveaway differential and one of only six teams with double-digit turnovers.

The Bills entered the game first in the league in interceptions with eight and tied for second in takeaways with 11.

So, not surprisingly, they recorded five more Sunday.

Linebacker Nick Barnett, who with two picks recorded the first multi-interception game of his nine-year career, knew the Eagles were ripe for the picking.

"A couple of guys have been loose with the ball," Barnett said. "Carrying it around, hanging it out, trying to make big plays. All week we've been focusing on trying to rip that ball out and trying to cause turnovers and things like that. It paid off."

[SD]

The Bills are calling the Eagles D a bunch of bitches and they're right.

[shorebird]

Not only that, the Bills coaches just plain out coached Reid and co.

"It was something we wanted to take advantage of with them being in that wide nine," running back Fred Jackson said of the shovel pass. "Hats off to our coaches' scouting. They see things like that." They saw it so much that they tried something new. "We hadn't run the shovel pass all year, and we put it in there, so we really worked on it," Jackson said. "It was something we thought we could take advantage of."

Friggen' shovel pass, when you think about it, it's the perfect weapon against the Eagles pillsbury dough boy middle defense.