Cincinnati Bengals at Buffalo Bills: penalties hounding Sea

n McDermott http://www.billscheapshop.com/cheap-authentic-jordan-mills-jersey , Buffalo Bills The Cincinnati Bengals’ and Buffalo Bills’ bromance came to a head this past Sunday as a large preseason crowd welcomed Andy Dalton to New Era Field. Like bros tend to do, there were some squabbles, to the tune of 24 penalties. The Bills led the charge of yellow with 14 of those flags. This was the third poor performance in a row for the Bills. “It’s unacceptable,” said head coach Sean McDermott on Monday. “The only word for it is unacceptable. You can’t do that and expect to stay on schedule and move the football, in particular, against good defenses. Cincinnati, yesterday’s example, was a good defense. We have to stop hurting ourselves. Before you win, you have to prevent yourself from losing. Pre-snap penalties or penalties overall don’t allow you to play on schedule football offensively.”Should we be worried? To date, the Bills have had 32 penalties assessed in their three preseason games for 257 yards. They have been called for 36 penalties, including 10 false starts. That’s not great. However, last year they had 34 assessed for 401 yards through three games. During the regular season they finished better than league average, suggesting preseason struggles are a poor indicator of things to come. Basically, this article is for novelty purposes only. Bengals notesThere’s a high rate of penalties from the Bengals that I’d consider to be major ones. Only three of ten (false start, neutral zone and delay) were of the procedural variety. Just like I noted above there’s no reason to think this will necessarily translate to the “real” games. On the flip side http://www.billscheapshop.com/cheap-authentic-charles-clay-jersey , it’s a safe bet that one reason these don’t become regular season trends is because they’re identified and ironed out now. Alex Redmond has likely already heard about this game from his position coach. Goodwin’s defensive pass interference isn’t a mugging, but it’s the right call. More importantly, these are the kinds of plays the Bills want to see go Kelvin Benjamin’s way. In case you’re wondering, Goodwin is incredibly tall for a defensive back at 6’4” and he struggles to cover Benjamin even with the help of some early contact. Bills notesThe offensive line is the main story again. I won’t pile on, the chart speaks for itself. Three personal fouls in a single game is not ideal. Blocking technique might need to be reinforced on special teams and offense. Adam Redmond demonstrates the razor’s edge of the rules in the NFL. FOX analysts disagreed in real time, but he’s rightfully called for a peel back block because he hits Brandon Bell right at the waistline and a little below as he slides. As the contact is from the side it’s illegal. The way Bell goes flying shows why this is a penalty. That’s a lot of force to major joints (hip or knee) against a player that’s in poor position to protect himself. If Redmond was a step faster he likely contacts more to Bell’s front and this is legal.Dean Marlowe was called for unnecessary roughness and gives us a good window into the new lowering the head penalty. I want to emphasize that the intent is not to call Marlowe a dirty player. Players have been taught to lower their body to make a hit and the new rule necessitates a major adjustment in tackling. As the clip shows, Marlowe checks all the boxes for the penalty by lowering his head and initiating contact with his helmet. As he has an unobstructed route, has other options and creates a flat back he’s also checking all the boxes for ejection. (Not to mention the receiver is giving himself up by sliding.) There are major stakes to the new penalty that conflict with ingrained habits. If there’s a silver lining from the Buffalo Bills’ loss to the Houston Texans, it’s that the Bills decided to put on an absolute CLINIC with regard to penalties. I’ll warn you ahead of time, it’s not pretty this week (unless you’re a Texans fan). Short intro because there are many words ahead. Standard and Advanced MetricsPenalty CountGiving credit where credit is due, this is a pretty nice staircase. The Bills had 12 penalties that counted, which doubles the six for the Texans. The league average continues to trickle down despite the Bills’ efforts to single-handedly elevate it. With one penalty declined, Buffalo had 13 penalties called, which should remind us all to get prepared for the lousy Smarch weather ahead. Penalty YardsThis plays out about as you’d expect, based on counts. The Texans are a touch under the league average while the Bills are double the Texans. The Bills had 229 yards of total offense and gave up almost half that in penalty yards. Making matters worse http://www.billscheapshop.com/cheap-authentic-jordan-poyer-jersey , we have the right side of the chart where yards-negated-by-penalty are factored in. The Texans negated just five yards. while the Bills had 58 yards wiped out by yellow laundry. Penalty HarmHouston TexansThere’s precious little to discuss on the Texans side of things. A false start (Kendall Lamm), an illegal block above the waist (Shareece Wright) and offsides (Jadeveon Clowney) were yards only. Clowney was also called for a yards-only taunting penalty after the Nathan Peterman pick-six. All things considered, Clowney’s feedback on the play was a lot kinder than that of Bills fans. A holding call on DeAndre Hopkins wiped out a five-yard gain to close out the list. With ten assessed yards and five negated, that gives it a 1.5 Harm rating to tie the taunting penalty for their worst of the contest. Here’s the taunt by the way. The Texans ended up with a total of 5.5 Harm. That score translates to mostly mistake-free football. If you’re still bothered by the Bills handing the game away, this also might be the last sentence you want to read. Just an FYI. Buffalo BillsWhere to even start? A couple holding calls were mitigated by field position on special teams (Siran Neal and Deon Lacey). Three false starts are all boo-boos. But THREE? The last boo-boo (Harm under 1.0) is courtesy of Andre Holmes being offside on a free kick, bringing the special teams penalties to our magic number of three today. Tre’Davious White was called for defensive holding three times. The first gave up one down with the five assessed yards. The second came on third down and gave the Texans a full set of fresh ones. The third was declined because...Phillip Gaines got called for a 41-yard pass interference violation, setting the Texans up at the goal line. A heck of a stand saved the Bills’ chances, but this flipped the field like that (snaps fingers). Russell Bodine’s holding call wiped out three yards on a Josh Allen scramble. On third-and-two, though, the negated first down was a killer. Bodine’s flag was good for 3.3 Harm. Dion Dawkins was hit with one of two illegal formation penalties. His wiped out an 11-yard catch by Zay Jones. An assessed five yards and negated 11 yards comes to 1.6 Harm. Josh Allen’s best throw of the day went to Kelvin Benjamin for 44 yards. This huge gain came on third down. That vanished when Jason Croom was also called for illegal formation, for 6.9 Harm (5 assessed yards + 44 negated yards + 2 downs). The Bills now comfortably lead the league in illegal formation penalties with five. That might not sound so bad, but there have only been 37 across the league this year. That’d be average if there were only eight teams. Let’s look at both because we love salt in our wounds. I can’t blame the broadcast team for the lack of coverage, there’s a lot to unpack with rules here. In short, there must be at least seven players at the line of scrimmage at the snap. Of those seven (or more), the two at the ends have to be eligible receivers. The little line in front of Zay Jones is there to show he’s a yard or more behind the line of scrimmage. Because of that http://www.billscheapshop.com/cheap-authentic-jerry-hughes-jersey , it makes Dion Dawkins the left-most player on the line, which means he needs to be an eligible receiver. He’s not, so it’s a penalty. Here’s another wrinkle on eligibility of receivers to play around with. Patrick DiMarco is the right-most player on the line of scrimmage, meaning he’s supposed to be an eligible receiver—lucky for him he is. Lined up to his left, though, is Jason Croom. Now, while the two players at both ends of the line of scrimmage are supposed to be eligible, no one else on the line is supposed to be. Croom runs a route rather than blocking and gets called for it. Now, before I reveal the total harm for the game I’d like to reiterate that around ten is the cut off from a good to a bad day. Teens are generally a pretty bad game. In a very winnable game against the Houston Texans, the Bills had 23.2 Harm. There’s been plenty of Nathan Peterman hate in the aftermath of the loss, but blown opportunities throughout the entire game deserve a large portion of blame as well.