SouthGeorgiaBillsFan

Why do you want him to throw it down field when they are double covering both of our deep threat receivers all night long? They gave him the underneath stuff and he took to the tune of 200+ yards, 2 TDs, 0 INTs, and a 60% completion rating. It makes no sense for him to throw the ball deep to well covered receivers. I mean that just makes no sense at all. Look what Tom Brady did. They didn't let him go deep once, so he threw underneath all night long. That is what you do. You take it where they give it, and Trent exploited them all night. Don't worry, with Trent playing that well, teams will no choice but to leave Lee or TO or both in single coverage. Once Trent shows teams they HAVE to play defense underneath, the deep stuff WILL be there. Do not doubt that. The Pats refused to come out of their double coverage scheme and it nearly cost them the game. BB's game plan is going to have to be different, and considering he had an entire off season to come up with that debacle last night, you have to like the idea of Belichick writhing like a worm on a hook trying to figure out how to stop our offense. What an awesome juxtaposition.

Does anyone else find it insulting and patronizing that NOBODY on espn is capable of mentioning how awesome Trent was last night? I mean my God they railed on about Brady for 10 minutes on the post game and did not mention Trent once. That is just horse excrement. News flash ESPN: TRENT WAS BETTER. Even in the second half, he was better. Tom Brady wasn't running a no huddle, much less for the first time. Tom Brady has a proven all pro offensive line. Tom Brady has the luxury of an established and successful coaching staff. In every possible way, he SHOULD have out performed Trent, even if he was only a mediocre QB. But he is considered arguably the greatest QB ever to play the game behind a team that is considered so high and mighty that people speculate another undefeated season. And despite all of this, Trent finished with a passer rating almost 20 points higher than Brady's impressive 97.4 (Trent sat on 114 and some change). His performance was beyond spectacular. It was indicative of a team ready to dominate the league. I had my reservations about the O line and assumed if anything could stop the Bills it would be their play up front. But after watching last night, I think teams would be better off trying to stop the Pats. And zomg what is going to happen when our rookies learn the game? SHITE man they dominated Vince Wilfork all night long. The Bills are 100% for real. This is a team that can win. Please everyone stop with the BS talk about canning coaches and front office personnel. It is QUITE clear they knew what they were doing heading into the off season. I know it is only one game, but against the best team in the league, supposedly, they performed so well (not just beyond expectations, but it even could be called great) that I just can't see how you can call it a fluke. The most important thing I noticed last night was that the Bills, from the top of their roster down, were better than the Pats in EVERY position, including QB (correction: except Randy Moss, who is just a freak of nature). We are going to the playoffs. If you can't handle that, spare us your remedial derogatory comments and go right ahead and hop if this bandwagon baby.

See here you are talking like you know something again and then making statements that make your blazing ignorance extremely obvious. The no huddle does not have ANYTHING to do with how fast plays are run, !@#$tard. The point is that you can snap the ball at any time so that they are forced to leave the same package in the game...you know what this is pointless. Some people just don't have the capacity to understand simple concepts.

It isn't confusing to anyone but you. The pats had a disparity in TOP because they ran more than twice as many plays. I'm not sure how that can be confusing to anyone. What killed our TOP was drives ending on penalties and dropped passes. The no huddle had Belichik flummoxed all night and he knows he escaped with a win thanks to Tom Brady and Leodis McKelvin. Plain and simple. Please try not to sound so completely facking stupid.

No doubt about that. If we play that well all season, and can lessen the mistakes that were made (i.e. dropped passes, bad penalties, etc), which is reasonable to expect considering all the turmoil on the roster and coaching staff leading into the season, we look like a team that can beat anyone in the league. This kind of play gives us a chance to win it all. It is going to be an exciting season I think.

Bell made repeated mental errors and was frequently beat. I like to wonder what that game would have looked like with J Peters in there...but I digress. The rest of the O-line played unbelievably fantastic. I could not believe what I was seeing.

Yea Tom Brady was Tom Brady. But Trent Edwards was better. His 114 passer rating vs Tom Brady's 98 passer rating agrees. Expect big things this year. The loss hurts - but the silver lining looks pretty good. I'm not saying "we played tough" or "we have heart". I am saying we have a better team than most in the league, and this season will prove it.

Nobody stops the Patriots all night moron. The Bills D was outstanding. I suggest you leave the analysis to people with capacity for critical thought.

The Bills had a culture of losing before Jim Kelly lead them to 4 superbowls as well. This team should give us all hope, as they looked better than the Bills have looked in a long long time.

Too stupid for words.

That Bills fans are too stupid to recognize anything that is happening during a football game? That is the realization that I came to, oh about when I started reading idiot posts on the forum suggesting that some how the Bills should win with less talent than other teams thanks to coaching.

That is kind of retarded to say. Brady gets comfortable. We saw that 18 times two years ago, moron. Not every coach in the league is a bumble-headed idiot, and after tonight, you cannot even come close to saying that about DJ. They held the Pats ungodly offense completely in check and had the game won. What the !@#$ more do you want out of any defense playing against that team? Comon, that was shut down, NY Giants SB caliber defense, plain and simple. Will it continue? It is hard to say, but at least we can look at it and say that it doesn't get any tougher than that.

Thank you. You officially don't suck for acknowledging that DJ had it rolling tonight.

Agreed. Jauron was awesome and FAR superior to BB. The Bills players lost that game. Dumb fumbles. Dumb penalties. Dropped passes. But comon, that stuff is going to come around. It's the first game with a new system, a retooled roster, a new OC, and playing Tom Brady and the Patriots, whom I thought everyone considered the best team in the league. Oh and by the way, Tom Brady looked very Tom Brady-ish. No other QB even gives his team a chance to win that. The Bills game plan was better, play calling was better, and honestly, their athleticism was better. Some people are choking some serious DJ crow right now and honestly its pathetic that those people cannot even acknowledge his superb performance tonight. And that goes for the entire coaching staff. It also is NOT the Bills coaching staff's fault that some people are too stupid to recognize superb coaching. Of course I have been saying these things all off season.

To answer you topic, yes. We are contenders. I don't think it was AVP calling the plays so lets give Trent the credit he deserves. AVP made a huge impact, to be sure, and he's only been OC for a week or two, so when we are in sync I think this thing is going to be something to see. Credit DJ and Trent because they both performed so far beyond what you would expect if all you knew about football was what you read on these boards. I am certainly with you for the rematch. The Bills are STRONG. woot. BTW, they added time back onto the clock on that timeout. I guess you didn't notice that.

You are a joke. And what makes it worse is that you are too stupid to realize it. The Bills coaching was SUPERB. Bill Belichik was 3 steps behind all night. But I do not expect the likes of you to ever be able to comprehend anything you observe. Son you fail so hard its not even funny. Stick to Madden kid, before your brain hemorrhages from trying to understand football logic.

Let's look at the positives: 1. Dick Jauron absolutely and in every way out coached the mighty BB. 2. Trent Edwards looked sharp. He ran the offense with expertise and precision. The Pats predominately double covered both TO and LE and Trent made them pay consistently. No turnovers, 2 TDs - and calling his own plays. Expertise is the only word that comes to mind. 3. No offensive turnovers. 4. We did what we wanted with the Pats D - our drives were ended prematurely by penalties and dropped passes - much of which will be mitigated as Alex Van Pelt settles in as O coordinator. 5. The defense was absolutely awesome. Only Tom Brady and the Patriots could have won that game. We gave up virtually no big plays and we made the big plays repeatedly. 6. We lost to the mighty Patriots by 1 point and because of mental errors, not because their team is substantially better. I can't wait to see what happens in Orchard Park.

You started Chad Pennington on your fantasy team and then deemed to comment about Brett Favre as if you have any idea what your talking about. Epic lolz.

Those are good numbers dumb4ss.

Yes because it's hard to figure out what to do with a defense of that caliber. Even some guy on a forum like me could formulate an effective game plan with a super defense full of athletic playmakers, and you are implying that a professional NFL coach couldn't? Come on that is absolutely absurd.

If thinking results in responses this bereft of intelligent thought, you might want read a bit more. Coaching has not been the problem. You simply cannot coach your receivers open. You cannot coach your defensive lineman to beat their blocks. That is not what coaching is. Coaching is organizing the game plan, not physically micromanaging the movements of your players or spontaneously donning them with blazing speed. You cannot coach your players into more athletic players, and anyone with half a brain who has watched the Bills play should realize that they are being beaten because they are physically less talented than other teams. They are smaller, slower, and weaker than the opposition, and even the mighty Bill Belichik won only 4 games in two separate seasons coaching a Browns team with similar limitations. Do you people realize how ignorant you sound every time you want to lay the blame on the coach and pretend that this team would have been good otherwise? It makes me sad for you.

An unintelligent post. Nothing further needs to be said.

How could anyone not feel like it would be awesome to sign him?

I think we match up well with the Pats on both sides of the ball. On defense, if we get production out of Maybin, and I believe we will, we should be pretty solid. On offense we should be able to exploit the Pats D. The Pats still have the edge over our D and anyone else, but if Brady isn't playing like Brady the Pats are in SERIOUS trouble. I don't think we match up well with the Pats necessarily because we are that good, but more because they are NOT that good. I see them as the most overrated team the NFL has ever had since I started watching it some 20+ years ago. On offense, yes they are scary, but it all hinges on Tom Brady. Their defense is so porous that if Matt Cassel was starting this year, they would be hard pressed to finish with a winning record. Everyone wants to talk about how awesome Matt Cassel was as a replacement but lets just consider - in 1 season, minus Tom Brady, the Patriots were a worse team by FIVE games. That is a HUGE drop-off. Imagine what everyone on this board would be saying if the Bills went 4-12 this year. It would hardly be considered a successful season, and thus and especially considering they missed the playoffs, I don't see how last year can be seen as anything but abysmal failure for the Pats. They had an excellent team surrounding Tom Brady, but without Mr. Solid Gold Passer Man, they dropped off by a margin that would be intolerable to pretty much any GM or owner in the league. Don't you think it's funny how the Pats would trade Matt Cassel for so little if they felt he was a good QB? They knew that he wasn't. He found comparable success to other teams because he played on the best team in the league, but by Patriots standards he really stunk hard. Any time a new QB results in 5 fewer wins than the season before, you have to question how effective that QB really was. Yea he put up big numbers in some games, because teams have a hard time getting pressure on Pats QBs and matching up with their receivers. But there are a few teams who can give that O line some problems and when that happens the wheels come off the Pats wagon with startling haste. If Tom Brady is not 100% on his game, the Pats are going to be in dire jeopardy.

I'm sorry but it isn't like the "better football players" are out there strolling down the aisle at Wal-Mart waiting to be discovered. We know where the talent is - the problem is that the talent wants to be compensated competitively, and the Buffalo Bills organization lacks the revenue to do that BECAUSE they cater to a market base that cannot afford to pay competitive prices. Honestly I couldn't give less of a crap who you root for - if you cannot understand the economic dynamics that govern how a professional sports franchise can operate, then by all means, root for whichever other team floats your boat. But don't sit there and try to blame the alchemist because he cannot turn lead into gold.