Sisyphean Bills

It'll be a good opportunity for Kelsay to pad his tackle stats. If he's not too busy standing next to the pile.

It should also be added that someone in charge of college scouting graded Ngata and McCargo as equivalent talent. McCargo is setting records in terms of being inactive on game days, while Ngata has only become a one man wrecking crew.

Ngata is expected to physically dominate the Bills OL.

I can't see having a strong side of Poz and Kelsay slowing down anybody.

Don't like it. Turn back the clock plan: DL is Kelsay, Williams, Stroud, Edwards and LB is Torbor?/Rolled Gold Guy, Davis/Poz, Poz/Ellison. The big hole is Sam in that lineup. Who the hell thinks Kelsay can play that position well?! Can Torbor play that position? Maybin would be a total disaster there as there are more skills involved than simply running around. Bryan Scott might still be the only option there. It's a train wreck.

Wake Buddy and tell him to find someone that can dial a phone and call Rashad Jeanty's agent.

I agree with the poster that said they did try to address the defensive front 7; but, their plan on how to address it was proven dumb in that they are switching back to the 4-3, which is a clear admission of failure. (It's turned into a sort of macabre spectacle where they've painted themselves into a corner with Chris Kelsay, though horrifically brutal, being their only option at Sam.) That's not all. The other main component of their plan for this year was to try and coach-up and salvage players on offense. The linchpin of that was to make Trent Edwards a QB that could at least manage a football game and that project went up in smoke in 2 games. So far, the "Plan" is a joke and the team is worse now than it was last year. Does Buddy Gailey deserve to take some shots over their "Plan"? You bet your ass they do.

Modrak has been coasting off the coattails of his peers in Pittsburgh and the fumes of ONE freaking pick, Donovan McNabb, since.

That'll teach Torbor to call players-only meetings. The LB situation is really pretty dire. Kelsay isn't a LB and can barely function as a DE on a good day. Davis and Adoyele are really ILBs and not great in coverage. Posluszny has to be kept clean to be effective. Ellison is a Will in a safety's body, he'd not going to hold the point of attack, as we all know. Torbor just got benched. And the rest are more converted DEs and rookie fodder. I'm not sure who they can play to be honest. They don't have anybody that can play a true Sam in the 4-3 or the 3-4. They got a couple of Mikes that are suited for situational roles in a 3-4. They got a couple of Wills probably better suited to the Tampa-2 but best on the bench. They got waves of DEs that shouldn't be on the field as LBs. And, they have Torbor, who's a backup 3-4 OLB. And, you got to like it that they are plugging in more beef to stop the run when most team's offenses are going aerial circus...

No one really wants to claim to be a backup OT on this team, since the starters suck.

Edwards is indeed highly frustrating. I happen to think he has the tools to be a very good QB, but he continues to fail to put it together. One of the most frustrating things to watch is his lack of feel in the pocket. Perhaps he is just afraid to get hit or because he has learned bad habits for playing too often behind lines that can't protect, but he all too often bails out on plays. His two moves are either the dump off pass or to try to get out of the backdoor of the tackle box so he throw it in the dirt. In the former case, it allows the defense to pack the box and ignore any threat over the top. In the latter case, he invariably runs right into the grasp of a DE and is sacked for a huge loss. This becomes accute in the red zone, where Edwards has always been ineffective. If he had some pocket presence, he'd be able to step up in the pocket, slide around in the pocket, keep his platform and eyes down the field, and extend plays just a hair longer to let them develop and/or the defense to breakdown, and be able to make positive plays. The fact that Gailey just cut him after a couple of games suggests that he felt that Edwards just could not be coached out of these bad habits.

Well said. The Steelers are a well managed small market team and they can draft well because they have strategic planning at the organizational level that is bigger than any individual. "Building through the draft" is nugatory hooey. Every team drafts and adds players via the draft to their team. The difference is that good teams draft well, whereas bad teams draft poorly. The Bills are a bad team.

Well, he makes his line block better. Many of those runs, there isn't a defender near him until after he's past the line of scrimmage.

No hitting. It's dangerous.

"Spread offense" is just a generalization of a number of different offensive schemes with the commonality that the defense is spread laterally by the offensive formation. Nearly everyone uses spread concepts. Some spread systems, such as the spread option (which is what Alex Smith ran at Utah and Tim Tebow ran at Florida), may not translate to the NFL level well because the QB in the spread option is a QB/RB hybrid and they aren't necessarily taught to run an offense out of multiple sets. Take the younger Mike Vick as an example of a gifted athlete that struggled to beat NFL defenses purely by his athleticism. I haven't seen him with the Eagles this year, but apparently he is finally starting to learn to be a catalyst on offense as a pro QB instead of a freak athlete trying to do everything single-handedly. For the Bills, drafting an Alex Smith or Mike Vick in the top 5 and having to wait for years to see if that guy can ever learn to become an NFL QB is less than ideal.

They have been throwing the ball because defenses are loading the box on them -- that's straight from John Fox. They are also playing from behind typically. Don't be fooled by a single data point which is skewed by a few big gainers, besides the 4.7 number is actually down for Williams.

It's hard to work on the inside in tight places. It seems like some sort of sad joke. A team with bad tackles keeps picking up guards to develop.

Speaking of rookie, we don't have to give him the normal 4 seasons of "being a rookie" like we would if he wore a Bills uniform, right?

George Edwards should get a Gatorade shower if they hold someone to under 30 points.

I saw him push the ball down the field and get the Jags down to the 5 yard line. Then I saw him run directly into a sack rather than step up. Same ol' Trent.

Trent Edwards on MNF. Wahoo!

Doubt it. Smith's injured and the Panthers line has been re-tooled and hasn't been playing that well. Their offense looks like ours has in recent years. Facing 8, 9, 10 man fronts and have no ability to push the ball down the field.

To be fair, he's a rookie QB on a very bad team with sparse talent. Homers should watch because it's probably what a rookie QB will look like on an otherwise talentless Bills team next year. If there is a season.

Down with the goal posts!!!

A first down.