Sisyphean Bills

Yeah... I just wonder if the Bills plan on having him line up 20 yards off the ball during the regular season like they have in the pre-season. Sort of hard to make a ton of plays when you need binoculars to see the line of scrimmage.

It was an interesting day weather-wise and that wee puff of wind really held the ball up on Trent's toss. You'd like to prepare for things like that, but we practice indoors. Trent made a good play and everything went perfectly, except the defensive player just did a smidge better is all.

Actually, I'm pretty much in agreement with your gist. The Pats* have run a lot of 4-3 and are not just a 3-4 team. That is not news to anyone that's seen them over the past several years. I think we can pretty much count on Belichick coming out with a variety of looks and attacking our no-huddle offense like a troop of ravenous gorillas going after a bucket of bananas.

I was responding to the premise of the quote you gave, not your opinions, that's WTF I was asking about. That should be pretty obvious. So, no need to get rankled unless you are in fact Dick Jauron.

Ahem. 1) Why would the Pats* tell Dick Jauron their intended line-up for the opening game? 2) If they did, why would we believe Bill Belichick? 3) Do you think it slipped past Bill that Buffalo was 1-8 against the 3-4 last year? 4) If your opponent was 0.111 against the 3-4 and 0.857 against the 4-3 and you had flexibility to run either on a whim, why would you take the 4-3?

Edwards said essentially the same thing last year, fwiw.

What Edwards says is that he is doing as he is coached and he is taking what the defense gives him. In other words, if the defense doesn't give him anything and give it to him damn fast, he has nothing. This is nothing new really, but does that shoe fit?

It's not like Joe Pa had him starting the second he walked on campus either.

There are elevators and there are the elevated. Go figure.

He guaranteed the playoffs. I'm still waiting for my refund, Donte.

Someone has hacked todd's account!

Dick Jauron has total control of his staff. Next question. In the spirit of blaming fans for the franchise's problems, I nominate you as the QB curse. You ran Kelly Holcomb out of the NFL and now Edwards can't find the endzone in the preseason. You are a walking QB jinx for this team.

You have to reward the guys that have been around the facility and been working hard all these years.

Ah, TD of the White Mop. He no good? Ah so long TD-san, no good bye! Bills need TD not! Kick ball all time, yes.

He ran around who? Langston Walker? Why is that even worthy of a thread? (It even mentions in the article that the Bills put Bell in with the first unit against the Packers at LT.)

What is this thing you call, um, "TD"?

Since we already know who the starters are, we can be an Earth-buddy if we don't have them break a sweat by saving some hot water in the showers. (just kidding)

I said "in game" not "halftime". The second half is for evaluation of backup, bubble and younger players. Making halftime adjustments wouldn't be a good use of coaching time, as you just want to see if the young guys can execute the fundamentals and there is nothing at stake. That's not to say that the coaching staff should have the night off completely. There is a value in trying to counter what the other team is doing to you, be able to get in different sets and packages. It helps you know your own weaknesses and what to work on.

Game planning doesn't explain away losing one on one matchups. Nor does it explain why the Bills coaching staff didn't use the situation as an opportunity to make their own game time adjustments. If an internet nerd can tell they are beating Kelsay like a drum... Like you said, these guys are professionals.

Same old story. You know I'm shocked.

Actually, we've done things like this in mundane practices at times. We notice our defense isn't defending a play correctly or very well and we just run the same play at them over and over again. They either figure out how to make the play or not. It's not bad to practice the things you "suck" at.

At least you understand that drawing conclusions based on comparisons between this Bills team and the Bills of the early 90s is ridiculous.

You need to take that up with Simon in the other thread. All I meant is that the Packers were not running totally vanilla plays. Notice the quotation marks. The Packers ran some zone blitzes and a few crosses as I remember. The announcers even commented on BJ Raji dropping into coverage. Was it uber-sophisticated stuff? No, not at all.

Not only that but when the Bills starters were in pre-season games, particularly on offense, they marched the length of the field at a blistering pace and punched it in for touchdowns.

WTF are you talking about? I said the Packers had distinctly better players in the trenches here on Earth in this universe.