Sisyphean Bills

Donahoe picked a total BUST at #5 overall. Despite what is written here, scouting reports at the time were critical of Mike Williams' work ethic. His line coach at Texas even tried to diffuse that by saying Mike was just a "fun loving guy", "had a big sense of humor", but he'd be able to flip a switch once he was in the NFL and work hard to prove himself. It never happened. Williams was a huge kid that was coddled through UT and never learned how to work his nads off. Tom Donahoe and the Bills scouts are 100% to blame for taking Ralph's money and not being able to see through the fun-loving teddy bear good guy image and see that the guy had no drive to become a great NFL player whatsoever. Donahoe's key failure was the Bledsoe deal though in my mind. He helped division rival New England achieve dynastic status for a player that he only got minimal service for before kicking to the curb and another spin of the QB roulette wheel. They failed to use the leverage they had at the time of the trade to get Bledsoe's contract restructured (bad front office work there) and got rid of the QB that should've been playing while they found a younger viable replacement. I'd like to know if Mort knows something about how the Bledsoe run ended -- one can speculate that Ralph demanded that Bledsoe be cut or rework his deal because of his huge backloaded contract and "doink!" ending to his last campaign. Or, one can guess that Donahoe made the call trusting that his green head coach Mularkey would be able to turn Losman into an NFL QB with a wave of a magic wand or something.

When will threads about "The Concussion" stop anyway?

So basically, you'd rather pay someone else's guy $13M a year so you don't have to pay the home grown equivalent talent the going rate. I guess that saves money somehow.

Good post.

Agreed.

Looks like some people outside of Buffalo don't ride the "JP out of football" bandwagon. http://profootball.scout.com/a.z?s=127&amp...c=16&pid=10

If the question is "Do you think passing over better athletes in order to bring in players that are boy scouts is working?" then the answer is "Nope".

Speaking of which, any idea where Terrence McGee will be playing in 2010?

Ever seen this ad? Counting the beans. Replace "PC" with Ralph.

Every Buffalo Bills loss since 2004 has had JP Losman as a starter or as a backup or in some way connected to the team. Every one of them! (How's that for creative scapegoating?)

The point about JP being uncoachable would be a lot stronger if one saw Trent Edwards make clear improvement this season. If Edwards was getting "coached up" then you'd really have ammunition against Losman. But, the reality is that Edwards went into a wild tailspin himself and has regressed badly. So neither QB appears to be well coached. In fact, the comment that this team appears to be "practically uncoached" by TMQB hits frighteningly close to the truth. Name the players on this roster that look markedly improved from last year. (Rookies and guys on IR obviously don't count because of a lack of data.) JP is clearly a screw-up. But it is hard to actually detect which the greatest idiot in a mess of morons.

Check this out. http://proxy.espn.go.com/nfl/sportsnation/coach?coachId=17 Jauron's approval rating has actually soared upwards after he called that rollout and lost the game against the Jets. Must be a bunch of Jets fans don't want to see Skeletor go. HAHAHA!

Are you trying to quash that "the cup is 4% full" hope? Shame on you! Bad fan! Down boy!

What if he has both a very unusual multiple month long concussion and a groin injury? Does that make Trent injury prone?

The Bills can't wait until 2010. JP Losman has 2 more games and he's history. Seriously, Hamdan hasn't even beaten out Losman for playing time. He hasn't had 1 second of playing time as a Buffalo Bill. And, Edwards has been hurt and missed games 2 out of 2 years. To not address the need for a quality backup QB and even a QB that can push Edwards for the starting job this off-season will be more business as usual for the Buffalo Bills. It will be a clusterphuk waiting to happen. The Bills need to bring in better QB competition in 2009 and not throw away another season with little more than omphaloskepsis to show for it.

Exactly my thought. You'd have to bundle them with someone that can play the game just to get rid of them by trade. Far easier just to cut them or let them walk as UFAs.

Well, that's a fair question. Actually, no, I'm not convinced he is the answer at QB. Let me know when he beats a team that doesn't suck and stays on the field for 16 games.

The thing that is troubling with this theory is that if Trent really has been suffering from a concussion for several months, he's a medical outlier and someone that heals painfully slow. Is that really the sort of athlete you want as the cornerstone for your franchise? The Bills may have to go back on the QB market just to find someone that can hang onto a football next year.

A tall receiver? Is there an echo in here?

You mean an organization that can't even confirm or deny if their coach extended his contract when he was 5-1 and smelling purdy might not communicate well? Shocker. What is the deal with the Bills anyway? Do they think the genius of Belichick is because he's paranoid and doesn't let anybody know what is going on with his team?

Yes, but what's that got to do with anything?

I guess that's "not much".

Cut the entire offense. Why not?

The Bills were 6-5 and losing when Trent went down with a mysterious groin injury on the last play of the first half. In MLB, they credit the pitcher with a loss in that situation. Kind of interesting that Trent hasn't gone a season yet without some sort of injury that's cost him starts... where did I read that prediction before?