Sisyphean Bills

Marshawn is actually from northern CA, the Bay area, Oakland. McKelvin is from Georgia. Not that anyone sees blizzards in those parts.

Have to agree with GG on this one, your "observations" are slanted in Edwards favor when the facts were that the entire offense as a unit just plain sucked in the red zone. If one wants to put it all on the QB, then neither QB played well enough because neither QB could get the team in the end zone. It's fine to hope Edwards plays out of this funk at some point, but that hope shouldn't color the fact that he didn't get it done, again. In fact, this isn't a new problem at all. Edwards struggled massively last season (especially late in the season when the weather got cold) in producing points in the red zone. The more Polyanna viewpoints believed that the addition of James Hardy and the subtraction of Steve Fairchild would be more than enough to correct all the problems the Bills had in last year's stretch collapse. Hardy is a complete non-factor in this offense. And, it took Schonert 11 weeks to figure out where the stairs to the press box were. Many of the exact same problems continue a year later. I was hopeful the offensive explosion against Kansas City was the offense finally getting it and wasn't just all purple smoke and mirrors, but over the last nearly 2 months the Chiefs game is the anomaly and not the norm.

They rebuilt much of the roster to what effect? BTW, who were all these "cancerous scrubs" that you are referring to? Kelly Holcomb? Takeo Spikes? Lawyer Milloy? London Fletcher? Sam Adams? Willis McGahee? Holcomb retired and Adams is out of football, but all the rest of these guys are still playing in the NFL. And none have shot themselves in a NYC night club.

Sure, the players may be calling the timeouts, but often times it's because they're standing there clueless and not knowing what to do.

The Colts Tampa-2 defense isn't just a bunch of tiny guys hustling around the field. They actually have some superior athletes out there on the field that can, despite their size, overpower, out run, and beat the opponent. The Bills got average guys with high motors that try not to fug up too bad.

I think the Bills need a flexible coach that can take what isn't rotten on the current roster and build something out of it. Blowing the whole thing up and starting from scratch has been tried several times with no improvement whatsoever. There are glaringly obvious, real problems that need to be addressed without first creating a whole new set of problems for shins and grits.

The problem isn't tabbing an up-and-coming young coach to be our next head coach. The problem is that the Bills pick the coordinators they elevate from the B or C lists and not the A list, apparently because they don't want to pay what the better candidates deserve on the going market. Gregg Williams was not on everyone's A list of coordinators at the time. Mularkey was on nobody's A list at the time.

He should be suspended forever for hitting Wes Welker. Welker is the Patriots #1 receiver, don't you know?

Splendidly! Like most things do.

It's a mess. A QB that does show an ability to pose a deep threat will be treated to a deep zone like Losman, meaning that the Bills would have to be able to move the ball with the short stuff. For that to happen, the Bills need versatile receivers, a legit NFL TE, and different looks, motions, packages to force match-ups they can exploit. With Edwards, they'll have to wait until the defense has to respect his ability to hit from downtown -- otherwise, they'll just continue to clog up the paint.

Read between the lines. Losman was saying he got torched for speaking openly to the press in the past and he's not going to do it again. But, clearly, he has an idea of where there are problems ... players making the same mistakes over and over with the playoffs on the line, the game plans having no way to take advantage of the defense... We didn't keep him because we had Jerry Gray. Apparently, he didn't want to be Jerry's sidekick any longer.

Hey Big Cat, I was just reading your thread. Basically, you confirm exactly what Losman said he was seeing. Edwards in his interview said that their coverages were causing them to go with a lot of crossing patterns and drags underneath to try and move the chains, but you are saying the 49ers were playing down low, which means the Bills should've taken some shots over the top to open it up. In fact, not having any ability to go over the top was something Steve Fairchild mentioned last season as a big problem for this offense. Maybe just adding James Hardy and Turk didn't solve it?

Check out the two QB interviews after the game. They basically say the same thing. The 49ers had a cover-2 man-under coverage, nothing was open, so they had to throw short and if that wasn't there run it themselves. What's surprising is that this suggests that the coverage was pretty apparent (both QBs suggested the same thing) and fairly consistent and that the Bills simply were unable to get the 49ers out of it. My guess is that our receivers just plain suck, our running game blows, and our offensive coordinator has his head up his ass. How do you go almost 2 months and not come up with something you can do against a cover-2 look?!?

I think it means he got a chance to show something and after his audition, they fired everybody and started over from square one.

Disagree. The ball was in the area and tipped up into the air by Polamalu. I don't think Clark knew where the ball went, but he was damn sure not going to let Welker prance underneath it and be a hero.

Sounds bad. And the ball was tipped, so Welker was technically "live game" prancing across the middle of the field. If it had been Hines Ward taking that shot, probably no flag. And for people that thought the Whitner fall-on-the-back-of-your-legs tackle 8 yards deep in the end zone was a "statement of intimidation", you need to watch Ryan Clark deliver the real goods on SportsCenter. That is intimidation.

I have a bad cold and needed a nap.

Blame global warming, I tell you. El Nino!

Now that's how to keep Welker from eating your lunch in the under zones! What a kill shot! Why are you worried about lil' Wes? It's football, not Barbie dolls.

He's a nice guy. The guys play hard for him.

The concussion moved south for the winter.

New uniforms and buffalo nickels.

Global warming.

Is that a challenge?

Isn't there a word for these sorts of bright spots? "Sparks" or "glimmers"? At the end of the year, we can all toast our sparks and glimmers of football goodness.