DrFishfinder

The run D was bad last season, but the pass D was pretty efing good. In comes George Edwards and the entire D falls off a cliff wrapped in chains and encased in cement. The defense is THE biggest problem on this team. Wrong scheme for these players. There was NO point in switching to a 3-4 without having 3-4 players. Now they're going to have to go GET some 3-4 players and then it'll be (at least) another year before that group can jell, and of course by that time, they will have fired George Edwards and they will start all over again.

2 words: George Edwards

What a sad, sad commentary on our society, today. Pussification, indeed. To the max. Let's fire anyone who states they either like or dislike anything, because either is sure to outrage some nimrod. Everyone should have no opinion on anything because someone will be offended by something or possibly nothing. I hereby ban myself from listening to NPR.

It's ugly already, and it's only Tuesday.

Doncha think the stadium would be 1/2 empty from LLBO Beer Runs? Peace Bridge would be slammed.

and I'm the one who set up the Laney 1,200 watt PA system so when they yell, those little bastard's heads explode like ripe melons. Oh yeah, I've also got When the Levee Breaks playing at +10 while I take a dump on a pile of Kanye West CD's.

I would hope that both the O & D will improve as the season unfolds. However, the thing that really has me worried is how badly the D has regressed from last year. George Edwards is 1 and gone unless he pulls a rabbit out of his.....hat.

Fran Drescher. 3D for the sake of 3D, yes. This will (hopefully) be a very good Peter Jackson movie, in 3D.

While Fitz, like him or hate him, is NOT the long term answer, the bigger problem is the D. > 34 points/game the last 3 games is not going to cut it.

Stanford produced John Brodie, Jim Plunkett & Elway. Since Elway, unless you want to count Schonert, not much. Brodie played for SF...California team. Plunket's best effort in NE was 7 wins, he didn't do well until he went to the Raiders, another California team. Elway was the exception for a Stanford QB playing well for a cold weather NFL team. No more Stanford QB's.

What exactly has he shown up to this point? Not even a glimmer of potential. Erik Flowers II.

Agreed. But until the evaluators sober up, no more Stanford QB's just to be on the safe side. Lotta schools out there besides Stanford. No more QB's from North Dakota School for the Blind.

Bingorama. Been saying the same thing for 2 weeks. Offense still has problems, but defense is the biggest problem. D has fallen off a cliff in chains & cement shoes. George Edwards was THE biggest mistake in the off season.

No more Stanford QB's, please.

Agreed on the choice of Mallett. Now as to the Bills actually selecting him, that's another topic.

And replace him with who?

Have you considered that a number of the players, maybe even more than half of them, would WANT to be traded at this point? I'm not trying to start any chit here, but the team is most likely 2-3 years away from a serious playoff run with a lot of holes to fill along the way. And that is going to require good drafting and trades, which Lord knows has not been the Bills strength. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if there may are a fairly high number of players on the team that are looking to get traded.

Poughkeepsie Mudhens.

The offense can put points on the board. Not many, granted, but points nonetheless. The defense hasn't been able to keep an opponent to under 34 points in 3 games. The team has the "possibility" to win a game, but not under those circumstances. The offense is definitely a problem, but the utter collapse of the defense in all aspects is um.... indefensible.

Fewell has players now.

I'd say that Chan should start cutting crappy players every single game, except I have a funny feeling (not funny HA, HA) that just about every player would look forward to it. Some players might even play crappier, although that's hard to fathom for some of them. The biggest problem the Bills face is not the offense. The coaching staff knows full well what they have to work with on offense and what they are reasonably capable of producing. The biggest problem is defense. With the defense giving up clock eating drive after clock eating drive and TD after TD (GB-34, NE-38, NY-38), the offense is simply not capable of winning a shoot out or coming from behind. The offense is always in a hole at some point and just doesn't have the firepower to put enough points on the board to win. Kudos to the Bills for putting up 30 against NE, but I don't know how many times the Bills are going to crack 30 points again this year. We all knew the run D was horrible from last year, but the pass defense has just fallen off the cliff in chains, with essentially the same personnel. Unless the defense steps it up in brobdingnagian proportions, the Bills are going to have a difficult time climbing out of the cellar. I did not agree with the pundits who had the Bills rated so low at the beginning of the year, but they just may have been right.

The offense is pretty much what we had last year. The defense has fallen off a cliff. No way this offense is going to win games on it's own. That's not a condemnation of the offense....they just don't have the fire power to do it. The defense is putting this team in a "come from behind" position and that is a recipe for disaster. The defense has got to step up or the Bills will have a difficult time winning more than a couple of games. Personally, I didn't think that the defense would play this poorly. I really didn't.

Several of the pundits had the Bills as the worst team this year and I really didn't see that as possible. New HC, new DC, 2-4 D, pass D coming off a very good year..... But it may very well turn out to be true. Not enough talent on offense and up to this point, the defense has regressed terribly under Edwards. With the defense playing as poorly as they are, the offense is always in a hole and there simply doesn't seem to be enough talent on the O to make up the points. If the D could hold their ground, the offense might be able to do enough to win some games. NE and the Jets (so far) have put up 38 points and GB put up 34. The only way a team can win under those circumstances is to have an ultra high-powered offense and outscore the opponent. It's painfully obvious the Bills don't have that capacity. While the offense is a big problem, the defense is an even bigger problem.

At least Fitz and Johnson are still playing. Good to see.

Correcto mundo.