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I think that any player who is on the roster for two games gets a full season pay (whether they are on the opening day roster or not). The NFLPA insisted upon this so that teams would not get in the business of signing and cutting players as a mechanism for avoiding cash payouts. Barnes will do quite well financially even if he is cut.

Yep!

I'm a big believer in the sense that a good team needs both "adult" leadership from the coaches and team braintrust but also on the field leadership from players who can credibly say they have been there before. This was one of the areas where I felt the Marv design/Jauron implemented Bills teams were lacking. I agreed with the moves to let quality guys like Flech and legit Pro Bowlers like TKO go. I still feel these players had something left, but unfortunately they were on the downhill side of their careers and by the time the Bills rebuilt they would be beyond productivity. It seemed best to say thanks but adios as these players would merely soak up valuable PT from youngsters. To make matters worse, the end of the TD era saw the Bills invest heavily in youngsters like Willis and JP and it was turning out that though he is a vey good runner, WM ain't never gonna be a team leader and the Bills were attempting to mold JP into something he likely would never be (IMHO he is an outstanding athlete who can be productive improvising, but this is not the Bills O game which demands a level of discipline that simply is not JPs best game). The Bills cut ties with the past incredibly quickly and in my lesser moments I feared we would go off into the rebuilding wasteland for a number of years. However. it seems clear to this watcher that a tremendous amount of credit is due to both Marv and Jauron and the management team they have built. A. While it is still to early to make a final judgment even on their first draft (and this year after 4 games there is little rational to say) Whitner, Youbouty, Lynch, Pos, Edwards give the Bills 5 consistent contributors from their first 6 day 1 choices (Youbouty is the biggest stretch here as this is treating the nickel more like a starter). Even the Mccargo pick though disappointing for a 1st rounder is a contributor to the rotation. B. FA has been used to solidify the OL (not even very good yet but definitely good with potential IMHO) and fill in with spot players who play clear roles. They also have extended players such that the major stress is not to sign or lose players immediately but situations like Evans where there is a demand for action but not immediate demand. Most impressive to me is that they seem to have put this transition in place while not going through the traditional total wasteland of rebuilding which would have seen us put up something like a 3-13 mark with the initial deck clearing but we remained at least mathematically in the playoff hunt until the next to last week. We have not done it yet at all so no mission accomplished foolishness, but definitely with a young roster and a credible attempt at getting folks into the right slots for onfield leadership (Whitner needs to make a Pro Bowl to firm his leadership status, Mitchell will need to play a role as someone who has been there before, Edwards needs to keep accomplishing growth in the same pattern and rate) and this will be good The future's so bright I gotta wear shades.

before the last draft. We could be in a situation where our #1 CB goes down and is likely to miss some PT, and this triggers not unreasonable discussion of which options might produce even better play. Its not a good thing at all to lose a player considered to be your #1 CB and the team leader in INTs. However, the much improved production of Youbouty and the excitement about having an elite draftee in training simply speaks to the incredible CB depth that this team developed with" 1. McGee recovering from read miscues which got him benched for a game as he learned the Cover 2 in the 06 season. 2. Greer stepping up nicely to become a legit #2 CB after a couple of years of very good pre-season play followed by the sound of crickets in the regular season. 3. Youbouty being a "find" in the 3rd round in '06 as many observers felt he was a first round talent who would have been the 1st CB taken in 07 if he had stayed in. The situation became even more complicated when his single Mom died soon after the draft leaving him as the oldest child and particularly given his new contract the leader of his family. 4. McKelvin "dropping" to the Bills pick, and this "elite" (which I define as someone who gets chosen in the top 10) offering the Bills immediate contributions as a returner making his depth use as a CB a not unreasonable approach for a Bills team. Overall, this is not a good situation, but the possibilities certainly make it not a situation that merits any thoughts of DDOOOMMM which an injury to our #1 CB reasonably would have merited a year ago.

No not the CBs, I think the DL will make the difference for the Bills in the game. Fitzgerald, Boldin (assuming he plays) and now Breaston who actually led them in catches against the Jets are not gonna be shut down by many (or any) CBs. Particularly with the injury to McGee and the short stature of Greer )who made a great INT today which was a read rather than react pick) we the CBs will be doing well to simply hold their own. Add to that in a traditional Cover 2 or the Tampa 2 esque version we run, the CBs will not be asked to cover these big WRs down the field all that much. The key unit IMHO in terms of the pass D against the Cards will be the ability of the DL to mount heavy pressure on Warner. We saw today with four sacks by the Jets and some bad INTs thrown by Warner when he is under pressure that the key to stopping the Cards passing attack is not gonna be the coverage and match-ups but the amount of pressure we can generate from our pass rush.

It appears to be an economic move as both the players in teams in terms of large signing bonuses and players in terms of losing one renegotiation to injury may mean several million dollars simply do not want to see anyone hurt. Its a tough balance to strike since if players start to hold back from making huge hits or if teams started sitting high contract stars when the game either seems unwinnable or difficult to lose then the fans will feel ripped off. I found it interesting when St. Louis drew a roughing the passer penalty because someone made a legal hit on Edwards but apparently let their full body weight fall on Edwards. I for one am happy to see our boy Edwards get protected, but the call struck me as a little light in loafers for a real football game.

In addition to other folks seeing it differently and that he was not penalized for the hit, even if though some oddity he was suspended he has the ability to appeal his suspension which the Bills would certainly encourage him to do if they needed another CB next week. I doubt he will be suspended or even fined and even if he is we can handle this for a week.

REASONS REASONS REASONS They do not become excuses until he plays a period of time in the NFL.

Given the good ol boy network in the NFL and even Rich Kotite getting a second bit at demolishing a team nothing surprises me in NFL hiring. Even if wants to pretend this is in the past look how long it took for Matt Millen to get the can.

His career certainly did not look bad when he got here. 1. Well regarded player (certainly not a requirement nor a guarantee of being a good HC but it does not hurt and was part of his career. 2. Longtime activity as a position coach for teams with a mixed bag of results- again no guarantee but does not hurt and is part of what built him as an HC. 3. HC for a team which saw him gain NFL Coach of the Year honors in his best year. A notable achievement which again does not guarantee success but pretty darn impressive and few people have that on their resume 4. Landed a DC position with his old team which was a bad team after his HC gig, and developed a D scheme which survived his time at the Lions. HC he worked for sucked and when the HC got canned he was turned to as the interim. On second thought, while the results in the interim gig were no where as good as the results which brought him his best honor, it is even arguable that his career while no where near great or even very good certainly did not look bad and arguably was pretty good considering that he worked for two dysfunctional teams. The big negatives for Jauron when he was hired were: 1. No real success had hiring adequate OCs 2. HC' ed for two dysfunctional teams,

My sense is that the truism regarding HCs that they receive too much credit when it works and too much blame when it fails is true. From too many years of football watching it seems to me that about 80% of coaches will be a winner in the right situation and the same person will be a loser in a different situation. It really is about 1 in 5 coaches who can win just about anywhere or lose just about anywhere and actually the majority by far of these 20% are folks who I think of as the Marty Morningwhegs or Rich Kotites who can lose virtually anywhere. You have HOF coaches like Marv Levy who was tremendous as HC of the Bills (and deserves his HOF status in my book) who simply stunk up the joint in KC. The Lombardi trophy itself is name after the guy who set the standard in GB but was not so good when he led the Skins. Even the best HC in the game today (Bellicheat) got to this level by doing a not very good job in Cleveburg, running out on his word to take the big bucks from Kraft (a showing of moral failing that makes his current cheater ways part of a pattern) and really lucked out in NE when Bledsoe got a collapsed lung after an 0-2 start and paved the way for an SB that year that would likely not have happened without the Jets LB hitting Bledsoe. Is Jauron a great coach? No way. Is he a dog? No way. The 13-3 record was an achievement that cannot be overlooked in placing Jauron firmly in the 80%. And actually when one considers that he developed a good enough rep and rapport with the not very good teams he worked with (the troubled Bears whom he took to 13-3 one year before the discord with the FO drove him out, an iterim gig with the hapless Lions and even HCing a 5-11 Bills squad to a 7-9 record and now a 3-0 start with a schedule ahead of them where this team is likely to be favored in 11 of the 13 remaining games, Jauron is pretty clearly in the upper half of the 80%.

The significant difference to date for their careers was that RJ was injury prone (lost PT to a series of injuries to different parts of his body to sometimes seemingly hits which were not beyond the normal pounding that a QB gets). RJ was knocked out of games with a fairly broad range of injuries from a separated collarbone, to deep bruises, top the ubiquitous post concussion syndrome and what have you. He was knocked out of the game not once or twice but a variety of times for the Bills and stemming back to following a great performance in a game for Jax. Has JP lost PT? Yep. However, the hits were a illegal hit by Wilfork and to a shove he was not prepared for when he got hit by Troy Vincent in practice. He recovered nicely and in good time from both injuries. He routinely throughout his career has actually been too aggressive at making contact as when he was mopping up for Bledsoe his first year he ran for a first down and rather than simply going OB he lowered his shoulder and knocked back the tackler for a couple of meaningless yars (the injury prone player has usually learned that he can be hurt easily and tends to avoid unnecessary contact from my watching the game. He is not injury prone from what I have seen and am happy to see someone make a real case that he is besides simple new fact-free bluster. Has Edwards lost PT? Yep. However, I think it is way to early to declare him injury prone yet as he also does not seem to shy away from taking hits (I am impressed with how resolute he is to stand in the pocket even when he knows he will get creamed he sticks in and gets the pass off). Further, though he was knocked out of the NYJ game last year and was forced to sit a few games to heal and then because JP was playing so well he could not get his job back. I still only feel he has had one pro injury. I do not count this year's pre-seson boo-boo for now that cost him practice time since it appears if it were the regular season he would have strapped it on and played. He also had a concerning record of injury in college, but this is a different game with even better trainers and docs and he has apparently put on 20 lbs of mostly muscle, Injury is a concern for any pro athlete but it is not a worry yet to me based on the facts of Edwards course of action. Neither JP nor Edwards is proven to be injury prone IMHO, RJ is based on his record and that is the first threshold difference between JP and RJ and for that matter TE though we need to see him do a full season before we get completely ga-ga about him.

From what I have seen JP has actually shown a good football brain as evidenced by his ability to read and react incredibly well while running for his life. The best single example of this that many folks should remember is a play where our center hiked the ball over JPs head. He not only had the athleticism to catch it on the bounce (a feat which is merely like walking and chewing gum for a good athlete except you are doing it while crossing through traffic in the Indianapolis 500 as opposing defenders smelled blood in the water and were looking to sack him while our OL has their backs turned to this whole exercise). JP showed excellent football awareness as he not only kept his head up and looking downfield on this busted play but read who was where in terms of our receivers running their routes and the D covering and changing up on the play. he hit Gaines for the 1st. JP's limitation is that while he can read and react incredibly well as his skills were honed with a performance behind the turnstyle line at Tulane that earned him a 1st round pick that involved the Bills having to trade up as it looked pretty clear he would not make it to our early 2nd round pick, but the Bills have tried to mold him into being a standard NFL QB reading the play and throwing based on the preliminary read rather than throwing based on his reaction to what works. I think JP has shown through his collegiate work, episodes of success as a pro (such as the win streak he lead the team to last year which kept Trent on the bench after his recovery from injury though the braintrust wanted to play) and how he has carried himself as a pro, that he does have a good sense of the game and very good athleticism. Where he falls short (and which I think folks mistake as a lack of brains) is that his style if more like one of a Favre in GB where he can read, react, and improvise quite well (and act that takes some good football brains to do and win much at all in the NFL) and simply does not fit well with a team which bases its attack on a WCO style offense with initial reads, disciplined routes and quick releases. I think folks have made the mistake of reading JP as having happy feet (Todd Collins is a classic example of true happy feet where he was so afraid of getting sacked he would stop looking and bail out on the play and not simply bail out of the pocket). JP is antsy to get out of the pocket but the evidence (where he actually produced a QB rating that exceeded Edwards last year) is that he is trying to get out so he can read and react and make plays. Yes, there is a difference between JP and TE and TE is a much better fit for the WCO style O we are running, but there is also a difference between a Todd Collins and a JP. I think folks who for some reason think JP will suck anywhere he goes may be right (particularly if JP makes the mistake in FA of choosing a team running a WCO style O), but I think they could easily be wrong if JP chooses a situation with an OL and WRs who never give up on a play when it breaks down and who help JP make productive use of what I think is really an extraordinary ability to throw downfield accurately (as seen with his many hook-ups wiht Evans on huge gains), his ability to run well (and toughness as a runner as seen by the Bills actually needing to tone down JP and get him to go OB at end of successful runs rather than to try to hit the DB for meaningless yards, and the fact he is always looking and reading even when running for his life. The Bills are quite fortunate that even after he kept a healthy Edwards on the bench he called himself out declaring Jax a make or break game for him. He broke and essentially is done as a Bill. However, I am pretty sure that in the right situation he should do quite well because he has the football brains to read and react well though he does not have at all the football discipline to read and operate according to a plan.

I think that this is more frustration that our Bills have not been to the playoffs yet in this century than good football logic and analysis. Folks want a football equivalent of Moses to inspire them and lead them to the promised land. All they get from Jauron is a guy in a Tilley hat who is simply stable and a good guy. If you get the right guy this is great for the team but it simply sucks for us outsiders who need a messiah. I through in an apology board for Jauron as a rope to some very good football analysts on TSW who for whatever reason have chosen to analyze his past record as being 3/4 empty rather than 1/4 full. Sure the numbers are accurate in that the facts simply are he has a losing record as an HC, his Bears team went from glory under his guidance to foundering, the Lions were foundering when he got the job as interim and foundering when he left and he has yet to HC the Bills to a +.500 record. However, an analysis which simply labels Jauron a loser ignores the reality that he did HC a team to 13-3 record, he has a record of showing pretty good game feel and buildings a fast acting and accurate (though nobody is perfect in this regard) play challenge ability, and he is generally considered to be a well-liked and solid professional (getting 3 HC gigs in the NFL while never even have smelt the SB is an indicator of something. Like any HC this is a public job and when you take the big bucks for the contract you are getting paid to stand up and face the public when your team has failed utterly. You are well-compensated for welcoming folks to second and third guess you and this comes with the territory. However, I think the main answer to your question for many is that their frustration with a sorry Bills record over much of the past decade has caused them to overlook the facts that: 1. This team was not a very good team when Jauron oversaw them as HC to a 7-9 record his first year. It seems to me to be overlooking reality for anyone not see that there was massive improvement in a team which finished 5-11 the year before and in such disarray that a team leader for several years (Moulds) through a hissy fit and ended his career as a Bill, the GM got canned and the owner was too chintzy to fire the HC but the situation was so bad the HC walked out on a million bucks rather than hang around. 2. In a mere year, the house cleaning began in earnest and the recruiting of quality replacements through the draft and FA bean to happen and produce better results. 3. Jauron oversaw a number of clinkers in terms of game management and choices, but these choices for the most part were tests which the players could have succeeded at (McGahee blowing a 4th down run or JP calling himself out in the Jax game) and the ax came down on players when they failed to produce. He also exhibited good game control overall in that he recognized and produced to 7-9 for two teams not 7-9 good (due to so-so players his first year and due to leading the league in IR'ed players last year. Still folks seem to want to measure Jauron on the Bills over W/L (a legit thing to do actually) but they simply fail to look at some of the objectively and subjectively showable intangibles that add up to this outside analyst is saying Jauron clearly deserves an extension because he has this team improved and on the right track to produce some very good things. The oddity here is not the calculus that Jauron is not perfect (he ain't) but the total disregard for all the things which have gone well for this team right here and right now and for his career as an HC. The simple fact is that as an HC Jauron is not great (yet) but he is good and he looks very good after 3 games this year.

I think even we outside observers can feel the team chemistry being good. However, this feeling does lead to questions like: How did the Jason Peters situation reflected onto the team chemistry (overall, I think Peters did the team a great favor by pursuing his idiotic and failed to this point quest by entering the cone of silence and not having him or his agent say word one to anyone- this kept this dispute one between the management and the player and kept out of the team chemistry as much as possible). What the heck happened with Angelo Crowell? Is the Lee Evans thing gonna get done or not and does it not getting done (yet) impact team chemistry.

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that Steve is listed as the back-up at the LWR position behind Parrish. While it does make sense to me that what we will likely see from the Bills replacing Parrish as the slot WR is much more likely to be Reed than Hardy (Reed is a vet with a rep as a disciplined route runner who would seem to be a far better fit in the slot than Hardy who is a rookie who has worked for the most part as best as I can tell at the outside WR position). However, a lot probably depends upon the extent that the Turk wants to replace the very good production he has gotten out of Reed as the #2 WR playing on the outside with the production Hardy will provide. Hardy made a great catch for the TD against Jax and thus has shown great potential. However, its not like Reed is easily tossed aside as his production has reached new levels for him as our #2 WR. Further, in his final pre-season games, though he was playing against scrubs so a ton cannot be made of it, Johnson earned a spot on this roster with some very good production. A lot depends on how Johnson and Jenkins are used in practice. My guess is that Hardy has gotten a bit more time and attention to helping him be our #2 than Johnson has gotten being an inactive player. However, unless there is some valuable ST player who gets activated over Johnson, he will be elevated to the active roster. If the Turk and the braintrust are impressed enough with Reeds output as the #2 wideout (he certainly has shown a lot as a blocker on outside and goaline runs that I would not be surprised if Hardy cannot replicate). If so we may end up seeing a bit of Johnson as the slot guy in 3WR sets rather than a lot more of Hardy.

My apologies for continuing a thread which was exhausted (except for the numerous posts rehashing parts of the discussion and making the usual jokes of the community)!

The odd thing about this complaint to me is why this inequitable treatment would even be considered "unfair". Fairness to me mean folks having their rights upheld. This is pure commerce to me and fans in a particular market do not have a right to receive two games simultaneously or to have another game in addition to their hometown team playing on TV while their own teams is playing at home. It may be BS (inconvenient) for one stakeholder (the fan at home) but may be a legitimate decision for another stakeholder (the owners of the hometeam who have no interest in presenting an good entertainment option which competes with buying a ticket. I think it dumbs down the concept of rights to attribute the judgment unfair to this business decision. Perhaps it is unfair to a shut-in who has precious few entertainment options beyond TV but in general I do not look at it this way at all.

Those were the days. I know I was inspired.

The powers that be also updated interpretation of the rule last year adding the requirement of a player making "a football move" as part of the interpretation of whether a legal catch has been made. The argument strikes me as not simply a straight interpretation of the facts as written, but also involves some interpretation by the refs as to whether it was a catch or not. In general I think the addition of the call for a football move would actually raise the standard for a catch being ruled a catch, but IF it applies to this case, Parrish was clearly in control and making a football move to score a TD rather than simply being out of control and happening to just cross the line before he went OB.

The most interesting play to me on Sunday was on Lynch's short yardage TD run where our OL not only successfully got off the line and pushed the DL back, but in fact pushed them back across the board and so deep that the LBs and DBs lined up on the second level were pushed into by the charge (it was such a push that Reed ended up on the ground in the pile and was slapped by a Raider CB drawing an ejection as the pile was really in the center of play even though they were deep in the endzone). Lynch could virtually have walked into the endzone the line charge was so devastating. Perhaps this is an indication of moving to a man to man blocking scheme rather than zone blocking. Zone blocking probably lends itself to pass protection as the blocker is reacting to whether he is uncovered or covered and then also moving to occupy his zone. He is reacting to the rush rather than dictating the play. I think we outside observers are simply guessing what blocking scheme they are running on a particular play so inside perspective is good to get (and sometimes it is even accurate). However, the production on this play is certainly consistent with the team using a more aggressive OL scheme than the reactive zone blocking model. It also would not be surprising if one thing which prompted this switch was us going with a QB who does more read and quick release rather than the react to the play which is more the JP style. Either approach can be successful, so a QB who brings TE's skill set is not going to be inherently better than a QB with JP's strengths and weaknesses. However, it seems clear thus far the Edwards is extremely good doing what he does well and that JP was used by the Bills in a static system that did not play to the skills he learned and showed running for his life at Tulane. I like where we are at QB right now and how we are using him.

If he was in on any of the redzone plays and because he showed last week what he could do in the redzone, if this had the Raiders doubling him and leaving Lynch more room to score his two rushing TDs or leave Parrish free to make his catch and TD run then I for one am pleased as punch to have drafted him and not to have thrown it his way those plays because we got the TDs anyway. We certainly have to maintain him as a credible red zone threat by throwing to him for a TD, but this was done last week and St/ Louis would be foolish not to dt him or skew coverage his way in the redzone even after we failed to throw to him this week. This issue seems a perfect example of something not to get one's panties all up in a wad about.

Did you feel there was some redzone problem yesterday where if only we had called the rookie's # we wouldn't have had to settle for the FG. The missed FG was way back as the drive stalled before Hardy time and the made FG was the game winner and the fade was not called for. The other three trips to the redzone say 2 running TDs by Lynch (I think the one where the Bills OL was pushing their second wave back was quite impressive) and a pass TD to Parrish. Misuse of Hardy or failure to use him leading to failed opportunities? I do not think so.

We tend to have very short attention spans in today's society and want our candy now. Edwards was wonderful today and showed a 'refuse to lose' attitude an play today which is quite notable. Nevertheless, IMHO its simply pre-mature to dub someone an elite player until he has demonstrated the toughness and conditioning to play 16 games. It strikes me as legit to hope and think that Edwards will deserve to be cited as an elite player after this season. However, particular given his record of injuries which have cost him PT to dub him elite at this point simply diminishes the meaning of elite to be a meaningful pronouncement to one that simply identifies the flavor of the week. Overall, this game was an incredibly impressive one to me as it was the second week in a row this team came back from being down double digits deep into the second half. I would love blow-outs every week, but I simply think it makes a better team to have one which consistently shows they do not panic when the going gets tough. Its going to get tough a few times before this season draws to an end. Once is an event. Twice may simply be a coincidence. However, the Bills are on the verge of showing this will to win three times which will be a trend. I felt pretty on the one hand and on the other about what we learned. 1. It all starts in the trenches and even with only one sack in the glitzy over-emphasized sack total this unit impressed me, For the third game in a row they played well against the run and not only has Stroud shown great play unseen by us in the middle of the DL for a while he seems to team well with Williams making him more productive as well. It is clear to me that the most important unit for defending the pass is the DL (one need only see the difference in the pass productivity of our O in the first half when they heavily pressured TE to the second half where he got some time. Overall, I think our DL had a good game against a team with some quick strike weapons. 2. We had reinforced for us that our OL needs some work. Fortunately, I think this work means more play by the current starters rather than a need for us to look for new players. Peters still needs some time to get into game shape. The other individual lapses though understandable were annoying. However, despite this lackluster feeling, i left the game quite hopeful about the OL as for the first time I saw them really begin to apply their beef in a devastating manner. On Lynch's short yardage TV, the entire Bills line forced the entire Raiders line back into the LBs laps and pushed the LBs back for what was virtually a group TD. The hours which TE had to throw leading to him picking apart the Raiders for two TD drives and the winning FG came in part because for whatever reason the Raiders seemed to go into a shell trying not to lose rather than trying to win. As frustrating as the early sacks were, it simply made the last quarter of positive work even more enjoyable. 3. The receivers had an up and down game. it was nice to see Parrish employed as a weapon in the passing attack and Reed showed consistent play and flashes of near brilliance that makes on think he may be a credible #2 (not yet but maybe). Evans is a very good player but has not yet demonstrated he is a Pro Bowl quality #1. Some bad hands by Hardy in his one attempt. Royal was his reliable self but nothing more. The RB game featured a few too many drops by Lynch and nothing equaling the production as a receiver last week by Jackson. Not bad overall since TE distributed the ball well. It proved not be a problem that virtually all receivers had some gaffes. 4. Running- Lynch showed some great desire and great moves in tight, he needs to produce a few killer games where he logs over 100 yards and exhibit some breakaway threat (which might come from Turk designing better pass plays or calling particular runs at the right time. Interesting breakout last game from Jackson as a receiver but nothing this game which may because of the D style they played. If the cause was playcalling then Turk needs to go back to this more. 5. Other D issues- good to see Stroud already in double digits for tackles and great to see Pos leading the charge again but also active numbers from Whitner (good he is putting tackling where his mouth is and I agree that i liked the effort he showed by responding to Higgins slowing down and vamping (taunting) by keeping up the speed and tackling him) and McGee is putting up high numbers which is surprising as I think this is an indication of good run support by him as QBs are tending to challenge Greer more. Overall, the trend here which must be reversed if the Bills want more blowouts and not to get trapped as the almost did yesterday is to increase the number of turnovers they produce. Coaching for more turnovers is always difficult as focusing on tip drills can be done but may not be the issue. Fewell could coach the D to take more chances for more turnovers, but the downside to this is we also risk more big plays against us. QB- Stay the course and remain healthy. I like the distribution of passes he is making with Reed leading the charge, followed closely by Evans (who has a much bigger ypc but he is making use of the RBs and good use of Royal as a checkdown (it would be nice if he broke out into a scoring weapon but I doubt this will happen except from time to time. Overall, 3-0 so though it is legit to point out areas we can improve whining or predicting DDOOMM is just silly right now.