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Maybe this is Trent' problem. Lifted this quote from Jimbo's article talking about Chad Henne: "To be successful quarterbacks need to react not think. Any time you can get a quarterback thinking while the play is unfolding they’re done."
Sound like anyone we know?
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Zorn? Zorn? I never thought I'd say this but if that's really the alternative give me Jauron.
If Ralph can hire Del Rio to come in right here right now, I say pull the plug on Dick and bring him on in.
As a side not on Jack, my brother says his name sounds like the new burger at Jack-In-The-Box. "I'll take a Jack Del Rio and a large order of fries and one of those big ass cokes."
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Did you see him run down that guy in the TB game? Didn't look like he was laying down to me. He had a nice 20 yard punt return against TB. If anything, on the returns I think he's trying too hard to break every one. If there's nothing there, he should just go down and not try to wiggle around to get more. That just causes penalties and fumbles.
Roscoe could be OK if they just threw pass play designed for him to get the ball in the open so he can run with it. Like we did in the Jets game in 2007. That was beautiful. We should do it again this Sunday.
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I'm hoping that Perry doesn't dial up the bend but don't break prevent, but I'm afraid he might. If he dials in a blitz the pee-jeebers defense like he did against Dallas in 2007 (until the last half of Q4) we win big. Henne's a rookie. I don't care if he's got a cannon for an arm or not. He's not seen the kind of heat we can bring if we just decide to do it. Either way our DL is better this year and we may able to generate enough heat anyway.
My greatest fear is that they hold the ball like they did against Indy. That could work against us. Trent would be cold when comes in and we could flounder.
I'm thinkin' we're gonna win this thing though.
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Because you have absolutely NO WAY of knowing whether the plays suck or the execution sucks. ZERO.
(Unless you're a Bills coach, or know the plays, their different derivatives and have access to game film)
Well, if we're sitting in the stands and see WRs open (which I have) and Trent not throw it to them and instead go to RBs behind the LOS, what does that make you think? Makes me think it's execution by our QB and not the plays themselves. But that's just me.
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His deep passes don't look that great, either. They kind of flutter and are off the mark.
I tend to disagree on this. His long passes are fine when he throws them. He completed 2 against TB. Maybe they weren't perfect, but they certainly got the job done. There are no style points in football. The one to TO he dropped traveled 50 yards in the air and was dead on the money. What else do you want?
Trent has the physical tools to be good. It's a mental thing. As Yogi Berra said "80% of the game is half mental".
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He is not 100% to blame here. The coaches call nothing to get Evans or Owens in a miss match. They run nothing across the field or even in motion. Put Evans in the slot and watch defenses go crazy. There is no originality in this offense. Watch Fitzgerald and Johnson. The best WR's in the game and 9-10 always open.
He may not be 100% to blame, but he's at least 90% to blame. Anyone who has been to a Bills game in the last 3 years and watches the WRs can tell you they're open often but not thrown to. It's hard to tell on TV. But, ow many games have you watched where the announcer says he's got guys open but not throwing to them? I've seen a bunch. In Trent's 3rd year as starter with his third OC I have confidently come to the conclusion that it doesn't matter what you do, Trent's going to the TE and RBs 75% of the time or more. Were Fairchild, Turk and now Alex all calling and designing passes to TEs and RBs on seemingly every play? I hope he can straighten this out. I'm almost to the point where I wish the coaching staff would tell him to knock it or you're benched and then follow through if he doesn't.
I also don't buy the "he doesn't have time to throw" excuse either. If he's got time to drop back, look long and not throw there, and then find Fine or Fred short and throw it to them, he's got enough time. No QB in this league has time to drop back, eat a banana, and then go through a long list of progressions and make an informed decision on who to pass it to and then throw a strike.
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Feed Fred.
Fred 20 carries Lynch 10 carries TO 3 carries
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Houston Oilers Houston Oilers
Love it.
Those Houston Oiler fans gotta be spttin' nails seeing the Tennesee Titans wearing their old suits and even Houston Oiler sweatshirts. I know I would be.
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May the worst team lose
"May the team that makes the fewest mistakes win" -- DJ
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Chris Kelsay, perennial TSW whipping boy, had a monster game vs. Aints. He totally dominated on both run and pass plays. I was impressed. Guess I've been reading too much TSW! Best game I've seen him have since Cowboys MNF 2007. Hope to see more of it.
Highest rated guy on the defensive stat sheet:
Defense T-A SCK INT FF
C. Kelsay 6-2 1.0 0 0
Perennial whippers should eat some crow on this one.
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youre right about one on one coverage, but watch closer on deep balls, the ball is hiked and he just throws it, no helmet or eyes moving across the field. I knew on every deep throw this year that he was going deep by his drop and how he reared back. If I can tell before he even throws it, It's obvious hes already made up his mind. how do you defend the insta dump offs? look again.
He did that 3 times vs Tampa Bay with 2 going for TDs and one a drop. Last week aginst NO he missed badly on 2 like this to TO. As long as it's a good throw I don't see the problem. Sometime reading isn't needed. As far as QBs throwing bombs, his success rate has been pretty good this year. 3 of 5 as I see it.
We know our pass blocking is suspect, so why not more plays where he has no reads? Just drop back and throw it. When CB is 10 yards off TO, wing him a pass out there quick. No thinking, just throw. Let TO make a play. He can do it. Send TO or Lee ten yards downfield and cut to the sidelines. Trent throws it before he makes his cut. No read, just go to Lee or whoever. Would be hard to stop and gain confidence I'd think. But then again, I don't have a degree from Harvard.
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Why all the Wade hate? We never should have fired him. These are facts collected off of his Dallas Cowboy website bio:
"During the 1998-2000 seasons as head coach in Buffalo, the Bills compiled a regular season record of 29-19. Phillips took the reigns after a disappointing 6-10 finish in 1997 and reversed the team's fortunes by leading it to a 10-6 record and the playoffs in 1998. It was the most successful campaign of any first-year head coach in Bills history. His 1999 team led the NFL in total defense, went 11-5 and earned another trip to the postseason. The Bills finished 8-8 in 2002 - his last season in Buffalo. The Bills were 16-9 under Phillips in his three years at the helm after the start of November."
We sure could use a coach like that around here now! Even his last year 8-8 sounds pretty good about now ...
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Last year in the first game anyway, it wasn't the Wildcat that beat us, it was Ted Ginn. Who said Chad can't throw long? Hopefully Perry figures out how to stop him this year.
Here's my plan to defense the Fish:
When Henne is in, blitz him hard and heavy. He's a rookie who hasn't played much. If he can beat that which is doubtful, go back to bend but don't break stuff.
When Henne is out (Wildcat), put a spy on each of the running backs. Just follow them wherever they go. If one of them sneezes, hand him a kleenex. This is how Notre Dame defeated the Wishbone and it would work for this too.
Or just play stout run defense like we did last year. I'm really not worried about it.
On offense go to TO early and often. Also run the ball down their throats.
Go BILLS !!
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I am tired of seeing the players look lifeless like their coach and one has to wonder if they secretly feel that wayt also.
Please explain this. When I watch the Bills games I see guys giving 100% for 60 minutes. They are often put in bad positions by the coaching staff. Sometimes they make mistakes but they play very hard. This is how I see it anyway. Please point to some concrete examples of plays or players where you have seen them look "lifeless". Someone besides TO that is.
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OK so I read the article. They just lost a tough game. His streak ended. He missed a couple he could/should? have had. He's an intense dude. He hates to lose. The last thing he needs is to pop off in front of the media again. Sounds like he did the right thing. Kept his cool and after he had some time to cool off and think a little, he said what he thought about the situation. You go TO.
Looks like Graham get's paid by the word.
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Sorry Tim, you're dead wrong, and now you're the one who is doing the whining. If you guys want to ask T.O. questions about the game, then ask legit questions. Don't spend the press conference baiting him into tossing Trentative or Jauron or AVP under the bus. That interview session wasn't about questions, it was about prodding the bull in hopes of getting him to charge. It was unprofessional at best, childish at worst.
This is an old tried and true media technique. And it works. You'll see. At some point the bull will charge and then they'll have a real story.
Same thing happened in Thousand Oaks at Cowboys training camp the year they signed Herschel Walker. Everyday after practice, the media guys would interview Tony Dorsett and say "The Cowboys got Herschel and plan to give him the ball a lot and give it to you less, what do you think about that?" or something to that effect. For days he said that he was team player and was happy to have another good player on the team blah blah blah. Finally after about a week he did blow up and it was a great news story. Played on the 6 and 10 o'clock news for days. If ESPN and NFL channel and such had been around then like today, it would have THE story for days. No different.
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I'd like to see him before the play decide it's going to TO. Like when the db is 10 yards off TO, wing a quick one out there. Or TO goes out 10 and cut to the sidelines and Trent throws the ball before he makes the cut. I see other teams doing this with success every week. Why can't we do that?
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Dude, like 90% of coaches defer.
Maybe. But in the games I saw this weekend, Chicago won the toss and took the ball in Seattle. Dallas won and took the ball at home. Bills win the toss and kick at home. Not saying there's any cause and effect here but the Bears and Cowboys won.
In the words of Matt Hasselback, "We want the ball and we're gonna score" should be the attitude. Let the other guys try to keep up with us.
It's just one more part of the Dick loser mentality.
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I am sick of retreads coming here and not producing. Draft someone to challenge Trent in the offseason and let the best man win.
What retreads are you referring to? Flutie (2 winning seasons and 2 trips to playoffs), Bledsoe (winning season), Jim Kelly. OK, I'll give you Kelly Holcomb.
Instead maybe we should draft someone instead. Maybe someone like Clod Tollins or JP or Trent. How's that been working out for us?
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Dick Jauron:
"Obviously there's going to be some growing pains there and they will just keep getting better, but they're going to struggle," coach Dick Jauron said. "They're going to struggle and they're going to learn every week, but they'll come back and fight you. It wasn't pretty. I was proud of the way they fought through kind of an ugly game but hung in there until the end."
I agree with you that Dick has a loser mentality and have been officially off of the Dick bandwagon since the Clowns game last year.
But my question to Dick would be, when in God's Green Earth will all this learning turn into wins? I remember 3 years ago in Dick's first seaon we almost beat Indy. We hung with them the whole game and then lost at the end. I'm thinkin. "man, we're close. We'll start winning these games against good teams." 3 years later we're still losing these games against good (and some not good) opponents the same exact way. Can we ever get over this hump we've been on for going on 4 seasons?
I want a coach that understands you win by scoring more points than your opponent, not the team that makes the fewest mistakes. And one that thinks it's OK to get ahead early and let the other guys play from behind and try to keep close to us. I don't care if he screams and hollers or not as long as he wins. Cower is a screamer. Tom Landry was not. Who won more Super Bowls?
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Can I ask why James Hardy has had anything to do with the team being in the state it is?
I think what he/she is trying to say is that last year we were sure Hardy was a bust because he couldn't get open and that's why TE wasn't throwing him the ball. Now we got Lee on one side and TO on the other and it seems they can't get open either so they don't get many passes thrown to them. Or, maybe it's the QB and not the WRs?
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Guys, the plays are drawn up correctly. The scheme is right. It doesn't matter if we huddle or not. TRENT is not getting them the ball.
When he looks down field everyone looks covered in his mind. It's something instinctual that he lacks. You can't teach it. He just doesn't have that in him.
Great (or even good) QB's anticipate where and when to throw. Unfortunately, he is not one of them.
Unfortuantely I too believe this is the case. I think Turk and now Alex were/are trying to open things up but TE holds on to the ball too long and then throws it to our 3rd string tight end or RBs behind the LOS. Well sooner or later Fitz will get in and then we'll know for sure. Hopefully Trent can get this turned around.
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GET TO and Frekin' LEE the ball. It can't be that hard. I could draw up 5 plays on my legal pad and crayon right now to get them the ball in a little space and let them make a play. Criminy Louise.
When the db is 10 yards back from TO, throw him a quick pass out there and let him beat the db. They showed highlights of him doing that last night. JP used to throw this. Didn't work that much but we didn't have TO then. Guess it's no longer in the play book.
I'm done with TE ...
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Me too. At this point we can be realatively certain Trent ain't taking us anywhere this year. We still have 12 games left and are only 2 back. Why not try Fitz against the Clowns? What could it hurt? Maybe he can have some success and get this team rolling with some confidence. In preseason whenever Trent came out not being able to complete anything more than 3 yards, Fitz would on his first pass hit a guy 20 yards downfield. Saw it twice. If he sucks, put Trent in at half time and let him try to be the savior. Maybe that would motivate him.
I just don't think Trent has the fire in his belly to be a winner in this league. Why else would you thorw a checdown on 4th and 18 or whatever on your last gasp of the game? Woud Big Ben or Peyton Manning or Flutie or Jimbo or Roget Staubach do that?
When everything goes well and the running game is working, etc. he looks like Joe Montana. If not, he looks clueless.
I'm officaily off Trent bandwagon. Been off Dick's since Clowns game last year.
We need a new coach and a real QB. End of story.