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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.
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Bill Walsh loved a bunch of different QBs during his time. He loved such luminaries as:
Joey Harrington
David Carr
Jake Plummer (the "next Joe Montana")
And speaking of Joe Montana, Walsh never wanted him in the first place. Somebody else in the 49ers organization did, and had to convince Walsh to draft Joe.
So Bill Walsh loved Trentative Edwards. Big Deal.
Bill also loved Steve Fuller and wanted to draft him in the first round. Only problem is Marv drafted him first. So Bill settled on Joe Montana a few rounds later . To Bill's defense on this, Steve did end up winning a grammy for his role in "the Super Bowl Shuffle".
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My short list (in order):
Marty Schottenheimer
Dan Reaves
Brian Billick
Bill Cower
John Gruden
Ted Cotrell
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Dan Dierdorf is the worst ever.
Skip Bayless has only one aim to all his opinions, to be a jerk. He used to be a sports columnist in Dallas during the last 6 or 7 Tom Landry years and would come up with the most off the wall BS crap. But it would be a big controversy and he was the only guy who had the "guts to say it." He wrote a book trashing Tom after his firing at the hands of the anti-Christ, Jerry Jones.
My brother used to say it best. "Every morning I open up the Dallas Morning News and skip Bayless." Still works today. When he's on TV or radio I change the station.
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It is of course way too early to say whether we need a new QB next year or not.
If Trent does his usual inconsistent routine for the 3rd year running, then let's go get a real QB. I have no interest in college QBs. That is a low percentage play. Since JK left we've had 3 high round draft picks to be "the guy". Clod Tollins, JP, and now Trent. How's that workin' out for us? In the same time period we've had 3 winning seasons and 2 playoff appearances (I think). All by Free Agent QBs. 2 by Flutie and one winning season by Blue Dreadsloe. There will be FAs available. If not, trade for someone or someone's #2 even. Someone who has played and had some success in the NFL. Jim Kelly wasn't a green rookie when the Bills got him either. He played (and partied) a couple of years in Houston first.
From your list I pick Vince Young or Derek Anderson or Tavaris Jackson over Trent. Maybe try to get AJ Feeley. Not sure how long he signed up with Carolina for. Maybe Damon Huard will be available. Maybe try to trade for Billy Volek. Todd Collins? Chad Pennington will be a FA after this year. He'd have great motivation to win 2/3 of our division games! Some other guys may get released. I don't care if they're old as long as they can still play. I'm tired of suffering through losing seasons while our QB learns how to play.
We owe it to guys like Fred Jackson and Lee Evans and K. Mitchell and Stroud to try to win NOW. Screw next year and the year after and the year after that.
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+1
Here in Seattle for the second year in a row the Seahawks are decimated with injuries. Worse than the Bills had last year AND this year. On Sunday against da Bears the Seahawks didn't even suit up 45 guys because they didn't have enough. They have the 53 guys minus 11 out to injury. The Bungles were decimated worse than us with injuries last year. On the game tonight the announcer mentioned that Carolina has a lot of injuries and Dallas RB Marion Barber is out with an injury.
Every team has injuries. I'd have to see a historical rundown over the last 10 years or so to make any conjecture if we have more than the average bear or a way to avoid them in the future.
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And who was the last Bills QB where that wasn't true???
It's called the rookie treatment. When you have a rookie QB or otherwise inexperienced QB, you blitz the you know what out of them until they prove they can beat it. We haven't had QB that could beat it since Bledsoe, so that's what we get and will get until we get a QB that can. There are plays and proven techniques to do it. We should concentrate on that more and passes to TEs less.
When you're 3rd string TE gets more balls thrown to him than your 2 playmakers, that says about all you need to know.
If we don't do this to the Fish rookie Sunday I'm going to throw a hissy fit. We'll see.
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Put in Patrick Fitzryan or Ryan Fitzpatrick and see if he has the same trouble. As soon as you do you know who to blame -- the 0 line or QB or WRs. We'd all know in one week, probably before halftime, and we could end all this grousing. In preseason RP consistently went downfield with his throws, TE did not and still hasn't. TE has only made two good throws downfield in three games, one TD to Lee and one drop by TO.
Actually he did throw a downfield bomb to TO for TD last week too in addition to the two you listed. But I agree. Based on what I saw in preseason (I know, it was only preseason), my prediction is that when Fitz gets into his first game, he'll hit a pass 20 yards downfield on the first or second play. I think it's Trent. I think the guys are there and open and for whatever reason he just doesn't throw it to them. I was at the Clowns game last year and there were guys open all over the place. I was at the Yucks game and there were guys open while he was looking for someone to dump it off to.
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Unfortunately, it looks like the BILLS have ruined another QB by running him out there behind a woeful offensive line for multiple seasons.
This is total BS. While the Bills offensive line has not been great, it has been servicable. First 6 games of the year last year and against Yucks they have been OK and Trent's looked stellar. Then he has his bad games. Line is good in the good games and bad in the bad games? Maybe he's just not very good? Why blame it all on the line?
How in the heck is he able to complete 60% of his passes if he doesn't have time to throw?
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I don't blame TO one bit, and I think they should have run a curl route on the last play to get him his reception. That would have been decent. We had already lost the game. Now, we lost the game AND TOs streak.
That's what Flutie did for Andre Reed to set his record, whatever it was. Pretty lame of Dick and Trent to not think of that.
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My issue with Trentative Checkwards is he has no marbles....
I want a gun slinger, not a game manager.
I want a guy who will snatch victory from defeat, not conservatively pray for a win with 200 yards passing to TE's and RB's
I want a "swingin dick" kinda guy with a some swagger who wants the ball in crunch time and wants to shove it down the defenses throat.
Until that kind of guy shows up in WNY to play QB, we'll be 7-9 again, again & again.......
We should have gotten Jeff Garcia in the off season.
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BS on all this negative crap...our very young an in-experienced line had a terrible game...got blitzed left and right and gave our QB about 1.5 seconds to throw....hopefully they take a lesson in it and focus on Miami and the other 12 friggin games left after that...some of you need a Midol or something...
BS on all this negative OL crap. Yeah, they had a rough day. But Trent had enough time to throw way more times than not. Thus all the completiond to our 3rd string TE. Often he ran out to the side where he had a good 2 or 3 seconds to look down field while rolling out. Just like Big Ben did when he hit Holmes for the SB game winner. Good QBs make these kind of plays. Put Big Ben on this team and we're 3-0.
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When it comes time for a critical non-delegatable decision to be made, I haven't seen any improvements in what DJ is doing this year relative to years past. I think he comes up will reasonable game plans / strategies heading into games. I haven't seen any ability on his part to make changes to his philosophy / strategy on the fly, presumably due to his overly conservative nature which is exhibited in almost every major decision he has to make.
I've said this for years. Dick should coach the team all week and get them ready for the game. Then on game day, hand over all gametime decision making like going for it on 4th, taking penalties, when to run fakes etc. to someone else. Bobby April maybe.
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The gameplan for Trent is pretty easy, blitz.
In Trent's defense today though, Drew Brees only had 16 more passing yards and threw for the same amount of TDs (0). That pick was a fluke and bad luck and Roscoe fumbling that ball hurt us. Did anyone else notice he got face masked on that play? I dont' think Trent played well, but I also don't think it all his fault. Maybe 55%. It was a team loss.
We played another good team toe to toe for 3 1/2 quarters only to lose it at the end. Where have I heard this before over the last 4 years?
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First of all, Ground Chuck is a reference to Chuck Knox, the former Bills coach. Coach Knox is one of the great coaches of all time. He coached in the NFL for 22 years. He was head coach for three teams and led each of those teams to division titles. His record as head coach is 186 wins, 147 losses, 1 tie for a .559 winning percentage.
Chuck Knox is in the Ring of Honor in Seatle. He was inducted in there in 2005. I know, I was there (and at the Super Bowl later that year, But, that's another story!).
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When your 3rd string TE has more balls thrown to him than your 2 start WRs, somethings wrong. I tend to think Trent plays a big part in this. Seems he looks to the short passes to the TEs and RBs than anyone else. His favorite reciever is coming back off of suspension next week so look for more of the same.
I just don't get it.
Dink Dunk Dink Dunk Dink Dunk Dink Dunk Dink Dunk Dink Dunk Dink Dunk Dink Dunk Dink Dunk Dink Dunk Dink Dunk Dink Dunk Dink Dunk Dink Dunk Dink Dunk Dink Dunk Dink Dunk Dink Dunk Dink Dunk Dink Dunk Dink Dunk Dink Dunk
It ain't gonna cut it in this league.
Enough already!
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1. Replace Jauron with a coach more passionate about winning than fearful of losing; plus competent with game management. This team has taken on Jaurons lax personality and will not win big games until it gets a coach who wants to win more than he fears to lose.
4. Don't play soft on 3rd down. We were better today, but too many times teh CB's play 5 yds behind teh ist down marker. Guess what happens, an easy first down.
1. Not going it for on 4th and a 10 inches to go and punting to the best QB in football down by 10 with 7:30 to go reeks of said fear.
4. I saw this time and time again tonight. We'd have them at 3rd and 6 or so and even our LBs were 5 yards behind the LOS. Our CBs and safeteys even further. Then they throw a short pass in front of our guys for 1st. Makes no sense.
Really though, again tonight our defense played well enough to win if they could have gotten any help. With our offensive weapons why our offense can't score any more than we can is sad. We get another big weapon back next week. We'll see.
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I agree that the OL had a rough day. Also many penalties on 3rd down conversions. What's up with thos bad shotgun snaps?
But, on the 2 wide open bombs to TO, Trent had plenty of time to throw. He just made bad throws pure and simple. Good throws there like last week and who knows?
I feel sorry for our defense. They played well and hard but had no help. Only help they got was from Brian Moorman and Ryan Denney and Bobby April!
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We have a decent defense that just can't hang with top 10 teams in the 4th quarter. This has been proven by New England and New Orleans. The reason is simple. First, great coaching means great fourth quarter teams. Second, great conditioning leads to great fourth quarter teams. Third, teams with a winning tradition and mindset win in the fourth quarter.
This is what separates average teams from outstanding teams. Buffalo is average because there is not great coaching, conditioning, or a winning culture/attitude infused in the locker room.
Winning defenses have offenses that can score points. The '85 Bears defense would have had a hard time winning with an offense that posts a goose egg. Our offense has really only scored 43 points in 3 games. Not going to win many games when only average 14.33 points per game.
Why we can't design and execute plays to get our playmakers the ball is beyond me. Why our 3rd string TE gets more balls thrown to him than TE and LE is a crime.
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Criminy. With all of the number crunching it's obvious some of you have missed your calling. You should have been baseball managers.
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Kick the FG. Nothing fires a team up more than a goal line stand. Up by 13, TB now needs two TDs, not a TD and FG. Big difference in the 4th Quarter.
Hat's off to Dick for making a good game time decision. Hopefully it becomes a trend!
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1971 Dallas Cowboys
I really hate Dick Jauron's mentality
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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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?