The Weekly Obligatory "I Heart Trent Edwards" Post

as #5 goes, oh so we go. and you hit it on the head, any game in which trent is under center is a game that the bills can win. i’ve been on the edwards bandwagon since the start of last year. awesome game bills, i love it.

I admit I was quite skeptical of Trent, not only by his college stats, but his “Rivers-like” throwing motion… I thought he would be just another stop gap until the next franchise QB was drafted…. WAS I WRONG!… I am so excited about this kid… He has made every throw that has been asked of him… Even the 50 yard bombs to Evans that I thought he wouldn’t be able to throw with his ackward motion… I am most impressed with his intelligence… using check downs and finding the open receivers is a skill no one except the late great Bill Walsh could see… I see a time in the near future when Trent will be calling his own plays at the line and bringing that intelligence to the field that we haven’t seen since Kelly… This kid brings tears to my eyes with his accuracy and smarts. Time to start buying the # 5 jerseys boys and girls… It’s pretty safe to say that Trent will be here for a long time…

I will hold off on the Jim Kelly comparisons until Edwards plays well in bad weather and the playoffs. I am not knocking Edwards. I am hopeful he will rise to the challenge, as he has all the others.

Did Preston have the game of his life?

There was talk of a nickname in Brian’s post-game post…so I’d like to throw in, and assuming Edwards continues his steady play, that said name could be, the Surgeon General…

is the speed at which he has adapted to the NFL. He only has ONE season of games under him and he is already comfortable with the whole thing. That is unreal fast.
His greatest talent, IMO, is accuracy. He’s got a lightning quick release and superb field awareness too. Also, obviously, he is calm under pressure. So many intangibles and so good a grasp of it all. Football instincts. We can only marvel at his whole package and sit back and enjoy. Can’t wait till he can call his own plays. I like “Surgeon General”.
BTW, I vote for the Duke for center going forward.

The kid has exceeded my expectations and my expectations were pretty high. I’ll give a HUGE example of how the mindset has changed. When SD was driving in the fourth I thought that they would score. But I also felt we were in great position even if they did because all we would’ve needed was a field goal. I truly believed that there was no way SD could’ve stopped Trent from getting in field goal range — especially if he had 4 downs. How long has it been since we had that confidence. I’ve spent so many years dreading the sack/fumble at winning time. Now I don’t. He’s changed everything and his teammates believe. I didn’t think that could happen this quickly.

Now can we finally stop with all the defeatist doom and gloom attitude around here! Some of the negativity has been driving me crazy, especially the contingency of posters who started that whole “we could lose all four of our next games” noise after the Cardinals loss.

Can we now agree that we have a good team here? The players believe in themselves and as fans we should too, being 5-1, they deserve it.

Anyway, thanks for the positive post Brian, I am going to throw out there that I am one of those who really believes we can win any game with Trent in the line-up, heck our only loss came when he went out after three plays. Says a lot if you ask me.

Let’s keep this momentum rolling into the divisional stretch here. We are an AFC contender ladies and gentlemen. START ENJOYING IT.

maybe we should call him “in the trenches trent” cause he is just getting it done out there

I’m 99% comfortable with Trent. I just have small reservations about his play in inclement weather and whether he can lead us to a win in a shootout. Hopefully, he’ll answer those at some point this season! As it is, it’s just wonderful watching the dude play knowing that with him out there, we have a chance in EVERY close game. I absolutely love that.

Even yesterday when SD was driving midway through the 4th on their way to a potential go ahead TD, I wasn’t overly concerned. I just wanted Trent to have enough time to drive us to the winning points. Luckily, Mitchell came up big and the point was moot, but in years past I would have been on my knees praying for a defensive stop as our only hope.

I would like to see more TD passes though! But we’re scoring 20+ every game with him, so something is working! I think the TD passes will start coming with more experience in the red zone. Plus Trent really hasn’t been helped by our receivers turning small plays into big TD’s like some other QB’s have been thus far, which isn’t necessarily bad. The yards and completions have been there, the TD’s will hopefully be joining the party soon.

Trent Edwards, the least media-sexy star quarterback in today’s NFL?

Are you kidding me? Check out this clip and tell me it doesn’t get your man-crush going.

Only cause for concern at this point is any regression in any capacity. More TD throws would be nice obviously. However, his ability to sustain drives is what really helps the Bills. Keeps our “D” fresh.

I beleive that his teammates are seeing what he’s doing and they want to be better as well. Winning attitude is what they call that my friends.

We may have ourselves a QB – - Lets wait until the season is over to fully evaluate, but definately going in the right direction

Trent has done a great job so far. I’m starting to see why he got an endorsement from the late Bill Walsh, a shrewd evaluator of QB talent (i.e. – Joe Montana, Steve Young).

Part of the reason for his great outing yesterday was the ability of the defense to get off the field. Keep it up, D!

Composure. Pocket awareness, keeps his eyes downfield and goes through his reads, and generally finds the open guy. 7 different people caught passes yesterday. A couple of them – Schoumann and Parish – was the only ball they saw, and at a very clutch time. That says a lot. to me, and by far outweighs the concerns some have about lukewarm TD stats. I’m quite impressed with the balance.
Ex: Evans is 19th in the AFC in catches and 2nd in yards gained. His per catch avg of 21 and 1st down % of roughly 87% – no one else is even close. IMO, he’s more effective because we’re not trying to force the ball to him, and the opposing D can’t just focus on him alone – because Edwards is spreading the ball around.
I don’t know that there is a more over rated stat in football than sacks. Sure, they’re great – pretty silly to think not. But close has its merits, too. Has a cumulative effect. Bills D was buzzing near Mr Pissy Rivers all day yesterday. In the end, he pissied down his leg. No sacks, but I thought Kelsay had a great game. And numerous times, Stroud bull rushed two guys within a foot or two of Pissy Rivers. Ex: – on SD’s first drive of the game, 3rd down – Stroud manhandles two linemen, gets a huge arm up, and likely gets Pissy Rivers to throw slightly early and Poz wraps Sproles up a yard short of the first down. Inches makes a difference.
I digress. A great win, and three tough and very meaningful games on the docket. Been quite a while since we’ve been able to have this much fun, no? How long has it been since we’ve been able to go into any game and feel confident, instead of hoping just not to witness a train wreck?
Just a hunch, but I’m guessing that come Thanksgiving Day, Bills fans will have much to be thankful for, eat too much turkey, and miss the joy of another Cowboy loss.

that if you take out the game with arizona in which he threw the ball three times, edwards would be averaging about 240 a game.

It used to be since the moment Jim retired, I would just FEAR the 4th Q if we were ahead by a small amount or tied with our opponents, and especially if we were behind. Each and every time I would just DREAD what was going to happen, because I knew something would just go wrong for us, someway, somehow when we got the ball on Offense.

With TE back there now though, I am not worried one dang bit in the 4th now. The first couple of games this season I was worrying, but now if the D gives up a big play, or the STs make a mistake, I know Trent will do all he can to get us back in it, and his teammates know that too. I think this allows our team to play with more aggression since the D and STs now know they have a guy who can either get them back into the game, or keep them in it, if a mistake happens.

The last challenge will be in the Dec/Jan games when the weather turns really nasty and we’ll know how he does handling that for a whole month+. If he does well, I will admit that we have then found Jim’s HOF replacement. If he struggles, I won’t put him on par with Jim, but I will still be a VERY VERY VERY Happy Buffalo Bills fan for years to come.

Btw, I think the best nickname for this kid is-
Tenacious Trent