And yes… I chose that picture of Royal because it’s the embodiment of the mediocrity that was today.

which reflects Fewell’s coaching style! See my Avatar.

Anyhow, anyone who read the thread of the game knows we stunk the joint our worse than a bunch of Frat boys after an all night Taco Bell and Beer chugging contest does the next morning in the bathroom.

Our Pass D looked bad, and the run D got worn down late in the game. Wiliams beat us up. McGee looked real bad, and he should have been on the bench the whole game. We had 5 or 6 safeties active for this game, we should have just out Whitner over with McKelvin, that would have slowed Ginn down more.

Alot of the big plays for Ginn though came against our zone D with McGee being told by Fewell to bail out and get deep. I think McGee’s knee issue kept him from closing like normal.

Anyhow you slice it, the game it turns out was lost on that first drive. If we either had punched it in on 4th adn 1, or if we had done something more intelligent then running it up the gut 3 straight times, I think this would have been a lot closer, and not just in score. That huge stop really fired them up for the rest of the game. If you need an example of this, please flip over if you can to the Steeler’s-Giants game.

you cannot blame this on Trent. Just like I predicted, Edwards was under pressure all damn day today. The O-L was so awful. Why more screens, misdirections and draws were not called was beyond me. The Miami pass rush owned us today and hurried, sacked or knocked down Edwards on over 50% of his dropbacks! That is a staggering amount. The play calling today was not good. Should have run way more and passed way less.

But I think this loss is a good thing. A slice of humble pie was handed to the boys today and it will make them so much more hungrier now for the Jets and Pats the next two weeks. I believe this was a hiccup that was needed and will serve a valuable lesson moving forward

right now because I am just too pissed off to make any rational expressions.

The Jets game has me terrified right now. Favre is a master of the dink and dunky crap that has eaten us up this year. The Jets WR’s are comparable to Miami’s but hopefully our DB’s will be healthy next week.

TE absolutely, positively, MUST be addressed this offseason. I don’t care if it’s a draft pick, trade, practice squad, whatever. Royal is done here.

Worst playcalling of the year. Why did Trent run on that 3 and 1. Where is Marshawn? He was the #12 pick for a reason folks.

Our lines have regressed and the DE’s on our team are not very good.

Man Perry Fewell is pretty bad. The guy just doesn’t adjust or make any changes out there. How many times can you let Ted F’in Ginn run a 15 yards hook? Seriously, what is up with this guy? He is soooooo bad and has been for most of his time here.

And I have no idea why McGee was out there all day. I don’t want to hear about Youboty being inactive and having only 4 CB’s. Well, we only had THREE last week with McGee out and Youboty as an active inactive. We were facing a MUCH better passing game last week and did enough to win. This week against the vaunted Dolphins passing game, we decide to let them do what they want. Unreal.

I’m sick of seeing us outcoached every other game or so. It’s pretty much Fewell each time too. Weak link anyone?

Oh how I wish we had even one guy who could rush the passer. Is that too much to ask for?

1. Bad coaching. We did not look prepared and did not make good adjustments. We do not usually run up the middle worth a crap, we did not learn to run block in the off week, and Turk’s play calling seems to be getting more conservative. We did not challenge their pass D by throwing long. Again, not enough long passes. Some, but not enuff. On D, we played a prevent D all day. Why oh why do we play such a soft pass D all the time? Fear? I don’t know if McGee’s leg is healed or not, he should have had safety help after the first Ginn reception. Also, I did not see enough blitzes from Mitchell. With Pennington at QB, I’d blitz much more.
2. Trent had an off day. His pass to Hardy early was way out of bounds and I saw him several times today throw to receivers that were standing still (had completed their route). Mostly too late with the ball.
3. I now clearly recognize the value of Josh Reed. Our answer to him going out was to use Lee to move the chains. Not exactly using your personnel to best advantage. And it hurt our ability to use Lee properly. After Josh left, how many times did we throw deep?
4. If your center position is as weak as ours, why try to run it up the gut so often? This, to me, is a fundamental coaching mistake. Stay outside the guards and go with the percentages.
On the bright side, I like the way we rotate our players in and out. ANd good to see Ellis in there.
I’m not sure McGee’s play was due to his leg. Most of the blame should rest with our ridiculous D game plan and lack of adjustments. We should be playing our CB’s close enough to the line to chuck their receivers. We played scared today. That is NOT playing to win. If we play that soft against Favre, we will lose. He will dink and dunk us all day just like Chad.

Idk who the guys playing in our secondary were, must have been invasion of the bodysnatchers. but good game overall, and I still hope you guys mop the floor with the Jets next week.

Cheers

Thankfully, I was out of town for the weekend and was driving back to Rochester on Sunday during the game. When I finally got close enough to listen to the game on the radio, the Bills had squandered a 9 point lead and Trent was busy gift wrapping turnovers for Miami.

Since I wasn’t able to watch or listen (for most of the game), I won’t get into too much detail, but I will comment on coaching.

I’m not a huge fan of Jauron. He’s a steady as we go coach and the players seem to like playing for him. However, he’s consistently a terrible game day coach (we’re going to start challenging punts now?). The common excuse for Jauron and the coaching staff is always, “The players always come to play for him…” I’m pretty sure we can stop using that excuse now. In both their losses, the Bills barely showed up to the stadium, let alone played four solid quarters of football. We are now almost half way through the season, and the Bills have played two games where they actually played 60 minutes of quality football.

I’m not calling for Jauron’s head (or any other coach’s for that matter), simply because I think they’ve made their bed with this coaching staff and they are going to have to live with it. Consistency with coaching staffs is key in the NFL, and changing schemes at this point is only going to set this young roster back. But, I think everyone needs to reserve themselves to the fact that 1) the Bills are going occasionally lose games where they are simply outcoached and not completely prepared to play, and 2) Stop saying “The players really come to play for Jauron” because I think we’ve all seen that is obviously not the case.