Predictable Bills play calling inexplicably continues

I have tickets to next Monday’s game and I actually am not really looking forward to it because I am completely discouraged. When Marshawn got 7y on the first play of the game and then on 2nd & 3 he lined up in the shotgun I was upset. Then on 3rd down he lines up in the gun again… All I can say is that Turk is taking the fun out of the games.

I want to see them run the ball 60-70% of the time, establish it – even if it means going 3 & out a few times. ML gets better the more he carries he gets and we have great weapons to exploit defenses that come up to support the run. Our identity in Buffalo is power running and running play-action off of it. We are not, I repeat we are not a pure West Coast Passing team. Our weather does not support that type of play. So Turk has to come to grips with our brand of football and find ways to feed Marshwan the ball successfully.

not to be a potty mouth, but thank you Brian for your stance

I’ve long preached the KISS method. But this is even ridiculous by rookie playbooks. Unless you are dominating at one particular facet of offense, you cannot be successful by being predictable.

Turk’s honeymoon ended quick. I wonder what may have been different if they entered the season with a “simple” offense.

Why can’t they run ot of the shotgun? Why can’t they run a pass play with Trent directly under center?

W O W !!!!! I knew we were predicable, but this blog is ridiculous…

It really is amazing. I mean, when Brian pointed it out 2 weeks ago I have been keenly aware of it and am shocked that the trend continues.

Being a Bills fans who absolutely is addicted to Bills’ football especially during this 17 week regular season, I can’t help but be depressed this week. The MNF game can’t come soon enough, yet at the same time, if it is more of what I’ve seen the last 2 weeks, it is only going to tick me off even more and ruin my quality of life.

I mean going into the NE game, you just knew it was going to be ugly and it was. This MONDAY, we need an atmosphere as close to last year’s MNF game as possible. Our FANS have to CARRY this team to a WIN on monday. God, I hope that is enough.

Nice work, Brian. Thanks for doing this.

This is absolutely disgusting. The predictability of this offense is unacceptable for a pop warner team. Hell, Navy thinks this offense is too predictable.

I can’t believe I’m about to type this but….I miss Steve Fairchild. There. I said it. Ridiculous? Yes, I know. But it’s no lie.

Oh, what it would be like to be the defensive quality control coach for the Bills’ opponents.

“Hey, coach Crennel, when the Bills line up in shotgun, they pass 92 percent of the time, and when they line up under center, they run 90 percent of the time.”

“Don’t be ridiculous. That’s not possible.”

“No, seriously. Look, I’ve got the stats right here.”

“Wow! Even I can take advantage of that.”

I wonder if Turk is this predictable in his social life. Does he pack the same lunch everyday? Same vacation spot every year? Does he listen to the same two songs over and over again while sitting in the same recliner reading the same book he’s read for the past 10 weeks? Does he wear the same shirt to work every Tuesday?

“Well, it’s Tuesday, so that must mean Turk is wearing his navy blue, nike golf shirt with his gray dockers. Hey, whaddya know?”

Turk’s playcalling is more predictable than a Rocky ending. I don’t think a little spontaneity is too much to ask from an NFL offensive coordinator.

There has just been nothing innovative in the last three weeks. Why would anyone do that? Its like Turk is playing Madden out there, but instead of using plays over and over cause they work, he is running the same plays that don’t. It is ridiculous. Unless, this is all part of master plan, to now break out new stuff for the rest of the year? Yeah, right

Next week, the Bills will run 90% of the time from shotgun, and pass 90% of the time when Edwards is under center. It will completely confuse the defense!

This morning’s Rochester paper has Trent saying he was confused much of the game because the Pats disguised their plays so effectively and they continuously gave us different looks. What a difference in offensive philosophy! The predictability seems so obvious that it’s right under Brian’s (and now our) nose(s).
I also have wondered why those invited to a Bills press conference don’t ask more obvious questions. Does Sullivan or any other beat reporter ever ask any hard questions? Does anybody else SEE?

I…I’m…but…professionals…predictable…how…extension?

This went from being a great season to be a fan to “here we go again” waaaaaaay too fast. Great work Brian- my head would have gone through a wall about .00001 seconds after figuring those numbers out. My JV football team eight years ago ran four plays out of five formations (one of them was run from two formations) and was less predictable than that. Oi.

Know Turk Schonert-Fairchild? Print this article off and slap him across the face with it.

Do I have to print it, or can I just hit him with my monitor?

No one could have predicted going into this season that the Bills would play an entire game without either a single RB screen or Play Action formation. Wow.

Given these stats and that Bellicheck had to know what to do, i’m mildly impressed the Bills did as well as they did. Bellicheck should be embarrassed for not winning 56-10.

trying to come up with a nickname for Turk. TS-F-M (Turk Schonert-Fairchild-Mularkey) just doesn’t roll off the tongue and sounds like a cheesy radio station.

I think I’ve come up with a rather fitting one. OTB. And this has nothing to do with Off-Track Betting. I don’t think Turk is a degenerate gambler.

Instead, it stands for Original Tecmo Bowl. You know, the late 80’s perfection from Nintendo. In the game, each team only had 4 plays, 2 runs and 2 passes. Sound familiar? Only a couple of formations, just like the Bills O. When the D calls the same play as the O, a complete jailbreak would occur resulting in a big loss. Kind of like how a D is able to audible to stop what we’re doing now because shotgun=pass and under center=run.

Maybe TSB (Tecmo Super Bowl) would work a little better as the playbook is a tad bit deeper, but I like OTB for now since we see the SAME plays over and over, ones that are so predictable.

This predictability is one of the reasons our O has started looking like the same old garbage. With the D knowing EXACTLY what’s coming, they simply audible to stop what we’re doing. This may also help to explain some of our OL struggles….

Thanks for writing down what we’re seeing in the games. I’m quite frankly surprised at the lack of creativity/balance in recent games from the Bills’ offense. What’s up with that? I expected more out of Turk and Alex Van Pelt than this. Maybe it’s sleep deprivation…

We haven’t seen much of that in the execution or the game plan in recent weeks, and I have to wonder why. If we can see it as fans, what about the coaching staff?