Definitely not the OL. They finally opened some holes and gave Trent time. How much more time did he need to throw a 3 yard gainer to Lynch all night? There were a few times where a rusher got near him, but overall they did a very good job.

however, it seems that whenever a good NBA team needs two points surely, they all have planned plays to call out to each other. You can see them yelling “#5” or “#3” or whatever. Mabye to just get out of a funk, but they have those plays ready to call. It is infuriating watching our Bills react to a big or potentially game changing play this year. We seem to not have a clue and call time out. Time out. Time out. We should have some pre -planned plays ready to call so we don’t have to call a time out. Just another coaching observation.

Trent will be fine over time. The Royal pass was vintage Trent. The OL actually came to play last night (minus C). Dockery finally motivated himself and the return of Butler was big.

i guess not… i voted for Trent because he made more mistakes throughout the game. Although Dick’s coaching at the end of the game was pretty horrible.

There are “safe” high percentages throws. I was waiting/hoping/praying for a play action naked roll out to the weak side all night. No such luck. Did Steve Fairchild somehow become our Offensive Coordinator again without us knowing?

Trent has led us to 4th quarter comebacks plenty this year, so why 3 dives when we can run a play action dump off to a TE for a gain of 7 or 8 to get Lindell closer. At least play for the 1st down! The play calling was scared play calling. Thats not how you win.

But its hard to pick one of those three by themselves…….lemme ’splain dis….lol

Trent coulda folded mentally, but he didnt…he and jauron both had the team in a position to win, but it just didnt work out like that…….

The OL didnt allow a sack, and got the run game going…..so not them….

If i had to pick one, i would say jauron if only for the fact that those last 3 runs didnt get the team close enough…..a 47 yarder isnt a gimme…..anywhere…..

but I just dont know….its a bunch of little things that contributed to this loss……

Actually Losman finishing the season in 06’ as the 11th rated passer in the league as his only full season as a starter was very promising, couple that with Edwards having the lowest percentage of Touchdowns per quater played of any QB in the NFL since he came into the league and that’s enough for now! Edwards still has an excellent shot at being a productive NFL starter, but not right now! I support the Bills and every player that wears a Bills uniform!! I respect the opinions-points and views of others but also at this point in Edwards career-I see a terrible QB that has always been a dink and dunk QB that constantly dumps the ball off even when their are wide open recievers and protection is there! I can’t understand how anyone can Support Edwards more than they support the Buffalo Bills as a whole team??

in stead of Jauron, it would have been a much harder decision. We all know Jauron does not call anything during the game, except maybe to see if his Prozac has been delivered. I am not saying he isn’t good at it, he just doesn’t call the plays!!!

have to pin the blame on Edwards/Offensive play calling. if they would have started the game RUNNING the ball, short draws, screens, etc, then Edwards would have naturally progressed and have been put into situations to PA pass and go deep to Evans when the Browns started tightening up. But instead, they come out shotgun and throw.

So I blame the coaches for putting Trent in that situation, and then I blame Trent for holding on to the ball for 8 secs a snap and looking like he has some serious sand in his you know what. I think Evans probably freaked out after the game. I kind of wish we would have finally gotten a post-game presser from someone freaking out.

And we all know the Bills will win the next 2 games to give hope back only to lose 3 of their last 4 and finish a perfect 8-8. I honestly wouldn’t mind seeing Jauron canned but only in favor of Marv Levy, Bill Cowher, Josh McDaniels, Turner Gill (just kidding), or at the very least bringing in a new Offensive Coordinator.

the interceptions he threw led directly to 6 points(thankfully only that many!) and in the end those 6 points made a world of difference.

he’s not alone to blame, but i came to this conclusion right after the game.

also I blame Mike Tirico for bringing up the Norwood wide right right before Lindell kicked at the end of the game. that dingbat jinxed us.

TRENT:
There is no denying that Trent played the worse game of his career, actually the last three have not been pretty. To a large extent I blame the offensive play calling. There is absolutely no reason why you start the game in a shotgun formation – period! The first INT wasn’t entirely his fault, Shaun Rogers really got a good leap in order to tip that ball. The second INT was probably ill-advised because he forced it into Hardy (double coverage) but I blame Hardy even more, you have to fight for the ball man! Then the pass to Royal was simply awful and should not have been thrown. I was very disappointed in Royal’s nonchalance to do anything about it (That guy has to go!!) but it gave us a chance to see a great play by rookie Steve Johnson making the tackle.

By this point he was so gun shy that he was oblivious to the fact that receivers were open down field.

O-LINE:
The O-Line played great. Great pass protection and decent run blocking.

JAURON:
Turk works for Dick so I expect Dick to get more involved. The play-calling once again was very predictable, did not have anywhere near enough play-action plays. They complain that Trent has a hard time against 7-man coverage schemes so why not line up under center and do some play-action? The Run game was finally working so by showing run, it would have opened things up for him down field. As much as I found it boring to watch at least they made good use of Marshawn and found the way to get it in their hands. The short dump offs were there all day and Marshawn or Jackson in space are able to get it done – so at least they found a fairly safe way of moving the ball in the situation they were in.

The play when Lynch did not get in and we were on the 1, How can he justify taking a time out at that point??? He should have quickly had a play designed for that situation. You want to get a play off quickly to take advantage of the situation, not give your opponent time enough to catch their breath and make the necessary personnel changes…

The when the opponent is in 3rd and 10 you take a defensive time out?? What the hell were they afraid of?

I must admit that I was impressed by the defensive play-calling, a lot more aggressive. It was great to see Mitchell flying around everywhere! I want to see more of that in the future.

Obviously Trent had a bad night and our team is not good enough to overcome that. I think that Trent has the potential to be great, he just has to work through these issues. I think Turk needs to do a much better job play-calling to give his young QB a chance. Unfortunately, I always feel that we are being out coached by the opposing team. When it’s Belichick it’s one thing but when Crennel is out coaching you, I think there’s a serious problem!

Sireric—I assumed the opinions of other fellow Bills fans and supporters would be respected around here? Was I wrong on that? Or is it your point of view only that is excepted? I respect the opinions and views of everyone and would expect the same!

Oops I meant Accepted!!

Also I have’nt checked on the status of Greer for sunday and hope that if he can’t go at 100%, then McKelvin gets another go and shows up with the kinda effort he had on monday night, I think with us playing more man coverage it really helped play to his strengths and actually benefit our entire defense!

And not because of their performance Monday night. Trent has been getting demolished, and I think he has lost all confidence because of the line. Now he is scared to throw anything besides a dump off. Turk has felt that we need to play from the shotgun to protect Edwards. Marshawn is tap dancing more than ever because he too has lost confidence in the line. I know you are the line expert here Ron, but man, Preston got murdered Monday night. It was freaking terrible. I never noticed it too much, I would just take you guys’ word for it, so it was something I really looked for during the game. And man was it a ghastly performance.

BTW….I defend the call to run it the last 3 plays of the game, and here is why:

1. We had been moving the ball very effectively on the ground a majority of the game
2. We needed to run the clock out to keep the ball outta the Browns’ hands
3. All we needed was the field goal to win, why not take it?
4. Trent had been playing like boo boo the whole game, why put it back in his hands to potentially throw another pick?

I mean damn, it was the right call people, accept it.

Jauron lost the game by playing not to lose.

4 turnovers lost that game, and minus 10 loses the season