but the one thing that worries me is that he said his being unprepared for defenses occurred more than once earlier in the year and during this losing streak. So the question has to be raised. Why isn’t our quarterback ready on game day? Is it his inability to adjust to game plans? Or is he not being properly prepared as a young QB during the week leading up to the game.

think he is calling out the coordinators. But what he is saying is that his timing with what he did in practice that week has no bearing on what then he needs to do in the game. But this goes back to who is dictating who here? It seems every week defenses are dictating to our offense what WE CAN OR CAN’T DO instead of the other way around.

Regardless though, it all comes back to running the ball effectively, early and often. And playing from a lead. The Bills need to have an opening TD drive, take the lead, impose their will and finish a game. It really is that simple. They have talent, and I’m sick of people calling for wholesale changes. You have to be patient in this league. THERE ARE A LOT OF MEDIOCRE TEAMS in this league, but the DIFFERENCE from becoming the GIANTS is not as big of a leap as you think if you give your coaching staff & QB time. This management has had its misses on player personnel but they also have made some very good draft picks and IMO did a ridiculously good job getting Stroud & Mitchell as they have been great fits for our defense. But they KEEP NEGLECTING our offense. We need more playmakers, and it has to be a PASS CATCHING TE.

I’ll digress….but it is all about giving Edwards time to develop his rapport with his WR’s against all coverages. In the NFL it is only 16 games a season, the kid only has 18-19 starts under his belt. This isn’t JP Losman here….This is a cerebral, tough, smart QB with all the physical tools. It will work out in the end. When Jauron was hired I said, Please, give him time….bring stability to this organization. We have that…no one wants to lose, but I plead to not abandon ship now….they will rally this season, have some meaningful games in december and as cliche as it is….next year is our year…..yikes i just said it

I don’t think they’re that unorthodox anymore, are they? They are unorthodox in the sense that the opposing team is not running what they have typically run in the week’s leading up to their game with the Bills. But the last three week’s we’ve seen the opposing D drop 7 or 8 in coverage and beg and plead the Bills to run (hey, I have something in common with the Bills’ opponents!)

Shouldn’t they expect to see these types of coverages until they show they are capable of moving the ball against it?

In all complete seriousness, If it ever came to benching Trent due to poor play, I would rather see Hamdan then J.P., Hamdan will be on this team next year, and has more upside then J.P. at this point.

The extra time the Browns had is a great point. I am sure that they added some new looks that they havn’t used all week. It would take quite the coaching staff to prepare for some new plays that the other team hasn’t even used yet.

That’s why I keep harping on the poor coaching. I believe this is why the Bills’ offense had such slow starts in games, and then came back in the 4th Q. The coaches were being outcoached during their prep week (I know I remember saying that on this blog early in the season (right after the Raiders and Rams games).

Once the Bills ran up against some better teams (who had figured out Edwards’ difficulties with non-blitz situations), the O could just never muster enough to come back late in the game. But I think it STILL means the O is doing mostly the same old thing nearly every week, and other teams’ Ds are throwing in wrinkles that the Bills’ coaches haven’t even thought of or considered how to address.