When did Trent Edwards come close to getting hit this past Saturday? The Bills’ O-Line is solid in pass protection, and Edwards’ release is quick enough to keep his jersey clean in August. He needs the experience desperately.

I’m not saying play Evans or Lynch for a half – that would be crazy.

This is football, not ping pong. Guys get hurt in numerous ways, during practices and games. It could happen at anytime. I hate trying to avoid injuries by keeping guys out and barely playing starters. That doesn’t prepare a team for the regular season, and we’ve already seen that out of Jauron coached teams. I don’t want to see a Junction Boys type camp, but you run practices and preseason games like you are trying to avoid injuries. That’s a good way for injuries to occur, actually.

Oh, and McGahee came to camp out of shape (Shocker!) and Engram is made of dust at this point. Those guys were asking to be hurt.

I would take Pete Metzalaars in his prime right now to help out our offense. He would help our running game, if nothing else. Wishful thinking…

Probably right about keeping Edwards in a little longer the next two games. It’s just a little nerve-wracking when your tackle depth goes <poof>. Edwards needs a little more time for those deep passes, and I don’t know if he will get that from second team players.

Memo to Jason Peters: fire your agent, he’s costing you big money right now.

I agree with all of this

Give Lynch 1-2 series and get him off the field. He plays the preseason like it was the playoffs, which is nice to see, but not good for my heart or his long term playing health. We need him more than any other player to come out of camp in one piece, so DJ, make sure to get him off the field after a couple of snaps.

You might be better then Bober and McDougle.

Just because a play is not executed does not mean that the play was not called. It’s time to find out what Edwards can do.

I am not just interested in the deep ball. I want to see if Edwards has the ability and confidence to consistently hit the deep outs, deep digs, and deep comebacks. Those are 15 to 20 yard throws that need to be flat on a rope. The 18-yarder to Parrish on Saturday night was good. Force defenses to defend the entire field.

I agree with that completely. When you have Marshawn and if Jason Peters comes back, defenses will load up in the middle of the field allowing outside WR’s to have one on one battles maybe not down the field but for sure in the 5-15 yd area. Thus the reason Turk I think is going to all those formational shifts pre-snap to get WR’s a head start to get open underneath. He just wants to get the ball out, allow WR’s to catch it and hopefully gain 2, 3, 4, 5, + yards after the catch. But if the run game doesn’t come along, and it won’t without Peters than this offense will really suck

I saw that too. Part of the reason I love Lee Evans – he tells it like it is.

Seriously, unless the guy has gone bezerk, there is no reason to not have dialogue with the guy. Regardless of the fact they are putting a hard-line stance on not talking to him unless he reports. Brandon or Wilson or someone should get on a jet and go talk to him. That’s the only way things get done. That’s the only way the FAVRE thing was resolved was the fact that Favre said, “Screw it, I’m going up there and get this settled once and for all.” And it was within 36 hours. Someone has to be the bigger man and stop having this damn pissing contest and just go and talk it out! For the Love of the Game! I mean, Jauron in his 3rd year, must feel some job security or have no pull if he can’t get the Front Office to go get the best player on the team to report to camp.

Even he could see the lack of rhythm on the offensive side of the ball. If he didn’t, those deep set skeleton eyes better head off to the Lasik eye center up in Canada when they go for Thursday’s game. Trent, who i knew would not see much the first game, should play the entire first half the next two games, then chill the fourth. Last year they had Losman play the entire half in last year’s first preseason game, and while Losman looked crappier last year in that role by skipping balls off the turf, it is clear Trent needs more snaps. Just to see some positives would be nice. Just keep Lynch off the field too much. Unless you want to split him out wide a couple times, just to see that

In my experience teams use the first and fourth preseason game to evaluate the backend of the roster and use the second and third games to prepare for the regular season.

It’s Edwards’ responsibility to make sure everyone is in the right position pre-snap and he struggled with that last week.

How did he struggle with that?
There were a couple of false starts, that you can’t possibly blame on the QB. Hardy’s route mistake was due to his inability to read Blitz. Trent had to call the timeout when Hardy didn’t know what was going on. I thought Trent did just fine orchestrating all the motion.

Good point about seeing different defences. Trent needs to see some different looks then what Perry Fewell has been throwing at him for the past month. I would like to see him play at least close to a full half.

Unlikely, in my opinion. If he’s hurt, why isn’t he letting the Bills’ award-winning training staff treat him? No, this isn’t injury-related, methinks…

Welcome to the site, btw. :)