why was that? Basically every screen throw Trent threw was way too powerful. You’d figure that would be one of the first things a young QB perfects. Oh well, he still looked great.

About Lee Evans, I think he is going to look much better with Trent than with JP. I think that while JPs arm played to Evans deep threat strength it also limited him to it. Trent is far more accurate and releases the ball fast and as Evans and the offense run different routes to capitalize on this style we will see Evans as a far more complete number 1 than just the explosive threat he was under Losman.

I love it too. I said before the Seahawks game that I was worried about playing to conservative. After game 1 I am no longer worried.

The screen passes were disheartening, especially one where Lynch would have had a good gain, but I think it is equally important for Lynch to nab those throws. He may have had two drops if I recall.

Lynch in general looked good, but for whatever reason, maybe the run blocking of Fowler, we don’t have much of a between the tackle game running up the middle.

Edwards looked good. Not great, and not bad, but just good. He finds the receiver, and gets it away fairly quickly. The timing was off with Evans, but what I liked the most is that Edwards was throwing to Evans alot, and knwoing who your best player is and getting it to him is important. I also hope that in the hopefully nicer weather in Jacksonville, we’ll have some more success in the air, and maybe Hardy can get some more action.

Lastly, Schonert did call a good game, but not great. If that draw doesn’t go for six or even a first down we’d all be crowing. But hey, it worked beautifully, and maybe it s more of where and when than a redundancy in those situations. I’d like to see some more playaction in 3rd and short. I think the Denver game last night was an awesome display of playcalling by Mike Shannahan, and I think in terms of aggressiveness, Turk showed some signs of that.

Edwards was particularly awful at throwing screen passes Sunday; his throws come off high and on a hard line, and his backs routinely have balls skip off of their hands.

Can you really fully blame Edwards here though? If he’s hitting his guys in the HANDS, they have to catch them. I know on the screens, he tends to throw them a bit hard, but still, Lynch and co. have to catch those. Trent will get better at those once we start utilizing them more. Lynch dropped another pass when he was hit just after he was getting the ball, but it would have been for a 1 yard gain, at most, so no biggie there.

Other than the sack, how did Lynch (and Freddie) look in blitz pickups???

Evans and Edwards….Evans has to make those catches. He seems to be bobbling a lot of passes the past year + 1 game, especially the deep ones. That’s not a place where you can say it’s anything related to Edwards, IMO. Once the ball is in the air on the deeper ones, release points/arm motion/whatever are thrown out the window. He also dropped that TD in the endzone early on, though it was tough to tell if the Seahawk CB knocked it away or not. One thing, Evans seems very comfortable catching passes from Edwards in the shorter areas, like the quick out for 10 yards he caught for his last catch of the day and the short pass over the middle he caught and turned upfield for 19 yards just before the half. I’m just concerned about him on the intermediate and deep passes. He never seemed to have trouble catching those cleanly before. That catch/no catch for his first grab was very close though. I’m not sure it was definitely out of bounds, as he had possession of it the whole time, just a quick juggle right away. I still think his feet were down….

Lynch is so close to breaking a big run, it seems nearly every time he gets space. It’s going to happen very soon, maybe the next few games (probably the Raiders, ha), and I can’t wait for it to happen. I REALLY, REALLY REALLY hope Turk continues finding ways to get it to him in space. Love the screen calls, we just have to execute them. I want more counters off-tackle, like the way Minnesota uses Purple Jesus. Let Marshawn use his power and speed, seems like he gets 10+ every time we run a play like that. With Peters back, we can run pulls and outside runs, IMO, than we could with Walker.

I think Trent was pretty consistent once the weather broke. It’s unfortunate, but I think he really struggles in the elements. He definitely has to work on that and be more confident in himself in those situations. We can’t have a poor weather QB here in Buffalo. I want to see more intermediate passes too. I can’t stand throwing 3-4 yard dumpoffs on 3rd and long. Why not throw it past the sticks? Who cares if it’s incomplete if you aren’t going to get it with the dumpoffs. Of course, if nothing is there, don’t force it, but also don’t settle for the short ones every time.

Would like to see better run blocking, but I’m not particularly hopeful in that department.

Bri, you mentioned that Chambers run blocking wasn’t a strength but as Ron’s OL assessment on gap running shows he and Butler were very effective (4.0 ypc – B Gap and 5.7 ypc – C Gap). Mind you it was only 6 running plays out of 28 but that is effective in my book.

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