If I where Dick i would have done this yesterday. Before the season started there was a lot of talk about our TE’s. As soon as Shouman went down we abandoned the position. Good teams plug different players into positions when it comes to injuries and play the game, or attempt to play their game the same way as before.

Nelson is a big target and should cause favorable match ups. USE HIM.

Anthony Fasano? Zach Miller? Yikes.

We all want to see Nelson get more chances, but with Edwards unwilling to throw the ball downfield, what does it matter if he’s running the 2-3 yard routes that Buffalo’s TE’s have become accustomed to? Until Edwards isn’t afraid to throw intermediate passes, Nelson won’t really matter in the passing game.

I don’t think that Buffalo has the worst offense in the league. The line clearly needs to improve—particularly at RT and LT—but it could be worse. Just ask Oakland fans.

Nelson’s improved blocking has led to more snaps than he might otherwise have gotten. (In what certainly seems to be a lost season, Schouman’s injury does have that as a silver lining.) While the offense has used max protect blocking on more pass downs than I’d have liked it isn’t as though the TEs are being held back to block on even a majority of pass plays.

Both Nelson and Fine, however, have been repeatedly sent on none-yard patterns. I find this infuriating to watch. I also believe that the TEs are being misused on that worthless naked bootleg rollout play that the offense insists on trotting out 3-4 times per game. Buffalo has a guy (Nelson) who is capable of getting behind the LBs and WRs capable of clearing out the DBs.

It’s well past time that the offense let Nelson do what he was drafted to do.

Those TE numbers are staggering. There have only been four TEs to catch 70 passes in each of the last two seasons.

Strangely enough, I had an article written about this very subject – the loss of Schouman and its impact. Nice job poz – bumped to the front page.

I mean, out of our team of veteran stars (TO, Evans, Lynch, etc.), Nelson is the player who is featured on the NFL Redzone commercial…haha.

This blog should own, manage and coach the Bills. At least we are passionate about it.

unless he can throw the ball to himself, it probably won’t matter.

Not that the No Huddle limited motion, but it is the only way to get Nelson and it looks like Evans open more. Remember the preseason game with the WR’s split right and Nelson moved from the line to the outside on the left to ensure one-on-one coverage… what happened? Trent threw a perfect pass high to the back shoulder of Nelson for the easy TD… Looked like “wow, I could get use to that all year” We saw a little miss direction in week 1 with Nelson for the TD against New England… Since that time… very little with standard TE routes because little or no motion to move Nelson around or split him out. Dallas Clark and Jason Whitten are constantly being split out from strong initial formations to command LB one on one coverage. Defenses sub player each play for what the offensive players are doing with their personnel. Having a strong or power formation with RB’s and TE’s causes defenses to bring an extra LB or DE in the game, then running passing plays from a shift in formations can really put a defense on it’s heals. It may also open up one-on-one with our WR’s.

Until Trent starts being defenses with a few plays will they settle back a little bit. He had two throws last week that looked really good. The first was the 19 yard pass to Owens. It was a set play and Trent dropped back and made a strong throw down the middle to TO who turned in after the safety broke back. The second is one that I’ve been waiting for him to make all year long… he scrambled a bit to buy an extra second or two then hit Lynch (on the run) breaking behind the LB’s beating single coverage. If Trent could some how settle himself and let more of the plays develop down field it could really open things up for him. Often times he looks downfield for a brief moments sees that there is coverage over the top taking out the WR’s and quickly check’s down because that is the design of the plays. AVP might help take some of those check downs away and make them into longer patterns so it forces trent to make more looks and reads farther down the field and the DBs and Safeties to cover more players down field. It is essential that our OL give Trent a little more time for this… but he also has to create more time for himself and make a play or two on his own.

There… that is how Nelson get’s involved and Trent fixes it. I just pray that our new RT can be a major playmaker and diamond in the rough. We need it so much!!!!!!!!!