Bills drop eighth straight division game in convincing fashion

Jonathan Scott should have that look on his face. Kirk Chambers too.

Ugh.

I have no clue what the next move is – it’s pretty much rock bottom now …

Is Edwards fate tied to Jauron? If Jauron (unlikely) is fired, will we have seen the end of the Edwards era?

I think yes.

In my opinion, this was his worse performance as a Buffalo Bill

I don’t know if this was said in the game blog but Chris Ellis’ mom passed away suddenly. He’s having a much worse day than we are.

I saw this one coming. I mowed my lawn rather than succumb to a new depth as a Bills fan. How the hell we were ever favored in this game is a mystery to me.

What is there to say? Do I really want to drive 300 miles each way next weekend to see us play the Browns? Not sure. One thing I am sure of is that I will not renew my season tickets next year. I’ll take a year off.

Can someone tell me one reason Dick Jauron SHOULD be our coach next week?

and I still am. I think he’ll make great Asst Head Coach for a young’n somewhere. I do think Wilson whould keep everything intact this year. There is nothing to be gained from firing DJ now. Let AVP, Edwards, and the young line develop.

I hate to say this, but boy, is Cowher looking very attractive.

but how about bringing in some veteran line help now?? Jeez! I am so sick of hearing that the vets out there aren’t suited to the no-huddle…..given the offensive ineptitude the past two weeks, the no-huddle is the last thing I worry about if I’m a coach….. protecting a pretty efficient QB and establishing a verifiable running threat should be at the top of the list…. regardless of who our next opponent is.

One guy I was generally happy with today was George Wilson…. he seemed to be giving it an honest effort out there.

what a mess

to say or do anymore….T.O. is just a side show to this team now. It’s unfortunate. You can point to OL, Edwards, play calling, injuries…etc. Bottom line is this team has no identity. No identity = mediocrity. End of story

Yup…Jauron is a loser, the season is over.

Will not be a shock. Might be a blessing.

I think Gruden might be able to pull it off… He does run the Tampa 2 and if he keeps Van Pelt around the offense shouldn’t change that much.

Other options = Fewell or April

Fewell or April do not have the experience. Gruden could make it work quickly.

I think Brian Moorman had a good day today. His punts were getting good hangtime and good distance on them. So that’s positive

I do not think we could win against anyone the way we are playing.

If our highlights are the punter we have a sad state of affairs

it’s a long season. We are on pace for 4-12. We have 12 games left and need to go 9-3….this offense will look better come week 10 then it is now, but time has expired on Dick Jauron and barring a miracle run….man I just can’t believe how baaaaaaaaaaaaad the team played today. I wasn’t expecting it to be THIS bad

Gruden would not come in mid-season.

What are his gains? He could not make major moves on the team and would be stuck with its current talent base. Therefore, losses would be hung against him and he would not be the saviour everyone wants.

Any coach should come in after the season, bring in their coordinators and start from scratch.

Bandaid solutions are not the answer

We are great fans and we don’t deserve this crap. Ralph should have done the right thing at the end of last season. Now what do we have to look forward to the rest of this year?

What a huge error it was to go into this season with so many rookies on the O-Line, Dick should have made an effort to pickup a veteran at LT.

I think I’d prefer to see Fitz play next week, I can’t take this no more.

And I hope a lot of us feel this way. I feel like a fool for allowing myself to hope. As long as Ralph hires lousy cheap coaches we will continue to have mediocre teams as long as this is the case. There is no insight here, no way to turn it around, the tiger won’t change it’s stripes.

The detriot lions future looks better then ours.
Qb better
Coach better
Wr even
Gm better
Crazy it makes me sick

you would have to wonder at this point

from my posts last year, Know that I may be the true, eternal optimist… Wasn’t it about this time last year that I proclaimed that our Bills had the rest of the NFL, right where we want them????
However… I can’t say that again this year…
I’m officially on the “Fire Jaroun” bandwagon. And for those who think he’s safe from Mr Wilson because of his contract, watch… Ralph despises the Phish as much as I… He won’t let the injury bug, or anything else excuse this type of play…
He’s not football dumb, like some think… He knows we have talent, and he knows that while injury can take it’s toll, it’s no excuse for embarrassment….
It may not be this week, but I’d be willing to bet, Mr Wilson is on the phone right now, to gauge coaching availability, knowing we may have to go with an interim, but not wanting too… And you can bet, one of those calls, prolly a conference call; is to the current staff… And it’s not one of those “confidence calls” either, more likely gauging who “wants” to stay, and who prefers to call it in….
No folks… I know, Mr Wilson is a very pissed off man this evening, and will soon, make some major changes…..

Dear Dick Jauron,
Your team is terrible. Gutless, stupid, and rudderless. They crumble under pressure. They are routinely guilty of mental errors. No adjustments are made, seemingly no recognition of the team’s flaws ever happens. You and your staff talk about changing things up, but, almost invariably, these changes are cosmetic(if they happen at all) and accomplish very little. This team is barely a match for other mediocre teams, let alone a team that’s half-way decent.

Dear Buffalo Bills,
I long for feeling something again. I remember the year we went 3-13, Donahoe’s and Williams’s first year here. But I could watch it, because I still felt like the team was playing. Like they were trying. I don’t really get that impression anymore. More and more, I feel the Buffalo Bills are content with mediocrity. And that leaves me numb.

really says it all.

It ws a tuff 1! Sumhow, sumway, WE hv 2 get better! Gotta stay positive!! It’ll get better!

TO’s first post-game tweet. No bus-tossing, yet.

Both Trent Edwards and JP Losman suck. Two completely different QBs, one with great physical abilities, picked 1st round, the other a 3rd round pick that makes quick decisions with a Stanford education.

Both these QBs are now considered “busts” after starting 2+ seasons with the Bills. At what point do you ask the question, “Have these guys been given a fair chance?” How many different Offensive Co-ordinators have they had between them? How many different O-lines?

It apparently doesn’t even matter to bring in T.O. The same reason that the Patriots can plug in Matt freakin Cassell and win with him, it’s the same reason why two completely different quarterbacks can be run out of Buffalo….Dick Jauron anyone?

I really think our head coach has ruined two careers. JP Losman’s style just didn’t fit in with Jauron’s conservative nature. Trent Edwards has been “coached” that a punt is better than an INT. I just don’t think the Bills can win with Jauron. (Not saying anything ground-breaking here, I know)

Just saw a commercial on NBC for Jim and Pam’s wedding episode this coming Thursday on The Office. By far the best feeling I’ve had all day. Either I’m a girl, or the Bills are that bad. Possibly both.

eThey made a good combo in Tampa, albiet with Monte Kiffin. But both are available, and they made the playoffs with an aging defense and J Garcia 2 yrs ago. We need a coach is a polar opposite to DJ when we make the change. Key work “When”. I have been a supporter of DJ, but it is apparent that even with talent everywhere (except the OL) we could actually play a game to our strengths. How do we play so inconsistant?

I think it just sunk in for me just how far the Bills are away from having a good team.

This game was a prime indication of what is the problem with the Bills this year and most likely why we haven’t been to the playoffs this decade…

We rely too much on our starters to be starters each and every game! We have NO DEPTH at any position except CB because we draft 18 of the every year.

When our OL Tackles go down, we have to bring in Chambers and Scott who are awful and it showed today and the 2nd half of last week.

When our MLB breaks his arm, we have to start an undersized MLB in Buggs, who got smushed all day today. He is so short he has to take risks and constantly guesses wrong. This guy gets eaten up by OL all the time.

We can’t replace our QB, because we don’t have anything better or with any potential on our bench.

Every year it is just bad bad decisions made in the off-season that hurts us when our starters get hurt and/or stink it up where they need to be replaced.

Someday if we every are able to get a real pro-player personnel GM and decision maker, we might have a chance to watch a real team play football. Jauron or any coach can’t win with what we have on our bench and are forced to play with week to week.

It is a shame that Ralph won’t figure this out.

I’m hoping getting all the bad stuff on paper will help make me feel better, but as I write this, I’m feeling rather ill.

After 3 games of good game planning, the coaches definitely didn’t get their stuff together this week.

a) I think everyone who wanted Nic Harris to be the safety were completely vindicated. It was a terrible decision to play 2 safeties who are mostly pass coverage guys. It seemed like the obvious defensive strategy was to stop the run and make Chad Henne beat you over the top. Thus, you’d want a big strong safety and we have him in Nic Harris if we used him. Jairus Byrd looked helpless trying to tackle any running backs. And I can’t remember him giving any help in pass coverage. I think it is a really bad situation when the coach has to think about where a guy was drafted to decide to play him (in other words, Byrd was drafted round 2, Harris round 5, so Byrd plays). The strategy should dictate game personnel.

b) Every time we blitzed, it seemed like we sacked Henne or he threw it away. Rushing 4 was useless against the Dolphin line. I’m never sure if Kawika is any help covering receivers so why not rush him every time?

The thing that makes me want to cry is the soft coverage on 3rd down. Miami ran simple button hooks on every 3rd down and when there wasn’t a blitz, Henne calmly completed those passes. If McGee is worth the 10s of millions Ralph is going to pay him, he should be able to be up on the cut back routes and be able to recover on stuff over his head.

c) Trent looked unbelievably awful. Obviously, the line was terrible, but didn’t it seem like the drop Trent took when he was in the shotgun took him right into the rushing lane of the Dolphins rushing from the ends? I would think growing up in the Bay Area, Trent would be all about the west coast quick passes. Why would he dream of holding onto the ball for so long when he knew that he wasn’t going to be getting good protection? It seemed like the Dolphins were way over-shading the short passes, and the long passes he threw were pretty quick releases because Lee and TO can get down the field fast. How is it possible that we can throw to TO once in the Red Zone? And please just throw it up there to the guy and let him earn his 6.5 million.

d) Marshawn looked completely out of sync, so why did they keep letting him play? I have no idea why Chris Brown got so excited about having Fred and Marshawn in the backfield together. That formation seemed like it worked once out of the 10 times we dialed it up.

I think Gruden is not the answer. He was good in Oakland as a young, motivated guy, and he inherited a great team that Tony Dungy had built up when he moved to Tampa, and he was lucky enough to play his old team in the Super Bowl. And then things were all downhill in Tampa. Plus, I really like him in the booth. Would Ralph really pay him more than he’s making at ESPN?

Is this the year of the QB draft? It seems like we should keep Trent around with a young hotshot breathing down his neck. I’m not sure I can handle watching any more young QBs get sacked behind a young offensive line and getting discarded way before their time. It might be a good idea to hire a real QB coach as well.

That’s a lot of problems. It would sure be nice if there were once answer to right the ship.

guys, i just finished throwing up…….this sucks…another year in the hole……we will suck for a long time! we need shanahan or cowher now!

want this to all go away….what’s ridiculous….is right when we right them off, they’ll find a way to get to 6-6 and make it interesting… What kills me is any injury to our OL going into the season was going to be a death sentence, and losing Butler for good, and Bell temporarily shows that. We have no depth on the OL and you can’t run 4-5 guys in patters with a shotty OL. I thought today was a perfect day to run #23 and #22 all day and give our DEF a break with all the smallish, backups we had playing….instead we got killed in TOP, tried throwing the ball and ugh….thank God I live in Minneapolis and have the crazy excitement of the Twins…..even if it is baseball

Just do what I do! Be a amatuer draftnik. If the Bills are good, then I’m happy. If the Bills are bad, I have the draft as hope.

I thought the season would go like this (see my fanpost from this evening) and have scouting in anticipation. Clausen is looking great right now.

from the standpoint of someone who didnt watch the game and cant stomach the thought of looking at the game stats heres MO

1. The Bills do a marvelous job of making inexperienced QB’s look like future HOFs…I dont want to think of what Sanchez will do to us

2. As much as I want Jauron to already be fired before they even land in Buffalo it just isnt going to happen, we are stuck with him for the rest of the season. For those who think we might get Cowher, Gruden, or some other big name you can probably forget it, Ralph will not spend big money on a coach and honestly I dont think Cowher or any decent coach would come to Buffalo. Besides a top notch coach aint gonna change that much without a GM who actually knows something about football and not just about making the almighty dollar.

3. Trent may be a decent QB with a decent OL but he will never excel for the reaminder of his tenure in Buffalo. I dont want to go as far to say that he is a bust but I do and have always believed that he is at best a backup in this league. Heres to hoping we hit in the draft next year.

It sickens me to think about what this team could have been this year with a decent coach who actually knew how to motivate and inspire his players….but as usual we will be watching from the sidelines for the rest of the season.

Finally as I much as I hate the direction of the team and the lack of heart they display on a weekly basis I will continue to follow and watch this team whenever possible simply because that is what FANS do.

that hasnt been said. i still honestly believe this team has the talent. yes we have had injures, but many teams have. i think when you think you have the talent, and are still not succeeding, it has to be a coaching/front office problem. i dont know for sure, i just know its very disheartening to lose to the dolphins in such a way.

…for stating everything that had to be stated after the debacle in South Florida. I have nothing to add, just like I have no hope for the remainder of the season. There may be an inspired performance now and then, but the end-result will be the same.

The only positive thing that I can come up with is that Ralph has brought in an coach from the outside mid season before…one Marv Levy. Marv was generally well regarded, but certainly not a high profile hiring at the time. Presiding over the last 7 games of the 1986 season, he had an opportunity to assess talent and quickly build a contender. Of course, the Bills had a then diamond in the rough at GM.
 
Although our DJ will probably with us until the seasons end, I’m watching out for game #9 to see if history repeats itself. If we’re sitting at 2-7 after a loss against lowly Tennessee, then watch out; lightning may indeed strike again.

Anyone else find it interesting that none of the post-game press conferences are up on buffalobills.com?

Also noteworthy, is that Chris Brown’s blog has not been updated since before the game.

Furthermore, there are only highlights of the game up right now, really nothing else but an article paraphrasing some of the post game press stuff.

Maybe I am reading too much into it (probably)… Just wishful thinking that something is going to come out of OBD!

i am so tired of the constant ineptitude of the Bills that i can not find anything to complain about. we are members of the third world of the NFL, Kansas City, Oakland ,Cleveland.Tampa and us. are so far down the list that we have no future this year. we are underwhelmed with a 20 yard quarterback and a Im ok your ok head coach. I do not even ask the players to play with pride as they have nothing left to be proud of. I know that many will delude themselves into believing we can come back, but as long as this team is lead as it is it will not happen. I really would love to be wrong. but it is not to be. Next week we get to see the worst of the worst and it will be messy. I guess i did find something to complain about.

Chat:
Participant = I am predicting Dick Jauron gets fired tomorrow. Your thoughts?
Florio = Who takes his place? Bobby April?

And it’s Cower. Yes he may be expensive but he’ll be worth every penny. He’s a rust belt type of guy that is used to smaller market teams with a bloodthirsty fanbase. He will make the players accountable, won’t cater to TO and will bring a swagger and cockiness to the team IMMEDIATELY. A team mirrors the personality of the coach and while Gruden may make the facial expressions, yell and act like Cower, he’s just a Cower wannabe.

Pay the money, get someone legit in here and you won’t have to keep looking for stars like TO . Cower will make EVERYONE play up to their potential. And I bet he wouldn’t mind coming here and having the possibility of facing Pittsburg.

I want to thank all you guys for your insightful comments. i have said many of the same things but lack the skills you do. buffalo has been on a acceptance of mediocrity for a long time and this needs to stop , but the bills will not pay to elevate their team. And thier are few John Maddens out their. I will be very surprised if their are not some major changes this week. Ok how about Garcia for the rest of the year, would be fun to see TO’s reaction, But he is a employee, lets see if he is a real new and improved version

he couldn’t do worse, I mean, I think he has a pulse.

Although Dexter is an interesting option…

It can’t and won’t happen. Two words: Rooney Rule. Unless the Bills bring in minority candidates to interview along with Gruden, Shanahan or whoever, it can’t happen. Sure, they could “interview” Perry Fewell, but would that even count? Would he even take the interview knowing he’s not a viable candidate? Does he want to be a HC? Etc….

There’s so much more that goes into a hiring decision, that you can’t just do it in the middle of the season.

Trent is even doing the “need to watch the tape” bit now too. WTF, I don’t think all this tape watching is doing any good. Are they even practicing or just watching tape all week?

Terrible game. I just don’t see how it can get much better. We are weak, injured, and the NFL game is geting to our QB, and the coaches are not helping him. At least when you are exciting on offense and giving up points to lose, it leaves some positivity…but not here.
I like most of our players…but Trent is losing my confidence and this is a QB’s league

…is every year supposedly different from the previous year?
…are our coaches consistantly failures?
…do injuries seemingly ruin any hope we have each year?
…does our MLB break his arm every other year?
…is our OL constantly below average?
…does our QB never pan out to be the prospect he was?
…is Ralph Wilson in the NFL hall of fame?
Ugh.