Bills' Edwards entering uncharted pressure territory

I know Im a big Trent homer……blah blah blah…..but it wouldnt matter if Johnny freaking U was reincarnated and QB’ing this club…….it wouldnt work right now.

Nothing about this team works right now.

The NFL is sink or swim and Trent is sinking faster that a mob hit that was fitted for cement shoes.

Saying Trent was set up to fail is ridiculous. Sure, we haven’t had the greatest receiving talent, OL or competent coaching, but at some point doesn’t Trent have to rise up on his own? For once, wouldn’t it be nice if he made the players/team around him better? He has regressed, or at the very least shown little to no improvement. He hasn’t shown the chops to lead this team and definitely hasn’t shown any consistency or ability to put points on the board. He plays tentative and timid and I find it hard to it’s because he was set up to fail….

too bad that league’s the usfl, looks like edwards and losman could be competing for the starting job in vegas. is it just me or is edwards taking styling lessons from losman, not shaving and the “just rolled out of bed” haircut?

Joke why? its true that both are not really starters in the nfl, but both are excellent back ups. maybe Buffalo can trade for Vick, Eliminate his pet problems and the guy could drive teams crazy with his running and throwing to Evans and Owens. add our running game and get rid of no huddle. Or we can continue with what we have. Do you think Garcia would play here?

OK, honestly, folks – and I’m talking to everybody here – I get that you’re pissed off and sick to death of watching this franchise suck. But seriously, these types of comments add very little to the general discourse here.

Can’t we please, pretty please, just have a rational, substantial conversation?

he certainly isnt costing this team much financially………….um………hello Jamarcus Russell.

That’s more of a symptom of the NFL today, though. Everyone wants to win now, even though history proves over and over that players need time to develop. You don’t need to look any further than the number of first round flameouts at QB. Brady was taken in the 6th as a compensentory pick and then given time to develop in the Pats’ system.

Throwing a QB into the fire almost never works out — there are more Leafs than Mannings — but that’s exactly what the Bills have done since Kelly left, and in Trent’s case, it’s behind the greenest line in the NFL. Not a recipe for success, in my opinion.

he was the 1st overall pick, you don’t bail on a 1st round pick, let alone a 1st overall pick very quickly. there’s a reason guys that are drafted in the mid to late rounds are expendable. Cap hits/dumping there contract is much easier to do. if edwards was making 8-12 mill a year, he’d have another couple of seasons to go. but he was a 3rd round pick, in other words, expendable.

unless he continues to implode and gets even worse.

His contract is so cheap that it shouldn’t be a problem keeping him around as the seatwarmer or backup.

Wasn’t Peyton 3-13 his first year? I would call him a great player, but I don’t think he made great plays until he was surrounded by other good players. Like his Pro Bowl linemen, for example.

We’re discussing if Edwards is done or not in his 3rd season.

Quinn has played 6 total NFL games, two with a broken thumb on his throwing hand, and a lot of folks on this board have already written him off.

Drawing those conclusions on Quinn after six games would challenge a professional scout, much less amateurs, as we all are.

Vince Young, Alex Smith, Cade Mcnown………

It’s a crap shoot my man…..

I think our O-line needs to get healthy and probably add some depth but a complete make-over is a bit extreme.

So just throw away our TWO top picks in the draft and scrap them after 4 games of experience? BRILLIANT!!!!

There is no way you could make a complete makeover at this point. It would seem that they would benefit from bringning in a vetran or two to help out the lines struggles. Chambers is lost right now and needs a lot more time to make it.
   As far as Trent goes, why not bring in Garcia and allow Trent to rebuild his confidence? Maybe with a little time and work he can become the QB that Buffalo has looked for for the past 10 years.
 I realize that there are differences between Garcia and T.O. The first thing you would have to do would be to bring T.O. and Garcia into a room and sit them down, but they are grown men and it is not about them.

That wasn’t because of how the cards fell. We were thoroughly dominated.

9-4 is attainable with what remains of their schedule?!

I’d be surprised if there were any QB’s who didn’t have much team success in HS…

Ryan Leaf , Joey Harrington, and David Carr are proof that mental cases aren’t something teams are willing to ride out.

I’m ready to see this as well, and it’s a really good point. Even in the first two wins, I never saw anything from Edwards that wow-ed me. It was like he was just there and Freddie was the star, which, I think, is all Edwards will ever be even at his best. He’ll be a “there” quarterback. A Brad Johnson, a Kerry Collins (in the later years), a Baltimore Ravens Trent Dilfer.

Belief in his teammates or himself. Well put, Afghan. I think that’s part of what is missing.

I know Tony Romo isn’t playing well right now, nor are the Cowboys as a team. But on the last drive for the Cowboys yesterday, Romo faced a 4th and 4 (or so) around midfield. Romo dropped back and was pressured, but he stepped up into the pocket and rolled out to his left. He ran towards the line like he was going to try and run for it, but then he stopped on a dime and lofted a perfect sidearm pass to Sam Hurd, who ran a great make-shift scramble route and ended up with a 40 yard catch and run.

It was right after the end of the Bills’ game, and I thought to myself, “Trent takes a sack there or throws to the running back for 1 yard and expects him to make a play for the first down.”

I’m ready to see him be a playmaker. I can think of maybe 10 plays where Trent was the main factor in a “wow” moment for me. In 27 starts. The end-games against the Raiders and Jags last year come to mind originally. He made a nice throw late in the Redskins game two years ago to get us in FG range for the win. He’s made plays, but at this point he’s not a playmaker in my mind. And I don’t think he’ll ever be.

I’d rather see a mistake-riddled over-confident Tony Romo out there than a Brad Johnson at this point. Man, I can tell I’m just rambling but it’s just so frustrating!

Since he can’t do that, or isn’t good enough to do that, how can we expect much to change or for him to play consistently well all the time?

if by interesting you mean bums. hell, why don’t you throw my name on the list. i can do as much as half these clowns and i’ll take the league minimum. no free agents, we need a QB 1st round. Clausen, McCoy, Bradford. anything less is unexceptable

Did you watch the last 5 games Minnesota played last year he was on fire. His finally matured his ready to do damage in this league, just wait and see when he gets the chance. Remember you heard it here first.

If this is what was advertised, I don’t want it. I love me some Trent but he needs to consistently make the throws you’re talking about.

The Eagles would be silly to get rid of him I think.

how about Thigpen?

I saw a guy that moved an offense with a crappy, crappy team.