Nice FanPost, Andy. Bumping this to the front page, because starting today, I’m going to try to do more of that. Notice, Rumblers: if you’ve got something to say and you present it as well as Andy did (or as well as other FanPosts that you’ve seen bumped), I’ll bump it. Gotta get more love for y’all, because y’all are smart.

As for your thoughts…

1. - Buffalo actually used quite a bit of pre-snap motion against Houston. Owens did most of the moving, but Evans and Reed were motioned as well. They also faked the reverse to Owens quite a bit, which perfectly set up his TD run. We need to see more of it, but for now, the coaches appear to recognize the need for it, if only from a defense-diagnosing standpoint.

1. - Again, saw more of this against Houston. Have also seen Owens/Evans line up on the same side of the field a bunch of times in the last 2-3 weeks.

1. - Agreed completely. Possibly our best drive of the season, aside from the fourth-quarter score in NE, was the drive against TB where we ran 5-wide on every play. I realize the drive ended in an Edwards pick, but Tampa had NO CLUE how to slow us down on that drive, and we marched down the field with ease. We need that occasional wrinkle to make a return.

1. - I’m OK with that, but I thought he was doing a lot of it to begin with.

more formations and let Trent audible

Those are the most important, because it lends itself to the bills offense being too predictable. Imgin hitting TO in the slot… it would be great. Hell, my Madden gameplan is much more complex than this.

can anyone explain, just why our offense got less complex after two soiid games… makes no sense

Opponents wouldn’t know what to do if Buffalo even just lined up TO and Evans to one side or motioned one over. I’m also for motioning Jackson from the backfield to the slot position.

Is it allowed to put receivers closer to the middle where the line is?? Could you line Owens and Evans inside the hash mark? I think you could run a route slashing out towards the sideline and the back in or up. I’m not sure if that would work, just haven’t seen anything like that. (Like a double slot, but with both guys on the same side.)

You forgot the most obvious one…

Bench Lynch and make Fred Jackson the rightful starter at RB.

I agree with a lot of it.

I have hated this offense all year, and not just because of the lack of production. My biggest problem is the lack of creativity in the play design and formations. These formations and plays are so simple and lack so few wrinkles that it isn’t exactly difficult to diagnose what is going on as a defense.

I guess that’s because of the Pop Warner offense and all, but there’s no reason this offense can’t start throwing out more formations and playcalls.

I totally agree with your #3. Gimme some 4 and 5 WR sets. Put Josh Reed in the backfield in passing situations. Line up in a trips right or left, including in a bunch. Etc, etc, etc. Don’t just keep lining up in the same formations every play. Didn’t the Texans LB’s talk about how simplistic our offensive formations and plays were??

TO needs to be in motion a lot. It’d help get him freed up of the line much easier, something that had been talked about in the offseason. We haven’t seen a lot of it, but they have put him in motion more and more. It seems when he goes in motion, we fake a handoff to him after handing off to the RB or actually give it to him. There needs to be more than that. I’d love to see a fake to the RB, fake to TO and bomb to Evans. Unfortunately, I don’t think the OL can handle that.

Nice observation on #2. If that is the case, then Edwards really can’t read a D. Any QB who sees that needs to audible into something with TO as the hot route. That’s pretty ridiculous. Putting TO and/or Evans in the slot more will also give the team the ability to get Steve Johnson on the field more. He isn’t a slot, but could become a solid outside WR for us. I want to see more of him.

granted I never get to see the games as I always work on Sundays and live on the wrong coast and have yet to stay at a Holiday inn (regular or express) so therefore……I lose.

“Boy, that escalated quickly… I mean, that really got out of hand fast.”

Anyways back on topic…..Bunch formations…..good for flooding zone coverage…….or creating “picks” for man to man coverage.

Used the bunch extensively during my HS football coaching tenure. Very successful if done properly.

Looking back, I’m mind-boggled how I – like so many other Bills-fans – thought this offense would be successful this year given the inconvenient fact that we had a young, inexperienced, cagey QB and a yet-to-be-determined O-line that lacked experience and cohesion as well. In addition to having a rookie OC, who was announced OC just ten days before the season opener.

Boy, we should have seen this coming…

has been so bad that I’m in favor of trying anything different. However, I believe that good teams execute and bad teams scheme. The old Packers had about 6 plays.

- Get our young guys on the field at WR. We need to see what we have in Hardy and Johnson. We know what we have in Reed (and his contract is up this season).

- This one is out there, but we’re desperate. Play an offensive lineman in the backfield. Not even kidding here. Hangartner and Chambers are getting blown backwards every other play. We need an extra body to protect the QB. Have someone like McKinney play as a fullback type player and just block who ever gets free. Trent is going to literally get killed if we don’t protect him. Yes we lose one extra receiver, but this pocket is collapsing like a whoopee cushion every down.

- The direct snap to Jackson and Lynch should be half of our game plan from now on.

- When Trent is in the game, force him to throw every down. No more conservative Dick ball. Let’s see if he can throw for 300 yards if you throw it literally every time he gets a snap.

- Hire a damn consultant. The offense is one of the worst in the league, and we’er not looking for any help to make it better. We fired our offensive coordinator before the season started, and we promoted the QB coach. So we’ve got an offensive coordinator with no experience coordinating, and we didn’t care to replace the QB coach. This doesn’t take rocket science… hire someone to help consult this offense on how to play football.

Ok, I’m done with my rant.