Vote: Most disappointing 2009 Buffalo Bill

if there was an ‘all of the above’ option i’d click it with the force of the Hammer of Thor

Clearly as Trent goes, this offense goes. His struggles have caused this season to take the downward turn it has. QB is the most important position in the NFL and therefore he is my biggest disappointment.
TO can hardly be as disappointing as Trent, because if Trent had been better, so would have TO.
We all knew Marshawn would miss 3 games and that would affect his season as a whole. Maybe we didn’t expect it to be this bad, but that being said, his production was expected to take a hit and therefore he was not as big of a disappointment.
To the same respect, Bell was not a huge disappointment because expectations were low, at least from a fan perspective. Injuries have held back an already rocky development for Bell this year.
Maybin: Right Player, Wrong Idea? YES. They Bills FO was pressured to do something about the pass rush and they made a bad decision on Maybin. He is a project and this organization needed an immediate impact player. I haven’t given up on this kid, because as I said I think he is a project. He has been highly disappointing however, but I still have him lower than Trent on this list.

I can’t get the voting to work on my phone, but I’d go with Edwards. I think most of us thought he might be a decent QB, at the very least, going into the season. Now we have people calling for a guy signed off GB’s practice squad. ’Nuff said.

And I’m guessing the Maybin hate will begin shortly, woo hoo.

79%? I think we have a winner.

Trent…by a mile
Bell…but he probably wasn’t ready to assume starting LT this year
Marshawn
Maybin
Others

I wouldn’t even put Owens on the list.

Couldnt get it done……….Moving on.

This is like picking the sharpest butter knife. (Sadly, the only PC analogy I could come up with). Failure all the way around…

Kept our offense in the No huddle for four or five games longer than he should of.

Uber dissappointing, but I’m not ready to write him off…yet.
Don’t play him for the rest of the season to: a.) keep him physically out of harms way; b.) prevent further damage to his presently fragile psyche; c.) further deliver the message that a consistent diet of 3 yard check-downs aren’t going to cut it. Hopefully he’s in the QB competition next year and seizes the opportunity to turn his career around. But I hope the new regime brings in a legitimate starting QB Trent would have to outplay, not another third stringer with little upside.

I put down Trent. I thought about Maybin, but I blame that more on the Bills FO then on him, Bell the same thing, we all knew before the season started he needed at least another season, but he was thrown into the fire anyways. It’s hard to gauge Lynch with this O-line

Man-o-man, Brian, the content on this page sure is getting dismal; incidentally, this post reminds me of a great Christmas family tradition of mine, wherein my father, at Christmas dinner, decides which of his sons has been a bigger disappointment in the preceeding year: “Well, son, you were quite the disappointment this year—but not as a big a disappoinment as your brother!” Hooray, I win

I understand the point of Brian’s exercise, but thinking through each selection on his list, I kept thinking: “well, he disappointed because of (x)”, with (x) being some external factor that did not put the player in a position to succeed. When that happens for EVERY player, you come to realize that the problems are much more systemic, and that means the blame lies directly at the feet of the Brain Trust.

Keep in mind, that doesn’t mean I don’t find these players disappointing. For all I know, they could all be disappointing. My point is, they haven’t been given the chance to show what they could do, in order to give us the opportunity to accurately evaluate them in the first place.

This is an extremely knowledgeable board, so I don’t have to go into detail about each player to illustrate what I mean. You guys can probably fill in the blanks before I do. Suffice it to say:

1. Trent – dealt with new offensive scheme, new offensive coordinator right before the season began, completely overhauled offensive line with question marks at almost every OL position.

2. Marshawn – if I had to vote, he would probably get it, especially for his suspension, which is completely his fault. On the field, though, he had to deal with the same issues Trent did above.

3. Terrell – you can’t make plays when you have a shell-shocked QB not throwing you the ball.

4. Demetrius – assuming that a raw talent, widely regarded to be a developmental project, barely more than a rookie, could somehow be dropped in and start on arguably the most important OL position is wishful thinking, at best.

5. Aaron – like Brian said, Maybin has tons of talent, but almost everyone—save for the Bills front office—realized that he is a draft for the future. Expecting him to contribute right away is a function of unrealistic expectations, not a “disappointment” in the sense we are discussing right now.

Once again, my point is, the problems run soooo deep on this team, the biggest disappointment has to be the front office. Hell, the fact that I have to refer to them as the “Brain Trust”, because they use this ridiculous management-by-committee or whatever they call it, without a clear-cut GM with an even clearer vision, shows just how rudderless this ship is.

My first instinct is to go with Bell because he was the guy they picked to replace the guy who replaced Peters. Bell’s starting meant Walker was expendable, and instead of moving him back to RT, they said ciao. No on can argue the point that he’d be much better for this line at RT, than anyone else in there now.

I want to vote Edwards but I don’t see how ANY QB playing behind this line succeeds. Fitzpatrick’s best work has come on fire-alarm plays. He’s not playing better than Edwards in routine downs/work. i think Edwards would have made something of this season with a different coaching staff. It’s funny how his biggest fan let him down the most, isn’t it?

Lynch’s most disappointing act was his off-field behavior. I don’t find his body of work to be a disappointment because I was honestly expecting it from him this year.

Maybin might have made more of his year if he didn’t hold out. I have no ability to assess his play at this point in the season. That stinks.

Owens brings it every week, but the problem is there’s very little ability bringing it to him regularly. He’s 36 and still as talented and productive as Lee Evans @29 is on this team. People will continue to look at his drops and his stats being up/down respectively, but when Evans, Reed, and all those guys standing on the sideline can’t make plays, I begin to look at things differently.

So, I choose D-Bell. The team goes as the line goes. So, it seems to me that Demetrius Bell’s spending a lot of time in the can.

The whole team is a disappointment. They lost to the Cleveland Browns, can never get a sustained put together, are at the bottom in defensive and offensive rankings for the whole NFL – The only bright spot from this organization is Jairus Byrd! And possibly Fred
Jackson – This is one of the worst teams in the NFL – What is the point of arguing which part of the team is bad, when there is nothing good to say! Period……..

It has to be Edwards. He was the guy that we put the most faith in, that we planed our entire offense around and that had the most tools and potential to lead our team. And instead of exploding onto the scen he imploded into imfamy.

Anybody could see that Edwards lost it last year and playing him behind a crappy line with a bunch of rookies was going to spell disaster, so I can’t be disappointed in him.

Lynch had a huge falloff in productivity that I didn’t expect.

…if it weren’t for the massive injuries on the offensive line, I think he would have been able to adjust. No quarterback, no matter how skilled, can deal with his offensive line being devastated as the Bills’ line was.

Hard to vote for Lynch for the same reason. Lynch’s bread and butter is between the tackles and they can’t block effectively because of the injuries and the personnel shuffling. Of course, I voted for him anyway.

The rest haven’t panned out either, but no shortcomings had the most decisive impact on our team as Trent.

I was hoping Edwards would take the next step forward but he took three back. That’s why I’m disappointed in him.

The cushion of disappointment with Lynch is Jackson, Owens has Trent to blame, Bell was incredibly inexperienced, I didn’t expect much from Maybin….

easy … most important spot on the team.. he looked like a qb the 1st game of the year as far as managing the game , they almost won.. wk 2 he throws a great ball all game against a tampa team that isnt good but i would say thier defense is way better than thier offense, they win. he has been M.I.A. since. With the hopes of a quaterback of the future he has let all bills fans down the most by far as most of us now say “Fitzpatrick gives us a better chance to win”. Doesnt get more dissapointing than that.