Bills offense looks to put up positive, meaningless performance

upto a few years ago, the better the Bills did in preseason the worse they did in the regular season. Why worry about these games when we are not using more than three tenths of our playbook. Maybe it is a cunning plan from the coaching staff to catch the pats off guard.

Meaningless in actually counting yes, but it is not meaningless when we talk about the confidence that Trent needs to have or the coaches and offensive players need to have in Trent. No matter how much positive spin the players put on it there are internal concerns about him. Just look at Jauron’s comments about Trent or even Trent’s comments to the media about “you throwing the passes” or calling out the coaching staff. At some point he needs to have confidence in his abilities and the WR/TE’s ability to be in the right place at the right time. Making mistakes cannot dominate his thoughts during a game.

Trentative Checkwards

Ha ha. Awesome.

Still, the most important part of pre-season is staying healthy.

I wouldn’t mind if Edwards went out in the pre-season and threw all two yard passes. If throwing a deep ball means having a receiver come down hard on a rib (Steve Johnson), that’s when I have problems.

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they’ll turn it up a notch when the games count.” Guess what? So will the Bills.

Given Buffalo’s inability to ‘turn it up’ offensively over the past several years I remain firmly in my believe-it-when-I-see-it mode. Yes, TO provides a glimmer of hope that defenses will have to respect the pass in a way they haven’t….but it remains to be seen how it works out in reality.

I hope the entire offensive line is spending just about every waking moment reviewing the thousands of different pressure looks from 3-4 defenses or it won’t matter if TO is on the field or not.

They will be ok this season, not great but good enough to win some games and maybe enough to make a go at the play-offs. They looked good last year until some injuries, and i cannot believe that we are not better than last year. Everyone was high until the last PRE-season game. It will be OK. If not, then we play again next year.

Great title, Brian. Great reference to the Steelers game last year, too. It really puts the whole preseason into perspective.

It works both ways. Last pre-season, the Bills played the Steelers in Toronto – and the first-team offense ripped Pittsburgh’s soon-to-be champion defense to shreds. This was a Bills offense that did not, by the way, feature Owens – oh, and Jason Peters was in the midst of a holdout as well. Yet Edwards completed 9 of 11 passes for 104 yards, with two touchdowns to Robert Royal, of all people. He convered a 3rd-and-12 with a 22-yard scramble. What did that exciting performance mean for the offense’s prospects in 2008? Diddly squat. Do you think Steelers fans lost any sleep over their performance, or marveled at that kid wonder quarterback who shredded their defense? I sincerely doubt it.

That was a 3-4, and w still got our asses handed to us by every team in the division…and our offense was bad. I want to see some more positivity, but mostly not losing the ball.

Anyway…I guess you are right that it is meaningless, but for the fans, a TD would be nice

it will be a worry until 9-14….and in many a fan’s eyes, still after that. Here’s hoping all of our monday night parties last 4 quarters

While watching pre-season games I look for execution. Not big plays or high scores. Of course you don’t want to turn the ball over in any game or practice. Someone posted earlier regarding our vanilla pre-season offense. Very true. Hard to get a true gauge on how the offense is going to work with playground plays. How many plays have we run with TO, Evans, and Reed on the field together? Plus I think the no huddle will be run a lot faster in the regular season. This will make a huge difference.

Onto the Patriots, I hate them. (Okay I feel better). I agree with Brian. The perception is that they are perfect and untouchable. Every year they get a draft grade “A”, but when you look back, where are their draft picks? I believe I read an article about that topic earlier this month on here.
Maybe it’s because I am a fan, and as Bills fans we are always optimistic going into the season. That’s the beauty of Football, any given Sunday, any given year.

you can’t convince anyone, anything based on pre-season. The Lions went 4-0 last year in the pre-season. It’s an argument you can win, cuz even if the Bills looked flawless all pre-season, well it’s just pre-season. However, I want to see the offense come out with some swagger for a change. I want to see someone make a freaking play. And the RED zone scares the bejeepers out of me, and I think it would go a long ways for this offense, if they could get down in the Red Zone and produce a TD. Actions speak louder than words, and I don’t care if its pre-season or regular season, it’s still a game and it’s still about beating your opponent.

The biggest concern should be that the Bills led by Captain Checkdown have only produced 3 points in 3 games whether it is pre-season or not that is unacceptable. Wins or losses shouldn’t matter but the progression of getting better each game should.
The Packer game was just an old fashion ass kicking. This weekends game will tell us a lot about the Bills, another poor performance shouldn’t be shrugged off—-it could be what we might what’s in the future for the up coming season.

Just remember TE was injured quite often when he played in college and only played 1 full year season without getting hurt. Then he sustains a major concussion last year to go along with a shoulder injury and broken foot he suffered in college——maybe just maybe that could be the reason behind the consistent check downs….

I remember seeing a replay of a Houston Gamblers game with a young Jim Kelly at the helm. Early in the game, Kelly tossed the ball right into the mitts of a rushing lineman, who intercepted the pass and rumbled into the end zone for a defensive TD. At the time, I thought, what an idiot (to the QB)—this was the worst interception I had ever seen and the DE was a few feet in from to him. Kelly just shook it off and then proceeded to toss 3 TD’s and win the game. This is what always frustrated me about Kelly, but I really miss it now. TE needs a heaping portion of the"I don’t give a SH@#" attitude. He has the talent to make more great plays than bad ones if he seizes the opportunity.

Something to think about…

Belichick gets great results by:

1.) Taking a military like approach to game plans by focusing on the enemy (opponent). I’ve never seen a team modulate their offense/defense as much as the Patriots. Take their offense during 2004 Super Bowl run into consideration. They played the spread against the Jags huge powerful defense, then went completely smash-mouth with 2 TE’s in the AFC Championship game versus Indy’s Tampa-2, then became a west coast team in the Super Bowl against Phily’s 46D. They do the same on defense, ie: they completely switch to the 4-3 when playing Indianapolis in order to place DT’s over the Indy guards (preventing some trapping, etc).

2.) New England then goes and gets players who are intelligent enough to make the mental changes required.

3.) No Patriot ever gets put into a position to do something he can’t do.

Knowing this… why would Jauron come out with anything but a vanilla offense and defense? Why give the Pats more film to study? We know that if Belichick knows what’s coming, he’ll counter it.

Belichick without film to study is like a ho without a street corner. Lost.

while preseason performances may not be indicative of how the team will play during the regular season, as a fan, you still want to see your team produce. no matter the insignificance of the game, i would much rather see my team produce points and be efficient than not. maybe that performance against Pittsburgh last year didn’t mean much, but i’m sure it helped trent’s and the offense’s confidence; after all, we did start off 5-1. i’m simply of the opinion that good performances will undoubtedly help one’s confidence, regardless of significance of the game.

and I was really disappointed in the O-Line play. I found that they really sucked. I also found that BJ Raji is an absolute machine, he will be devastating this year. WOW what an impressive DT, there’s a play where they had him take a step then drop back 5-6 into coverage – man for a big guy he can move!

Brian notes our thumping of the Steeler’s #1 D last preseason, well here is another thing to think about.

The Detroit Lions went last season 4-0 in the preseason and looked like a REAL team the whole time, they then went into the regular season and made bad NFL history by being the first 0-16 team, preseason means squat gang.

This team can beat New England, NYJ and Miami.

The defense allowed 20 points to the Pats on the road, and 13 at home. With or without Brady, that’s not bad. And we can run on that defense.

Up to the point Edwards threw the pick-6 to Elam, we were dominating the Jets at home. Go watch the game… you’ll see it. The game in NY speaks for itself. The Jets can’t stop our running game.

The Toronto Miami game another part of the JP Losman joke. But we were up on them in Miami, 16-7 five minutes into the 2nd half. If we don’t put McGee on Ginn, and Peters plays like an All-Pro, we win.

The NE game is huge. If we win that game, the confidence gained will carry through the entire season. Confidence will solve almost every issue that we talk about.

Me? I show nothing in the pre-season for Belichick to use.

I love Edwards as our quarterback. With the offensive line that we have though, I would be a little trentative too, back there. With a strong offensive line, I think we could put Korrupt back there, and he would succeed. I’m just so disappointed that our line hasn’t been addressed for so long. I think we should have made Peters play out his contract. I like some of these young guys we have right now, but they seem a few years away from being ready. Also, why aren’t we using Parrish like Wes Welker? Am I wrong to think that Parrish could be just as productive? I kind of feel as though it is the play calling. Maybe I’m wrong. Go Bills.

The Bills need to put Parrish in motion instead of the majority of times splitting him out wide where a defender can get his hands on him at the line of scrimmage. In motion he has a running start and would be harder to contain.