Bills Steamrolled By 'Skins In 2010 Pre-Season Debut

It’s still gonna be a long, long year.

Was the play of our interior line (that was supposed to be solid)

Edwards decision making

Maybin getting manhandled consistently

McGee looked horrible in coverage

I have to be thrilled to know I still have a chance at this job……….better come ready to play next week.

a la Gob Bluth???

Did it seem like most of Bills players were playing at like half speed? Joe Thiesmann thought they were tired. Maybin was disappointing, looked like kid playing a mans game. Lots of work to do… Hope Brohm transforms into pro bowl QB!

what was it?

WKBW’s Jeff Russo just tweeted that Fred Jackson’s hand injury will keep him out of the remainder of the pre-season.

Easily the best thing you have ever written Brian…..I would buy you a frozen banana if I could.

That being said, tonight was horrible. And living in DC and putting up with insufferable Redskins fans makes it even worse…

I do have to admit that vomiting would have been entirely justified. I know, it’s preseason, but this kind of display was hard to take. It does look like we are in for a long, ugly season. I would have liked to see Fitzy play the first half, and Brown the second. Brown looks like an actual quarterback in the making… Let’s see Brohm next time around,,,

Here’s to hoping that the injuries suffered are minor ones.

Maybin needs to wear his big boy pants. Skins plowed through him like he was made of cardboard! I know, work in progress but geeeezz..

The first drive was indicative of what we’re going to see this year. I think Gailey opened the offense up on the second and subsequent drives with the idea of passing more than running. The first drive was masterfully called, and the kind of drive that an experienced play caller puts together when he doesn’t have a great quarterback. Buffalo can really lose games big if the offense opens up and makes mistakes or goes 3-and-out a lot. Expect a lot of run, run, run, play action, run, run, short pass, etc.

Maybin needs to play out of a two point stance. When he gets down into a 3- or 4- point stance, he come out like a rocket but gets his upper body way to far in front of his feet, and can’y do much more than bull rush or try to take the corner. His hand fighting was far better out of a two point stance. Hopefully Edwards sees this and has Maybin stand up more.

The blitz packages looked bland. I don’t think that Edwards wanted to show everything that the defense had. That said, the front seven looked fairly stout considering it wasn’t doing much in the way of slanting, twisting, or overload blitzing.

….is the same Trent Edwards we know and hate people. What a joke. At least when Fitz is in there he can run for his life. The good news is that we might be bad enough this year to get a top 5 pick. Actually, scratch the “might” and replace it with “will”.

Maybin’s game must be finesse. Practice them moves Aaron.
In the first two series we had good tempo. Good playcalling. Then it broke down.
Gailey is not using Shawn Nelson wisely. Deliberate?
When Trent threw it downfield he was usually not close. I see no meaningful change from last year.
Regie Corner. Gawd.
Moorman still booms.
McGee should play their slot WR.
What did Scuba Steve do?
In the brief time Chan showed his run game, I liked it. Traps, counters, motion. Good stuff.
I like our NT rotation. We should be fine there.
So how long did Chan show his real offensive strategy? 2 series, mabye 3.
Anyone focus on Jamon? I did not.
And I liked Clausen’s first shot. Anyone else hear the report on his foot injury? They misdiagnosed it as turf toe when in fact he tore two tendons. WTF! With CAT scans the way they are, how can you do that? They repaired them in January. Tendons, if not repaired quickly, will atrophy. Bummer.

It was the first live action this team saw with a new coach and a new scheme on offense and on defense. That being said, the running game looked fantastic tonight, and that was in the very little amount they used it. This being preseason Chan is going to run what needs to be worked on, and that’s the passing game, so don’t read into tonight at all. All those 3-and-outs were because we passed, passed, passed. There’s no way that happens during the regular season.

I was sitting in section 336 and as bad as it was to see it on TV tonight… It was even worse to see it up close and personal… The O-line and defensive backfield were HORRIBLE this evening…

I don’t like Chan’s confidence on 4th and short. Unless he wants more starters to be in there. Com’on man. Show some cajones.

Am I nuts to say that I was rather impressed with our offensive line early in the game with 3 starters out?

Trent had time. What did he do? Double clutched, threw an interception due to hesitation and decides on 3rd and 12 or 13 hey let’s check down. He does not read the defense as well as fitz. I’m sorry but trents throws past 8 yards are horrendous. I was really tryin to pull for him.

Levi looked tight.

What’s up with Brohm? Why didn’t he play

congrats to Maybin for abusing the Skins 3rd and 4th stringers…….way to go.

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to see the second half.

Did Levi play well?

Everyone keeps talking about Fitz and Brohm but does Brown look better than anyone, I got interested when he ran that 2 min drill in prac and did very well.

Any help on this would be great thanks rumblers.

They did not disappoint in that sense, but most of the bright spots were taken away by bad mistakes by the Bills. Lynch and Freddy look ready for the season as you said Brian, and yeah, ummmm, thats all in my book.

Hope the Bills just make up their minds that the unknowns of Brown and Brohm are better than the known crud commodity called Fitzpatrick.

You know, I’d actually like to see a shotgun offense with Levi starting.

Because that’s about the only thing that looked good tonight.

Also, Reggie Corner sucks harder than anything has ever sucked before.

When you not expecting much.. Brian, kudo’s on remembering that episode because it’s so true!

Is anyone else as exited as I am to read Sir Eric’s beautiful article? Eric, I sure hope you’ve started writing it!

Is it just me or our pass coverage looks really bad? The TEs were getting open on every play? I liked the run defense, especially in the beginning but even from the start both their TEs were running freely, this worries me.

That’s all I have to say about this game.

…that when Fewell took over, he was naturally trying to win games when a lot of young guys should have been in there getting experience and probably losing games. Jauron was terrible, and allowing Fewell to think he had a chance at the job if he won was an awful move.

Oh, and start cutting some dead weight from the old regime (i.e. Hardy).

Its like he’s playing a real life version of the game “HORSE” but he’s spelling “BUST.” He put up the “B” last year. Now he’s working on that “U.”

Not a great way to start the season but it is the first pre-season game with a new defense and offense. Let’s see how they progress until the start of the season. It wasn’t going to be easy to rebuild the team. The Bills have to adapt to the 3-4, again it takes time to install the scheme and get the players they need. The foundation is being layed. Nix & comapny will be panning the waiver wires in the weeks to come.

I have no clue to how anyone looked or what the positives are but the score sure looked like an ass kicking!!!

I’m sticking to my 5-11 prediction… There will be plenty of ugly games until mid-season then we shall start seeing the transformation.
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my thoughts were what happened to our Offense after that first drive. The first drive was well planned we ran effectivly and short quick passes to the FB, TE and WR’s. Where did it go after that? After that drive we started going deep and lets face it we dont have an O-line right now that can give Edwards or any QB that kinda time to go deep. I think if we would stick to the run game cause lets face it we have 5 good backs after what i saw last night, and short slants, hit people in the flats, even screen we could be a much better team. And our D I wont even go there, the secondary looked horrible, and the run D idk what to say about that it doesn’t look much better

Why does the only football team in NY not get shown in the capitol of NY State? I don’t get it. Its a Giants territory. YUCK.

Anyways, I got to listen to the game on 97Rock.com, and it seemed the whole game Mark Kelso kept saying that “you learn more from your mistakes”. The Bills must have earned a Bachelor’s degree last night from what I heard. They were plain awful in every aspect of the game. This new coaching staff has done wonders!!!

Maybe the whole team will get put on IR before the season starts and they will have to sign a whole new team. 2 strength and conditoning coaches?!?!? What do these guys get paid for? This team is way ahead of last years pace for the walking wounded. Seems like its gonna be more of the same ol’ Bills for us this season. Yah-friggin-hoo

Awesome AD reference, Brian.

I had a buddy that was less than discriminating in his tastes in women. His theory was to basically find even the smallest trait about a girl and concentrate on that. That’s kind of how I’m approaching last nights game. There was one or two things I liked about how the Bills played (like the play of D. Nelson), and I’ll concentrate on that! Remember it’s only preseason, and the first game at that. Hopefully our girls start getting progressively better looking!

Cornerbacks had numerous chances at INTs and at least two shots for pick sixes. The first one was the obvious drop, but the second one occurred on one of the touchdown passes, the redskins announcers were like "had that ball been thrown well it would have gone 99 yards the other way. That combined with some questionable calls/lack of calls prolonged primarily Redskins drives and skewed the score greatly

I hope he’s given the opportunity while Fitzpatrick sits for the next game.

I think that’s the plan.

Arrested Development was the greatest comedy ever…after watching my DVR of the game, I’ll go with G.O.B.’s “Go back from whence you came!” as I hurl this dead dove of a team into the Pacific Ocean.

The Bills looked awful though the running backs looked great. Maybin needs to be moved all over the line. He was manhandled coming from the outside. I hope our D looks better when they aren’t so vanilla…

Edwards sucks, Fitz sucks. Brown should be the starting QB; what do we have to lose?? Edwards looked just like he did last year…..