Bills QB Edwards Enjoying His Best Pro Preseason

I admit, I really felt the “open” competition wasn’t very “open” for the QB spot. But it is clear that Edwards deserves the starting nod.

I am still concerned at having a #1 QB whom is as injury-proned as Edwads.

But his will suffice.

I said it all along, the problem wasn’t Trent, it was Jauron and the Oline.

Now you can see just how little Jauron knew about offensive strategy. Seriously, I think the Lancaster HS coach could run circles around Jauron when it comes to understanding offense. It was really that BAD!

Gailey despite the OL problems has done a nice job of hiding them through strategy. Crossing patterns, screens, play action calls in the appropriate spot to keep defenses off balance. You really can’t understand how important is, unless you have played footbal and been fooled by them on D. Then you can really understand, just how much offensive strategy can effect a D.

Captain Checkdow, that stupid “Hey there
Trent Edwards” song, I hope this just shuts up the haters (And I was even thinking of you Jason from Ohio). The idioots on Talk radio are not even qualified to talk football (cough wgr 550) Schopp even admitted when he was a kid on air he tried to be the refferee when pickup football games happened.

I said it before, and I will say it again, Trent can be a very good quarterback, especially in a west coast system style. That TD to Roscoe is an example, trent reloaded to hit him in stride on a crossing pattern. Nice Job.

Hopefully Gailey knows more about defense, than Jauron knew about offense (Which was zilch). Even if he is doesnt, it’s much more entertaing to watch a team with a good offense and a bad defense, then it is to watch a team with a bad offense and a good defense.

Nice job so far on the O Chan!

I hope doubters are beginning to realize that CHIX know what they are doing and that they are resolutely setting about their plan. Season 1- complete up-close evaluation of players at key positions, such as QB, LT etc. Potential of existing players needed to be considered in light of having a head coach who knew offense and was capable of getting the best out of his players. I think CHIX saw the potential in Edwards, Bell and some others and wanted a year to work with these guys before trashing all of them in favor of more established vets or high draft picks. If Trent continues to his preseason success, and truly becomes a franchise quality QB, then we have saved money and/or a #1 pick for a position player of greater need. Let’s keep him healthy for the season and see what he really has to offer.

I think CHIX saw the potential in Edwards, Bell and some others and wanted a year to work with these guys before trashing all of them in favor of more established vets or high draft picks

I think you are right, but I am still not sold on Bell, he has the talent. But as someone who has played alot of football in the trenches when I was younger as a DE and OT, I can tell you playing on the OL is a different beast. I think Bell might just be too nice a guy for LT. Bullies make nice OL, people who like to hit people and knock em down, you really need a killer instinct, where you can really unload your frustrations on the guy you are blocking without getting out of control. I really liked the Wood pick, I would have loved Bulaga, or Faneca. I hope Bell can do it, but I think he may be just a bit too soft for the NFL, time will tell.

“They were playing the run very hard to start with,” Gailey said. “After we saw that, we figured we had to throw it a bunch to soften them up a little bit, and I thought we were able to do that.”-Bflo News

In 2009 we had a decent running game, but our offense’s playbook was weak. Now, teams know Spiller is a scoring threat whenever he’s on the field and the defense has to account for him on every play. Play action is freezing defenses, opening up passing routes and making our O-line look good.

Your doing good at proving me wrong about you. cSo far ;-)

It is amazing what an accomplished Play caller can do for an offense.

I think it’s amazing what a unified voice in a young QB’s ear can do. For so long Trent has had different coordinators, different head coaches and different QB coaches, this all means different evaluations and expectations from each. It’s impossible to keep all those straight in your mind…especially with every member of an opposing defense bearing down on you through your swiss cheese Oline. Now he has one voice in his ear and that voice knows how to gameplan for his players. The results are really starting to show. Keep it up Trent, Chan and GO BILLS!

this team was POORLY COACH by Dick and is staff

Not the DB’s they were well coached (it seems we could be called CB U), and the DL was starting to make some progress,

everywhere else, not so much.

Here’s a very important observation – I know it’s the preseason, but about five minutes into the second quarter Trent Edwards had already completed a pass to EVERY starting player with receiver eligibility. He completed passes to L. Evans, Parrish, S. Johnson, Stupar, David Nelson on a nice throw, hit Spiller in the second quarter, and even hit Corey McIntyre on a beautiful screen play for 16 yards. Best yet – and maybe most impressive to me – Edwards took a calculated gamble on a 3rd and 7 early in the second and just missed L. Evans streaking down the left sideline on a long bomb under pressure (he actually had a step on the cb). Edwards missed, sure, but it put a seed of doubt in the Bengals’ heads – remember to pay attention to L. Evans. – The next play from Edwards after that missed bomb was a 28-yard pass to Roscoe Parrish to open the next drive.

Now, if we read all the reports about how Jauron never made adjustments and how Gailey has been all over S. Johnson for making every route look the same for predictability’s sake, maybe… just maybe… Edwards can do this.

And to the whole first team offense including Jarmon Meredith. Converting 3rd downs, moving the chains, scoring touchdowns on the ground and in the air. Pretty scary stuff here. Still bottom line, great job Trent.

Trent can lead his receivers. I think this myth has been busted.

you could have stopped the story right here

Bills QB Edwards Enjoying

And while I know that this is only the pre-season, I haven’t been this encouraged by his play since he was a rookie.

Keep up the good work Trent, and please, please, PLEASE, don’t turn into captain cheackdown again.

Preseason play DEFINITELY matters. The way Jauron went about the preseason was deplorable; he flat out refused to use the preseason to get the team (and the quarterbacks in particular) in a rhythm heading into the season. I can’t wait to see the replay on the NFL Network tomorrow night and I hope Edwards played as well as his stats suggest he did…also, CJ Spiller has almost single handedly given me the gift of anticipation for the 2010 Bills season. Gailey and Nix have at least given me a reason to get pumped up for Sundays in the Fall again. Since mid-2008, the NFL was totally ruined for me for the first time in my life and game days were actually a chore in all honesty because the team had no plan other than trying to survive jauron’s absurd contract extension as long as possible…bring on the(wildly overrated) Fish. can’t wait to kick off.

 We’re seeing productivity from him because Chan is simply a much better coach than Jauron. Trent has been the product of bad coaching and poor protection throughout his entire career. He finally has a system and scheme that fits him.

So many jumping right back on the trent bandwagon after a preseason. Jake delhomme has looked nasty over in Cleveland too guys. No doubt trent has looked magnificent, taking a good shot deep to Evans, finding Roscoe for big gains almost every time he goes to him, looking like a new man and leader and seeming to be working on a connection with lee.

But everyone needs to settle down. Chan gailey is going to make our guys look good, he did it with Tyler thigpen. If some want to reannoint trent the franchise again before week 1 I’d just say fool me once….fool me twice?

Ya’ll are seemingly forgetting, in the midst of your relentless trashing of jauron, that Edwards has looked this good before – in the regular season – under dick jauron! I believe in trent but I won’t place faith in him again until he proves he can lead this team for 16 real games. I caution against this preseason rejoicing. Its reactions like this which breed songs mocking trent and create nicknames like captain checkdown – you’ll just create more trent hate if you try and hype him in the preseason.

If he performs well this year, everyone wins. If he stinks it up, the Bills will falter to the bottom of the standings and we’ll very likely take a top college QB in the draft. Win-win.

TE BABY! I’m sorry, but I always liked TE (my TT love aside) and thought he could be a better than average QB. I think his coaching before now was terrible and thats what was a big reason for his “failing.” I love that he is doing better, and I hope that all this confidence will lead to a great season. Nothing would make me happier than TE pulling it together and being the franchise for the next ten years!