Chargers 37, Bills 10: Sixth Straight Loss Means No Playoffs

These played well: Bryan Scott, Stevie Johnson, Justin Rogers, Marcell Dareus, Demetrius Bell.

These didn’t: The rest of the team

do not accept defeat and lay down these last 3 games. show some fight for god sakes. these young players learning how to win and compete at the NFL level is 1000x more important than a few draft slots.
also, fitz’s play was absolutely atrocious today. he could not do anything right and did not even slightly resemble an NFL caliber quarterback.

I am not surprised they lost today, I have really lost confidence in the team since the Dolphins loss. The injuries hurt, no doubt, and there seems to be a lack of leadership on the team with Freddy gone. The things that bother me most is:

1) Fitz’s is not playing to the level of his contract and cannot inspire this team.

2) We can’t cover a tight end to save our lives

3) Gaily’s play calling is getting predictable

4) 3 and 1 is a real crap shoot with this team, and the O-Line has no push

5) The team has looked like it quit at times during the past month

6) Spiller stills tries to bounce his runs outside (FYI, you are now playing in the NFL son)

I understand that this is a work in progress, but it’s really hard to stay positive, especially since I still have season fix and drive 350 miles for home games. Well, enough bitching, time to suck it up and take it like a real Bills fan!

i didnt think these bills would get far this year,but they arent even competetive. they suck . def coord. sucks. fitz seems to suck. thinkin about mailing my remaining season tickets back to obd

why show up? if any of our remaining starters get hurt we start screwing next season too!

Can Merriman’s absence have meant so much to this team? At least they occasionally approached the opposing quarterback with Merriman in the lineup. Pathetic.

the bills should send every reciever on slants every pass play!

Those lucky neighbors of fits that get to go to his house after every Sunday must really have to bite their tongues in the recent month and a half.

I was all about fits but today he was awful. Way too many throws into coverage some of the time and on some others isn’t complete under/over throws. Return to fundamentals young man. As a basketball coach I tell my players to shoot 1000 shots every week pitied of practice to stay sharp. I know your receivers are bad and can’t get open but when they do you need to hit them. Go throw some balls like you did during the lockout. You were amazing coming off that.

Sorry, I was speaking directly to him there and I know he won’t ever know that I was but I really want him to succeed and its not looking like he will.

I was hoping to just save some face with a win today.But i should know better. Now i have to go to work and listen to all the scurvy,dirty jets fans. George Edwards must go, Chan can not be a offensive coordinator and head coach all wrapped up in one. Every time someone signs a big contract they fall apart. I want to say lets get it over and play for picks but what are we going to do with another running back? I really hope someone gets this team that will spend some money and turn things around.

He should be available at 5, no matter what. Depending on how many underclassmen come out (of whom Luck is one), he may even be there at 10.

From the beginning of the game. Here is what the opposition has done on their first three drives in the six losses.

SD – 2 TD’s, 1 FG
Tenn – 2 TD’s, 1 FG
NYJ – 2 punts, 1 TD
Mia – 3 TD’s
Dal – 3 TD’s
NYJ – Int, punt, 1 TD

18 drives result in 11 TD’s and 3 FG’s. That would be good red zone offense, but this is what the Bills give up at the start of the game! It’s so bad it can’t get much worse.

If we start 1-0 they’ll probably give Leo a 9 year contract extension worth a cuatrillion dollars, Nix gets the keys to the city, and Edwards the keys to my house and cars, and maybe even if Ralph is feeling good he’ll give DJ signed for a couple of million to thank him built this team for that one victory.

This is a pathetic franchise we fans don’t deserve this.

After giving myself time to cool off of another pathetic loss, I really think I know what our problem is. No confidence. We can blame it on injuries – which I think can be justified – but we lost our confidence after that first Jets loss. We came in that game expecting to win and we got whipped. However, I place that loss – which was the tipping point for our current derailing – solely upon the shoulders of Chan Gailey and his coaching staff. He knew or should have known how important winning that game would have meant to us and how it would have affected our young psyche. Going up against a divisional foe like the Jets who are our version of Goliath requires much better planning than what Gailey did. Throw in the fact that they had an extra week to prepare for us with the defense they already have. Gailey should have changed up his gameplan for that crucial matchup like the steelers did when they beat the pats and like gailey did against the Jets the second time around. I would bet that if we came out with the gameplan we had in game 2 in game 1 with all of our starters in place and healthy, we would have blown them out the water! Why? because we would have caught them off guard. They had 2wks to prepare for our spread, quick slant game and what did we give em? Exactly what they were expecting and had 2 wis to gameplan against. We came out I’ll prepared and flat. We had to take that heart breaking defeat into 3 straight road game challenge against tough teams who just now saw us break. We came into Dallas I’ll prepared once again, only we were hurt and never recovered mentally from the Jets loss and as we all saw we lost the game from the first snap. Do the players deserve some blame? Sure. But they don’t gameplan, they play the “hand they’re given” so to speak. Unfortunately, their coach did not put them in position to win that game. And after that game, he still didn’t prepare them for Dallas, nor the Fins. Gailey should have bounced back with a new gameplan against the fins to recorrect his wrongs, but he didn’t. We came out with the same crap and at that point it was over. Our team already fell apart mentally from the Jets/Cowboys loss. Now in Miami, we fell apart physically. Starters just started dropping like flies. So, you ask “has our team given up?” I would say a resounding “yes!” They haven’t lost faith in the man next to them, I think they’ve lost faith in Gailey to put them in position to win. I guarantee if you ask the veteran players in that locker room if they felt Gailey and his staff put them in position to win during our 1st Jets game and beyond, they would say no! The players knew how important that game was, too bad the coaches didn’t. Gailey has work to do fellas. Not just from a talent stand point. He has to win over his team again. And once you’ve lost the trust from your team it’s very hard to get it back. This offseason will answer a lot of questions.

Is it conceivable that this team is being deliberately mismanaged so that when Ralph departs the scene the team can be sold to another city and no one in Buffalo will give a damn? Many
old timers like myself who have watched this poor excuse for a football organization are wondering.

Obviously, the Bills are going to play to the best of their abilities in the remaining games. With no shot at the playoffs remaining, I would prefer to see them lose out and improve their position in the draft. There will be some great QBs available — Luck, RGIII, and Barkley — and the difference between being able to draft one could be a matter of one or two spots. They might all be gone within the test ten picks, and I strongly believe that we need one of these guys. I will continue to say that we need somebody better than Fitz if we ever want to be a serious contender. Even on his best days, he’s not spectacular. When guys like Brady, or Manning, or Rodgers are on, they could hit a jackrabbit from 50 yards away. Fitz couldn’t hit a wide open receiver from 50 yards away if he had a 10 yard radius in which to drop the ball. On the other hand, Fitz only seems comfortable throwing a pass 50 yards downfield when the receiver is triple covered and the pass is almost guaranteed to get intercepted. For a Harvard quarterback who is supposed to be so darn smart, he seems to make consistently bad decisions on where to throw the ball.

With Luck already being compared to Elway, this draft could the new “year of the quarterback” the way that 1983 produced Elway, Kelly, and Marino. We really need to grab one of these guys if they are still available. If they’re gone, we’ll probably be looking for a pass rushing OLB and stud WR in the first two rounds. CB is a strong need as well, but good corners are usually available in the third and fourth rounds. (McGee was a 4th four pick.) Elite pass rushers and Megatrons are long gone by then.

Oh, and George Edwards had better get canned the day after the Bills lose to the Patriots. Perry Fewell could grab 11 guys from a bus station and put together a more competent defense than this. Edwards has no clue how to use the guys he has.

For those of you who are calling for the heads of Chix or for Ralph to spend money on big time free agents, I ask you to keep in mind that:

1— this franchise has the longest playoff drought in the league
2 — they are not showing signs of turning it around
3 — there must be some kind of “curse” with the season-ending injuries
4 — it’s cold and snowy

What great coach or big-time free-agent would want to come here?

I love my Bills and will always follow them and have hope, but I am also realistic. Until things get turned around, we are not going to lure greatness to Buffalo. We will have to stick with this Front Office for a while longer and build through the draft — those draftees have little/no choice about where they play.

Has anyone written an extension for Firefox, Chrome, or Safari that blocks comments on Buffalo Rumblings yet? I know I don’t want to read comments on threads like this because the vitriol pisses me off, yet I always manage to do it…