I realize, however, that Wilson, Levy, and Jauron won't change for a QB, and that Edwards is probably their guy.  I wish JP Losman the absolute best of luck if he gets a chance to start somewhere else (which I'm sure he will/should), and look forward to watching him in a Pro Bowl or two (that's obviously exaggeration because I would never subject myself to watching the Pro Bowl) down the road.  

So, in conclusion, I'm okay with Edwards being the QB if that's the decision, but my heart and alliances still lie with JP Losman when the debate comes up with friends and family.  

The only real important thing is that the Bills won, and can keep winning.  Maybe there can be something to this season after all...

However, I still don't understand going with Edwards because isn't our offense built for a more downfield passing game?  With Fairchild's Rams roots and smaller, quicker receivers we should be able to throw it further than 10 yards with some success.  We haven't done it with either QB this year, but Losman is better suited for this style of passing.  I just hate that the coaches are 'building' around schemes, but then completely misuse our players.  Same thing is going on with the defense.  We are trying to build a D around speed, but instead we sign two below average pass rushers to monster deals. On O we have the tools for a downfield passing attack, but it appears the coaches don't want to play that way.

No matter who plays QB, I just want to see wins and lots of them.  I feel JP shouldn't have lost his job in this fashion and still think he needs another chance here. I just hope we aren't playing Edwards because he's better at dinking and dunking. That's not going to EVER make us a contender.

I don't think it's really fair to say that Jauron will go with Edwards because they have similar "styles." You pigeon-holed Edwards as being methodical and conservative, but what I think you really mean is he reads coverages and isn't has the intelligence to hit secondary receivers. I love JP as much as anybody and I haven't been this happy with our QB situation in a long time, because I won't be losing sleep with either one of them in there.

As far as the divide in the fan base goes, I think it splits into 3 camps: people who fell in "love" with JP, objective people, and people who are falling in "love" with Edwards. I, paradoxically, have fallen into all 3 camps. I am attached to both players equally, so that helps me see the upside to starting either QB. The bottom line is the coaches want to win more than anybody, and they are going to do what's best for everybody, it doesn't matter who's in love with whom. One thing I do know that everybody has to agree with is Trent Edwards is a much smarter QB than JP. Hey, if Bill Walsh and Steve Young like Trent, then I like Trent.

I want JP in at QB, that's no secret to anyone around here.  At the same time, I would be SHOCKED if he is named the starter. Edwards playing style and abilities simply fits better in Jauron's ultra-conservative, dink-and-dunk, play-not-to-lose offense.  

The thing I'm getting sick of hearing is how people can so easily give up on JP after 2 games this season.  Some people are extremely short-sited.  They forget that he looked like a top-15 QB the second-half of last season.  They forget the "buzz" at Bills Mini-camp this past spring about how explosive the bills offense looked.  Many times I heard the phrase "you never see the ball hitting the ground," from those who got to see the practices, including Peter King of CNNSI and John Clayton of ESPN.  

JP didn't play great in those two games, but to me it was all about scheme rather then quality of QB play.  I don't know what changed between mini-camp and the first game, but I do know that the "explosive" offense we kept hearing was put, permanently, on the shelf.  

Instead the Bills asked JP to throw in very minimal situations, most of the time on third and long when defenses were expecting the pass.  It was brutal to watch.

Many wanted to put the blame on JP, and maybe a little of that is true.  Even so, if ALL of it was JP's fault (which is an absurd statement), ALL QB's go through bad stretches.  Look at how Drew Brees and Carson Palmer started this season.  

Either way though, you're right, it only matters what Jauron thinks and what he's looking for in an offense.  It's clear that he wants the 'conservative' approach and if that's the case, then there really is not a QB controversy because Edwards is the best QB for THAT system (even though he may or may not be the better QB, or even if it would be detrimental to the team to give up on a veteran QB you invested so much time in developing).  

Even if JP comes back in, by some miracle, he would not be successful in the offense Jauron wants to run, because his strengths' simply do not coincide with that particular style.  

It's sad.  I, like you, want a gunslinger QB who is always a threat to stretch the field.  There's nothing wrong with the opposite (insert Brady and what he's doing this year as an example), but it's a mere preference in philosophy.  I'd much rather have a down field passing game then a ball-control, dink-and-dunk offense.  I'd much rather have Brett Farve or Mark Brunell as my QB then Tom Brady or Chad Pennington.  

One last note:  I do not mind a conservative offense.  I love "Marty-ball." I love lining up and smacking the shit out of the opposition.  What the Bills are doing, however, is far from that.  Marty-ball, or "smash-mouth" offenses, still attempt to attack down field.  They run to set up the pass and they use play-action to his passes down field.  The Bills, simply,  are not doing that.  Essentially the Bills are not using their conservative offense to their advantage in the passing game.  When you run and throw a lot of short passes defenses start to stack the box in an attempt to thwart that.  Of course, the obvious remedy is to take shots downfield.  But you can't just line up and attempt to throw it downfield in obvious passing situations or from the shotgun formation with four wide-outs, you have to be able to do it when the defense has eight men on the line of scrimmage.  You have to do it using the play-action pass.  The Bills have not done that.  They are not using their conservative offense to their advantage in the passing game and the results are telling.  This TYPE of conservative offense is self-destructive.  Especially with a QB that is already not built to play in game-controlled offense.