There was one play in the middle of the first quarter of the Texans game where the Bills lined up with three backs behind Losman. Anyone remember this? If I recall right, JP took the snap, turned, faked a handoff, spun, faked another handoff to the next guy, and then threw to Evans down the right sideline, complete for 17 yards.
I loved that play and kept waiting for the Bills to do something creative like it last Sunday. Nothing.
Here's a question.
I read last week that the Bills practiced in their throwback helmets during the week leading up to the opener, so they (read: JP) would be used to seeing them during the game.
Did they wear them this past week or did they wear the red ones? Sounds to me like this was a last-minute decision, to bring the throwbacks and wear them. Plus no reporters said anything all week about the throwbacks in practice, which makes me think that they were practicing in the red helmets.
That ain't no excuse for JP's pisspoor play yesterday. But I'm just wondering, y'know?
What was it Steve Tasker said about Louis Oliver?
"Don't write a check with your mouth that your body can't cash."
Sadly that applied to our D yesterday. Especially our linebackers. Especially Takeo, who was pretty much invisible when we really needed him to step up.
Heat or no heat, we played like stojan yesterday. They would have beaten us in the heat, in the cold, in a box, with a fox, in a house, with a mouse, in the rain, on a train, here and there, anywhere.
Milloy's safety blitz sack. I thought that would be the play that flipped the switch for our D, and I was right. Except the switch went off instead of on.
His leg has plenty of oomph (see the 59 yarder he had in the first quarter). He just doesn't have the touch he used to have; he has been sailing kicks into the end zone and then when he visibly tried to take something off, he ended up with a 14-yarder.
Does anyone else think maybe we should go to the hurry-up permanently, or at least a lot more often, for JP? From preseason on it has looked to me like he's just more comfortable running it, and it seems to fit his gunslinging style in the same way that the K-Gun fit Jimbo.
Or the blowout in Miami in 1990. Team rebounded pretty good after that, I'd say.
Every team schits the bed at least once in a season. I'd rather have it happen early than late... like in the last game of the season... at home... against the Pittsburgh third string...
Yes, the O's futility was part of the reason the defense was out on the field so OFTEN, but the D has no one but themselves to blame for being out on the field so LONG.
I don't think Moorman had a good day last week either, especially with that shank. He's consistently punting into the end zone and when he tried to take a little off it, he took about 25 yards off it. Perhaps he misses Dorenbos?
That said, I thought one of our worst decisions all day (besides the obvious bad playcalling on offense) was sending the sink at Bidwell in the second quarter. It allowed TB's gunner to fly down untouched and catch the ball at the one, leading to the safety and subsequent TB TD. The game was over at that point.
In a recent News article -- I can't find the link right now -- Allen Wilson mentioned how Drury went to Ruff last year to get Satan off his line. I'm glad Miro's gone too.