vincec

He didn't really get a fair shake on Thursday. Rookie with 1 day practice on the road vs a defense he has never seen before. Then he has no running game or pass protection to help him out. Not exactly set up to succeed. Still, I thought he made some good throws and didn't panic in the pocket. I think the next game at Miami with a full practice week will be a better indication of what he can do vs Buffalo.

I'm not sure I'd put OL on this list. The Bills have struggled at RT this season.

Uh. No.

If the Bills want to get another legit starting CB, which they need, it's going to have to be higher than a third round pick. Top cover guys are one of the first things to go. LBs may be a greater need, but that doesn't mean that they should draft one ahead of a CB. CB needs to be number one or number two at the latest.

As much as it will hurt to hear, if the Bills don't take a QB at #1 then they need to consider another CB. Williams is really struggling and McGee is done so they really only have one legit starting CB when they need three. Draft a CB and maybe give Williams a shot at safety where the Senator has been MIA all season or play him as the nickel. LBs can be had in the later rounds.

Ego. He will make the jump to the NFL soon, just not with the Bills.

Beautifully written and, sadly, all too accurate.

Proof reading is dead.

Buddy's first sentence: "it's the same plan we've had every year" is all I needed to hear. This is the plan that has yielded Levi Brown and that's it in three drafts. I think that they're going to have to be a lot more aggressive if they want to get a good QB and it doesn't sound like they will be.

Herman Edwards

It looked to me like a zone blitz where M Williams was trying to drop off and cut off that short pass to the flat and Gilmore had the deeper zone. However Williams, not being a LB, only got 2 or 3 yards of depth and there was plenty of room to throw that completion over his flailing arms. The idea is that you bait that throw on the pre-snap read then surprise the QB with a different coverage than he thought. It wasn't executed well and may have been ill conceived but that's what I saw anyway. What I would like to know is what was the concept for playing that play action rollout that Houston killed them with? The DE certainly can't be expected to stay in his gap to stop the cut back on the zone run and still stop the QB from getting outside the pocket. How were the Bills trying to defend that play? Whatever they were doing, it wasn't working.

The only problem with this is that he has been saying that they will get a franchise QB ever since he got here and all they have done is brought in Levi Jones, Vince Young and Tavaris Jackson. If he is serious about this then he will do what's necessary to get one like Washington did (a move that he criticized in his WGR interview).

Wannstedt will last if Gailey does. If the Bills get to 7-9, then I think Gailey gets one more year, 6-10 is a toss up. If they do worse than that then I think Nix will grudgingly clean house.

These are great. Nice work!

I think that he just doesn't understand what it takes to win in the NFL. He thinks that if you are giving up 30+ points per game then it should look like LSU playing LA Tech on film, but when he watches the film he doesn't see that kind of mismatch. The teams are closely matched physically. Too bad NFL offenses only need a small edge to rip you a new one. The small, occasional breakdowns he's talking about are what separates good from bad in the big leagues.

He didn't look too good in pass protection against Tennessee

If the Bills send a defense player from the worst unit in the league and one of the worst of all time to the Pro Bowl, then their should be an investigation.

Yeah right. Like all Fitz needed was a "QB guru" and he'd become a top flight QB. Time to face facts. The defense stunk under Edwards. It stinks under Wannstedt. It stunk ever since Nix got here and cleaned house. The coaching may be sub par, but there are a lot of bad players on this defense.

7. Almost made it out of the basement...

And decrease advertising revenues, which matter too.

Good luck with that. That business model isn't going anywhere. It's just going to cost them readership.

In other news, Mario texted Chan last night that he has decided to play linebacker in next week's game.

This I agree with. I don't think he has any ideas as to how to fix it however.

Sounds like someone who is in total control of the situation.

Wanny is blitzing more than he ever has to try and help the pass rush. He is playing more varied coverages than he ever has to try and help the DBs. Last week he moved Williams all over the defensive line to try and help him get pressure. He benched Moats two weeks ago to bring in Bradham to try and get better LB play. He's trying a lot, but he doesn't have many tools to work with. The reason that the games are historic blowouts instead of just losses is because many players have quit on the season and give up the minute things go wrong in a game. I put the blame for that evenly on the players and coaching staff's shoulders. The players don't care and the coaching staff doesn't seem to either. In fact the only ones who seem to care are Kelsay, with his comments about the team not playing hard, and Wannstedt, who sounded like he was ready to get into a fight with someone during Tim Graham's interview. Everyone else just seems to make excuses. Stop looking for a scapegoat.