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This is what we need you to be this year. Watch the Jets game. You don't have to be perfect Trent. Flacco is certainly not, but he gets the job done. P.S. Pay special attention to when he throws the ball down field into tight tight coverage under pressure.

Maybe its best we hit rock bottom and rebuild instead of being in a constant state mediocrity like what we had in the Dick Jauron era. We need a quarterback plain and simple and our best option is to pick high in the draft. Perhaps this coaching staff can accept this? The rest can fall in place afterwards. In this league today you win with a quarterback and we do not have that. We have not had it in over a decade.

Aaron Rodgers is going to eat us alive in the passing game. He plays very well against a pash rush and we have none. Over/under on 300 yards and 3 touchdown passes?

I was expecting a lot from him. Most people were since we drafted him. His tenure with the bills has been a slightly above average linebacker with weakness in coverage that can't stay healthy for an entire season. Did you guys see London Fletcher in the Sunday night game against dallas. Now he was all over the field making plays. I was very impressed with him last night. POZ does not dominate football games like the elite LB's in the game. PS - Not saying Fletcher is elite but I don't see that from POZ.

With all the bitching about Trent Edwards, Chris Kelsay seems to have been lost in the shuffle. One of the worst performances I have ever seen. It is obvious Kelsay is not fit to be a linebacker, he would be a 2nd or 3rd string DE in his primary position on most teams. He is slow, horrible in coverage, not very good at rushing the passer and his run support was embarrassing. Now my first question should Kelsay be even on this team? My second question do you think we would be better off at linebacker by putting one of the safteys like Bryan Scott in his place on the field. IMO it would be a drastic improvement. Chris Kelsay matched up against running back..lol.

I am not defending Gailey just saying he is a better coach than Jauron. With your post you proved my point that Gailey is nothing like Jauron in personality, philosophy and play calling. Its obvious Gailey is set on implementing his long term scheme both offensive and defensively. At this time the personnel is not present to execute his plan. We need to draft a quarterback and linebackers for the 3-4 for Gailey's long term plan to become sucessful.

Not really. The only thing I could find fault in is calling to many designed screen passes when we all knew they were not working. Jauron never called screen passes to that extent in a single game. Galey has a totally different offensive philosophy. We seen a lot of dual back sets, shotgun and motion which Jauron never used. For this offense to succeed Galey has to understand that we have to throw the ball down field when the running game is not working. IMO Galey is a an improvement over Jauron.

You can't compare the Buffalo Bills who have not made the playoffs in what 10 years straight to 3 (I don't consider Washington elite yet) teams that are elite or have potential of being elite. If you compare those teams everyone has a proven quarterback (minus romo). They also have players that fit within a scheme unlike the Buffalo Bills and the new 3-4.

Elite quarterbacks or on the verge of becoming elite can play without an offensive line. Aaron Rodgers is a prime example of this. Edwards can't even throw the ball or unwilling to throw the ball past 10 yards with time or not. Its more of a quarterback problem even though the offensive line is problematic as well.

Another thing to worry about with Edwards is that he played as conservative as he could within the gameplan and still made big enough mistakes to possibly put the nail in the coffin himself. There were 2 horrible decisions/passes that should have been returned for touchdowns. Lets not forget that. An elite defense would have capitalized on those chances.

Trent can't make any throws from 10-30 yards. In fact he is unwilling to throw a ball in this area. The only passing play we had all game was on blown coverage. Any quarterback in the NFL could have made that read and throw. At least in one of the Cleveland games weather was a factor. No excuses here.

Debatable. Did this team play as bad as those Cleveland Brown games? (the Dolphins are not a good football team). Trent played conservative and scared. Honestly, what does he have to lose? He is out of a job in the NFL either way. If he plays like he has nothing to lose he has a chance at something positive happening (big play maybee?). Like I said in the preseason, the only way Edwards can succeed if he plays like this - fearless. I can tell this is not going to be the case. At least this level of performance did not occur in the first game in previous years...SIGH. I can realize now Trent is definitely not the answer like the new coaching staff was hoping. Looks like drafting a potential stud quarterback is a done deal now. 2-14?...maybe.

I hate doing this and it is unfair to make such negative comments after less than the first half of the first game but Chris Kelsay should not be on the field with this new defensive Scheme. This is embarassing. Horrible in coverage, missed open field tackles and some of the worst run support I have ever seen. Wow! Get this guy off the defense. I feel like we are playing a man short with him on the field.

Oh, I agree. While they are coined the "chef" by staff IMO if you can't work the line, you are as useless as breasts on a bull. I have no respect for chefs that sit mostly in their office. Speed is very much part of working on the line however you must still maintain quality control at the same time. If not they are not up to the standards I would want in a line cook. It is fixable though. "The first meal you put out at service should be up to the same standards as the last meal of the night".

And a chef is not always a good line cook. I have worked in some places where the line cooks could flat out own the chef on putting out a successful dinner service. While some chefs can be good at delegating and making pretty desert presentations when called upon to come out of their office, some can be incompetent at running the line which IMO is the most important aspect of the kitchen.

Specials are used for a variety of reasons but the end goal is to yield high margins and/or as a way to control food costs. Special items generally have higher profit margins attached to them over the regular menu items. This is why chefs will push the wait staff to sell them. A lot of head chefs all they care about is food costs - if they hit their targets, they get a bonus. These targets are given by the kitchen manager. Sometimes specials are geared to seasonal ingredients, themes or in some cases to yield profit and/or control food costs on leftover ingredients or product that is on verge of spoilage. The latter seems yucky but with a well run restaurant these specials can end up being very good. On the other hand a poorly run restaurant the specials I would avoid like the plague. As to seafood, the general rule of thumb is common sense. If the restaurant is geared towards fried fast foods - avoid shellfish or any type of seafood. In this case the product will not be fresh and the storage of the product can be suspect. I great restaurant wont cut corners in this regard (or try not to at least ) In regards to mussels specifically, I refer to it as the "pasta of seafood". Restaurants can get fresh mussels dirt cheap from their suppliers and the mark up is huge on mussels. They can be a tasty meal but IMO vastly overpriced with the restaurant mark-up. Make those meals at home. I would be hesitant to order mussels from a restaurant unless I knew first hand if the kitchen is competent or not. A lot of cooks do not know the proper method to store mussels and don't clean the beards or take any steps to get any grit that may be present before they cook them. You do not want to cook dead ones (open) either. Little things like that.

If you turned this thread into a movie, it would be entertaining.

The dishwasher would be at the top of the list if one was looking to score a "pick me up" to get you through the work day. 12-13 hour shifts are a norm. The restaurant business is a fascinating world. You have to deal and interact with so many different personalities - sometimes to the extreme .

I always treated the dishwashers like gold. They were one of the few people I would make custom meals for that were not on the menu. In fact I always thought of them as the backbone to running a successful kitchen. They are always the ones that get you out of jams or what we like to call in the industry as "in the weeds" or what I like to call "in the $%^%". You can find plenty of decent diswhashers but there are few that are great at the job. I feel they are very underappreciated and most importantly underpaid. I have always said it takes a special breed to work in a restaurant and that you have to have a couple screws loose upstairs - cooks included.

They left out the culinary underbelly on that list which is the most interesting. 1) The chef touching your food probably has tobacco stains on his hands and wreaks of cigarette smoke. 2) The individuals cleaning the dishes and cooking your food are probably on some type of drugs and just got back from smoking weed, crack in the bathroom or just drank the pitcher of beer that was supposed to go into the beer batter for Friday fish-fry. P.S. to the customers: just to let you know the cooks and waitresses are bangin` eachother

A steal for SD. So will Crayton take #3 and Josh Reed would move down to the #4 receiver? SD has some nice depth in this position.

IMO, desperation will be the key to Trent's ability to throw the ball down field successfully. He has to get over this fear. Then he can grow confidence and become a leader. He has showed glimpses of talent. With the correct coaching/schemes and a different psychological approach might be able to "fix" him. Jaurons conservative schemes did not help him when he was struggling and have been counter-productive to his growth or helping him get out of his current slump of the last few years.

No matter how bad the preseason play is, there are always a few young guys that stand out.

I am hoping Gailey can use the pre-season to make the necessary adjustments to tweak the scheme. Finding all the flaws will help. One thing I don't want this team are the players especially in the quarterback position being to be overly confident going into the regular season. We are young and unproven in a lot of positions. I really want the Bills to play "desperate" football instead of the conservative nature of past regimes. We need Trent to play desperate most of all. While confidence is nice to have, we just do not have the talent level at this point and it clouds who they really are.

While the Bills didn't look good last night, its not time to panic just yet. Its the first pre-season game and we have an entire new coaching staff, new defensive and offense scheme with much different player personnel. This is a learning period for both the players and the coaching staff. One position that should raise concern is our quarterback situation. In the case of Edwards it is a GOOD thing that Gailey got to see the same mistakes from previous years in a live game and not just on film and in practice. Lets solve these problems as early as possible and not ride high into the regular season. Hopefully Gailey, the rest of the staff and the players take advantage of the adversity and use it to grow not only as a team but also as a coaching staff. Go Bills!