obie_wan

you are right- it should be Drew. But it won't be. Drew has not shown that leadership in 10+years - why will he start now?

yeah - as we know it takes 3+ years for 1st round OLineman to be productive.

Gallery will be playing RT

Blaming the bad goal line play on an inexperienced OC sounds like something from the Bledsoe Excuse Generator. You're seriously deluded if you think TC made those calls on his own without input from both Wyche and MM, 2 experienced OCs. So what's the timetable for the maturation of this offense - 2 games, 6 games, 2 years? Inquiring minds want to know

Maybe they had the line stacked because the Bills lined up ALL of all players within 3 yards of the ball. why not spread them out, then run it. Or run the play action away from the only possible receiver so the defenders coming to stuff the run don't get a free shot at Drew.

Too bad we couldn't go for it on 4th as the coaches intended because the sack moved us too far back.

The Bills did change OC, but as MM said himself the offense did not change much. The Bills have had 8 months to get reaady for the season. Its a poor copout to blame inexperience with the system for lack of production. Unfortunately this is not the NBA where you can fine tune your team for the entire regular season becauae almost everyone makes the playoffs. Bills will soon be in a hole they can't get out of if they continue to lose winnable games

No - he should be in the booth where he can actually see what's happening on the field. Not sure where Clements was, but he should be up there too- with Wyche on the sideline.

here is the problem with the play call given our QB- Since our defense had been stuffing the JAgs all day, the Bills were in obvious 4 down territiry to go for the TD. A quick pass may have been acceptable, but not a sack which forces the field goal (or worse a pick). The play call and execution lost the chance for a TD on 4th down. Funny how many are giving props to Drew for taking a sack instead of throwing a pick on the play - no real expectation that Drew would actually produce a TD.

not a problem - Drew still gets his $8.75 mil for playing caretaker in 2004.

Drew did not cause the loss. But it is pretty sad that the offensive braintrust has so little confidence in our HoF QB that they felt compelled to dumb down the offense so much that a rooke could run it. (Gee- I may have stumbled onto something here. too bad our rookie got hurt) However, you are incorrect in that the Bills paid Drew $5 mil for this limited production. TD will pay Drew $8.75 mil in cash for 2004. Another dubious decision by Teflon Tom if they are not even going to try to exploit Drew's big arm with play action passes, especially with as much as they ran on Sunday. Hopefully, the coaches will get bolder as they get moe comfortable and the OL starts to jell. Much will depend on if Fat-Slow Mike will ever develop into something more than a turnstyle.

Lee Evans is really, really fast - what more do you need to know unfortunately, the Bills brain trust doesn't trust our Hall of Fame QB to run a play action fake and then throw the ball down the field 20 yards. A big problem is that Mike williams can not block anybody not standing still. Paul Spicer spent the whole day in the Bills backfield. On a running play, Spicer went around MW and tackled the ball caarrier about when he got the handoff for a loss.

Drew did not lose this game directly - but for $8.75 mil he sure didn't do near enough to win the game either. For what the offense required of Drew, TD sure didn't have to spend the big bucks. Where was the play action pass to take advantage of the commitment shown to the run? Another pass (and sack) from short yardage near the goal line? Play calling at times was not much better than under Gilbride.

or the QB is part of the problem

No way - Drew has a bigger arm and Drew gets paid more, too

yes indeed

could have traded down and taken Vince Wilfork, who instead went to the best talent evaluators in the league

big surprise there.

yeah - really, really fast guys should be on the field, no matter what

what ?!! TD kept Drew!! and it only cost him $8.75 mil for 2004:huh:

what were the other players drafting to enable you to stockpile such talent?