I've been to Jerry's World and was wondering if the Bills would be overwhelmed by the moment and hoping they wouldn't. Then they proceeded to look more hapless than I ever would have imagined, starting with McKelvin trying for a pick in the endzone and having the receiver take the ball off his nose. Embarrassing, but OK, let's get the ball. Hey, no one is lined up on Ware on the first play from scrimmage guys! No worries, how good can he be. Let's call a pass. Oops!
I keep hearing apologies for Gailey and the play calling but I'm sorry, how can you cover when down 21-7 with plenty of time to go still in the first half going for it on 4th and 2 and taking 3 perfectly good points off the board (after trying a 52 yarder earlier with a brand new kicker picked off the ash heap). OK, Fred Jackson is averaging about 8 yards a carry through his 5 freaking carries so far, so pound the rock or dial up a play designed to get 2-4 yards. Stupid me, I didn't realize the call was to go 22 yards to the endzone on that situation to a blanketed, short in stature receiver. Who the hell decided on that play? Reminds me of Cincinnati game, when on 3 straight series with 3rd and 5 or less we threw 20+ yard passes on 7 step drops.
Now I'm watching NY Giants and San Fran, and see how Eli Manning can be made to look very good by the right play call in the right situation, making sure they get first downs knowing that touch downs will follow. Give me Coughlin calling the plays and shortening the game like the Gmen did against us in the Super Bowl. The Bills got away with this crap in the New England game because their defense is horrible, where they baited us into a passing shoot out from the first freaking play. Jackson was running well, Dallas' defensive weakness is against the run, yet we did not hardly use him at all before the game was way out of hand, and then it was too late. We became completely one dimensional. They showed a screen stat about half way through the game where the pass-happy (supposedly) Cowboys had a nice, balance 19-19 pass to run, and we were 20-10.
Wouldn't have changed this game outcome, but for God's sake, the coaching in this game and many others has been horrible. Defense is bad yes, but that is not what is causing the offensive problems. Our greedy and stupid play calling has us now walking away from a lot of points in the red zone (I was at the Jets game, same thing). Even the touchdown today was, in my view, the wrong call. 1st and goal from the 3, Jackson running wild, and what did we do? Two straight rollout pass plays, the 2nd fortunately working out. Who the hell are we fooling?
This road trip scared the hell out of me but the solace was that excepting the Jets game, they have not been blown out. Now two in a row.
I agree on the stupid white out thing too. I was at that game and hate the white uniforms.