Brandon

The good news is that Frerotte sucks and is costing the Dolphins any chance in this game.

As this game wears on, overall, the Bills are reverting to form from the first quarter of the season. The energy from the QB switch is wearing off and the fundamental problems of the team are beginning to show through.

17-0 over Miami at halftime? More than a little bit. And yes, the Bills are taking a small step towards the results necessary to proving that the QB change was a good move. Still a long way to go, however, and that's all I'm saying.

All I'm saying is that I'm not going to change my opinion based upon a half of football. I'll know in early January whether it was the right move or not. If they don't make the playoffs, we're back at square one for 2006 and have ultimately accomplished nothing in the 2005 season. That's not a knock against Holcomb, he's playing very well.

As I said, Holcomb is playing better than Losman, at least for a half. But in the end, all I care about is making the playoffs and winning the Super Bowl. I'll settle for making the playoffs and if the Bills can do that with Holcomb, great and I'll say it was the right call. But I will not change my opinion of the decision to bench Losman until that happens. If we miss the playoffs anyway, we would have been better off getting Losman game experience.

I still think its the wrong move. Holcomb is playing well, but I question whether it will last and even if it does, if the team can make the playoffs. In the end, if they miss the playoffs, we'd have been better off starting Losman, even if it means winning 4 games instead of 8. Either way, the Bills are at home in January. Of course, if Holcomb can maintain a high level of play and the Bills make the playoffs, its a different story, but one half of football is not nearly enough to change my opinion of the move.

So the inmates are running the asylum? That's reassuring.

To the detriment of a teammate, especially when Moulds' OWN performance isn't doing Losman any favors? This is a guy who is averaging eight yards per catch this year and has scored six TDs on his last 167 catches or carries dating to the beginning of 2003. If he wants to talk, that's fine, but he needs to back it up on the field.

Moulds needs to be concerned more about his own performance (or lack thereof) rather than worrying about the QB. The big plays have been few and far between for Moulds in recent years. If he put half as much effort into running after the catch as he does running his mouth about the QB position, maybe he'd average more than eight yards per catch?

As I've repeatedly stated, if you want a good comparison statistically, look at Donovan McNabb's rookie year. Through 10 weeks, he was 30/72 for 226 yards and one INT. Yes, that's about 3 yards per attempt, which is hideous. He appeared in 6 games in that time, with his best showing being 68 yards against Carolina (on 20 attempts). He had a nearly identical game the next week vs Washington, going 8/21 for 60 yards. For the year, he averaged a miserable 4.3 yards per attempt on 216 passes. The Bills pulled the plug WAY too early.

This team has been scapegoating the QB for the last ten years. This is just more of the same old crap from the Bills front office.

He'd better be. If he's not significantly better than Losman and if the Bills don't start winning consistently, Donahoe and Mularkey are going to have a fan mutiny on their hands, if they don't already.

Good job, Mularkey. Four games into the season, you've turned your young QB into a scapegoat and essentially guaranteed his long-term failure. 1998 repeats itself.

The Bills need to make a decision this week. Is Losman their QB or is Holcomb? If they aren't going to display enough confidence in Losman to give him the chance to win the game down by only 6 after a bad day, they might as well bench him and draft someone else next year. The QB swapping does no one any good.

I'll tell you why: 4th and 1 at midfield and McGahee is tackled as soon as he gets the handoff. This team can't run the ball when it needs to (and when the other team knows what is coming) due to a poor OL. That's Donahoe's fault and its putting all the pressure on the QB to win games.

He's stinking it up, but he's not getting a lot of help, either from his teammates or the coaching staff. For all the crap about asking him to not lose games this past offseason, the Bills have done just the opposite. They run McGahee 15-20 times per game behind an inadequate OL. Losman has become the focus of the offense and the results are about what should be expected.

Its a stupid move. The Bills are down by 6. Losman should be given the chance to play his way out of the slump. If they want to replace him with Holcomb, that's fine, but do it during the week, not in a situation like this. This is twice Mularkey has done this to Losman and I don't think its a positive for Losman or the team.

Statistically, he is putting up very, VERY similar numbers to those posted by Donovan McNabb through 10 weeks in his rookie season. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/game...NaDo00.htm#1999

Actually, Rob Johnson was a very accurate passer for most of his Bills career, something that his career completion percentage (61%) indicates.

It doesn't qualify as a dropped INT in mine, either, but it seems that some believe that if a defender gets a fingernail on a pass, that's a near-interception (whatever that means). I prefer to call those 'nearly intercepted' passes what they really are: incompletions. He's also barely missed a few passes for first downs. Note that no one is counting those in his favor, as well they shouldn't. Incomplete is incomplete. The truth is, every QB in the league throws a few passes a game that the defense has a chance at. I'm only concerned with the ones that ARE intercepted, as well as the ones where Losman hits the defender between the numbers and are dropped (I believe that has happened twice). I don't care about the others that end up hitting the turf.

There was a little sarcasm there aimed at the Bills front office. I'm beginning to believe that they think its a sin to have a good OL.

You'll get no argument from me. I think the Bills need to clean house from LT to C, and actually invest a few draft picks over there. I know, its horrible to say, but a few talented players would be nice.

I think you and everyone else on the board also know that Roethlisberger is much more of an abberation than the rule among Qbs.

I disagree. The Bills have no speed offensively. Evans is fast, but if you can shut him down, who else is a downfield threat? Moulds was three or four years ago. He's not anymore. Reed and Aiken have very average speed. TEs? Campbell has good hands and finds ways to get open, but you could probably time him in the 40 with a sundial. Euhus isn't much better. The fact that the Bills drafted Parrish and Everett when they had an expansion caliber offensive line is evidence that the Bills coaching staff and management feels they have a major lack of speed as well.

They could have an enormous impact even if they don't post big numbers. Opposing defenses will be forced to respect their speed and it will likely pull some coverage away from Evans and Moulds.