Brandon

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.

How many career starts does Roethlisberger have? How many does Losman have? The development of a QB is not an overnight process. I think it usually takes three full seasons before a final judgement can be made, two at the least, and it usually takes about 5 years before they reach their full potential.

Its scary when the Pats fan is the voice of reason.

The Packers started off 3-6 that year. I wonder what Favre's game-by-game stats were during that period. Was he playing well or poorly? I don't know. Another player to look at is Donovan McNabb. The statlines from the first six games he played look a lot like what Losman has done so far.

If there is a bright side to Spikes's injury, that indeed might be it. A weakened D would give them an excuse to open up the offense and put Losman into a lot more 3 and 4 WR situations, something he was very familiar with at Tulane. They need to be doing that anyway, because it seems to me that he's much more comfortable when they spread the defense out with multiple WRs.

That's pretty rare. Most young Qbs are mediocre and often terrible. Troy Aikman was hideous his first two seasons, with Dallas going 8-24 during that time. We all know what happened just two years later. That's one example. The history of the NFL is littered with more. Three games into Losman's NFL career, I think I'll reserve judgement.

I suspect that if you pull up the posts, you'll find that the same ones were whining about JP after the first preseason game.

Three games into the season (and after two bad games), sorry, I do not think it is time to bench Losman. I want to see him play for an extended period of time before I decide that we should give up on him.

I'm willing to be patient. As I've said numerous times, first year starting QBs are notoriously bad, especially when put behind weak OLs and with mostly slow WRs to throw to. His numbers to this point look similar to Donovan McNabb's through his first 6 games (30/72, 226 yards, 3.2 yards/attempt, 1 INT). Its a little too early for the crying and the whining.

Drew deserved plenty of blame in his own right, just as Losman does for the losses the last two weeks.

Yep. A rookie QB and a third rate OL are not a recipe for success in the NFL.

There's no way anyone could blame McGahee for this. He had one of the best games of his career, maybe THE best. The OL? Pass protection should be re-named jailbreak in their case, but I agree, ultimately the blame falls on a D that allowed over 200 rushing yards.

It was a complete no-confidence call in the OL. Mularkey was basically saying that he did not believe his OL could block long enough to execute a handoff to McGahee and for him to get a yard in that situation.

But we won't miss Jonas Jennings. No! In fact, our OL might actually be better without him.

Three years?

Who knows? McGahee only has about 150 yards today.

He was hit for about a 6 yard loss. Then hit about three more times before he finally went to the ground. The play should have been called dead before it was.

Did you not see the Falcons defender run right past Teague for the sack?

Its largely Losman. Too many people expected a guy with no starts under his belt to play like a veteran. Its not going to happen.

Of course, he's the first QB to ever throw an INT. The pick doesn't bother me. Its going to happen. It won't be the last one. I'll say it again, young QBs stink.

I could care less what Roethlisberger did. He's one QB. I can point to Peyton Manning who threw 14 INTs in his first 6 games or a host of other QBs who sucked in their first season as a starter but went onto become solid players.

You won't see week to week improvement. It'll probably be more like month-to-month improvement. That said, I think he's had a much better game this week than last week. One thing I think the Bills really need to do is spread the field with three or four WRs. Losman seems much more comfortable with it.

It annoys me a lot more that Eric Moulds can't bring that pass in. He's one of the highest paid WRs in the NFL. That ball hit him in the hands. He needs to catch it, regardless of a little (and it was a little, not a lot) interference from Hall.