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No doubt, and yet it seems as if those points weren't drilled into the players' heads at that time in the game. What's it take for the coach to pull the team together and say 'we need one first down to end this. PROTECT THE BALL!. We have the hands team in there, remember that and down the ball in the end zone. No heroics on the kickoff.' And the Pats beating the Bills with the same exact route twice within 30 seconds? That's coincidence too I guess. Jauron is a career loser. Teams coached by career losers lose these types of games.

Doesn't it bother you that the the Pats called basically the same play for both of their late TDs? Jauron has a 'Cover 2 fits all situations' mentality, and that strategy killed the Bills at the end of the game. A cover-3 puts a safety in the middle of the field, which double-covers the TE on both of those plays. Considering that the Bills had to do everything to protect the endzone, maybe that would have been a better call than the standard Jauron cover-2.

Excuses, nothing but excuses. In their fourth year coaches win these games or they are looking for new jobs. When the Bills went 2-14 in back to back seasons in the 80s, my brother and I had a saying, 'the Bills pulled defeat out of the jaws of victory." This saying applies over and over again to Jauron's Bills. 20 of Jauron's 21 wins in Buffalo have come against losing teams. This guy has to start beating good teams or he has to go. It's time for this guy's teams to stop making mistakes and start making plays, and it's time he's held accountable for those failures. And I'm sick of people making excuses for this career loser.

I think you're missing the part where the FO ignores LT in the draft, but spends half of its picks on DBs.

The timing is the issue though. Part of the problem with the Peters trade is that the FO did nothing to address the loss of their starting LT other than name Walker the starter. Keeping in mind that Walker is obviously too fat and slow to play LT, perhaps they could have used one of the four draft picks they spent on defensive backs on a left tackle to add a bit of depth to the position. I know that the organization is high on Bell, but a late round pick with limited college experience in his 2nd year sounds like a bit of a gamble when it comes to protecting your QBs blind side. And firing Schonert, again, presents the issue of timing. What have you really learned about Schonert in August that you didn't know last February. The majority of offenses this guy has been involved with over his carreer have produced mediocre results. Replacing Schonert in February would give a much larger pool to pull a replacement OC from, rather than relying on AVP, who's a good guy sure, but he has no playcalling experience. And now it's a good bet that Jauron will be fired early in the season, a move that could have also easily have been made last February. In the end, it was plainly evident that Walker was not a LT, Schonert wasn't a good OC, and that Jauron is a poor head coach at the end of last season. Instead of actually cleaning house and hiring a competent FO regime to run this past offseason, the Bills continued their disjointed clown show. And that's just a bit annoying.

You're right, why is everyone cranky? The only one who is really going to be hurt by this move is Trent Edwards; over and over again.

We were sold this argument when we were told that Walker was a cheaper replacement for Peters, since Walker was just as good as Peters, and by the way, Walker wanted to be here, and Peters did not. I really hope that Chambers or Bell, or some other guy the Bills cut and brought back or stuffed on the practice squad last season turns out to be some kind of diamond in the rough that actually prevents Edwards from having his head knocked off his shoulders before he throws his first TD pass this year. But right now I'm having a hard time accepting that the front office didn't totally f*** up the handling for the LT position this offseason.

Actually I think the line is being drawn at the entire handling of the LT position this offseason. There are ways to handling the replacement of the two starting tackles from the previous season, even if they weren't that good to begin with. Waiting until 6 days before the start of the season to settle (if you could call them settled) both positions isn't exactly the best way to go about it, in fact, it probably the worst way to go about it, leaving the team almost no margin of error (Bell or bust?).

Roethlisberger was sacked twice as much as Edwards last season. Using your logic, it should be expected that he turn into a basket case of JP Losman or Rob Johnson proportion. But he didn't turn out that way. He stuck around long enough to make big plays, helping his team win Super Bowl. And that's what you're looking for in a franchise QB. The ability to overcome adversity, shake off the poor play of teammates, and make plays. That's a quality that none of the Bills QBs have shown in the last decade. Will Edwards develop the ability to overcome adversity like a franchise QB? Maybe, but the signs aren't good. In the meantime, the Bills FO should be doing exactly what Felser suggests, scouting the top QBs in college to see if they have potential to develop into a franchise QB.

So comment on the success of Johnson, Bledsoe, and Losman after they left the Bills terrible offensive lines. They all went onto great success, no? And, by the way, Rothlisberger's offensive line sucked out loud last season. Big Ben was one of the most sacked QBs in the league. The Steelers running game wasn't that great either. But despite their offensive live, which statistically was just as bad or worse than the Bills line, the Steelers won the Super Bowl.

It's not like the Bills QBs of the last decade went on to any great success after they left the Bills and their suspect offensive lines. Rob Johnson never came close to earning a starting job in the NFL. He completely washed out of Tampa, a pretty good team, frustrating John Gruden with his inability to grasp the position. Drew Bledsoe pretty much was the same QB in Dallas that he was in Buffalo; a statue with an inability to read defenses, and was replaced in short time by the inexperienced Tony Romo. And no team in the NFL was willing to give Losman a chance to even compete for a 3rd string QB job after Buffalo cut ties with him. No doubt the Bills o-line has been bad over the last decade. However, even with the poor play of the o-line, it's hard to classify the QBs that played behind it anything but a parade of losers. Edwards has hardly shown himself to be a difference-maker at QB. At best, he's a game manager. It's difficult to compare him to Rivers, Rodgers, Manning, or Roethlisberger in terms of potiential. It's hard to argue that if one of the QBs mentioned in Felser's article shows the potential to be a franchise QB this season that the Bills shouldn't consider spending their first round pick on him.

"I got to prepare them better, or something..."

Might as well, the DBs are dropping back so far they can grab a hotdog from the end zone.

When Schobel gets back, he can teach Maybin how to swing his rush out real wide, then he will fit into the Bills defensive scheme.

Dick Jauron has never hurt a player's feelings by telling him he wasn't doing a good job.

Dick Jauron has never used propofol injections to cure insomnia.

Yeah, 32 NFL teams have refused to give Losman a chance at earning a 3rd string QB job. I'll bet he's laughing his ass off.

Maybe he'd bring Manning with him.

Ugh, no more Tampa 2.

The Bills O-line could go through multiple configurations this season.

I think they needed somebody to hang Stupar out to dry and then throw a game-sealing interception.

If the Bills are looking to make a big move to help the offense before the season starts, I'd rather that they fire Jauron and hire John Gruden. That would end up helping the offense a hell of a lot more than bringing in a QB who spent the last couple of seasons in prison.

Yeah, Bill Parcells speaks louder than words.

Don't be an idiot, stopping the run is the responsibility of ALL 11 DEFENDERS. Maybin, Shoebel, Denny, and Kelsey don't get a freakin' play off when the opposing team hands the ball off. The Eagles, Titans, Steelers, Patriots, and Ravens are examples of teams who have DEs who help stop the run. And what injury hurt the Bills ability to stop the run last season? The problem is that the Bills FO lacks the will to bring in players to stop the run. Choosing Whitner over Ngata a couple years ago is one example of this. Refusing to draft any players with run stopping ability in this draft was another. Wasting half of their draft picks on DBs in this draft without spending even one on a DT is a final straw, in my opinon. As a long time Bills fan, I view the current Jauron/Brandon era as one that needs to be endured, because under their stewardship the Bills will be unable to do the most fundamental things to win in the NFL.

Buffalo was 13th against the pass and 20th against the run last season. Stopping the run has been a huge problem for this team over the last 10 years, and especially a problem due to the light players that Jauron likes to use in his Tampa 2. The FO has not done a single thing in FA or the draft to address this glaring and fatal flaw with their defense, choosing to draft DB after DB, rather than spending a couple of those picks on a space-eaters in the interior of the line that could occupy blockers. Negativity is justified when the FO and coaching staff of this team continue to ignore one of the most important fundamental of successful franchise, stopping the run.