Nihilarian

and they had 7 sacks against a good Cincy Oline... Dolphins gave the Seahawks all they could handle in Seattle. NE beating the Cards in Arizona too. Jets, Cardinals, at Patriots, at Rams, 49ers, Patriots and at Seattle all before the bye week. Really hope the offense does better.

"It was almost a year ago, in early January, when the Buffalo Bills called Rex Ryan back for a second interview for their head-coaching vacancy. Team president Russ Brandon was so impressed that he told owner Terry Pegula not to let Ryan out of the building." http://www.espn.com/blog/buffalo-bills/post/_/id/22828/playoff-promise-among-rex-ryan-statements-that-will-likely-prove-false

all three according to the super-homers and kinda why I was hoping for that football czar to be hired to take away the option of hiring football people by nonfootball people.

SSDY The offense was supposed to be the strong point of this team. But if they don't play in preseason because the coach is afraid they will get injured then there is no cohesion. The offensive line stunk it up pretty badly in my view.

I don't put all the blame on the offensive coaches when the line didn't do it's job in protection or run blocking. I put more blame on Rex Ryan for being afraid of getting his starting offensive players injured so they sat a lot in preseason and looked very rusty. 160 yards of total offense and so many dump off passes I thought it was Trent back there for awhile. Taylor passing 15 of 22 for 111 a 5.0 avg. McCoy 16 carries for 58 yards = 3.6 YPC avg Taylor Rushing 5 rushes for 11 carries = 2.2 YPC avg Reggie Bush 3 rushes for -4 yards = -1.3 YPC avg Pretty tough to do your job as an NFL QB / RB when the offensive line doesn't do their job.

Good Lord!

Although TT was the QB the fault is not all his. The O line stinks & the run game stunk too. McCoy 16 carries for 58 yards=3.6 YPC avg Taylor had 5 carries for 11 yards = 2.2 YPC Reggie Bush 3 carries for -4 yards =-1.3 YPC Blame the GM for crappy depth on the line! Not so good players behind Watkins! Blame Rex for sitting his starters in the preseason when they clearly needed the work. Blame Roman for a crappy offensive game plan.

Bingo! When the coaches are afraid of the offensive starters getting injured so they don't play much in preseason then there isn't much team chemistry the first few games. We already knew the backup O-line players stink because we got allowed to witness it in that last preseason game in which the starters sat out. I also think that Tyrod missed 7-11 out there today as it sure didn't look like anyone downfield was open due to all the check down passes. I don't know that I'd blame Roman for Rex's being afraid of getting players injured in preseason. Lastly, what bothers me is the clear lack of solid offensive line depth and quality receiving talent behind Watkins. 0-1

No need to panic just yet. When the starters don't get to play much in preseason they will look rusty. I'll start to worry after week three if they still look this bad.

TT was doing his version of Trent Edwards today with all the dump offs to the RB's. This tells me not much was open downfield. Guess the Bills did miss Hogan today... It looks like the offense was very rusty and probably because they didn't play much in pre season. Not ready to panic just yet!

This is what happens when the coaches are afraid to play the starters in pre season and they come out rusty. Losing Glenn didn't help the offense 160 total yards of offense so far...yikes!

Forkem! as they are done...

anyone got a fork?

Hey, a first down!

Geez!

damn!

Oh sweet, TURNOVER!

decent pressure

The only thing I can think of is when you don't let the offensive starters play a lot in preseason then they have a lot of rust to work off in the first few games.

Yikes...

While you might not be worried about the player. I still am concerned about his protection and the right side of that line. How many years does it take to fix that right side?

"He's going to be on the field. He's going to play. He's probably going to be targeted an awful lot," Schefter said. "But he is not 100 percent after undergoing offseason foot surgery. In fact, about a week or so ago, that foot got tired on him during practice." Even though he will play Sunday, it is reasonable to think Watkins could be limited, and there continue to be concerns about his ability to stay healthy all season. http://www.rotoworld.com/sports/nfl/football

So glad he decided to sign with New Orleans!

If this year is anything like last years opener then Rex will have the Ravens offense thoroughly scouted and his defense prepared to play. The thing is that the Ravens see a very similar defense going against the Steelers 2x a year and they should be ready for anything. Pass rush is a key issue and this year's team can't be last in QB pressures again this year and be successful. If preseason stats have any meaning at all the Bills were #10 in total defense and the Ravens #9 and both teams had around the same amount of penalties. I look for the Ravens to throw a lot against a very good Buffalo secondary so turnovers could win this for the Bills.

The Bills purposely set up that 3-4 so Bruce could be the main pass rusher as Tally behind him at OLBer would take up the slack and wasn't a rusher. Bennett on the other side was used as a rusher and it's that pressure from both sides that helped the Bills pass rush become so good. Bruce probably would have flipped out had the team asked him to stop rushing the passer and become a gap control DE... and it would have been plain stupid to do that. Kinda like last year. Most NFL teams in a 3-4 generally use a one-gap scheme and the 2015 Buffalo Bills played mostly in a two-gap run-stopping scheme. "To sum things up there is a world of difference in playing a DE in a 4-3 and being asked to mostly rush the passer VS playing in a 3-4 two-gap scheme in which the DE reverts to an OLBer and is asked to control his gaps. Also, in that two-gap scheme, the linebacker is asked to wait for the play to develop and then read, react to the play instead of just rushing the passer. To the ordinary eye, this might look like that OLBer is sitting on his hands while doing nothing. Yet he is doing precisely what the scheme calls for in waiting, reading, reacting. This was also something that the player* was not used to doing at all. " (* referring to Maro)