BuffaloRebound

Probably a combination of a couple things... maybe sub-par strength and conditioning, soft training camp and pre-season, and not much competition for playing time with unproven rookies as the primary back-ups. I wouldn't necessarily blame the coaching staff for going soft in training camp when they have such little proven depth.

This sums up the last 3+ years perfectly.

Amen. 3 years is an eternity in the NFL. The guy is not a winner. Bring in a new coach after next week and see what you have in Edwards for the last 12 games under a more aggressive philosophy.

Edwards has enough arm to be adequate/good. Brees is an elite QB now because he has enough arm to fit the ball in tight spaces all over the field.

Brees is one of the few QB's in recent memory to dramatically improve his arm strength. He didn't have the velocity in his first couple of years to make the throws he makes now. Edwards needs to find out what Brees did to get more zip on the ball.

This drove me crazy yesterday. I don't know if he simply is afraid to run up and catch the ball or doesn't want to ruin his return average, but his habit of letting balls bounce has to annoy the coaches. I wonder if the sudden leak that he's on the block again has something to do with him twice letting punts bounce.

For the first time in a while, I am confident on 4th and short that the defense will stuff the play. I am praying for wind and/or rain next Sunday in Orchard Park from 4-7pm.

Think that was the same guy who flagged Bell for not being on the line of scrimmage that negated a 3rd down conversion. Bell was not blatantly behind the line. BS call.

I am starting to agree. Especially for the type of offense the Bills are running.

20% chance of Bills getting a 1st down and running out the clock - Jauron would have called 3 running plays no doubt and Pats would have known this and stacked the line. 85% chance of Pats putting it in the end zone after the punt. So, about 66% chance Pats still win.

Wilfork is still a piece of garbage. He stuck his finger in Bell's face in the 1st half. I hope the Bills send the tape to the League so that POS gets fined again. That said, I'd love to have that piece of garbage on the Bills.

Couldn't agree more. The verdict is in. You can chalk up a game like this once in a blue moon as bad luck. This has happened too many times. As far as I'm concerned, the game was lost on the 2nd-to-last New England drive when the Bills basically told the Pats, "we'll let you score but hopefully take some time off the clock". Until Jauron and his pu$$y attitutde are gone, there will be more gut-wrenching losses like this.

I don't know how anyone can be surprised by this loss. It is only shocking if you're not a Bills fan. This is a mediocre team with a lifeless wimp as a coach. The game was lost when the defense went into pu$$y hope-the-time-runs-out mode.

It's got nothing to do with karma from the fans and everything to do with a lifeless pu$$y coach who doesn't play to win.

Including himself. Organization of losers. That is the bottom line.

That's basically the value of the team regardless what Ralph does. Look at just the past 10 years and the money flushed down the drain on horrible draft picks, free agents, coaches, and front office personnel that have produced one winning season at 9-7. If money is all he cares about since he can surely get no enjoyment watching his team, I still don't see how he gets any enjoyment from giving Langston Walker, Dockery, and Kelsay large contracts and paying a front office that routinely throws his money out the window on bad signings.

The marketing guy is in charge of all football decisions that the meddling owner doesn't inject himself into.

How can Ralph be getting any enjoyment out of this? To be paying upwards of $150m in player, coaches, and front office salary for this turd of an outfit would make me want to vomit if I was the owner. Owens is the only thing bringing people through the gates. You could basically trade every employee in the organization except Owens and the marketing team for their lowest paid counter-part and produce the same bottom line.

Especially when the inexpensive younger guy has the potential to get better. I was surprised there wasn't more of this last weekend. Reed, Kelsay, Schobel, Denney, Florence. All the tickets are sold. Ralph has/had the opportunity of a lifetime to purge close to $20m in salary this year alone and not lose anything on the field. Walker and Rhodes are just a small fraction of what could be saved.

I agree somewhat with this. Edwards pushes the ball when he throws. That throw at the Blue Jays game showed it clearly. He doesn't get on top of the ball and doesn't have enough velocity to make certain throws. But I think he could be a really good West Coast QB utilizing his smarts, accuracy on the short and intermediate throws, and his athleticism. The Bills need to roll him out of the pocket more.

What is the point of a 260 pound run-stopper at defensive end? Especially when the Bills don't get any pass rush from their DT's or LB's.

McCoy looks like Bruce Smith out there. I can't remember watching a DT make as many plays in the backfield as McCoy tonight. That said, we need a QB.

The way it looked, he'll be lucky if he only separated the shoulder and didn't break anything.

Who cares whether the offense is simple or complex? The only thing that matters is moving the chains and putting points on the board.

I would love to have those problems right now. Instead, I get to complain about a soft, boring, border-line mediocre team who has no chance of beating the top 6-8 teams in the NFL.