colin

if he were a left tackle coming off of a bad season and two seasons ended early by injury then half of this board would nuzzle his sack and curse the bills if they didn't give him the highest contract for a lineman in the nfl.

TO is the key to our O in the early season, but late we need hardy and nelson to come on. no physical size in the O just killed us all last year.

+1 i agree with the above, and the criticism that Evans does not come back for the ball or do many other things well enough (perhaps mostly due to his lack of size and physical presence). now this year w TO on the other side evans might have a chance to show all he can do. bottom line is trent needs to step up big time this year. he might still have to check down a bunch due to having a young line and lynch being out for a bit, but he needs to improve as the year goes on, and not get so tennative against 3 4 Ds. if he get's quicker on the trigger, i think he could be very good. if he fades again this year, he's being replaced.

ok, but we beat chicago, and chicago beat up the NYG bad, so by extention the pack are way way better than the giants? nah, i don't think so either. i think simon makes some points, but also we sucked and the "bad coaching" i think was in part intentional kind of hanging our guys out to dry a bit. no matter what, we NEED to figure out a way to attack the 34 more than anything else. TO would be a big help.

mccargo looks like he is gonna earn himself a roster spot

for crying out loud our back ups are not better than trent edwards, that much is obvious. now i think this is trent's make or break year. he needs to step up and play well. if he is like he was last year, clearly we need a big qb upgrade. so i'll know for sure how he is at qb at the end of the season, but i already know what we have at WR. with TO and evans in there, we are much much better than with just Evans. we need at least one of Nelson, Hardy, or that other big kid we got last year to come alive this season as well. reed parrish and evans together are just so super easy for teams to eliminate.

without to we have a terrible WR group. we need some strength and size. i really hope nelson and hardy come on strong, but evans is a complimentary wr and parrish reed and our squad of TEs are just junk by nfl standards. you just have to have some size at wr in the nfl

it was just a preseason game, but aaron schoble better step up big time in the reg season. i've been a big supporter of him and he's had a great career in blo, but if he's as bad as he looked due to his foot he's prolly done.

it was horrible, but the big thing were the turnovers. rookies getting blown off the ball on the Oline (fumble) and evans being lazy coming back for the ball got us our first two. after that we were shell shocked. this reminded me of the arizona game, once we get into an early funk we just suck out loud and can't get out of it. same thing as that home sunday nighter 2 years ago vs NE at home (worst loss in team history). i don't buy the whole we are as bad at detroit stuff, but we really do need to shape up.

we stunk and turnovers killed us against gb. that aside, i am really down on evans. i think like dockery he is a guy we will cut with lots of time and money left on his contract -- unless he figures something out this year he's basically a great deep threat and nothing else.

harris and byrd should be starters pretty soon

our smurf WRs are sheet. TO is a monster, evans CAN be good, but is not consistent, parrish and reed and fine and shoumen are jokes. none of them are starting quality players. we need nelson, kid we got last year in round 2, and TO to work out well this year in a hurry. for a 9 stick a year wr, evans is pretty sht.

the screens, the swings, and the direct plays to the edges work for us, of course we'll continue to run the plays that are slow to develop.

HOW IS THAT NOT A COMPLETE PASS?!?!?!?

nelson is HUGE

we've dropped the ball like 5 times now!!

another fumble, but it might not technically be a fumble, AND A HOLD!!! and we could have let it go out of bounds. our special teams have sucked

that screen play that jackson fumbled on was well played by the line -- letting those 2 guys up was intentional, it's how screens work. jackson had space too, he just paused too long no thinking what was behind him. our d is playing horribly now

that was bad by jackson, didn't hustle enough even tho he had daylight, and then fumbled. terrible ball protection

that was no hold right there

gbs O is very good, and did benefit from some shty calls, but i don't like our d. our o is just crap. our running is lifeless clearly because they stack the box and dare us to run our inside plays, and trent/our wrs cannot figure out the 34 coverage. i'd like to see more screens and swings to rbs, AND THEY JUST HAD ONE AND IT WORKED!!

oh, and i don't think the run blocking is as bad as much as our WRs pose zero threat so we constantly run on 8

so trent does not look sharp, but i will say i really don't think evans is as good as i once thought he was. small, not physical, no inside route ability, and he doesn't seem to be fighting for the ball much. he is great in long bombs but this isn't 1978.

trent IS NOT reading 3 4 coverages

from bad to worse, wtf is with the rob johson impression edwards is doing? just sitting there taking time