Lofton80

Polian is and was the best GM in football. I believe the name Jeff Littman was also tossed around as the blame for his leaving. This franchise has stunk since he left.

I honestly don't think the Bills were doing anything too complicated on offense during Schonert's time here. Jauron is a big part of the problem.

Rollout bootleg pass to Schouman on a three yard pattern. NE probably expects it, Trent has to throw before he's ready. Ball hits Schouman in ankles.

Larry is right. TE doesn't have the confidence to be an NFL starter. That Cleveland game last year was an eye opener. QB's get hit in this game and TE lacks the physical stature to hang in there. They can also scout a DT and on OT while they are at it.

If JW leaves, we are lesser for it. Guy was a good poster.

I hope no one was hoping for anything insightful. DJ has never offered an opinion in three + years.

Great read!! Ralph can blame himself for keeping Jauron after last season. He should have been fired after the Jets game.

I think Belecheck knows what he is doing. Maybe Seymour is injury prone the last few years because he is getting older. Playing deep into the playoff so much takes its toll on the big guys. He knew exactly what team to offer him to in a trade.

The key to a simple playbook is blocking. If you can move the opposition out of your way, you can run the same play all day. If you patch together an OLine, chances are you can't get away with simple. People like Sanahan, Walsh and Gibbs won a few games with some of the thickest playbooks imaginable. Blocking is step one.

It sort of says a lot about the braintrust. A Northeast team that will decide its season's fate with multiple wr's and few rb's.

There is a ton of qualified candidates available. Problem is Ralph is not giving up the coin needed to attract them or the control. Next move is Brandon selling Ralph on a young upstart like Pepper Johnson to coach.

Jauron=Hank Bullough You give DJ wayyyyyyyyyy too much credit.

Was Rhodes paid that much?

Jauron's only good season in Chicago featured Gary Crowton and his wide open attack. Once Crowton left for college ball, Jauron had some of the worst offenses in the league. 10 years of data suggest that Jauron is clueless on offense.

Nothing more to add. And that's exactly why we will never get a Cohwer, or Holmgren, or even a whiff of Chucky. Bad enough we don't have Miami's weather but these guys would rather spar with Bradshaw and be mocked by Coliendo than to be second guessed by Ethan Frome.

YES, apparently the entire NFL is missing out on this talent. Our season does not hang in the balance of who is our 4th TE.

Rhodes blocked as badly as Oman, at least Oman was young. Been a while since Rhodes was productive in the NFL.

While I was happy for Paulus and SU that they at least look presentable, I am in no way imagining his as a starting pro QB. The Doug Flutie comparison is a huge reach, Paulus does not have that kind of arm strength. I see Paulus more in the Detmer bros category.

Someone will get hurt

I think Schonert is probably being accurate. Jauron shows his cards with his FG decisions, totally conservative. To quote another poster "what a mess".

Texans look pretty good.

All I know is Patrick Crayton was not a top 15 pick and he did pretty well opposite TO. I hope our coordinator can get him some balls.

They need to run for more than 1 yard if he hopes to have a play action pass. I think they need to have more real blockers on the field to run the ball. Schouman, Walker and 3 wides leaves a lot of pressure on the other 5 guys.

Trent's comments about never seeing a 3-4 in practice probably was not a ringing endorsement.

AVP has a short time frame to fix this mess of an offense. What can he do footballwise to make this better quickly. Pass schemes: Offensive line and running backs: I think he needs to go basic here with blocking on passes maybe even having a scheme that sends only Evans and Owens on a pattern and the rest block. (Miami won 11 games doing this last year). Trent needs the protection and the confidence. The young lineman need the help. Baby steps! Line communication: Saw a lot in preseason, interior lineman letting blitzers go and leaving rb's to block them. This is expected sometimes but way too often the middle blitzers run right by our lineman who inevitably is looking in the other direction, leaving the rb to block in a mismatch, leading to a Trentative moment. 3-4 defenses will just keep blitzing the middle until we get it right. Use a real FB: Keep McIntyre and let him hammer people as a blocker. Let Oman go and take the risk. The H-back route has not helped the run game at all.