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Five years of dominance followed by one year of being crappy does not equal incompetence. I'm pissed about the special teams, too, but can't they just have a down year? Were the last five years just an extended fluke, and these five games are the real deal? Or did April just forget how to coach this offseason? April and Bob Sanders are the only two members of the coaching staff that I'd really like to be retained.

My guess would be very little. TO's old, on a 1-year deal (which actually is probably a positive at this point), and has done nothing on the field so far. Anyone trading for him is banking on the likelihood of Edwards royally sucking. On the plus side, TO has shown signs that he might keep his mouth shut all year, which would be a selling point to a prospective buyer. Given how bad the QB play has been the past 3 weeks, I think most people are probably surprised that TO hasn't blown up on Edwards yet, either on the sideline or to the press.

Aaron Rodgers is on the phone. It's for you.

It bothers me how people (mostly non-Bills fans at this point) keep bringing up that soul-crushing week 1 loss like it's some kind of accomplishment. Hanging your hat on a monumental choke job is about as big a loser mentality as you can get. Maybe you could get excited about moral victories in year one of a new coach's rebuilding (2008 Ravens/Falcons, 2009 Broncos/Jets say hello), but in the 4th year of a coach's tenure? There's no moral victories at that point. The only bad win is one in which a lot of guys get hurt. There are no good losses.

I missed the first quarter, but I don't recall any draw plays. We did run several screens, with limited success. Eric Wood was illegally downfield on one, but the play went for no gain, so the penalty was declined. At least one or two more were stymied (3 yards or less). I remember one on a 3rd and 6 that went for 7 yards and a first down.

Luck certainly plays a major role, but over time, trends emerge.

"Times out" is probably grammatically correct, although it sounds really weird. Reminds me of this Onion article from a while back: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/31525

If other teams did the same to us, Edwards would actually look half decent and be able to complete some passes to WRs.

Excellent stuff. Especially because "Up+B" was such a dominant play for the K-Gun Bills.

Good stuff!

Also keep in mind that since we've already played Tampa Bay, that lone win was a freebie. 0-10 against non-OC-firing teams.

In fairness, we did get 6 sacks on Henne. Looks like you picked the wrong week to pick on the pass rush. And I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

It's working out great so far.

What's the downside of canning Jauron? We lose a bunch of games? That's going to happen anyway.

Fair enough. Trent's play sucked. He sucks. He's a terrible quarterback, and he's not showing signs of getting better. He seems completely incapable of hitting a receiver on the move, except for the occasional 9 route. He seems afraid to either throw the ball downfield or to wide receivers, and for good reason -- because the rare times he does avoid checking down, he tends to turn the ball over. Ryan Fitzpatrick also sucks. But at least he would bring a new kind of suck to the table. Bring on the Fitzpatrick era.

I hear George Halas has been reanimated and is looking to get back into coaching. Could be a solid hire.

Between Trentative's love for throwing checkdowns and Miami's pass rush (assuming Porter will play), I wonder if it would be beneficial to go max-protect? Keep all backs and tight ends in to pass block, and only send WRs into pass patterns. Would Trent just start throwing the ball away, or would he be forced to try a deep out or crossing route once in a while?

Great article. Can we please have a moratorium on people saying that Edwards is an accurate passer just because he has a high completion percentage? Every QB will have a high completion percentage if 77% of their passes are under 10 yards. It's the 11-20 yard row that is the most damning. Long bombs are always going to be fairly low percentage plays (albeit with a huge upside if you connect), so you don't want to throw a ton of those (which Al Davis still hasn't figured out). But those 11-20 yard passes should be the bread & butter of the passing game. I refuse to believe that the coaching staff wants our crappy TEs getting vastly more targets than our really good WRs. Until proven otherwise, I'm putting that on Captain Checkdown.

Henne has a bigger arm than Pennington and our 1 remaining starter in the secondary is coming off an injury. I predict the Dolphins go with a similar gameplan to last year, where they burned us deep early and often. If McGee is fully healthy, there's a chance it won't work, but if he's hobbled like he was last year, we're toast.

One of the reasons I was majorly Jonesing for us to draft DE Connor Barwin was that Barwin played TE for 2 years in college before being switched to DE, and could serve as an extra TE in a pinch.

You know he's been on the 53-man roster all year, right? But it looks like you'll get your wish & he'll be active this week.

Vick's accuracy on the longball was fine. It was short and intermediate routes where he was woefully inaccurate.

It'll be a good learning experience for Trent.

Jauron looked like he was in the Matrix.