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Why the hell is it so black and white with people. Is it possible, just POSSIBLE, that he made some really bad plays and some really good ones? Yeah, those 2-3 horrible plays hurt the Bills but they don't mean that the rest of the game he had wasn't solid. Imagine that, a young QB is inconsistent.

There's more to being a RB than simply running with the ball. Willis cost the Bills 7 points and was to blame on the biggest play of the game. I'm not sure his fine running performance counters all the bad that happened on that play.

The worst mistake he made was the first fumble. It was just inexcusable. He saw the blitz and moved to his right to avoid it...he either needed to throw the ball away instead of running or he needed to tuck the ball away and take off running. The slow slide to the left with his arm cocked back was just a horrible decision.

I don't see regression at all. If you think you're going to have a QB that doens't have these types of days you're crazy. This is just another step in the process. He did some great things today but, unfortunately, he countered those with two boneheaded plays that cost the team bigtime (I don't blame the sack/fumble/TD that happend on him, McGahee didn't even touch the blitzer).

Yeah, all they need in an onside kick, 50 yards of offense and a two point conversion. Easy!

They're called turnovers. If you lose the turnover battle 3-0 the game isn't going to be very close.

With the game on the line JP did drive the team all the way to the one yard line only to have the coaching staff pull a Mularkey. I understand not wanting to be too predictable and just running the ball up the middle but they could have mixed it up with a safer call (like a play action pass to the TE). JP had a few boneheaded plays but he also had some very good ones.

He looked both good and bad today which is to be expected. The team got away from the running game much too early. They should have relied on McGahee instead of Losman, even after they fell behind by 11 points.

Just take a look at the Tennessee/Miami score. That win last week isn't looking very impressive. This Bills team has a long way to go on both sides of the ball.

This is the same old, same old. Even with those so called "#2" Ds from a few years ago the Buffalo D always comes up small with the game on the line.

He might be the worst blocking RB I've ever seen. Just horrid.

You should try going to an SEC game sometime. I think it would rid you of the "quite southern mentality" idea you have.

Normally I'd agree, but Spikes hasn't exactly had a lot of playing time in training camp and pre-season. The guy could use all the reps he could get in this new system. I'm guessing, and hoping, he sits for another week. A hammy can bother a player the entire year if they attempt to come back from it too quickly.

There is a lot one can criticize the NYT for (read Manufacturing Consent for an in depth critique on newspapers and the Times specifically) but making one mistake in an article isn't one of them. Do you really expect them to go to print with zero mistakes? That is simply impossible. Of course, when there are agendas to be made any mistake is magnified 1000 times in an attempt to discredit what someone sees as an opposing point of view.

Then perhaps he should keep a journal instead.

This play could have been a textbook example of why I'm not in favor of the new rule that says down by contact can be reviewed and overturned. Let's say, for the sake of argument, that the whistle the ref blew was because of down by contact, not in the grasp. Let's also say that at the very end of the play a Dolphin walked by and pick up the ball (which I think actually happened like 3 seconds after the play). According to the new rule the Dolphins could have been awarded the ball after a review. Of course, there were 2 Bills just standing over the ball (and no Dolphins) but they both stopped the moment they heard the whistle. The new reviewable down by contact rule has the potential to blow up in somebody's face this year. I still can't fathom how they can award the ball to a team when they gain possession after the whistle was blown. Of course, this is all just hypothetical but when I saw Saban try to challenge it I was screaming at the TV, “I knew when they changed this rule we’d be the first to get the shaft!” Thankfully it didn’t turn out that way.

To be fair he's right. Denny, Kelsey, McGahee, Fletcher, Spikes, Crowell, Clements, McGee, Evans, Losman...all these guys are "leftovers" from TD and are significant contributors to this year’s team. That being said Mort would have to be out of his mind to see that the coaching staff is putting these players in a better position to succeed than the previous coaching staff. TD did a pretty good job at stocking the team with some good players (with the exception of the OL). Of course, a big part of being a GM is making sure that you hire the right HC and TD failed at that twice. TD deserved to be fired but don't go thinking that every single move he made with the Bills was a horrible decision.

It goes beyond that. If Losman has a statistically bad game and the Bills lose they'll say the above. If he has a statistically bad game and the Bills win they'll repeat what they've said in this thread. If he has a statistically good game and the Bills lose they'll say, "yeah, but the Bills lost." If he has a statistically good game and the Bills win they'll say, "yeah, but it was only the Jets." There's nothing that can happen this week that they won't complain about.

Losman did what was asked of him in that game, nothing more, nothing less. The coaching staff managed the game well and I wouldn't want the Bills to have put the ball in the air anymore than they did considering how their D and ST were playing. I also wouldn't want Losman to take any chances with the ball considering how well the D and ST were playing. There are times to take some chances in order to move the chains or score more points, Sunday was not one of them. Who the hell cares how many yards passing he had? If the game was closer and the Bills needed the O to score more points I have no doubt that the coaching staff would have called a different game. But as it is they called a conservative one which Losman executed well enough to help win the game. I think we all know that Losman can make plays down the field and he finally showed us that he can also manage a game pretty well when that's what is called for. Imo, the bottom line is that you're not going to be happy with Losman no matter what and there's really nothing he could do, aside from putting up type Peyton numbers, that would please you. You’ve pretty much said it already, based on what you know from him in college you’re not even willing to give him a chance. I’m wondering how much Tulane football you’ve actually seen…

Why does it not surprise me that you can't spell moot?

Of course JP isn't just making one read and, as far as I know, never has been.

You do realize that in Ben's first year as a starter he had, essentially, ONE read to make. If that guy wasn't open he threw it to his check down guy. If this is your concern about Losman why are you comparing him to BR who wasn't making real reads until his second full season as a starter? Also, tell me this. Which QBs, in their first 10 starts, "showed the ability to make complex decisions quickly?" You've written the guy off before you've ever given him a chance. Not many here are "Losman lovers", all I see are a bunch of fans who are willing to give the guy a chance to prove himself before they throw him under the bus. If the coaching staff doesn't have much faith in him after his 30th start and call the same type of game they did on Sunday you may have a point. But until then they're doing the right thing in brining him along slowly.

I really think we have a shot at a BCS bowl this year.

If the Bills get rid of only one of their jerseys I hope to hell it's the god awful road unis that get the axe. Those things are just horrid.