Jerry Jabber

Alex Smith didn't have to throw deep passes to beat the Pats last night. Smith did the dink and dunk game, along with a balanced rushing attack and smoked the Pats. On 3rd downs, Smith was throwing to a receiver who was either at the first down marker or just a couple of yards beyond it and successfully completed numerous first downs that way. Manuel would either dump it off to a RB before the line of scrimmage or throw it 30+ yards downfield. Hopefully we'll see Orton do more of what Smith was doing last night.

With all the weapons on this team, there's no reason why a QB can't throw for 300+ yards a game and score at least 20-25 points. Manuel was so bad with his inaccuracy and his decisions that he was hurting the Bills.

Kevin Massare ‏@KevinMassare 19m Wow, Doug Whaley is worried about his job somewhere. If they go under 9-7 everyone is gone. I wonder is this true or speculation? After today's move, it seems there's some truth to that statement.

How about this mind-boggling decision: 3rd and 6: Manuel attempts a 30+ yard pass to Mike Williams which was overthrown

A top 10 QB on the Bills would make us a Super Bowl contender with the talent we have on offense.

I have zero confidence in Manuel. How's that for pessimism?!

Manuel's inconsistency and inaccuracy is becoming very frustrating!

That sucked!!

Great INT to start the 2nd half. Hope Bradham is okay.

That was a great play by FredEx

Ted Nolan stated he would like to talk with Doug Marrone and the Bills coaching staff once the Pegula are officially the Bills owners: http://www.wgr550.com/Sabres-Nolan-is-excited-that-this-is-his-team/19933682 "Nolan was asked about the Pegula’s buying the Bills and he has an interesting way of looking at it, “The one thing I mentioned to them is maybe there’s a chance we could meet their coaching staff because I think all sports are intertwined and you learn different things from a different place so I’m looking forward to getting to know the Bills coaching staff and take some ideas from them and they could take some from us."

If it's written by Jerry Sullivan or Bucky Gleason, I don't even bother reading it as it's just a complete waste of time. From Jerry telling Terry Pegula that he needed to listen to him when he bought the Sabres, to Bucky being pissed at Pegula for not apologizing or saying anything at all about the Penn State scandal (which Terry Pegula had no involvement with at all), these guys are just two pathetic jokes that need to be fired!!

When does Nintendo come out with "Ray Rice Punchout?"

Since 2003, we’ve seen the Bills start off hot, then fizzle out at least three times: 2003 – Beat the Pats 31-0 and started off 2-0, only to finish 6-10 2008 – Started off the season 4-0, finished 7-9 2011 – Started off the season 3-0 including a week 3 defeat of the Pats, and finished 6-10 I’m enjoying the ride so far, but I’m not getting drunk off the kool-aid just yet.

Still early on Kouandijo, but it doesn’t look good for him at Tackle. IMO, Marrone should have him tryout as a Guard.

Thanks again!

Thanks for posting that. Do you know if a video has been released showing the entire pre-game ceremony? That would be great to see.

I heard this last night on WGR that our two Clemson guys, Spiller and Watkins had a combined 317 all-purpose yards (between running, passing and kickoff yards). Those stats are very impressive. While some have questioned Marrone for putting Spiller on kickoffs, I felt it was a smart move as Spiller could be the Bills best return man since Terrance McGee was handling kickoffs. Watkins came very close to having three touchdowns’ yesterday; one was swiped away by the Dolphins defender and the other was a bad throw by Manuel. It’s nice to know that the Bills finally have more than one explosive playmaker on their team. Hopefully this is just the start to many more explosive plays from the Bills.

So far, Henderson, Graham, and Dixon have been great picks/signings by Whaley. Henderson has been playing above anyone’s expectations of him. Graham has been the Bills best CB throughout two games. Dixon had a great run against the Bears last week and a blocked punt yesterday.

The offense did a good job of scoring 22 points yesterday. They faced a good Dolphins defense which held our run gam in check for most of the game. It just seemed that you knew what Hackett was going to do after a while in the red zone, run it on 1st and 2nd down and then throw it on 3rd down. I understand what Hackett is doing with Manuel by calling a conservative game plan to limit Manuel’s mistakes, but he should try and mix up the play calling a little better in the red zone as it’s too predictable and too conservative at times.

Graham was awesome yesterday and by far the best player in the secondary yesterday. Great signing by Whaley!! RCOHEN, I know Gilmore got beat by Wallace for a TD, but it's hard to knock him for that as Wallace made a highlight reel catch.

I’ve read in all the articles today (as well as on WGR last night) about the Bills red zone woes as they struggle to score touchdowns. I’m not sure why Hackett is so conservative when it comes to the red zone? It seems once the Bills get in the red zone, the offense runs two run plays (usually on 1st and 2nd down), then passes on 3rd down. I only saw Mike Williams targeted once in the end zone and didn’t see Scott Chandler targeted at all in the end zone all game long. It would be nice to see Hackett call some more pass plays to his bigger targets in the end zone.

Good points goBills1, but you will have people here such as “Why So Serious” that will tell you Gilmore’s play in preseason is nothing to be concerned about because historically Gilmore’s been a good CB.

Graham and Kyle Williams had the INT's, McKelvin had a forced fumble and had a pass bounce off his chest (no INT). It seems McKelvin played better under Pettine. IMO, he's regressed significantly from last season.