thewildrabbit Posted September 23, 2010 Share Posted September 23, 2010 Trent Edwards benched...the villagers headed to OBD with torches and pitchforks wanting to burn down the facility because the Bills lost two games... Chan Gailey panicking because he is so desperate for a win OR does he just want to give his team another option and chance to win at NE? Who did the Bills lose to? The Dolphins have a really good 3-4 defense run by Mike Nolan ...they just went into Minnesota and beat down legend Brett Farve, intercepting him 3 times at home, more then he threw all last season !!! plus they caused 5 turnovers.- The Packers could be super bowl bound this year as they have an excellent team in almost every aspect. At the end of the season I wouldn't be surprised if both the Dolphins and Packers are in the playoffs as both have top 3-4 defenses and the Pack has a top 10 offense. In that Miami game with 8 min to go and down 13-3 Gailey calls for a spread 5 WR offense and the Dolphins stopped blitzing and dropped into coverage, the result was an 80 yard drive and a TD to Parrish closing the gap 13-10. Now the Bills overcame penalties and a sack on that scoring drive, the offense was in pure attack mode with 4-5 WR sets and the Dolphins only rushing 3-4 to keep from getting beaten by a big play. So what do we know, that 2 WR sets and conventional running plays didn't work very well against the Dolphins. Blocking and protections were very suspect. The "wildcat" worked for the Bills against the Dolphins and they got a first down from it, next play was a hold so they go to a 2 back 2 WR set and try and have Edwards bail out the O line penalty, which we already knew doesn't work.We saw that the spread formation with 4-5 WR sets worked brilliantly late in the game. We saw that at Green Bay the Bills came out in the conventional 2 back 2 WR set and tried to run the ball, then went to a 4 WR set on 3rd and 9, Green Bay zone blitzes and is Edwards sacked back to the bills 5 by Matthews after 3 seconds, it was basically a jailbreak but Clay got the sack, pocket collapsed We saw that the Bills were able to run the ball with conventional 2 back sets on GB in the 2nd QTR and Jackson scores on a run. Later the Bills try and run on a 2nd down and 20.... The Bills tried to run the ball against the Packers with mostly conventional 2RB 2 WR sets and when then didn't convert or couldn't convert by running they kept putting Edwards in long yardage situation to try and make up the yards the running game set them back from. The stats look horrid for Edwards but honestly this looked like early Dick Jauron play calling (Schonert-AVP) 11of 18 for 106 yards 2 INT's, both INT's were deflections http://www.cbssports...20100919_BUF@GB Did Edwards have a horrible game...yep no question. but was he constantly put in tough situations by the play caller...yep no question. Trent Edwards was not the only one benched, Roscoe Parrish is now the 2nd receiver in 2 WR sets replacing Steve Johnson So with only one decent receiver being doubled and tripled and no viable TE option and in long yardage situations and a heavy blitz always coming, best to bench the QB http://blogs.buffalo...%28BillBoard%29 Bottom line. If Chan Gailey keeps putting his QB's in very difficult situations, 2nd and long- 3rd an long with suspect blocking and protections I highly doubt any QB will have great success. Edwards had about 2-3 seconds in both games to unload the ball before he would be whacked. And even when he did get rid of the ball he was getting whacked anyway. Did the Bills want to showcase Lynch to be able to trade him and therefore they ran the ball much more against the Packers then they did against the Dolphins, did Chan not realize this Packer defense was the #1 defense against the run last season with the same players returning this year? Did Chan lose his balls and try and go ultra conservative because his pistol offense didn't work so well? We all saw that a 4-5 WR spread formation worked brilliantly against the Dolphins and kept them from constantly blitzing, then why not run that against Green Bay at some point on 1st and 2nd down? Then burn them with a big play when they try and blitz, pretty sure Roscoe and Spiller are faster then Clay Matthews We saw the "wildcat" get a first down against the Dolphins, why not use that more often and make the game exciting? Run the "Wildcat" more then once or twice a game...for the love of god, get Spiller the ball and use him like the Saints use Reggie Bush My take is Chan created his own problems with the offense in going to conservative by trying to run Lynch and then putting the QB in long yardage situations and thereby allowing him to be susceptible to a heavy blitz, it is also my take he benched Edwards to soon. I think he over reacted, OTOH he certainly made the masses happy. But hey, at least now he doesn't need to worry about getting a career ending concussion playing behind a really bad O line and with conservative game plans. Its fitz's turn to run for his life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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