Ronin Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 The Bills could easily be 4-0 right now. But they could also easily be 0-4. And I find myself worrying about the direction of the Bills offense… Way too much emphasis on Wins/Losses. For some teams that's what matters, for us what matters is altogether something else. We are concerned with finding a viable coach and QB. We all know, or should, that this is a coach/QB league. So win or lose, that's what we should be evaluating. On a short note, if it's wins we're concerned with, consider that we won against a team that showed up flat, probably a pretty likely occurrence with teams this season as they tend to overlook us, and which had 5 INTs, largely unforced. We won by a few points and nearly lost. As to the coach, was anyone, anyone, impressed by yesterday's second half coaching performance? Manuel was horrible. His rating on the game was 48.6 and it was 148 in the first half. It must have been a few points in the second going 4 of 13 for 41 yards, 0 TDs, and 2 INTS in the second half. When was his fumble, 1st or 2nd half? 3 TOs total in a miserable performance otherwise. Spiller once again sucked and is now averaging less than 3.5 yards-per-touch this season after four games and does not have one single TD. His 2,000 yard goal now sounds like a joke. If not for Fred Jackson, who's 32 and hardly a part of the future of this team, we would not have won yesterday anyway. So in evaulating the "future" of this team, seriously, was anyone impressed? If so, why? There were not only no adjustments in the second half, it seemed as if there were anti-adjustments that fed into the Ravens' hands. Our running game averaged less than 3 yards-per-carry in the second half. Manuel was nonexistent. For as good as the D was on paper, was it our D or the Ravens' O that was the reason for "our" defensive success? I think it was both, but the Ravens looked like all they wanted to do was to get back on the bus from the moment that they arrived. Flacco throws picks and Harbaughs over on the sidelines comforting him on them. Strange day from Harbaugh. We did everything we could to lose that game in the second half, it's just that the Ravens did more as if it was a race to see who could lose the game. Either way, the future of this team, Marrone & Manuel, not to mention Hackett again, looked miserable. Pettine was aided by the Ravens' own futility. In other news, strangely, with an unknown rookie QB, Syracuse is quietly doing just as well as it was under Marrone this year with a coach that's never even coached before. All in all still not a good day for the Bills' future yesterday. Im thinking that Hackett is limiting the plays ej needs to know and will slowly increase his workload. Brown is that bad. We were one of the best teams rushing to the left side last year. It's woods not brooks Does that explain tho why Manuel can't hit the side of a barn for quarters at a time? Hardly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kemp2Warlick Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 ESPN NFL Nation @ESPN_NFLNation1m Upon Further Review: Bills Week 4 http://es.pn/18Gi5WD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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