goynahan Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 His in-game demeanor & postgame interview rubbed me the wrong way a bit. First of all, I saw not an ounce of passion or enthusiasm during the game. Everytime the cameras showed him on the sideline he was just standing there with that squinty look on his face. No interaction with other guys on the offense, no attempts to boost the morale on the sideline, nothing. It seems like he is hesitant to embrace a leadership role and knows he will have the "oh he's a rookie" excuse to fall back on if he plays poorly and this team doesn't win. I mean as bad as he played we were still in the game in the 4th quarter, but you could see it in his face that he was done. I understand that rookies aren't supposed to come in and light it up but if you are the starting quarterback of an nfl team you need to take ownership of it and embrace it, rookie or no rookie. then he goes in to the post game interview and although he admitted he didnt play well, i felt like he should have taken a little more personal responsibility. A couple of times he mentioned how the lack of running game made it difficult to pass - I would argue it was the other way around today. I would have loved to hear him go up there and say "you know what guys i sucked today plain and simple. I let my guys down. But im gonna work my tail off to get better and we're gonna get this thing right." But instead we got some lame, half assed chat about how the steelers played awesome and took all his reads away, almost as if he was saying there was nothing he couldve done. so right or wrong thats how i feel and had to vent a bit, as someone who lived in pittsburgh for 7 years these losses against the steelers always hurt a little more than others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homey D. Clown Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Hard to argue with this, but given the fact the kid has not really seen much NFL action, I am sure he'll see his reads were probably there more often than not, and game speed overwhelmed him. I agree with you though he should have owned his mistakes, rather than sluff them off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PearlHowardman Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 This season is a complete waste for EJ Manuel and the Buffalo Bills. Manuel missed too much pre-season playing time and too much regular-season playing time to develop. It SUCKS but that's the way it is. Next year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miyagi-Do Karate Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Wouldn't surprise me of no one was open yesterday. Other than Stevie, who else did we have out there doing anything? Graham? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bills44 Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Other than Stevie, who else did we have out there doing anything? Graham? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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