Season's Over

-Coast

Well, the season is over on September 12, 2010 so here is my annual "season's over" blog. I mean, realistically the season was over before it even began. Sadly, I developed confidence in the offense and the quarterback by watching them score touchdowns in the preseason when zero teams are game planning. I would imagine that most teams starting offenses score some touchdowns in the preseason. Then again the Bills have been so pathetic the past decade that we have to get excited about our starting offense scoring 5 touchdowns in preseason games.

Trent Edwards is absolutely terrible. It is an embarrassment to the city of Buffalo that he is our starting quarterback. The worst things to happen to the city of Buffalo are Trent Edwards, the assassination of William McKinley and deindustrialization. This guy makes me sick. He is completely inept, atrocious, cowardly and gutless. He is plain bad. I am pretty positive that he would not make another team in the NFL as a backup or third stringer. 18 for 34 for 139 yards and a touchdown. That it a whopping 4.09 yards per attempt. That is incredibly horrible. Edwards had 77 yards passing on one touchdown drive in which the Bills switched to the no huddle in the 4th quarter. On his 27 passes not including this drive, Edwards threw for 62 yards. That is 2.3 yards per attempt for all but a 4:19 chunk of the game.

Alright, I can write an entire blog ripping on Trent Edwards because he is that terrible and that much of a joke but I will spend some time ripping on the rest of the team. The offensive line is obviously horrible. I am not going to use this is an excuse for Trent Edwards being so bad. Show some pocket awareness. Seriously, do you not know how to step up in the pocket? Can you take a chance and throw the ball down field? How does it feel that a rookie QB threw for double the yards you threw for in his first NFL game? As far as the offensive line goes though, Cornell Green can't block anyone. Bell sucks. I don't really know what else to say about that except criticize Trent more but I will hold off.

The Bills game plan seemed to be "let's try and have CJ Spiller win this game for us." The Dolphins game plan was "let's stop CJ Spiller because the Bills quarterback is Trent Edwards (sound of Dolphins defense laughing hysterically)." CJ was completely taken away. He was ineffective. The star we saw in the preseason was useless. Spiller had 6 yards rushing and 8 yards receiving. 14 yards on 11 touches certainly doesn't warrant the 9th overall selection in the draft. The other Bills "starting" running backs, Jackson and Lynch, had 4 for 19 and 3 for 13 respectively. The Bills never tried to establish any sort of running game.

Their QB is a failure and their tackles can't pass block so why don't they try and establish an inside running game. The strength of their line, if there is one, is their guards. Lynch is a good power running back. Why not try and get something going with the run. Get in some 3rd and manageable situations. Why even put your quarterback in a situation where he has to throw because HE CAN'T.

Chan Gailey did anything put make me forget about Dick Jauron. First of all, the Bills actually burned a time out on 3rd and 30. What is the difference between 3rd and 30 and 3rd and 35? Someone please explain that to me. Wait, it probably wasn't Gailey's fault. It was probably our idiot quarterback who has zero awareness who wasted a timeout on third and 30. Wouldn't it have been nice to have that third timeout at the end of the game?

How about that decision to take the intentional safety on 4th and 10 from the 1 yard line at the end of the game. The Bills had 2 timeouts remaining and were trailing 13-10. Gailey thought that the Bills chances of winning were higher by taking an intentional safety and pooch punting the ball right to Brandon Marshall, the Dolphins best receiver, and hoping he drops it. If that didn't work, the Bills would get the ball back with about 30 seconds left and no timeouts and now need to score a TD. What is the chance that this works? .000001%? Does that outweigh the chances of gaining ten yards and then traveling another 55 yards or so to get into field goal range with 2 timeouts? I know the chances of this happening are slim because the Bills quarterback is Trent Edwards, but it has to be higher than the former. Edwards did try and throw three consecutive 4 yard passes that went incomplete so I can see why Chan thought it was hopeless.

The Bills are going to start 0-3. It is as close to a 100% probability as possible. Next week at Lambeau and then the week after at Gillette. The Bills will have to actually score points. Here is a summary of the Bills 3rd quarter yesterday: 3 plays, 4 yards, punt; 3 plays, 0 yards, punt; 6 plays, -5 yards, punt; 3 plays, -4 yards, punt. That is a total of -5 offensive yards in the quarter on 4 drives that started at the 48, 49, 35 and 29 yard lines. The Dolphins offense did nothing and were trying to give the Bills the game, but the Bills and their pathetic quarterback could not take advantage. I will say this quickly, the Bills defense played better than I thought they would.

Here is to 3-13 at best and a new QB, finally.