Still In first Place...Jets 26-Bills 17

-Coast

The more I think about this, the more I realize that the Bills have only lost one football game this season and that was against the Arizona Cardinals. The Bills have absolutely self destructed and beat themselves in each of the past two weeks and I don't know what that means. Is it happening because they are a young team and can't handle the pressure of big divisional games against teams they are more talented than? I want to think that everything that is happening can be fixed...but the fact is, it can't for one reason...the Bills head coach is Dick Jauron.

It is no accident that Jauron has only one winning season in his coaching career. The guy does not know how to win and we expect him to magically learn? It isn't going to happen. In back to back weeks he got outcoached by the likes of Tony Sporano and Eric Mangini. He had no answer yesterday for the Jets dink and dunk offensive gameplan. Our defense allowed the Jets to just get 4 or 5 yards every play and never adjusted...it was like they were so afraid of the big play. Yeah, Perry Fewell should be blamed too, but it all comes back to the head coach. Where was the aggressiveness on defense? We did not pressure Favre. We should have been bringing the house on this guy...but we didn't. The one time we pressure him he makes a mistake. Jauron also cannot go a game without making a ridiculous challenge. I could tell by watching the game live in the stands that Coles caught the ball. He is at field level. Is he blind? The one challenge he wins so to enable us to punt. I just can't stand him. It seriously makes me sick to think that he will be coaching our team till 2011.

Ever since I anointed Trent Edwards the MVP and top 5 QB in the NFL, he has looked exactly like JP Losman. I gave him a free pass last week in the 4th quarter but no free pass this week. He was awful. You can't make the argument that he singlehandedly lose us the game. He completely wasted three time outs for no reason. You need to be aware of the play clock and what is going on in the game. How do you ever even think about wasting a time out on 2nd and 11 from the 40 yard line in the third quarter? That is just inexcusable. The pick 6 was obviously another mistake that just can't happen. How reminiscent was that play to the Newman interception last year against Dallas that cost us big time. He also fumbled inside his own 10. He didn't see the corner blitz coming from his right. He turned his back to it assuming Corey McIntyre would pick up the blitz. He didn't. He held the ball way too long all day. He got sacked 5 times. He had back to back sacks in the 4th quarter that led to a Lindell missed field goal. This happened with the Bills down by 13.

Edwards isn't the only problem. The Bills ran the ball for 30 yards. The farthest Marshawn Lynch has ran all season was chasing down an interception return. After that play he disappeared for a quarter and a half because of flu like symptoms. He isn't used to have to run for more than 1 yard before getting hit by 5 players. The interior of the Bills offensive line was no match for Kris Jenkins. They are no match for anyone really. Jason Whittle was getting tossed around like a rag doll. Duke Preston is not Kent Hull and we all know everything we need to know about Melvin Fowler. Dockery is making 49 million dollars and I would really like to see him blow someone off the ball. Can we open a hole? Every yard Lynch or Jackson gets seems to be 100 percent their own doing.

The Bills dominated the first half. The Bills had the ball for 15 straight minutes. They ran 27 consecutive plays or something like that. They ran something like 35 of 39 plays in the first half on offense. They got outscored in that span 10-0. Their first drive was an easy touchdown march. Their next drive was a fumble at their own 6 by Edwards. Their next drive was a long march that resulted in Edwards throwing a pick 6 inside the 10. Their next drive was another long drive that resulted in a turnover on downs inside the 10. When you have a bad running game, you don't run a play fake on 3rd and a foot thinking there is no doubt you can pick up the first down on 4th. You just need to be smarter and realize you might need to shots at it.

Yesterday was an embarrassing loss. The reality is that it is over and the Bills are 5-3 and tied for first place. They have a huge game next weekend...at New England. They haven't won there since Clintons presidency. I'll be in the stands hoping for a miracle.

On a side note: Dante Whitner has a separated shoulder. He has week to week along with Josh Reed. I don't know what week to week means but all I know is we need Josh Reed back as soon as possible.