Confused
09-19-2007, 02:05 PM
After a busy offseason, the Bills find themselves again on the threshold of another disapointing season. We've been here before. Too many times.
I have a few ideas to help this season be better.
1. Coaching. It all starts here. We need to be a little (ok alot) more gutsy in our play calling. Gadget plays, play action, and a little trickery everynow and then would take away the predictablity of our offense. Too many times have the Bills "shown" run in there formation, the opposing defense has caught on to it, adjusted there set, and we run a run play up the middle for a loss. 3 yard passes on 3rd and 5. dumb calls.
2. Passing game: SPREAD THE DARNED FIELD!!!! a four reciever set lends itself to mismatches. plain and simple. Parrish covered by anyone but a no.1 or no2. cb is a matchup we need to capitalize on. Send Lee on a post pattern every other play. Even if we dont bomb him the ball every time, our recievers are sooo poorly regarded by opposing defenses that with Lee doubled and running for the endzone, thats 2 less defenders in the middle of the field for JP to get the ball to Josh or Roscoe.
3. Running game: Marshawn is a beast. He seems to have is best runs off either misdirection plays or the counter plays. more of em. Get that highly paid O-line to gel asap. Find a center worth a S#it.
4. Defense: CATCH THE ****** BALL TERENCE!!!!!!! aside from that and keeping our remaining guys healthy there really isnt much we can do here. Seeing how we lost Ko Simpson, why not sprinkle John Wendling in a little and see what the kid is made of. He's more athletic than Leonard. Ashton Youboty is a way better CB than Webster. Inexperience with a huge upside is wayyy better than a veteran on the backside of his carreer. Poz will learn the pass.
5. Special teams: Solely in the interest of keeping Mcgee healthy, how about a 50-50 split of returns with my boy Roscoe. Other than that our ST is the freeking bomb yo! A fake punt (god knows we punt enough) or two would shake thing up and raise a few pulses.
LONGTERM SOLUTIONS:
JP: "Make or break" is a flucking understatement. He needs to step it up. complete the passes he's allowed to throw. Your days are numbered Japers. I would have a true QB competion this offseason regardless of JP's play the rest of the season.
Evans: we need to plan for this guy to leave us. Limas Sweede is my top choice and should be ours next April. I feel Lee feels he's wasting his career here.
P.Price: Trade or cut. We have all seem what he cant do. I for one have seen enough.
Free agency: I could go on for hours about the things we should have done last offseason( Dre Bly, Trotter, S.Rice). This upcomming offseason, lets at least take a shot at Asante Samuel. He'll want big money, more than RW will prolly pay but WTF? what do we got to loose? Mcgee is NOT a No.1 CB. Maybe in the CFL but not here. We need a GOOD center. all that is missing from our o-line. that and a reliable tight end. Royale is almost useless in passing and IS usless in blocking. On the defensive side, Our LB corps is week. Poz has potentil and I root for him alot. Crowell is good but not great and Ellison and DiGi are not starters. We CANNOT build a team thru the draft. Aggressive moves must be made to shore up our defense. We need another monster DT. We should have grabbed Tank Johnson character issues be darned.
The coaching: Two years ago i said that Marv is just a public relations move to keep season tickets up. He has arguably done more damage than good.Lets get a new GM.
The swingin dick Jauron needs a demotion. He'd make a great defensive coordinator. Thats about it. We would greatly benefit from a ballsy, young, emotional coach it inspire our boys. Fairchild needs to grab his midsection and be reminded of what makes him a man. Or I may be way off base and fairchild is being held back by Jauron's ultra conservative playcalling. either way, changes must be made.
On defense: Tampa 2 is not the way to go. Build our defense around a strong 3-4 with a shutdown corner that rotates to the side the no1. WR happens to be playing. Poz would flourish in this scheme.
The Draft: If things continue to go miserably for the Bills, a top five pick is not a longshot. That said any pick other than no1 should be a WR. Like I said above, I dont see Lee sticking around. If by some chance we finish dead last, Mcfadden should be our boy. We use him as a trade to shore up some other problems, We should not however, trade that pick. We should be savy and get as much as we can for this guy. I'm complety sold on Lynch so Mcfadden wouldnt even need to be fitted for a Bills uni. Next is obviously a CB then DT then TE then BPA.
Well thats what I think, You guys and gals have no idea the frustration i feel about his current team. I just wanna win.
I have a few ideas to help this season be better.
1. Coaching. It all starts here. We need to be a little (ok alot) more gutsy in our play calling. Gadget plays, play action, and a little trickery everynow and then would take away the predictablity of our offense. Too many times have the Bills "shown" run in there formation, the opposing defense has caught on to it, adjusted there set, and we run a run play up the middle for a loss. 3 yard passes on 3rd and 5. dumb calls.
2. Passing game: SPREAD THE DARNED FIELD!!!! a four reciever set lends itself to mismatches. plain and simple. Parrish covered by anyone but a no.1 or no2. cb is a matchup we need to capitalize on. Send Lee on a post pattern every other play. Even if we dont bomb him the ball every time, our recievers are sooo poorly regarded by opposing defenses that with Lee doubled and running for the endzone, thats 2 less defenders in the middle of the field for JP to get the ball to Josh or Roscoe.
3. Running game: Marshawn is a beast. He seems to have is best runs off either misdirection plays or the counter plays. more of em. Get that highly paid O-line to gel asap. Find a center worth a S#it.
4. Defense: CATCH THE ****** BALL TERENCE!!!!!!! aside from that and keeping our remaining guys healthy there really isnt much we can do here. Seeing how we lost Ko Simpson, why not sprinkle John Wendling in a little and see what the kid is made of. He's more athletic than Leonard. Ashton Youboty is a way better CB than Webster. Inexperience with a huge upside is wayyy better than a veteran on the backside of his carreer. Poz will learn the pass.
5. Special teams: Solely in the interest of keeping Mcgee healthy, how about a 50-50 split of returns with my boy Roscoe. Other than that our ST is the freeking bomb yo! A fake punt (god knows we punt enough) or two would shake thing up and raise a few pulses.
LONGTERM SOLUTIONS:
JP: "Make or break" is a flucking understatement. He needs to step it up. complete the passes he's allowed to throw. Your days are numbered Japers. I would have a true QB competion this offseason regardless of JP's play the rest of the season.
Evans: we need to plan for this guy to leave us. Limas Sweede is my top choice and should be ours next April. I feel Lee feels he's wasting his career here.
P.Price: Trade or cut. We have all seem what he cant do. I for one have seen enough.
Free agency: I could go on for hours about the things we should have done last offseason( Dre Bly, Trotter, S.Rice). This upcomming offseason, lets at least take a shot at Asante Samuel. He'll want big money, more than RW will prolly pay but WTF? what do we got to loose? Mcgee is NOT a No.1 CB. Maybe in the CFL but not here. We need a GOOD center. all that is missing from our o-line. that and a reliable tight end. Royale is almost useless in passing and IS usless in blocking. On the defensive side, Our LB corps is week. Poz has potentil and I root for him alot. Crowell is good but not great and Ellison and DiGi are not starters. We CANNOT build a team thru the draft. Aggressive moves must be made to shore up our defense. We need another monster DT. We should have grabbed Tank Johnson character issues be darned.
The coaching: Two years ago i said that Marv is just a public relations move to keep season tickets up. He has arguably done more damage than good.Lets get a new GM.
The swingin dick Jauron needs a demotion. He'd make a great defensive coordinator. Thats about it. We would greatly benefit from a ballsy, young, emotional coach it inspire our boys. Fairchild needs to grab his midsection and be reminded of what makes him a man. Or I may be way off base and fairchild is being held back by Jauron's ultra conservative playcalling. either way, changes must be made.
On defense: Tampa 2 is not the way to go. Build our defense around a strong 3-4 with a shutdown corner that rotates to the side the no1. WR happens to be playing. Poz would flourish in this scheme.
The Draft: If things continue to go miserably for the Bills, a top five pick is not a longshot. That said any pick other than no1 should be a WR. Like I said above, I dont see Lee sticking around. If by some chance we finish dead last, Mcfadden should be our boy. We use him as a trade to shore up some other problems, We should not however, trade that pick. We should be savy and get as much as we can for this guy. I'm complety sold on Lynch so Mcfadden wouldnt even need to be fitted for a Bills uni. Next is obviously a CB then DT then TE then BPA.
Well thats what I think, You guys and gals have no idea the frustration i feel about his current team. I just wanna win.