One of my favorite stops this summer was Bills minicamp. Watching a June practice, I almost fell out of my seat when I saw Turk Schonert's offense. "That's Sam Wyche's old offense,'' I shouted to a Bills team official. Sure enough, Schonert, a former Bengals quarterback, was installing a lot of the motion plays he learned from Wyche, the former Bengals and Bucs coach. The offense was imaginative and fun to watch.
After practice, I had a great chance to stand around with quarterback Trent Edwards and Schonert and talk offense. I threw out the idea that a quarterback needs to average better than 6.4 yards an attempt to stretch defenses and force corners to backpedal. Edwards and Schonert both agreed that going downfield was important, but I loved Schonert's response regarding where he wants the yards per attempt number to be this season.
"Eight yards an attempt,'' Schonert said.
I do enjoy the fact that we seem to be taking well-timed shots downfield, and I think we can all agree that Turk so far seems to be better than Fairchild.
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