Bills Juggernaut
10-05-2010, 01:32 PM
Why Film Study Matters: After scoring on its first possession to take a 7-0 lead at Buffalo, Jersey/B ran the pooch onside, on which the ball is kicked straight upward to come down on about the receiving team's 40. If the receiving team simply falls on a pooch onside, it gets great field position. Jets coaches had noticed the Bills' second line for kickoff receiving was all linemen and linebackers. Linebacker Chris Ellis grabbed the pooch onside -- and instead of getting on the ground, tried to run and immediately lost a fumble. Jersey/B did not score on the possession, but it set the tone for a day on which the Bills were totally outcoached: a running theme for this franchise for a decade.
Then again, coaches can't catch the ball. On one Buffalo three-and-out, Harvard alum Ryan Fitzpatrick threw a perfect 20-yard strike to Roscoe Parrish, who dropped it; then a perfect 20-yard strike to Lee Evans, who dropped it; then a perfect 35-yard strike to Evans, who dropped it.
We may thank the football gods that the 0-4 Forty-Niners do not meet the 0-4 Bills this season -- such a game would need to be blacked out for humanitarian reasons.
Well-run teams fix problems in the offseason, then hang together once the season starts. Poorly run teams ignore or deny problems in the offseason, then panic when the season starts, evidenced by San Francisco firing its offensive coordinator after three games and Buffalo waiving its starting quarterback after three games. It's not as if there was some huge mystery during the offseason about whether the Bills needed a quarterback or San Francisco needed an offense. Both teams spent their entire offseasons denying they had problems, then panicked the moment the problems became obvious.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=easterbrook/101005_tuesday_morning_quarterback&sportCat=nfl
The Bills are a sad, sad joke......
Then again, coaches can't catch the ball. On one Buffalo three-and-out, Harvard alum Ryan Fitzpatrick threw a perfect 20-yard strike to Roscoe Parrish, who dropped it; then a perfect 20-yard strike to Lee Evans, who dropped it; then a perfect 35-yard strike to Evans, who dropped it.
We may thank the football gods that the 0-4 Forty-Niners do not meet the 0-4 Bills this season -- such a game would need to be blacked out for humanitarian reasons.
Well-run teams fix problems in the offseason, then hang together once the season starts. Poorly run teams ignore or deny problems in the offseason, then panic when the season starts, evidenced by San Francisco firing its offensive coordinator after three games and Buffalo waiving its starting quarterback after three games. It's not as if there was some huge mystery during the offseason about whether the Bills needed a quarterback or San Francisco needed an offense. Both teams spent their entire offseasons denying they had problems, then panicked the moment the problems became obvious.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=easterbrook/101005_tuesday_morning_quarterback&sportCat=nfl
The Bills are a sad, sad joke......