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I went to the game very excited to see all the stuff you dont see on TV.
I was not dissappointed.
You all want to blame JP, I absolutely refuse to SOLELY blame him. Is he struggling? I would say yes but I expect him to look exactly like he looks, like a young QB. He missed throws, he looked confused, he overthrew, and he underthrew. He also played fairly mistake free and continues to do so. The lost fumble at the end was flat out the DE blowing by Jerman and hitting his arm ffrom the blindside. If you want to blame JP for that, go for it but its just plain ridiculous. JP almost was picked on 1 play but wasnt, and was picked on the other. He threw the ball right at Evans (I believe) but threw it to tight and the underneath LB jumped it. More on this in a minute.
JP is guilty right now of the following: missing throws, looking confused, staying stuck on his primary receiver. If you add all that up it equal a young QB. I expected him to look like a young QB and here he is. We hoped for last years Pitt and we aint gonna get it. Which means, and this is critical, you cannot expect a young QB to carry the team and win the games for you. WONT WORK. You cannot even expect him to play effecient, WONT DO IT. You also should not expect him to play mistake free, yet for the most part he has minimized mistakes, he has made them, but he has minimized them. Am I saying he is god? NO, am I saying he is struggling? yes, but it is exactly what we should be expecting. Guess what the BIGGEST problem is? THE BILLS AINT DOING JACK TO HELP THE SITUATION!!!! The team is far from a playoff team if you set the QB aside. let me elaborate:
1) This may be the biggest thing that people who havent seen the games dont know; These pass plays they are calling are WAY to slow developing. I watched JP drop back and sit there waiting for the WR to make their cuts or turn around. So your asking a QB with 3 starts to have the poise and patience to evade the relentless pass rush given up by our average o-line until the WR turns around 10 or 15 yards down the field? That makes no sense at all. The scheme was very obviously not helping JP at all. Quick slants, TE rollouts, Screens.
2) Moulds is a possession WR at this point and NOT a very good one at all. Moulds aint beating ANYBODY with his deep speed anymore. Thats fine, but if you aint got speed, at least get open. He didnt do that either. And to top it off, he cant make the tough grabs anymore like he used to.
3) I have watched an waited for McGahee to become an elite back, ya know what, Im still waiting. Your saying, how can he be questioning a guy who ran for 140 yards? Well, I have watched McGahee for long enough and can say with lots of data now that he is not very good at breaking tackles. On one play, he was headed for a TD and gets tackled at the feet in the open field by a CB. Now Im sorry, thats NOT what you expect from an elite RB. Run him out of bounds? fine Slow him down? fine but tackle him by the feet? one guy? Furthermore, he has another sure fire TD with a great downfield block by a WR and slips and falls in the open field? I have watched this guy go down on the first hit WAY too much. He needs to step it up and become the elite RB.
4) Any Defense that plays 2 downs is NOT a playoff D!!! They ate us alive today on 3rd downs. They way over pursued Vick and then left #12 Jenkins, and TE's completely wide open for TD's. Slot WR's? TE's? what a concept, hope Mularkey and Clements were watching. We play like this and we wont beat anyone.
Overall, I was disgusted not with the game, it was a great battle and lots of fun to be there, not with JP although I feel we have a long haul still with him, but with the fans and the media.
How in the hell does anyone who watched: the WR's not get open at all all day, the D not stop anyone on 3rd down and give up 3 TD's, the Coaches have the O come out throwing YET AGAIN when they know they have a raw young QB starting, the coaches run these stupid slow developing pass plays, and o-line let these guys get in JP's face all day...state that its all JP's fault?
When in the hell will you people get it? When will you realize that this guy is young and raw, he wont carry the team to wins yet, he cant be used as an offensive weapon yet, you should plan on him lighting up the league yet, you shouldnt plan on him having Tom Bradys poise yet, you shouldnt plan on him having Peytons touch yet? When will you get it? What did you expect from a QB with 3 starts under his belt?
This is REAL simple. With an avergae QB at the helm, be it Losman, Holcomb or other, this team is STILL not good enough to be in the playoffs!!! Its true. For all the reason I stated.
Now, the really hard part for you all to get, is that the decision makers, the Bills front office and coaches KNOW THIS and they are starting JP anyways. WHY? Because they NO that putting Holcomb in the game would NOT have made any damn difference and furthermore would HURT the team overall. We KNOW what we have in Holcomb; a career backup!!! He IS NOT going to carry this team, he wont do it. And if the team DOES play like a playoff team despite the QB, Losman will take them to the playoffs just as easy as Holcomb. They FULLY expect Losman to play exactly like he looked today and they will ride him the WHOLE year, if you want to bench him after 3 games, you might as well trade or cut him because you will only HURT his long term future with us, and IMO will NOT win anymore games!
I guess you guys must have been sleepwalking in the offseason when we proclaimed JP the starter, that was the time for revolt, JP is playing like a young QB nothing more, nothing less. And I dopnt fault him at all for it. I blame the rest of the team for playing as poorly as they are and the coaches not scheming to help a young QB out.
I was not dissappointed.
You all want to blame JP, I absolutely refuse to SOLELY blame him. Is he struggling? I would say yes but I expect him to look exactly like he looks, like a young QB. He missed throws, he looked confused, he overthrew, and he underthrew. He also played fairly mistake free and continues to do so. The lost fumble at the end was flat out the DE blowing by Jerman and hitting his arm ffrom the blindside. If you want to blame JP for that, go for it but its just plain ridiculous. JP almost was picked on 1 play but wasnt, and was picked on the other. He threw the ball right at Evans (I believe) but threw it to tight and the underneath LB jumped it. More on this in a minute.
JP is guilty right now of the following: missing throws, looking confused, staying stuck on his primary receiver. If you add all that up it equal a young QB. I expected him to look like a young QB and here he is. We hoped for last years Pitt and we aint gonna get it. Which means, and this is critical, you cannot expect a young QB to carry the team and win the games for you. WONT WORK. You cannot even expect him to play effecient, WONT DO IT. You also should not expect him to play mistake free, yet for the most part he has minimized mistakes, he has made them, but he has minimized them. Am I saying he is god? NO, am I saying he is struggling? yes, but it is exactly what we should be expecting. Guess what the BIGGEST problem is? THE BILLS AINT DOING JACK TO HELP THE SITUATION!!!! The team is far from a playoff team if you set the QB aside. let me elaborate:
1) This may be the biggest thing that people who havent seen the games dont know; These pass plays they are calling are WAY to slow developing. I watched JP drop back and sit there waiting for the WR to make their cuts or turn around. So your asking a QB with 3 starts to have the poise and patience to evade the relentless pass rush given up by our average o-line until the WR turns around 10 or 15 yards down the field? That makes no sense at all. The scheme was very obviously not helping JP at all. Quick slants, TE rollouts, Screens.
2) Moulds is a possession WR at this point and NOT a very good one at all. Moulds aint beating ANYBODY with his deep speed anymore. Thats fine, but if you aint got speed, at least get open. He didnt do that either. And to top it off, he cant make the tough grabs anymore like he used to.
3) I have watched an waited for McGahee to become an elite back, ya know what, Im still waiting. Your saying, how can he be questioning a guy who ran for 140 yards? Well, I have watched McGahee for long enough and can say with lots of data now that he is not very good at breaking tackles. On one play, he was headed for a TD and gets tackled at the feet in the open field by a CB. Now Im sorry, thats NOT what you expect from an elite RB. Run him out of bounds? fine Slow him down? fine but tackle him by the feet? one guy? Furthermore, he has another sure fire TD with a great downfield block by a WR and slips and falls in the open field? I have watched this guy go down on the first hit WAY too much. He needs to step it up and become the elite RB.
4) Any Defense that plays 2 downs is NOT a playoff D!!! They ate us alive today on 3rd downs. They way over pursued Vick and then left #12 Jenkins, and TE's completely wide open for TD's. Slot WR's? TE's? what a concept, hope Mularkey and Clements were watching. We play like this and we wont beat anyone.
Overall, I was disgusted not with the game, it was a great battle and lots of fun to be there, not with JP although I feel we have a long haul still with him, but with the fans and the media.
How in the hell does anyone who watched: the WR's not get open at all all day, the D not stop anyone on 3rd down and give up 3 TD's, the Coaches have the O come out throwing YET AGAIN when they know they have a raw young QB starting, the coaches run these stupid slow developing pass plays, and o-line let these guys get in JP's face all day...state that its all JP's fault?
When in the hell will you people get it? When will you realize that this guy is young and raw, he wont carry the team to wins yet, he cant be used as an offensive weapon yet, you should plan on him lighting up the league yet, you shouldnt plan on him having Tom Bradys poise yet, you shouldnt plan on him having Peytons touch yet? When will you get it? What did you expect from a QB with 3 starts under his belt?
This is REAL simple. With an avergae QB at the helm, be it Losman, Holcomb or other, this team is STILL not good enough to be in the playoffs!!! Its true. For all the reason I stated.
Now, the really hard part for you all to get, is that the decision makers, the Bills front office and coaches KNOW THIS and they are starting JP anyways. WHY? Because they NO that putting Holcomb in the game would NOT have made any damn difference and furthermore would HURT the team overall. We KNOW what we have in Holcomb; a career backup!!! He IS NOT going to carry this team, he wont do it. And if the team DOES play like a playoff team despite the QB, Losman will take them to the playoffs just as easy as Holcomb. They FULLY expect Losman to play exactly like he looked today and they will ride him the WHOLE year, if you want to bench him after 3 games, you might as well trade or cut him because you will only HURT his long term future with us, and IMO will NOT win anymore games!
I guess you guys must have been sleepwalking in the offseason when we proclaimed JP the starter, that was the time for revolt, JP is playing like a young QB nothing more, nothing less. And I dopnt fault him at all for it. I blame the rest of the team for playing as poorly as they are and the coaches not scheming to help a young QB out.
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