Spagnola on WOAI ripping the Bills' Playcalling

[links18]

right now.........

 

[Derinyar]

Well they decided to not beat themselves tonight. Thats what their entire play calling tonight was about. Limit mistakes and hope it was enough, at least on offense. the defense they pretty much brought everything they could every time they could.

I think it was a good call for them over all. Rookie QB and little running game, good time to stay mostly inside your shell.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Actually, they were saying the Bills blew it by throwing in the fourth and especially so deep in our zone on the Newman INT.

 

[DallasInDC]

They called a excellent defensive game plan. And they played not to lose on offense. It was 2 seconds away from being a great game plan for the Bills

 

[Rack]

Well they decided to not beat themselves tonight. Thats what their entire play calling tonight was about. Limit mistakes and hope it was enough, at least on offense. the defense they pretty much brought everything they could every time they could.

I think it was a good call for them over all. Rookie QB and little running game, good time to stay mostly inside your shell.

That's all fine and dandy, but it doesn't explain why the commentators were jizzing their pants over the guy. He executed as basic a gameplan as there could be (yet still managed an int).

It's not like they had him throwing 30 yards post routes or 20 yard in/out routes. They were the most basic routes in the playbook. No reason to get all man horny about the guy. He didn't do anything to warrant all the man-love.

 

[Derinyar]

That's all fine and dandy, but it doesn't explain why the commentators were jizzing their pants over the guy. He executed as basic a gameplan as there could be (yet still managed an int).

It's not like they had him throwing 30 yards post routes or 20 yard in/out routes. They were the most basic routes in the playbook. No reason to get all man horny about the guy. He didn't do anything to warrant all the man-love.

They were doing that because they decided the story was the rookie QB, not the near implosion of Tony Romo.

 

[Apollo Creed]

That's all fine and dandy, but it doesn't explain why the commentators were jizzing their pants over the guy. He executed as basic a gameplan as there could be (yet still managed an int).

It's not like they had him throwing 30 yards post routes or 20 yard in/out routes. They were the most basic routes in the playbook. No reason to get all man horny about the guy. He didn't do anything to warrant all the man-love.

Amen. They didn't ask to him to do anything special at all, I can't be excited as a Bills' fan that our 'QB of the future' is Trent Dilfer's clone. The longest pass he threw all night was to Newman, and we all knew where that went.

 

[InmanRoshi]

I think Jauron was struck in the head by an errant throw sometime in the 4th quarter and suffered some sort of Trent Green caliber concussion.

.... not that I'm complaining.

 

[JerryFan]

Actually, they were saying the Bills blew it by throwing in the fourth and especially so deep in our zone on the Newman INT.

Couldn't agree more. Said the same thing to my dad. Why are they passing the ball with 3 something to go? Stupid stupid stupid. All they had to do was waste the clock and kick as field goal. I started a thread about his decision to kick the field goal at the end of the first half instead of punting and that cost them big time.

 

[Paniolo22]

The Newman Int was tipped by Ware. Otherwise, probable completion.

 

[InmanRoshi]

They threw it on first down too, and it was an absolute cluster F and Edwards had to throw the ball out of bounds to avoid a sack. Then Jauron (or whoever is calling plays for their offense) decided "Hmmm ... let's try that again. But this time, let's have our rookie QB make the riskiest pass in footbal".

Unbelievable. I think he must have been huffing glue at half time.

 

[28 Joker]

The Newman Int was tipped by Ware. Otherwise, probable completion.

No way. Newman jumped that route and was going to get it regardless.

Even Steve Young said that was the case, and he is a 49er.

Ware was a beast tonight, but Newman was a major reason Evans was held for 1-12-0.

Take that K.C. Joyner.

 

[Paniolo22]

No way. Newman jumped that route and was going to get it regardless.

Even Steve Young said that was the case, and he is a 49er.

Ware was a beast tonight, but Newman was a major reason Evans was held for 1-12-0.

Take that K.C. Joyner.

Take another look. Ware throw's the trajectory totally off, otherwise, the ball is headed to the outside shoulder of the receiver. Newman may have got there, but it didn't look likely.

 

[thssanders]

Take another look. Ware throw's the trajectory totally off, otherwise, the ball is headed to the outside shoulder of the receiver. Newman may have got there, but it didn't look likely.

I actually thought newman would have had it either way... he jumped the route and due to the tip he ended up reaching back behind his left shoulder. The tip actually slowed it down enough to make newman over run it just a bit

 

[scottsp]

I'll never get that either. The way Buffalo played the end of the first half was odd, but the 3rd and 2 where Edwards throws the out. They're up 8 with time ticking away. They run the ball, and even if they don't get the first, that's a high-percentage FG attempt to basically ice it.

But that is why they're the Bills.

As a fan, I've been on the other end of that. See the Dave Campo era.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Couldn't agree more. Said the same thing to my dad. Why are they passing the ball with 3 something to go? Stupid stupid stupid. All they had to do was waste the clock and kick as field goal. I started a thread about his decision to kick the field goal at the end of the first half instead of punting and that cost them big time.

They bent us all night(not broke us).... they were going for "broke".
They thought they were gonna break our backs with a game ending TD.

Newspaper man had other plans. He was making a delivery going the OTHER WAY...

 

[AdamJT13]

It's not like they had him throwing 30 yards post routes or 20 yard in/out routes. They were the most basic routes in the playbook. ... He didn't do anything to warrant all the man-love.

Apparently, Jaws loves it when a quarterback throws checkdowns 90 percent of the time. He raved about just that thing several times, and that's about all Edwards did all night -- checkdowns and screens, plus a couple of 10-yard outs.

 

[silverbear]

That's all fine and dandy, but it doesn't explain why the commentators were jizzing their pants over the guy. He executed as basic a gameplan as there could be (yet still managed an int).

It's not like they had him throwing 30 yards post routes or 20 yard in/out routes. They were the most basic routes in the playbook. No reason to get all man horny about the guy. He didn't do anything to warrant all the man-love.

They look at the stats sheet and see 23 of 31 and they go "oooooh"... never mind that the Bills put up under 150 net yards passing, and all of 3 points offensively...

I've said it many times before, it ain't tough for any NFL quarterback to complete a high percentage of passes if he's throwing nothing more than dumpoffs... even I can hit a receiver who's 3 yards away, LOL...

The job of a good quarterback is to move his team and put points on the board... the Bills scored 3 points offensively, gained all of 229 yards total offense, and averaged an anemic 3.9 yards per play... based on that, I don't know how you can say Edwards had a "good" game... the best thing you can say is he didn't screw it up too bad, he didn't make a lot of mistakes...

 

[dogunwo]

That's all fine and dandy, but it doesn't explain why the commentators were jizzing their pants over the guy. He executed as basic a gameplan as there could be (yet still managed an int).

It's not like they had him throwing 30 yards post routes or 20 yard in/out routes. They were the most basic routes in the playbook. No reason to get all man horny about the guy. He didn't do anything to warrant all the man-love.

Yeah the world knows who Trent Edwards is now............