October 11th, 2009 
Matt Loede 
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Could it get much worse? When you hold the opposing quarterback (Derek Anderson) to just 2-for-17 for 23 yards, and the opponents offense totals 193 yards, it’s usually a receipe for a win. For the Bills though on Sunday in Buffalo, they allowed the Browns to escape thanks to a late Buffalo fumble by kick returner Roscoe Parrish to get an 18-yard field goal from Billy Cundiff for a 6-3 setback.
Let’s just say that despite it being Eric Mangini’s first win as coach of the Browns, it’s not a game that is going to be up for an ESPN Classic anytime soon. The game seemed more like a throwback in where the offenses were awful and the defenses both had good days.
The Bills, who are now also 1-4, had 288 total yards, but punted on 7 of their 12 possessions and did little throughout. The Browns punted on 8 of their possessions, and other than Jamal Lewis, who had his best game of the year with 117 yards on 31 carries, the team seemed stuck in the mud like the Bills.
Cundiff, playing for the hurt Phil Dawson, kicked two field goals for the win. Rian Lindell had a 36-yard field goal at the 10:10 mark of the third quarter to tie the game, but it was to be the only score on the day for the Bills. Browns punter Dave Zastudil should get a game ball, as he downed seven of nine punts inside the Bills 20, including three inside the 5.
The Browns ended a 10-game losing streak, one short of matching a franchise worst. The Browns’ last win also came at Buffalo, a 29-27 victory November 17th that was sealed by Dawson’s 56-yard field goal in the final two minutes.
Trent Edwards went 16 for 31 for 152 yards and an interception. The loss means they have dropped 12 of their past 15, and coach Dick Jauron’s seat keeps getting hotter after the Bills had their third straight 7-9 finish last season.
I have been a Bills fan for 25 years now and I am going to my first NFL game on the 25 of Oct. in Carolina to see the Bills play and the way my team has played the last two weeks has been a big disappointment. I just hope they can start the turn around next week because the talent is there but is the leadership (Coach and Quaterback) Thanks
Here’s the fix:
1. Fire Dick
2. Bring Dungy or Cowher out of retirement
3. Bench two yard Trent
4. Realize 2009 season is over
5. Draft well in 2010
I say we just fire Dick, get rid of the coaches and bring in Cowher to run the whole show…how much worse could we get?? All sides of the ball have no discipline whatsoever. When our supposed-to-be-great QB is throwing the ball to receivers behind the line of scrimmage on Third and Long….there is something wrong there. I watch every game and this was one of the worst showings by the Bills in a LONG time.
I listen to every game on Sirius. After last week I said that the Bills are dead to me until they fire Jauron, but somehow I found myself listening anyway (on the Browns broadcast). The Bills are my connection to Upstate NY, where I was raised, and they are tough to let go, but listening to them play like this, be coached like this, is an exercise in masochism. How Dick has a job today is beyond me. I reached for my laptop in anxious anticipation this morning to read news of his firing, only to be disappointed once again. There are some amazing coaches out there (Shanahan, Cowher, Dungy, Gruden), though I don’t know who in their right mind would want to step into this quagmire at this point in the season. I certainly hope someone is trying to make a deal out there, but in the meantime, I refuse to support a Bills administration that continues to out out such a substandard product. I’ll see you all when we have a new coach. I’m out.
As every Bills fan knows, the current problems are not new, but have really been hanging around since the post-Kelly days.
I submit that the problem is not the coaching nor the players. The real problem is higher up the food chain. The problem in Buffalo is that the process by which the coaches and players are hired and drafted is seriously flawed. Why are the Bills still in the “no-huddle” offense? This is the league’s most dysfunctional offense and yet week after week we see the no-hudle. This week we got to see it nine extra times (that’s nine false starts)
I believe that a certain individual with tremendous influence hires and drafts coaches and players whom he believes can recreate the glory days. Let’s find another Jim Kelly, Andre, Thurman, etc. and everything will be fine again. Let’s hire Marv Levy as a general manager and maybe he can find thiose players.
Look the reality is that the glory days are over. Every team has to change its outlook, its players, its style and its character if it want to survive over time. Let it go, Mr. Wilson, it was fun but it ended 25 years ago.
That’s a bad situation
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