Unfortunately folks, by now we’ve all seen this film before. We’ve seen the sequel, the trilogy and even that last movie in the series we knew they shouldn’t have made. However, this Buffalo Bills movie never really has a happy, Disney-type ending. By now we all know better when we see the dark clouds roll in, darkness falls and it starts raining. We know the sun’s not coming back out and the doom-and-gloom feelings take hold.

The Bills mirror a bad horror movie. We all know which way the damsel in distress shouldn’t run or which door she shouldn’t open. We scream at the notion when one of the characters suggests they should split up. Oh sure, the characters made elude the killer for a little while, but we know that safe feeling is false hope. The little of good usually lasts for very little.

Which brings us to the Bills’ latest debacle on Sunday afternoon in Tennessee. Buffalo picked up right where we left them before the bye week. Two weeks ago they took a 10-9 lead into the fourth quarter against Houston, which the Texans erased with 22 points and left with a 31-10 win. On Sunday with the Bills and Titans tied at 17 as the fourth quarter began, Tennessee blasted the Bills all the way back to One Bills Drive outscoring Buffalo 24-0 in the final period and the Titans secured their third straight win, burying the Bills 41-17. In their past two losses the Bills have been outscored 46-0 in the fourth quarter.

The way the Bills have performed his season in the fourth quarter, we should all be thankful they’ve won three games. Five games this season, the Bills have put up a goose egg in the fourth quarter including four of their past five games. So far this year, Buffalo has been outscored 101-40 in the fourth quarter. That’s a fool proof recipe for losing twice as many games as you’ve won.

There’s really no need for me to insults anyone’s intelligence here. We all know games aren’t won until the fourth quarter, in crunch time when it counts. And no matter how hard the Bills have played for three quarters this season (New England, New Orleans and Houston), everything and anything positive has been wiped away by their inexplicable failure to show up and win when the game matters most. I don’t know any other way to put this; the Bills are the best 75 percent team in the NFL. For those of you that knew that long before reading this, my sincere apologies if I’ve insulted your intelligence.

I’ve seen too much to know I’ve seen enough. As predicted earlier in the week, the Bills mustered up no answers for Titans running back Chris Johnson. Johnson had 132 yards rushing and 100 yards receiving to go along with two touchdowns. His 232 total yards is the most by a Titans player in nearly 50 years. The Bills had virtually no pass rush and as a team, only rushed for 89 yards compared to Tennessee’s 168. Although the Bills’ 296 yards from scrimmage was their best since Week 2 against Tampa Bay, Johnson came within 64 yards of outgaining the Bills offense by himself. Vince Young continues to work his magic resurrecting the Titans from the dead. Young complete 18 of 25 passes for 210 yards, while throwing a touchdown and an interception. He also ran for 29 yards on five carries, coming close to outrushing Bills running back Marshawn Lynch who had just 37 yards on the ground.

Despite engineering three scoring drives, Trent Edwards is on the same path that virtually every other quarterback has traveled down since the retirement of Jim Kelly: one foot out the door and the other on a banana peel. Edwards finished the day 18 of 28 for 185 yards and he also finished the game as a spectator. He had his usual flashes of brilliance, hitting Terrell Owens on a few deep passes, hitting Lee Evans for a touchdown and when the game wasn’t in the fourth quarter, Edwards went mistake free. With just under three minutes to go in the fourth quarter, Edwards threw a terrible pass into coverage that was intercepted by Tennessee’s Vincent Fuller and returned for a touchdown that effectively put the game away,34-17. In a shocking turn of events, Jauron elected to bench Edwards for the remainder of the game and turned to backup Ryan Fitzpatrick.

Continuing with the Bills’ ground-hog theme, Edwards can’t be blamed entirely. The offensive line didn’t allow Edwards much time to throw, while committing five false start penalties. And as is his way, Jauron curiously chose to decline a holding penalty on the Titans and dared the Titans to attempt at 51-yard field goal. Titans head coach Jeff Fisher sent the kicking team onto the field and Rob Bironas nailed the kick. Bluff called.

Jauron’s benching of Edwards tells us a few things. One, he has no faith in Edwards being the starting quarterback of this team and two, this all but seals the deal that the Bills will be in the market for a new starting quarterback in 2010 by the draft, a trade, or through free agency. If Jauron does indeed turn back to Fitzpatrick, that move would go right along with what’s happened to the Bills’ quarterbacks over the past ten years. One by one they were supposed to be “the guy”, from Rob Johnson to Drew Bledsoe to J.P. Losman and now Trent Edwards. One by one, the replacer eventually became the replacee.

Now the Bills stand at 3-6, but the way this season has gone, it feels much worse. I remember hearing this phrase multiple players used after the opening season loss to New England: “we’ve got to learn how to finish games”. Nine weeks later, the Bills are in no way, shape or form capable of finishing a game now than they were back in Week 1.

Buffalo has lost two straight games and now head to Jacksonville (5-4) to face a Jaguars team that will be looking for their third straight victory.