Kaspers Korner

Buffalo Bills head coach Dick Juaron has his team knee deep in a quarterback controversy for the second time this year.  This indecisiveness is exactly why the coach needs to go after this year.

Great coaches are coaches that when it comes to big decisions they pick what they think the solution is, and they stick with it.

The fact is that coaches that go back and forth with a decision fail as coaches. They feed the egos of the players, and divide their team.

Instead of being focused on thier own job players will be distracted constantly by the controversy.  That will then take their minds away from the task at hand.

Players today cannot be distracted for one second.  There are to many things that are going on in one second.  On top of that players will turn on each other, and destroy the chemistry that they once had.

People are sick of the controversy completely.  We just want a quarterback that we can call our own for a very long time.  Not a quarterback that will be gone the next year.

When willl enough be enough for people to stand up to the coaching staff and tell them pick a freaking quarterback, and stick with it.

Soon enough people will start turning their backs on the team.  Especially, if the Bills do not make the playoffs, and the are back to square one withe the quarterback.

Wnough is enough Dick Juaron pic a damn quarterback and stick with him.

Lee Evans is not having the greatest of years comparing to what he accomplished last year.  Howeve, after looking at the careers of two other great wide recievers with the Buffalo Bills Evans could still make a case for a big pay day.

I went back and did a little analysis of Evans to Bills greats Andre Reed and Eric Moulds.  In the research I found something rather interesting.

Reed in year four of his career, which is 1988, caught 71 passes for 968 yards, with six touchdowns.  Then in year five he caught 88 passes for 1312 yards, with nine touchdowns.

Then I looked at Moulds, and fournd similar stats.  In year four, which is 1999, Moulds caught 65 passes for 994 yards, with seven touchdowns.  Then in year five Moulds caught 94 passes for 1326 yards, with five touchdowns.

With this ammunition Evans can easily argue that his best year is to be next year.  The question is though will ralph Wilson care enough to pay him.

With Chris Mortensen’s report that money was part of the decision you cannot help to wonder of Wilson will pay Evans at all.

There is no doubt that Evans is talented, and is a star in this league.  That and the fact that Bills offensive coordinator Steve Fairchild has totally misused Evans earlier this year.

With the last two games Evans has caught five passes in each game, but why have they not gone to Evans on third more.  Evans has been thrown the ball eight times at him all year on third downm and that includes incomplete and intercepted passes.

So, what in the hell are they doing.  Why not a quick slant or quick out to Evans.  There has to be some way to get him the ball on third down.

So, Bills you better get it together, or the season is going to fall apart fast.

Buffalo Bills head coach Dick Juaron made his decision for starting quarterback for the rest of the year.  However, will this be the end of the quarterback controversy for the rest of the year.

Injuries are on the rise this year, and that hit home with the Bills earlier in the season.  The most surprising of them was when JP Losman went down.

Losman’s injury opened the door for Trent Edwards to get the starting job. The question is though will he be able to keep it through the whole season.

With the way the season is going I would not be surprised if Edwards gets hurt later this season.  Especially with the fact that Edwards suffered a major injury last year at Stanford.

Bills fans better be prepared for that possibility, because there is a stretch of games where the Bills will play teams 12th or better in team sacks.  Them being the New England Patriots, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Washsington Redskins.

Even the games that sandwiches those games with the Miami Dolphins can be troublesome with the prolific Jason Taylor. 

On top of all that they face the New York Giants in week 16.  Both defensive ends or the giants have been on tears as of late. 

The fact is that most likely we will see Losman again this season.  So, do not be surprised if you hear arguments over th quarterbacks later on in the season.

The sad part is of all this is that the problem with the offense is not the quarterback.  The problem is the offensive lines inability to move linemen and get first downs on third and sorter than three situations.

WGR’s Nick Mendola may have been on to something when he pointed out the Bills were not very good on third downs this past sunday.  Well with ESPN radio’s Colin Cowherd’s revelation, , the Bills need to clearly improve on third downs offensively if they are going to get into the playoffs.

Cowherd like many strong opinionated people is a polarizing figure.  It is either you love him or completely hate him just lie the Coach Chuch Dickerson. 

However, with the revelation that somebody in Las Vegas takes into consideration third down convertion rate on offense, clearly the Bills have to improve on that situation if they are going to play with the big boys.

Cowherd went on to state that the top teams in the league are teams with good thrid down convertion rate, except only the Jets. 

With the team only at 32 percent for the whole year it is pretty obvious what is the offenses probelm is.

The top teams in the league are at, or around, 50 percent.  So, when the Bills go up against those teams do not expect the Bills to have the ball much.

The four losses by the Bills this year were agains teams in the top six on third downs.  Also of the last ten games half of them are against teams 11th or better in third down percentage.

Thise teams are the New England Patriots, Jacksonville Jaguars, Cleveland Browns, New York Giants, and the New York Jets.

If as the theory goes the team with the ball more wins with the Bills current record they would go 7-9.  Considering the amount of injuries that is not bad at all.

So, the Bils fate lay in two peoples hands Bills offensice coordinator Steve Fairchild, and quarterback Trent Edwards.  If they both find out what it takes to convert on third downs then they will win a lot of games.

The National Hockey League’s season has just begun.  Already the Sabres are at a critical moment of time with a loss to the Carolina Hurricane.

That critical moment being tonight with a 6-2 loss to the Carolina Hurricane in the second game of a five game road trip.

The trip in itself would most likely define who the real leaders are on the Sabres.  That question so far has still yet to be answered this season.

They better find those leaders fast, becuase they are near the bottom of the Eastern Conference.  If the playoffs were to start today the Sabres would not be in the playoffs.

You would think that with the deep run into the playoffs, that the Sabres have made the previous two seasons, players would know how to get it done.  However, that is far from the case.

The loss of Chris Drury has sent shockwaves through the organization.  Shockwaves that hit the team hard tonight when the Hurricane turned on the power play in the third period.

Simply it goes back to the face offs, and Drury was their best center in regard to face offs.  Now, they do not have a dominant face off person, and they are severly paying for it.

Simply one of the fowards has to step up and lead this team.  The person that is willing to fill the role that Chris Drury use to fill will lead the team, and maybe back to success.

Peter King’s Monday Morning Quarterback had a piece in there about the Miami Dolphins.  That piece of news is exactly why the Buffalo Bills are suffering on offense.

King’s article went on to point out that the Dolphins have no draft picks on their roster from the 1998-2003 drafts.  That is exactly the reason why the Bills are where they are.

Going from those dates the two main things that Tom Donahoe failed miserably to fix are the quarterback and the offensive line, along with defensive tackles.

Of those poisiton there is not one player that remains from that time period.  That is uterly amazing considering the reputation that Tom Donahoe had coming in to Buffalo.

It will be several years before they emerge from the mess Donahoe left behind.  However, with players like defensive tackle JOhn McCargo, Trent Edwards, Jason Peters the future looms bright for the Bills.

The Buffalo Bills pulled out a win today againt the Baltimore Ravens.  There is one glaring problem with the Bills so far this year that continued today, and that being third down situations.

The Bills offense was only 3-13 on third downs.  Seven of those first downs were shorter than five yards.

It is one thing to go 1-6 on third down situations of over five yards  However, to go only 2-7 on third down and shorter than five yards is horrible.

When the Bills gained a first down on third down the bills only had two yards to get a first down.  From three to five yards they are 0-5.

So, what does that mean.  It means that the offensive line is not doing their job.

The matter of the fact is that what the problem is that the Bills are in the wrong running scheme.  They are using a one running scheme, and it is horrible.

The one run play that was over 20 yards was when a lineman pulled.  That is something that the Bills need to use more of.

The Bills have agile offensive linemen, eventhough they are all big.  However big they are if they can run fast you have to use that.

You just cannot go striaght ahead all the time.  Sometimes you have to put a trap or pull running play in there from time to time to get the running game going.

Once, you get the running game going then things will open up offensively.

So, still as long as Fairchild is offensive coordinator they will not be that good offensivly, unless sees the light.

Joel Giambra is a polarizing figure that many people in Buffalo do not like, including myself.  The Buffalo Bills poor corporate base is actually not Giambra’s fault, but that of ourselves.

The fact is that we have all let the city get this way. 

Instead of voting for people that will get the job done we voted along the party lines.   Thinking that our base ideal of our party is what will get things done.

Well the matter of the fact is that the city cannot afford to gripe moan and complain.  For we are a getting closer and closer to our own death

Businesses just do not sit there and argue amongst themselves about what is going to be better.  They take an idea, and develop it.

Once, the idea has been developed they try it out by making it available to the market.  If the market likes it then great, but if it does not then they scrap that one, and move on to the next.

There in lies the problem with the people of this city.  We are so adamant about change that we never try anything new. We sit and argue back and forth about what idea would be better.

Look at the Peace Bridge, and how long it has taken.  Instead of just going with the original idea, instead we ahve argued back and forth now for several years over which type of bridge is going to be better.

Well in the words of Doctor Dennis Leary, “Just shut the fuck up!”  Enough is enough already.  If someone has and idea instead of shooting it down why don’t we actually try it.  After all it might actually work.

Steve Fairchild as a offensive coordinator this year has been just down right horrible.  With several key Baltimore Ravens defenders out, or game time decisions, the Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator has to get the deep ball going this week, or it will be time to kick him to the curb.

Ravens cornerback Chris McAlister has already been ruled out for the game against the Bills, and linebacker Ray Lewis might not play as well. 

With at least McAlister being already out the Bills should easily be able to take advantage of the deep ball, which has eluded the Bills so far.

Fairchild’s game plans have been suspect at best, and most likely has ruined the career of JP Losman.  If Fairchild doesn’t get the offense going this week then he should be immediately fired.

People around Buffalo have no faith in this coaching staff, and that is deservedly so.   So far they have done nothing, but screw up the team.

The matter of the fact is that Fairchild is a horrible coordinator, and should be the downfall for Bills head coach Dick Jauron. 

Dick Jauron and his staff do not deserve to be coaches in this league, but since Marv Levy hired this staff they will get the benefit of th doubt.

Bills fans are in a catch 22.  As long as Ralph Wilson is alive they will never win again. However, if he dies there isa pretty good chance that the Bills will move. 

So, what do Bills fans do? All We can do is call for Jauron’s head, and hope Ralph will see the light when it comes to hiring head coaches.

With a quaterack controversy swirling, and consuming the Buffalo Bills head coach Dick Juaron could have killed it.  His comments in his press conference wednesday were far from that, and just could have alienated his players.

Dick Juaron stated that quarterback Trent Edwards will be teh starter for the game Baltimore Ravens, and thus leaving the door open for JP Losman’s return.

That is not good news to the players, and inparticular to Lee Evans.  Evans stated that wednesday that who ever the coach decides he needs to stick with the rest of the season.

The team may be young, but many of the teams core players were here for the 2005 season where head coach Mike Mularkey kept pulling quarterback JP Losman in and out of the starting lineup.

Many fans, including myself, are sick and tired of the whole quarterback controversy.  This is the third time that we are having to live through it in the past decade.

The fans of the Bills are not dumb either, and realize that running the ball, stopping the run, and a top notch quarterback will get them back to the playoffs, which has seem like forever to Bills fans.

The palyers on the team have every right to demand that one of them start the whole year.  That is the only way that they will build chemistry, and a winning team. 

The thing is that Juaron too input from all of his coaching staff, the general manager Marv Levy, and the owner Ralph Wilson.  He did not listen to his players, which could have lost them as well.

Players, eventhough they are not executing well right now, know what the hell is wrong with their football team, and what it will take for them to win.  Right now they believe that is JP Losman, however, they can get behind Edwards if he was named starter for the year.

All Juaron did this past wednesday is lose his players.  They know that if Edwards fail then JP Losman will be thrown back into the starting role, and thus screw up their timing. 

Good work Dick you just may have cost yourself a coaching job, again  Go you stink as a coach.