Simply Offensive
November 1st, 2009 at 11:13 pm by Paul Peck under News 4 Buffalo Sports
The numbers continue to tell the story of this historically bad Bills offense. Just 9 first downs against the Texans, just 204 total yards. Its been almost three years since a Bills quarterback threw for 300 yards, an regular accomplishment on most NFL teams.
But leave it to an opponent to put some perspective to what the numbers say and what our eyes have seen. Texans linebacker DeMeco Ryans was asked how the Texans defense (ranked 21st) was able to throttle the Bills offense.
“It was easy,” Ryans said. “They kind of had the same formations, they didn’t give us a lot of motions and things. So it was a simple offense to go against.”
Wow. Makes you realize just what the rest of the NFL thinks about the Buffalo offense. Of course, we know why. The offensive line’s issues don’t allow any fancy formation or motions. They can’t even block for basic plays.
Oh how I long for the days of Langston Walker.
Jauron wants to keep the offense simple, so this is what he gets — the opposing defense being able to easily figure out what the Bills are going to do. No play action, they can’t run a screen play for more than 2 yards, no motion (until this weekend), no fullback in the backfield, the tight end invisible in the offense. Oh wait, we run fake reverses every other play to T.O.
And didn’t we have this discussion back in the pre-season over the lack of offense then. And you and Murph were all “it’s only pre-season, don’t worry about it.” So NOW what do you think about how much pre-season matters???? It looks like it was just the tip of the iceberg and you buried your heads in the sand about it……