I always liked the title of "Bills After Sunday", so now, every week, I will use it as my opening in recapping the previous Bills game and the upcoming match; two opinions in one piece (save the E-Trees!).

Check out my Bio for explanation of the four weekly "awards".

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Awards

White Hard-Hat: Rian Lindell, a kicker that can be in position to pounce and recover a fumble is always a good bet to energize the rest of the team.

Yellow Hard-Hat: The offensive line earned this week's best-unit honors.

Blue Hard-Hat: Special-teams coach Bobby April had his players more prepared to play in this first preseason game

Push Broom: The Bills' third-defensive unit needs to do some cleanup after being pushed around in the fourth quarter by the Redskins. This Bills roster is deep this year, but these players have a chance to impress and sign on with other NFL teams.

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Redskins Recap

Preparation and execution are two of the main goals in preseason and the Redskins clearly were the more prepared team, including the HOF game. You have to wonder if the new Redskins coach has watered down the playbook and it's complexity to give his team a running start.

The good news is that the Redskins only managed a three-point victory over this rusty Bills team and would be no match for a prepared "Bills football machine" at the start of the NFL regular season.

Player notes

Paul Posluszny was outstanding and any player within his grasp was dropped to the ground. He was always utilizing his size and speed. SF 49ers' Patrick Willis has company.

Roscoe Parrish gets better every game, and you will never see him "turtle".

Marshawn Lynch gave everybody a scare when he had eight Redskins on top of him trying to tackle him to the ground. There was real concern for the health of the eight Redskin players.

James Hardy and Derek Schouman had first-string jitters that made QB Trent Edwards look worse than he was.

TE Courtney Anderson showed why he can be very valuable with his size and catching ability. The teams that cut him previously were poor, and the QBs were even worse. He could be rounding into form now and his upside with QB Edwards could be huge.

RB Dwayne Wright had a great run, but then fumbled the ball. As the Packers management would say, "What's his state of mind?"

CB Ashton Youboty had his best game ever.

QB J. P. Losman could regain his confidence in the short game, playing against second and third stringers. He made some nice plays, with Parrish and Hardy making nice catches.

There is no QB controversy in Buffalo for the simple fact that QB Losman luvs to play, QB Edwards luvs to win!

Game Replay

I replayed the beginning of the game, watching the first unit's offensive series and top two defensive series in slow speed.

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