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I'm not sure if anyone has noticed, but the Bills are undefeated a quarter way through the season. As a Bills fan, its pretty nice to see. Especially nice to see since they really haven't played anything close to exceedingly great football yet...

Bills Hot Start All About The Chemistry

by Todd Morse (Analyst)

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Editorial

October 02, 2008

NFL, AFC East, Buffalo Bills, Trent Edwards, Marshawn Lynch, Lee Evans, Donte Whitner, Dick Jauron, Kawika Mitchell, Marcus Stroud, Editorial

I'm not sure if anyone has noticed, but the Bills are undefeated a quarter way through the season.  As a Bills fan, its pretty nice to see.  Especially nice to see since they really haven't played anything close to exceedingly great football yet. They've played good football, they've played bad football, and for the most part, they played average football.  In their four games, they've checked a lot of things off the list that good teams do:

win
be clutch
come back
make timely plays

Its neat.  It also doesn't mean the checklist is complete.  The Bills are winning right now for a few reasons.  Some of those reasons will continue, some of them wont.  

Clearly Trent Edwards is a great quarterback.  When I say great, I mean it.  He is playing in something like his his 12th NFL game and shows incredible composure, awareness and a veteran-like ability to read defenses.  Also, the talk about Edwards not being durable, even if he does get injured sometime this season, needs to end - Buffalo fans have seen a few glass jaws and Edwards isn't one. He has taken brutal hits this season due to some questionable offensive line play and has got up quickly and forcefully every time.

Edwards is not going to regress and become a bad quarterback.  He may not pull out a win every time the Bills are down by ten in the 4th quarter, but barring something catastrophic, he is the Bills QB until they leave Buffalo and become the Toronto Turkeys.  

Next, the Bills are stopping the run - well, before Steven Jackson got to them, but lets pretend he doesn't count.  They have a nice rotation, and while Marcus Stroud is getting all the accolades, Spencer Johnson and Kyle Williams are doing massive amounts of damage inside and are both playing really well.  Stroud, Johnson and Williams have really allowed Posluzny and Donte Whitner, the heart and soul of this defense, to fluorish.

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comments (2) write a comment »

  1. reply to comment by Tim
    2 months ago

    Wait, wait, wait....Todd says Youboty is good? "Wicked" good? Oh, how we change our tune. Oh, that's right....I forgot you were a Losman advocate, too.

  2. reply to comment by Todd
    2 months ago

    when players make plays they earn praise. I praised Losman when he played well, criticized him when he didn't.

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