Seen and Herd: Week Four | Buffalo Bills at Miami Dolphins

The big storyline from a Bills standpoint entering Sunday's game in Miami was how Fred Jackson and Marshawn Lynch would split carries.

Presto! Wonderful idea for a piece that would be been filled with stats, analysis, and insightful opinion.

After the game, that column would have missed the point.

For those of you who would like to know, Marshawn Lynch had eight carries for four yards, but did have five catches for 43 yards. Fred Jackson fared much better, gaining 42 yards on nine carries, while catching three passes for 26 yards.

What would I do with these two? I don't know, but being outrushed by 200 yards is embarrassing—the last thing we need to worry about is which runner will receive more touches.

I'm so sick of our backs combining for more catches than our receivers.

Anyways, on to that pitiful performance the Bills called a game.

Lackluster Line

I knew the offensive line would have problems at some point during the year. Boy, did they ever against the Dolphins. Cameron Wake, a former CFL star, had three sacks. Trent Edwards was sacked a total of six times, and was pressured seemingly on every pass play. I never thought I'd say this, but Demetrius Bell's showings thus far, which haven't been outstanding, outweigh Kirk Chambers' "attempt" at blocking by a wide margin.

The running attack was at a standstill, as again, the Bills had extreme issues playing against the 3-4 defense. Adjustments anyone?

From that, we witnessed that Trent Edwards has little to no pocket awareness. The way he buckles when the heat is on, is eerily similar to how Drew Bledsoe collapsed on any blown offensive line assignment.

Ok, that's taking it too far, he can scramble on a few occasions, but come on, anyone's more athletic than Drew Bledsoe.

Mushy Defense

Buffalo's defense is tough to analyze following the 38 points they gave up to Miami. They were without four defensive starters, and were on the field for nearly 40 minutes.

Still, the excuses are getting old. Teams in the NFL suffer injuries, it happens to everyone. The Colts had the ball for less time and won in Miami.

The Bills back-ups however, stunk up the joint. They missed countless tackles, were often out of position, and lacked any aggression whatsoever.

Perry Fewell stood firmly behind his fluffy "Tampa 2" zone coverage throughout, and the Dolphin trio of Davone Bess, Ted Ginn Jr., and Greg Camarillo looked like O.J. McDuffie, Chris Chambers, and Mark Clayton.

Meanwhile, Tony Sparano put faith in his two rookie corners Sean Smith and Vontae Davis. They both were alone "on an island" during the tight man coverage they played against two Pro-Bowl caliber wide-outs, Terrell Owens and Lee Evans. For the most part, the youngsters shut Owens and Evans down. Ridiculous.

Chad Henne used the easily completed comeback pass routinely, and the Bills never modified their coverage. Terrence McGee was worried about getting beat deep against slower, less athletic wide-outs and gave up the simple 10-yard completion all day.

The defensive front four again had a wonderful showing, accumulating six sacks. George Wilson oddly led the team with two. Although there was pressure applied to Henne, the Bills never did what was such a glaring necessity heading into the game...blitz.

Ok, they may have blitzed on a few occasions, but Henne was calm, cool, and collected throughout. They let the first time NFL starter ease his way to his first victory. No confusing zone blitzes, corner blitzes. Just Kawika Mitchell up the gut, not disguised at all.

When will this team realize that doesn't win ball games. Well it could, if your team made plays in the secondary. Too courteous.

That's really all I got for this week. I'm too disgusted. Not I, or any Bills fan for that matter, wants to reflect on this one anymore

I guess I could have thrown in Trent Edwards' three interception performance, or Dick Jauron's continual blank stare that lacks assertiveness or tenacity. Should he go? You should know what I think, but that's for another time.

Someone's got to take control, lift the entire team—become a leader. The only problem is, I don't see anyone stepping up, and this team's at rock bottom.

Bills/Browns next Sunday at 1 p.m. Seen and Herd to follow.

Look for D-Jauron column mid-week.

P.P.S check out Daryl Talley's Twitter posts following the Dolphins game if you get the chance.