Monday Night Football, Nov. 18

Edwards Struggles Continue

I've written in previous blogs about how overrated I think Trent Edwards is. He's been killing the Bills with turnovers the past few weeks. Tonight he had three ints in the first quarter! First pick was tipped at the line of scrimmage, but the other two were horrible passes.

They showed a clip of Edwards getting pounded to the turf in week 5 vs the Cardinals, and Tony Kornheiser asked Ron Jaworski if he thought perhaps Edwards was still suffering from a concussion. Jaws is a great colour commentator, but he is not a doctor, so of course he said no. I am surprised however that Jaws did not allude to the possibility that Edwards could be a little gun shy after taking the hit and may not be stepping up in the pocket and stepping into his throws like he was in the first few weeks. Instead he said that Edwards is just going thru the normal up and downs that QB's go through in their career. Sounded like an easy way out to me. Edwards is really struggling and he's killing the Bill's playoff chances. The problem is the backup QB is J.P Losman, so it's Edwards or bust for the Bills.

GO BROWNS

If you're a fan of any other team in the AFC east, the Colts, or the Ravens, you need to cheer hard for the Browns. One more loss for Buffalo, and barring a miracle run, they would be finished. One less team in that crazy wildcard chase is better for everybody...except the Bills of course.

Sens/Rangers

I've been saying on my radio shows that I find the Boston Bruins to be the most boring team to watch in the NHL. I've now seen enough of the Ottawa Senators to declare the Sens as the least exciting team to watch in the NHL. They have exciting players. They just do not play with alot of energy and they take too many nights off. Worse, they seem to drag down their opposing team into listless play as well. Painful to watch.

Browns up 13-0! Bills are lucky to only be down by 13, they have played awful so far.

Wide Right 2008

Remember 20 years ago when the Bills season ended in the Super Bowl on a missed field goal by Scott Norwood that sailed wide right. Well, 20 years later the Bills super bowl aspirations come to an end in week 11 with another missed field goal....ironically wide right.

The Bills had a chance to keep their slim playoff hopes alive after the offence drove to the 30 yard line setting up Rian Lindell with an opportunity to be the hero, but his 47 yard attempt missed and the Bills lost 29-27. The Bills move to 5-5, losers of 4 straight, and will have to pull off a minor miracle to pass all three teams ahead of them in the AFC East, let alone get back in the wildcard race. They`ll have to win at least 5 of thier last 6 just to have a chance, and 1 more loss to an AFC east team would definitely be the final nail in the coffin.

The Browns got a 56 yard boot by Phil Dawson to give them their 4th victory of the year. The Browns still have faint playoff hopes, but would need to win the remainder of their games and alot of help from other teams.