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  <title>Bills' offense flounders in third straight loss</title>
  <published-at type="datetime">2008-11-09T18:34:44-05:00</published-at>
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          <created-at>2008-11-09T22:20:26-05:00</created-at>
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          <body>Herm Edwards thought it was still the preseason and these games didn't count.</body>
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        <created-at>2008-11-10T00:36:34-05:00</created-at>
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        <quoted-text>Herm Edwards thought it was still the preseason and these games didn't count.</quoted-text>
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        <body>Hilarious. I... just don't know that Herm is a good coach of any magnitude. Interesting for sound bites and commercials maybe, but a decent head coach, not.</body>
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        <created-at>2008-11-09T22:20:26-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>Herm Edwards thought it was still the preseason and these games didn't count.</body>
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        <created-at>2008-11-09T22:19:38-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>AFC East is turning out to be the best division in the AFC and only behind the NFC East as the best division in football.</body>
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        <created-at>2008-11-09T22:18:45-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>AFC East is turning into the best division in the AFC</body>
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        <created-at>2008-11-09T20:49:22-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>Herm Edwards thought that marshmallow defensive coordinator Ted Cottrell was still in charge. If Cottrell was still running the Chargers D, the Chiefs win 21-20. Cottrell always hated the fact that Norv and AJ took him away from his janitorial gig at the NFL offices so he would intentionally lose games.</body>
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          <quoted-text>What's up with the AFC East? The last 3 blogs in &quot;For the Record&quot; were all about the AFC East.</quoted-text>
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          <body>It's because the writers believe that due to the Patriots situation, and the surprising play of the other teams, that it is becoming interesting. And it is.</body>
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        <created-at>2008-11-09T19:21:52-05:00</created-at>
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        <quoted-text>It's because the writers believe that due to the Patriots situation, and the surprising play of the other teams, that it is becoming interesting. And it is.</quoted-text>
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        <body>Best division to watch right now. Or Retarded Herm Edwards going for two instead of the tie.</body>
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          <created-at>2008-11-09T18:47:58-05:00</created-at>
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          <body>What's up with the AFC East? The last 3 blogs in &amp;quot;For the Record&amp;quot; were all about the AFC East.</body>
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        <created-at>2008-11-09T19:09:45-05:00</created-at>
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        <quoted-text>What's up with the AFC East? The last 3 blogs in &quot;For the Record&quot; were all about the AFC East.</quoted-text>
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        <body>I think the rule is that when all the teams in a division have winning records it goes into heavy rotation. The Jets-Pats match-up on Thurdsay is bound to get a few &amp;quot;Record&amp;quot; spins.</body>
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          <body>What's up with the AFC East? The last 3 blogs in &amp;quot;For the Record&amp;quot; were all about the AFC East.</body>
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        <created-at>2008-11-09T19:07:15-05:00</created-at>
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        <quoted-text>What's up with the AFC East? The last 3 blogs in &quot;For the Record&quot; were all about the AFC East.</quoted-text>
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        <body>It's because the writers believe that due to the Patriots situation, and the surprising play of the other teams, that it is becoming interesting. And it is.</body>
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        <body>What's up with the AFC East? The last 3 blogs in &amp;quot;For the Record&amp;quot; were all about the AFC East.</body>
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        <created-at>2008-11-09T18:47:33-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>Bills' offense is horrendus the last couple of games...</body>
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  <body>&lt;div class=&quot;photo_container image_right&quot; style=&quot;width: 306px; height: 367px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;photo&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.fannation.com/upload/si_blog_post_images/p1.edwards.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;P1&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; height=&quot;358&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;photo_attributes&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Trent Edwards led the Bills to an anemic 168 total yards.&lt;br /&gt;AP&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;rsquo;t want to shortchange the defensive effort by the Patriots, especially the play of the front seven, but the Bills offense continued to be anemic in a 20-10 loss to New England.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That makes three straight losses&amp;nbsp;for the Bills, all to divisional opponents. In all three losses, Buffalo's offense has scored a total of three touchdowns. The Bills had just 168 total yards against the Patriots.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There was also some questionable play-calling by Buffalo. On its first drive in the third quarter, the Bills had third down and 1 near midfield when &lt;strong&gt;Trent Edwards&lt;/strong&gt; threw an incomplete pass. When you&amp;rsquo;re having trouble moving the chains and all you need is one yard for a first down and your quarterback has been misfiring, you keep it on the ground.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But then, the Bills never established a running game. It&amp;rsquo;s tough to establish anything offensively when your defense can&amp;rsquo;t get off the field. The time of possession was lopsided&amp;nbsp;-- the Patriots had the ball for 37:40. A good chunk of that was in the fourth quarter on a 19-yard touchdown drive by New England that took more than 9 minutes off the clock and put the game away.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A couple other items worth mentioning: On the Patriots opening drive, Bills DB &lt;strong&gt;Ko Simpson&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;rsquo;s hit on &lt;strong&gt;Randy Moss&lt;/strong&gt; was not vicious and did not warrant a 15-yard penalty for unnecessary roughness. I thought the Bills were victimized by another bad call later on the drive when the replay showed &lt;strong&gt;Wes Welker&lt;/strong&gt; did not have two feet inbounds on a 21-yard completion.&lt;/p&gt;</body>
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    <display-name>Dave Heuschkel</display-name>
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  <intro>&lt;div class=&quot;photo_container image_right&quot; style=&quot;width: 306px; height: 367px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;photo&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.fannation.com/upload/si_blog_post_images/p1.edwards.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;P1&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; height=&quot;358&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;photo_attributes&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Trent Edwards led the Bills to an anemic 168 total yards.&lt;br /&gt;AP&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;rsquo;t want to shortchange the defensive effort by the Patriots, especially the play of the front seven, but the Bills offense continued to be anemic in a 20-10 loss to New England.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That makes three straight losses&amp;nbsp;for the Bills, all to divisional opponents. In all three losses, Buffalo's offense has scored a total of three touchdowns. The Bills had just 168 total yards against the Patriots.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There was also some questionable play-calling by Buffalo. On its first drive in the third quarter, the Bills had third down and 1 near midfield when &lt;strong&gt;Trent Edwards&lt;/strong&gt; threw an incomplete pass. When you&amp;rsquo;re having trouble moving the chains and all you need is one yard for a first down and your quarterback has been misfiring, you keep it on the ground.&lt;/p&gt;</intro>
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