Diverse. He’s no LT, clearly, and he’s not the explosive type of player that Frank Gore even is. Lynch lacks elite break-away speed, but he makes up for it with a running style highly similar to Dallas’ Marion Barber. He doesn’t quit. He’s an excellent receiver, works well in space, and is impossible to bring down with one guy. Great balance. All around he’s an outstanding back, and if Buffalo could ever get consistent run blocking, he’d be one of the Top 5 most productive backs in the league. As it stands, he’s caught 15 passes in the past two weeks; in essence, he’s the heartbeat of this offense.

Only on YouTube. Marshawn stays pretty quiet in Buffalo, especially after his off-season issues with the hit-and-run. He rarely talks to the media. I will admit, though, that it’s fun to watch him laugh and smile after delivering or receiving a big hit on game days. He’s a laid-back dude. Clearly our most popular player, and it’s well-deserved.

We’ve done it. He’s taken probably a half-dozen snaps over the past three weeks. Honestly, he’s not particularly effective at it – the Bills don’t use it as extensively as Miami, and it’s basically just a short-yardage formation we use to pick up 3-4 yards. It’s definitely a Buffalo Bills-style interpretation of what has been a pretty creative formation for other teams in the league.

First, talent: you’ll be hard-pressed to find many quarterbacks more talented than this guy currently in the league. He’s mobile, an excellent athlete, has decent size for the position, and has one of the strongest arms in the game. Physically, he’s a specimen.

I’m not a fan of Losman for two reasons. One is that after several years in the league, he just still doesn’t get “it”. He’s slow to read coverages. He forces too many balls and makes too many mistakes. For every “how did he do that?!” throw, you get three “why did he do that?” throws.

Secondly, he’s been rather lackadaisical this season when it comes to preparation. He’s mad that the Bills didn’t trade him this past off-season, instead choosing to keep him as a talented backup who knew our coaches and the system. But when he’s seen the field (and to be fair, that was only for most of one game in Arizona), he was unprepared and largely terrible. He’s given up – even while trying to prove his worth to a free agent market that usually picks up talented young quarterbacks quickly. I got some flack for this from the folks at Arrowhead Pride, but I don’t think there’s going to be an awful lot of interest for Losman once he hits the free agent market in March.

I’m not sure how he could have been overrated, because he was considered the one question mark on an otherwise solid team up here in Buffalo prior to the season. He was highly efficient during the 5-1 start, but the hype machine took off prematurely on the kid. Yeah, he was very good, but he’d only thrown 5 touchdowns to that point. That’s not exactly elite production.

I think he’s rated fairly at this point. At least up here, he’s considered a solid quarterback with enormous potential, but he’s not there yet. For now, he’s just got to get down consistency and keep on learning. He gives us a chance to win week in and week out.

As for why he cooled down; it’s been a combination of turnovers, bad luck and radical changes in the defensive approach of our opponents.

It mostly centers around that given Bills’ fans nature, personality-wise. The traits that I see as endearing about Jauron – he’s calm, heady, cool under pressure and conservative – don’t exactly appeal to Bills fans who prefer the Cowher-spittle, Singletary-pants-dropping coaching style, where it’s more emotional and in your face. I suspect Tony Dungy has dealt with the same split wherever he’s coached as well.

There are some things Jauron does, however, that are inexcusable, in my opinion. He’s a poor in-game manager, and frequently makes gaffes related to challenges, personnel and (my biggest pet peeve) timeouts. But he more than makes up for it with the aforementioned endearing traits I mentioned earlier. I’ll put it like this: Bills fans either hate Dick Jauron or wish he was that much better at the little things. But I like the guy, and am glad he’s on board for another three years.

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He ran a 4.37 coming out of Wisconsin, and he’s such an efficient route runner that it actually enhances that speed. He’s the best pure deep threat in the league.