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They amassed eight illegal procedurepenalties against Cleveland, playing at home. The following week going with the huddle offense, they committed no illegal procedurepenalties on the road. That is a dramatic turnaround.Losing Brad Butler for the season and who would replace him Then in week two, starting holdover tackle Brad Butler goes down with a season ending injury. The names of starters that have been rotated in and out since then was getting kind of long: Jonathan Scott, Jake Chambers, and Jamon Meredith.The Bills looked for a potential guy they could plug in when Butler went down and found Meredith sitting there on the Packers practice squad. Meredith was drafted in the fifth round, but he wasn't on the Packers active roster at the time (practice squad member), so the Bills were able to literally steal him away from the Pack.Highway robbery is what I call it. Based on what we saw of him last week versus the Jets, he might very well be with the Bills for a long time to come.So, with Wood, Levitre, Meredith and Demetrius Bell (seventh round draft choice from the 2008 draft) the Bills have four brand new lineman starting games together.

Bell is the one that had the least amount of playing experience. Didn't play football in high school because his school didn't have a team. He was a basketball player, which makes sense since his dad is "NBA sure thing hall of famer" Karl "the Mailman" Malone.Bills fans can only hope that Bell will develop in to the star his dad was. Bell is raw, unproven and there has been some growing pains, but he does have potential. Coming in to the Jets game, the Bills were the most penalized team in the NFL, and Demetrius was a leading contributor in that unfavorable category.For what it is worth,Bell is a graduate of Northwestern State, which is the same school that Bills CB Terrence McGee attended.Bell began with four penalties in the season opener at New England, but has only committed fourpenalties in the five games since.

Andy Levitre has been the least penalized of the four lineman, while Eric Wood and Geoff Hangartner have been flagged for some major holding penalties.Wood has made some other mistakes like illegal receiver downfield, but these kind of mistakes are not atypical for rookie linemen.Collectively, the Bills have amassed 12 illegal procedure/motion penalties, averaging two a game. They have alsocommitted 9 other penalties;includingholding, illegallydown field on a pass play andunnecessary roughness. For the record, not all of those nine penalties have been accepted.Bills have allowed a whopping 19 sacks so far in six gamesAnother area of concern is the pass protection afforded the Bills quarterbacks. The Bills have allowed a sack in every game so far, and here are the numbers of sacks and yards lost per game - read em and weep:week one - four sacks (26 yards), week two - two sacks (10), week three - four sacks again (27), week four - a whopping six sacks (32), week five - 2 sacks (9) and last week only one sack allowed (5 yards).How well has the offense production done behind this new lineRushing totals for the first 6 weeks listed in order: 90, 218, 89, 46, 145 and 142.Passing totals for the first 6 weeks listed in order: 186, 220, 154, 160, 143 and 154.From the above numbers, what stands out is the 218 yards rushed for against Tampa Bay, and the paltry sum of 46 yards rushed against Miami. The passing attack has not taken off as hoped, with the addition of Terrell Owens, but there are a number of other factors that can be pointed to regarding what the passing problems truly are.Six games down, and ten games to goEntering the week seven game at Carolina, the Bills again will be huddling on every down,and looking for their first two game winning streak of the year.Coming in to the Panthers game, I am sure the Bills will quiz ex-Panthers lineman Geoff Hangartner, who the team signed away from Carolina as a free agent in the off-season. He will hopefully be able to provide some insights on how to fend off the Panthers defense, especially Julius Peppers. It was a breakdown in the pass protection last week that led to the sack of Trent Edwards' and his second concussion injury in two years.

Trent will be missing this weekend's game against Carolina due to the injury.Starting in place of Edwards, will be Ryan Fitzpatrick, in his first start for the Bills. Backing up Fitzpatrick will be untested Gibran Hamdan (gulp).Don't think that one sack last week went unnoticed in the film room, in spite of the victory over the Jets To what extent Edwards is able to return is still unknown. The team has been pretty quiet about how Edwards test results have been going.But I am really excited about the offensive lineman gaining some valuable experience and the prospects of this unit for the future. Players like Butler, Wood and Levitre have the ability to play numerous positions, as does Hangartner, which bodes well when injuries hit the line in the future.Who is quarterbacking this team when these lineman have matured in to All-Pro caliber, that remains to be seen Let your imagination run wild as to thepossibilities. But at least the core is there, and that bodes well for the Bills' future. . In the past year, I have been critical of The Tea Parties because they formed only after Obama became President, when they claimed to be protesting an issue that started under former President Bush: the bailouts. I did not support the bailouts of either administration, but I believed that the Tea Parties were just political smoke-and-mirrors. Often times, when that happens, the followers just insert whatever unrelated opinion under the shroud of political altruism. Steelers fan Rush Limbaugh for instance gets paid to exercise free speech. Thus, he will and does say things on air that he normally would not say, thus his "free speech" is disengenuine. Even Mets fan Jon Stewart once suggested that he was just, "punkin' y'all," (Rolling Stone, 2004). In that, the only purpose for his show is to create complacency amongst those with strong opinions, so that they don't act on those ideas. The difference between Limbaugh and Stewart is simple, they both go along to get along, but Stewart seems to have more remorse about being a shill than Limbaugh does. A shroud of political altruism is also why it is common to see the, "Free Mumia" kooks show-up for anti-war rallies. I like to call it product placement. No one is really sure as to what they're protesting, or they try to expand it in a way that does not make sense. But when you don't have a job, or purpose in life, then I suppose it is a good way of killing time and/or getting out of your parents hair for the afternoon. As Clint Black might say, their killing time is killing us. And I guarantee like Joe Namath that many people whom showed-up for Tea Parties had a racial grudge against President Obama. That is not to say that I have agreed with all of President Obama's economic policies. I agree with health care reform, but after that, most of his economic policies are basically just plagiarized from the Japaneese government in the 1990s. Policies that did not work.They just hope that it works this time. As we know, the financial inudustry is a dangerous combination of arrogance and incompetence. But as Fed Chair Ben Bernanke once said to Milton Friedman (to paraphrase): You're right. We (the Fed) caused the Great Depression, but thanks to you, we won't do it again.And I thought the Federal Reserve wasn't political, yet they have an uncanny ability to break their promises. And yet, the GOP is still reelin' in the years from their devastating losses in 2006 and 2008. Now, the Whitehouse has flat-out stated that it is their opinion that FOX News is, "not a news organization." Generally, I do not watch FOX, MSNBC, or CNN. I don't feel elitist when I say that I watch the BBC, because I only did so when those organizations sullied their names with incessant coverage of Anna Nicole Smith, reality TV stars, and other pop-culture nonsense under the guise of news. I remember the good old days of news ... when sports news was on ESPN, entertainment news was on E, brutal murders and ice cream socials were on local news (my way of saying, human interest stories) and national and world politics was on the cable news, or nightly news. Nowadays, every psycho has a means to get famous by abusing children, committing murder, or just being the one who "gets to" be a self-indulgent POS. From Casey Anthony to the Goselins. And the news people talk about why we talk about such things. Why Because lost and hallow people want to act like psychos in the, "material world." Anyway, with many people unhappy about the direction of the country ...