" It's eerie how history repeats itself. I wrote those lines two years ago, after an ugly, 13-3, road win at the Jets. After a 1-4 start, a Bills team crippled by injuries had won two games in a row to lift itself back into playoff contention.

Trent Edwards, then a rookie, had injured his wrist early in the game. J.P. Losman had relieved him and thrown an 85-yard touchdown pass to Lee Evans to sew up the win. Losman was set to start the next game, at home, and a full-blown quarterback controversy was about to erupt in Buffalo.

Coach Dick Jauron was predictably evasive at the time. He wouldn't say whether Edwards was still his long-term starter, or whether Losman had a chance to win back his job for good. Jauron said the NFL was a "performance-based business," and he believed that the long term usually took care of itself.

The key word was "business," of course. It was evident by then that Losman was not going to get a contract extension at the end of the '07 season. His days as the franchise quarterback were over. It was Edwards' job. In 2008, Losman played out the final year of his original contract and was gone.

So here we are again, only this time it's Edwards who is in the next-to-last year of his deal, and rapidly losing his grip on his status as a franchise QB. Ryan Fitzpatrick, a career backup, has led the Bills to consecutive wins and has people muttering the old line about him "giving us the best chance to win."

Fitzpatrick will start again here Sunday against Houston. On Monday, Jauron ruled Edwards out with a concussion. It's a bad sign if Edwards can be dismissed so soon, an indication that this concussion could be more serious than last year's. Or maybe Jauron simply wants to keep riding the Harvard grad.

Jauron wouldn't speculate on what might happen when Edwards is healthy again. Push button. Replays coach's comments from '07: "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it," Jauron said."