Time and time again a quarterback isn’t benched by play, but rather from injury. When Kelly Holcomb went down against the Chiefs, JP Losman was ready. Ready to show the Bills that he didn’t deserve to have his job taken away. What’d Losman do. He went out there and brought instant life into the Bills offense. Life that wasn’t there when Holcomb was trying to put things together.

All that the Bills needed and wanted from Losman was exactly what he displayed Sunday. The ability to move the offense with some regularity. He hit deep passes and made the right decisions on key plays. Earlier in the season, Losman couldn’t get the offense moving even if he had all day to throw the football. Defenses wore him down and out quicker than he could recover. The insurance of having Kelly Holcomb as quarterback immediately substituted for Losman’s lackluster performances.

While Holcomb showed his veteran skills, the young and fearless Losman sat and learned some more. You can bet he worked even harder and studied film on what he needed to correct. There hasn’t been many quarterbacks that have stepped in and instantly grasped their team in the right direction in a long time.

So now the question is who should start week eleven?

The conservative choice would be Holcomb. He has been on a playoff team before and even quarterbacked a wild card loss to the Steelers. Then again the Bills had a veteran quarterback of higher caliber in Drew Bledsoe that they were quick to let go. The reason why, was because of JP Losman.

The Bills believed strongly it was time to go in another direction with Losman starting, and that shouldn’t change now. Give the kid a half season to finish on a good or bad note. Either way the bigger picture suggests that’s the logical way to go. The NY Giants were involved in a similar situation last season with Eli Manning and Kurt Warner. At 5-4, they rested the veteran Warner and threw Manning in to learn. At the time that looked idiotic, but now you could say that was a brilliant move.

In all reality, the Bills are going to have a hard time making the playoffs. The only way they could get in is if they win the division. The Patriots have had their struggles this season, but the Bills aren’t strong enough to take them down yet.

Now with the extra experience under his belt, that could be a whole different game a year from now. The Bills defense is young and coming together, and offensively there aren’t many things that need to be changed. The whole direction of this team is on the presence of its quarterback. Holcomb isn’t playing like a Drew Brees who shunned Philip Rivers from the spotlight. He has played merely okay, and that’s not enough to want to bring him back as your starter next season.

Losman is the man, and the Bills will likely make the right decision on who to start this week and the rest of the season.