You hardly know where to begin anymore. At this point, almost every word or phrase is a redundancy, a recitation of blunders past. The coach should be fired. The quarterback has lost his confidence. The linemen, young and old, can't remember a simple snap count.

Well, here's something new. I've just thumbed through the stat sheet from the Bills' unsightly, 6-3 loss to the Browns on Sunday. The sheet says the Bills were guilty of nine false start penalties, a staggering number. But I'm rounding the number up to an even 10.

You won't see it on any official game accounts. But for the first time in history, an NFL team owner was guilty of a false start.

Ralph C. Wilson Jr. was scheduled to receive his Pro Football Hall of Fame ring in a halftime ceremony. We all knew that, right? At least most of us did. But on Thursday, Wilson made a sudden, unexpected move and decided he wasn't interested in doing it.

The Bills informed the Hall of Fame on Friday. Unfortunately, no one bothered to inform the public. The Wilson story, complete with a big photo of his shiny Hall of Fame ring, remained the lead story on the Hall of Fame Web site all weekend, until after the game.

Yes, we all were drawn offsides — writers, talk show hosts, countless people on the Bills' own fan sites. We were silly enough to assume that Wilson would actually follow through on the ceremony, that he would go out to the middle of the field at halftime, despite the obvious risks.

Wilson was here. But he bailed. Joe Horrigan, vice president of communications for the Hall of Fame, said he had been told that Wilson "was not feeling up to doing it and we would reschedule."

Don't hold your breath waiting for the rescheduling. Look, I know Wilson is five days from turning 91. It's tough for him to get around these days. But he's the owner, the guy making the big decisions, and on Sunday he was a sorry reflection of his franchise's dysfunction.

Is it any surprise the Bills can't line up properly, or field a punt or get the plays in on time, when the organization can screw up a Hall of Fame ceremony? If Wilson didn't want to do it, would it have been so hard for the PR people to actually let us in on the secret?

They could have announced before the game that Wilson wasn't feeling well. Instead, they allowed the fans to sit there, expecting a ring ceremony that never happened. There was no entertainment whatsoever at halftime, which made it very much like the game itself.

People can only conclude that Wilson was afraid he would get booed. Surely, there would have been some discontent among the fans. The Bills had gone scoreless for 30 minutes against the worst defense in the NFL, and there was that lingering matter about an inferior head coach.

It was an insult to Bills fans, who pay their hard-earned money to support a dysfunctional, losing team. Don't expect the worst from them. Let them decide whether to boo. Many would have cheered because they're able to separate the Hall of Famer and founder from the foundering owner.

And boy, did the fans have reason to boo. Did someone call last week's loss the worst of the Jauron era? Amazing how the man continues to outdo himself. This was one of the worst NFL games I've ever had the misfortune to sit through, a game neither team deserved to win.

Somehow, the Bills held Derek Anderson to 2-for-17 passing and still managed to lose. I don't know what was more amazing: Anderson's stat line; the 13 penalties by the Bills; or a fatal Roscoe Parrish muff that was nearly as maddening as Leodis McKelvin's fumble in the opener against New England.

Ripping Trent Edwards has become a daily reflex, like ripping up junk mail and tossing it away. The offensive line isn't doing him any favors, but Edwards is lost. His confidence is shot. He probably checks down to a blander cereal the minute he pops up out of bed in the morning.

"That's a game we thought we could win," Edwards said. "We had a great week in practice."

No, Trent. An offense doesn't have a great week in practice and commit 11 penalties. If practice is such a rousing success, how come Lee Evans, the $9 million phantom, hasn't caught a pass in the first half of two straight games? Going back to the Saints loss, it's one catch for 8 yards in the last three opening halves for Lee. Is that what the coaches come up with in those mythical 16-hour work days?

Even Jauron didn't talk about how hard his guys battled after this one — though the defense held up its end against a bad offensive opponent. Jauron seemed to be leaving the door open for a quarterback change when he was asked about Edwards' sagging confidence.

"We'll have to see," Jauron said. "We're not performing at a high enough level to win, obviously."

Something needs to change. Jauron is now 3-12 in his last 15 games. He is the only coach to lose a game to the Browns in the last 11 months, a remarkable bookend achievement. I can see those struggling teams left on the schedule, salivating over a chance to play the Bills.

The next move for Jauron, assuming he survives, is a quarterback change. He's fired his offensive coordinator and unloaded last year's starting tackles. He's running out of people to blame. It might be time for Ryan Fitzpatrick if things go as badly as expected next week against the Jets.

The wheels of dysfunction continue to turn at One Bills Drive. After the game, they finally got around to releasing a statement from Wilson about the ring ceremony.

"The focus of today's game should be about the team and the fans," Wilson said. "I think most of our fans know that I've been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame."

And with each discouraging loss, more and more of them have to be asking themselves why.