Coach Doug Marrone announced Monday that Manuel's teammate Kyle Orton will start Week 5 against the Lions.

Coach Doug Marrone announced Monday that Manuel's teammate Kyle Orton will start Week 5 against the Lions.

Analysis:

Manuel still will be given chances to prove that he's the long-term answer in Buffalo, but he just hasn't been getting the job done through four weeks. In the Bills' two wins, he performed just well enough that stronger units pushed them to a nice 2-0 start, and in the last two, he's become too reliant on check-downs, while simply not connecting on the plays a quarterback needs to rally his team after someone on defense makes a big play. In fact, with an even slightly above average quarterback, the Bills would likely be 3-1 and maybe 4-0. The journeyman Orton faces a tough challenge in Detroit as well as with some other defenses along the way, so this decision is far from being cemented for more than the next few weeks.