FightinIrishBills

La Nova is good and all, but true great pizza can only be found at Imperial Pizza in South Buffalo.

Auburn had some talent on offense (including an incredibly good rookie RB who had a huge game in the BCS Championship) and a solid defense, but ultimately that team would have been middling in the SEC without Newton. Definitely wouldn't have beaten 'Bama. Newton was the straw that stirred the drink this year. The BCS Title games are always slop-fests. Both Oregon and Auburn ran high-powered offenses, but with so much time off, a team's rythm is bound to be disrupted. Besides, his performance against 'Bama should be considered nearly equivalent to a National Championship game, both with the huge rivalry and the unreal comeback he led.

Obvious troll is obvious.

During my senior year of high school I was interviewing for a scholarship for the University of Virginia; apparently Ralph Wilson and the Bills have some kind of relationship with UVa. I walk in the door to OBD and who do I see but Marv and Ralph walking together in the hallway. Being nervous enough about trying to ace this interview, I was simply gobsmacked to be meeting the two kindly sports grand-fathers of my childhood. I think I was able to stammer out a "pleasure to meet you Mr. Levy" with wide eyes and sweaty palms before having to walk into the interview room. I didn't end up getting the scholarship (probably because I told them I thought James Bond was one of my favorite fictional characters...maybe Sydney Carton would have been a better choice?) but left with an awesome memory.

Are "That's what she said" jokes cool again? Because if so, that's awesome

Paging Jevon Snead, paging Jevon Snead.

Well, when you take the bold line out of context, of course it looks ridiculous. What I meant was that in the current situation, where essentially neither team had anything to play for, it really didn't matter how the team looked against the Jets' JV squad. I'm disappointed with a poor performance, but I've seen enough out of the Bills this season to gauge where we are--good enough to hang in games with tough teams, but not nearly good enough yet to handle an elite team like the Pats. This was a 6-10 or 7-9 team with too many bad breaks and an even worse defense. Sorry, this wasn't a barometer game, let alone resembling anything close to meaningful. And if you really think Chan gave us his A-game coaching today or that the players went all out, then you're fooling yourself. If you think it's a damning indictment of the team that they didn't bust their asses for nothing, well you're entitled to that, although I'd like to point you to that stretch after the 0-8 start (the effort was there during it too, but they couldn't win games) where the team really went all out and won games in spite of it being decidedly futile. I'm not rationalizing to blind myself to some kind of ugly truth. I know where the Bills are. Unfortunately, too many fans are of the Mike Schopp/Jerry Sullivan mold--the glass will always be half-empty. Didn't they follow the EXACT formula that the downers wanted? They showed a lot of potential in tough games, and they still have a top 3 or 4 pick. The NE game killed my spirit a little but it did help bring me back to reality. I think getting upset over a meaningless drubbing falls in the realm of confirmation bias, no?

Okay, that makes a lot of sense, although I'd like to think that it doesn't invalidate the point about Edwards being God-awful.

I'm not watching the game (so anyone who is can fill me in one way or another) but 23 yards at half-time against the worst-ranked pass defense in the league? That is just awful. Yeah, yeah, you can't even make glue out of this poor, dead, beaten horse, but still. Simply pathetic.

It's okay, you've seen enough bad in your life as a Bills' fan and you're sick of seeing more of it! Understandable. I actually "ran for the bus" as a fan today, watching only a good 5 minutes or so of the game before switching over to the Saints-Bucs game.

They weren't running for the bus against the Colts last year...or the Pats the year before...actually, having just looked up the final game for each season from the past few years, I can't realistically say that the Bills have been "running for the bus". Then again, with 40 years of fandom, you have a much larger sample size to draw from memory-wise, but still, this is the first year in recent memory where I could say that they mailed it in.

That WR cum QB also had Adrian Peterson in the backfield, and Percy Harvin, Sidney Rice, and Visanthe Shiancoe out wide. It helps having your best players on the field.

Hmm, you don't think some of those "other injuries" contributed at least in part? Come on now, we were already down to 3 UDFA at WR. David Nelson and Donald Jones were both out for this meaningless game with a back-up QB with little to no NFL experience in the game. Get off the ledge. Yes, I was as disappointed as everyone else to lose the New England game the way we did (actually bought tickets!) but I'm glad to take the higher pick, all things considered. It doesn't matter how competitive you look against the Jets' scrubs.

Did you buy tickets? That's the only reason I'd be this upset about this meaningless game.

If somehow Kyle Rudolph falls to the 2nd round and we grab him, I'll be a veeerryyyy happy Bills fan.

Don't know if anyone else posted it already this year, but if not, it's always an awesomely bad listen. JOE CRIBBS' MOVES!!! Merry Fitzmas and a Happy New Beard to everyone!

Hmmm, that's funny, according to Howard Simon and Jeremy White, Fred Jackson needs to be phased out of the offense next year because he's an average back at best. I think I respect their football acumen over the "great" Belichick. :wallbash: I actually like Simon's show, but when Jeremy said that Jackson isn't that good of a running back I wanted to drop-kick my radio.

Would you like the guy to do back-flips for you?

Let him get fired up. Let him be at his best. When the Bills finally beat the Pats again, I want it to happen when they're at their very best, because I don't want anyone to be able to take it away from us. We've been plagued with a loser attitude for so long that we don't want to poke the sleeping Brady. No need for Rex Ryan levels of obnoxiousness, but I'm not particularly scared because some guy on another team said something about Brady.

+1. He shouldn't rub it in anyone's face, because on the field no one cares if you're from Coe College or a Rhodes Scholar (well, except if you're that kid from Florida State...). But there's a world of difference between condescension and pride. Nothing wrong with expressing the latter for such a fine achievement.

We'll find that out next week, won't we? As I recall, they competed with them earlier in the season. And while they're really rolling right now, I really think the Bills can compete with anyone right now. Not to say this game was a masterpiece, but they played according to their game plan--shut down the run and force Chad Henne to pass. It just so happened that Henne got hot today, but the situational game-planning really is impressive so far.

Easy tiger. I was at the game yesterday and there's no way there were 50,000 people in that stadium,and even if there were, no need for the name-calling. There were actually more people there than you'd think though, probably around 43,000 or so.

There was a huge difference without him, actually. It was definitely a lot tougher for Fitz to get the ball moving without Evans opening up the field for him. I really don't understand the "Cut Evans" nonsense.

I can't find the link yet on the Buffalo News website (it just came out in this morning's paper), but Bucky Gleason came out with an article that gave a background on Terry Pegula, the would-be new owner of the Buffalo Sabres, based on interviews with friends and acquaintances. While news of Pegula buying the Sabres is exciting enough, one of Gleason's interview subjects speculated that Pegula would be looking to buy the Bills if "the pieces fell into place". I know it's been talked about a little in another thread, but this is the first I've seen in print that he might actually have an interest in the Bills as well. From all accounts so far, the guy sounds like he's made of sunshine and chicken wings, and I really can't wait to see what happens!

I agree with both of his decisions. The main element that factored into both was that the defense was playing well that second half. Chan had enough faith to ride them into overtime, thinking that letting the defense get big stops with good field position was better than going for a risky 56 yarder (remember that Lindell's been shaky as of late). He has faith in his defense and although they came up short on that last drive, I honestly think they're making great strides. With a couple more playmakers, they'll be well on their way to being a solid unit.