[Kevin Kolb is still on the roster]

Lewis has shown a higher ceiling than Kolb so focus should be on securing Lewis as a backup.

[Bills 2014 opponents - Home & Away]

Holy cow. This looks the SEVENTH straight year of playing the chiefs. Odds have to be staggering for that to happen.

[Jimmy Garoppolo is looking good.]

We will not draft a QB before Day 3 this year. Like it or not, we're rolling the dice with EJ.

 

I don't know about that. An alternative drafting model where a QB is drafted each year, year after year, in the first three rounds would have been hard pressed to underperform the current model which has yielded 14 consecutive non-playoff seasons.

[RG III benched]

It will be interesting to see what the skins do if cousins lights up the QB friendly Georgia dome. Mid round picks typically have weak arms. If he does well I expect they'll start Grossman outdoors weeks 16 and 17 so as to preserve cousins' trade stock.

[Let's Smell for Manziel]

I don't want to smell for Manziel. I want to let it all go to hell for Manziel.

[Gronkowski out for the year with ACL and MCL injuries]

I have never seen someone that big so flexible. The stresses on the joints have to be off the charts.

[NFL record longest FG]

That will never impress me more than tom dempsey's kick. The guy had half an arm and half a leg.

 

Any Bills fan that can have other than the utmost hatred for Tom Dempsey must not have been around for this:

 

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/197909020buf.htm?mobile=false

 

I for one am celebrating he is finally out of the record books.

[Does anybody care about the rest of the season.]

For a team that does not know how to close these games are critical. The team needs to learn how to make plays and win.

[Jerry Hughes and Mario Williams chasing history]

Kyle Williams is within striking range of Cortez Kennedy's' season sack record for interior linemen.

[The Long Ball]

I thought the shots ej took with Goodwin long last week were good. He overthrew him by a few yards which is what you have to do. Goodwin just didn't dust the defender as he often does.

[New overtime rules are awful. Great article attached]

The overtime rule is dumb. First team to score should be the winner. The problem with the old rule was that they kept the kickoff play the same as in regulation.

 

To make it fair, they should have changed it where getting the ball at the start of ot is not any more or less favourable than giving the other team the ball.

 

For example, you win the toss and if you want the ball, you automatically start at your own 5 yard line. Or 10, or whatever is deemed to be that median area. If you don't want the ball, the other team starts with it at that same spot on their side of the field.

 

No kickoffs, just a drive start at a set point on the field. Problem solved.

 

The best idea I saw floated was that each team would enter a blind bid for the yard line they would start at, lowest yard line wins. Can you imagine the press fodder relative to these coaching decisions.

[possibly the best player in the NFL this year]

I have always wondered how he flies so under the radar? The west coast drawing a lack of attention?

 

Eli gets toasted and roasted weekly. Brees is a stud. Dalton gets a lot of love. But Rivers get nothing. He is a very solid game manager that plays QB very well. I always hoped Fitz would get to Rivers level.

 

It took several years of missing the playoffs before he was removed from the elite group. Circa 2007 he was seen as a solid top 5.

[The Jets Message board is hilarious right now]

It's surprising he is so bad in the wind. The best part of his game is the fact he can spin it.

[Looking back...Skip Bayless is such a dramatic tool]

Great shtick IMO. I thought they were both terrific. This will be great to replay in January '15 when I'm jonesing for ways to savor every minute up to EJs first playoff start and I've exhausted all current media. Way over the top, just as they are paid to do.

[The Atlanta Falcons week 13]

That's exactly it... the Jets were coming off a huge win against NO at home, went into the Bye week thinking "Ok, we'll just beat the Bills and then if we can win in Balt..."... then the Bills starting 2 WRs went down, EJ looked horrible, we couldn't run against a Pitt D that gave up 55 the week before... I am sure they thought the same thing and came in and got rocked because of it. I fear the effort the approach. If they play to their ability, on paper, they should win. But they really should have beaten Cleveland, with Brandon freaking Weeden, with or without EJ, and they did not. If this was at RWS, I agree. But it isn't anything like the Ralph. Many of these guys have never played at Rodgers. Out of their routine, new place, different country. I don't know. Just have a bad feeling.

 

The jets mailed in a "Force ej to beat us" game plan.

[New GM, New Philosophy]

I even heard Whaley repeat a Nix sentiment: its a game of big men, and we want to get bigger.

 

A little different meaning now. When nix took over from Jauron we has 53 DBs.

[2013 Pro Bowl Balloting: Mario, Kyle, and Byrd Elected.]

I hope Cordy Glenn's play goes unnoticed for years at least until he's extended.

[The Atlanta Falcons week 13]

Mike smith coaching for his job? He had 4 winning seasons in a row, 3 more than the prior franchise record.

[Who wants to apologize to the Pats for gloating over last night?]

This thread is misguided. If Brady/Bellichick had won just one more title they would have stepped off the gas by now opening up the division. I generally root for them to win it all once we are basically eliminated so they would just go away.

[Has anyone taken notice that]

Bills are also one of the few teams to have played 11 games.

[most improved Bill from last season?]

Glenn is the silent franchise player on this squad but was too good last year to qualify for this award. 1 sack surrendered all year with rookie QBs, one with johnsonesque tendencies to hold onto it. Are you kidding me.

[Byrds and Reeds convo after game]

The real question is why the Bills did not front load an extended Byrd contract THIS YEAR while under the cap so he would be all paid up for years.

[How do you ignore Carpenter's production for Hopkins?]

Since they returned the kickoff point to the 35 again it's possible to garner a touchback on 70%+ of kickoffs. Carpenter is just not getting it done in that department. Bills rank 4th from he bottom in touchback percentage. Carpenter's kickoff problems are a major reason why he was cut by 3 teams in August. In '10 he missed 11 kicks, scary to any GM. In today's game you need touchbacks and you draft a big leg kicker like Hopkins if you have to.

[Who wants to apologize to Jairus Byrd?]

The collapse of Atlanta and Houston should convince him that he could be sorry if he signs with a "winner".

[start the day fresh]

The positive of being bad for so long. Late season games after being all but eliminated do not seem less important than early season games. They are all part of one big endless rebuilding process. Go Bills!