Charles Romes

The Saints were pretty much a patch work team embraced by the media and especially so because they were in a small market suffering hard times. They took a shot on an injured Brees after Miami passed on him for Culpepper (the modern day curse of the Bambino). Their whole championship roster has always been filled with castoffs, low round picks and UDFAs. Their only name high first rounder never performed close to his selection number.

Who cares - If you are a non-turnover assisted 1-4 and legitimately close 6-5 you wind up 7-9 and miss the playoffs. If you are a turnover-assisted 4-1 and legitimately close 6-5 you are 10-6 and often get in the playoffs.

As other posters have indicated good riddance. A rotten stupid song. The theme it replaced was one of the great sports themes if all time and I'm looking. forward to it being featured again. dene dene dene (pause). dene dene dene (very long pause). DA DA da da......

Maybe your draft order should not be a function of just your last year but a function of a rolling window of time like the last five or ten years.

Perrys work in 09 where half the d was on IR and the offense couldn't make a first down was amazing. The offense had to react to Fewel's schemes. Not the other way around.

After posting this I realized I disagree with myself. The '90 Bills won two early games they had no business winning and they ended up "growing into" their artificially inflated record, behaving more like an 8-1 team than a 6-3 team later in the year. Now I can't let the call go.

Face up to the fact that we were soundly beaten in that game. It's that simple. There were many opportunities to come back from the call. We won the turnover battle by two with a pick six no less and still lost. It is not necessarily a good thing to have your record be way ahead of how good you are. That only stops you from addressing areas in need of improvement. So let go and move on.

Where are people getting this "drop percentage" data. I can't seem to find it. I want to make sure I'm using the same date everyone else is when I perform my own analyses. This team may outscore enough opponents to stay mathematically alive into December. After they are eliminated, or sooner, Aiken needs to see the field.

Don't beat yourself up. Sounds like your heart never left.

In a sea of bad games where spiller looked expendable, he looked to have unlimited potential in that Raider game. Had a markedly reduced role against the Pats. I trust that Chan had a good reason for that.

"One game?" If we knock off the pats Sunday to officially turn the franchise around and RFA misses it he will bever forgive his friend. There's no reason RFA can't go to the wedding and watch the game. The friend will be too busy to notice anyway. I would definitely go in with at least two technologies. Keep and eye on the TV map. This game will get a lot of airplay so you may be able to watch it on a portable digital antenna TV. They go for $30 on line but if its too late you'll have to buy it at radio shack for $60.

I'm particularly concerned that if our cast of overlooked and undrafted wideouts keep putting up big time numbers, other teams will be more interested in what Chan and Buddy have cooking on the practice squad. Aiken with a few preseason video clips is much more of a target now than three-drops Martin.

I would have liked to see them elevate Aiken over Roosevelt. More upside and Chan is not afraid to take risks. I am also more worried about Aiken being claimed by another team than Roosevelt. On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised to see Roosevelt play himself into a permanent roster spot. He doesn't make a lot of mistakes. The best of both worlds would be to cut Martin who is going nowhere and elevate both Roosevelt and Aiken.

That patriots game in 98 cost a home playoff game and then the refs stuck it to us again at Miami in the playoffs just to remind us who is boss.

Reich stonger arm than RJ? RJ is in the top 3, and Reich is in the bottom 3 on this list. The thing about Fitz is that he CONSISTENTLY shows the deep ball. Not all that accurate but he's smart enough not to throw it up for grabs and Nix has given him physical receivers who will battle for the ball when it comes in off target.

They always like to play man to man pass defense. That could be difficult since they are starting a rookie CB (Van Dycke) who is talented but still a rookie. Brees picked the kid apart in the preseason game I saw.

Big targets all over the place

Byrd broke that up

Everyone likes to talk about the game where ferguson and Marino combined for 800 yards. No one remembers the game where fergy and Namath combined for TWO completions: http://thejetreport.us/post/3919186101/jets-history-sept-29-1974-jets-at-bills

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/197509280pit.htm 1975 at Pittsburgh. Steelers were defending Super Bowl champions and would win the title again that year. Bills shreaded one of the best Ds of all time for over 300 yards on the ground. Steelers would lose only one other game that year, a last week meaningless game.

After lighting it up in another preseason joique bell has made the roster of the super bowl contending saints. Hits the holes quickly, breaks tackles, has a nose for the end zone. What does a guy have to show in preseason to not get cut by the bills. I have the same feeling about kamar Aiken this year that I had about bell last year. An obvious NFL talent let go.

I'll never forget his first drive ever. Right down the field for a td on the road against the pats. Then it was over. A microcosm of his career.

Gary Anderson cut by the buffalo bills. All time NFL leading scorer at time of retirement

In 09 Parrish was squarely on the trading block as the league all time punt returner and no one wanted him. None of the top seven wide receivers on the roster can be cut but none is worth anything in trade either. Johnson a 5th maybe. Roosevelt is the one least likely to be picked up on waivers (no one values catching the football). Most teams around the league assume he is on the roster only as a hometown feel good story anyway. Since Roosevelt is most likely to be there for the Bills if they cut him and someone goes down he is the most likely to go.

Last year everyone wanted to keep joique bell and he turned out to be available a few times after he was waived. Aiken is just leaping off the screen a little too much to be cut. Teams have spent high second round picks in trying land big receivers with speed and soft hands.