TDO'Kearney

You can't have too many DBs you know....

Moreover, how many times do we complain that ppl just spout stuff with no logic? Then we complain when we have to read a chart? Sheesh.

Well, then, who's the dummy? That joke mighta worked if he didn't spend it all.....

I think luck, or at least circumstances, played into a switch from a 3-4 to a 4-3. Sometimes you have to play the cards you're dealt. How many times did we complain here that the coach needs to fit the scheme to the players not the other way around? Case in point...the Bills pick 3rd in the 2011 draft. They need D help. it becomes clear that we will either get Van Miller, an LB, or Dareus, a DT after the Panthers pick Newton. Once you have both these guys (Williams and Dareus), who do you sit in a 3-4? Dareus is quick but apparently he's really not a DE. If we had gotten the LB, would we still be working a 3-4? Then you look at free agency. You have these two stud tackles and you know two stud DEs are available in FA. Also, Wannstedt happens to be looking for a job in 2011 and he's a 4-3 guy. So you go with what falls to you. Even in fantasy leagues you can't just get whomever you want.

You made the mistake of posting BEFORE the Giants-Jests game. The only controversy the Jets have is which QB is worse. To those who say the Jets had all their receivers out, the Giants DL were in the backfield every play. I don't think it would have been that much better. But it IS preseason.

A lot of folks bring up the 90s Bills preseason record, but those were different. Kelly and the boys would come out and march down the field and make the score 7-0 and sit down while Marv would play the future plumbers and firemen he had that year to see who was any good while ultimately losing 28-17. That's not what these games look like.

OK, F it. Bills 45 Jets 9, Spiller gets 200 yards from scrimmage. I'm on the bandwagon until at least 1:15PM on Sunday!

Problem with that is, if McIntyre is in there the defense knows they'll pass, and if White is in there it knows he'll run. Fred keeps em guessing because he could do all of those.

There's also a frame where stats show reality and one where they get distorted. In building a 28-3 lead on 2 turnovers, the Dolphins had outgained the Bills 183-91 just before the half, outgaining 2 to 1. Two scoring drives of 23 and 4 yards distorted THOSE, so that looked better than they were. I have to believe even if the Dolphins had to go 80 yards on those drives they would have. Then after they blocked the punt, they basically ran the ball every down and Buffalo caught up yardage wise in garbage time.

We saw was Spiller was made of. He had first and goal from the one. He had a lane to run in. A linebacker appeared in that lane and Spiller....ran sideways. Second and goal from the 1. I'm not questioning any NFL players toughness from the comfort of my couch, but Marshawn would be in the end zone every time on that one. Fred would have grazed off of one side of the guy and fallen into the end zone. NFL backs get in on that one. A number 9 pick should CERTAINLY get in on that.

Because Ralph is cheap.

There's no Madden Curse, statistically it makes sense you get put on the cover of Madden at the peak of your popularity, generally most players go down from there it only makes sense. As for Hillis, he's an RB. Serviceable ones are a dime a dozen. Who even heard of Demarco Murray besides his mom 3 weeks ago?

In today's legal climate it's probably a felony under some terrorism statute that could put you in solitary for 30 years. I came home and me and two of my drunken buddies tore down my son's basketball hoop instead

If that had been the Patriots the call would have been ruled at TD in their favor. "Just give it to them"

That's right, so those will be white Raiders jerseys on their backs when the Bills run Fred off left tackle, not red Chiefs ones.

Really? Personally, I find it hard to believe that a guy that has put up the #'s that 8 5 has in his career has no idea what he's doing on the field... Not really, he's super talented. I don't think Randy Moss made his numbers by chessboard reads either. They didn't say he had no idea what he was doing, just that he was very limited, and could only retain simple reads from one side of the field. His talent apparently got him open anyway.

Sirius NFL had the writer from Cincinnati on (Dan Lanham, sp?) He said basically that Bruschi had a point. He told the story of the rookie Ochocinco who slept in the training facility to get better and contrasted him with the current one who has a "lot of other things going on". Apparently it was an open secret in Cincy that Chad could only barely learn the "X" receiver position. He once asked a coach why Chad didn't go in motion or move around the formation and the coach looked at him and said "are you kidding me, the guy can barely make the reads where he is". So he was saying Bruschi was watching practices and talking with his old buddies and they were saying the same thing, and then Chad tweeting about it was the last straw for Bruschi. Bruschi is probably a little out of line, but just a little. I thought the understory was interesting.

The Jets felt the same way when they played Brady on Monday night last year. Ask Rex how that worked out....

Not just Bell, although he was stout against Tamba Hali as well. But I think Urbik deserves a little credit. I seem to remember watching the replays of a few of those longer off-tackle runs to the left and seeing Urbik coming across the line to the left and smacking someone hard on the outside more than once.

Meh, I'll join the unruly mob. Throw Sal Maiorana and Leo Roth from the Rochester D&C on the same pile as Sully and tie em all to the PROVERBIAL stake.

Chan was the only coach who would accept what Ralph was paying. Buddy Nix is from the south and is too old to run a team. Ralph is cheap and already has a deal with Toronto. Fitzpatrick just doesn't have what it takes. Fred Jackson is pushing 30. Everyone of our receivers is an undrafted nobody. All we did on defense is replace Stroud with Dareus and add Merriman, we didn't do anything. This team is trying not to win to save money. Spiller is a bust, like Maybin and McKelvin before him. We're gonna miss Lee Evans in that salary dump. No one has ever spotted a TE for the Bills. We did nothing in the offseason to fix our OT situation. Pears and Urbik are castoffs. Wait, What? Mom! I'm in the basement! What? the score of what????

Ralph is cheap.

Everything we didn't see last year. Ran the ball through the red zone with our maligned left tackle. Overcame a mistake. TD to a TE. Maybe this season is looking up a little.

If he just does ONE thing I'll be happy. Stop that stupid running play that worked about 200 times against the Bills D last year. The one where the back takes 2 steps forward, takes the handoff, runs to the outside shoulder of the tackle where a few Bills defenders begin to gather, then cut back up between the tackle and guard and gains 15 yards where Whitner would tackle him. If I see that play work ONCE tomorrow, I swear I might jump off my roof.

The playoff games are definitely the best. Easy to pick the Comeback as #1. SuperBowl 25 and Home Run Throwback were also great games with the wrong outcome. My top 3 non-playoff games: 1) second game of the season, 1982, Thursday night game before the strike, down 19-3 and come back to win against the Vikings 23-22 on a late Ferguson to Jerry Butler TD. 2) The 1997 Todd Collins comeback against the Colts where the Bills won 37-35 after being down 26-0 with JIM KELLY in the booth analyzing. 3) The 2002 snow game with Drew Bledsoe against Miami. Even though Ricky Williams ran for 230 years or something, at the start of the 4th quarter I couldn't even see the field but I could *HEAR* the roar of the fans in the stadium cheering a breeze that came off the Lake carrying a ton of snow.