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Every game on the schedule is winnable when the team shows up and is motivated to play. We can beat a Rex Grossman team. Yes, we can. We aren't talking Les Grossman, but Rex Grossman.

The media sliding off the bandwagon is exactly what this team needs. Keeps them motivated. Fuels the intensity which is important for this team. When your team lacks superstars, you've got to win by outworking and out-hustling the opposition. If your team is fueled by a perceived lack of respect for skill and talent and claims the team is overrated or same ol' Bills, the last thing you want is to be respected and lauded for said skill and talent and that this is a new Bills era. You want that chip on the shoulder to stay there.

Give me the Jets. I enjoy seeing the Patriots take as many shots as possible. Should the Bills remain competitive, and i have every expectation they will, the Patriots with two division losses is a big deal. I think the Jets are done in terms of true playoff aspirations. Nick Mangold's injury is the kind of injury that never fully heals without being off of it for a long time. He'll re-injure it in no time and be out again and it appears as if he is their offensive unit MVP.

It is a campaign out of control. You have a select interest group spreading its influence into the game, and it's a slippery slope and frankly I see the NFL pandering to women with this pink stuff year after year. Where does it stop? Will teams be wearing dog-colored uniform accessories if the SPCA desires? Beagle-colored shoes? Gloves with the coat of a Labrador retriever? What if the armed forces want a special day? All uniforms wear various levels of camouflage from the branches of the armed services? "The Bills will be in Navy BDUs while the Bengals, well, will be in their standard uniforms...."

I agree with other posters in that the defense lacked the intensity yesterday, and that was the key. When you are up 21-3, it's not a question of 4-3 or 3-4 alignments. It's about closing out a game. I hate to say it, but I think the team overlooked the Bengals. I think the defense rested on the lead, and Gailey pulled an Andy Reid and thought his game plan was superior and needed no changes. Atypical showing all around, hopefully. Success is dangerous. You tend to take a break, thinking you can get away with it.

I don't care about Philly's cornerbacks. Philadelphia has no linebackers. Scott Chandler and Fred Jackson should be all-world next Sunday if Chan gets back to throwing to Chandler and running FJ. Of the 49ers 291 receiving yards yesterday, their TEs and RBs accounted for 154 of them. Philadelphia only plays about 2.5 quarters and packs it in and you can still beat them despite Vick throwing for nearly 400 yards. They have been outscored 36-0 in the fourth quarter over the last three games. It appears Trent Cole, Antonio Dixon and Jason Peters all were injured yesterday, with Cole's injury serious. As of 1130am, Cole is out for the Bills game. I don't take yesterday's loss too hard. If it refocused the team for the Eagles and Giants, good. I think the Bills ran into a Top 3 defense yesterday, something they won't face next week.

A good learning experience. The Bills have to learn how to step on the neck of your opponent. In the first three games, they did not have to do that. The KC game was a runaway and the other games were comebacks. I think the team learned a lot today in the loss. I think the Bengals D will be the best we will see in the 1st half of the season. I'm not scared by the Philly or NYG defense.

He is brutal as a commentator. I thought he single-handedly ruined the new uniform presentation.

Excellent question. This game had an air of Andy Reid hubris from Gailey.

It'd be reassuring for the Bills not to come out flat against the Bengals. I don't think Gailey and Company look past any team, but coming after back to back comebacks and a very huge win, there's potential for a letdown and the Bengals defense isn't all that bad. The Bengals are a nightmare on third downs. They've only converted two all season and can't convert worth a damn in the red zone.

I'm glad he didn't hit Brady. Probably would have felt good to lay him out but emotions cost games. Just ask Vince.

I agree with gobills. I think the Bills watched that Super Bowl tape and applied its lessons, and executed it, unlike the Chargers. (Who tried.) I'd expect a big blitz next weekend against a rookie QB.

I wore no Bills gear on Sundays. Bills win games when I don't wear the colors. That being said, I watched this game from start to finish and I'm exhausted.

Curry should never have been at OLB. Coming out of WF, his skill set was suited solely for ILB. Play him there and he's better.

Merriman isn't doing less than what he did in San Diego. Really, he's not. San Diego's defense during Merriman's tenure wasn't all about sending the house, including Merriman to get to the quarterback because you didn't need to all the time. Sometimes you needed to stop the run like we have had to in the first two games. You don't blitz to stop the run. This week, you may see some more "house sending" but not all the time. A key game to watch or research if you have access is the 2006 AFC Divisional Playoff game between NE and SD. They got to Brady a lot and also intercepted him three times, but it wasn't wall to wall blitz. Half the problem was that NE had no idea when or where the blitz was coming from. You also have to remember that NE mocked his Lights Out dance at the end of that playoff game. I'm pretty sure he hasn't forgotten that.

The Patriots are not unbeatable for many reasons already discussed, but I'd throw in one more, just for fun. Uniform Change Theory. It's clearly at work in Buffalo. If you are a failure, do a wholesale change to your uniform, and success follows. See mid 90s Patriots, late 90s Denver Broncos, mid 90s Tampa Bay Buccaneers, late 90s Titans, 00s Seattle Seahawks, current Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions. If you are a success, change your uniform, and misfortune follows. See early 00s Rams when they switched from the LA colors to the maize and navy. See the Seattle Seahawks significantly altering their uniforms for the 2008 and 2009 seasons with lime jerseys. There are many examples around the league, including the Bills. You do not mess with the cosmic forces of the uniform (and not the conspiracy of the NFL to sell jerseys and merch, don't be silly) when you are successful. You do not change the jerseys you wear to numerous AFC Championships and Super Bowl appearances. You do change the jerseys if you miss the playoffs for over a decade. It's going to be a weird season. It'll get even more weird on Sunday when the Bills beat the Patriots, due in part, to these forces in action.

False flag operations in football...interesting. Not saying Chan isn't a bright coach, but to really execute an operation like this...where you keep Merriman and scheme in reserve because of a specific game, is a lot of risk most coaches would hate to take in games that count.

I like Rome's show. I'm a sucker for the well-placed movie soundbite and the Jay Mohr Caruso and Walken impressions.

Maguire probably hasn't called an NFL game in at least five years. He's still alive though and in broadcasting...just not NFL games.

Gailey thought TO had hit the wall back when he was hired. He and Nix chose not to sign him to another contract. I can't imagine, two years forward, he's changed his mind. I like TO, and I think he's going to be valuable for a team this year. It just won't be the Bills, although it'd be very cool to see.

...could make some money being a Samuel L. Jackson impersonator.

You know damn well that this is all a huge setup. We'll demolish the Raiders and the networks won't be able to help themselves and it'll be Bills/Patriots on national television. That always seems to end so well for us.

Ironically, we're talking about parking problems in Orchard Park for a Bills game. You know, the area of the United States where it's impossible to support an NFL franchise and that it's a foregone conclusion that it's on the move because fans never come out to games.

Music City Miracle hurt BAD. That causes me more pain than the Super Bowl losses. Truly shocking. Was with me for days. I don't take fandom so seriously, but that loss put me in a depression for a week.

Only 60mg? I needed steroids, IVIG and the rejection drugs that would kill an elephant to take out both. I'd get infusions of everything for hours on end. For whatever reason, both just sorta burnt out two years ago. I got progressively better after the initial ass kicking with relapses here and there, but saw a dramatic improvement at almost ten years removed. I was amazed (to say the least) that food poisoning not only took my ability to walk away, but nearly killed me. Bad chicken usually is from campylobacter, and is usually associated with GBS, and I put the two and two together.