Dorkington

Can we have EJ?

Man, these pressure packages make me excited. The only part I don't like is we don't really stuff run lanes though. Great run by Woods!

The guy playing his first NFL game ever? That's not a good sign.

Kolb reminds me a lot of Trent so far. Oomph.

Is it bad that I kind of miss Chan's offensive play calling? >.>

It 100% of the time tells me a video is unavailable, only streams audio, or gives me the "preseason live" screen if I have airplay on (all mods off). :/

Preseason Live doesn't work with Airplay by default. I'm jailbroken and have to use Unrestrict Premium, and mirror (even their work arounds don't work for streaming just the video, unfortunately). I've settled on streaming from my mac to my AppleTV instead, though.

I think we have fairly average depth at the position. Chandler, Smith and Cragg, and even throw in Dickerson. None of them are world beaters, but I don't think any of them are scrubs, either. Maybe I've been a Bills fan for too long, but isn't that generally how most teams are? TE that is "big", not WR fast, but can block and has reliable hands (Chandler), depth guy who is a good blocker for heavy sets (Smith), and then "others"? Or is the new "norm" to expect every team to have a Gronk/Hernandez type of situation?

Our first five games are: NE Carolina NYJ Baltimore Cleveland Isn't it?

First, watch the decimal point... Secondly, 25% technically only works without the wildcard, so my original quote was a little simplistic. (whoops, this is wrong, I kind of forgot that we actually play 4 out of the 16 teams in the Conference... need more coffee) Like others have said, it's weirder that the AFC East has played the NFC Champion seven years in a row, than the Bills losing to that specific team.

Considering that the ProBowl names a KR specialist (up until this year I guess), I've always "counted" that, myself. But, considering my recent discussions on what a "starter" is, I'll rescind my opinion on the subject.

Comparing stats doesn't really tell a whole lot. Would Fitz have played as well on the Eagles? Would Vick have played as poorly on the Bills? They ran different offenses, had different tools, etc. I think Vick would have been more successful here than Fitz, but I don't think it would have amounted to much.

Records: San Fran - 4-0 NYG (2011) - 4-0 Green Bay - 2-2 (Miami & NE wins) New Orleans - 4-0 Arizona - 2-2 (NYJ & NE wins) NYG (2007) - 3-1 (NE wins) Chicago - 2-2 (Miami and NE wins) You mean 4 times (over those two years)

One of the things that Brady is really good at (same with Manning) is reading a defense and making audible calls at the line. So when you have someone who is shifty, like Welker, or a mismatch like Gronk/Hernandez, making those adjustments to find the soft spot in a defense is even easier. This year, we have no idea if he has a guy who can do that, but we all know that Brady will still recognize (most of the time) where a soft spot in a defense will be.

The AFC East has played those same teams. The Pats, Jets and Dolphins have all been good within the last seven years. We have not. So it's really not that far fetched other than the whole division facing the eventual NFC champs.

Indeed.

Goodwin is our starting KR most likely.

Every year we play 25% of the NFC. Every year we suck. So it's not super crazy.

I hate that I agree with this. Blech. But, you gotta acknowledge greatness when it's there. And it's definitely there. I just wish we had that again, it'd be nice.

I'll go with Branch and Ross... one of each sort. No clue who's the "best" though.

Isn't he Tuel's backup QB?

I thought people were joking about Tuel being starter... but it's slowly dawning on me that people are serious. Crazy.

I'm not big into Kolb. But I guess fair is fair. I hate rooting for failure, but I hope Kolb sucks and EJ lights it up. I'm ready for a new guy at QB, not some "retread" from another team who can't stay healthy. That being said, whomever is starter on game one of the regular season... I hope they light it up then.

I didn't *expect* Indy to go to the playoffs last year, either. I didn't say you can't expect playoffs. I just said that I'm not.