Livinginthepast

When they let the Raiders come right down the field and score to make it 24-16 I knew we would lose. You cannot allow a team back in the game like that when you should be stepping on their throat. The D has done that in 3 key losses this year. Jets, Miami and now the Raiders. Thats on Rex and his bro and their schemes, thats on their lack of adjustments. Just not good enough when you have a hot and cold offensive unit like we do that cannot finish the job!

Romo is possibly the most overrated QB in the last 10 years. He cant get it done in the playoffs was a statue even in his younger days but now will be way worse. Absolute lunacy to go after him and why would he come here anyway? Some big market team will throw stupid money after him if he leaves Dallas. I wish we could have gone after Drew Brees when he was in the same boat in 2006. BUT NOOO they had a proven stud with JP Losman, what could go wrong!!

Even more of a joke, the Dolphins, the craptastic Dolphins are now better than us. Talk about salt in the wound!!

The Bills DBs are small but so are most Dbs in the NFL why are there no tall dbs to match up against the large targets? Richard Sherman is 6ft 3 and he seems to be quite good. so what is the rationale for having small guys defending the pass?

A good team overcomes the terrible officiating and does what it takes under pressure. We used to do that with Kelly and co so well in the 90s. For 16 years though we dont have the people to get it done under pressure. The refs are way worse than 20 years ago and make several impactfully bad calls a game. You need a team with poise, swagger and balls to compensate. We dont have that, at least yet!

We all were gutted last weekend when we thought the Ed Eagan era had finished! But like a phoenix from the flames, Ed is back!!!

Its one thing to criticize TT but try to argue EJ is better? I thought the OP was joking. EJ has never even been close to what was his best since the injury at Cleveland. His replacement stint last year was an embarrassment. I am surprised that he is still on this team.

I used to go to Bills games about 2-3 X a season with my friend who is a season ticket holder. I loved tailgating in my 20s in that grassy field lot near the stadium. That all changed in the early 2000s when I went to a game. Made the mistake of going to the restrooms at half time and the lineup was predictably gigantic. The only lineup that was shorter than about 8 people was a stall. I waited till I thought I was going to burst and went into the stall just as another guy was trying to go in. I wasn't sure who was next in line so I said to the guy, you want to go in first and he looked at me blankly, so I went in and did a quick piss and left. When I got out my friend who was also waiting to go behind me said that the guy who I had asked who was next wanted to fight me because I budded in line. I was so creeped out that I could have been jumped by some drunken mental defective that I decided not too long after to not attend another game. Its just not worth it to experience that kind of disgusting behaviour and potentially be the victim of some life altering assault. What happened to the OP is completely unacceptable but sadly pretty common with some of the lowlifes you encounter if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time!

Perhaps this exposes the immaturity of my sense of humour, but I instantly thought it might be a dildo when I was watching it live and kind of based on the announcers reaction and then lack of comment afterwards. Then I laughed like Beavis and Butthead.. huh huh huh....

Definitely a dirty hit, definitely an illegal hit. It was also an unnecessary hit. He doesn't need to hit him to make the play work. Just get in his way. Instead he goes after his head on a blind side. Was there a prev play that got Landry mad at Williams? He deserves a suspension fro going after his head and jumping up to do it.

I agree, Schwartz would have been a good choice for coach when the Pegulas came in. He could have run a great defense and hired a decent OC. Coaching is the key to all of this. Even a mediocre QB can win the SB if he stays in the plan of an offense. I still think TT can succeed in this league but not if he is hamstrung by a crap OC or a scheme that doesn't play to his strengths or the skills of the people around him.

I wish we had hired someone else in the first place. Even last night the offense looked out of sync. Roman didnt seem to adjust his offense around his players strengths and limitations. It was so vanilla anyway. I really wish I had appreciated Marchibroda's offense more all those years ago. The last few O coordinators we have had have been so boring and unimaginative. Roman was just the latest in a long line of dull schemes and poor thinking on your feet!

I dont blame Rex for being indecisive if his spotters up in the booth (assuming he has some) were getting the same replays as we did at home. The replays from CBS? yesterday for the most part were abymsal. Unfortunately so are the ones from Fox. I think Sunday/Monday/Thursday broadcasts are way better than Sundays. Perhaps they have a premium crew. But yesterday and most of the last few years the Bills games are covered by scrub broadcasters and probably below par tv crews. I watch a lot of the CFL up here in Canada and TSN's coverage of the league is way better coverage/commentary wise than any of the Bills games I have seen, going back years now. Anyway if Rex doesn't have a spotter advising him on challenges up in the booth (which I suppose is possible after last season's fiasco). He must be a complete idiot. You cannot possible see from a HC's vantage what you need to see to determine challenges.

Sad to see Mario go. But sadder that it really didnt pan out the way the Bills thought or we wanted it to. In the end We are in an era where 95% of the players in this league are expendable when they get older and the contracts get too big. I really thought that Mario would be a dominant factor in the time he was here on D. He ended up being good for 2/4 years but never a devastating presence on the D.

The Bills won the trade, hands down. Kiko looks sadly that he will never be the player he was in his rookie year. The worst part for Bills fans is Kiko seems like a great guy. McCoy has a much bigger impact on the team, but like many recent Bills RBs he has some significant character issues and really doesn't want to be in Buffalo.

I didn't say they were better, I said "possibly". If you compare them I think the 1991 Bills had a clear edge with Thurman at running back. Kelly was a better QB overall than Newton so far but Newton is dangerous because he is mobile. The Panthers arguably were on a bigger roll than even the Bills were in the 91SB.

The 1991 Bills should be a lesson to everyone that having an incredible offense doesnt always pan out into an easy SB victory. The Panthers destruction of the Cardinals reminded me so much of the Bills demolition of the Raiders in 1991. And this game tonight was vaguely reminiscent of Bellichick's neutralizing of us. In fact it Wade's job was even more effective on an team that looked even more dangerous possibly than we were.

I had this strange feeling that the Panthers werent for real this entire season. Seems stupid after they went 15-1 and then steamrolled those teams in the playoffs. I just dont think Cam Newton is the real deal and today he just imploded when it really mattered.

Nice to see Wade finally get a SB ring. I didn't appreciate his defensive genius when he was here because he wasn't a great HC but today his unit's execution and game plan was superb!

I had forgotten that the ref for this game looked like some inbred gnome!!

Wow 25 years ago watching that kick go wide I was in utter disbelief. In a way I still am. Still one of the worst moments of my life. As ridiculous as it sounds to have a sporting event actually compete with serious life events. But I was absolutely gutted. Just the unfairness of it all. They were so great, they played so well, the long suffering fans deserved it, the city deserved it, the coaches, everyone and it it never happened. Still outrages me!

The Bills were never the worst opponents in those SB's. The statement is ludicrous. The only SB game that the Bills were overmatched was the 1992 Redskins game. And that was because the skins were so great that season. The ist one they were by far the better the opponent and the 3rd one they got unlucky with the Kelly injury and the gift TDs on turnovers.

I feel the same way even the part about the wife not getting the passionate hatred is the same for me. The Pats always get the breaks, the bounces, the calls and they are good but they still cheat anyway. Love to see them lose!!

Bellichick is number 1 of anyone I can remember. Shula to me is mitigated by the fact that I saw the latter half of his career (late 70s to 95) where he had ceased to be dominating. Jimmy Johnson was also obnoxious with the Cowboys, but a joke with the Fins.

Nothing worse than watching the Pats win. KC basically handed the game to them. The Pats looked so ripe for an upset yet KC and Alex Smith yet again, cant get it done when it matters!