Dan

I'm still not sure I understand this whole Denver/KC thing. In my simplistic mind we want them both to lose. If KC beats Oakland, they move over Denver? But, how does that also mean we jump over Denver? Maybe I'm just getting dilerium from all the math and possibilites. What am I missing? For now, I'm thinking old school... if we win and everyone else loses; then that's good.

Do you realize how many fans rely on NFL.com play-by-play to "watch" the Bills? Or watch some other game, just to see the scores from other games scroll across the screen, hoping to see if Buffalo scored? Or try franticlly to stream some obsure radio station on the net? Or refresh this board frantically trying to piece together the events of the game from the game thread? I used to do all of those. Now, my fotunes have changed and between DirecTV and Sirius, I don't miss a game. But, to say the Bills aren't on TV; therefore, I find something else to do is just not an option. Not living in Buffalo, living in multiple states over the years, and having a job that has me traveling non stop have made following the Bills an ordeal. I could write a book about the ways that I have found over the years to follow this team and how it has evolved (one of my prouder moments was finding the game on in a furniture store in some distant town and watching the game there). But, to say there's something else to do is just not an option. When the Bills are playing, my sole purpose is to find a way to find out what's going on.

I'd argue that letting Clements go would be akin to when we let Pat Williams leave. The result would set the entire defense back. I think teams run on us so much because they can't pass and a good reason for that is Clements. If we keep Clements and shore up the run defense, we'll have an above average defense next year. As good as Youbuty may be, he's still a huge unkown and no one else has shown they can consistently stop a reciever like Nate has. I think it essential that we keep Nate on this team. On the other hand, I understand Nate may want to leave. He may want more money than is reasonable. But, I do think we should offer him top 3 money. If he demands to be the top CB in pay and doesn't budge, then I tag him again (despite the promise) and get a 1st round pick when he leaves. He's good and critical to our defense; however, is he the top CB in the league? That I'm not so sure about.

-- I can’t tell you how big that 10-yard run by McGahee was on 3rd-and-8 just before halftime. The Dolphins had two more timeouts left and the Bills would have had to punt into the wind. With great field position, the Dolphins could have gotten something going into halftime. But the defense couldn’t wrap up. Donnie Spragan had his arms around one of McGahee’s legs. Gotta make that play. Have to. =========== I completely agree. That may have been the play of the day. We were setting ourselves up for another miserable series just prior to the half ending in a punt and a garbage score to give the fins hope going into the locker room. That run was easily, Willis' biggest of the day.

Why can't we ever get the battered team that falling apart with injuries and player discontent? I swear it seems like every week we're playing the up and coming team. Is it just me or is our schedule this year turning out to be one of the toughest schedules in the league? I really thought the Jets game was going to be our toughest, considering how they were playing. We handled them well. Then, I thought the fins was going to be tough, considering they just shut out the Pats. We shut them out. Now, it seems like the Titans will be the toughest game of recent, considering they're on a roll and catching every break possible. I'm not to even thinking about the Ravens yet!

In my perfect little dream world, that doesn't happen until we beat the Ravens and JP is preparing for his first playoff game. (dreams are a wonderful thing)

All we have to do is beat the Titans this week. Do that, and just like Miami, we'll see their name drop off the boards and they'll be a mere afterthought in the 2006 season. Its that simple. Beat VY and JP will be the initials mentioned next week.

Simple solution. Tarp off 5-7,000 seats (ala Jax) and there ya go, instant sellouts.

For those of us that have never attended a game in Buffalo, not to mention a Bills/fins game, this post is priceless. I anxiously await your pics and live vicariously through this post. Thanks.

Friggin awesome response!

Alcohol is a wonderous thing. What a great 1st post. Love that line. Totally random smackdown. Gotta love it.

Please! Everyone knows you have to have at least 250 yards passing to have a good game. We won inspite of JP's sucky performance.

Another positive from today that no one's mentioning. So, I will. With Meriman out most of tonight's game and Schobel's 1 sack. He's now all alone as the NFL sack leader with 2 weeks left. Please, give him some props for the effort. He deserves it. All he does is play his arse off every play, no celebrations, no crap. Just solid play week after week. This season has gone so much better than probably 90% of us ever thought. And to still be talking about playoffs with 2 weeks left, the NFL sack leader, a bonified starting QB, a sweep of the fish. How great is this?

Thank you!

I'm having some wierd math class flashbacks. D. All of the above

This thread: playoff thread post #31 says it better than I could.

You're kiddin' right?

no it won't

I'm a firm believer that we are a sum of our experiences. If JP isn't benched last year and the offseason doesn't unfold as it did; I'd argue he'd be a completely different QB and person right now. Perhaps he'd be better, but perhaps he'd have more bad habits to break. So, I'd have to agree, maybe Mularkey did us all a favor by benching him and making him take a hard look at himself. Fortunately, though, Mularky quit and we had coaches come in and actually coach him this year. That, I think is perhaps the best thing to have happened to JP thus far in his career.

But we didn't need long, grind it out, 13 play drives because we had 3 big plays. See how it all works. If you have big plays, you don't have to grind it out. If you grind it out, you don't have to have big plays. Either way, we still won and they had nothin.

Agreed! If the game ended after the 1st quarter, he may have a point. But the last 3 quarters of the game we kicked their ass up and down the field. Period.

Yeah. It sucks. My brother in law loves the Broncos. I woulda loved ragging him about losing to the cards. Oh well. Let's go San Diego!

Much better. Thanks It'd be great if the dang Cards could go ahead and give the Broncos that loss already.

I completely agree with you, in spirit. However, when you have to win out and about 4 teams hae to lose and it takes a post this long to explain it all... well, it sure seems like a long shot. But, here's to Billievin.

Exactly. Not to mention the 36ydr to Evans thrown perfectly over his shoulder. That's why I laughed so much. It's so stupid, you have to laugh.