Dan

I agree the line play improved but it was no where near great. And believe me, I'm not using this as an excuse to get rid of Drew. I'm all for trying JP. However, both sides of the line still get man handled when the game is on the line against a first rate oppenent. If we don't bring in some top talent on the line, I just don't think we'll ever take that next step. We may make the playoffs (heck we were almost did this year), but would we have beaten NE or Pitt this year? No way.

I've been saying it for years.... Drew may suck, sure. But so will JP or anyone else you put back there behind this line. We can talk sh-- all we want about how great the line improved this season. But the fact of the matter is that when the season was on the line and we were playing a quality opponent - we got pushed around like catholic school girls at a frat party. If wee don't upgrade our line - offensive and defensive - we'll never compete with the bid boys. Period.

I muted most of the 4th quarter because I was so sick of Randy's inane comments. He made a bad game worse.

Regardless of how they buy or when they buy, it was pretty sickening to to hear the Duece calls every time he ran the ball. I expected to see a rabid Bills team fueled by an insane home crowd with pandemonium running rampant as we stampeeded into the playoffs. Instead, the team looked flat, and the Steeler crowd seemed to cheer louder from the get go. If I didn't know better I would have thought the Steelers were the team trying to make the playoffs and the Bills were just there going through the motions because they had it locked up. I guess that's what troubles me the most about this loss.

The decision to kick wasn't bad. It's the safe thing to do. However, I think that was the flaw in the entire gameplan. We won 6 in a row by not being safe - we took chances, threw a few long passes, blitzed like crazy, ran trick plays. Where was all that yesterday? In my opinion, the game plan was too vanilla, too safe from the start. Am I wrong, but from my living room we looked flat and uninspired. It just didn't look like the sameteam that I had seen the last few weeks.