Brandon

As others have said, Flutie was basically a bandaid that masked the OL's struggles to a degree. But I also remember that he ran for his life on probably two thirds of the passing plays they called, contributing to his struggles late in '98 continuing through '99 and it was only his athleticism that kept the sack totals from being higher. The running game was pretty average during those years as well.

No, its no excuse to protect Bledsoe, its reality. As I stated earlier, I have no problems with a now 1-5 Bills team benching Bledsoe, but I have very little hope that it will make any difference for this team. The point I'm making is that the Bills have fielded an inept OL for nearly a decade and haven't done much of anything to upgrade it. The result? Every QB and every RB that they have put in the backfield in that time period has never managed any degree of long term consistency. Its not a coincidence.

I'm not concerned with what other teams have done. The problem is that poor Bills OL play basically ran Kelly out of the league in 1995 and 1996. Since that time, the Bills have never had any real consistency from year-to-year in either their rushing or passing attacks. Their OL is simply too weak to allow it. The front office has never bothered to correct it, with their only major addition being Mike Williams, who appears to be a borderline bust. Its been probably 10 years since I can honestly say that I think the Bills fielded an OL that was in the top 20 of the league. That's pathetic.

Of course, you are correct. The Bills have had a revolving door at QB since Kelly retired in 1996. At some point, you have to acknowledge that maybe, just maybe the QB position isn't the big problem with this team. No, I think the biggest issue the Bills have remains the one they've had for a decade, a pathetic excuse for an OL. The fact that they can't maintain much of a running game with two good Rbs should also be a red flag. But if the Bills feel it necessary to bench Bledsoe, so be it. They're 1-5, and they may as well go to Losman at this point and get him some playing experience. Unfortunately, I doubt the results will be any different.

One point I would like to make is that Henry has generally started slowly early in the season. He was averaging only 2.7 per carry through his first five games a year ago, then he only proceeded to post 1,096 rushing yards in the final 10 games of the year. 2002 was a similar story. While he had a great first game, he disappeared for the next month, before finishing very strong in the final 11 games. The point is, don't write him off just yet.

Whatever. I thought the Bills did win today. Was it a perfect day? No. But isn't a win what you wanted? You seem awfully upset for someone who's team beat its biggest rival today.

And it amazes me that a few people apparently would have been happier had Bledsoe thrown four interceptions and the Bills lost this game, just so they could feel that their point had been validated.

Yeah, its a damn shame that he played well today.

Indeed, it seems that we've arrived at a point where the Bledsoe-haters are making excuses when he plays well. Sigh...

While I think it would be a big mistake to trade Henry (I'm still worried about McGahee's durability, not to mention that its nice having two very capable RBs), the fact that he didn't play today makes me wonder if something isn't up. There were times when we could have used him and he's played with worse injuries before. Perhaps there is a trade in the works.

No politics? OK, then Kerry won't even bother visiting the church. For some reason, I don't think this is going to go over too well with religious voters. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6248789/

This rumor has been making the rounds and it doesn't appear to be true. In fact, Bush has a scheduled campaign stop in NJ Monday. You'll find proof of that in the right hand column on the following site, in the section dealing with the poll. http://www.politicsnj.com/ I don't immediately have anything regarding Bush's visits/ads in Pennsylvania, but given that I think everyone would consider him much more likely to win there than in New Jersey, he's probably not pulling out there, either. BTW, here's a much better article detailing his Monday NJ visit: http://www.nj.com/news/bridgeton/local/ind...18473155771.xml

Well, its about FRIGGIN' time Bledsoe even looked at him. Why the Bills haven't been trying to get him more involved in this offense is beyond me.

Having a high draft pick next year would be nice, but lets not forget that had the Bills not traded for Losman, they probably would have drafted a QB in R1 in 2005, anyway. As it stands, we essentially made that pick a year early at the cost of a couple of picks this spring.

Yup, Edwards got it handed to him tonight. I thought he put up a good effort, but it was not much of a contest. Cheney far outclassed him, especially on a night where the VP was clearly at the top of his game.

There's a Yankees game on tonight?

Edwards is doing better than Kerry, but he still stinks. I'd rather see a Cheney/Lieberman ticket, in no particular order. In fact, I've often said that this conservative Republican probably would've voted for Lieberman over Bush had the Dems not kicked him to the curb this spring.

Cheney is hammering Edwards. That said, I doubt enough people are watching this thing for it to make any kind of difference. The sad thing is that I now believe both of these guys are actually better candidates for their parties than either Bush or Kerry. Granted, its not necessarily because they're all that great themselves (although Cheney is giving a very good accounting of himself and his positions tonight).

Well, technically he may have started yesterday, but in reality, I doubt he was on the field for more than half the plays.

You'd think they could see the obvious, wouldn't you? At any rate, in his first game with substantial playing time, he had a very good outing. I think we'll be seeing a lot more of Lee Evans in the coming weeks. If he can continue this, combined with Reed's continued struggles, it wouldn't suprise me to see him starting opposite Moulds in another month.

While Henry's face plant into the turf certainly was his fault, I can't blame him for the fourth down play. Calling a play where the QB must turn his back to the LOS is a recipe for disaster in that situation.

Guys, you know what's truly frightening? Right now, Ryan Denney is looking like the best pick from the first five rounds of that draft class! Sure, he's a borderline starter, but at least he doesn't make the highlight reel five times a game for making stupid mistakes.

I think Kerry is the big loser here.. While his presentation skills were clearly superior to Bush's, I do think he left a lot to be desired in terms of content. The specific details were few and far between. He really needed to give people a reason to vote for him, and he didn't do that tonight. This was a wasted opportunity in that regard. Meanwhile, Bush just needed to avoid the big mistake, which he did, and I think he put Kerry on the defensive a few times. Kerry also had one statement tonight that could really come back to bite him in the ass, that being his remark that pre-emptive strikes should pass some sort of global test. If Bush chooses to pounce on it (and judging from his response in the debate, I think his campaign will be all over it), it could be catastrophic for Kerry. He and the Dems already has significant problems on the issue of national defense and this statement will certainly be used by the Bush administration to paint him as a far left candidate who will outsource US defense to the UN.

The Bills have it at their 16 yard line.

What is Bledsoe supposed to do? Catch the ball for Josh Reed?