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Daaaaaa Bills!

Daaaa Bills!

Da Bills!!

It is what it is and we've got what we've got. Time to play ball! Go Bills!!

Take me about 45 mins to get there. Is it a party? Otherwise Largents in the Kentlands.

I don't think anyone thinks we are better defending the pass. We'll see if we get a good push and whether our DBs cover tight or remain soft. We need big year's from our CBs. If they press and take away the short easy throws, this D could be much much better. Improvement against the run is obvious and a long time coming! GO BILLS!!! Bills 34, @ Bears 20 Patsies 24, @ Fish 10 Raiders 17 @ Jets 23 Wishing and guessing like everyone else..

Agreed! There are many great beers to choose from, but Labatt's is a good choice for our team's beer. The only major city in the US where the best selling beer is not made in the US. Genny Cream is barely drinkable. Genny screamers - takes me back to the mid 70s watching men's fast pitch softball behind the firehall. Screamers and Mickey's wide-mouth..Or the occassional Miller ponies. All had their time and place, but none stand up to the beers available today. Try a Dogfish 90 or even a Fat tire and then tell me beer is beer...

Ok tod - I'll take the criticism. The post was in response to Jumbalya and his comment on Kujo, hence the placement though I should have quoted. Cyril may have improved in camp, but I maintain watching him play in the Senior Bowl was memorable and made me feel really bad for the guy. The rant I was on was about our choices in the draft and so many people's opinion that you can find great lineman later in the draft so why waste a high pick on an OT. That's akin to saying you can find your franchise QB later just because NE did. Kujo slid, Cyril slid and Henderson crashed. Well maybe we did get lucky with Henderson, we'll see. It's just been preseason right? You have to admit that if you watched the games, the OL play overall/top to bottom has been abysmal. After watching this preseason, I am less optimistic than ever that our offense is prepared for a season. We'll see.

Best case: OL gels, DBs cover and EJ progresses. 10-6 Worst case: they don't. 4-12 Likey: Some will, some don't: 6-10

Well stated! The simple answer is no.

Neither Cyrus or Cyril are NFL ready. Everyone other than the Bills knew this before the draft, that's why they "slid" to us in the draft. Anyone watch the shrine game or whatever it was where Cyril was schooled and tooled? I've never seen an OL so out of his element as watching him in that game. Now he's supposed to start on our OL? So our big plan boils down to a hope and prayer that they somehow outperform every other team's expectations and for the he**ll of it we throw in a 7th round draft pick as our Savior at RT? Really?! Let's also trade our #1 next year to move up a couple places to draft a WR!?? A WR?! Now we have a young QB with little natural instinct to play the position at the NFL level, playing behind an inferior OL and listening to an inexperienced, in NFL terms, coaching staff. OooooKK..........Let's go find a really good punter! So many on this board asked, why should we "waste" a pick @ #9 for an athletic OT? We don't need an OT when we can easily find one later in the draft! Ok, where is he? We picked three OL! WTF? As I said before the draft, many of the people on this board know little if anything about football. Well, NFL football anyway. Perhaps you should switch over to European football. This game is still won and lost in the trenches. First, run and stop the run. IT would be nice to stop a third and long too but, some day we'll get it...

This should have been done (or something very similar) the next day after Kolb went down last preseason. What took so long?

Why not Barkley? His... has a popgun arm, but can he play football? Can he play QB? Much more important questions than arm strength. Besides, Heath and Jerret might come in and block for him?!

No he's a role player because he plays behind a line with little talent that can't run block when playing against elite competition. No hole and Spiller dances rather than hitting it hard and settling for 2-3. RBs are a dime a dozen and the only true measure is whether there is speed to break it once they get to the second level. Spiller has it. So does Bryce. Let's see what happens, but unless Spiller becomes the second coming of A. Peterson, we have to let him go. Running behing a competent OL and he is AP every year.

Are you watching the game? He's throwing duck after duck..Sack fumble! . I haven't seen so many mallards since Todd Collins!

Yes, seek help..please?

no...none.

Might as well be as a test of you football acuity is a non starter...Put on your readers old man.

"EJ Manuel gets sacked twice on the opening drive and the Bills have to punt. Offensive line continues to be a major issue for this team." Get used to the sound of that! This is the same story line for the past X (you can plug in the number) seasons! I realize most of you think you can find talented OL in the later rounds. You espoused such virtuous reasoning leading up to the draft and vilified any of us who suggested otherwise. No need to draft an athletic OT at #9 because no one wastes a pick drafting athletic OTs. Draft skill players! Like OL are devoid of skill. We can't run block, we struggle to pass block and we draft a WR while giving up next years #1...WTF! To those who I am referring, and you know who you are, I hope you enjoy your season and the next several...You deserve this team.

me2 but Ginger was hot!

Agreed. It's still early for both the QB and the OL, but man that game was tough to watch...

This board talked about this before this year's draft. We had a QB problem and an OL problem last year too. So spend a #1 and give away a future #1 to get a WR!? Great....

I agree that EJs play is pivotal for the teams success, but perhaps equally important is the OL play and a dominating D. Run the ball and stop the run. Don't give up big plays and EJ doesn't need to win games, he just can't lose them. 9 wins is possible, 8-8 more likely.

Really Great News! Keeping my fingers crossed!

Same problems as last year. OL play is pathetic which magnifies the QB who is at the low end of the learning curve. Can't score if you can't block. Good teams score because the line blocks and they punch the ball into the EZ. Our best OLmen are average. Our backup QBs are....JFHC, I can't come up with an adjective to describe their play. The line may gel with time, but right now these guys are just pathetic. Our only hope is that they are merely young and lost, but watching Cyrus and company is painful and I see little indication for any optimism that they can turn it around. OT @ 9 is looking like a missed opportunity. Sammy won't be an AP if no one gets him the ball. And no number 1 next year. Chandler wasn't open and the pass shouldn't have been thrown.