Greg de'Ville

...UF fired Zook and his staff today, but then said it's effective at the end of the season. Huh? Talk about a morale booster for your team. Do they want Ballcoach back?

...talent is nothing if it is wasted. The Bills are so putrid inside the Dead Zone, the stench wafted 75 miles up my way from Baltimore Sunday. They have a brain-dead quarterback who makes horrible decisions, a lousy OL that gets pushed around and can't open any holes for their RBs, a #1 RB isn't #1 anymore, and boneheaded play calls by the coaches that simply don't get the job done. Even when the offense does something right, then the defense can't make a stop when necessary. Or the STs do something stupid like run into the kicker or block illegally on runbacks. Face reality, folks. The Bills are a B-A-D football team right now. And there are 10 more weeks of abject misery to go.

...Chefs set an NFL mark with 8 rushing TDs today (4 by Holmes, 4 by Blaylock) and 271 rush yards against the league's top rush defense entering the game. Willie Roaf...wasn't he available at one time?

I stand corrected, thanks. Makes it even more painful to comprehend how pathetic this offense truly is.

...with homage to the late John McKay: "When asked about the Bills' execution in today's 20-6 loss to the Ravens, Bills diehard Greg de'Ville replied, 'I'm all for it.'"

Zow, you nailed it! The "P" word. Predictable. Every week, it's amazing how many armchair QBs and fans in the stands have an inkling what's going to be called when the Bills line up on offense. It seems like what the Bills try to do offensively is stilted or forced--there is no flow or rhythm and that is especially so when the ball is inside the Dead Zone. Other teams simply light up the board points-wise: Iggles, Stillers, Colts, Browns, to name a few. The Bills are offensively challenged to even score two TDs a game--and that's happened only twice this season. Shameful, if not downright BRUTAL!

...the guys on Ravens radio were very impressed by Takeo today. At least HE cares! Too bad we don't have more like him, especially on the other side of the rock.

...and give the Browns full credit. They played a hell of a football game today and nearly gave the Iggles their first loss. At least Garcia plays with chutzpah. He cares. Does our brain-dead QB?

Gina, when the Bills closed the Gregg-O "error" with that 31-0 humiliation at NE last December, that was as angry as I had been in a long time. That anger has since given way to utter despair. A dead-to-the-neck-up QB, a line truly "offensive" in every sense of the word, a so-called #1 RB who can't muster more than 2 or 3 yards every time he carries the ball, an offensive unit that goes into collective brainlock every time they move inside the Dead Zone (ghastly what they did inside the 10 today, just brutal!). Hell, BDDB even blew the coin toss today, called tails, it's a heads, Baltimore you won the toss. They were cooked when they could only muster a trey after Schobel's sack and Boller fumble right off the bat. There was a loud "BANG" that rang out when I was at my daughter's midget game today. That was me pounding my foot square into the metal bleachers when Freon Deion waltzed into the EZ after that STUPID PICK, the first of four, by BDDB. The tip of my rolled-up umbrella also got a workout today listening to the boneheaded mistakes made by the Bills during the game. Despair. Abject sadness. That's about sums up my emotions about the Bills right now.

...I thought you meant J.D. Oops, he's in another town. Hotlanta, I believe.

I didn't have to. The Ravens radio crew ably described this debacle through my headset. I'm surprised they weren't laughing their asses off at how bad the Bills were today. The Ravens didn't do anything too spectacular. Push the Bills' self-destruct button and that's your ballgame.

The pathetic part is, the brainrust has absolutely zero confidence in this OL's ability inside the Dead Zone, that's why they never score via the run. 37 quarters. Over nine games without a rushing TD. None this year. That is ABSOLUTELY SICKENING!!!

...I was watching midget fb today (my daughter cheers). Her team has more of a concept offensively than what I heard through my transistor headset. It is BEYOND SICKENING. YOU CALL YOURSELVES A PRO FOOTBALL TEAM? Let's check off the games played so far this fall, shall we? Jax--Winnable. LOST. Faiders--Winnable. LOST. Patsies--Toughie, but still potentially winnable in the 4th. LOST. Dog-Ass Jets--Winnable. LOST. DolFelons--Winnable. WON. Nevermores--Winnable. LOST. I don't know how much more of this stevestojan I can take. It's week after week, YEAR AFTER F_____' YEAR! It doesn't matter who's coaching (although I think Tom Clements is this year's candidate for the Sheppard/Killdrive Worst OC in the League Award). But, sad to say, the Bills are saddled with the worst offensive line in all of football, and THE MOST BRAIN-DEAD QUARTERBACK IN THE GAME TODAY. FOUR STUPID PICKS! (two in the shadow of the Raven goal post). FOUR SACKS! ONE FUMBLE BY BRAIN-DEAD DB making a grand total of FIVE TURNOVERS. THEY CANNOT SCORE A TOUCHDOWN TO SAVE THEIR FRICKIN' NECKS. They had so many chances to put six points on the board and failed. AGAIN. I've never seen a team beat themselves every which way like this sorry-ass excuse of a team does. J.P. Losman can't get healthy soon enough, folks. This season is over. He has to play to get experience and give us diehards a glimmer of hope, because right now, with BDDB at the helm, there is none. Dump BDDB. Dump Travis Gump. Dump Mike Williams. Dump Josh Reed. Dump Rian Lindell. Dump Tom Don Ho. Dump Modrak. START OVER! Ever since Jimbo retired, there has been by and large a culture of losing that has permeated this franchise. They expect to fail, therefore they do. There is no confidence whatsoever in what this team does offensively. The defense cannot make a stop when the situation calls for it. The STs are way too inconsistent and shoot themselves in the foot repeatedly with bonehead calls against them at the worst possible time. Even when they had a chance in their most recent playoff game, they imploded and the Forward Lateral became part of NFL lore. They haven't had a sniff of the playoffs since. I felt badly for the fellow TBDers who had to sit through that debacle today at M&T, let alone the Bills living room fans who are likely cleaning up the broken glass from the beer mugs flown through their TV screens or who have required medical attention from the fists pounded into their nearest walls. This sorry excuse of a team should be ranked DEAD STINKING LAST in every league power ranking. Why? BECAUSE THEY DESERVE IT! Hell of a last four days around here, people. Thursday--6 freakin' points (1 TD) by SU. Saturday--Ha! Fo' by the Nits (two freakin' safeties) Today--2 freakin' FGs by the Bills when the situations DEMANDED that touchdowns be scored. And to make matters worse today, they made a frickin' highlight hero out of that overrated schlupp, the obnoxious Freon Deion. Thanks a lot Bledsoe, YOU BUM! This has all the makings of a Richie-the-K debacle kind of year. Then, I can hear Tagia-boo announce to all the world next April, "With the first pick in the 2005 NFL Draft, the Dallas Cowboys select..." Face it people, the Bills are now the laughingstocks of pro football. They're at the bottom of the food chain. AND IT SUCKS!

...the HOOTERS spell! http://money.cnn.com/2004/10/22/news/inter...dex.htm?cnn=yes

...go right after him, Bills! He is O-VER-RA-TED. He was as a Cowpuke. And especially so as a Nevermore.

...that works.

...I dunno. The 12th of Never?

...Sean Salisbury is a know-nothing, never-was puke POS. Period. End of discussion.

Congrats, BF. Pujols is DA MAN! The initials "IBB" should be etched in the minds of Sox pitchers in the Series. If they pitch to him, they'd better be very careful. If the situation warrants, have Varitek extend the arm and give Pujols a freebie. This guy can singlehandedly win the Series for the Cardinals. But his supporting cast is pretty darn good. Not many easy outs in that lineup. It all comes down to pitching. If the Sox pitchers let Pujols, Rolen, Walker & Edmonds mash, it's going to be a brief Series and the Cards will prevail. Gonna be fun...'46 & '67 all over again.

Another reason why the Cardinals are multi-faceted. Can beat you little, can beat you long. The Red Sox will have to BEAT the Cardinals and not themselves to break The Curse. Going to be challenging to say the least.

...SDS, just make sure the it's not PMS or POS. PMS? No. Can't be Paige Maker. POS? I won't touch that subject. But, just go with what you and your better half's hearts say.

...if I'm any Bosox pitcher, I'd give Pujols the Bonds treatment. Better to give him a freebie rather than 2 or 4 bases. He's special. Rolen's got his stroke working again. And they do the little things so well...get on, move the runner over on a sac, drive him in. So, just like '46 and '67, it's the Redbirds and Red Sox. Both those Series went 7, both won by the Cards. I'd love to see the Sox pull it off, but they're going to have to make the home field work for them like the Cards made it work in the NLCS. Can't get in any 0-2 (or egads, 0-3) holes against this bunch. Both teams can hit, but the key will be pitching. Who's got the stuff on the hill from starters to closers to keep each other's bats from going off. Should be a great Series. And get this--if it goes the distance, Game 7 would be on Halloween night at Fenway. Now, there's a scary prospect.

...grim. WVU's up 17-0 at the half. 'Cuse overmatched (again) when playing a team that's decent (read: ranked).

A.C.???? Didn't he drive the white Bronco?

You know who I think should go in? Ed Sabol, the founder of NFL Films.