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http://www.stadiumwall.com/index.php?s=&am...t&p=1245373 Whoops. Seems like Old Man Wilson's neighborhood block put in an HDTV for him. You know, maybe at least encourage him to clean up a little. Ralph's been thinking of laying it down and putting it up on cinder blocks as a table to hold his meds, tho.

I'm just going to go on the record to say that this thread is sacrilege. It is pure sacrilege.

They could do worse. I think Edsall has done all he can do for my alma mater. Really had a Bills-like season --- started 5-0, finished 2-5. Has to be given credit for his defenses (that's been his career focus), but not much going on offense outside of Donald Brown. Hope it's a good game for anyone going.

I'm being purely objective when I write that the best thing for the team would be for Ralph to sell or die. Like Quint's note, tho, it's merely a desire for the entity that's holding the team back to get out of the way. I want whatever's going to happen to the franchise, to happen --- tired of the constant limbo and getting kicked in the nuts. May sound heartless, but from an objective pov, one of those two things is what needs to happen for the machination at OBD to change. History has shown that any success the Bills will have is going to happen in spite of how RW operates the team in the modern era. Even on the worst days, I don't wish RW, the person, physical harm/illness. I liken the situation to living in a neighborhood where there's a grand old Victorian house on the main corner that's in disrepair. Old man Wilson who lives there who has the means, but won't paint, won't do any landscaping, won't replace a gas range with three out of four non-functional burners, won't fix the leaky roof, won't empty the trash that's accumulated inside the house b/c "Antiques Roadshow" has gone to his head and he thinks everything he owns is worth $2,000-3,000, etc. Pretty much, he doesn't want to do anything beyond emergency absolutely-must-do repairs and changing lightbulbs. Essentially, he's waiting to die. There's a whole host of people who'd like to move in and fix the place up to make it the gem of the neighborhood again. Old man won't sell, tho. He wants to keep living there and watch Matlock reruns, eat half-warm TV dinners and collecting his $900/month Social Security check. I mean, you're just really disappointed and frustrated by what could be and isn't b/c of a certain mindset. When the old man does go, it'll be sad to see his relations' loss, and I think the people in the neighborhood will more lament the loss of who Mr. Wilson used to be before he started giving everyone his 'old man stares' and yelling at the neighborhood kids to stay 15 feet away from his mailbox. By the time the new person takes over, the foundation may be irreparable and the house may have to be razed but I'd rather know that before the place falls down on itself and/or becomes a crack house.

I didn't watch yesterday and I didn't care that I wasn't watching. That's a new feeling.

Ralph's role should be the macrocosm --- the main thing he should be doing is the above or thinking about a new stadium and representing the team at the league meetings/CBA, if he still gives a sh-- about his legacy in Buffalo. His concern should be high-level decisions, and barring that, he should be taking warm baths and eating more fiber. Instead, he regularly delves into the microcosm in ways that don't help the team.

What, he should've clapped like Dick J and said, 'You'll get it next time'? At this point, I think the only way Royal might improve is for him to be ashamed of and pissed at himself

I swear, if Royal isn't gone this off-season.... He has literally cost us wins.

As long as it's been paid for, I don't think Ralph cares if it's empty or filled with banana cream pie. If nothing substantive is done, his realization will come when people don't renew for next year. And even then, he'll just blame the economy and it'll give more ammunition to move. The best thing that could happen for this franchise would be for Ralph to sell now or die. I'd really just prefer that whatever is gonna happen, happens, rather than watch a team I loved be run into the ground like it has for the last 10 years.

"Oooo Oooohh!! Ooooo! Sorry, we just couldn't hear you that first time. Now that we know what Congress wants to hear, we come back two weeks later with our hats in hand, having flown commercial this time, and... everything's different. Really. You gotta believe us! Can we have our $30B now, Uncle Sam?"

I think Steely's discovered the FO's strategy! Brandon's looking for a comp pick for losing Losman.

I am by no means optimistic about the McGee-Ginn match-up until Terrence shows otherwise. Not to isolate it too much from the other 10 guys on the field, tho. Inability to get a pass-rush, per my above post, also puts an onus on CBs for prolonged coverage, and given enough time, seams open. Another version of this is the rush-8 Fewell's tried a few times in this stretch... and even that sometimes couldn't get pressure and then it leaves receivers wide open. Don't fall into the trap of over-analyzing one part when in reality, it's a mix of reasons on different levels of observation --- some of the component parts and then how they're used in the system itself --- that is to blame for the failing.

Unless it comes from the inside, I don't know that Pennington's jersey is scuffed by the turf on Sunday. Our DEs got nothing against him in the first meeting, when THE way to beat Chadwick Pennington is to rattle him and knock him down, even if you have to take a penalty. DJ likes to have tea and strumpets with the opponents' coach after games, tho. Truth be told, we have been a team of pussies since Wade and Gash left. Even if we had DEs who didn't run 10 yards straight past the QB before backtracking and circling in on most every play, they'd probably be instructed to treat him as if he's wearing the red/yellow 'off-limits' practice jersey.

What can I say? The season isn't joyous for everyone. At a time when people get together, it can remind you of those who aren't with you anymore. My grandfather (96, but expected) and my dog (my best friend and even with his age, it was a total shock) passed away about a week apart this summer and I'm still getting weepy when I think about it too much or see something that reminds me of him. Still have noseprints all over the basement door glass that I just can't bring myself to wipe away. I will miss our Christmas morning walk (we live in the sticks and usually just let him out the door and clapped him back and, boy, he'd come running). Just having a hard time adjusting, but it's one foot in front of the other. Pretending that the holidays are only happy is fake. Sometimes it's about lost happiness and where you need to remember the good times. In this vein: Otherwise, there's the old classics everyone goes back to --- Crosby, et al. Also, I really lament now that I lost/threw out(?) the 'language lab' cassette tape recordings we'd have to do for French class back in high school. For the session nearest the Christmas break, the teacher would sing some traditional French carols (Belle Nuit, Sainte Nuit; Minuit Chretians; etc.) that we'd have to listen to. She certainly was a tough grader but she had a great voice. Seconded for both. That Mariah Carey "All I Want For Christmas Is You" one gets old pretty quick too, and you hear it ~ 5 times a day (try telling me payola isn't alive and well). Commercial radio gets pretty aggravating after about a week. And now, they have to start playing it the day after Thanksgiving b/c the same people who own the stations owns the stores. I'm listening to those stations selectively and in small doses.

I don't like him. 1) Just his general hokie-ness (self-effacing to a fault; on the Today show segments, always says he can't do anything in the kitchen, which tells me right away that he's a fuggin' moron, so why should I be listening to what he says about anything else?). 2) Certain laziness and contentiousness I've seen of him in the Bush years (e.g. expecting the White House press office to do his reporting/fact-finding for him and spoon-feed it with the Dolly Madison sterling silverware, and getting downright pissed when they wouldn't). 3) His tendency for talking over people when they're trying to finish up what they're saying. This alone disqualifies him in my mind. The great thing about TR was he'd gather people and let them talk. He's not the worst in this regard, tho; I hate "The McGlaughlin Group" and I am certain that in the 6th Circle of Hell, that shrill %^&ing c--t Eleanor Clift's (of Newsweek) lips will be sewed to her *.

Can you say 'Behind the Times'? Geez! They're still hawking Satan and Kozlov goathead stuff.

There's a lot of times when that seems far preferable to getting kicked in the nuts a couple dozen times a year.

I don't think it makes much of a difference. Look at our last three hires and it's been 'Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss.' We still have CBs who line up 10-15 yards off the WRs. We still have an OL that collapses and has no mean streak and despite our size, does not even try to dominate (look at the Giants to see what an OL looks like). We still have OC who at times, run when they should pass and pass when they should run. We still have DEs/DL that can't put pressure on QBs (laughable that several times, we're rushing 8 and still couldn't even get a sniff). We still suck at game management and challenges. This goes far beyond the head coach, his assistants, the waterboys, etc. To borrow from Thoreau, instead of hacking at the branches, we need to strike the root. Which is, namely, how Ralph operates the team. Until he sells or dies, don't expect change.

And I am sure Ralph would set his colostomy bag on it. Things aren't going to change until he sells or dies.

This is pathetic. All cylinders misfired today. ST was sh--. Offense couldn't get it over the hump. D lost to Shaun Hill and, again, couldn't get pressure when it mattered (garbage sacks are just that). Penalties. Overall slop.

Sent just about everyone, and still no penetration. Unbelievable how ineffective this DL is (mostly the DEs who just run past).

Yup.

I've known a lot of vets from the current conflicts, come home, go out and find themselves in a fight. It's not a good idea to generalize that they were completely innocent in any altercation, just b/c they served their country. Lots of stuff going on in that mind, from anger issues, ptsd, etc. and then mix in alcohol? Nor is it a good idea to generalize that a current or former Buffalo Bill is without fault. We don't know who instigated it and so should reserve judgment, but then again, to borrow from "The Great Gatsby" a little, an incident like this (usually) takes two people making bad decisions.

You forgot to source your "facts". I'll do you a favor and fill them in for you. 3) Sarah Palin Well here, we know you're just making sh-- up. Sarah Palin believes the world is only 6,000 years old, youbetcha. <wink>

I think you've eaten too many Magentas. Jesus would tell people the misguidedness of their ways, often by relating a parable to influence how people thought and acted. (Eventually, people in high places got sick of this kindness, love & peace/hippie/commie spiel and hung his ass on a cross). But he also had no tolerance for consumerism in place of religion. Hence, when he flipped over the market tables that were in the church yard and said, "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, render unto the Lord what is the Lord's!" Just in case you ran out of Burnt Umbers which stimulate your brainpower, "what is Caesar's" was money, "what is the Lord's" was people's mortal souls.