Kelly the Dog

On the bomb to him in the endzone it was a perfect throw. He stopped running for no reason somewhere around the five yard line and then continued on. Otherwise it hits him in stride for a TD.

He's surely a fit for us. And I'm thrilled we have him. 15-20 teams below us didn't put in a waiver claim.

Overall they have been very good. 4-2 proves that. That doesn't mean they have been infallible. It doesn't mean they haven't made gross errors of judgement. The Mabin decision was atrocious and you could literally point the loss at the three plays that guy made. It's not as though they were dumb for signing him. They were dumb for only having a total of FOUR when you need five, and one of the four wasn't even on the team or any team three days before the game. Are you going to say that was a good idea? It was obvious before the game that was a horrible idea. And then they did it again, although the four guy this week was an NFL player. It nearly bit them again.

If McDermott was being honest, and it seems as though he was, that is scary. He thought we could actually run a full play, get tackled in bounds, and still have time to line up and spike it in 12 seconds. That's crazy. Not to mention that the three yard out pattern gives you zero even if you catch it and run OB.

This is the first game I thought that we won despite the clapping and not because of it. I dunno, maybe it's me.

Jamies Winston torched our pass defense for almost four hundred yards and three touchdowns. We won so there is no need to panic. And it's the first time the defense has been ripped apart. There are numerous ways to look at this. Which do you think? 1) One way is that this was an aberration and of course out of six games you're going to get a stinker, and we also got three turnovers which won the game for us. 2) Another way is this was a long time coming and we had been playing with fire the entire year, had gotten lucky and this was more the norm than the aberration from now on. We are good but not great. 3) Maybe it was just because they had a very good young first overall franchise QB, two great WR, two good TE, and a good RB and when they are on their game who could stop them. 4) Maybe a combination and the one thing we had been giving up the entire season was the soft short zone, and teams had a rather easy time throwing that kind of pass all year. But we had previously held up strong in the red zone and forced Fgs not TDs. And this game we just had a couple bad plays and missed coverages but they will be fixed and most games we will be like we were in 1-5. 5) We are great in pass defense with our starters but have no depth. When Gaines went out against the Bengals and again this week, our fourth guy isn't just not good enough and that's when we get into trouble. Maybe there are more. Personally I think it's mostly number two. We are good but not great. A good passing team easily makes short completions between the zone. We had been making a lot of timely plays and calls and we had only given up one TD pass in five games but that bubble was bound to burst. We have no depth. Poyer and Hyde have been playing out of their minds and if we lose Poyer for a game or two it will really show.

Everyone should listen to the Tre White interview. It's simultaneously ridiculous and inspiring. He's incredible, blaming himself for giving up the one score late even though it was a perfect pass and pattern and catch. He didn't give much credit to himself for the strip and the fumble recovery because he gave up a TD and thinks he should never give one up. Ever. It's pretty great. You gotta love that guy.

The offense scored 30 points and had 434 yards.

More of the pussification of the country. Whatever happened to fighting fire with fire?!

One of them. That's how bad we were. Interestingly, Thompson played against the Bucs for the Bears in week two. He caught four balls for 57 yards and a TD.

It's kind of surprising no team added him to his roster before us, which would have been in the top third in the league.

I was just kidding, obviously. Although, after the third week and starting with the fourth week of the season, the waiver wire goes from last year's record to the worst team's this year.

I'm calling bullschitt. If the Patriots wanted him they just ask and the league just awards them the guy. They could have him now if they wanted him.

You don't see the difference between what you just said, which is true, and only going into a game against a passing team, with four active CBs, one of whom wasn't even on your team three days earlier? And that guy gives up THREE huge plays late in the game, some of the very biggest in the game, and then you cut him two days later? You don't think that is substantially different than just second guessing an every day normal decision? It's WAY different. Before the Bengals game my friends and I were talking about it. How could they possibly go into this game with only three cornerbacks? Mabin was the fourth. Every team has five. You start three.

Not having Poyer would be a substantial disadvantage. He's been superb. Both Hyde and Poyer. Even with all of the easy passes completed against the soft zone over the course of the year, both safeties have been tremendous.

Unfortunately, the Bills play the Raiders with two good WR and a good big TE next Sunday and then four days later play the Jests. They don't have the players but it's still three days earlier than normal as far as recovery goes.

The monk starting himself on fire was a major element of the Vietnam War. If you don't learn from history...

I don't think anyone can not agree with the idea that we could easily be 6-0 as 2-4. All six have been pretty close games except maybe the opener. We lost the Bengals game in large part because of an insanely bad personnel decision by McBeane. They almost got burnt bad today for the same mistake, which they were lucky didn't bite them in the ass. They have been making a LOT of good decisions. I like them a lot and it shows. But not having NFL WR is a criminal shortcoming. Only having three or even four active NFL cornerbacks is a criminally bad decision. It cost them the game two weeks ago and the #4 guy they played they immediately cut. That shows how bad a decision it was. They did it again today only activating four corners. Everyone has five. Two got hurt. On one play they had to have Poyer playing CB because they only had four active. Luckily, Johnson came back and Poyer went back to safety. It could have been a disaster.

Agree on both. Glenn is a noticeablee difference. Milano not only looked like he belonged, but he looked a lot bigger than his height weight numbers. He could be a decent player.

I'm not sure about this, but I think that Thompson wasn't invited to the combine. He ran a 4.31 at his pro day, which has noticeably more favorable numbers for its players.

Or... you could say... why didn't they get an NFL receiver in here earlier? They took a guy off the street and immediately kept two of the other four WR inactive. That alone shows we were woefully ill prepared before.

Yup. Turnovers were listed right down the list. I took away the one turnover that wasn't Tyrod's and one turnover that wasn't Winston's fault when I got there. It was this list... under box score... http://www.espn.com/nfl/matchup?gameId=400951575

I was going down the team stats list. When I got to passing yards I added Tyrod's rushing yards. That's the reason.

True. The point was only that the Bills offensive production and the Bucs offensive production was almost identical. And it wasn't because the Bills had a great run game and the Bucs didn't. They were equal. And Winston had twice the weapons Tyrod had.

He was their best receiver in camp two years ago. Got hurt late in preseason which was likely the reason he was released. He was also with Tyrod in Baltimore. They know each other.