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"I shall go down like a man." There is something oddly unsettling about that phrase.

If Nate knocks the ball away in week one, and if Travis scores from the one yard line last week, & if the safety is called (all plays that DB had little or nothing to do with) we are 2-0. And on a high. Does DB REALLY look so bad then? Hmmmmm.... I'm not a Drew apologist, in fact I don't think he's playing well. But he's not the devil & he CERTAINLY is not the sole problem with this team! All I'm saying folks is let's maintain some perspective. Correct me if I'm wrong but Byron Leftwich & the Jags offense have worse stats - I wonder if Byron is taking the kind of sh-t DB is when he walks around town. GO BILLS - just win baby and all is forgiven.

The only thing that makes the Bills interesting to me as a football team (right now) is that they are a symbol of Buffalo. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't go out of my way to watch this particular team. If the Bills left Buffalo, I'd become a real casual football fan very quickly.

Is this Stevestojan making the point that people love Drew's work just because of his name? Is that like the Wallers thinking anything Stevestojan writes is worth reading? Quite an ironic post Steve.

All things considered if I was Ralph I would keep TD for his overall mgmt of the business. However, I would instruct him to stop trying to make headlines on draft day and just draft for need.

Gotta be practical - Bledsoe still gives us the best chance to win. Duh. Am looking forward to seeing JP though. Who wouldn't be? Hey, the difference between 0-2 and 2-0 this year is maybe 3-4 plays. And most of those had nothing to do with Drew.

Go Bill! Go Bills!

Belichick - No, players don't really matter much. Shanahan - wound tight as a drum and I like that. Gruden - ditto.

The fact that Willis is still on the bench is an indictment of TD, If we get that kind of production out of our high picks, we will be out of the playoffs forever and need a new GM.

I guess I could buy the argument that his forward progress was stopped but I remember TD's "scored" by other teams against us where they ruled a guy was NOT down as long as he was still on top of the pile. Anyone else remember that? Between that call and the non-safety call, it was a tough day of calls by the refs against us. BTW, neither of the holding calls against us on special teams would have affected those respective plays at all.

Based on ?

I'm not impressed by "sounding off" off the field. How about just making plays on it?

I was talking alot about it to MYSELF yesterday.

My biggest criticisms, and in a way they are related, are: 1) Drafting McGahee when we needed immediate help. 2) Barely addresing the OL in the draft & free agency.

I'm reminded of a quote from Albert Einstein, something like "Insanity is doing the same thing over & over again & expecting to see different results." I agree that it is not all Drew's fault, but, nonetheless, give the ball to JP. At least he has some scrambling ability, which we desperately need right now.

Losman = Elway

Oh, but I forgot the one thing MM does bring to our team - we finally got to see Moulds line up as QB. Nice 3-yard gain. Really fooled 'em MM! Brilliant!

Sue, I agree that there were a lot of drops (again). Moulds made a nice play on the TD but he consistently drops 2-3 catchable balls per game. And who was the bozo that dropped the short pass (would have neen a first down) on the play where Drew got creamed? The announcers never gave the name.

I didn't like the spot on Henry's dive play. I didn't like the "non-safety" call when the LT supposedly started holding the Bill (TKO?) at the 1/2 yard line. What kind of a joke call was that? Safety = 2 pts. Henry TD = 7 pts. Bills win 16-13

Drew, thanks for your service to the Bills, here's your gold watch & now clean out your locker. There's a new king in town & he's called JP. We need JP's scrambling ability, NOW.

"The 12TH man will pull it off for the bills." Like they did in week 1? Coming into the Ralph has nowhere near the mystique it once did. Can't wait to see more of the wave while we have the ball.

Hate to say I told you so but GW doesn't look so bad to me now. A few concerns I have about MM: 1) Maybe he's a cerebral-type coach but he projects no intensity. After the game he is congratulating Sapp with a big smile on his face. What the heck is that? A lovable loser like the second coming of Kay Stephenson. Give me Jon Gruden anyday. 2) 1st half, Kevin Thomas covers a punt, gets pushed out of bounds by several yards (he had to know he was out) and was the first man to (illegally) touch a punt that had died on the 2 or 3. Wasn't he instructed months ago that if you are forced out, you can't be the first guy touching the ball? The team is not prepared to play. 3) What is RASHAD BAKER doing playing nickel or dime? 4) DAIMON SHELTON is our answer at FB? Daimon, at least chip the blitzing LB on your way out of the backfield. Can someone tell him that please? 5) Onsides kick - we are looking for a high bounce so we can recover, right? So you would expect some tall dudes (Mark Campbell, etc.) over on the right side to win the jump ball. Insted, we put the game in the hands of - RASHAD BAKER - who halfheartedly lunges with his mighty 5'9" frame and the ball sails over him by 6 inches. MM, the honeymoon is over as far as I'm concerned.

Looked to me in reading MM's lips that he WAS asking Drew if he thought we should go for it? That said, it was the right call becuse our offense rarley sniffs the goal line & we needed 7.

Let's get this straight - I'm NOT a Drew appologist but let's understand that Gannon also has Lincoln Kennedy, Robert Gallery and a few other good dudes protecting him. On the postgame show, even Vic Carruci stated that for whatever reason guys just aren't getting open. Sure Drew can throw quicker, but most throws will be incompletions or interceptions if the guys aren't open. As for JP, he can either be hurt now (which he is of course), or hurt after a few plays behind this rickety OL.

Whew..