Sen. John Blutarsky

I sat down and did some more math. We need to win both games, that makes Tennessee a worst case scenario 7-9 and Baltimore a worst case scenario 11-5 at the end of the year. Which makes our SOV 63-65 .492 Cincinnati must lose next week anyway so their SOV remains unchanged. For Baltimore's worst possible record to occur they must lose to Pittsburgh this week, Cincinnati would then beat Pittsburgh in week 17 making Pittsburgh 8-8. Cincinnati's SOV would then be 58-70 .453 If the Ravens beat Pittsburgh it makes the Bills' 64-64 and the Bengals' 57-71 Given that buffalo needs to win against two decent teams who can finish 7-9 and 11-5 at worst (8-8 and 11-4 at best) and that Cincinnati can ONLY beat a team who will be 8-8 at best that helps the Bills. Add the Baltimore/Pittsburgh game this week to your watch list, we want Baltimore to win because it helps us. Cincinnati split with the Ravens and will have to sweep Pittsburgh in this scenario. A Baltimore win this week will only help the Bengals one time as they have one win against them, a win against an 11 win team becomes a win against a 12 win team (which also helps us in the exact same way the following week since we play Balt. and must win so that increase cancels out) if the Steelers win it will help the Bengals twice because those two 7's for wins against Pittsburgh will become two 8's - also we don't play Pittsburgh at all so we get no benefit from it at all. Go Ravens. Any team you've beaten you want to win, if you've beaten them twice you really want them to win. And yes, you want Denver to win.

Right, but if we win out we'll have wins against teams with a minimum 18 combined wins, that won't hurt. it makes it much more unlikely that the Bengals can catch us. if we were playing Oakland or such the next two weeks it would be a bigger problem.

Not Amish, just old school, my wife's grandparents. Fundamentally opposed to paying for television, don't know how to operate a computer let alone own one, have a ROTARY phone...I swear to god, they have a rotary phone. They don't even live in the country, they live in Northeast Philadelphia. We bought them a DVD player two years ago, last year we found it still in the box because noone set it up for the poor people. My current lifeline is my mother sending me text msgs when something happens, non-stellar at best.

Bollocks...thanks for finding it though. Maybe I'll bring my laptop and hope a neighbor has a poorly secured wireless router. :-)

Anybody know if Westwood One is covering our game this week? Have to go to a house with no cable and no internet for christmas, hoping I can get radio ceverage at least.

Maybe you can watch it at Clint Eastwood's house...or the clubhouse at Pebble. :-)

Very pleasantly surprised, make that shocked. He's done an outstanding job, he hasn't needed much help to contain most of the Ds he's faced which had allowed our RBs and TEs to get back into the passing game, see Royal's results the last couple weeks. We could probably be a little better running to that side but I'll take solid pass pro from a rookie RT over roadgrading any day of the week. I still cast a wary eye at Preston as it seems that we either can't run that way or go to extremes to avoid it. of course Seattle basically did the same thing last year and killed peope only running left, I guess if you block it well enough it really doesn't matter. It sets up some killer misdirection as well since everyone now expects us to go that way.

I particulary enjoyed Beurlein's commentary re: Harrington and the weather. Something to the effect of, he went to college in Oregon so you know he can handle the rain. OK, follow this logic, the 3 years he spent in college playing 5 home games a year with a season that ENDS at Thanksgving outweigh the 3 years he spent in a DOME in Detroit plus this year in Florida. I think not. Oregon does not play in bad weather in December, they don't play AT ALL in December. Also, Harrington's signature collegiate performance was in the Fiesta Bowl...in Arizona...where it's excessively dry...

We can take New England, they're ripe for a pretty vicious beating...plus it'd be the 3rd meeting. Historically it's VERY difficult for a team to beat another team 3 times in the same season. This is a much different team than the one that played them before the bye week.

My God...I have to root for New England AND Miami in the same week...

During his early tenure...you mean when Dick LeBeau was on the staff...after Dick left our adjustments went to hell.

Gandy stays Fletcher stays for reasonable dollars (Spikes or Crowell can slide inside and Ellison has shown well and fits the scheme tremendously), Clements walks though I'd franchise him anyway then trade even if we don't get much because we have the cap space to afford that move (if Snyder and Greggo want him that bad they can give us something in return even if it's a #1 in '08)- you don't let assets walk for nothing, at least collect the pick. Serviceable DB's are available, particularly for zone defenses. Kelsay stays for reasonable dollars though I wouldn't be surprised if a 3-4 team makes a good offer for him and puts him at OLB. Isn't Kelsay restricted? If so make a qualifying offer and if someone wants to give up a #1 or #2 (depending on the size of our qualifier) take it. Again, assets don't walk away when you have the space to keep them. This is an important off-season, we need to be prudent with our cap space - I like Fletcher but he's an over 30 small, speed linebacker and we already have his replacement in the system. The end of his deal could be an albatross if we go too high and give him 4 or 5 years. I'd go three max. Clements is a nice player but he's not worth 10 mil per year, you can have two big upgrades at other positions for that amount of money. Gandy stays because he's not worth that much on the market and he's been good at LG, why look for another LG when we already have one who will be cheaper? Clements will get 10-12 per, Steinbach will get more than 4-maybe 5. Conservatively that's 14 million of cap space for two guys. I'd rather keep Gandy at 2 - 2.5 and take the other 12 million to look for a corner, a #2 WR, and veteran depth at tackle.

Running QB's killed us in the past because we played a lot of man to man. in man everyone is chasing their man, not looking at the QB. You have to waste a LB as a spy to keep an eye on the QB and it basically makes it a one on one matchup, the QB vs. your most athletic LB. Bad match-up if the QB is Vince Young or Mike Vick. This year we play lots of zone where everyone is looking into the backfield, there are more eyes on the QB and more people will react when he runs. All 3 LBs are looking back into the backfield instead of one, etc. Also, we are a faster defense than last season. Simpson and Whitner are faster than Milloy and Vincent, Ellison blows Posey away and our DTs can cover ground much more than Adams and Edwards. Look at Vick's career numbers against Tampa. Tampa DESTROYS Vick because they surround him with fast people and make him throw. If we make Young throw we win, period. Get Travis to lay it down once or twice (you KNOW he's overdue for that) and make Mr. Young beat us passing the ball.

I'm glad. Keep downplaying us, keep giving the guys external motivation...keep talking crap. I like it BETTER when we get no respect. People (like Dunta Robinson) talkd crap about Losman after he beat thier ass and that continued for several weeks. You now have people like Chris Mortenson who want to re-write history by saying that he hasn't heard anyone bash Losman outside of Buffalo, I haven't heard a bigger crock of crap in a long time. Losman got roundly bashed up until about last week. I for one want it to continue, keep telling us and yourself, that the Bills suck, keep looking ahead. I'll say it now, we're going to kick Tennessee's ace.

Right, but he was part of the crew who subjected us to the Jeff Wright Experience at NT was he not? Dickerson sooooo wants to be Buddy Ryan but soooooo isn't.

Candlesticks make a nice gift... Mickey (Burgess Meredith) from Rocky was good too...nothing like eating lightning and crapping thunder...

No way re: WR, it takes most WR's, even good ones, about 3 years to hit their stride. RB yes, CB yes, LB in general yes. OL, QB, and WR definetly not.

Yeah but it WAS Nate who got owned about 400 times more by Chris Chambers last year. I say pay him, he's good when he's motivated but he's shown that he stinks out loud when he's on a team going nowhere. he was at his best the second half of '04 when the whole team was fired up, he's been better the second half of this season than the first. he's a front runner. Gamble that we're on an uptick. The only arguement against this would be our defesive scheme. IF we can pick up a Rnde Barber for much less than Nate that migt make sense, you need a different CB in Cover 2, we played a lot of man before, not so much now. Different skill sets and Cover 2 corners can be cheaper because they don't have to run a 4.2. It's similar to 3-4 OLB compared to 4-3 OLB, different guys, different price tags.

Also, Joe Dufek, Billy Joe Hobert and Vince Ferragamo are QBing my team to the promised land...

I like this but, Terry Miller at least ran for 1,000 yards once-I'd sub in Ronnie Harmon. There is no way Jerry Crafts and Mo Eliwonibi aren't 1,000 times worse than Fina.

True, they have an extra blowhole...

For our bretheren worldwide... !Miami chupa! Miami suce! Miami saugt! Il Miami succhia! Miami zuigt! O Miami chupa! Майами сосет! Miami suger!

Yeah, it'll probably round up it's horse cavalry for a charge at the Panzers...either that or ornament it's yard with plastic flamingos while drinking a cream ale while sitting in its screened in garage (Polish porch), or buy a new screen door for it's submarine...

I'm 50% Norwegian, 37.5 percent Polish, 12.5 percent Welsh, and no, I don't run like a Welshman. My wife is 50% Italian and 50% Irish. We figure our kid is basically first generation American because there isn't a dominant heritage. 25% Norwegian, 25% Italian, 25% Irish, 18.75 percent Polish, 6.25 percent Welsh So i guess you could say he's Northern European, barely.

This is the starting 22 and ST These players are selected at the best they ever wwere, not as a whole career per se, hence McKellar, he was a beast before he got hurt. QB- Jim Kelly RB- OJ Simpson FB- Jim Braxton WR- Elbert Dubenion WR- Andre Reed TE- Keith McKellar OL- The Electric Co. minus Montler plus Kent Hull For defense I will play a 3-4 as the Bills have been a 3-4 team for the majority of their existence. DE- Bruce Smith NT- Ted Washington DE- Phil Hansen OLB- Cornelius Bennett ILB- Chris Spielman ILB- Sam Cowart OLB- Mike Stratton CB- Robert James S- Jeff Nixon S- George Saimes CB- Nate Odomes K- Steve Christie P- Brian Moorman LS- Adam Lingner ST- Steve Tasker - don't discount Jason Peters in this role either, our ST ruled he year he was both on the wedge and wedge buster, he also blocked a punt that year. KR- Terrence McGee PR- Roscoe Parrish - I toyed with Clements but he fumbled too much