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This one from a couple weeks ago should do. Tom Donahoe: Our biggest problems to date have been inconsistency on both sides of the ball. Many of our problems defensively have resulted from poor tackling. Offensively we have shown flashes of the ability to move the ball and control the clock. What we have to strive for is to develop more consistency as a football team.

2 more plays, 9 seconds, COME ON NO!!!

NE sure dominated this one, NO 22 yards from OT, 15 seconds left.

Way to start out NO...... We could really use this game

Hey I went out on a limb and said The Saints could pull the upset, if I'm wrong tell me I'm crazy tommorow, but NO will be in this game.

Dude better then listening to the ESPN crew, or Madden.

Anybody else love these announcers? Entertaining, and precise, I would love having them do NFL games. "Fresno State the Madonna’s of college football"

Reggie Bush is a modern day Gale Sayers, they look almost identical in the way they run.

That would be pretty awesome. I didn't think it could happen a couple weeks ago but Fresno State came to play against USC. It's still REALLY early but Fresno has the champs on the ropes.

Good game Buckeye Mike, looks like this thing is coming down to a chip shot FG. Nice prevent Michigan Edit: Ohio State just scored a TD, nevermind

Na lived 20 minutes from Ann Arbor most my life. I'm basically just an obsessed Bills fans, but college football is much more entertaining to me then any game outside the Bills. When it comes down to Michigan/Ohio State it's a battle of state pride as much as football.

GO BLUE!!! Signed, Stuck in Ohio

Check out the Patriots depth chart........... Both Tackles Out Center Out 3 out of 4 RB's out, including Dillon Troy Brown, Bethal Johnson, David Givens, Tim Dwight, all banged up, some out Graham Banged up, Watson Banged up 3 CB's out, SS out The Patriots offense has carried them all year, now they sustained even more injuries last week losing Koppen, a very good C. The Patriots are without three starters on the offensive line, several at WR, and is starting a FB at RB this week. If the Saints don't implode they will be in this game for 60 minutes.

I thought for awhile that the Patriots would turn it around but it's now apparent they're no longer the same team. They should have lost to us, and just last week needed a last second victory to beat Miami. The Patriots used to just overcome injuries, and everything else, but not anymore. They play run defense almost as bad as us, and are starting street FA in the secondary. Also can anybody tell me who their starting RB is? This team is extremely vulnerable, and is ripe for an upset by a team that comes to play. Enter the much maligned New Orleans Saints off the bye. This is a team that we all know can play well, but just lacks consistency. The schedule they've had to deal with due to Katrina was really hurting them prior to the bye, and it was clear they needed the extra week off. Joe Horn is healthy, Daunte Stallworth will play, and Antowain Smith will be taking on his former team (we all know a motivated Antowain is a solid player). The Patriots get Seymour back but will that be a cure all for the run defense? Either way I bet the Saints give them a game, and might just pull the upset of the weekend.

Levi Jones was picked 10th, Dwight Freeney at 11th, and Ed Reed 24th. At the time most thought Jones and Freeney would go much later then those picks, and not one NFL team took Reed all the way until the 24th pick. TD doesn't have the luxury of waiting 3 years to see what the true value of the players turned out to be, The Bills, and the rest of the league must place value on selections before they see them play in the NFL. It just so happens that TD, and the rest of the league valued Jones, Freeney, and Reed at those slots based on what they had to go with. Using value based on hindsight is an easy game, but it just doesn’t work like that, if it did we would see no busts, and Tom Brady would have been pick #1 in 2000 instead of pick #199.

Exactly, this place would of lost it

I give us a much better shot against Carolina at home then this week. They have the lowest yards per carry average in the NFL, and Nate should be able to match up against Steve Smith. It should however be the normal struggle for the offense to get going.

Point is none of those players had the value of a top 5 pick at the time, and had TD traded down what guarantee did we have three years ago with any of the players mentioned? It's easy to use hindsight and say he made a mistake because we know how the draft paned out, but back then nobody looked at it as a mistake, not even a critic like Jerry Sullivan.

The Native American translation of Cold Pizza is The View.

That has an effect from say November on but I bet Buffalo still ranks in the top 5 during the warm months, especially since the warm months signal the start of football. The Bills just have an obsessed fan base

For those in favor of Hali let me make a case against drafting a DE end this year. Right now we have Kelsey, and Schobel, two serviceable DE that will get you around a dozen sacks per year. I'm not saying these guys are all world, but they're not getting us beat like DT has. The FA DT market is not overflowing with talent either, but we might be able to get 1 DT that way. Currently we need 1 offensive line eating DT, and a motivated Sam Adams to have any chance against the run. While under contract next season, Sam's future is not clear in Buffalo, and even if he plays next year he's not getting any younger. The fact is we might need 2 new DT's as early as next season, and will certainly need them by 2007. Hard not to like Tamba Hali, but I just see more pressing needs. I've been a big advocate of Haloti Ngata for over a month, for those that haven't seen my bazillion posts on him he's Oregon’s standout DT. He goes about 365, and his known for being double and triple teamed threwout his college career. He also runs a 4.8, and blocks kicks better then any DT in the nation. I just see Ngata becoming the offensive lineman eating DT in the run game, and that interior pass rusher we haven't had in years. That would have an immediate impact on our entire defense, and if the offense meshes as 2005 winds down we might just have a legit chance at the East next year.

I'm pissed we wasted the highest pick in a long time on Mike Williams, and subsequently TD should get graded down for this selection, but it's laughable that he should be hanged because of this one draft pick. At the time TD had 3 options, Williams, McKinnie, or a trade down. Now I enjoy the armchair GM role, and obviously about half the wall does also, but of those three options two of them wouldn't have met the Walls talent to cost ratio, and a trade down held no guarantees. I criticize TD all the time, but unlike Jerry Sullivan I try not to do it in hindsight because TD doesn't have that luxury. TD deserves blame for plenty of decisions that seemed questionable at the time, let's stick to those instead of blasting him for a move 90% of the GM's would have made given the circumstances.

It's about 150$ or so, but I'm sure you get a better deal on the early bird special. I agree that the ticket more then makes up for it's cost in entertainment value. I'd pay 500$ to watch every Bills game as opposed to 2 or 3 games broadcasted in Ohio.

To bad they don't play football on a track, that's why Indianpolis is a much better indication of speed as it relates to football.

Stones Rock!! Last year my girlfriend got me a photo signed by the entire band, best gift of the year. This is funny; the post I spent the least time thinking about in my wall history got more posts then any others. I blame TD.