Simon

f'in A right

regardless of the outcome Im glad its going to end like this instead of how it went the last drive

wtf?!

paying back karmic debt for the Oiler comeback.....

The OLine predictably ended the Bills season

Your offense is suddenly DiMarco and Gore? Daboll is the ultimate 6 day a week coach

Awesome set from Freazier

Goooooaaallllllllll!!!

Was it Trent?

Tre is going to ring up a Ron Hextall before this is over

Josh checking in to a big Frank carry!

Did you see Ed Oliver trying to drag him uop off the ground and get him going?

Spy sack!

Tha't on his co-ordinator. McD managed them to the edge of the red zone with :30 and a TO left. He was fine until his OC pulled a Daboll.

I think Daboll is good 6 days a week but damn does he come up samll on some huge downs around the red zone

Very well managed possession from Coach

Those were two enormous catches though...

Even when they're throwing combos at him, he's still fouling up their offense. They're going to have to spend a lot of doubles on him the rest of the day.

If it was your thread I'd probably honor your request. But since I can't imagine taking the time to open one of your threads, I suppose we'll never know....

Of course they want to win and of course they tried to win; they just did so with a particular set of parameters in mind. There's nothing tin foily about protecting yourself in a meaningless game

The Bills knew darned well that game had virtually no meaning to them other than the potential to be a nuisance to the *Pats. They're the #5 seed and that's the way it was going to be regardless of what happened on Saturday. With that in mind I think they entered that game wanting to accomplish three things: 1) Nobody gets hurt 2) Don't put anything on tape 3) Don't turn the ball over on offense, play some bendy defense to shorten the game and if they're hanging around late, see if 4thqrtr Josh can steal a game you have no business winning. How did it go? 1) Aside from Morse with a minor gimp late and Allen continuing to take a couple more shots than he needs to, they got it right. Mission Accomplished 2) I wish they hadn't kept going back to their TE's when they needed a play; that might be the only area where the *Pats defense doesn't excel and I'd have rather they kept that stuff completely out of the gameplan in case they see these guys again in 3 weeks. And Daboll needs to knock off the gambit where he's setting up a play by going off-tackle to the same side on the previous down; if it's getting predictable to some guy sitting at home on his couch, a smart backer is going to take one away in the redzone in a playoff game when he tries it again. So knock it off, Brian. But for the most part they got this one right too. Mission Accomplished 3) They didn't turn it over, they shortened the game and kept it close late and 4th qrtr Josh was about 6" from giving them a shot at a 2pt conversion to steal a game they had no business winning. Mission Accomplished I don't think anybody in the locker was crying in their beers after that game, and I don't think anybody around here needs to be either. In fact, I wouldn't be stunned to see the exact same "gameplan" next week. If the Bills come out half-stepping and the game vs the Jets turns out to be a loss that looks suspiciously similar to the one they took yesterday, I'm not going to worry about it and neither should you.

We don't always agree but it's clear that John has spent enough time on a ballfield to know how things work. I posted the same thing after the game yesterday:

I was wondering if they were so confident that they are going to beat Houston that they didn't want to show any of their cards to a team they think they'll be playing again in a few weeks

He tried to trip Oliver earlier after he'd planted him. When Ed's got some veteran presence he'll learn to take the opportunity to step on his hand when offered the opportunity.

That was his worst game as a Bill by an order of magnitude Seeing a typically smart player that lost all night long was just bizarre