The Senator

Yo'ur now on double secret probation.

15 and 4 baby!!! GO BILLSSS!!!! REVERSE THE CURSE!!!!!

New math: 2 and 0 > 1 and 4

We we're?

Johnny Brewster

Personally, I prefer my old Chevy - it's so big I can take 'em out by the dozen, and don't have to worry about dents... link

Tough childhood, eh? Home Video - Rkfast - "The Early Years"

guess this guy wasn't wearing his fuchsia tough-guy lycra...

Finally someone understands the problem - that's exactly what he'd* do with Edwards, because Belicheat* knows the difference between a pro quarterback and a... pro bowler

I can almost hear the "heated confrontation" - MIKE BRYANT: Outa my way, you goofy looking candy ass, or I'll take you out DEAD CYCLIST: Oh no you won't, tough guy - I can handle a 15% hill with switchbacks at 45 MPH - you think I cant dodge out of YOUR way? LOL. MIKE BRYANT: Have an ass full of fenders, moron - now let go of my car DEAD CYCLIST: No - I'll MAKE you slow down, and there's nothing you can do, pathetic loser. One false move and I'm reaching for my 'celly' to forward a picture or you and your plate #, which I can do in less than 10 seconds MIKE BRYANT: Ha! You'll be dead in less than 5. Who the !@#$ says 'celly' anyway? What a wuss. LOL.

Yeah, methinks FatBoy lost more than a few ProBowl votes last nite... Why are 300-pound dudes diving at other people's knees? I hope Juan Castillo gives his offensive line a nice talking-to about the lame attempts to upend the Redskins defensive linemen. For Jason Peters to do that (and surrender a vicious sack) is pretty unacceptable. For Herremans to do it against Haynesworth was really just an act of desperation, but still. This doesn't look like an Eagles offensive line right now. Not the brand to which we've become accustomed. link

Hmmm - great question...how 'bout letting him start a 2nd game, and we'll see.

One 'rule-of-thumb' says to always take the home 'dog with the points - I like that rule this week. Coming off back-to-back road wins, a pumped up RWS crowd goes wild for Fitzpatrick's first home start, as TO finally demonstrates why we signed him... BuffTown Bills 33 Houston Texans 10 15 and 4 baby!!! GO BILLSSS!!!! REVERSE THE CURSE!!!!!

I am sorry Simon - I do not wish to be argumentative, but you excluded Edwards' numbers from the Jets game (ZERO attempts 'downfield'). Also, by virtue of your statement... ...you did indeed extrapolate, since Fitzpatrick has only started one game compared to Edwards' 6. So here's what I've been able to garner from this thread thus far: 1) A 'downfield shot' is defined as a pass over 15 yards; 2) Extremely small samples, no matter how insignificant, are apparently still statistically valid; 3) Trent's numbers from the Jets game were not included in the original analysis. Now since small samples are apparently valid, if we were to include Trent's performance in the Jets game and isolate on just those numbers, he was 5/5, his longest attempt/completion being for 12 yards. Ergo, ipso facto, hocus pocus - were we to extrapolate that over an entire game, Trent would not have thrown a single 'downfield shot; if we were to further extrapolate that over an entire season, same result - Trent Edwards would not be throwing any 'downfield shots' over 15 yards this entire season. Conversely, using the same game - just to be 100% fair - Fitzpatrick made 5 'downfield attempts in the 3 quarters he played. Extrapolate that over an entire season, and Fitz would have taken 106.7 'downfield shots' to Edwards' ZERO attempts downfield - a quite significant difference! (Or, as my good friend 'The Dean' would say, if you torture the numbers long enough, they'll confess to anything. ) Therefore, we sometimes have to 'follow our gut', and realize that we were 1-4 with Edwards as our QB - failing to score a TD at home against both the Saints and the win-less Browns, while with Fitz as our QB, we're 2-0 on the road. Clearly, many feel they've seen enough of Edwards in his 3 years of starts. We know who he is and what he can and can't - or won't - do, while Fitz is an unknown that may have some 'intangibles' Edwards lacks, who will take advantage of the offensive weapons we have, and whom we'd like to take for a 'test drive' before the rest of our season goes down the tubes. JMO - and as always, I reserve the right to change my mind completely and deny all of this, should I be wrong

You want protection, you gotta pay extra.

Filibusters

Injury Report - Washington Redskins vs Philadelphia Eagles: Jason Peters, Questionable (Knee/Ankle) (Might as well throw in a quad, a groin, and a brain-sprain as well.)

Mike Leach: "Holding things together from one week to the next is a struggle. If it was easy, anybody could do it. If it was easy, I’d be coaching the Swedish Bikini Team and have them coming out here to do this. We pound on Kansas State, so A&M looks at the film all week. Well, the first thing we do is we go in our meeting and we talk about we're going to respect everyone; we're going to fear no one. We're not going to compare scores and we're not going to listen to our fat little girlfriends. But in the back of our minds as coaches and in the back of our minds as players, well, ha-ha-ha, he-he-he, we pounded Kansas State. Kansas State pounded A&M. So therefore, we're really going to pound Texas A&M. It goes all the way around. It was a poor coaching job and a poor job playing at every position. We didn't have any gladiators out there that played way above themselves.” vs. Dick Jauron: "It's hard to win. We worked hard all week, and looked great in practice. The guys try, but it's hard - really hard - to win in the NFL."

Yeah I know that - that's why we need to let the Chiefs convert a 4th - once that happens, the Cheatriettes* can't convert the following week 'cause the counter reverts back to zero again. Geez, don't you understand math?

Not a problem - we just need to let the Chiefs convert a fourth down, and the counter goes right back to zero.

But now that we let that one slip, the counter goes back to zero. That's how statistics work.

Then there's George Wilson, who had 10 tackles and another interception in Whitner's stead. It's a wonderful thing when "The Senator" plays well, because it justifies allowing him to launch into his postgame oratories. Link - Sullivan: Resilient Bills 'D' has what it takes away to win The Senator always gives his best, Jerry.

Roger Dorn: "It was out of my reach...what do you want me to do...dive for it?" (and thanks for that avatar )

The OC needs to be... Mike Leach

For all those that think Trent's an NFL starting QB, please pass the LSD. Guy's had 3 seasons to prove himself as an NFL starter - and, BTW, has only completed one full season in the past 9 years. Edwards is an indecisive, injury-prone marshmallow who'll likely be working for my buddies at Synopsis again when his Bills contract is up.