Bob in STL

Carrington blows

Fitz throws to no buddy according to the tasking heads.

Fred Belitnikoff and three cans of stick'em would help this team.

The best thing is we are already in. the second quarter .... Rivers is keeping that clock moving.

Did the play calling tell Fitz to throw five yards short into triple coverage? I hold Fitz accountable. We needed two yards.

Ask Buddy Nix.

Sheppard, Scott, Wilson. We have no match for Gates. Only a pass rush would help.

we really missed freddy on that drive.

Do you miss three quarters of the game

Our defense will adjust once we fall too far behind to catch up

Agre on Bell but I would hardly call Hairston an excellent candidate at LT. To me Hairston looks like an excellent candidate to replace Pears at RT. We need to bring in another tackle whether Bell stays or not. Yup. I think they think Hairston can do the job at LT. Hmmm.

Maybe not a bad idea but how about really getting some top talent for LT? Demetrius Bell was playing very good football. He is a free agent after this season. It will be interesting to see what the Bills do. History says they let him walk and try to develop the next raw prospect on the cheap. The wheels keep spinning and the rut gets deeper.

Revisionist history. 1. Chan is known for giving EVERY player a shot. He has done that in both preseasons thus far. Maybin did not impress anyone, ever. 2. Maybin was cut buy the Jets too. He was lster called back only after injury. Call it good fortune by the Jets. If Maybin was a Bill he would most like have zero sacks. Especially playing in this system and with a weak front 7.

True. I think its the relatively low ticket prices that attracts the rowdies. I actually get a kick out of rabid fans. Whenever I sit in the upper deck I am sure to see and hear some crazy suff.

Got to admit, I read about the cap issue after I posted. Still... I cannot see Polian passing on Luck. I also saw Manning as a team player. I thought that if they can get by the cap issues and Manning gets healthy then Luck holds the clipboard. Now, after reading the article about Archie I guess I will end up wrong on my initial assessment. Thinking back to when Eli was drafted, Daddy Archie seems to take great interest in the careers of the Manning boys. I can only be an expert on one team so make that the Bills.

Both will be in Indy and Luck will learn from the best. They will use the Farve-Rogers model that Green Bay had, no need to rush Luck into the games unless they have too. Who wouldn't?

Thanks SJBF. Injuries happen to all teams. Overcomming injuries requires depth and leadership, and I will even throw in a bit of luck too. Nix said it himself back in the first month. He stated that we went into the season very thin (depthwise). Given that Nix knows that I already, we can assume that his management is making him operate far below the salary cap. I am not an advocate to spend foolishly on other teams retreads but I think most people would agree that there were players out there that could have helped us AND we could still be developing our young while. It will be interesting to see how Demetrius Bell is handled. Our last two starting LTs (Peters and Bell) were both low priced acquisitions that we developed ourselves, as is Hairston right now. Last year they were willing to offer big money for a right tackle. Will they look to free agency again or will they offer Bell a decent raise? Will they hand the job to Hairston or will they sign Bell and have a legitimate competion between them? Will they draft a LT in round 1 when the most pressing need appears to be a pass rusher?

My experience says you just never know which ones are amazing. Do not discount the quieter polite ones either.

It is not so much Hangartner the player that irks me. It is the approach. I know Hangartner is not very good and I am not asking for four deep. Our backup OL had almost no experience across the board. Rhinehart is a decent backup but cannot play center. There was no proven center on the roster aftger Wood (and he is a first year NFL center coming off of a major injury), not one guy that consistently snapped the ball in college or in practice. There was no NFL game experience for the backup OTs. Sounds like a bad recipe to me? Hairston is better than Wrotto and Howard. Good news for us. What would those games have been like if it did not work out that way? Hairston bailed Nix out. So far we squeaked through the year on OL. I suspect the Bills will let Bell walk in the off season. Lets see what moves Buddy will make. I will be watching.

Good point. My bad. I am irritated at Nix and the entire FO for this glacier-like approach to rebuilding. Yes, We would have won more with less injuries. No doubt.

No experienced veteran depth on the OL, at WR, or at OLB. Not to mention QB ans TE. Yes, I expect more. BTW -- At the start of the season Davis and Edwards were starters, not backups. That leaves three players on your list of experienced back ups. Pathetic, even for a perenially rebuilding team. Morrison is a vet backup, probabaly will not be around next season Scott has a roll on the team, no complaints. Spencer was a back up DE that is now starting at OLB .... that is a big problem. I do not expect ANY team to weather all the injuroies we had. I do expect better preparation by our front office to this team at a least a fighting chance. Explain not spending to cap to shore this up just a little bit?

I have been to about 12 pro football stadiums. If I had to generalize things I would say that Buffalo Bills fans would be the worst behaved of the bunch. I think your chances of running into a drunken person and having an issue is more likely at the Ralph than at most places. Not that I have been to every stadium, this is from my limited sample. I have been going to the Ralph since it opened. I went a lot with my friends back when I was in college (the Knox era) and I thought we were pretty wild back then. We were nothing like today. We did not subject our "good time" onto everyone around us. That said, I still go to the Ralph twice a year and have taken my sons with me many times while they were growing up. When my two sons were young (before high school) they would laugh at the profanity and crazy behavior. Now they are in college and they understand that Bills games at the Ralph are crazier than "normal". There is still a lot to love about going to a Bills game but when you go you need to be prepared. Buffalo fans have a reputation for being rowdy. My opinion is that Bills games are getting worse each year.

Her being a smoker is a turn off to me right there. With my asthma problems I cannot be around cigarettes for very long. Being outside I would not have said anytrhing about it though. Back to that girl. Her lack of sesitivity is a major problem, toss in the profanity, the hitting, her willingness to take advantage of the situation. Yes, what a lucky guy. NOT.

Great, anaother thread on hypotheticals that can never be proven. One clear fact is that Buddy Nix went into this season with no experienced, veteran depth. Curious decisions were made to not bring in more OLB help, to cut Jeff Hangartner, to trade Lee Evans. and to start the season with a rookie (Hairston) as the swing OT. Those decisions are on Buddy Nix. We are $20M under the salary cap - that decision is on Ralph, Overdorf, and Littman. Injuries are part of the game. Yes, we would be a better team if all of our starters were still in the he line up. Sorry, not gonna play "what if".

Completely imcompetent post is more like it. You actually think that Ralph was ever more knowledgeable and comptetent than Al Davis? Funny, I just don't recall Ralph coaching any football teams, or being a GM, or being the AFL league commisioner, or winning any superbowls for that matter. You respect Ralph for "being a well-deserved Hall of Famer" ... and this is how you treat people you respect. We know that Ralph is old. We know that Ralph relies heavily on his "inner circle" and that most of the time these men are not football men. Must we continue to post this hateful stuff about the old man?