RJ (not THAT RJ)

It'S just you. Punt FG Punt Punt Three out of four, though.

Point taken... but after the last drive, people said "I hope they will throw more," and they did... I guess there is no pleasing everyone.

"dipshit" has to be one of my favorite insults... sounds so charmingly dismissive...

I see your point on D, and exempt you from my ribbing Istill have to chuckle, though, at Brother Faustus implying that they have not been running the ball..

It was fixed so Moorman could add to his gross and net averages---

Ah, time to start running.... six in a row was not enough "laying back?"

Wait... let me get this straight... When they run the ball into the middle six straight times, that is laying back... but if they throw the ball, they are getting cute and not eating enough clock....

So would I!

So, will six consecutive runs satisfy those who have been calling for the Bills to RUN RUN RUN?

Hey... is that the same LJ Shelton the Bills were so stupid for not signing?

Oh well, the Pats appear to have woken up.... Still, it is a great day. Go Bills!

Good for him, he can continue to catch passes in garbage time, and won't have to worry about any teammates doing anything offensive like score three touchdowns early in a game against a hated rival...

JDG.... I think your Losman meter needs adjustment... Why not let him start with a clean slate this year and see what the stats look like?

I suppose Eric M is happy that he chose to go to a team with a real chance to win... Oh, and Vince Young is 0 for 5..... And Marcia is melting down in the Meadowlands. What a day, what a day, what a day!!!

Amen to that... The 1970s alone make Miami the prime enemy... Forever!

I stand corrected. I was thinking of how the cap averaged signing bonuses, but the actual amounts of bonuses out of Ralph's pocket varies.... Or something like that.

In one sense, yes, it means Ralph is getting richer, because TV and other money is at whatever level it is, and the cap is calculated as a percentage of those dollars... But that is not to say that there is $8 million sitting in a vault somewhere labeled "Bills cap money" gathering dust. Since the cap is based on averages over the length of contracts, it takes more than just citing the cap number to say how much money Ralph is paying out to players this year. I will stop there, lest I confuse anyone (or myself) further...

2 TD's and a fumble for a TD....

Ah yes, the Rochester-Toronto Axis of Smugness. Where would poor Buffalonians be without those two beacons of civilization.... I'm kidding, and yes, I do agree that regionalization is the key to the future of the Bills, but anyone from the immediate BUF area knows from whence the joke arises... Go Bills!

This may be irrelevant to the thread, but I have to say, PG, that despite my occasional crankiness about your lengthy, typo-ridden posts (and those of your previous incarnations) that any person who also reveres The Great Escape is OK in my book. "Hilts.... Cooler." Go Bills!

Bill, I think you answered your own question. He appears to want to prove only that he was right, with no sense for the historical context and even less awareness of his own psychological tics.

We are in agreement there, that Bledsoe turned out to be a cruel dream, but just because we see it that way now does not mean that everyone saw things that way in 2002. I am not defending TD by any means, but I have little patience with those who assume that they are smarter than people in the past just because they happen to know what happened next. It is always easier to be smart in retrospect, once the returns are in. I had my doubts about DB all along, but have to say that the trade looked pretty good when the Bills were 5-3 and getting ready to face the 3-5 Pats at home. Afterward, well, that is another story...

Interesting thoughts, though I see some psychological tics are hard to shake. I love the subjunctive: "TD needed a quarterback, and I wouldn't have minded him using an early draft pick on a young one." Well, he did use such a pick. Does this mean you did not mind? Or do not mind? Or are not out of your mind? As for why he waited until 2004 to draft a young QB, two words: Drew Bledsoe. Although it is hard for us to remember/admit it, there were big hopes that DB solved the QB problem for several years to come. Some may claim to have known all along, but it was not until midway through 2003 that it was clear the time to draft a QB was sooner rather than later...

To add to this discussion, allow me to re-post something I added to another thread: .... really, people, do we think that Freddie has such a photographic memory that, deep in the bowels of the Pats training facility, he will divulge the entire Bills playbook? Please. I can see it now, dim lighting like in 24, Belichek and Freddie... BB: Now Fred, about the playbook FF: Um... yeah.... on this play, I was supposed to run fast down the field... BB: Good, good... *smirking as he makes notes* And on this play? FF: Um... yeah.... I was supposed to run fast down the field... BB: *cackling with evil glee* I knew it! Mwahahahahaha! And on punt returns? FF: Um... yeah.... I am supposed to run fast down the field... *Cut to commerical as the clock ticks toward opening day* If the Pats crush the Bills on Sunday, which is quite possible, it will not be because of Fast Freddie.

Right, because an experience veteran QB of the defense and a young, marginal WR/ST player have the same grasp of their team's approach....