Crap Throwing Monkey

The game plan as near as I can figure it: 1. Receive kickoff. 2. ??????? 3. Profit.

Everyone was bad. Was there even a discernable game plan? A pass rush? Run support? Pass coverage? (McGee's going to spend the week in the ECMC burn ward, he was torched so badly.) A running game? A passing game? The only good thing about the game was that they didn't run the Mickey Mouse fake end around bull sh-- reverse !@#$tard play today. And that Losman, as much as he sucked (and he did suck, badly), he didn't seem all that rattled by it. He even took his benching pretty well, judging by how he came back out. But clearly, against a good defense his bad habits are going to get him eaten alive - he's lucky no one could hold on to the ball today, he should have had at least three passes picked off.

These would be the same GB backfield that couldn't catch a badly limping Randy Moss last year? No, I'm not entirely surprised Heiden could outrun them.

I tried. I simply have nothing to add. Great post. And the wife's a Bucs fan. We're not speaking at the moment.

What the hell does that even mean?

Bachelor's in Zoology?

A Mickey Mouse bull sh-- fake end-around !@#$tard reverse screen pass? No, wait...who'd be surprised?

I think I love you...

I'd be less prone to argue with that if they'd displayed a meaningful red zone offense last week. The third-best team in the league shouldn't be settling for chip-shot field goals.

She sounds like a prime candidate for being brainwashed into a cult. (Yeah, I know, she has been already: the liberals. )

That's actually been a standard for years. I remember years ago, for the roller-coaster riding record, the guy would stay on for four or six hours at a time, then use his accumulated 5-minute breaks to take a half-hour off for a meal and bathroom break...

Better than a John Madden spread. Even if his breasts are bigger...

'S okay. I posted it in large part because there's plenty of people who think that way, so your response isn't unwarranted...just so the people that need to read it, read it.

It was sarcasm.

Followed by... It's truly lovely the way you abandon your "get over it" philosophy in one sentence.

Yeah...but look who Culpepper's throwing to. Nate Burleson? Marcus Robinson? Losman may be years away from Culpepper's league...but his targets are years beyond Culpepper's. Ditto the running game...Michael Bennett vs. Willis McGahee? Culpepper's got a LONG season in front of him...I'd expect him to struggle against a good defense. THAT'S what scares me. Inexperienced QB, line like a sieve, rushes and stunts up the middle, Gandy blocking Rice? Ultimately, this'll probably come down to one thing: not individual match-ups and execution, but game-planning away from Tampa's strengths and Buffalo's weaknesses. If Mularkey and company do that well, the Bills have a good chance. If not...they don't.

Finally having read this whole thread... On the Fletcher/Spikes discussion: I don't know. I really don't. If I were pressed...I'd say Fletcher's better. Reason I'd say that is simple: Fletcher's production has been consistent through his tenure with the Bills with (2003-2004)or without (2002) Spikes. Ergo, while I can make a reasonable statement that Fletcher's play is not materially affected by Spikes' presence or absence, I cannot make the same statement about Spikes' play vis-a-vis Fletcher (though I don't believe Spikes would suffer in Fletcher's absence...but I have no objective support for that, it's just my opinion). As for the original topic of this thread - the best linebacker the Bills ever had - frankly, in the handful of games before he was injured, Sam Cowart was doing things that were leaving me speechless. I have never seen any other Bills' LB (or any LB other than Lawrence Taylor) completely dominate an entire offense as he did in the now-infamous Tampa game. On skill alone, ignoring longevity, I think Cowart was the best LB ever to wear a Bills uniform.

Actually, I think it was Spielman got hurt one Sunday...then Covington got hurt very shortly thereafter (a few days later in practice, if memory serves), which left the Bills with Holoceck in the middle and a surplus of capable interior linemen, prompting Wade Phillips to switch to a 4-3 mid-week just before the Miami game...in which Miami was pretty much slapped around for having game-planned for a 3-4 all week. That game's a pleasant memory. Covington...isn't. I remember seeing him in preseason as a rookie, flying all over the place and in on every play, and thinking "Too small, hell, this kid's a gamer." Was very proud to see I was right, and sad to see his career and life cut short...

I'm still not sure... ...and I still don't care. I don't have to know who it is to admire the view.

I could dispute whether or not that's really Jessica Alba... ...but honestly, does it matter?

And like I said...I want to see the text of the original. The analysis you linked to was pretty good...but it refutes your statements that Congress and not Bush put FEMA under DHS. Not saying you're wrong - hell, bills that go through Congress get written, rewritten, and generally stomped on so much through the legislative process that identifying a single point of responsibility for a single legislative line-item is a bogus exercise anyway. Just saying I want to see the original text.

Active today, you friggin' hobbit. No one's touched any other thread here today.

Actually... I read it just the opposite of what you're saying: the president's bill moved FEMA under DHS, but the provision was removed in House committee...obviously, to be reinstated before the floor vote. The real test of whether or not Bush wanted FEMA under DHS would be the original text of H.R. 5005, which I haven't yet located.

Not currently active ones, bozo.

Does it have to be current? Because I'll give Pizza Supreme in Clarence (at Harris Hill & Sheridan at the time) props for their pizza about 15-20 years ago...but it really started going downhill about 10 years ago. Don't know about now; haven't had it since I moved.