RuntheDamnBall

Could. watch. all. day.

Get over it.

YES. I've been beating this drum for awhile. An upgrade is needed there more than just about anywhere. It will also make EJ look a lot better.

I think when this defense is clicking, Pettine has these guys having FUN. It sounds silly but it makes a difference.

Maybe, but I'll take Dick Lebeau against a rookie QB 9 times out of 10.

If you want to look at that line and suggest that Rex was able to stop EJ, be my guest. Look, anytime their guy turns it over 4 times and you don't, you're likelier to win, but I think we saw why EJ was rated highly today, and again, in bad weather.

I did just tear down the goalposts in my living room this afternoon. I should take off my rose colored kool aid googles.

Dude, he schooled a Rex Ryan defense after completely sh---ing the bed last week and against Rex last time. In bad weather. Does he have to fart rainbows and lower your mortgage interest rate to impress you? WTF?

I don't see it. It would cost more than a first and Byrd, IMO, plus he costs a good deal of money. Also, it sounds like the trade rumors are nothing more than that -- rumors. Unless he hates Haley's guts, I can't see why a guy who could probably orchestrate a trade to greener pastures would come to WNY.

What a game. What is says to me is they've got to at least wonder if they're as far away as they've thought. When they face some adversity, we'll see how the guys like Staff and Myers respond -- and how Nolan addresses it. That'll be the true test, I think. They have too much raw talent to have been this bad, but they need to play as a team. Last night was the first time I've seen that for a full 60 minutes... in I don't know how long.

All interesting stuff. And yeah, I don't recall him being all-world at USC. He was a fourth round pick after all. The biggest strike against Johnson was (sound familiar?) one not of his own making. Trading for him (and surrendering the #9 overall pick) turned out to be a franchise-altering decision. The player is almost always going to bear the brunt of fans' frustrations with such a move if it doesn't work out.

Fair enough, and look, some posters that I like and respect a LOT disagree with me on this and on Flutie. I just think we get this "Flutie curse" thing coming up every year -- and I know it's generally tongue in cheek. I just don't think anything new is discovered in these conversations and it's just another way for many of us on either side to get embroiled in negativity - you're right that I needn't participate if it bothers me so much. I had read the Bucky column and knew about it before. It informed my own opinion, though I look at it now on a journalistic level and it is pretty bare - lots of "people on the inside know X." Right now I think the only interesting thing that could come out of it is for a really good writer to get guys to go on record as to what went wrong and make a fascinating book about the drama. Till then, I think we're all just camped out in particular sites of opinion. Also note that these "curse" posts don't usually come up at the start of the season (honeymoon period for a new team) or after a win (the dogs are called off). In addition, I started a joke one about how the real curse was the move of training camp from Fredonia, so I know it's all in good fun. I just want it to be fun. Just my observations.

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Ok. I assure you the people in my section cheered as RJ got levelled. This whole situation was toxic and as a Bills fan I am (perhaps only mildly) surprised that some Bills fans want to relive it to pursue some revisionist-history fantasies. The past ain't gonna change.

The moment... is better than the last 14 years. It's all we have. I was at a game against NE where the weather was awful. Just cold and rainy/sleety and getting worse all game (we got into a scary spin-out on some black ice on I-90 on the way home - got lucky). RJ started and was terrible. He got injured... Flutie fans cheered. I'll never forget that - about his supporters. I know that this is a physical game, but when we let the game make us as fans cease to act human, I turn it off.

Add a game on Tuesday mornings.

The true curse of Flutie is that he has obviously kept many Bills fans living in the past. Turn the page.

Thank you.

First point is: give the guy a giant target who can catch and outrun everybody (can't be covered), and EJ might find a comfort zone. I am not saying he isn't missing open receivers, but he's basically outfitted with two smurfs, SJ, Chandler who is fine when he isn't dropping the ball or getting penalized, and running backs that the OC refuses to call passes to. To your point: No, but it's no less likely that this QB is a grower and needs some time, especially in light of injury. Either way, we'll find out.

I think they haven't had enough excellent players during this drought. Moulds, maybe. Evans, meh. Good RBs. Pre-injury Spikes. Fletcher. I think the list might be under 10. I'm prepared to give this QB a great team to see. This line looks better than any that some of the past QBs had. Give this team Jimmy Graham and it might have made the playoffs no matter who was at QB.

I would call losing out on a position that the Bills never seem to address, which has become way more important in this league, a big loss. But yes, we have to see what kind of progress he makes. Here's hoping.

Possibly. Or Flutie could have sh-- the bed on the road one of the next two games like he did in Miami. Or Peyton could have rewritten history. Remember that the Jags were excellent that year and the Titans had been the only team to beat them (twice). DOUG FLUTIE HAS AS MANY PLAYOFF WINS AS ROB JOHNSON, PEOPLE.

They are saying we were going to the Super Bowl with him, which is... a stretch.