RuntheDamnBall

Scottenheimer >>> Mularkey

I appreciate the same. I feel like, and maybe I'm wrong here, but it's a small segment of people who want to ban hunting. Personally, I think deer hunting in particular is pretty necessary here in NY state. And I think it's important to be conscious of the fact that people have hunted for survival for ages. It's not to be frowned upon and is actually about as ecological and self-responsible as it gets, considering there is so much less in the chain between the production of the food and the consumption. As long as hunting is done with respect for nature -- and I am not close enough to it to really know how people act these days -- I am absolutely cool with it. That means preserving the young of a species so it can live on, and taking care of the natural resources you use while hunting so that future hunters can enjoy the same nature you can. And I'm less supportive of hunting for sport (I view it as waste), but as long as it's not a protected species I am ok with that too. Any militant vegans out there would do better to focus their time on banning factory cattle farming, anyhow. That uses a hell of a lot more resources and is far less humane. That's another argument for another day. So what about fries?

Different people, liberal and conservative, want to regulate different things, and let's not kid ourselves here. There are liberals who want less restrictions on marijuana, birth control, abortion rights, and more restrictions on ownership of media, for example. This is where I'm coming from. Vice versa for a lot of so-called conservatives who "want the government out of your life®."* *Offer not applicable for social choices and strictly related to matters of the pocketbook. I enjoy going to a restaurant and not smelling like smoke -- all the same, I do think a business owner has a right to choose how to run his business to a point and I'm not sure about these laws -- actually, I'm definitely sure that a law against trans fats is patently stupid -- as it's about a one to one relationship btw customer and patron. Smoking at least can be argued to be harmful to a multitude of people, so I understand the argument, even if I don't necessarily support it. This one's just crazy, though. Bill, I think what BlueFire is trying to say is don't paint us all with the same brush. When you do, you might be alienating people who actually agree with you (or might be swayed to your case) by prefacing it always with "those damn liberals" who are responsible for life's ills... when it's actually just a body of a certain few who do not necessarily represent the whole.

Thank you for that.

Now there is some logic. Let's see fans, can we handle 24 Super Bowl losses in a row? I think the physical city of Buffalo would probably implode if our Bills lost even just another 4 in a row.

Food for thought: Jimbo's clip for 1987 (NFL season #2 after two USFL campaigns) was 250-419 / 59.7% COMP / 2798 yds / 6.7 YPA / 19 TDs / 11 INTs / RAT 83.8 JP in 2006 projects to 256-421 / 3067yds / 60.8% COMP / 7.28 YPA / 11 TDs / 5 INTs / RAT 86.2 JP will probably have more TDs and INTs with more expected of him as the season wears on. Likely more yardage, too, though that's anybody's guess. Other than those low numbers for each, his stats look comparable to Kelly's 12 game 1987 season. Bear in mind this is Jim Kelly with three years of professional football under his belt, compared to Losman who has half of one season on the field behind him. Think about it.

Now now, Bill. There are still a few of us throwbacks left.

I meant Bledsoe as a Bill. Not for the duration of his career. The other side of the Flutie coin is that he had a superb defense working for him and was markedly ineffective in his second year with the Bills. I'm glad we both want to see the Bills succeed. And I do think that part of JP's problem is the weight of what TD gave up for him and the way in which he and Mularkey completely botched everything last year. Neither of these are his fault. He's got a long ways to go but I like the improvement I'm seeing. I'll point to Lori's note that Kelly was 25 (!) when he came here. Not to be forgotten, I think.

What was the team's potential with either of those two, Bill? Nobody's saying JP's great yet. They're saying he has the potential to be greater than those two. For our team, right now, JP is definitely better than what either of those QBs had to offer, and you have to look at what they were playing with to be fair about it. This is just a silly refrain you're on.

If you can quantifiably say that those other two fumbles were bad JP plays, fine. You can't. The snaps were bad. In fact, one of them he rebounded on and made a spectacular read for a 20 yard completion. Give it a rest. BTW, most fumbles Travis had? Eleven. Most lost? Eight. He averaged about 8 fumbles a year, 4-5 lost, as a starter. Head out of ass and quit it with the hyperbole, please.

2 fumbles lost. Two questionable snaps. 3 turnovers in 3 games.

To be fair, since the Superdome was used as a shelter it probably warranted repair from FEMA. I'm not saying I agree with it being one of the first things done, but then again, the Saints doing well and staying there is probably good for NO in the long run.

I'm not sure the spread is really any indicator of who is going to win. It's what a lot of people think, and what a lot of people think means next to nothing, which is proven more and more every day. I think the mistakes in blocking and tackling are correctable. They were better in the first two games than they were this past one. And it's not like the Jets define elusiveness. The Bills just didn't bring their A-game to this one.

The Bills controlled their own destiny yesterday and blew it with gimmick/cute calls, bad tackling, missed blocking assignments, and carelessness with the football. If their mental game is in order, they are capable of beating the Vikes. That's Jauron's task.

Not so. Vomiting on, fighting with, and cursing out your neighbors, your fellow Bills fans, is not football. It's hooliganism, it's stupid, and it's uncalled for, and it has no place at RWS or any stadium for that matter. People who want to ruin a good time, for those who paid good money, should be shipped off to some frat bar where they can hang out with and beat on all the fellow a--holes they like. Let people who want to watch football enjoy it.

The Bible is also a text of "hypocracy" [sic], or even hypocrisy. Most religious texts have inherent contradictions which is in no small part due to societal revisions, multiple writers, and mistranslations over the years.

I had the same situation last year except it resulted in my dad getting vomited on. I think that there being nothing to do in Buffalo truly means that lowlifes with nothing to do but get sh---faced have started to appear more frequently at the Ralph.

The Jets' Rhodes said this:

Nobody knows, because again, the announcers were too busy fashioning an idea of what to say about the game instead of actually following it.

I listened to Jauron's PC and he said Shelton had a head injury, don't know how serious it is, it'll be checked out tomorrow. It was obviously bad enough for him to miss the rest of the game, and that was damaging in goal line situations.

Yeah, I'm going to take a self-imposed board break for a few days to escape this madness.

Because Losman was not directly responsible for two TDs today and it was obviously his decision to run a fake punt? Your sentence needs to read: Part of the O blame has to fall on Losman. These guys lost as a team today. A missed WM block hurt. A bad penalty and a miss on a perfect throw by Peerless hurt. A lack of intensity from the running game in the tough situations hurt. JP took his lumps, but he was also the reason they were in it at the end. Prove otherwise, please.

Must be their terrible QB. Bring on the doughboy!

3 drives is plenty enough to win. Hell, one missed tackle is enough for the loss. You can bet your ass that Fewell is going to be preaching back-to-basics tackling this week in practice. Minnesota could do the same exact thing to this defense next week if we don't look out.

Good post. BUT: I really thought we were going to see a lot more passing to the TEs and RBs. To this point, we have not. I know there have been a couple passes where Losman missed McGahee in the flat. But we need this part of the game to be going strong. The one pass to Royal was great. We need more of those.