BuffOrange

That's what I understand from reading this forum.

Yep, I still remember the posts in preseason 2001. "The coaching can't POSSIBLY be worse this year. Dude - Shawn Bryson and Sammy Morris rule. 11 wins at least".

Huge goal to close the 2nd - you could almost sense the nervousness in the building that whole period.

I like Kiper too. I don't know what people want from the guy. The fans that B word about him wouldn't have even heard of most of these players if it weren't for him.

Yeah, Jabari cost us at least 4 games last year

Larry Triplett isn't going to fill sh--. The DL is going to suck donkey balls.....again.

lol we are the joke of the league.

The Panthers were 4th in rushing last year? How can that be? Pretty much everyone agreed that their running game sucked - did they just have a lot of attempts?

Before the Eagles played the Bills in 2003, he said "well the Bills only beat Jacksonville last week because of turnovers". That's funny because the Jags had zero turnovers in that game. That same week he said something about having to give up draft picks to sign Takeo Spikes. Another time he was trying to convince somebody what a great supporting cast Elway had in the 80's and he couldn't name 1 single WR as he kept stuttering like a putz trying to think of one. I haven't listened much since then. The guy is a flat out retard. I have no problem with hosts being jerks to callers because most radio callers are stupid, but at least get your facts straight. I can't believe people who know less about sports than me get paid to talk about it.

"Lets not overlook the Izelle Reese era" - classic.

OK I'm going to get badly flamed for this, but: Vastly overrated IMO. The guy always lined up 40 yards behind the line of scrimmage - maybe that was just part of the scheme, but I think it was partially due to his limitations. The other Raider game I remember was the 1993 freezing playoff game when Tim Brown took a ~60 yard pass and just left Kelso out of his jock (Paul McGuire said "Kelso had no chance to make the play" even though he was RIGHT THERE). Fortunately Kelly hooked up with Billy Brooks for a 2nd time to win the game. Anyway, sorry to be an ass - I'm sure he's a great guy.

Are you sure? I thought the team with the best record got the home ice regardless of seeding, like the NBA.

Who gets home ice if the Sabres play the Devils next round?

Please let me know....I might actually listen to that joke of a station for once. BTW did you know the Bills gave up draft picks for Takeo Spikes? That's what Howard Eskin said

I said 3 years ago when I moved to Philly that those announcers were the sorriest homer whiners I'd ever heard and that was when they weren't playing the Sabres... Frankly I was shocked that they acknowledged that the high stick no goal was a good call.

This may be an obscure question, but does anybody know if the game will be shown on OLN in Philly? I have DirecTV so I don't get the local Comcast channel.

http://deadspin.com/sports/chris-berman/he...-way-166410.php

I don't know about 3 DT's but I agree for the most part. I can't believe people are still sticking up for the disastrous Kelsay/Denney duo.

Wait, Leftwich is as good as Brees? I know Brees has had a better supporting cast but yikes.

Yeah I'm not a Dr. (that's a corny cliche, huh?) but if I'm chosing a franchise QB it's not going to be based on whether the guys' ready for opening day '06. Chances are Culpepper and Brees will still be with their respective teams 4 years from now. As for Mularkey, obviously offense was not the strength of the team in '04, and obviously it stunk last year. I just don't think that makes him a terrible coach when he had no QB and a crappy OL.

Yeah the coaching staff is solid and the Culpepper trade wasn't a bad move at all IMO. I just think Saban has a lot more to prove to deserve all the hype he's gotten.

Playcalling and "playing to the player's strengths" wasn't one of the primary coaching complaints of the fans here last year?

Whatever. "Wandstash" had 1 bad year after the star player quit like 5 minutes before the start of the season. He consistently won 10-11 games with Jay Fiedler at QB, Lamar Smith at RB, OJ McDuffie as the #1 WR and a slightly younger version of their current defense. The '05 Dolphins were 1 play away from getting swept by the Losman/Bollinger led Bills & Jets and finished up with a narrow win over the Patriots' 3rd string. Just because Len Pasquarelli gets off on Saban (much like he did with "Teflon Tom" mind you) doesn't make him a great coach after 1 year. Also, if he's such a genius why did he hire Mularkey who is supposedly the worst coach ever?

Correct, maybe I'm thinking of '03? I'm pretty sure we played an entire season of day games recently. edit: '03 was the infamous Travis pass in Miami. What about '02?