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The 0-4 start was more unlucky than the 6-0 was lucky. Nate Clements not knocking down a hail marry, the refs jobbing us every which way in Oakland... You could say the same thing about our QB's. We had an all-time dismal offense the year before Mularkey in 2003 which failed to score a single offensive TD in 7 out of 16 games and you guys are saying "ya know that Bledsoe was alright". No, no he wasn't. He sucked. A lot.

Fitz. It is mind-boggling to me how anyone could watch football for the last 10 years and chose otherwise.

?? 1st, 2nd & most reg. season points all win $. Last two paying the web fee is actually a good idea as it helps prevents tanking. It just takes a freak parlay for it to happen to the 4th highest scoring team.

So...you're in a good position to make the playoffs? The horror. Let me show you how a real rant nobody cares about is done. I'm 4th out of 12 in points and I need to win to get to 5-8 and avoid being 1 of the 2 last place teams that has to pay the CBS website fee. 1st in points against by a mile obviously. The week I trade for Stafford? Why wouldn't LeShoure quadruple his TD total for the season when I need 1 stinkin' TD pass vs Jacksonville? Playing against Steve Smith? Why wouldn't he score his only TD of the season that week? Miles Austin vs Dez Bryant head to head? Why wouldn't the former go out in the 1st Qtr while the latter has the game of his life? Bleh, f*** fantasy football.

I don't understand all the bickering about conference strength, especially in an era when teams are switching conferences every other year. Teams should be measured by who they have beaten and where, regardless of conference affiliation. As far as I can tell, Florida has the best resume of the 1loss teams and it's not particularly close. Wins @Texas A&M, @FSU, LSU, South Carolina... Alabama has played 2 tough games and was lucky to get a split... Get ranked high in the preseason polls & get your loss out of the way before the other teams' most recent loss and you're gold. Yep, college football is a massive joke. It is the most meaningless regular season of them all, which is kind of funny since the diehards are always bragging how it's the most important.

I don't think it's that lazy to chalk up his Indy success to the '97 Colts finishing with the worst record and lucking into an all-time player at the most important position. The 2011 Colts and 2012 Broncos are pretty compelling evidence for that. Granted it is pretty stupid to cherry-pick picks that didn't pan out, which happens to everyone. Only on a message board does someone have to be either an all-time great, or no better than Buddy Nix.

Wah wah. "X isn't hard enough on them; Y is but only because they despise the team!" What do you want someone on the radio who covers the Bills to say?

Yes, he caught a 4th down pass in double coverage to keep the game winning drive alive vs Oakland last yr, then broke up a game losing int in the endzone on a terribly thrown ball, and then made big catches vs NE the following week. Maybe Fitz wouldn't be getting a pass from so many fans for a year and a half of terrible QB play if he didn't break up that interception.

Stop the "I'm a better fan than __" high horse routine. If he ever shows up? He is still showing up. The Jets have sucked most of the last 40 years - you think he's quitting because of 2 bad years? Now if you want to give him crap for being an attention whore in the first place that's fine...

I wonder if people will blame our defense for our garbage QB doing nothing vs another crappy defense.

Yes, thank God we have Troupe/Carrington/Shephard terrorizing opposing QB's & RB's every week. Otherwise we might be in the midst of a 13 year playoff drought.

Those intermediate passes are what he does best imo. He doesn't have good touch on the short stuff or real good accuracy on the deep balls. Good arm & good athlete though, just about all the physical tools you want, and he's good in the 2minutes. There's just something about him that I can't quite pinpoint that makes me skeptical about him in the NFL. But I mean if he's going to be there in the 5th round I say why not. Mike Schoop has it totally right when he says teams that don't have a qb should be drafting 2-3 of them every year.

As pointed out there's a pretty obvious problem in that analysis. Rex Grossmans of the world are let go by their teams much more often than Peyton Mannings. On the rare occasion the latter does actually walk? What a surprise - they're good with their new team!

"Great receivers" implies they have more than one. They don't. I'm more surprised they were good last year with that personnel.

Luck is that good. His supporting cast isn't much. Throw in a soft schedule and you get 6-3. I suspect we'll be a 4pt dog.

I remember listening to Mike Lombardi & others before the draft - consensus seemed to be that Miami was the only team who really liked him & that he was more of a 3rd/4th round pick, even though he has the physical tools. Sounds kinda familiar. I think he's Losman II.

Glad there's a thread on him. He brought some good pressure (and unlike Mario, had to do it against Long). I said a couple weeks ago announcers have a big impact on fans' perception of games. Everyone's praising Merriman for making 1 play that Mayock went out of his way to break down on replay. And people are arguing about this kid? Meh, I thought Mayock snubbed him a bit by never mentioning him.

Agree w/ this. RB's with his explosiveness do not last long enough and with a team that's going absolutely nowhere I have no interest in a "Herm Edwards running Larry Johnson's career into the ground" scenario. If keeping a 'pitch count' on him extends the prime of his career by 2 years I think that's a big plus. Hopefully our defense won't be an abortion in those 'extra' years of elite production. I mean I doubt Gailey is thinking like that since he's unlikely to be here that long but whatever.

Which is ironically the same crew that tried like crazy to hand last week's Steelers game to the Giants. I guess this is why I was in the 5% that wasn't crying about the replacements. Regular refs suck a lot.

How much of a Buffalo bubble do you have to live in to not realize NE's pass defense is a steaming pile of crap?

I see this point get made a lot, for what reasons I don't know. The point is what - that you're better off with Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers than with Ryan Fitzpatrick or Mark Sanchez? No way! The 2008 Dolphins did not have Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady, so they had to try to win with what they had. And they were pretty successful at it @11-5, regardless of whether NE would've won more games with their starting qb.

That's largely a cop-out. Yes sometimes the individual matchups & situational issues are to the advantage of the defense. But sometimes they aren't. Like when you have Cam Newton on your team - the best 4th&short QB in NFL history. Or this year's Bills OL vs the Titans defense.

This is unequestionably true. Ron Rivera took comparatively little heat for a gutless punt in Atlanta than other coaches have for 4th downs that failed.

Good analysis. The recruiting point was evident for a long time with Notre Dame up until this year. They could score when Weiss was the coach, but couldn't stop anybody without top talent. The other thing I'd say is that there is very little defense in college to begin with. Alabama & LSU are much more the exception than the rule. Oregon did defend Cam Newton a lot better than the SEC teams 2yrs ago for what that's worth. The Redskins having their 2 best pass-rushers injured hurts them a lot too.

Nobody said destined long-run losers always lose. Let me guess you like the Broncos/Colts/Giants next week.