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Despite BB's apparent genius as a DC, his HC credentials are slave to his possession of superlative talent. I think the OP's point still stands. When the Pats* were winning, BB was made out to be a demi-God of a coach. What is becoming apparent that he is an above-average coach of a team which dominated 'cos of the talented players.

Is it just me or does anyone else think this is the perfect time to re-work his deal ? If the doc has cleared him, we know that he can play well and has low leverage right now.

We don't ? There have been many threads started here where we are ranked in the top 5-8 of the league. Edwards is touted by many talking heads as an up-and-comer, 'Brady-calm' etc. I think the respect has started and will border ball-washing once we beat SD.

Accepted. Let us move on.

Thanx, union. It is in the Terms of Service of this board "You agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or by TBD. "

Even though that article mysteriously disappeared, please do not cut and paste entire articles here. Cutting relevant portions (such as those related to the Bills) is okay but not the entire text.

Screw playoffs. I just want to talk about who we will pick with the 32nd pick of next year's draft.

Can't you just praise the Bills without screwing it up with a Pats* comparison ?

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Irrational inexuberance

Whether or not Pit is better than us THIS year is debatable as of now. They certainly look good but so do we. Tat is of a catfish from a Jethro Tull album Catfish Rising

Yeah and if E Manning goes down or Romo gets suspended, both their teams will take a rapid fall. Hypothetically, anything can happen over the remaining 13 games. As of now, with the games that have already been played and with the record as it is, your assessment of those three teams being better than Buffalo is wrong.

Steelers = suspect O-Line Colts = looking mighty vulnerable on all fronts Patriots* = aging ex-stars on D, suspect QB, fading Moss Not to say, we have better records than all three. Want to re-consider or obstinately want to stick to your first statement ?

I don't want any one to get injured but even less so if that injury is induced by our D through no fault of theirs (fragile QB, porous OL of the Rams).

But his opinion is idiotic...

Mooch gave us props after our Jax win also. Something to the effect of "there is something special in Buffalo. They have a good HC surrounded by other good coaches and they are building something over there ..."

And my take is that panicking in a short-term window, getting too scared of this 'collapse of the financial institutions', pumping money into these sectors and then professing future regulation is a recipe for disaster eventually. I still stick to my point of view (since the Bear Stearns crisis) that these failed institutions should crash and burn. Let whatever pain follows, come through. We will be a much more prudent society after we claw back up again.

Joke ? I take it you dis-agree with these two other columnists also who are proposing different solutions to the lack of capital: http://blogs.ft.com/wolfforum/ http://blogs.ft.com/wolfforum/2008/09/a-ma...tance/#more-186

That would be me. While I am ecstatic about his development in general and his fair weather performances in particular, his performance should not fall off a cliff in inclement weather. We will have plenty of opportunities this year to see if he has progressed in that department compared to last year. I am praying he has ... It is fine to give him a pass for yesterdays sub-par quarters as he really wasn't getting any help.

Which begs the question - how long before Moss starts throwing hissy fits....

Yesterday the problem was not him being unable to throw deep. He was missing some short to medium throws through the better part of 3 quarters. As I said before, the dropsies were not helping. He did make a couple of very nice throws (kinda deep) to Parrish & Evans in the 4th. Fact is that we were just totally out of sync as an offense for 3 quarters - Trent was one factor. We can argue that he should have helped a struggling offense by elevating his level of play. But that will take experience and maturity which should come fast enough for him.

.. Peters was horrible and the receivers were having a bad case of dropsies especially on key downs. Add to that some really bad officiating and we were looking terrible in the forst 3 quarters. Also note that Edwards' level of play went up immediately after it stopped raining. I really hope his increasing experience negates his marginal performances in poor weather to date. In any case, and to use a cliche, winning cures everything.

Another take on the current crisis. Consider that the author is a professor of finance at the University of Chicago. His point is that the oft-repeated statement that toxic debts are the root of the current financial crisisis wrong: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/13a60574-862b-11...00779fd18c.html In addition, I would add that the basic philosophical problem I have is that he government should not be in the real estate business. Whether or not taking control of this depressed assets will eventually be profitable is immaterial. I have too little faith in the bureaucracy that they will do a good job in disposing off these assets at the right time, keep the sales process efficient and then eventually use the NET gains (if any) in a more productive way that the capital that is being considered for investment right now. No matter how this current bailout is being 'sold' to the public, we cannot deny that the current series of bail-outs will create a moral hazard in the future. Also, pumping so much money into the market heightens the risk of inflation.

Just saw 'The Fly' after many many years and coincidentally that picture of Al Davis is similar to the half-transformed Jeff Goldblum. Then again, I may just be too drunk. Go Bills ! Can't wait for noon (CST).