Bill from NYC
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I think that we should hurry up and rush the kid in there with hardly any practice.
After all, it is time for yet another Bills qb to get the snot kicked out of him!
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Good Luck and God Bless!
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First of all, it is doubtful that Henry is able to put together a thought that is quite that coherent.
Next, Travis has lost as many games for the Bills this season as has Drew.
This I will give you, Drew was as bad as bad can get. His mechanics were awful (strange for a guy with his experience) and he had that far away look. It was really very sad.
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The good thing for the Bills is they have 2 examples of how to play the Pats the last 2 weeks. One worked (run first, pass second), one didn't (pass first, run second). I think the Bills' coaching staff is smart enough to see which is the RIGHT way to play. Oh and I'm glad the Pats pulled out that Vinatieri fake FG thing last week.
You make running on NE sound pretty easy. The Bills and the steelers have different records, you know?
I think that we may have to get a little flashy tonight, although I NEVER want to abandon the run if a game is within reach.
That said, I hope that you are right. I hope we can ram it down their throats, but if we could, the standings might look a little different.
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If we agree on the assumption that a 10-6 record, minimum, is needed to make the playoffs, are the Bills better off winning or losing tomorrow?
If they spank the Patsies, they have momentum on their side and Drew is more than likely the starting QB for the rest of the season. To make the 10-6 mark they can only lose one more game - meaning they will have to go 9-1 for the last 10 games of the season.
If this happens JP sits for the entire year and the benefit of trading up to draft him and give him a year of grooming is greatly diminished. If Drew stays as the #1 and they fall one game short of the playoffs at 9-7 it is truly a waste.
If they lose, the playoffs are pretty much toast and the JP era can be started without Drew having to lose face. Of course this means that the 2004 season is, for all intents and purposes, over in mid-November and they are just playing out the string.
What's better? An ouside chance at the playoffs this year or a 7 game in-season pre-season to gel the triad of Losman, McGahee and Evans?
If you think it's the former, do you think this team can truly make a near-run of the table as they need to do?
If you side with the latter, are you ready to root against the red, white and blue for the greater good of the big picture?
Discuss.
A win tonight would NOT mean that Drew would be in for the rest of the season. Ever hear of injuries?
Also, we dont even have a first round pick. What would make a loss a good thing? Benching Drew? Wouldn't you rather the Bills win no matter who is QB?
Cheer for Drew tonight. Cheer for the Buffalo Bills Football Team.
GO BILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Bill, we seem to be agreeing more often than not lately.......must be the meds?
Your point is very valid.....we need Willis to continue to pound the ball and get those tough yards, but Bledsoe - even though we don't need to put the game in his hands alone - has GOT to be able to play mistake free and to take advantage of his opportunities. He's got to make good decisions and do positive things with the football. He's got to be able to find the LEEthal weapon in addition to his security blanket, Moulds.
Bledsoe doesn't need to take the team on his shoulders the whole game, but he will need to do his part for us to win.
Whose meds?
I agree with you 100%, and would like to throw in some screens to MaGahee and even Shelton. The Bills must do something to neutralize those monster DTs.
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Bledsoe's hands? The defense might have a say in this football game as well, dont ya think?
ICE, when a team is down 2 corners, you throw. It is just that simple. Who will come in if another of their corners gets hurt, which is always a distinct possibility in any football game? The 4th and 5th string? Do you see my point?
Yes, Drew needs to step up, and the OL needs to give him time.
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NE has GREAT DTs and they are deep. I am elated by the job that Tucker did last week, but will he be able to hold his own with Seymour? How does Teague match up against Wilfork?
When oddsmakers create pointspreads, the two most important positions in terms of injuries are qb and cb. This is a fact. The Bills MUST be able to exploit the fact that 2 very good cbs are out of action. Now that Henry is off of the field, Willis can and will help to hold off the NE pass rush. I would also love to see him catch a few.
This post is not a call to abandon the run. I just think that if we cannot exploit their weakness, we will lose. Perhaps the substitute corners will need help from the safeties. What better time to hit Euhus with a few mid range passes?
Imo, it is also key for Gray to come up with a way to stop that short drop-off pass that Brady thrives on. We blitz a lot. Perhaps we can lay back just a tad and hope for pressure from our front 4.
Anyway, we can win this game, and I am just thinking out loud. Thanks for the indulgence.
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That is wonderful. Congrats and God bless.
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Even though no one asked my opinion...
I think he's been brain-dead a few days, and they were keeping his body going while they hashed out the burial plans. As I recall (not too well, at that), Islam is pretty strict about burial...you can't just keep the body laying around embalmed until you're ready.
Oh, and good riddance. Now I wonder how the Palestinian leadership is going to shake out...
You know what would suck? If tens of thousands of Palestinians killed each other while jockeying for his position.
If this were to happen, I would be SO upset that I would possibly have a hard time coping.
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I don't know what was involved in the smoking ban in NYC. I don't live there anymore, I live in a Red State. I did respond to one of your posts years ago saying that, as long as there is a no-smoking zone in the restaurant or bar, that's enough for me. I'm happy to fight for your right to smoke your cigarettes as long as I don't have to breathe the smoke or come home smelling like a trash fire.
Same goes for noise ordinances and other such rules. Your right to be obnoxious ends where it interferes with my right to be undistrubed. In real life, compromises must be made, or course. There's tons of case law on such disputes, most of what Judge Wapner (my departed father's favorite TV show) spent his time on was just such stuff as this.
I AM a professor. I have never downgraded a student because of his or her political views. I readily agree that most professors in the humanities are liberals. Most professors in business schools are conservatives.
Forgive me, but I do not see much danger to our way of life from "militant liberal vegetarians."
Just for the record, the "fight" is not about the rights of smokers imo. It is about the ownership of private property.
My daughter has had other "liberal" professors who welcomed her views. I am glad that you are one of those.
The point that I was trying to drive home is that years ago, liberals (imo), did tend to stand for freedom. Today, and very much so in NYC, they stand for supression of both ideas and acts that are not PC.
If a person is going to pose as a "regular person," they should not get $10,000.00 haircuts, counting the cost of the pilot and the fuel for a private jet.
As I said in another thread, I think that many people would like to vote democrat, but cannot due to the current sad state of affairs in your party. I fear what a huge repub majority might do to the labor movement, which I am a part of, in particular.
That said, imo, the dems are anything but a party that supports civil liberties.
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>>>Your Platform: Equal rights, civil liberties, the separation of church and state, protecting and conserving the environment:<<<
Civil liberties? Please.
I am not trying to attack here. I am asking questions, and seeking dialogue.
Where were you on the smoking ban (in bars)? Did you or your liberal brethren give a rat's ass about the civil liberties of bar owners? Of course you did not!
I love a barbecue at a tailgate. Who wants them banned because of charcoal fumes? Who wants them banned because the smell of burning flesh is offensive? Conservatives or militant liberal vegetarians?
How about the crackdown (in the face of terrorism) ice cream truck bells in NYC? Who passed this, conservatives? I think we both know better than that.
Which professors stifle free speech on campus? My daughter's grade was lowered because her professor declared that Ronald Reagan was a "liberal" and she stated that it didn't matter because history will view him as a bastion of conservative values. Think he was a conservative professor?
Years ago, yes. many young dems DID stand for freedom and other good things. Today, a huge portion of them are crotchety old, snobbish, elitist "rule makers."
That is one big reason they will continue to lose.
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May God rest his soul.
As much as I regret the death of a hero (which I consider him, sight unseen), I am about people, including property owners, having the right to make choices.
Sorry if this flies of the face of the religion of new liberalism.
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What are you doing in Va. Beach? You should move to NYC, and help our behavioral controlling leftists create laws against headlines of this sort!
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If that picture of that heroic American was taken in a NYC bar, the owner would be fined. His or her establishment would then be searched, and the owner could be fined once again for "Ashtray Possession." Nice work leftists!
Now, we are over there concerned about "freedom."
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I'll buy that, Dan. Still thinking about how they waited til the last minute to pick up Teague's roster bonus option. And as far as making changes - how many games do you think this coaching staff would've given Mike Pucillo last season? Certainly not the whole season (until he got hurt), I'd wager....
Do you think that Bills Brass views Teague as either a starting or backup LT next year? It wouldn't surprise me.
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I guess the good comparison to do is with the Pats and look at how they built themselves sice they clearly have a winning product and compare that to the Bills and how they have built themselves.
I will bow and sing the praises of any others who do this work and perhaps one day I will get to it as well. Off hand, i would say that for the first Pats SB winner free agency acquisitions and specifically cap casualties were the key to building the team which won the SB for the 2001 season. My recollection is that they picked up about 1/3 of their team after June 1st by getting no names like Antowain Smith and through hard work and dumb luck they became a TEAM.
Its interesting because I have seen the old saw repeated on TSW that "like the Pats" we must build through the draft" but this view appears to be conventional wisdom which has some but is false as saying it was central as draft picks like first rounder Seymour played important roles but were sidelights to their real story. To the extent the draft was actually important to this team it was the low priority unplanned contributions of 6th round pick Tom Brady rather than their higher profile 1st day picks.
The draft seemed to play a bigger role in the 2003 SB winning team as picks like Bethel Johnson played a key role, but still it would be interesting to see a fuller look at this team as the big acqusitions from my view were FAs like Rodney Harrison.
I think that as the Bills retool and TD goes along his path the Bills are not focusing building through the draft, but that is probably OK as few winners do in the modern NFL.
As for free agency, there are only so many very good players out there in any given year (Bryce, TKO, and Tait are examples).
There are others who can fill holes, but are not stars. The rest are very often big names that are past their primes, or undeserving of huge salaries (Peerless and Cowart come to mind).
Because of the above, the draft is still the best way to build a football team, and late round players who stick are truly important.
I am amazed when I see a Brady or T. Davis in the 6th, or Pat Williams as a UDFA, which I will never understand. How about Holocek in round 5? MaGee in the 4th looks like a total steal! These guys come rather cheap, and the cap room, at least for a while, can be used elsewhere.
The redskins are an example of teams that thought free agency was the way to go. It left them losing, old, and approaching cap hell.
Anyway, build through the draft, plug holes with free agents imo.
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The Catalogue for Philanthropy's 2004 Generosity Index.
http://www.catalogueforphilanthropy.org/cf...y.php?year=2004
CT ranks first in making money, but joins MA, RI and NH at the bottom of this annual index of charatible giving. The data, obtained from 2002 Federal Tax Returns (the most recent available) compares average annual adjusted income("Having Rank") vs. itemized charitible deductions (Giving Rank) for each State.
For example, Mississippi has the lowest average income rank yet has the 5th highest rank for giving, resulting in being the most generous state even though it's the poorest.
The 1st "Blue State (NY) comes in at #26.
Can you only imagine the causes they DID contribute to?
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They lost to an EXTREMELY beatable candidate in Bush. They have continued to lose seats in Congress. After this election, they still have not grasped why they lost. Instead of looking within themselve to find how they can better connect with the American people, they just blame it on people being too stupid to buy into their rhetoric. Until they start to grasp why they lost, they will continue to lose and as long as they just continue down the same path (or worse yet, become more bitter and hateful) they will lose more and more control. I am not seeing the necessary changes from within the party to say that they can turn the corner. They are continuing down the same destructive path.
How much of the above do you blame on the radical leftist element within their ranks?
Imo, many "mainstream" Americans would like to vote for a dem, but find themselves unable to. I offer a look at the 04 primary contenders, and the fact that Hillary is the front runner to validate my point.
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Just my prediction, but what I see happening is the Republicans getting their near or full fillibuster-proof senate by mid-terms or 2008. As a result, you will see even more staunch right legislation being pushed through. Bad.
The Dems will practically implode, and a third party will become more prominent as a result. The Dems are losing control, and until they get their stevestojan together, they will continue their downward spiral. Bad.
The Republicans will screw up, and push stuff too far to the right. This will shift the voters away from the Republican Party, but since the Dems still have not caught on, those voters will be looking at the alternatives outside of the "big two."
It will take a little while, but things will start to level out. I hope by then we will have more than two parties with major support.
KRC, will you please be more descriptive when you say that the dems are "losing control?"
Thanks.
Few Comments About The Game, and the
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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1) Schobel played as poorly as one could imagine.
2) Even I cannot blame the OL for this loss. This was primarily Drew.
3) Given the above, Jennings and MW were outmatched again. Sorry folks, but for 36 million dollars, you can't let a 230 pound spot player shove you aside on an inside move and cream your qb. MW is an average RT (or perhaps OG) who makes almost Pace money, and the team remains crippled by his contract.
4) Drew is done. I will now fully concede this.
5) JP as we know has been injured and sitting. Last night, he was running for his life. As much as I would like to see what he can do, I am haunted by the thought of him being crushed by another MW whiff, and there goes our top 10 pick.
6) While I dont blame fans for crying out for JP, I think that it would be wise to wait a week or 2. Let him practice and be more prepared. The season is shot in any event and there is no need to add him to the list of beaten and abused qbs this soon.
Just my $.02 on a sad day for Bills fans.