colin

damn skippy

i've been a jp losman detractor for some time, and i still don't think he should have started the season, but he looks like he evans and mcgahee are the only guys on our O who come to play. aiken just flat out sucked ass on that play

wow another DT unblocked. at some point our vaunted OL coach has got to get kicked in the freaking nuts. we are really unprepared in the gut of our line, on a regular basis.

3 hook ups in a quarter?? ON THE ROAD?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!!!?!?!?!? WTF!!!?!?!? did jim and reed ever do that? cripes!!!!

i suppose i am an optimist but i really think with a few upgrades on the lines this offseason we can be a MUCH better team. losman, mcgahee and evans are a good set of tripplets and our D is 2 or 3 players away from where it was last year (when it was about the best) and we can get back there with 2 or 3 new players added.

Oh, I'd also like to add that Keynsian economics is horsesh!!t. Thanks

There is way too much party schilling mixing in with the economic discussion here. You guys seem to root for your respective parties like how I root for the Bills-- in thick and thin, right or wrong. Supply side (with along with most neoconservative policy sort of spans the spectrum from free market to socialist policy) and keynsian policies when put into practice end up being socialist spending and regulation/taxation getting put into the republican cronies (military socialism) or the democrat cronies (old american left socialism). Neither are honest applications of economic theory, just a way to excuse behaviour that fulfills political agendas. The rebublicans in power now are just dumping a ton of spending and lowering taxes which is EXACTLY what reds like keynes would have wanted (although he might be iffy on the tax cuts on the upper end of the pay scales). This is foolish and irresponsible governing and the fallout of this is monetization of the deficit (measured by true inflation: growth in the money supply). The Republicans actions (despite what some of their better memeber, like Ron Paul for example insist on) are that of a big government cold war military socialism regime. The rhetoric that most often gets thrown around by republicans is much more free market than thier actinos. The Clinton administration saw a MASSIVE credit expansion (essentially inflation of the money supply and a very wide spread amount of over investment) and most of the really hammer and sicle policy get shot down or watered down by the split houses. I don't know if you guys are all about the economics and the betterment of your nation, or about just supporting your party like a sports team, but each party acts in its own best interest and that moves them very far from their rhetoric and very close to each other. At times it is like you guys are arguing about what colour box of the exact same thing you should buy.

imo there are only 3 things that TD did or does wrong: 1 Coaches. He has been horrible in selecting coaches, this is by far his biggest problem. 2 Neglecting the lines. He needs to suck it up and put more money and picks (high picks) into our lines. with some FA guys this year i'd like to see him drop 10mill a year on C and LG in Hutch and Bently, we'd be a much better team there alone. We need the best DT in the draft as well. 3 Extending Drew. Getting drew here was a good move, we can see from 02 and now that drew can still play with the best of them. the extention they gave him was nuts, and it seemed like TD was going to go with a rook HC and a rook OC to hope to fix drew. If you drop new money on a player who is struggling you make sure you do everything to get him in the best position to win. MM and TC are clowns and came in with jack on their CVs, if he grabbed a guy loke Fassel (sp?) it would make sense to double up on drew and ride him, but this new QB, new OC and HC while extending drew shows he was not being smart about his decision. anyhow, TD is WAY above average at drafting value picks (look over his career in Pitts as mentioned above) signing and trading for FAs, and avoiding big contracts for over the hill players. if he can get our coaching and line stuff fixed this offseason (and I think he can) then I'll take TD.

i don't think we have been bad picking D linemen, or really O linemen. I think we have good value for the 2nd rounders we have pumped into the Dline (not great, but they look worse with the chumps at DT). I think our problem is just NOT spending any high picks at all on interior D linemen and only 1 in 5 years on the O line at all. I am pretty sure if TD and co really stepped up and decided to work on drafting and signing linemen we could be MUCH better right after this offseason. Let's hope I am right and they do want good lines.

isn't daunte stallworth an FA? he or wayne would look good for about 5.5-6 mill a year, our marginal cost on moulds (he has already been paid much of his current cap hit). if we cut moulds, milloy, and williams we can sign a bunch of guys and will have huge cap room in the future. a new WR could well be an upgrade, a new safety is certian to be an upgrade, and 2 or 3 new O linemen would be massive. that said, i'd like moulds at a cheaper price.

i remember when big pat and ruben talked to sam adams about coming in for us. TD did a bad job ditching rueben, we haven't found a LG since. TD did a bad job ditching pat, essentially adams was a compliemnt to Pat, so losing Pat also hurt adams ability to do what he does best, which means we just lost the middle of our line. i think sam and rueben had their problems because of the coaches, gregg was canned and MM or at least TC will be canned this year, so we hung out our best big men because of our bad coaches who we are ditching anyhow. i am a let arrival on the kill TD bandwagon, but what is said above is true, he just makes too many mistakes that together show a lack of direction.

in typical plian fashion he has never been without very good to great WRs, a GREAT RB (the worst RB he ever had as his starter was Faulk!), a solid O line and a good O coordinator. the bottom line is polian has the best QB, but he also makes sure his O has every single tool they can. they might lose edge, and they might have to lose wayne and some linemen, but he spent the cash on skill positions primarily and got value on quality big men.

tought to say how good someone is without having to consider the quality of the team around him. one thing i can say, our O as a unit is BAD. we have shown ability to run, but can't seem to run now (i think having bike mike hurt/done doesn't help). bledsoe was great for us one year under the gilbride O, was bad the next. he was just about average under MM/TC and is doing great now in dallas. Henry was great under gilbride's O, sucked under MM/TC. If you look at ST Lou, they lose all their top WRs, O linemen, go through 5 QBs (green, warner, bulger, martin, fitzpatrick), different RBs, lose their damn head coach and STILL have a great O. Same thing in denver. i think it takes a bunch of good people running the show to get the results we are looking for. the first thing we need to do is fire the coaches on the O side of the ball.

i got a 360, no freezes (yet). MS will dump money and developement into it until it is a success, the xbox was horrible to start but got much better. the ps3 LOOKS awesome from clips i have seen, but doesn't exist yet. i doubt it is going to be on time and deliver on the crazy specs that have been thrown around

i agree. fire them all

stroud and henderson (who i wanted us to take if peppers wasn't there with the 4th in 02) were 2 players i always liked. the jerkwires got them both too, bastards! i really wonder how good leftiwch is on that team, they have weapons and a great D, but their o has pretty much sucked. i think there back up is good tho (for a #2)

i like the ideas, but i still think we can salvage mike williams if the price is right. if we keep him at RT we have a guy who can still improve and is a very good run blocker. we will still have peters and gandy so if he goes down we have people to take his place. i'd go after hutch and bently, and also look at the other good interior guys coming out. Gandy/peters, hutch, bently, preston, williams would be a VERY solid line and the best in buffalo since a guy named jim was calling his own plays

i always was a massive pat williams fan. i tried to justify that williams was let go because he signed for too much, I head he was getting 24 mill over 5 years. what was his contract anyhow? i think he is clearly worth 24 mill over 5 years, he has played at a pro bowl level for years, he just didn't get credit for it.

i think JP gives Ds fits when he runs and should do it more. when he gets that happy feet look i always yell at my tv for him to take off, but i think the mic on my tv is broken. he never listens.

1. both of course. if you want to make a chicken and egg argument out of it demand drives production so you might say consumption drives the economy, but you can't have one without the other. 2. Canada consumes more resources per capita than the US. The UEA prolly tops all, but if your point is that the US consumes more than other nations, sure. 3. It is good for the world. The world is better off for the US being a productive economy. if you are getting at resource scarcity and environmental impact, sure that is an issue, but it is superior to the alternative of (more) poverty. 4. Wages don't decrease in a vacuum, and not all wages decrease, and wages decreasing isn't exactly a bad thing. if innovation, outsourcing of unskilled labour and competition lower prices of goods more than wages, then one's lower wages are worth more. did i pass?

way to keep your head in the sand on things you'd rather not bother to think about. i didn't mention ceo salaries, i certainly haven't said big business is good in fact i did write about pork, cronyism, big business digging themselves this hole, but since you can't see beyond the edges of your copy of the daily worker. and economic ignorance isn't independant thought, it is just wrong.

seconded

our coaches do suck, we should see if we can draft some. i think it is pretty clear that MM is not a good offensive mind. anyhow, i'd like to see this as our O line next year: Peters/Gandy, Hutch, Bently, Preston, Williams/Peters i could also see us just getting one of the 2 fa guys and plugging someone else

i am starting to like JP, but i still think we need to run a more young QB friendly scheme, it's not like we are tearing it up with our current mess of an O. anyhow, yeah this is clearly a rebuilding year, but i wonder if TD and MM et al are good enough to get it done. i also think JP needs to run more, 3-6 more carries a game would open stuff up for us.

walmart sells gas as a loss leader, they want you to buy products in their store and try to get you there with gas. the idea that walmart walks into towns and shuts them down is silly. all they do is move out bad business. they aren't exactly a monopoly, they can't just raise prices after "shutting down" bad business. they have a tough time competing with other large retailers and with internet and specialty shops they don't exactly have a whole lot of room to increase prices because they "eliminated" competition. you sound like you just walked out of a mike moore movie, you are missing the forrest for the trees. sure it sucks to work for walmart, and if you can't afford to shop anywhere else AND you just happen to live in a tiny hamlet that has no other business (which means you are very rural isolated place) then maybe you should consider moving. crying over the terrible society we would all live in if the entry level positions at the least discriminating employers don't pay a multiple of what they otherwise would is a bit like crying about how the dragons under the bed will eat you if you don't get your new playstation game thiw christmass. it's wrong and is borne of a sense of entitlement.