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Then please, please find me just one time you can document that a team did not punt from its own 28 or worse with over 7 minutes left in the game, down less than 2 touchdowns, and got the 1st down & ended up winning. I can find numerous times when a team has won a game down 2 scores with less than 5 minutes left including Monday night's opener in NE where Bellichick kicked off after scoring and when Dallas beat us after being down 11 with just a few minutes remaining. All I'm asking is one time, come on, if you're so right prove it with something you can document has succeeded.

There's a 99% chance I've seen more Bills games both at the Ralph & on TV than you have. Ok, wiseguy-find me just one other time in the NFL where a coach has done what you are advocating-down 10 in the 4th quarter, went for it on 4th & <1 with over 7 minutes left from 28 or worse, got the 1st down & won the game. I can give you at least two games in the past 3 seasons where an opposing coach was down 11 with less than 5 minutes to go & won the game.

The big difference is that in all probability, the Patriots had seen something in the films that gave their coaching staff the confidence to go for it on 4th down. Just like the Bills' staff must have seen something that indicated they could succeed on the faked field goal for our only TD. You take risks based on your film study of the opponent. The Bills obviously didn't have the same positive film feedback on a 4th from your own 28 against NO that NE had against ATL. Likewise, NE didn't uncover anything that would have indicated a field goal fake would get them a touchdown. Why don't you question why NE didn't fake a FG for a TD in their game? It's all about game situations, what's on the films etc that let you gameplan accordingly. If you want to blame the Bills staff for anything, then blame them for not devising a 4th & 1 plan (from anywhere on the field) based on studying NO's defense. However, since Gregg was throwing new wrinkles in that had stymied them all game, they were wise not to risk handing NO the game where they had plenty of time to tie with a TD & a late FG, or win with 2 TDs. By giving NO the ball at their own 28, the Bills would have virtually eliminated the option of getting a TD & tying late with a 2 minute drive into FG range.

You're the one who is dead wrong. Name me one time that a coach trailing by 10 points with about half a quarter to play has ever went for it on his own 28. It's moronic. Too much time left. That's a 3-minutes left decision. Just keep being a media lemming and parrot what Sullivan, Simon & the rest of WGR's knuckleheads come up with.

You better be sure he beats out Tim Rattay for the entire (6 game) season against minor league competition and you still won't know **** about his ability to play in the NFL. Gibran Hamdan was NFLE's MVP, got cut twice afterwards and the only reason he's in the NFL is because he's the starting QB's best friend.

I doubt anyone has ever had a problem with Ticket Exchange, because the Bills get a piece of it. Why buy from a scalper in this day & age?

Anyone wearing Saints gear is a suspect.

Here are the facts that the JP supporters don't want to admit: He had one of the most respected QB mentors, Sam Wyche, as virtually his individual coach his 1st two seasons here. If he couldn't develop under Wyche, then he has no one to blame but himself. Not one, but two head coaches benched him-why-because they felt that another QB would lead the team to more wins-and guess what-THEY WERE RIGHT! Look at the team's W-L records with JP & the other guy-the win % is indisputable. Why did both HCs bench him?-self preservation. So now, all of a sudden, AVP would have been able to do what Sam Wyche & the others couldn't. Mularkey has ruined Matt Ryan, hasn't he? Blame him for another bust, John Beck while you're at it. When you can't blame the coaches, you turn to the GM. Well the GM sure made a mistake-by drafting him in the 1st place! Virtually every 1st round QB is expected to be ready to start in his 2nd season. Today, many start as rookies-see Sanchez, Ryan & Flacco who have not been ruined at all but are thriving. The bottom line is you JP supporters are so blind you can't see anything. JP was a bust, if he wasn't someone in the NFL would have wanted him. Instead he's in a 4 team 6 game season minor league. Who will you blame when he gets benched in favor of Tim Rattay? For the record, I was very much in favor of drafting JP in 2004. I even started a string the morning of the draft on why we should draft him in the 1st round. Ice called him a coach killer & at least once, he was spot on. Since I've never relied on stats to judge Bills' players, it wasn't too long into JP's career that I could see he didn't have what it takes to be an NFL QB. The coaches, who saw a lot more of JP than me or you, recognized that they couldn't win with him. The only reason he was the starter in 2006 was because the guy they thought might give him some competition, Craig Nall got hurt & was so bad that he was soon out of the NFL and he recently got cut by Florida in the UFL. Maybe a year or 2 from now, when JP is out of football, you'll wake up & realize he was the coach killer, the coaches didn't damage him.

I was going to say that, but you beat me to it. TWC has to air the local channel due to regulations. Calling up TWC is like calling them up asking when your TV will go back on in a power failure.

I thought for sure that New England drafted Kevin O'Connell last year just to get an edge when playing in Buffalo weather & cut him because they got overconfident that they could beat us without him.

It's a good thing the Jets game is in Toronto. O'Connell has been studying the WNY weather for many years & could have helped the Jets gameplan for a December game in Orchard Park.

I can't wait for the QB controversy in Las Vegas where JP Losman has all the physical tools, but Tim Rattay "Just Wins"

I don't put bumper stickers on my car, in partr because if I see the Bills in NE or NJ, I don't want my car trashed, plus I don't like putting stuff on my car that it's tough to get off. Thursday was a work day (although I was off that day on vacation), nobody is going to be walking around with Bills stuff on when we have to work unless it's dress down Friday (when I usually come into work in a Bills shirt). You work for a lousy boss. If he or she was a good boss, you would have been greeted by someone in full Bills gear, just to make you comfortable.

I'd like to know what vandalism was done before I can blame it on a fan. If it was a break-in it could have been a crime of opportunity-A criminal figuring that the player was away & it's a good time to rob the house. If you see the owner is in Foxborough, you figure nobody's home. Now if it was something like "you and the Bills suck" written on walls, then that probably was some crazy fan. A 3rd possibility is the criminal didn't know whose house it is & saw an opportunity when he could tell nobody was home.

I chose the worst one each year, but as you have noted, there have been multiple galling losses in some of the same seasons.

For the last six years the Bills have lost a game they have no business losing 2009-@New England 2008-@ Jets 2007-Dallas 2006-@ New England 2005-@ Miami 2004-Jacksonville Before that, there was the dumbest acceptance of a penalty in history. 2003-Houston In each game the last 6 years, the Bills had what looked like an insurmountable lead and blew it. A lot of these games were blown on some mental mistake within the final minutes of the game. It happened with Mularkey & Jauron as coaches. I've included the 2003 Houston game because in that game the team accepted a penalty which caused the clock to run out, negating any chance they had if they had simply declined the penalty. Declining the penalty would have given the Bills an opportunity to get the ball back.

If I needed a #1 receiver, like the Bears looked like they needed last night, I would look to trade for him. Any team that needs a top receiver would want to trade for him. Other than showing up a day before opening day to get his paycheck & already having a signed contract, off the field, what has Jason Peters done that is significantly different than Crabtree? The Eagles couldn't wait to give Peters a boatload of money & the Bills draft choices. If you answer Peters was proven & Crabtree is unproven, what has Crabtree done differently than Corneilius Bennett did to Indy in 1987? Do you think Bill Polian, one of the all time great GMs, thought he was a headache? Polian sent 2 1s, a 2 and Greg Bell to deliberately acquire Indy's "headache" Too many people in this thread are letting their emotions cloud their vision in what is totally a business decision by all parties involved. Eventually SF will sign or trade the guy because it is a sound business decision, and there will be receiver light teams knocking on their door once they realize that promising 4th rounder can't hold Crabtree's jock.

Or some meaningless exhibition games, especially against the same team that was catching Cutler's passes last night or the friggin' World Champions who made Tennessee's O look pretty bad on Thursday night.

I'm amazed you people who are speculating where Crabtree will go in next years draft actually believe he'll be in next year's draft. There is no way he's in next year's draft. He'll either sign with SF or he will be traded away by the 49ers at some point before the draft. We've seen guys miss a few games, McKinnie missed quite a few before the signing deadline but got it done, & of course we've seen Indianapolis give up on signing Bennett & trade him. We've even see guys sit out their whole rookie year, then sign or get traded in the offseason before the next draft. There's 0% chance the 49ers will just throw the pick away. I guarantee he either signs or gets traded before next year's draft.

See ya

He reminds me of when his father got to Arizona & said "You've got a winner in town". Needless to say Buddy left Arizona with a pink slip and not a winning record.

If DJ is as exciting at home as he is at 1 Bills Drive, you might be able to say the same thing about Gail Jauron.

The real lock is tommorrow. The over/under is 47.5. There's no friggin way it goes that high. If the Bills keep it close (our only chance of victory), it will have to be a low scoring game like 20-17. If the Patriots blow us out, chances are our offense will be offensive & not score more than 7-10 points. I don't see the Patriots getting close to putting 40 points up on opening day-they'll get better as the season goes on, but not tommorrow. Highest score I see is something like 35-10. There's nothing close to tomorrow's over/under lock today, but I think Cincy will roll it up on Denver & the spread was only 4 last time I looked. In suicide I picked New Orleans, but there are no points involved. PS: The Bills & Patriots wouldn't have covered tomorrow's over if you combined both of last season's games. The total points in 2 games were New England 33 Buffalo 10.

If Trent fails it's all on him. Teams can lose games with poor coaching, but individual player failures are virtually never coaching related. When 31 teams other than the team that cuts a former 1st rounder want nothing to do with the guy, there's a pretty good chance that their scouts know it wasn't coaching that caused the guy to fail. Guys can't cut it in the NFL every day, anyone who blames coaching for a guy's failure, especially in JP's case where he had a top QB mentor in Sam Wyche, is just not seeing the truth. I think Trent will have a fine career, but if he doesn't nobody should blame the coaches. 31 other teams let Trent fall to the bottom of the 3rd round where the Bills drafted him, so it's not like he was a flawless guy coming out of Stanford. In your line of reasoning, Cincinnati's poor coaching ruined Akili Smith, the 3rd pick in the draft. Never mind the guy was illiterate when it came to reading defenses & couldn't cut it in Green Bay or even the CFL. QBs who are football mentally deficient (like Akili & JP) can't be helped or ruined by coaching, they just can't react well on the field and no coach can change that. Look at what we tried with Bledsoe with the stop watches-the guy just didn't have the internal clock & nothing could help him. That's why Bledsoe never was anything better than good-even Belichick couldn't make him great & dumped him as soon as he realized Brady had the inate smarts, that no coach can teach, to play the position at a much higher level than Bledsoe. In 1986 Felser wrote a great article on QBs who make something out of very little. It was about what Jim Kelly would face in Buffalo. Here's a key sentence from the article, which appeared in the 8/11/86 Sporting News: "If he plans to translate those claims into reality in the record book, he will have to make something out of very little for the Bills, because that is what most of the great quarterbacks have done." Nowhere did Felser express any fear that the Bills, who were very poorly coached by Hank Bullough & company, would ruin Jim Kelly.