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Awesome stuff, thanks for sharing. The Dog and Doug show!

Few papers are as accomplished at headlines as the NY Daily News.

Yep. Basically it's like scraping away the dead bone back to where it's healthy with a blood supply.

I didn't see any specifics, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was a debridement of the infected bone.

Tough stuff. These are the things I treat all the time, and they can be very tough when they get into the bone. Often they don't cause tremendous discomfort (unlike scrotal MRSA, good heavens), but it's very hard to eliminate infections once they get into the bone, even with antibiotics. Usually it requires surgery to debride the infected bone as well. He'll try a two month course of antibiotics and see how it goes, and hopefully we don't hear about it again.

The implication being, we don't play until a week from Sunday, so not much changes for our playoff tracking until well into November.

It's strange to think, but it seems like the prevailing thought is that we got all those turnovers but "settled" for FGs. But we scored 5 TDs and 3 FGs in that game. Can't really ask for much more than that.

Thanks, good stuff there. Nice to be thinking about these things well into November, for a change.

I think you have the right idea. In any case, I really really really really hope they can keep this defensive line together for a few more years.

Interesting that the teams in each division are sorted by point differential rather than wins.

If Kiko was playing this year, maybe. Let's hope they can find a way to keep that D-line together a little longer. Next year, with a year of experience in Schwartz's system under their belts and a fresh Kiko, who knows...

Says you...

This is spot on, really. I remember watching Orton his first few years in the league -- my brother-in-law is a Bears fan and season ticket holder, so we're both up on each other's teams -- and he was bad. Really bad. He certainly seemed to find something those couple of years in Denver, but while he was in Chicago he was nearly unwatchable. Like you said, though, I'm not taking anything away from his current play. He's doing well, and I hope he continues it, of course. But I don't see him as a long-term solution.

It's a two-way street. Spikes may not want to stick around if he's not getting the playing time he wants. He probably believes he's a full-time, three-down starter, and wants to get paid as such. If the market agrees, I'm sure he'd want to be elsewhere.

My plan is to watch them and enjoy. As for the team, I think they put Brown in the middle, which I believe is where he is best suited, and say goodbye to Spikes. Bradham on one side, Kiko on the other. Bad things, man.

Good question. I do recall one play where Wood completely whiffed on one of the DTs, who tackled the runner well behind the line of scrimmage. Granted, it's just one play, but it was really bad.

The Bills are not good enough to give away 3 points right before the half every time. Against the one-win Jets, maybe, but not against most other teams.

Left Tackles do get some, not so much Right Tackles and Centers, and almost never Guards. If there's one thing this season has taught me, is that Guards are a lot more important than I used to think. Why they don't get more recognition is quite strange to me.

"52 is the Mike!"

Actually, I doubt it. Well after the ball was released, Boobie was still at the 2-yard line, with two defenders coming right at him. Actually, I'd say you are definitely intending to be a party pooper.

Looks like a well designed play, in that Orton had at least three open receivers to choose from. Here's Hogan on the opposite side, as Orton was throwing. Obviously the play was going to Sammy all the way, but if he was thinking Hogan, he was very open at the goal line (that defender is not moving toward Hogan as it appears -- Hogan actually made a really nice fake outside before slanting in, causing the defender to twist around): Likewise, Chandler was open as well. Not as easy to see because of camera motion, but Chandler is in the upper left corner of the next picture. He's running toward the top for the back corner of the end zone (sort of a cross with Hogan), and is well ahead of the defender behind him: Nice to see a well-designed play for the final, game-ending challenge. I'm not a big Hackett fan, but he sure got this one right.

What's interesting is that if you watch the replay, the side judge who is right there comes in and marks the spot with his foot, right smack on the one yard line. It's another ref who comes in afterward to grab the ball and place it at the line of scrimmage, and he completely messes it up by ignoring the side judge and his foot.

Not so sure I agree with you on Seantrel, John. I think he has a good future in the league, but I think he needs more time to learn and practice. In the meantime, we need someone like Pears or Hairston to get back there and keep people off Orton. Henderson's becoming too much of a liability.

https://vine.co/v/Obv9tViLvxL Sorry if already posted elsewhere...