Rubes

While there is some validity to this, I don't fully buy into it. To me, football is one part planning, one part execution. Just ask New England. When San Diego got the ball on their 25 in the fourth quarter with a 14-point lead to protect, everyone and their mother knew what they were going to do. Run, run again, and then run some more. 11 runs (and 3 passes, all on 3rd down) later, they were kicking a short figgie to put it away. New England knew what the plan was, but they couldn't stop it anyway.

This is why I keep coming back here every day! I just can't imagine this place without Mark.

Personally, I think this is more of the pseudo-mind games this staff is trying to play. Make the Jets think about him, for whatever it's worth (which is not much, really). I expect him to be made inactive on Sunday, then maybe we'll see him next week...

All this bad-mouthing of the refs and no mention of the gimme call the refs gave the Patsies yesterday?

I love reading this...once again, a sports reporter not doing his homework. Willis ran 16 times. The team ran 23 times.

Or, as TMQ put it this week: We're rapidly approaching 3 years.

Well, as long as they keep asking him to kick FGs of 40 yards or less, he'll do fine.

The cast was removed. I still give him another 2 weeks.

Thought this was yet another thread about the Bills moving to LA...

For the record, the Bengals won that classic Monday night return to Cincinnati the next game 23-10. Palmer was 12-of-21 for 198 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT. The Broncos were 5-1 and had the top-rated defense in the NFL at the time. From some random blog after that game:

Hmm. So they knew every time we were going to run the ball, yet they really couldn't do much to stop McGahee. What does that mean? Maybe what he meant by "predictable" was, "Once we saw McGahee ripping some nice runs on that first drive we could predict that they would abandon the running game from then on."

I'll buy that for a dollar!

Somehow this reminds me of the argument during the offseason to start JP over Drew: "He couldn't possibly be worse than Drew, right?" Guess what...no matter how bad things may look, there is always worse.

We've had zero passing game the last three and a half weeks. No surprise to anyone, as far as I know. They should have all expected us to run the ball as much as possible since that's what the coaches have been saying we were going to do all offseason. Defenses haven't been worried about Losman for a while now, but they still haven't stopped McGahee all that well yet. We're pretty decent at running the ball, when we do. Question is, when will we?

well said!

Per TD: WTF? How many of us were watching the game screaming at the TV every time they frigging blew a drive by abandoning the run? It doesn't take hindsight, man. Half the city saw that crap while it was happening. The other half was in the can. Personally, at half time I was ready to rip into the staff for giving Willis 3 carries in the entire first half after that brilliant first drive.

Personally, I laughed my a$$ off when I read this guy's question: Awesome!

To think we were so close to getting Rothlisberger...

Let me get this straight...you say "he who laughs last, laughs best", and then you proceed to laugh first? Yep, Dolphins fan all right.

You can bet your a$$ TMQ will use that one for his column this week.

I agree to some extent, but for me it was when we had them pinned back inside their 10 yard line, and it was 3rd and long. First down, team deflates, end of story.

I'm not exactly sure why, but this had me laughing out loud!

Kinda like your avatar, I guess!

I think, besides the maddening abandonment of the successful running game, this was the most frustrating thing about this game. How many times did we give them first downs by a defensive penalty, on third down? How many offensive penalties do we have to endure? By the quarter mark of the season, we shouldn't be seeing such bush league crap.

Combined score in the three games. So much for the toughest division in football!