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Trying to generate any measure of enthusiasm for either...

Nicely done. I think these examples are a great illustration of why constantly changing offensive coordinators can leave an offense spinning its wheels. Several seasons with the same coordinator can provide the necessary repetition and practice to reduce the number of errors or blown assignments.

Remember when we were talking about how Wood is injury prone and never stays on the field? Injuries happen, sometimes they linger throughout a season. Glenn will be back, and injuries may or may not be a problem down the line. But he's a damn good OT, no reason to get rid of him. We can have two.

Hardly one of the worst. That Peterman game gets a lot of attention because of the INTs, of course, but the defense that day was historically bad. They weren't beating anyone with or without Tyrod. If you want to give McDermott the blame for fielding a defense that smelled like ass, then do so, but thinking that we would have won had Tyrod started is delusional considering how bad that defense was. I'm more pissed about the Jets game than I am the Chargers game.

Sorry to put a damper on things, but...

It's a simple observation, I know. But at the same time, I don't care that much if we traded guys, dumped guys because of salary, got others to replace them by trade or FA. The point is that we used our top 3 picks on guys who for one reason or another -- poor talent, regime change, didn't fit the system, whatever -- aren't forming the core of this team. How many of those guys made huge contributions to the team before leaving? How many never found another starting job? How many went elsewhere and became long-term starters? No matter how you look at it, the draft has done far too little for us.

There is, but it's going to take a long time...

2009 1 Aaron Maybin – GONE 2009 1 Eric Wood – Starter 2009 2 Jairus Byrd – GONE 2009 2 Andy Levitre – GONE 2010 1 C.J. Spiller – GONE 2010 2 Torell Troup – GONE 2010 3 Alex Carrington – GONE 2011 1 Marcell Dareus – GONE 2011 2 Aaron Williams – GONE 2011 3 Kelvin Sheppard – GONE 2012 1 Stephon Gilmore – GONE 2012 2 Cordy Glenn – Starter 2012 3 T.J. Graham – GONE 2013 1 EJ Manuel – GONE 2013 2 Robert Woods – GONE 2013 2 Kiko Alonso – GONE 2013 3 Marquise Goodwin – GONE 2014 1 Sammy Watkins – GONE 2014 2 Cyrus Kouandjio – GONE 2014 3 Preston Brown – Starter 2015 1 NONE 2015 2 Ronald Darby – GONE 2015 3 John Miller – NOT EVEN ACTIVE 2016 1 Shaq Lawson – Starter 2016 2 Reggie Ragland – GONE 2016 3 Adolphus Washington – Starter Gotta build your team around the first three rounds. So few of them left.

That is completely ridiculous. Like someone said, Nate knew it was a smack to his head and was going to be a penalty on SD by the way he reacted. Unbelievable.

So are you saying that's what happened? The ref picked up the flag?

I was watching with the sound off, and was in and out during the game, but on one of Peterman's interceptions it looked like he got smacked in the head by the Chargers defender, and the ref threw the flag. Looked like a clear unnecessary roughness penalty, so I figured the INT was coming back. Next I looked the Chargers were snapping the ball, so what happened? Did the ref pick up the flag? I sincerely hope not. If that happened to Tommy Boy the defender probably would have been ejected for life and the Pats*** given an automatic touchdown.

Why not? They have a plan, they should stick with it.

Which is pretty much why Peterman will start again this week.

When we let all those talented draft picks go, it seemed like genius when their cheap replacements were playing and producing almost as well. We had decent, cheap players who were learning how to win, and the future looked bright. Now that the bottom has fallen out, and those cheap players are showing their true value, we're finding that we have a huge talent void on the team with nobody to build around, and a grim future because we have to find all new talent and hope we get it all right. Man, it really sucks to be a Bills fan.

Getting really hard to give a crap anymore.

I get it now...trick the Chargers into thinking Peterman is the starting QB, so they don't prepare the usual defense for TT...then switch 'em up right after the game starts and BAM! We have them right where we want them.

No, these games alternate sites each time. So yes, it will be at Lambeau.

There are only a few times when I read something online and literally LOL. This one did it.

There are no longer any different IR designations. They've done away with that. Now, anyone placed on IR can come back after 8 weeks, but you can only do that for two players in a season, I believe.

That's right at the top for me, too. What an amazing feeling. Another great one was the 9-6 game against the Jets that clinched the division. You could probably hear the sound of Fred Smerlas big paw blocking the potential game-winning field goal from outside the stadium. My father and I were at that one, and he HATED traffic, so we left our seats and watched the FG from the top of the aisle. When it was blocked, we rushed back to our seats.

I really think that it's the pass rush. Earlier in the season we were getting pressure on QBs, now...not so much. We don't blitz a lot and depend on the front four to get pressure, but they have been doing poorly at that recently. Not sure why.

I wandered in during the D&C days. Man, it has been a really !@#$ing long time. Kind of hard to believe, really.

Good one.

A white out against the Jets in a huge game? Seems like we tried that once before...

He does. He blew out his ACL in 2015 and has had soreness in that same knee this year. Two weeks ago he left practice because of frustration with his knee. Sitting him this week would be like an extra bye for him to rest it.