BobbyC81

Trent Edwards starts season as #1 QB. O-Line is horrible again in pass protection and TE becomes "Captain Checkdown" again before suffering a season-ending injury on a sack. Fitz takes over and he too goes down with a season-ending injury. Injuries also hit the O-line again and Reuben Brown is brought in out of retirement. Brohm struggles behind the make-shift O-line and Levi Brown starts the last 3 games. Schobel decides to play but, after struggling to pick up his 3-4 assignments, decides to retire at midseason. After injuries to Dallas D-line, Cowboys acquire rights to Schobel for 2020 7th round pick and talk him out of retirement. As pass rush specialist, he has 8 sacks in last 5 games and is Defensive Player of Month for December. Jason Campbell leads a much improved Oakland offense & team to 8-8 record. CJ Spiller lives up to college reputation and brings excitement to another dismal season with several long scoring plays and gets good number of votes for AFC Offensive Rookie of Year. With Bills struggling, reporter asks Dick Jauron about Bills problems. Jauron states (I know everyone knows this is coming) "It's tough to win in the NFL"

There were dozens of Hank malaprops. He was our Yogi Berra.

I'd still like to know who Whitey was.

LOL!! I still have my Flutie Flakes. Never opened it & would not want to after all this time. Who knows what's growing in there.

Could have had one if they drafted Tebow. I'm jusy sayin'

Schedule seems brutal but I'll go with the dreaded 7-9. 2009 schedule seemed tough due to playing the NFC South but the Bills won 2 and stayed with the eventual Super Bowl Champ Saints til the 4th qtr. A review of the 2009 results reminded me how close some games were that could've resulted in a better record. The Bills defense against the run wasn't as bad as the final per game average indicates. Yes, they did give up 156.3 yds per game. Amazingly, about a 3rd (791) of the total rushing yards (2500) were given up in 3 games: 1. New Orleans- 224 yds- Bills shut down Brees and Pierre Thomas had most of his 126 yards in the 4th qtr 2. NY Jets- Game 1- 318 yds- Thomas Jones with 210- most on the 71 yd TD and another long run- Bills still won game 3. NY Jets Game 2- 249 yds Also, in most games, more rushing yards were given up in the 4th qtr as the pathetic offense kept the poor conditioned defense on the field too long and they wore down. Switching to the 3-4 should be an improvement and the offense has to be better.

I have noticed that the occasional Miami road game late in the year is almost as much of a disadvantage for the Bills as the Dolphins visiting Buffalo in Nov & Dec. It's tough to go from cold weather to hot & humid and adapt in a couple days.

And in some of the worst weather games. I was back in Buffalo for Thanksgiving one year, as was my brother from Texas so a bunch of us went to a game vs the Jets. Think it was '96, Kelly's last year. The Bills won easily and one play I remember was rookie Eric Moulds returning a kickoff back. It was so cold, despite neither my brother or I seeing a home game in several years, we left early in the 4th qtr. Not even the beer we drank helped. We also went for hot chocolate late in the 1st qtr and they were already sold out of it.

Definitely. Say you stole a CD from a store. If you get caught, you can't just hand it back, say you're sorry and that's it. You may just get probation in that case but stealing all this money shouldn't go so lightly punished just because it was returned. Now she did get 5 years probation. Perhaps with her history she is likely to get caught doing something else and end up in jail. This shouldn't be the case though. This probation is a slight deterrent to her doing something like it again.

You know I was being optimistic about the upcoming season, believing a 6-win team last year could win more with a better coaching staff. Then I looked at 2 things: 1. The Yahoo ranking of units with the Bills being near the bottom in all of them. I can't dispute them. The O-line, D-line, quarterback, & wide receiver units are all very weak. 2. The schedule- I don't think they're going to win a divisional game with the other 3 teams all improving more than the Bills and there are only 3 winnable games (Kansas City, Detroit & Cleveland). They might have a chance vs Jacksonville & Chicago at home but I think we're looking at 4 wins ay best/ I hope I'm wrong and they're more competitive but right now I have few reasons to be optimistic.

Then you may not have been paying close enuff attention to the Bills' offseason moves.

You gotta be positive to put the LA Clippers logo for your sig

You mean like the Shout box constantly being used to discuss Dave Matthews??

Right on!!!

Left tackle Jeff Backus is better than what we have. They did give up 43 sacks though, albeit most with a rookie QB.

Houston has also not seen one of their teams in the Super Bowl and were also an original AFL team. Titans (formerly Oilers) made it but not as Oilers.

"It's hard to win in the NFL..."

Yep, '84 team was pretty bad at 2-14. That's why we got Bruce. The '71 team not only had the league's worst record at 1-13, but they scored the fewest pts and gave up the most, outscored 394 to 184. I remember one game vs the Colts where they had like -13 yards passing.

That's "Freakin' Lonnie Johnson" as someone on this board liked to say

I think you can put a line through Carr. He's going to be SF backup.

And then everybody was disappointed when they went back to his place and nothing happened?? What a society!!

Last season they showed a lack of leadership after guys like Bruschi, Vrabel, etc left

Lynch listed on buffalobills.com as 5-11, 215. Fred Jackson is 6-1, 215. Joique Bell listed as 5-11, 220. I guess only difference is running style??

No, a swallow is a bird!! Still makes no sense though.

Let's see. So, he should've used more paragraphs. And maybe shorter sentences. Then you may have read it?? Is this correct?