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BECK wrote it? Didn't even catch that. Enough said. Move it somewhere else please.

I'd just as soon have them not even TALKING about the Bills! If the team gets past Jacksonville, the path is relatively clear towards a 4-1 record (with a possible upset in Arizona). Buffalo gets out to 4-1/5-0, don't worry. The chatter will never stop. It'll be like the annual Cinderella in March Madness. I agree - let's just see them get the job done. It's been a LONG time since the playoffs.

Glanced at it real quick and thought it read "Unsmeaing Putin". In fairness, it belongs elsewhere.

Knew I screwed it up when I typed it. Thanks. But it was a great speech, and a spectacular pastry.

This guy sounds scared to death. Talk about whistling past the graveyard. Yell a little louder, sonny Jim. The ghosts and demons might run away.

Ich bien ein Berliner! One of the most stirring speeches in the history of the Republic. Bummer he was a pastry. But all Americans should watch that tape. Truly.

Yes. Without a doubt. And isn't free speech a wonderful thing? Unless, of course, you approve of having only one opinion being allowed (and crammed down your throat), in which case you could watch Buffalo Bills football in.....well, some pretty nasty places. I saw the replay of the blessed knee-crunch, and then the cutaway to the fans filing down the walkway. That editor and producer should be crowned kings-for-a-day. That was funnier than hell. Quick, subtle and incisive.

Sounds more melodramatic than it needs to - "I'm heading for Berlin". Apologies. But I'm heading there for business, and will be at the Westin over the weekend. If there are any Bills fans out there that have experience picking up the Bills in Germany - particularly Berlin - please post a note. The schedule is flexible enough that I could head to a particular sports bar if you know of one. And don't send me to some goddamn gay S/M bar, okay? I just want to watch the game.

Dean! Great to see you back! How are you doing? Oh, wait. Better make this football-related. Um.....Merriman lost a couple of chromosomes from living downwind of the acetone factory for too many years. Good. The Wall seems oddly normal again.

Apologies for being too lazy to look this up, but who's the Jags' backup QB? This could seriously be a game in which the big injury happens to Garrard. Don't worry, I'm not calling for "head hunting", but Stroud's going to be a man possessed, and the pocket's going to be a-collapsing. Quarterbacks who are scrambling around for their lives tend to scramble into bad situations.

I'm the last person to really get out there and crow at the top of my lungs, but you might be right at 4-1. The switch I'd make, however, might indeed be Arizona for Jacksonville. 1) Jacksonville - Tuten Reyes is starting. Let THAT roll off your tongue. Tuten Reyes. There's a reason he's no longer with the Bills, and was last seen as a bank teller. And HE'S a NAME in that line. I don't want to know what the other guys were doing last year. That O-Line is going to get crushed this weekend, and the Bills' secondary is going to feast. If the Bills' offense plays like it did in the second half of Sunday's game, there's no way Jacksonville's going to keep up. 2) Arizona - Played SF pretty well this weekend. More to the point, however, is that this is the Bills' longest (geographically) road trip of the season. The schedule gods put all the Pacific teams in Orchard Park. The farthest West the Bills have to play is Phoenix. It's not as bad as coming East three time zones, but it's still a heckuva trip. This all having been said, I'd take 4-1 with an NFC loss over 4-1 with an AFC loss any day of the week.

Keep yer head down and yer mouth shut. Life below the radar is a good thing.

I just think it's absolutely wonderful. Words have not been invented that can describe my lack of sympathy, or even empathy. The only thing that could have been better would have been the cart. It's hard to imagine any icing on the cake, but watching all the Pats* bandwagoneers spilling helplessly into the nearest gutter as the team goes 5-6 would come close. Watch what happens when MORE people get injured, and when MORE teams start exacting revenge for last season.

The Bills are suddenly NOT a team against which you want to be 3 men short on the O-Line. Not a good situation at all. I keep harping on the interplay between the pressure on the D-Line and the Bills' secondary. Stroud's going to be pumped, that's for sure. McGee, Greer, Simpson and Whitner (let's not forget Yobouty) are simply licking their chops. These guys are all reviewing their contracts and looking at the "Number of Interceptions" clauses, and are mentally already buying retirement properties in Barbados.

Go, Roscoe, Go! Way to call it!

Don't get me wrong - I think Sullivan is a whiny ass-bag who would probably find something negative to say even as the Bills were hoisting the Lombardi trophy amidst a torrent of confetti. But I find it hard as hell to dispute this sentence: "When it really matters, they don’t stop people. When a team shows up with a solid quarterback and a complete attack, the Bills’ defense gets thrown around the field." He's right on this point, and you know it, and I know it. Barring injury (note how I started with that all-important statement): 1) This secondary could be in the top-5 in the league. 2) The linebackers are good, not great. In fact, they may not be all that "good". 3) It's going to come down to Stroud plugging the middle, hence a 3rd and 5th. And if Stroud plays like he's worth a 3rd and a 5th, we can cut this article out and use it as a suppository for Mr. Sullivan.

That was actually pretty good. Looks like I found the "big people table".

Jeez, VOR. Sorry. I jumped the gun. My secondary point is that it's usually easier to go East-to-West. Apologies.

Got the sheet-shorting and fibreglass-insulation-in-the-pillows done JUST in time. Timing's everything.

They're professionals. That the part with which I'll agree. Experts in traveling across country? NO ONE is an expert in traveling across country. Least of all these kids. They're in their 20s, they land in Buffalo (with no transfer, assuming they took the charter) after a 5 hour flight, and it feels like three hours ago with regards to their body clock. No harm, no foul. Until they try to go to sleep. Presto. It's still three hours behind. 10:00 P.M. feels like 7:00 P.M., 11:00 P.M. feels like 8:00 P.M., etc. That's fine until you have to wake up. Then things start to suck a lot. Don't get me wrong - I'm not expecting the entire Frappacinos team to miss the bus to the stadium. I'm not expecting ANYONE to miss the bus to the stadium. But I can assure you it's not a good feeling in the morning to come from PDT to EDT and expect to function at 100%. Maybe at 96%. 4% means a lot at this level. Even to professionals.

Always harder to go from West to East. They're in Buffalo/Orchard Park at the moment, but their bodies aren't going to want to sleep at 1000h. Morning shows up awfully early. Wonder if they're all on Ambien? Throw in the fact that two of their receivers were tending bar at Casey's Grill last year, and the Bills look to be in good shape.

Sorry. This is possibly the funniest post in the past 24 hours. At least in MY mind. Too many places to go with this one. Jesus, I can't stop laughing.

THAT'S a Youtube special. Bummer you didn't catch it on the cell phone, dammit.

I'd buy that score, but I'd replace McLovin's TD with a pickoff and return. I don't care by whom. But I think we're going to be making Hasselback's life miserable if he tries to go more than 20 yards deep.

That was unbelieveable. 90% of those kids' computers could use a V-chip. They must be growing a lot of good weed up in the Yakima Valley.