DanInUticaTampa

it was a bad sign the first year gailey was hear, and there were training camp reports of him not being able to focus and coaches kept repeating things to him and just not "getting it." I hate having him in the starting lineup. When williams and mcgee come back, I hope he plays behind all of them, including florence.

because people make mistakes???? like that EP by syracuse. it was obviously not good, and they reviewed it, and said it was good. everyone knows that the kicker missed that extra point. obvious mistakes happen all the time.

well, it was more than a couple inches. it looked more like a whole foot +.

for real. the team did not look good at all. had some nice flashes, but this team still has holes to fill. we def need aaron williams/ mcgee back, with mckelvin on the bench. the online still needs some work to compete with the best defenses in the nfl. and we probably need a better qb... but with a better line, fitx wouldn't be as inaccurate as he was today. and we need a new DC. we can't hack it well enough on defense. even with the raiders/chiefs, our run d didn't look good. we just didn't care because we won. and they were forced to throw a lot.

then you must have had the tv off during the sacks, the williams hit on benson behind the los, the almost fumble with the kesley hit, etc.

seems to be a first for us this season. those 3 and outs need to stop. we keep giving the ball back to them far too often.

yeah, pressure. with the exception of that drive, "so far" they pressured dalton most of the game.

except for all that pressure that has happened.

Whatever they do, I wouldn't use the wildcat with this defense at all.

dat jackson

I am pretty sure it isn't possible. I work for the forfillment company in tampa that handles that, and there is nothing on their system that lets them specify the cover that is sent. I had someone talking over lunch that a steelers fan was angry he couldn't get the steelers cover a month ago instead of the falcons cover. I would send out a bills copy, but the ones they gave us has a walter payton cover. the bills cover might be given out later.

you are right. since what we say doesn't impact the team, that means we shouldn't say things, speculate, wish for things, or curse things we don't like. we really should post at all, because it won't impact the team.

I don't know. draft talk is just draft talk to me, or to anyone that watches college football. If you watch both college football and the nfl, it is hard not to talk about it. Especially if you see players you like in college and want them to come to your team. and it is ONE thread from what I can see. it isn't like it is a flood of threads talking about drafting. and the draft thread is far from a doom and gloom thread. it is more hopeful than anything.

exactly. there hasn't been much draft talk aside from astrobot, and his posts are pretty informative. hardly something to complain about. it is amazing how with a 3-0 start and people still find things to complain about. "how dare you like these college players and say you want them on the bills! that makes me soooooo mad!" like really. CAn't people enjoy the growing of a young team and hope it keeps getting better or do we have to nitpick and complain about meaningless things, still?

It is pretty good. but I wouldn't say it is better than say, california. though that might be me thinking the grass is always greener on the otherside. Ybor isn't what it used to be, but still plenty of good looking girls outnumbering the guys easy.

and for good reason. it isn't like the receiving corps is doing a bad job. But I would be singing a different tune if jones didn't step up in the 2nd half against the pats*. He had me nervous there in the 1st.

lots of credit going to jackson too. the guy has been great at picking up the blitz. awesome that he is willing to get his hands dirty and block for basically anyone on the team, not just the QB.

most of the big plays they let go were in the first half. they stepped it up more in the 2nd. They had no answer for grankowski. the guy was just too big. Aaron willialms stuck to him like glue most of the first half and grankowsi still was able to make the play just because his arms were so long. They really screwed up on the Ochocinco play. but really, they stuck to those recievers well and made plays when they could. most of those catches were the result of no pass rush rather than bad coverage. when brady has all day to throw, it is impossible to cover those guys.

agreed. thank god our secondary magically stepped up. they were glued to those recievers pretty well. Hopefully the secondary plays like that more often. As for our pass rush, I am not sure what to think of it. It is hard to pressure brady because that oline is amazing, and oakland has a pretty good line as well. I think the bills were a little silly to put all the pass rushing hopes on merriman, who has played better than I expected (by staying "healthy"), but hasn't been able to really pressure anyone. he did pressure brady once pretty well though. I was hoping dareus would be able to get some more qb pressure than he has, but his right now in minmal as well. Im hoping the defense improves over time this season.

biggest difference is beating a divional opponent. that is waaaaay different than 2008

I was glad he called those timeouts. didn't want any of that "calling a timeout right before the FG to get in the kicker's head" nonesense.

love the oline so far. the biggest weakness for us right now is pass rush..... and I don't think that is going to be an easy fix. there are quite a few good teams that have been trying for years to get a real pass rush and still haven't. We also totally shut down their run. not that they ran it much.

pretty much. but to be fair, florence and mckelvin really stepped up. florence I wasn't as big of a surprise, but they did good. That grankowski though is a tough one to cover. it is almost impossible. he is bigger than chandler, and I am assuming has long arms. our CBs (I think williams was on him most of the game) were on him pretty well going deep, and he was just too big. The real mismatch was when we had a LB covering him though. that didn't look purdy. if it wasn't for grankowski, our defense would have killed them. they had no run game and the only other reciever doing anything was welker.

can't remember. it might have been the 4th, but I am pretty sure it was in the middle of the 3rd right before a pats* score.