Dr. K

I don't get the Jasper love so many people on the board seem to have. He can't play. Maybe he will eventually but I have my doubts.

Murray on a tremendous tear; Bills run D shaky, Kelsay and Kyle Williams out Boys at home Stevie sick, Jones with a bad ankle Bills playing a kicker off the street with a 73% record on field goals Bills with backup at LT, just returning from injury, against league's leading sack artist Romo with time to throw can carve you up; Bills pass rush spotty I'd say if the Bills manage to win this it's a major step.

I had them for 9-7 before the season, and I think they still have a good shot at that. But There's still time for either a total collapse or a run at the playoffs. This team is still very much a work in progress, and I can't really tell how good they are. I figured they were far better than a bottom-feeder, but what's the top end right now? I think 9-7 is still pretty optimistic even if that means they only need to go 4-4 the rest of the season.

This is another idiotic post. Yes. If I had to choose between Christie & Lindell I would choose Christie. Christie was the best kicker the Bills have ever had. That has nothing to do with the fact that the Bills are going to be in a much more vulnerable position using any of the substitutes that are available for the time Lindell will be out. And anyone who thinks that they'll be better off, and should put Lindell on IR, is, IMHO, a fool.

Half the comments on here degrading Lindell are idiotic. He has the highest percentage of made field goals in the history of Bills kickers. Thye complain that he can't kick it out of the end zone when the Bills deliberately kick it high and short to the corner to make the return men take it out, and this season following this strategy they have tackled the return man inside the 20 repeatedly. The guy thy are replacing him with has made only 73% of his field goals in his career, these fans want the Bills to put Lindell on IR? I just hope we don't get in situations depending on this guy to win games for us.

I agree with this. Yes, Freddie has been great, but I have been afraid they are riding him into the ground. I know it must be hard to take him out when he has made so many significant, clutch plays, but I fear that if they keep this up he won't make it to game 10. Plus, Spiller has shown steady improvement and could be a huge change of pace.

+1

I had a dream last night where the Bills won 53-28. All I remember is the score, not the game. 53 is an odd score. It's hard to do without kicking a lot of field goals or missing some extra points.

Absolutely not. It's a curse.

+1

I had them at 9-7 before the season started.

Moby Dick was all white, and he kicked a$$.

I agree. A simple way to cut through the distractions on this is to ask the question, "Who is the audience for this display of piety?" Is the prayer simply a prayer, or is it in some part, to a greater or lesser degree, a performance? For the Pharisee, the display is the object--his prayer is in public because he WANTS others (people who don't believe as he does) to see it and be chastened. The audience isn't God, the audience is human beings he wants to influence. That's, I think, why Jesus admonished people to pray in private, so they would not get a communication with God confused with a performance for other people. In that context, who does Tebow think he is performing for when he prays on field? (I've never seen him play, so I am taking others' word for it that he does this) I guess some Christians think that God wants this performance (it's "testifying") but I'm not sure Jesus would agree. But I think a lot of things Christians do in his name would appall Jesus, and since I'm not a Christian of that sort, my opinion is probably out of bounds.

The Pharisees were the "fundamentalists" of Judaism at the time; they saw the temple priests as corrupt and wanted the religion to get back to the purity of the past. Jesus, the Jew, saw the most vocal and public of them as hypocrites. We're undoubtedly going to never agree about this (and it probably doesn't belong on this page), but I see most public politicians and TV preachers as Pharisees. I don't know what's in Tim Tebow's heart, but on the field he's a football player, not a preacher. He can be a Christian football player (when I played basketball in high school in West Seneca, guys would cross themselves before shooting free throws) but I wish he would pray in his closet, as Jesus suggested.

Matthew 6:6 "But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you." Jesus condemned the Pharisees for their public displays of religiosity.

I think it's amusing how you can pick which columns on the TBD main page are written by Jerry Sullivan simply by reading the headline. I play this game whenever I come to TBD, then click on the article to see if I'm right. I invariably am. Even his "positive" columns scream "Look at me! I'm compensating!" I don't bother to read the columns anymore. He has nothing to say worth bothering about. The guy is a joke.

I think there might be an opportunity for Spiller on the end-around for a big gain. They faked it to him but didn't give him the ball against the Giants; the play went for little or no gain, but it looked to me like Spiller might have been off to the races if they had handed it off to him.

The Merriman experiment was worth a shot. His presence and commitment brought Barnett and a serious attitude. I don't see that the Bills giving him a shot cost them much; overall it was a solid net positive. Now we get to see what these young guys have got.

The Jets humiliated the Bills twice last season, worse than the Pats did to the Bills. Until the Bills prove they can beat them, they have the upper hand. But if I were the Bills, I would not be looking past Washington. Lose to the Redskins and the Bills would have dropped three of their last four, and the optimism of the first three games will have completely evaporated. Start thinking about the Jets next Monday.

In what way does pointing out how idiotic the suggestion of the OP is mean somebody is supporting every dumb move the Bills make?

You are an idiot. Or a troll.

I don't understand why so many people are eager to see Jasper on the field. They guy cannot play nose tackle. He was completely ineffectual despite his enormous size in pre-season. I'd love to see him succeed, but he's just a big body right now. he gets pushed around, can't use his hands. Troup with a bad back is better than he is.

Well reasoned.

Many people questioned Peyton Manning's arm strength when he was drafted.

In my prediction for the season, I had them 3-3 at this point, on the way to 9-7. So they're one game ahead of my expectations still. This is such a work in progress. They certainly are interesting to watch, both with strengths and weaknesses. The losses are painful, the wins are exhilarating. There's plenty of room for them to get better if they can keep the injuries to a minimum.