Dr. K

Well said, and I take your point. But anybody who's been paying attention knows this. And Bill never stops harping on it. Even in this OP, where he seems to be praising Spiller, he's still complaining. It is the definition of tiresome.

Yeah, I guess that's the problem. I should write better.

What are you talking about? I was very happy the Bills drafted Spiller. Bill in NYC the one who complained it was a lousy choice, that Ralph Wilson made Nix draft Spiller solely in order to sell tickets even though we needed to draft an OT. Bill's repeated harping on this wacky theory (as if no sane GM would draft Spiller in the Bills' situation) is what I was complaining about, not the drafting of Spiller. You should be making this comment to Bill, not me.

I can't believe you don't realize this yet, but maybe you can't see it: You are so amazingly tiresome with your one-note whining and crackpot theories on why Spiller was drafted. Anyone reading one of your posts can know exactly what it will say before reading it. Should have drafted an OT. Ralph made them draft Spiller to sell tickets. Defensive backs should never be drafted high. and then you try to compensate for your incessant kvetching at the end with your "GO BILLS!" ...Sorry to go off on you, but it really gets on my nerves after a while.

I don't think that TD to Evans was a busted play at all. It was designed that way, the three backs were in there to confuse the Colts' defense and make the wary of the run, and it worked perfectly when they bit hard on the run and Evans was able to run through them to get wide open. That play actually made me see the kind of thing that Gailey brings to the game as an offensive play designer that people have said of him--that he can design an offense to get the most out of the players he has, show them in a way that makes them look better than they have before. It's only one play, in the pre-season, so I won't draw any big conclusions yet. But I know I came out of my seat when I saw it.

They should never have built the stadium on that Indian burial ground.

Gosh, what a refreshingly original point of view.

Brees wasn't in any way shape or form a "high-profile" free agent. He was a quarterback with a bum arm, who had just had surgery in the off-season, and who had had one good season after three mediocre-to-bad ones.

Your argument (on this narrow point at least) still makes no sense. Johnson beat the coverage, and apparently Edwards' pass did not allow the cornerback to catch up to him. Edwards still got the ball out there (in fact, TOO FAR out there) no matter how much "air he put under the ball." Either he didn't put too much air under the ball or maybe putting too much air under the ball is not a problem. The "he puts too much air under the ball" is, in other words, as BS argument. You'd be better off just saying Edwards doesn't see open receivers, or misses them when he does see them. Frankly, all this QB back and forth on the board makes me ill. There' absolutely nothing to be said that hasn't been said three hundred times over. All I'm hoping to see is that one of the QBs seizes the starting job clearly and unequivocally. I don't care which one, and I'm not prepared to say which it ought to be.

I agree that this Thursday game is a big deal for Edwards. If he can't move the team or otherwise screws up, Gailey has to think about going with one of the other quarterbacks--unless they prove to be equally inept against the Colts. This actually make for an interesting preseason game. I also want to see whether the defense and special teams can bounce back from bad performances, and whether Bell and Wood get some playing time on the o-line, and how the line looks with them in there.

Aren't these things contradictory? He puts too much air under his deep passes so the DB catches up to the receiver, but he overthrew Johnson on a deep pass?

I didn't realize you were down on the sidelines with him, examining his soul. Are you the team shrink?

You are absolutely right.

Looked to me like Scott got burned to a crisp on the one touchdown where he was supposed to back up Corner on the post route. He bit on the outside fake and was completely useless. I've liked him well in the past, but this scheme depends on better coverage skills from everyone back there.

Put me down also as being over-optimistic going into this game. It was tough to watch after the first series, and even on that series it ended with a classic Bills moment--Lynch's run to the two yard line called back on a hold. Too many miastakes, the secondary gets torched again and again, the offense looks useless. And even the special teams sucked (though there was a clear block in the back on Washington's PR TD. But there's not denying the Bills looked totally overmatched against a team that won four games last season. I still hope they improve, but they've got a long way to go.

"fly guy" = 1940s afam hipster slang. Nat "King" Cole Trio: "I'm a fly guy Not a shy guy I never missed a trick . . ." "She's My Buddy's Chick," 1946.

I hope these guys keep piling on. I love it. Gimme more! Slap it on the bulletin board and we'll see what happens.

Only two of the o-line starters to play Friday. Wow. I mean they're not much to begin with, but I wonder how the offense can perform at all with such a dicey situation.

Only two of the o-line starters to play Friday. Wow. I mean they're not much to begin with, but I wonder how the offense can perform at all with such a dicey situation.

There's a big difference between brutal honesty and self-aggrandizing provocation. IMHO his writing is much more of the latter than the former. He thinks he's "bold" when he's acting like a jerk. Even when he's right.

Jerry Sullivan, right or wrong, is and has always been a horse's ass.

I just re-upped for $40. Yes, you can see all the games from last season, plus all the playoff games.

Well, I thought it was funny, and I have always been loyal to the Queen City of the Lakes. I take it as the kind of mockery friends tease each other with. Your mileage may differ. He's well aware that most jokes people make about Buffalo you could file the serial numbers off and make about Philly.

A writer friend of mine just published this. I thought it might amuse. (He lives in Philly, and I gave him a hard time about the Eagles) Your Streets, O Buffalo! Your Streets Filled of Light! by Michael Swanwick These are things that Daniel Francken never says about Buffalo: All roads lead to Buffalo, New York. Even the neediest citizen of that happy city would scorn to leave it for all of Ted Turner’s wealth. In the spring, the fountains run with sparkling white wine. In the autumn, they spout dark red ale. The building spires are all topped with gems. Though the suavest and most agile jewel thieves in the world live there, they scorn to defile their city’s skyline by taking them. The winters are moderated by the proximity of Canada, which softens the winds, and of the lake which gently warms them. The summers are so clement that nobody in Buffalo owns an air conditioner, and many don’t even know what one is. The white sand beaches of Lake Erie are one of the world’s greatest secrets. Famous Brazilian beauties come to sunbathe topless by the crystalline waters, knowing that nobody there would be so ungentlemanly as to harass them. So much like Paradise is this great city that if a unicorn were to materialize in Delaware Park, nobody would be surprised. See Buffalo and die! Its streets are paved with gold. The hearts of its inhabitants are filled with song. The police are incorruptible and the criminals are in it only for the sport; they give away their spoils to the poor – of whom, in Buffalo, there are almost none. He who is tired of Buffalo is tired of life. The sports teams there always win. Those are but a few of the things that Daniel Francken never says about his home town. When he first read this story, he did not rip off the nails of both his pinky toes in a fit of frustration. (With apologies to Alice Sheldon and Jamaica Kinkaid)

My thinks too. Good stuff.