MDH

That sounds...err....painful

McKinnie sure looksa lot better than M. Williams tonight.

What did all those yards get us this year? Nadda. He did a great job for us the past 2 seasons, but he's not the best back on this team anymore.

The Playoffs are played almost 2 months from now...let's see if the Steelers can play this well for 2 more months...I doubt it. They're peaking at the wrong time...some other team will end up peaking in Dec./Jan...and that team will end up in the SB as the AFC representative...my guess, the Pats.

My interpretation of that wasn’t that Bannon was going to switch over and become an offensive lineman, but that the packages he is involved in are a permanent part of the offense.

Yep, you're aboslutely right. Even if we fall behind 14 early MM had better just keep plugging away with the running game. We have no chance in hell of winning if we throw the ball more than 25 times.

The Steelers are peaking right now...which isn't good for them in the long run. There is no way they maintain this level of play throughout the rest of the season and into the playoffs. The team that wins the AFC won't be the one that peaks in Nov. I'm not worried about the last game of the season right now. The season is a marathon, the team that looked dominant at one point of the season could be the team that tanks it late only to miss the playoffs (the Vikings anybody?).

Do you think, perhaps, that some people were "calling it like they see them" in the NJSue thread? I'm sure that doesn't count in your book though. It sounds like you have the right to "call it like you see them" and resort to name-calling...but nobody else does.

Again, the namecalling. I wish SDS would do something about this...

Laugh, the hypocrisy of some people is absolutely hilarious. So, it's all right for you to call people pathetic and such, but it’s not okay for them to call someone else a name? Why, because you feel you have a legitimate reason to call someone a name? Has it ever crossed your mind that they feel they have a legitimate reason as well? Whether you agree with their reasoning or not isn’t the point. You and BF have no clue how ridiculous you look when you resort to name-calling when the entire point of your posts is that this type of behavior has made the wall unbearable.

Hell, if we'd just held on to win 1 of those 2 games in which we had a late lead...we'd be 4-4 right now and right in the thick of the playoff chase. As it is now, we have to win 2 straight just to get to .500.

Do you like running the ball? Because MW is, by far, our best run blocking Olineman...we are far more successful running to the right than we are to the left.

Not that I'm offering an excuse for our poor play during prime time...but to be fair, we're always on the road against a quality opponent in these matchups. That's not generally a recipe for success for any franchise…that being said, GD it’d be nice to win one for a change.

I was under the impression that the team that wins the opening coin toss gets to: 1)have the ball or 2) which side of the field they will defend on the first kickoff. I was under the impression the Bills got to make the same decision in the 2nd half, though, obvioulsy, I could be wrong...

I'll take a wild guess and say we go 3-2 through this stretch of games...which isn't bad really. However, with the start we had to this season, we can't afford to go 3-2...but it doesn't mean we can't enjoy the progress this team has made and have a good time when they win.

So you get to cherry pick when it's appropriate for you AND for everybody else to make a flame? And if posters don't meet your specific criteria then those posters are "the worst type of human there is" (again paraphrasing). If you could just make a post, kinda like a Flamers’ Constitution of TBD that let's us all know what rights we have as flamers and under which circumstances said flames are appropriate I'd appreciate it. I think you've already written the first amendment: 1) There shall be no flaming of people asking for help with homework... I'd be very interested in seeing the rest. If someone calls me a "dumbass" is it okay to flame 'em (hint hint)? What if they go on a rampage threatening posters with violence, calling them jerks, jackasses, and a variety of other names that actually get censored? Is it okay then? I mean, if flames are okay on occasion, we all need to know when those occasions are. Thanks in advance…

I'm surprised you're not suddenly a Steeler fan

Shrug, you're just making excuses because you don't want to believe that you yourself do these very things. Most people aren't comfortable enough with themselves to acknowledge their own faults. They generally have juicy rationalizations like the one above that can "explain" how they act and why it's different (I know I do this too, and when I catch myself doing it I hate myself for it). But if that’s what you need to make it through your everyday life thinking you’re a “good” person while at the same time doing the very things you claim to hate, then so be it. Everybody does it to some extent or another, but one should at least be aware that they do it…

Listen BF, there are lots of people on this board who have a right to complain about others "attacking and causing friction"...but you are not one of them. You do these very things yourself, so lets get off the high horse and leave the preaching to those who aren't mudslingers.

I've been here since the beginning (and over at the D&C board before this) and anybody saying, "it used to be better" is just romanticizing about the past ("ahh, the good ol' days!"). There have always been fighting, flaming and arguing. ICE threatening to hack the board and shut it down or beat people up at games...and he wasn’t the only one displaying this behavior. The only thing that has changed is we now have people saying, "it used to be better". There will always be people on this board who are in cliques, people who are great friends in RL (or in virtual life) and people who just don’t like one another. You’ll also have random flamers who just like to cause trouble or people who lose their temper and post things they shouldn’t or wouldn’t normally. It’s always been this way and it always will be. You won’t find it any better on any other board on the internet, mostly because they’re likely missing the great friends aspect of it. So just enjoy the parts of the community you like and do your best to live with the stuff you don’t.

That's why they play the games. Nobody in their right mind should think the Bills will win...but it wouldn't surprise me if they did.

It wouldn't matter, Big Ben's got the honor all locked up.

That's why I said in my original post I think they should just go ahead and trade Rivers...why hope this kid develops when you've invested 4 years in a guy who already has? They could get a top 5-8 pick for Rivers...sure it's not the best scenerio, but it's better than giving up a franchise QB.

I'm not so sure about this. Not that he doesn't have an extra gear, I think he probably does. What I think is going to happen is he's going to wear down by week 13. Rookies generally do having never played that much football before, and he's in an even worse boat having not played in over a year before this year. This is why I'd like to see him only get 20-25 carries a game and give the rest to Henry. We need Willis to be fresh the entire season.

Go through what exactly?