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Clements is the exact type of player I don't want on my team, I don't care how much talent he has. He constantly underachieves and gets beat for the big play and still runs his mouth. He'll occasionally make a nice play and somehow, in his mind, that negates the game changing mistakes he makes. Clements is a more talented version of Terrell Buckley….which makes it all the more frustrating to see him not dominate. I wish there was a way this team could have kept Winfield and dumped Clements…a hard hitting small guy with something to prove is the type of character this team needs to have, not the flashy, dancing, “playmaker” attitude. I'd like to see somebody rip that name-plate off his locker and tell Clements to get his head out of his ass and start playing team ball. Then again, when our defensive "leader" is the guy making the most bone-headed mistakes on the field, I guess we can't count on this to happen.

Like all of us don't these celebrity's have the right, even an obligation, to try to change society for the better (whatever that means to each individual)? I don't get the hard feeling here just because they have more power to effect change than most. I only notice people bitching about it when they don't agree with the celebrity’s cause. Do people have a problem with films like To Kill a Mockingbird or Look Who's Coming to Dinner? These films attempted to enact social change and yet, now, many consider them classics. Yet, in all my years, I've not once heard anybody rip into them for their honest, heart felt points of view on race relations (even if they are somewhat simple minded about the issue...but that's a different issue). Not to mention, I find it somewhat amusing that people will tell actors to get off their soapboxes all the while they are on a soapbox themselves preaching about how celebrities need to get off their soapboxes! ...

BF are you really quoting yourself in your sig line...? that's....just...pathetic...

This isn't college football where you can go through multiple games "without playing anybody"...this is the NFL, each and every game is tough, any team that can win 3 straight is a good team, no matter what the records to the teams they beat are. I mean, after watching the Bills start off 0-3 can you tell me that the teams that beat them are really that much better? Nope, its a league of parity and a 3-0 team should get some respect. That being said, we have a decent shot of getting a W this week for the exact reasons states above...it has nothing to do with the Jets record being a mirage.

If you haven't been starting Barber you've made a huge mistake. The guy scoring the most points in my league is doing so because his RBs "sucked", or at least that's what we thought after the draft...Barber and Martin...I still think they'll both tail off a bit, but get all the points out of Barber you can while he's hot. And no, a slight increase in your TE points isn't worth giving another owner a quality RB...sometimes the best strategy is keeping good players on your bench away from other owners...though a better strat is packaging a few of your players together (a starter and a guy on your bench) together for an top flight player...A TE is a waste of time in most leagues.

wtf do people post this stuff here? It only ever ends up in a polical debate...and there's another board for that.

You want to put a 4th LB on the field instead of Pat Williams or Sam Adams? Sorry, you get your best players on the field and playing a 3-4 wouldn't do that for us.

Technique on the Oline is a huge part of it, so it football intelligence (being able to recognize what the D is doing), at least in the passing game. In the run game I'll give you that attitude the most important thing.

This was actually a joke...thought it was obvious with a thread titled "you guys need to lighten up"...and the first reply being the finger... ...so, perhaps somebody else needs to lighten up too!

:I starred in Brokeback Mountain:

I'd rather see us line up in with 1RB and 3WR as our base offense to get Shelton off the field. It would force Ds to use the Nickle against us which I'd prefer to see Henry running agsint and if Josh Reed isn't going to be the starter in the 2WR set anymore his blocking would be an asset against the nickel...I mean, would you rather have Shelton with the responsiblity of taking on a LB or Reed on the 3rd CB? I realize this is what "finese" teams do and we want to be a "pound 'em" offense...but Shelton sucks, plain and simple...and our TEs aren't any better for those who'd prefer a 2TE set as our base.

But this can't be true...because Mike Williams sucks! Name the one starting O-lineman who hasn't been flagged for a penalty yet this year... As for Tucker, what I'm most concerned about is the blocking calls...our line has had enough probs this year with the blitz without the QB of the line going down.

The problem is these aren't the mistakes that are costing us games. Dropped balls, missed blitz pickups and idiotic penalties are. Normally I'd give you the missed blitz pickups as a "growing pain" (but not the other two) but this is the exact same problem we've had the last two years, at some point it's got to be the players themselves and not the scheme.

The sporting world hasn't been kind to me for 10 years: 1. Bills 2. Phillies 3. UCLA football 4. UCLA basketball

But if you flip the coin enough times it will eventually land on tails!

Just curious, how many "damn good teams" start out 0-3? Call people "whiners" all you want but I don't care how well a team knocks other guys off the ball, hit holes hard in the running game or has plenty of speed to beat the opposing team beat...none of this matters if they continually make costly mistakes at important parts of the game. GOOD teams don't do this, period. Also, you say you watched the 1st and 2nd quarters...I'm wondering how you could watch those quarters and come away with this D being "very very good"? Was it the 200+ yards passing that Brady put up against us in the first half? The constant blitzing we did with no results? What did you see that makes you say this?

And if it was just that game I don't think people would be in the state of panic they are right now...but you add to it the Oakland and Jax games and it's not looking good? The Bills were playing the SB champs last week...what was their excuse for the other two games in which they made numerous bone-headed mistakes? Bottom line, this week's game against the Jets is the season. We win this one and beat the fins at home and that puts us at 2-3 and 2-1 in the division. Lose this game and the season is pretty much over in terms of any chance of making the playoffs...0-4 in the AFC and 0-2 in the division means pretty much 0% chance of the playoffs.

Not only does he need 5K...he's charging $25 to ship a ring!

NS, had Texas been bright enough to keep Applewhite as the starter they might not have choked every year in big games...

I guess I'm the only one who doesn't think the playcall itself was that bad. Nobody in the entire state was expecting it, had they actually executed the play correctly (yeah yeah, I know) I'm guessing it probably would have worked. I recall seeing KC run a naked bootleg on 4th and 1 about 10 years ago with Dave Kreig (who wasn't exactly Vick either) and they burned the D for a 70 yard TD because nobody was looking for it. I don't think you can blame a play call unless the players actually run it semi-correctly and it fails. The only thing I would question about the call is who it was called against...the Pats...they'er not really for overpursuing and ususally play pretty disciplined.

I wonder what happens during practice when the ultra-movable object goes against the easily-stoppable force?

We're only averaging one penalty a game more than the Giants...they're averaging 7.25 and we're averaging 8.33...both those numbers suck, so let's not compliment the "disciplinarian" in NYC when his team is committing some idiotic penalties as well. If you want to compliment someone, try Norm Edwards...the Jets have been penalized 9 times all season...3 times a game.

I hope he also showed them Joe Burns, on the sideline after his penalty, laughing about it. This sent me off the deep end at home.

That wasn't a "pick play"...had McGee been ANYWHERE near his man he would have easily ran underneath the other CB and WR...unfortunately he was beaten so badly and was much too deep that he could only go around them. McGee was picked on quite a bit yesterday, apparently people missed this and only saw his kick return TD and his almost INT...

So why is your biggest fear replacing Bledsoe if you think we'd only end up with the same results with Mathews? If it makes no difference why fear it? Hell, if Mathews can put up the same results, we should just get rid of Bledsoe and his contract right now. I have absolutely no faith that Mathews is an NFL calibur QB...which is why I'm not screaming for Bledsoe to be benched...that being said I'm not sure that the Bills offense couldn't put up 10 points a game with him starting at QB.