8-8 Forever?

a lot of points scored today.. both teams in the 30's.. I don't see either defense having much success today. Bills have had two weeks to game plan on offense and SD's offense going against a banged up defense... should be a shootout...

when a complete newcomer takes a cab or shuttle bus down the Kensington Expressway from the airport and sees all the blight, gets to the Hyatt downtown (all visiting teams stay there), get up in the morning and see the boarded up storefronts across Main street,, you wonder why guys have teams they simply won't go to? It looks like friggin Beirut looking out the main window of the downtown Hyatt....

the location is going to a factor, everything else being equal....the media completely ignores Buff and always will ...where would you rather travel/stay over a couple nights, etc. to do an interview or call a game? NYC, Boston, Miami, or Buffalo...? Ralph probably has to pay more than other teams for the same FA...

Billadelphia: I agree/ this will be a repeat of the AZ game. no pass rush and cover 2 defense all day... this will be Fewell's defining moment.. can he pressure the SD offense at all... I hope we do.. we will give up some big plays and we can't get mad about it... we have to pressure Rivers or he will do what the AZ qb did to us...

i hope turk has brains enough to roll TE out of the pocket

Jamal will eat up Preston like the Duke country-club scratch golfer softie that he is... TE gets killed again this week... unless we run the ball well...

why can't Preston just man up and take the center job from Fowler..? He's younger, bigger and heck, he's a scratch golfer!

RWS is bad. Really bad. Never, ever bring someone under 18 to the Ralph. It is a zoo. Period. If tickets were $75 minimum, you wouldn't see it as much, but WNY is pretty much a blue collar town where getting bombed and going to the game is a big big deal... abuse of other teams fans is in bad taste and inhospitable to those who come and spend a lot of money in our town, but who said 50% of those in attendance had much in the way of taste to begin with.

Guys, the Chargers are going to score 1 out of 3 times they get the ball, against anyone. the key is to limit them to less than 10 possessions and keep them on a long field on offense. Running the ball effectively and great special teams is the key this week...

If we get and stay healthy at the top 10 positions, I say 10-6 is a lock. Need McGee and Parrish back and healthy, get tthe special teams back moving again. Stroud and Schobel need to be 100% after the bye and stay that way... TE needs to be back 100% for the SD game. Sorry, I know "injuries are part of the game", but not for the Bills if they want to be better than 9-7. Depth on this team is not very good .. Cargo, Bryan, Denney, Wilson, mcKelvin and Hardy absolutely stink as starters at this point, we cannot have them in the game much this year. They give guys a blow, that's it. anything more, and we will lose more than we win. Jackson running back kicks is just average and our special teams won't be back to normal until next year on the kick coverage side... We don't have a miracle worker like Big Ben in Pittsburg or P Manning in Indy to carry a bunch of 2nd team guys to wins... just don't have it. Sooo, if we very healthy, we win more than we lose, if not, we lose more than we win.. its that simple this season.. IMO

Let it go. Let it go. I agree with Bills#1. Lets see what a HEALTHY bills team does against SD, Phins, Jets and Pats... ThEn we will know what we have.. the teams with the fewest injuries are usually the ones that do best in this league... fans underestimate that fact way too much...

Jerry Sullivan seems to be a very negative person. No one is asking him to be a cheerleader, but after reading most of his columns, you want to go shoot yourself, his writing is so very bitter. Seems he has a great deal of difficulty finding positives in situations. .. A lifetime in doing-nothing/going-nowhere WNY will do that to you, I guess...

Some Bills fans are so stupid that maybe Jauron should hold out of games guys that are playing hurt, because Bills fans think that if your on the field you are by definition 100%... ever go to work when you are sick? It's kind of like that... Schobel, Stroud were "game day decisions" that means they were very borderline to even play in the game. Give Schobel a hell of a lot of credit for performing as well as he did on an injured foot... you morons.

Exactly. With Both McGee and Ko out, and Stroud ineffective, they had to go vanilla and hope the Offense could produce TDs to AZ's field goals. Didn't happen.

I prefer the zone blitz defense Dick Lebeau ran when he was here... terrific to watch, more fun than offense just about. But Fewell doesn't know it and its not DJ's style. If you are running it, BillsVet's post s are absolutely right.. problem Sunday was that Ko, McGee and Stroud were either out or playing hurt, which brought us back to last years defensive talent level... crappy. Without talented, fast guys flying through gaps (and Kyle Williams was doubled because STroud was hurt) the whole thing doesnt work well. When a Cover-2 defensive team with a bunch of Def. guys out gets down 14-0, they almost always lose. The d -line has to be fast and quick and blowing upfield , and Stroud was hurt... he is the key . if he is dinged for the season, we are screwed, unless the Offense really gets going and gets us leads early...

Bills aren't going to clobber anyone. just a tightly fought , low scoring win will do just fine.. just win.. no one will care in December how the games were won in September

we wont be favorites in this type of game until we win a few of them... jax was not enough...

Let them diss us all they want. All we have to do is play .500 ball the rest of the way, and we are 10-6, and no one will remember in December who we beat in September. Patience, my friends, we just need to keep winning and everything else will fall into place. Relax, like I am trying (and failing) to do. Go Bills!

we'll see, and preseason is meaningless, but little Stevie Johnson has caught absolutely everything thrown his way so far.. and is a natural replacement for parrish. Hardy takes over for Reed at some point...

that 1990 team was awesome.. so fast, so fast. even today they look as fast or faster than any team today... watch it and enjoy one of the best offenses to ever take the field

I was at the Raiders game and I spent the entire 4th quarter repeating to my seatmates that "we are the better team, we are the better team, look at the stinking game, please!!!" and that we would either come back and win or run out of time, but we were the better team on the field from the line of scrimmage.. and I was vindicated as the D Line gave TE just enough time to shred the Raiders and win the game. Rams no different ... barring a barrage of turnovers, injuries or whatever, the Bills are the better team by far and will win all day from scrimmage... have some faith... Cards and Chargers are the first big tests... peace..

Williamson proved with Vikes he is pretty much a stiff, but super talented and could have lucked out and broken one against us, so all good he is out. Porter is a pro bowl talent with a bad attitude, is very very dangerous -- he is the one I do not want to face if I can avoid it...

True, but the sports media is so ambivalent/condescending to the Bills, I think we do need "homers" on these broadcasts to counter everyone else. Thank goodness Ron Pitts (former Bill, son of former Bills backs coach Elijah Pitts) did the Seahawks game as all the ESPN/NFL Network talking heads did was make excuses for the Seahawks after we blew them out.

There are few things working against the bills: 1) Ralph won't spend $$ at the levels other teams will, which prevents the assembling of the top top talent, to some extent players but especially coaches and front office people that other teams have 2) the Bills now have a reputation as low payers, plus the area has a so so rep with many players and coaches therefore many players and coaches will go elsewhere everything else being equal .... therefore, the Bills need to be built mainly through the draft and by being diligent in grabbing every decent free agent or coach they can afford 3) the bills play in AFC East, which is normally loaded, having franchises not burdened by 1 and 2 above. Players and coaches love NE, Miami and NYC... BTW, if you've been watching the preseason, Miami and the Jets look to be A LOT better than last year... Having said all this, I believe the talent has finally come together on this team, the moon and stars have aligned for this year and next and the Bills, if completely healthy all year, should absolutely compete, even for the AFC East title, as I think the Jets and phins may both steal one from the Pats this year.... after next year, I think free agency tears the team apart again (but the future is now!) GO BILLS

jauron is all the Bills can afford.. someone said get Marty Schott.. no way, he will want $5m/yr.. no way the bills can afford that.. Dicky J. is all we can afford.. players win games, not coaches..go bills, 10-6 this yr...