SageAgainstTheMachine

This is a spill over from the shout box. While this is technically an opinion poll, there is only one correct answer. And it plays one mean drum kit. Bear in mind, this is very serious business.

Is the internet such a cesspool of misbegotten humanity that this guy is well-spoken by comparison? I shudder at the thought. He's an Idiot™.

I'm consulting my 15 year old self, and I think he'll say yes. I just have to wait for him to finish into that stale bagel. Yep, he says yes. I say no.

No, the Cubs suck. Any billy goat will tell you the same.

Nobody does much against Brandon Flowers. He's Revis without the NJ hype machine.

Complaining about a Washington football curse. He does realize that the Skins have won a SB during his lifetime right?

I think for a lot of people, it's a conditioned response where anything good that happens for the Bills must be a fluke. Some folks are just so paranoid about a potential collapse that they can't be objective. They can't imagine any other scenario than losing to the Jets next week, which starts the slippery slope toward missing the playoffs once again. Here are the facts: 1. The Bills are 5-2. 2. The two losses have been by an average of 3.0 points against teams with a combined 10-4 record. 3. The five wins have been by an average of 14.0 points against teams with a combined 18-16 record. 4. The Bills are 6th in the NFL with a +64 points differential. 5. The Bills have allowed an NFL-low 8 sacks. 6. The Bills have intercepted an NFL-high 14 passes. 7. The Bills are 4th in the NFL with 5.0 yards per rush attempt. Objectively, what part of this seems like a fluke? I've spoken to some of my more pessimistic friends and can't seem to get a better answer than "Remember 2008?".

Dismantled? They lost by 6 and 7 points.

As of right now, Fitz should only be behind Brady. The AFC isn't strong at QB this year.

Interesting. One counter-example is Michael Turner, who went directly from light use in SD to heavy use in ATL without any ill effects. But obviously there are exceptions to everything. EDIT: Upon further review, Turner did suffer an injury the season after advancing to 376 carries, but he was still effective in the 11 games he started, averaging 4.9 YPC.

That's a good point about the receptions. I don't have enough time right now to dig into the stats, but I read once that Eric Dickerson is the only RB to carry the ball 400 times and not get seriously injured or see a gigantic dropoff in play the next season. Two recent examples of overused backs are Larry Johnson who had 416 carries in his last season of competency and Shaun Alexander who had 370.

Gee, ya think? It may be a business, but I don't want to root for a team that treats its best players like **** in return for wins.

I'm not worried about Freddie's touches. At his current pace, he'll rack up about 300 carries. 400 is dangerous territory where RBs get injured more often than not. 300 is just right.

I agree with your premise that getting swept by the Jets effectively !@#$s us. I disagree with your premise that losing next week's matchup lowers our chances of beating them Week 12 in New Jersey. The Bills are good enough to beat the Jets on the road regardless of Week 9's results.

More accurately, we destroyed a team that we should have beaten. I would have reacted like this to a ho-hum 23-13 win, but we killed 'em. In fact, we've played 2 bad teams this year (and KC is on a 3-game win streak now so who knows) and we have destroyed both of those teams. That's what really good teams do.

Among the players that we were leching after back then, and it comes up somewhere in that thread, was Laveranues Coles. I remember the board throwing a conniption fit when he signed elsewhere. Then he basically never did anything again.

Umm, no. That was about as obvious as it gets, especially seeing as he said "they will come up with others".

I'm game for that prediction. I'm sick of these wimpy fans who are too busy pissing down their legs over when the other shoe is going to drop to notice that the Bills are actually playing good football.

Objectively, the Bills have been the best team in the AFC East through 7 games. They have scored more points than the Patriots and surrendered fewer. You could argue the Bills have been the best team in the AFC in 2011. Now, I'm not saying that any of this guarantees future results, but 5-2 is a damn good record relative to the Bills' strength of schedule.

Absolutely.

You imply, I infer. Just seemed like an odd statement haha.

No way are we home 'dogs after 23-0.

Are those mutually exclusive?

I'll take that as a compliment.

It's prudent at this point to tell you that I and the OP were being sarcastic and lampooning a prior thread about how the Bills' penchant for getting turnovers meant that our winning was "unsustainable."