BRH

Five pages of this and I would have expected someone to bring up Bruce's absence from the Pittsburgh playoff game in 1996 by now. Anyway, Bruce hadn't gotten his shot because he didn't like needles. No, a vaccine doesn't prevent you from getting the flu, but it *generally* does help you recover faster because your body's immune system recognizes it and knows what to do sooner. We would have won that game if Bruce had been healthy enough to play. No doubt in my mind. "Capouch’s decision to allegedly relieve himself in the machine may have been influenced by alcohol, officers noted in the documents." 🤣

I think there's a very good chance they finish 9-8.

This belongs to Bruce and Biscuit.

How many times did we play that game during the drought? "If you compare all our guys to all their guys, EXCEPT THE QUARTERBACK, we should win easily."

As opposed to the other football where every successful kick in a game is worth one point... if there are any, that is.

Yep. Five hour flight back to Miami from San Diego, then a three-plus hour flight north to here. And when they land in Buffalo it will be their first experience with cold weather this year. Their last visit to a cold-weather clime was Chicago on November 6, when it was an unseasonable 62 degrees. The week before that, in Detroit (dome anyway), same thing: 64 degrees.

They'll miss you.

🙄 Completely different teams.

So what you're saying is, I have to root for Tom Brady and Pete Carroll. Never let anyone say I don't go the extra mile for my team.

Completely separate from whether I think we should sign OBJ... I couldn't give a flying ***** who gets the spotlight if we are hoisting the Lombardi in February. As for not working out "on his current tour," it may be that this is just his decision-making process. He'll decide which team he wants, and then, if they're interested, he'll work out for THAT team only before the team decides whether to offer him a contract. And if the team decides not to offer him a contract, he may just pack it in until the offseason. I don't necessarily blame him for not wanting to do three separate workouts, and the teams themselves may want it that way too. The more teams he works out for, the greater the chance that information from one of those workouts will leak. Any GM would have to be some kind of moron to actually offer him a contract before seeing what he can do right now. So he's probably going to the Cowboys.

By contrast, Sam Martin has punted.... 27 times.

Just checking in to see where all the folks are that had us missing the playoffs three weeks ago

That got me thinking. With the way the league rotates the normal TNF schedule (i.e., every team has to play at least one, and usually no more than one), the only other opportunities to play on Thursdays are the season opener and Thanksgiving. You have to be good to play in the opener and a big draw to play on Thanksgiving (unless you're the Lions). I would bet only a handful of teams have played three Thursday games in one season. New England is probably one.

Well, a good defense at least. This just makes it even more delicious. Fin fans thought they had it in the bag.

Not in Rochester. We were forced to watch the Jets lose and the Giants tie at 1, and Fox had the late national game.

They're definitely not close to where they would be without him, so I kind of see their point.

We have literally beaten them 2 of the last 3 games and should have won the third... every single game was in KC too.

I'm old enough to remember at least part of the '70s and I still haven't stopped taking extreme delight in every Dolphins defeat. This will go on for a long, long time.

If you're talking to me, (1) say so, and (2) go back and read the beginning of the thread.

I don't ever remember the schedule playing out this way, but it's December 2, we've played all of our road division games, and the entire division has to come to our house in the next five weeks.

Basically the rule has been -- going all the way back to Bert Emanuel, through Dez Bryant, through untold others (like the Pittsburgh TE against NE a few years ago), etc -- A catch is whatever the league needs it to be at that particular time. If the league needed that interception in order to keep the game close (as opposed to basically ending the game), I fully believe they would have come up with some rule interpretation that would have preserved it. Like I said before, thank God we're good enough now that this kind of bull#### rarely impacts our ability to win a game.

Poyer's ball never touched the ground. Ever. Not even when it moved. Meyers' ball was lying by itself on the ground at the end of the play.

If Poyer had rolled over out of bounds and the ball had touched the ground, I see the argument for "not a catch." But although the ball moved when he hit the ground, it never touched the ground itself, and Poyer was able to secure it. I don't know in what world that's not a catch. That said, it's pretty cool to be good enough that a stupid rule like that doesn't affect the game's outcome.

I think we haven't even begun to see how he'll really be used, and that we're setting up some things on film to distract potential playoff opponents. You'll know it when you see it.

We really still feeding this troll?