BRH

Almost every team in every sport that made a "miraculous" turnaround from one year to another had the seeds in place the previous year. Look at the '86 to '88 Bills (I don't count '87 because the strike messed everything up)...they were coming off two consecutive 2-14 seasons and went 4-12 in '86, but they hired a new coach that year, had Kelly, Reed, Talley, Tasker, Hull, Smith etc. So you could see it was coming. As a Mets fan I can cite the '83-'84 squad as an example as well. That '83 squad won only 68 games but you could see the talent bubbling up -- Straw, Darling, Backman, etc, with Gooden racing through the farm system... and in '84 they won over 90 games and were good for the next six years. A few weeks ago I would have said there's nothing in the cupboards here to suggest that this team will make a turnaround within a year or two. I'm still not sure there is. But at the very least I can say this team is moving in the right direction. They've cut loose players who were tied to the last few years of futility -- Edwards, Lynch, etc -- and not only benched but deactivated first-rounders like Maybin and McCargo who clearly weren't getting it done at all. I really think that the improved play of the team over the last two weeks is a direct result of that message. I know wins are the bottom line. But wins are a crutch too ("he just wins," etc), and they paper over deficiencies that otherwise would be corrected. I think we are better off right now at 0-7 than we were in any 7-9 year under Jauron.

Back in '95 we happened to be in Kansas City when the Bills were playing a preseason game at Arrowhead. My wife and I went to the game wearing our Bills gear and there were no problems, even though the place was packed (for a preseason game!). The only incident of note occured when a heavyset woman noticed our Bills shirts as we passed by their pregame tailgate, and silently extended her middle finger at us. I did the Norwood mock-tomahawk chop in response. Oh hell, we were at the same game then!

This.

The big takeaway was Spiller's fumble.

Just like you couldn't find that double-secret exception to the crease rule anywhere after No Goal until the NHL magically produced a memo that no one had ever seen.

The only reason Fitz was let go by other organizations is that he's from Harvard. It's the same reason Jay Fiedler bounced all over the league before becoming pretty much the Dolphins' only halfway decent QB since Marino. NFL people generally don't think Ivy Leaguers can play. In most circumstances they're right, but a few of them can. Fitz is one.

Tom Cousineau. Aundray Bruce. Not too many others, I'm sure. Probably for a reason. In fact, Tommy Nobis in 1966 was the only other one.

They won't even review forward progress, huh.

Now I've seen everything.

SACK

Oooooooooooooovertime!

Wow.

Evans had FG position and came up small.

And if we need it to set up for a FG? Losman I believe.

Why didn't we spike?

Over 300 yards too.

Wow.

Thanks Fred.

And Criqui's from Buffalo too.

Why are they throwing? Oh. That's why.

Good thing we saved all our timeouts.

Is Fitz going to get 300?

"Not even on the same planet as Ryan Fitzpatrick" lol

Game over.