BRH

I can't decide if my favorite scene from that movie is the one where they open the door and she's standing there in that wet shirt, or the one immediately following where they show her walking down the hall away from them.

Every quarterback who has been good out of the gate already had a good team around him. Marino's Dolphins went to the SB the previous year with friggin' David Woodley at quarterback. Roethlisberger's Steelers were a perennial playoff contender before he arrived and had success with friggin' Tommy Maddox and friggin' Kordell Stewart. Guys like Bradshaw and Kelly came onto young teams that were still a year or two away from starting to jell. They grew with their teams and they and their teammates hit their peaks at the same time. I personally think JP has a good enough team around him to fall closer to the Marino/Roethlisberger category than the Bradshaw/Kelly category.

Well said. I've NEVER heard someone say they "used to be a Bills fan." Once a Bills fan, always a Bills fan.

Madre de Dios y sangre de Cristo y tu mama tambien. Thank you JSP for a mighty fine start to the morning.

I don't know much about anything, but I know a little bit about everything.

The Dallas defense collapsed? They gave up 14 points. You give up 14 points, you should win.

There was one play in the middle of the first quarter of the Texans game where the Bills lined up with three backs behind Losman. Anyone remember this? If I recall right, JP took the snap, turned, faked a handoff, spun, faked another handoff to the next guy, and then threw to Evans down the right sideline, complete for 17 yards. I loved that play and kept waiting for the Bills to do something creative like it last Sunday. Nothing.

That's right. He needs to be the number one receiver.

Then again, every time Miro Satan stepped on the ice last year the Sabres lost about $63,000. Which is the more foolish spending decision?

He didn't look RIGHT all game!

See, e.g., Fiedler, Jay; Konrad, Rob; and Spikes, Takeo. Ralph Wilson Stadium (2004).

Boy Nick, you've certainly done a 180 from your initial impression of the unis.

Here's a question. I read last week that the Bills practiced in their throwback helmets during the week leading up to the opener, so they (read: JP) would be used to seeing them during the game. Did they wear them this past week or did they wear the red ones? Sounds to me like this was a last-minute decision, to bring the throwbacks and wear them. Plus no reporters said anything all week about the throwbacks in practice, which makes me think that they were practicing in the red helmets. That ain't no excuse for JP's pisspoor play yesterday. But I'm just wondering, y'know?

Or they could pull a Bush and drive the team bus into a ditch while in a drunken stupor.

We seemed to do alright against them when they were wearing them in '64 and '65.

Or they could pull a Bush and not show up but get credit for it anyway.

Gee, Dickerson jumped all over the Bills after a loss. What a surprise. I'd still rather listen to him than that as$clown Brinson. Any day.

He must be feeling the heat. Fire your OC after two bad road games against last year's top two defenses?

As was Moorman. It didn't seem to affect Lindell or Bryant on their FGs or kickoffs.

What was it Steve Tasker said about Louis Oliver? "Don't write a check with your mouth that your body can't cash." Sadly that applied to our D yesterday. Especially our linebackers. Especially Takeo, who was pretty much invisible when we really needed him to step up.

Heat or no heat, we played like stojan yesterday. They would have beaten us in the heat, in the cold, in a box, with a fox, in a house, with a mouse, in the rain, on a train, here and there, anywhere.

Milloy's safety blitz sack. I thought that would be the play that flipped the switch for our D, and I was right. Except the switch went off instead of on.

I'll take a pass. Once was enough.

His leg has plenty of oomph (see the 59 yarder he had in the first quarter). He just doesn't have the touch he used to have; he has been sailing kicks into the end zone and then when he visibly tried to take something off, he ended up with a 14-yarder.

Does anyone else think maybe we should go to the hurry-up permanently, or at least a lot more often, for JP? From preseason on it has looked to me like he's just more comfortable running it, and it seems to fit his gunslinging style in the same way that the K-Gun fit Jimbo.