BRH

Hart Lee Dykes.

Eugene Robinson. (And I better get a creative response!)

You know, cowbell might not have any bearing on a team's fortunes (he said, sotto voce), but the 12th man sure as hell does. I'm sure the Jags looked up in the stands and said WTF. It HAD to be messing with their minds. Not that I'm complaining!

Merely another opportunity for payback, my good man.

I heard today on the radio that although the Alltell Stadium crowd was announced at 60,000 or whatever, there were maybe 35-40K in the stands. If that's true and the Jagwad fans only filled 2/3 of their house for a game with MAJOR playoff implications, they should be friggin ashamed of themselves.

The Jacksonville game would be at the Ralph. Man are we going to !@#$ them up good.

I am, at least right now. As the third-place AFC East team, we will play the third-place AFC South team (Houston) at home and the third-place AFC North team (Cincy) on the road. NFL Scheduling Rotation. Of course, when we win next week and the Dog-Ass Jets lose, the Dog-Ass Jets will assume those scheduling obligations and we will get Jacksonville at home and Baltimore on the road. Hm that's a price to pay, but a small one considering the immediate rewards. And payback's gonna be a B word.

Am I correct in concluding that we will get Houston at home and Cincinnati on the road as well? Damn two more west coast swings too. On the plus side it looks like we're getting the tougher overall slate at our house (Denver, KC, Atlanta, Carolina) instead of on the road (Oakland, SD, New Orleans, TB).

I believe the new tradition is to have the Super Bowl champion host the Thursday night opener. Therefore the game will be at RWS.

Given our prime time record of late, I would think you would prefer driving to a sports bar to watch the Bills win over sitting at home and watching them crap the bed. I don't want any more road night games. Bad things.

That was the first thing I thought of when I heard RW died of sleep apnea. Of course, whether or not Bruce has it, if you believe that's why he was passed out in the middle of an intersection, then there's probably not much you wouldn't believe.

Without the stickum? Okay, okay. Freddie was awesome and I'd be the last guy to denigrate him. But you've got to admit the stickum helped.

Just to answer on the merits (for a change), the reason we got all over TH for his fumbling was that he put the ball on the ground something like nine times in 2002 and we lost six of them, if I recall. He did better last year but damn he was a fumble machine in 2002. WM isn't even close to that.

Good idea! I move we sacrifice TBD posters who don't have cowbell. Just to appease the Gridiron Gods, you understand. You volunteering?

The good thing is now that they've clinched home field, they'll be more likely to sell their tickets. Hence a better chance that I will be in attendance on Sunday, and for not as much money as previously feared. By the way, if anyone is selling, PM me. I'll check the trading post as well.

It's a nice round number. Zero.

The possible scenarios, btw... With the Bills and Dog-Ass Jets as 5 and 6 seeds: 1. Bills beat SD at the Murph and Dog-Ass Jets beat Indy = Bills play at NE and Dog-Ass Jets go to Pittsburgh 2. Bills beat SD at the Murph and Dog-Ass Jets lose to Indy = Bills play at Pittsburgh and Indy plays at NE With the Broncos and Bills as 5 and 6 seeds: Bills play Indy at the Dome. Whether or not Denver beats SD at the Murph, the Bills (as the lowest seed) play at Pittsburgh the following week. All of the above, of course, assumes that Buffalo wins its first-round game whether at SD or Indy. If they don't, I don't give a stevestojan what happens after that.

No wildcard game in Buffalo. The only way we get a home game is if the Jets beat Indy and Pittsburgh in their houses, and we beat SD and New England at the Murph and the Razor. Then we host the Jets in the AFC championship game.

Oh. Right. Now back for that second cup of coffee...

I'm going on that and cowbell.

Isn't the phrase "uneducated Jets fan" something of an oxymoron? Anyway, one of my favorite stats is that the Jets were once 6-1 and we were once 1-5, and we're now in a position to take their playoff spot.

That thread is worth a read. Those morons can't understand why "no one is reporting" that the Jets have already locked up a berth. Um perhaps because it isn't true, idiots.

I have too! I also learned that Mike Williams was a bust, that Trey Teague couldn't play center, that we couldn't win with white defensive ends, and that our defense was billsfanone after Dick LeBeau left.

Could be because I was at both of those games!

I think you can bank on Tice being gone. We're talking about a 6-0 team and a 5-1 team missing the playoffs in two straight years if that happens.