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Not to mention....it's common. They call it a zone blitz and Dick LeBeau is one of the proponents of it, and no one thinks he sucks...

I don't have a link b/c this was on Sirius NFL radio but I have heard Marty say a few times he doesn't want to coach, but rather, "enjoy the fruits of his labor". The guy is 70 years old, man. Everyone loves him because he came to play LB when the AFL Bills drafted him in 1965 but I think he is retired for good.

Well, the good stats came against reduced pressure and often second string competition. So when the bad stats come against the same, it is cause for concern.

I never drove to a game up there but it's really 60 bucks for parking? Day-mn! I'd turn around and burn my tickets!

You know what? The Pats have a 10 year body of work behind them and were Super Bowl runners up 8 months ago. 3 games isn't a large enough body of work to say that's changed. You can't say this year's Power Rankings have nothing to do with last year when they have 90 % of the same players and a first ballot HOF QB. Leave the Bills at 19 for a few more weeks, lets see how they do these next 3 games before I'd consider raising the rank. I love the direction the Bills seem to be going in but they were 5-2 last year too.

I'm surprised no one posted this so I will. Rule 8 - Section 3 - Article 1 - Item 5: Simultaneous Catch. If a pass is caught simultaneously by two eligible opponents, and both players retain it, the ball belongs to the passers. It is not a simultaneous catch if a player gains control first and an opponent subsequently gains joint control. I don't care who won this game either, it has no effect on the Bills, but Jennings goes up and catches the ball while Tate has his arm in Jennings chest. As they fall to the ground, Tate doesn't even have his other arm in there until they hit the ground. By definition, that's NOT a simultaneous catch. So the refs missed two calls on the same play, the offensive PI (which most people feel the regular refs would choose to overlook at the end of a game too) AND the non simultaneous catch. Not to mention when two refs show up on the play, the first signals for the clock to stop for a change of possession, the second guy runs in and signals touchdown. They didn't even confer. The WORST part was while they were getting the Packers back onto the field for the PAT, they were interviewing Carroll and he mentioned the NE -Buf "just give it to him" game which helped get replay started in the first place....when the Bills didn't come back onto the field and they ran for two....

Actually, in 2007 as bad as the 56-10 game was, the Pats let up. The 8th TD was a defensive score and when the Pats got the ball back with 11 min left they put out Cassel and the second stringers. When it became apparent that the Bills D was too demoralized to stop Heath Evans they started running (who?) Kyle Eckel to run out the clock. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200711180buf.htm I was with you, until someone made the point that he didn't on-side kick the ball back to the Giants. If you're not going to do that, are you really trying to win the game or are you just acting like an a hole?

Actually, in 2007 as bad as the 56-10 game was, the Pats let up. The 8th TD was a defensive score and when the Pats got the ball back with 11 min left they put out Cassel and the second stringers. When it became apparent that the Bills D was too demoralized to stop Heath Evans they started running (who?) Kyle Eckel to run out the clock. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200711180buf.htm

You can't have too many DBs you know....

Moreover, how many times do we complain that ppl just spout stuff with no logic? Then we complain when we have to read a chart? Sheesh.

Well, then, who's the dummy? That joke mighta worked if he didn't spend it all.....

I think luck, or at least circumstances, played into a switch from a 3-4 to a 4-3. Sometimes you have to play the cards you're dealt. How many times did we complain here that the coach needs to fit the scheme to the players not the other way around? Case in point...the Bills pick 3rd in the 2011 draft. They need D help. it becomes clear that we will either get Van Miller, an LB, or Dareus, a DT after the Panthers pick Newton. Once you have both these guys (Williams and Dareus), who do you sit in a 3-4? Dareus is quick but apparently he's really not a DE. If we had gotten the LB, would we still be working a 3-4? Then you look at free agency. You have these two stud tackles and you know two stud DEs are available in FA. Also, Wannstedt happens to be looking for a job in 2011 and he's a 4-3 guy. So you go with what falls to you. Even in fantasy leagues you can't just get whomever you want.

You made the mistake of posting BEFORE the Giants-Jests game. The only controversy the Jets have is which QB is worse. To those who say the Jets had all their receivers out, the Giants DL were in the backfield every play. I don't think it would have been that much better. But it IS preseason.

A lot of folks bring up the 90s Bills preseason record, but those were different. Kelly and the boys would come out and march down the field and make the score 7-0 and sit down while Marv would play the future plumbers and firemen he had that year to see who was any good while ultimately losing 28-17. That's not what these games look like.

OK, F it. Bills 45 Jets 9, Spiller gets 200 yards from scrimmage. I'm on the bandwagon until at least 1:15PM on Sunday!

Problem with that is, if McIntyre is in there the defense knows they'll pass, and if White is in there it knows he'll run. Fred keeps em guessing because he could do all of those.

There's also a frame where stats show reality and one where they get distorted. In building a 28-3 lead on 2 turnovers, the Dolphins had outgained the Bills 183-91 just before the half, outgaining 2 to 1. Two scoring drives of 23 and 4 yards distorted THOSE, so that looked better than they were. I have to believe even if the Dolphins had to go 80 yards on those drives they would have. Then after they blocked the punt, they basically ran the ball every down and Buffalo caught up yardage wise in garbage time.

We saw was Spiller was made of. He had first and goal from the one. He had a lane to run in. A linebacker appeared in that lane and Spiller....ran sideways. Second and goal from the 1. I'm not questioning any NFL players toughness from the comfort of my couch, but Marshawn would be in the end zone every time on that one. Fred would have grazed off of one side of the guy and fallen into the end zone. NFL backs get in on that one. A number 9 pick should CERTAINLY get in on that.

Because Ralph is cheap.

There's no Madden Curse, statistically it makes sense you get put on the cover of Madden at the peak of your popularity, generally most players go down from there it only makes sense. As for Hillis, he's an RB. Serviceable ones are a dime a dozen. Who even heard of Demarco Murray besides his mom 3 weeks ago?

In today's legal climate it's probably a felony under some terrorism statute that could put you in solitary for 30 years. I came home and me and two of my drunken buddies tore down my son's basketball hoop instead

If that had been the Patriots the call would have been ruled at TD in their favor. "Just give it to them"

That's right, so those will be white Raiders jerseys on their backs when the Bills run Fred off left tackle, not red Chiefs ones.

Really? Personally, I find it hard to believe that a guy that has put up the #'s that 8 5 has in his career has no idea what he's doing on the field... Not really, he's super talented. I don't think Randy Moss made his numbers by chessboard reads either. They didn't say he had no idea what he was doing, just that he was very limited, and could only retain simple reads from one side of the field. His talent apparently got him open anyway.

Sirius NFL had the writer from Cincinnati on (Dan Lanham, sp?) He said basically that Bruschi had a point. He told the story of the rookie Ochocinco who slept in the training facility to get better and contrasted him with the current one who has a "lot of other things going on". Apparently it was an open secret in Cincy that Chad could only barely learn the "X" receiver position. He once asked a coach why Chad didn't go in motion or move around the formation and the coach looked at him and said "are you kidding me, the guy can barely make the reads where he is". So he was saying Bruschi was watching practices and talking with his old buddies and they were saying the same thing, and then Chad tweeting about it was the last straw for Bruschi. Bruschi is probably a little out of line, but just a little. I thought the understory was interesting.