Indy Dave
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Saw Turk in one of the Bengals clips. And I bet it seemed silly to have a "Football Channel" when the script for that bit was written.
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Hoge, Theisman, Irvin and a hungry cannibal.
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I'd be pretty happy with
LT Jones
LG Wood
C Hamgartner
RG Butler
RT Walker
Fixed. Unless you're suggesting we go with some crazy unbalanced line anyway...
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TheSportingnews.com
I get it 'delivered' every morning. Not as many editorials/personal opinions, which can make it a bit boring, but pretty factual.
People who don't sign up for this daily email (it's free) are really missing out. No team is ignored, no sport is ignored, no game is ignored.
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When the Buccaneers took Cadillac Williams it was between him and DeMarcus Ware. The knock on Ware was that teams thought that he was too "one dimensional". I wonder if they wished that they rethought that pick.
I worked the combine that year. I won't sit here and say I'm an expert in evaluating talent (because I'm not), but you would have to had been a damn fool to not be completely overwhelmed by Cadillac Williams. He had "IT." When it came time for him to do any of his drills, people stopped to watch. He was amazing.
In looking at my notes from those few days, I had Cadillac as the player I wish Buffalo could have had regardless of need. Then I put Ware, Ronnie Brown, Derrick Johnson and Braylon Edwards. I also noted how much I loved Heath Miller, and how Shawn Merriman would be a complete disappointment. So much for my scouting career.
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Hi everyone. My posts are few and far between once mid-January gets here and until basketball season ends. I did survive another tournament, Lori. It just gets crazier and busier every year.
Thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday. It means a lot. Next year, I'll be 40. But still 21 at heart, with the maturity of a 15-year old.
And in other news, Andrea (Mrs. Indy Dave) and I are expecting our first child at the end of August. Just found out last week (on our 15th wedding anniversary no less) that we are having a boy. Of course we are thrilled to bring another Bills fan into the world, even if some would suggest that's a form of child abuse.
Best to everyone.
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WTF happened to the knowledgeable football people that used to post here???
Like you I'm sure, I got tired of reading the idiotic posts. But thanks for asking, Mike!
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Lorin Maurer was one of our interns a few years ago...a bright young woman with a warm personality and destined for success. She was working for Princeton University and on her way to Buffalo to meet her boyfriend, who is an assistant men's basketball coach at Butler. His brother lives in Buffalo and got married yesterday. Lorin was to meet her boyfriend's parents for the first time this weekend. Instead...this.
A terrible tragedy for all involved, made worse because of the personal ties to one of the victims. RIP Lorin.
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I didn't need to see tonight's game to put it in my head that Fitzgerald is the best WR in the game. But anyone who argues against that after this postseason is nuts. He is the best. End of story. Andre Johnson is #2. Not sure Steve Smith is third, but he's certainly right there in the discussion.
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Hope Floats wasn't so bad.
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lemme guesss...you are about....40 yrs old
Good guess. 38.
Skid Row and Tesla songs....I admit that I like them OK, or did at one time. Got a white elephant gift a few years ago...metal ballads or something. Lots of crap on that CD. Poison by BBD...kind of an inside joke....that's why it made it to the Ipod. I was a DJ for my college radio station and always liked the Maxi Priest song. Everyone in college those days liked Love Shack. And I have lots of Aerosmith and Petty.
But yeah...there are a lot of bad songs on that list.
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Dennis Dillon of The Sporting News: SURPRISING INCLUSION: Bills LT Jason Peters. He's living off last season's performance.
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On my Ipod...
04. Poison » Bell Biv Devoe Bell Biv DeVoe - Bell Biv DeVoe: Greatest Hits - Poison
17. Close To You » Maxi Priest Maxi Priest - Maxi Priest: Best of Me - Close to You
22. I Remember You » Skid Row Skid Row - 40 Seasons - The Best of Skid Row - I Remember You
61. Janie's Got A Gun » Aerosmith Aerosmith - Young Lust: The Aerosmith Anthology - Janie's Got a Gun
64. Free Fallin' » Tom Petty Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Greatest Hits - Free Fallin'
67. Love Song » Tesla Tesla - 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Tesla - Love Song
78. Love Shack » B-52's The B-52's - Nude on the Moon - The B-52's Anthology - Love Shack
91. What It Takes » Aerosmith Aerosmith - Big Ones - What It Takes
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Update:
Somehow he did it in 25 minutes which is basically impossible.
Especially if he made Aborto de Retatta.
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And another 13 months, at least, until we play in a playoff game.
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Colts.
Classy coach, classy organization, Bills ties (Polian, Metzelaars, Reich), Syracuse ties (Harrison, Freeney, Josh Thomas), brand new stadium assuring that the team isn't leaving...and I live here.
But if the Bills leave, I'll be close to numb to the NFL.
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Not sure that anyone qualifies - too much "it's hard to get victories in this league." sentiment. Comes from the coach
Bingo.
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I would nothng better than to put a fork in NE / in Buffalo.
If we're playing for a playoff spot in Week 17, and we HAVE to beat the Patriots, do you REALLY think that's happening?
I try to hold on to hope when it comes to the Bills, but when it comes to playing New England, let's face it...we're their little b****. New England's defense could play while handcuffed the entire game, and we'd be lucky to score more than 10 points.
If we want to be in the playoffs, and it appears lately that the team is indifferent on this issue, we better have it it locked up BEFORE the New England game. That means we better start a substantial winning streak Monday night. We probably need to beat Cleveland, Kansas City, San Francisco, Miami and either the Jets or Broncos to have a shot at postseason.
Because there is no way, NO WAY, we are beating New England on December 28.
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And yet the Bills won more games under Dick Jauron in his only full seasons with the club than we had any right to expect, given their personnel. The very definition of overachieving.
You may not like his temperament (in which case you probably wouldn't want this guy as your head coach either), but the results thus far have been positive. One tough skid where we've dropped 3 out of 4 doesn't change that.
He's done well with what he had in his first two seasons, and just past the midway point in his third season, he has his team at 5-4 and right in the thick of the AFC playoff race. Its understood that the way he goes about his job rubs a lot of people the wrong way, but the W/L results during his tenure here don't justify all the complaining, imo.
Sorry, but if we traded our roster for New England's roster and played on Sunday, the Patriots would still win. That is coaching. They beat the hell out of us with a backup quarterback who has less experience than Trent, a fourth-team RB, a rookie LB, two over-the-hill LBs, a banged up secondary, and they lost one of their top pass rushers early in the game yesterday. Again, that's coaching.
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Let me summarize Rubes' long email:
Our offensive line sucks.
Our defensive line sucks.
Our coaching sucks.
That about covers it. And he is right on.
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How about Trent has played against the absolute bottom dwellers of the league. Check and see who Ben, Peyton, Eli and the others have played against, then come and tell us how you think Trent would have fared week in and week out against the better teams in the league. I'm betting alot of days like the past 3 weeks.
First of all, let me be clear that I'm not comparing Trent to Ben or the Manning brothers, in terms of who the better quarterbacks are. Good Lord, no.
Second, I don't/can't defend Trent, not with the way he has played the last three weeks.
But I do know this. Our line has played awful. He misses Josh Reed. And our coaches have got to do better. Teams have adjusted to us...now it's time for us to make our own adjustments.
And I know the answer is NOT benching Trent in favor of JP. And it's not spending a high draft choice on another QB in April.
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Not that this really matters because this is a futile, very subjective exercise, but I'm not sure about Bulger, Quinn, or Rosenfels. Bulger is good when he isn't running for his life, Quinn looked good during the last game and it's a bit too early to tell, and Rosenfels seems to be running at a similar clip to Trent at the moment.
However, with that said, I disagree with the initial poster's assessment. It's a bit too early to completely file Trent away.
- Has Trent looked good lately, no.
- Have people given him a bit of a free pass out of the hope that the disaster that has been our QB situation would straighten out, probably.
- Still, Trent has a lot of potential and we need to stick with him for the season and see what happens. He is an unknown commodity, and our polarized reactions to everything he does are often not justified and a bit illogical. Maybe instead of using rhetoric that encourages such either/or assessments (he sucks/is great), we should just sit back and take things as they come without overreacting every time he throws a touchdown or an interception.
With that said, I understand why people are beginning to become frustrated with the play of the team and Trent. Hopefully, we'll be overreacting in the other direction next week.
I won't argue that Trent has sucked in recent games, but coming into today he had a better QB rating than Peyton Manning, Eli Manning, Ben Roethlisberger, Brett Favre, Jay Cutler, rookie sensations Matt Ryan and Joe Flacco, Mr. 9-0 Kerry Collins and others. It's crazy to say that Trent is done. he does, however, need to quit turning the damn ball over.
Top Ten Favorite Albums
in Off the Wall Archives
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Understanding that I could re-do this list later this week and have eight different ones in the top 10 (with August and Everything After and The Joshua Tree being my top two), here it goes....
Counting Crows--August and Everything After
Counting Crows--Recovering the Satellites
U2-The Joshua Tree
U2-All That You Can't Leave Behind
Beastie Boys--Paul's Boutique
Pearl Jam--Ten
Rolling Stones--Forty Licks
Stevie Wonder--Songs In The Key Of Life
Def Leppard--Hysteria
The Police--Synchronicity