vincec

Nice maintenance department.

No. Kickers are the kind of thing you pick up at the checkout line, not with a high draft pick.

Exactly why the FB is a dying position in the NFL.

It's amazing what a good defense and a great QB will do for your chances to win games in the NFL.

Rob needs to lay off the twinkies if he wants to last another 10 years. Wow.

Generally agree with Gilbrides take on Taylor and on the obvious Pat* game plan this week. Now we'll see if the Bills can do anything about it. I think that Clay is probably the key guy in being able to move the ball. A few big plays to him would open up the running game too.

Should be the equipment staff. Wouldn't mean anything though. One of them has a brother-in-law that's from Massachusettes so it's all part of Rex's standard procedure.

To see how good the team is.

Offense is better, defense and ST are worse. Since the new HC is a defensive specialist and their defense has underperformed, I think you can question if they are better coached. Not to mention all the discipline and time management problems. At this point they look no better than last year's team. I don't know if they're ready to do it but they really need a statement win to prove otherwise, IMO. 10 games is a pretty good sample size.

After all the spending and trades- a new HC coach, McCoy, Taylor, Harvin, Incognito, Clay, Roman, Darby, "the new 46 defense", and many other "improvements" and hype- to be sitting at 5-5 just like last season, and to know that they can't beat NE*, just like last season, is pretty deflating. What did all the stuff they did mean?

I know that most people are writing the Pats* game off as a loss, but if they Bills lose to them they will be 5-5 (0.500) through 10 games. That is exactly where they found themselves last season so it will be hard to say that they have many any real improvements even after all the spending. It also means that they will most likely need to go 5-1 the rest of the way to make it into the playoffs, which is pretty unlikely when you've gone 5-5 up to that point. If you're a 0.500 team what are the chances that you're going to go 5-1 in a stretch of 6 games of? In short, I think this is a game that they've got to have to make a statement that this team is better than last season, that they are a playoff team and that they are a threat to not just eek into the playoffs but to make some noise when they get there.

I think the play to Davis was Fitz's choice but the 1 yard passes on 3rd and 4th and 2 with their RB running at will were Chan like head scratchers.

My understanding of the rule is this: If the player goes out of bounds while moving towards his own line of scrimmage, then the ref gives him forward progress to the furthest point upfield which was inbounds and the clock doesn't stop. If the player goes out of bounds going forward, then the out of bounds point is the furthest point upfield and the clock stops.

it. Well, given the amount of press and discussion this has gotten I'd say it's a distraction by definition. They players and coaches are being constantly asked about It. But you can pretend like it's not if you like, just like Rex.

Just another unnecessary distraction. Not what this team needs.

Suh had both hands on him. Watch the video.

The linebackers were emerging stars last season. Now they need to be replaced. Hmm...

I didn't see anything in the article that would lead me to think that. It's classless and if it's "typical Rex" then that doesn't speak well of him. But I guess we stopped caring about class as long as they win.

Miami got shafted in that sequence. Suh should have been credited with a sack, instead they had to take the penalty. Then on the Sammy's TD Miller hog tied him and there was no call.

TBD is going to melt down if Fitz undresses Rex's defense.

This is wrong. if Rex does this then I don't want to hear anymore whining out of him when BB runs up the score in two weeks. Rex's record of sportsmanship would be no better.

Steve Young wasn't all pro with TB but he showed a lot of promise and it was TB after all so once he got away from there he was expected to be good. QB battle quickly developed in SF the day he arrived so Montana certainly knew he was there to threaten him from the onset. It's a tribute to Montana that he kept ahead of him for so long.

In a heart beat. Nance and Simms are the worst. And if their calling a NE game then they're basically like a home broadcast for them.

He launched himself at full speed about a foot off the ground against a guy who was sliding. He saw the guy start to go down and then launched low to make sure he could hit him anyway. The fact that he targeted his head instead of spearing him shows how cheap it was. That was totally intentional otherwise he would've been targeting his legs or torso and gone over him when he slid.

Penalties, missed tackles, confusion/not ready at the snap ... lots of coaching issues still to deal with. They made enough big plays to win today though.