vincec

If all it took was being big and heavy to be a good OL then Jerry Crafts would be in the hall of fame.

That would be GREAT.

Well Daryl Johnston, who actually watched the game live, thought the passes to Evans were underthrown. It's kind of like a court case- you can always find an "expert" who agrees with what you think. As I remember, two went for TDs and three didn't, so that's a pretty good percentage on those kind of routes. I'll take it, however it looked.

I thought that it was a little underthrown. TO just fought the guy off to make the play. The ones to Evans were all short. It's not a question of arm strength, it's just a timing thing. I think that it will improve.

If Parrish could play like TO, we wouldn't have needed him in the first place. Roscoe is battling for the 4th wr spot. Realistically, he is a special teams player only and replaceable by others on our roster. He's a good returner but if we can get a 5th round pick or better, I say move him.

I think that it will be Runyan. In any event, however, I think that Jonathan Scott is going to get the first crack at RT.

I thought Edwards played well, but except for the pass that Owens dropped, it looked like all of this deep passes were underthrown.

I know what you're saying. I call plays all the time in Madden. How hard can it be?

I thought the same thing when I saw that Schouman injury. The field caused that.

Well, we may have to rent a tight end, since we may only have 2 total for next week.

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Exactly. I can say stuff like that too but I don't think you'd want me on the sidelines coaching against Belichick. If the Jets win, then Ryan is a hero. If the lose, he's a bum. It's all about the results.

Either that or maybe he threw it out from all of the jumping up and down after he heard about his new deal.

I guess that makes sense as long as you are prepared to live in a world without forgiveness and where every crime is punished to the maximum extent possible. It doesn't sound like a fun place to me. As Ghandi said, "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"

I think that McKelvin will be making a mistake if he tries to punish these kids "to the full extent of the law" and will squander most of the support that people in Buffalo are giving him as the victim of this crime. He is obviously doing this at the prompting of the NFL in order to "make an example out of them". A multi-millionaire athlete making an example of middle class teenagers playing a prank is not likely to be well received in a blue collar town like Buffalo. I think that both he and the NFL would gain much more in terms of good will, and therefore safety, by being lenient here. I think that McKelvin correctly sensed this when he initially decided not to press charges. Maybe he did something wrong in his youth? I hope that he re-reconsiders or at the very least administers a proportional penalty. JMO

Great signing. DB is set. Barring injury, I don't think they'll bring in another safety. They need to see what Byrd brings to the table. One obvious need is going to be WR. People are saying that the Bills are deep there and that's true as long as they have TO. If he leaves, then they have one good receiver and a bunch of #3 and #4 guys. That's not a strong group. Maybe someone will step up, but I think the Bills need to look for a burner in the first couple of round of the draft. Another early need will be DL. Schoebel and Stroud aren't getting any younger, and they're the two best players. Maybe Maybin will replace Shoebel, but who replaces Stroud?

It looked like he was trying to go down, but a NE player was holding him up so that teammates could try to strip the ball.

Yes, but I still get to hear about it from people on this board, in the newspaper, on the radio and on TV, including during the games. It's a fantasy to think that you don't have to hear the babble if you don't want to, unless you're going to turn off following the Bills all together, which I'm not prepared to do yet.

Isn't that the truth!... and they're not the only ones. Do people really care about all the minute details of these people's live? I certainly don't. Just shut up and play football.

Believe it or not, I'm actually more concerned about Kelsay being out vs the run that Poz. This is mostly because I have very little confidence in any other Bill DE vs the run. Maybin and Ellis are pass rushers, and Denney is below average, IMO. I think that Buggs will fill in fine in the run defense. I'm not so sure about the pass D.

Or that playoff game against San Diego after the 1980 season when Dan Fouts threw a 50yd td with like 2 minutes left to win... on the same exact play that he had been intercepted on the previous drive... but our inept offense was unable to run out the clock and...

I really place very little stock in the whole "culture of winning" thing. Teams at the NFL level win because of their players and coaching. If the Bills had another stud pass rusher, I'll bet that we would've won that game.

I though the same thing during the game. They used to use the sneak a lot in years past. I think it may have been a combo of not wanting to challenge Stroud + Williams, who were dominating the middle of the run defense and fear about Brady getting hurt.

I thought Ellison was pretty good. He was unlucky on that second TD pass. He had good coverage. If we were getting the same pressure on Brady at that point as we were in the first half that wouldn't of been completed.