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I agree. IMO, they sat Spiller today because with or without him, in the grand scheme of things, it was likely a loss, and having him healthy the rest of the way with the second half of the schedule being much easier was more important. Big picture, they should have taken the same approach with SJ when it was clear he was hurt.

I thought he was hyping the fact he was an All American Football League standout.

Time spent on this forum, or any other, is the definition of wasted time.

Dick Jauron coached teams in 3 years didn't total the amount of watchable football that Marrone has gotten out of any one of the games he's coached this season, save maybe the Jets game. The only hope Jauron had was to bore the other team to sleep, then coach not to lose to them.

Strange deal. You know, the devil taking a little piece of your soul one loss at a time. Hope you got something good in return.

As a fan who born into this hell, I should call CPS on you for the good of your children's mental health. My first memory of the Bills was the Wildcard game that they beat the Jets in '81. I was 9. Too young to appreciate the fact that it was their first playoff win since the '60s. Apparently not too young to appreciate the win was something to remember. I have mixed emotions about that day. I may have been a bit less frustrated long term if I'd stayed in my room (I think I had gotten in trouble, and was given a choice by my mom of staying in my room or sitting in a chair in the kitchen so my dad could keep an eye on me; in hindsight, I should call CPS on my mom for cruel and unusual punishment ). If I hadn't been in the kitchen that day (evening, if I recall) watching the game on a portable TV with my father, I would have had to find something else to bond with him over (maybe something ultimately a little less maddening). I would also probably have an entirely different group of friends, which if I was saying this directly to them, I would say would be ideal and they'd know I was kidding - my relationship with my dad and my friends are the best things to come out of this godforsaken mess of a franchise. I can't complain too loudly, though. I can't remember the '70s, but I'm old enough to have had a lot of fun and gotten into a lot of trouble through the late '80s/early '90s run. As I'm typing this, I can also understand why younger fans who missed the '90s seem so pissed right now... I can't imagine being a fan with only memories from the mid-late '90s on, never yet getting a sense that this franchise CAN actually succeed. Here's to hoping this '13 version is on a trajectory similar to that '86 or '87 version. I know we'd like some immediate success, but there's something to be said for watching a toddler learn to run, as well. Too bad Van Miller isn't here to tell you to fasten your seatbelts. GO BILLS!!!

I'm still laughing at this response 5 minutes after I read it. Priceless placement of the emoticons. Without knowing you, I can hear the persistence and absolute incredulity at the fact that no one gets it, despite the fact that your analogy is to an extreme, though admittedly appropriate. It would be like comparing the Bills to Pet Sematary, with living Gage being analogous to the Bills fans hopes of the late 80's early nineties. A world of possibilities awaits us. The loss of the fourth Super Bowl could be the part where the truck hits him, and we know deep down that as the team is dismantled nothing will ever be the same. The ensuing Flutie/Johnson era is kind of like where Gage is buried in the ground/back from the dead. We have hope, but we know that something is not quite right. The music city miracle marks the part where the little bastard starts killing everything. The analogy falls apart with the brief resurrection of legitimate football at the beginning of the Bledsoe era. Also, the Jauron years were more like watching a painfully plodding zombie moving with no plot. I really hope what we're witnessing right now isn't the part where we just buried our wife because we're so f#@*# in the head from all of the death and destruction of the last 13 years. It would really suck if the hope I'm feeling right now is akin to my undead wife coming back to kill me to avenge herself after our undead son killed her...

Stupid Colts...

The NE* model is 1) Don't 2) Get 3) Caught

Whoa, whoa, whoa!!! For the record, these are NOT recycled Chuck Norris jokes. The Chuck Norris jokes are actually PRE-CYCLED Kiko jokes. In his infinite wisdom, Kiko decided to have them "focus group tested" under the pseudonym Chuck Norris, never expecting that his own awesomeness would actually bring his "nom de plume" to life.

The first five minutes of "Any Given Sunday"

While he likes and respects his teammates, Kiko is not amused by all of this talk about Thad Lewis or Stevie Johnson going on in HIS thread. You know who you are. Don't make him come here and go all legend on your asses.

Well stated. The one thing I would add is it makes even less sense to blow that cap space in year one of a complete overhaul, when the new coaches aren't even sure what positions they'll need to shore up on the roster in order to make a legitimate post-season run. I'd rather see them break the bank when we're 1-2 players away then overpay for a replaceable part.

Hard to argue our running game would be too much better. We're 3rd in the league in rushing having faced 2 of the top 5, and 4 of the top 10 defenses in rushing yards allowed despite teams knowing that we're likely to be run happy with a rookie QB, CJ and Fred. I'm not suggesting that Brown doesn't suck, just that we're doing ok on the ground without Levitre.

Not to mention, this isn't a QB who is a clear back-up, so it sends the wrong message to the team prior to EJ's injury.

Doesn't "Hitner" translate to "my dumb ass got Tasered outside of a nightclub" in Moron?

Given that he has a stronger arm, either Tuel gives #8 up willingly or Moorman will beat it out of him.

So many replies to the thread title running through my head... Instead, because of your diligence in bringing the awesome camp updates, I voted and left the shtick at home. Here's to your 6:1 lead holding up.

I think the TJax cut is easier to question in the context of our current situation - 5 games into the season, one QB's career likely over before the season started, and one now out for 4-8 weeks. It made sense at the time it happened, though, when it was a new regime trying to get 2 QBs ready for the season without an incumbent and only 4 preseason games to evaluate them. A three or four QB competition at that time would have made no sense. The idea, before week 4 of the preseason, was Kolb and Manuel, with Tuel either 3rd or on the PS. I'm sure they weren't planning on going into the season with only 2 rookie QBs.

QEG88, in my experience, the delusions usually begin after a few days of missing my medications. Around the same time the radio starts talking to me, personally, and people start reading my thoughts. Hope this helps. Now, get out of my head... I SAID, get OUT of MY HEAD!!!

I agree. All things being equal, no TC and a walk through with the first string d for a Thursday game is unlikely to create any chemistry regardless of how well he knows the defensive calls. IMO this was a prudent football decision, nothing more.

Isn't that what Kolb was supposed to be? Hard to predict things playing out the way they did in preseason, leaving the Bills in this situation. There really wasn't anyone better to bring in week 4 of preseason, was there? This mess has nothing to do with money.

Reporter- Kiko, take us through "the play" I see the ball in the air, so I catch it. Then, ah, I notice number 12 kinda coming toward me, but not really. The smell of his fear insults me, so I tackle him. I think, "he's kinda acting like a little B word," so I f$&@ him. Now he's screaming and yelling, and won't shut up, so I kill him, right? But all this extra effort, it makes me hungry, and now we got a dead body on the field, so I eat him... Reporter- Kiko, do you think you deserved the unnecessary roughness penalty and ejection from the game? **crazy eyes stare** No.

That decision tree could ultimately present a disturbing career ender for Ms Brady.

While flattered, Kiko ultimately denied Alfred Ernest Jones' request to name a behavioral theory after him due to the negative connotations that he feared would be associated with it. Jones ultimately had to go with his second choice... "The God Complex"