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No. Uh uh. Not with this defense we arent. Not at home we arent. Thad/Tuel/Flynn only needs to manage this game for an easy 6 point victory. No way in hell are the Chiefs gonna beat this team.
Remember....a QB does not a team make.
Its gonna be a long trip home for the 6-1 Chiefs. Its a fore-gone conclusion.
So your prediction is not only will we beat the Chiefs, but we'll steal two of their victories, as well? Or were players in violation of NCAA eligibility rules for two of those wins for accepting handouts from an alum?
My Tuel prediction is it will be midway through the second quarter at the earliest before that "I'm SO f$%d" deer in the headlights look leaves his face.
I was expecting that we'd win this game because with Manuel or Lewis we were better than the competition that KC faced so far... with Tuel, we ARE that competition.
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I question the coaching staff keeping him in. Pull him in the 4th. We will need him next week.
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.
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Ah, former All-American... for a guy in his fifth year of Pro ball. That's a bit like highlighting your college debate team experience when you're looking for a job.
I thought he was hyping the fact he was an All American Football League standout.
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Time spent on this forum, or any other, is the definition of wasted time.
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Dick Jauron in 3 years didn't botch coaches challenges to the extent Doug Marrone has done in his first 6 games.
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.
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I made a deal with the Devil.
Strange deal. You know, the devil taking a little piece of your soul one loss at a time.
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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!!!
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Imagine the following conversation:
Some random guy: What do you do for entertainment? I'm not asking you what you do for a living, because I assume that's boring. I want to know what you do for fun.
Me: Lots of things.
Him: Such as?
Me: For one thing, I'm a Bills fan.
Him: Tell me what it's like to be a Bills fan.
Me: Back in the early '90s, we got our hearts broken four years in a row in Super Bowls. Including W___ R____, which is one of the most painful sports memories ever.
Him: But surely things picked up after that?
Me: Depends on how you look at things. If you prefer painful individual moments, we got another one in the late '90s with the Music City Miracle. If you're more inclined to a slow, steady, dull pain, we've gotten plenty of that in the 2000s. It's been 13 years since this team has made the playoffs: the longest active playoff drought in the NFL.
Him: and this is what you do for entertainment? Surely you must be joking! No sane human being could possibly choose this as his means of having fun!
The correct movie to describe our experience is Orphan!
Orphan is a horror movie. But someone watching it for the first time, without reading the previews, won't realize it's a horror movie until toward the end. Only a movie like that can adequately depict what it's like to be a Bills fan. 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... 
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I think there four.
1 Owner
2 GM
3 Coach
4 Luck
Stupid Colts...
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The NE* model is
1) Don't
2) Get
3) Caught
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Ya know what would be so funny? Let's say Thad Lewis comes out and has a decent game against Cincinnati, makes a few key throws and they win- we could take all these old recycled Chuck Norris jokes...
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.
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The first five minutes of "Any Given Sunday"
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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.
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Nope. I used to spend lot's of time doing that sort of thing, but it's silly unless someone is paying one to do that.
My point is that those who simply make that argument, that this year right now we are x dollars under the cap, and therefore we should sign every free agent to a huge crazy contract because the numbers work out THIS season are doing so out their butts.
Whether a team commits that sort of money (including the guaranteed money) to any player has to be evaluated with a view down the road, probably 3-5 years out. Teams routinely got themselves in cap hell on a regular basis by writing contracts for the now, and only thinking about what can I fit under this year's cap, without consideration of what happens when the cap hits keep escalating down the road. Then you're stuck cutting guys you want to keep to get under the cap, and crippling yourself with dead cap money into the future by doing so.
You have to have a working 3-5 year plan of what you think the overall allowable cap increase will be each year, what the escalators are for each guy as the years pass, which guys contracts are going to expire and do you want to extend them. What market contracts look like for those guys in the future. Then you have to also prioritize importance of the position because no matter what you do, you won't be able to keep everybody.
The issue is just way more complex than, "Hey man, we're $20 million under the cap this year, so what's the problem?
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.
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Hard to say, but I'm guessing they would have been able to run the ball more consistently between the tackles and that EJ would not have been sacked 8 times against the Jets. It makes a difference when you have even one lineman who is clearly a liability. Defensive coordinators know it and exploit it.
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.
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You have to pay him his contract if you trade for him. That would have been a terrible move.
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.
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Doesn't "Hitner" translate to "my dumb ass got Tasered outside of a nightclub" in Moron?
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Given that he has a stronger arm, either Tuel gives #8 up willingly or Moorman will beat it out of him.
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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.
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If you can address the tjax cut, your argument may hold more water. As is, we had one better we released with no benefit to the team in the process.
We easily could've rolled with those 3 and practice squaded tuel, or cut one week 4 of preseason if everyone was healthy and looking good
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.
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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!!!
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If everything with Byrd is legit and all of this working past the pain stuff has been the honest truth, then an extra week of feeling good and practicing with the team is the best thing for all parties. We shall see. Reading to much into Marrone's explanation is a waste of time as it falls in the realm of infinite guesses for me, not my bag.
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.
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This
Plus if the Bills FO gets religion about the need for a quality backup and not low-balling it
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.
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Especially if those decisions are made in a serial workflow.
Perhaps the most disturbing thing:
Would Kiko's press conference be any different after?
Nope.
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.
Realistic expectations for Tuel on Sunday?
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Exactly... I mean, Levitre certainly would have made sure Manuel got out of bounds or slid after picking up the first down, and no question he would have helped protect Lewis's ribs on that shot he took on the read option play. He probably also could have held Kolb's hand when he walked across the slippery mat, and kept defenders from breathing extra hard on his concussion prone head, as well.