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If this is true why aren't we running the same sets with Shady? He's an even tougher matchup out of the backfield.

Luck is a 500 QB in Cold Weather games during his career, playing in his division, and the schedule, lotsa dome and warm weather games.

Luck is a West Coast Dome Guy. Can he beat NE and Miami in Buffalo in the November December winds of Buffalo?

I was at the Raiders Game, the Bills used a lot of emotional energy in that game. Short week, and an opponent whose season went into the dumpster if they lost. Hopefully longer week and getting significant talent back from Injury, NO is a dome team, and weather looks kinda sucky for Sunday. Breese is an indoor, warm weather QB, hoping for a sleet storm and Lorax attack.

In terms of on and off the field, Jack Kemp has my vote for greatest Bill of all time, Tough Guy, never afraid on the QB sneak to score which is a lost art these days. His knee injury in preseason also made OJ possible. Only Bill QB to end his season with a W in TWO championship games. Distinguished record of public service after football.

Benjamin is 6'5 245. Think this gives us a lot of options when we go 4 and 5 wide. Benjamin 6-5, Logan Thomas 6-6, Andre Holmes 6-4, Matthews 6-3, O'leary 6-3, Zay 6-2. Suspect a few pick plays going in the playbook.

Cookie Gilchrist - The guy who just went up on the wall was an amazing athlete. 6'3" 250 pounds, fast, mean, best blocking running back ever to play the game, at one time also handled PAT's and FG's. He was outspoken, and proud, and that was a problem for some people at the time. He ran for 243 yards, the pro football record at the time, on a field so bad they would have cancelled the game in the modern era. Probably would have been an all-pro if he had played defense as well.

I was there with my son, our 6th Bills game over 27 years. Feel just the way that Shaw does. Cookie going on the wall made the day even more special, Cookie, Shaw, Sestak [all-time great if he had been able to play longer], Kemp, Golden Wheels, Stratton were my childhood heroes and I was fortunate to be in the stands at the Rockpile for Cookie's 5TD Pro Football Rushing record game against the Jets, [which helped the Jets get Namath]. Special feeling in the OP Yesterday, First Half Weather not pretty, but I sat in bleachers in the Rockpile for the '62 playoff loss to the Patsie, where your seat was the impression of a garbage can in the snow pile on the wooden bleachers.

I wuz in Nashville in 1999. That team could have won the SB, the defense was that good. Home Run Throwback aka "Music City Miracle".

Thx, special Day to see Cookie go on the wall.

5 TD's is still the record for Rushing TD's in a game. Shared with Jim Brown, Ricky Watters, James Stewart, Clinton Portis

I was at the Rock Pile on 12/8/1963 when Cookie set the all time pro football single game rushing record [36 carries 243 yards] in a mosh pit. Will be there Sunday with my son. Long overdue, Ralph was petty on this one. Cookie also had 5 rushing TD's in that game.

But Khalil Mack, and he will have more than his share of fans in the stands.

Zay Jones can't catch a cold in the winter in Buffalo

I think the issue with J Will, is ball security. McBeane wants to minimize errors to put less pressure on his defense. J Will seems to fumble at inappropriate times.

DiMarco or tolbert as TE

NOT!

Wonder if Boldin has suddenly regained interest in playing football?

If not for the BS call referred to as the Music City Miracle, [aka forward lateral, muffed by officials who were afraid for their lives - I wuz there], Wade likely had a good enough defense to win the Super Bowl against a flawed St. Louis team. But for that call, he would still be a HC in the league and have won a number of titles.

Close, throw away out of the pocket, dodging a pass rusher

At the time I was a bean counter, so working year end closing in the the office, fortunately there was a satellite dish in our office, and I was able to find an unscrambled link to the game. I was so bummed after the Q3 Pick 6 and then all was right with the world from then on, although the last minute Houston FG had me worried for a bit. A few years later, when I was working in Nashville, I Happened to be in a Skybox at the game [with my son] when Home Run Throwback happened. As Jim McKay used to say on Wide World of Sports, "The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat." I think the NFL gods had the fix in for Bud Adams that day, they didn't want another Bills team in the SB.

I remember the Patsies with Dick McPherson was coaching, sat through a rain soaked evening in Foxboro and saw the Bills deliver a 41-17 beat down in 1992. Bills won 8 of 10 from 1990 - 1994. So it wasn't always this way.

Also think with RD, that Shady could become a receiving weapon, Peyton did well with his RB's as a third or fourth option, esp when Sammy stretches the field...

Don't forget Jim Dunaway...also charter member.

If not for a guy named Jim Brown, [best running back of all time] a guy named Carlton "Cookie" Gilchrist would be the best running back of his era. He was a beast. Saw him run for a pro football record of 243 yards in a "mosh pit" in the rockpile. Bigger than JB, not quite as elusive, but linebackers and DT's feared him, and he may have been the best blocking RB ever. Most of his career was in Canada, as he never went to college, but one of the most underrated RB's of all time. http://www.espn.com/blog/afceast/post/_/id/24656/cookie-gilchrist-rumbled-right-until-the-end