ExWNYer

Winner, winner, Raven dinner!

The Ballamore Ravens Boo Birds ?

Flame-ar is coming back in to finish off the Ravens.

She's in full throat...

Wow. Talk about a make up call. The NFL is consistent in it's absurdly bad officiating.

Bingo.

If they don't overturn it, it's about half an inch from the goal line.

But he doesn't look a day over 59.

Lamar + Ravens bad ST + exhausted Ravens D = ugly Chargers win.

Respectfully disagree, This is a do or die situation for a chance to win the Super Bowl. You move on next year and go forward with Lamar. You can even play him next week but you need a spark today or you're done.

"Badgely?! We don't need no stinkin' Badgely!!"

Lamar and the Ravens' ST unit are wearing out their own D.

He's a great athlete but not a good QB, at least not yet. He's the difference in this game, IMO...he's adversely affecting Baltimore's chances of winning. If they go down another score, I'd get Flacco into the game. He can at least open things up by throwing downfield. LJ is no threat to pass and is making the Ravens one dimensional today.

He's a decent TE and I'd kick the tires on him but I wouldn't go after him at any cost. If Eifert is available, I wouldn't even look at him unless you're giving him an incentive laden contract and planning on signing someone else, as well. You can plan on trotting him out every four or five games. No thanks to TE for TE and a maybe to CJ for TE.

Worst. Onside kick. Ever.

I remember years ago when the Bills were about to play Dallas on Monday Night Football and the media asked Bills OG Reggie McKenzie how he felt about playing 'America's Team'. He said, "We're the ones who wear red, white, & blue. We're America's Team." I loved that.

I wonder if Pete Carroll will place a call to Danny Crossman. I hear he's available.

They may be thankful in the long run. Her best years may be behind her and the Bills may not have been able to meet her demands anyway. Sometimes the best trades are the ones you don't make. It would have been one mother of a trade for the Bills though. They could have renamed the field house 'The Oedipus Complex'.

Doubtful. The Raiduhs trade away edge rushers' mothers, they don't trade for them. Just ask Khalil Mack's mom.

...all while Kraft is sitting with his pants bunched around his ankles.

"Elway on Possibly Trading Von"? So it came straight from the horse's mouth...

I watched my share of games at Grevey's back in the day (early '90s). Loved that place...it always felt like you were right back in WNY. I was bummed when I heard it had closed. I still can't believe that I haven't made it up to Jimmy's Old Town Tavern in Herndon, VA for a game but I have promised @R. Rich that I will catch a game up there with him soon. A couple of buddies and I used to make the trip from Richmond up to Falls Church together for the Grevey's experience. One of them grew up in Buffalo, one in Silver Creek, and me in Grand Island and none of us knew the others until we met in Richmond. As for 'The Greatest Comeback in NFL History'... The three of us were at the house of the guy from Silver Creek watching together like we usually did when they were on locally. At halftime, we were all completely dejected and befuddled at everything that had happened to that point and we were all bummed at the prospect that the Bills' consecutive Super Bowl run was over. None of us had completely given up because of the resiliency of those Super Bowl teams but deep in our hearts we knew it was more than likely over at 28-3. The pick six to start the 3rd quarter that made it 35-3 put us into a deeper funk but none of us were turning off that game. The guy from Buffalo was always the overly optimistic type who thought the Bills would win even if they were down 100-0 with a minute to play. When the Bills scored their first TD in the second half to make it 35-10, we all looked at each other and I said to them half-heartedly, "Well, that's a start." Even 'Mr. Optimist' wasn't quite back on board yet. When the Bills made it 35-17, we all started getting pumped and then believed that the Bills could and would win it even though they still had a big hill to climb. When they took the lead, 38-35, we were beside ourselves with excitement but we also knew that it wasn't quite over. When Houston kicked the game tying FG to send it to overtime, I remember saying, "We can't have done all of this just to lose. We HAVE to win this game." When Steve Christie kicked the game winner, we were jumping up and down in a victory circle and hit the floor in a pile of joyous humanity. The host from Silver Creek ended up with a sprained ankle but it was no doubt the greatest pain of his life. ? What a roller coaster of emotion that day was. The lowest of lows followed by the highest of highs. I remember taping every post-game highlight I could find and watching ESPN all night long. As an aside, I was not one of the estimated 400,00 in attendance for that game but I was at 'The Ralph' on September 21, 1997 for the second biggest comeback in NFL regular season history when the Bills overcame a 26-0 first half deficit to defeat the Indianapolis Colts, 37-35. Unlike the '93 Bills, the '97 team was not very good but still delivered one of the most memorable wins in Bills history. What a day for Antowain Smith! I like to think of that 'meaningless' game as my cosmic reward for sticking with that Wild Card game when the team was down, 35-3. ? GO BILLS!!!

I'll bet he didn't feel that way by the end of the 4th quarter last Sunday...

The Jest still have all of fired HC Todd Bowles' assistants under contract. I'm hoping that whoever they hire as their new HC cleans house and the Bills go grab ST coach Brant Boyer...assuming that the Bills do not retain Crossman.

Yeah, Plaw is not great but at least he's usually available to play, unlike d'Arnaud. Having Travis as the backup to Ramos makes me nervous. With the injury histories of WR & TD, we could see Tomas Nido by May...not good. ??