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man whitner is all over the field again. what a reach......
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a nice long drive here and we have all the momentum...
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that is pretty cool, but you can definately tell that fourth kick wasn't going anywhere near the right upright, it looked more like wide left. which is probably why they zoomed in and edited a ball onto the right one. nevertheless... neil rackers is a beast of a kicker.
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ugh..... that fg makes me sick.
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omg! tedy bruschi! what a play!!!
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boy... losman looks nervous as all hell warming up. a LOT of nervous energy... let's see what he's made of though...
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this IS a playoff caliber team out there today.
i mean... the dulfins have a good defense and they are much improved... and we are killing them. If we can go into the bye week at 3-3, it's going to be a little easier to see the playoffs....
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just read that there's probably going to be a rule change against icing the puck on the kill. some of these new rules... wow.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/columns/story?id=2106971&num=0
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From espn.com:
9 players under contract totaling $9.1 million
The Sabres are nicely positioned to make a run at the Eastern Conference elite with a core of players that includes Chris Drury, Dmitri Kalinin, Derek Roy, and restricted free agents Miroslav Satan and Daniel Briere. Goaltending, a source of constant concern since the Sabres dealt Dominik Hasek in July 2001, might be stabilized by the emergence of Ryan Miller as a potential No. 1 NHL netminder who can challenge incumbents Mika Noronen and Martin Biron. The Sabres have long played a tight-checking, defense-first style under Lindy Ruff. Can Ruff make the adjustment to a wide-open style? Can GM Darcy Regier bring in the players to play such a game? New owner Tom Golisano is banking on the fact they can.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/columns/story?id=2106450&num=2
that's great news. i'd love to see kariya find his way to buffalo, but that's probably wishful thinking. i wouldn't mind mogilny coming back either, if it's on the cheap.
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isn't he actually like 27 or 28 and just has some condition that he looks 12? and that's how he can get away with certain things, like when he sold beer on the man show?
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Funny story about Drew's superbowl ring... my cousin owns the cleaning company that cleaned Drew's house in East Aurora. One of the times that she was in there, she was in his bathroom and said that in the wall in front of the toilet Drew built a glass/plastic/some sort of transparent case that had nothing in it but his superbowl ring. I don't know if it's true or not, but it seems a little too farfetched to make up/exaggerate, and she never told me this story until a few months ago, after he was cut.
Evidentally he spent a lot of time on the crapper and figured he needed something to motivate himself while he was in there.
No position in footbsll is as over-hyped and over-relied upon as the QB position. Certyainly there is the occaisional Tony Mandarich where a team spends a 1st rounder on a player who does nothing. However, a miss like an Akili Smith, a Ryan Leaf, or a Tim Crouch seems to happen virtually every year at QB.This occurence would be one thing if the payoff was that if you spend your first rounder on a QB choice that if you pick correctly gets you an SB win. but the fact remains that since Dallas chose Troy Aikman in the 1st round in 1989, no team has selected a QB in the 1st round that delivered an SB win to the team which selected him.
Ironically the player who came closes to this feat was probably Drew Bledsoe who cleverly go ta collapsed lung which forced Belicheck to become a genius riding a 6th round pick to an SB win (well at least Drew deserved his SB ring by playing QB and throwing for the gamewinning TD in a must-win game during the SB run.
I'm psyched about watching JP this year, but the major fear I have that if he QBs the Bills to an SB win he will be the 1st QB selected in the first round to deliver an SB win for the team which picked him.
By all means it is great to have a 1st round level talent at QB, but it has worked to find a cap casualty like Trent Dilfer, a talent like an Elway who forces a trade to a better team, a talent like Steve Young or second round selection Brett Farve who get run out of the town that placed an unreachable requirement on them as all QBs have growing pains.
The fact is that there is no greater diffrence in production and QB quality and Peyton Manning and Ryan Leaf, but they have produced the exact same number of SB wins and appearances as each other. Manning only sprinted out ahead of Leaf in playoff wins year before last after 6 or so seasons.
The Bills needs to follow the same route as the Steelers took with getting success out of RoboQB which is to not rely on him much at all to win games for us.
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Jim Bob = RJ
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Bills win in a blowout 49-10. The Defense and offense come up huge. I also wouldn't be suprised to see a special teams touchdown. First full dominating effort of the season in every facet.
Secondly. Enough of this travis henry garbage. Yes henry was/is a good rb, but he's not better than willis mcgahee not by a long shot. No he wouldn't have made the runs mcgahee has made. While Willis isn't all the way back compare his 20+ yard runs and even runs over 10+ yards to the runs henry got. I think you'll find henry doesn't even touch willis in this area. While Henry may break a 20 yarder here or there, you could never count on him to do that every game. Maybe a good 5-10 yards every few runs, but you can count on willis to get you a run over 20 yards every game and sometimes more than that. Willis is better in every area than travis henry is. Better pure runner, better at picking up the blitz, better receiver out of the backfield, he's just better. Henry is a quality back, Willis Mcgahee is a superstar in the making.
mcgahee - superstar in the making, yes.
henry - would be superstar if they committed to him.
aka, im drunk.
so her eit is: mcgahee will be great. henry is great... but easily injured. if you compare henry and mcgahee, over the last two years, i bet you find a lot of similarities. that's all.
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well said.
i dunno... henry had some good streaks in the last two years.
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Honestly...show me a back where that's NOT the pattern. Barry Sanders was reknown for picking up most of his yards on long carries. Emmitt Smith. Probably Walter Payton, for all I know. I've heard the same "Yeah, but..." reasoning for every back I can remember watching. There's nothing wrong with that...because that's what good running backs do.
It's fallacious logic, too...do the yards gained on a long run somehow count less because they came all in one bunch?
good point, and i thought about that. but... miami game, all his yards came on the last drive or so. did he help put away the game? YES, those yards were huge. but... still, not a great day.
seattle game, i think we can all agree that the trick play was AWESOME. but, anyone with a 4.5 could have gotten at least 30 from that play. 4 tds, great... but henry would have gotten 4 also with that kind of committment.
i remember one game earlier this year he ran like 38 times and got 100... all i'm saying is this: he is not a gamebreaker yet. in fact, i don't think he's a top 15 back yet. i hope i'm wrong. i hope he goes for 200 on sunday. i like him more than henry now (which i never thought i would admit). but i just get unnerved when people act like we have a top 5 back right now, rather than in a year and a half.
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although i'm guessing you're not being totally serious about 200 and 5... am i the ONLY one who has been less than blown away with mcgahee? he has great corner speed. he can get outside. but... he is not all the way back yet. julius jones looks 10 times more impressive to me. mcgahee, i think, will pass him soon, next year probably. but right now, it seems like every 100 yard game he gets is actually 30 carries for 70 yards and then 2 or 3 others that make up 45 or so. for example, seattle game the trick play was a whole bunch. 3.8 yards a carry isn't great... that being said we will win this game... but it will be closer than the score. i'm guessing we pull away much like the miami game in the late second half.
bills 31-browns 20
just so we all don't think im negative in regards to any bills player... i am a guy who thought rob johnson could win in 2000. i thought avp could win before bledsoe got here, and i think bledsoe can lead us through the first round of the playoffs this year. i think mcgahee is going ot be great... but right now he is simply manageable as a starting RB until he gets his cuts back (or simply gets the confidence to cut) and learns to find holes up the middle.
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One of my heros! Pat Tillman, Gandhi, Jesus, MLK, Todd Beamer, Michael J Fox, many more. MJF- you rank right up there with all those great people! I admire MJF very much and always watch him when he is on TV. I saw him speak about his disease. He was shaking very badly, struggled speaking and said(I paraphrase-I cannot repeat what he said so eloquent and do it justice)-"I am the luckiest person in the world and truly beleive that. You might look at me in my condition and wonder why I am so lucky. Well I see a side of people that not many are privy to. I see people at their best. I only see the best of people and my condition is why. I cannot fully explain this in a half hour interview-thats why I wrote my book to try and explain". I love the man! God Bless Michael J Fox! I hope a miracle happens!
that miracle can happen... i heard stem cell can cure parkinsons. since i'm drunk... i dont wnat to say i know that to be true... but i think it is. either way... mjf IS a good, great, great great role model. good actor, stand up guy, very transparent and active and visible about his causes... awesome.
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posted this in another thread, but this seems to be the main one, so... let's all cheer up and love one another, pistons, pacers, dolph- never mind.
alright. everyone calm down.
1 - Artest's foul was NOT HARD at all. quit calling it a hard foul.
2 - Wallace is a punk, who should have put his head down and shot his FTs. Instead, he made a big scene out of nothing. Even a little shove on the shoulder would have been fine... but... don't two-hand a dude to the face b/c he fouled you when you're down by 15.
3 - People keep saying that Artest was acting so "cocky" and superior and acting out of spite towards Big Ben by laying on the scorers table. Look... for Artest, that's a big step up from how he usually acts. Maybe he was trying to be a jackass about it, but that's much, much better than the usual throwdown that would have happened directly after the shove.
4 - Whoever threw that beer is an idiot, and they SHOULD NOT have thrown it.
5 - Artest was obviously NOT in danger from a cup of beer. He was NOT defending himself. But at the same time... no one knew what these guys were thinking. Both teams were obviously fired up (both for the game (finals rematch) and because of the fight). Plus... obviously Artest is an exciteable dude. What he did, whether or not we choose to believe it, was probably either ingrained or an uncontrollable response. Why? I don't know. Maybe he went to school where you always had to be on the defensive (or offensive). Maybe he had bad parents. Maybe he just likes to fight. But believe me... it's real easy for all of us (myself included) to say "he shouldn't have gone into the stands" when we're not Ron Artest. That being said... he shouldn't have gone into the stands. But, I will give him the benefit of the doubt in saying that I'm 100% positive he wouldn't have had he thought the Detroit Riots: 2k4 would have broken out.
6 - Artest did not "tackle" the dude. If he did, it's because he missed big on two haymakers and fell on the guy (who did not actually throw the beer, coincidentally).
Note: Hands down, funniest part of the night: That same guy was yelling and cheering and whatever else at Artest until the last second - so right as Artest gets up to his row and pulls his fist back, this guy's face goes from "When does Ben get to shoot his free throws" to "How soon can I get a load of laundry done... because I'm all out of clean underwear." Watch for this the next time you see the tape. You won't regret it, I promise.
7 - How fuggin' nuts of a fight did that have to be when RASHEED WALLACE, of all people, was one of the only ones trying to break it up! Awesome.
8 - The two fans in Pistons jerseys that got jacked by Artest and then O'Neal (shot of the night) deserved it. Stay off the court. In that atmosphere, if you saw a big dude in a Pistons jersey charging at you, you would do something similar. It's human nature.
I could write more... but, most of all... the whole thing was stupid. You could blame everyone. I didn't even mention Stephen Jackson, who probably went up there to "defend" Artest (I use quotes because Artest didn't need to be defended, but I'm sure Jackson thought he might). The fans who jumped on Artest could be blamed, but can you blame them for defending one of their own fans? The point is... if you're a Celtics fan, the whole thing, as sad, ridiculous, and stupid as it was... well, it was kinda funny. Actually... if you can make yourself ignore how stupid it was and watch all the white guys faces in the stands around the fight... it was hilarious.
Lastly, thank goodness Minnesota wasn't in town. If Latrell had gotten suspended, his poor family might not have been able to eat a square meal until at least February.
EDIT: When I said Artest was not in danger from a cup of beer, I should have mentioned this: a half full cup of beer is not a big deal. But that cup of beer could have (and in a couple ways did) turned into a plastic bottle of beer; then a glass bottle of beer; then a CHAIR; then a set of keys, etc. No one's mentioned that; certainly I don't think Artest was thinking that when he went into the stands. But that is something to think about.
Offical Game Thread ( Vikes @ Bills )
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and hardly ever with play action on top of that....