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Yeah, but that win was against the Pats*

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Here we have a 3-6 Team with no chance at the play-offs and I am sitting here checking the messageboard every 5 minutes for updates, and am actually interested again in watching the upcoming games!! I would not be suprised if he has TT and JK on the payroll fanning the flames. Know let's just hope he gets the 'Football Guy' decision correct.

Was in 1986. Hank Bullough was fired and replaced by Marv Levy and the last golden age of the Bills began!! Here is to history repeating itself.

He is on my Fantasy Team Of course, I will still be rooting for the Bills to pull off some miracle. My son's theory is that Trent's 2nd concussion will have him playing like he was before the first one last year.

My son said the exact same thing...

I think hate is a little strong, but I agree in principle. He almost cost them the game with that conservative approach at the end of regulation. The team plays hard, but they won that game inspite of him.

I have never liked the red helmet. Probably because of the reason they gave when they changed them - that it would help cut down on Ferguson's interceptions. The 1980 was probably my all-time favorite Bills team. I still have pictures of JF and Cribbs from the SI article that year and I remember how upset I was when Simpson got beat for the touchdown in the SD game. Oh, the good old days...

I agree with you. I had no expectations when they made the decision to retain DJ so I cannot call this the worst season ever. The Pats* game was a tease, but I knew deep down that the competitive disadvantage at head coach was going to keep this team from meeting its potential. I do think there is some good young talent on this team, and will watch the games to see if they improve, and hope the team wins, and pray for house cleaning next year.

Amen to that!!

That is a false analogy as there was no open free agency at the time, and the player would never have any opportunity to play for another team. Peters could have held out, showed up for the last 8 weeks of the next two seasons and be an unrestricted free agent. The Bills had no leverage. I wish we still had Peters, but based on what he has said since, he had no intention of signing here after he held out in 2008.

He lost the team when he punted in the 4th quarter of the New Orleans game, and I find it hard to blame them. It has got to be tough to stay motivated when you know deep down at some point in the game your Head Coach is going to have at least one WTF moment and leave them at a competitive disadvantage.

My bigggest issue with McKelvin is not neccesarily getting burned on pass plays, which happens to most young corners, it is the numerous missed open field tackles. I really liked the way Florence played. I did not realize he was as big as he was.

I did too. I guess everybody else missed the Byrd thread... The sad thing, that guy was serious...

He is the poster boy for the "Ignore" option

Don't you mean two bad teams...did you see the Pats play today? They are one fumble recovery from being an ugly 0-2.

The interception looked identical to the one that the threw in the HOF game. I think they need to scrap that play. Moose made the comment during the game about the tackling in the secondary and I have to agree. There has been no more than a couple of missed tackles back there, mostly by Leodis. McGee made some very good stops today. If they keep from giving up anything cheap to NO, they may have a shot. I have CJ, Andre Johnson and Rivers on both my teams... both are up by 100+.

Ditto on the offense, although along with a couple sustained drives, I would like to see a couple of attempts downfield that are not desperation attempts on 3rd down, and some timely, well constructed screen passes. On defense, I would be really happy to see some sustained pressure, whether he gets the pass of or not. No head scratching DJ moves.

I don't disagree on that, but realisticly speaking it is very difficult to win any road prime-time game. Who knows, maybe they will suprise them as they did in 2006, and this time Freddy will know the down and distance.

Seriously, how many people here actually think we had a better than 30% of winning this game even before the last 10 days? The best Bills teams of the 90's had trouble playing on the road in Primetime, let alone a season opener!! I am excited to see how TO and the young talent, especially the OL and Ellis and Maybin on the DL, do in live conditions. I also want to see somthing different from the offense with AVP running the show, and how it impacts TE. I am very excited about the OL, because while they are likely to struggle at first, the potential is there to have a line that may dominate for the next 5 years. I live in NE, and am going to be watching the game with a bunch of Pats* fans, so I may be in for a long night, but I am going to concentrate on things that I hope will bode well for the rest of the season and the future. Of course, if they do somehow pull off the upset, it will be much more fun!!

You obviously were not around for the Kay Stephenson, Vince Ferragamo years...

“He’s very athletic,” said Bills offensive line coach Sean Kugler. “He has the ability to recover when he is out of position. He’s a competitive kid, and he works at it. He loves the game of football, and those are the guys we’re moving forward with.” If this is the attitude they are looking for in their players, then I am all for it. I think it can be safely said, based on their comments and actions in the past that Dockery, Peters and Walker are big guys that happen to be good at football, but do not LOVE to play it. I think to really excel at this sport it is important to really care about it. Think about the players on the winning teams, and their passion for the game and winning. This has the potential to be a long year, if only because DJ is still the head coach, but I like the players we are moving forward with.

Dave Megget: Punt returner and 3rd Down Back

Beat me to it... He appears to be first round material, but are they willing to part with that pick to get him? I believe the option process goes in last year's draft order so they will probably have a shot at him.

Al Swearengen - Deadwood